Re: Drones

The simplest conclusion, therefore, is that they did, indeed, bring it down as they say. Any other explanation is currently not as likely

maybe they just bought one....

US defence biz fined for busting China arms embargo

In other news; 2 Snow Leopards (Panthera uncia or Uncia uncia) have retained the legal firm of Vulture, Bluebottle and Tic (Lawyer lawyerus, Lawyer Scumbagius and Lawyer bloodsukerous) and are suing both Apple (fruitus crappyius) and Jiangsu Household Chemical (polluteicus maximus) for identity theft.

Re: vaseline?

That's why crApple patented rounded corners.

Paris, who else?

Re: All your money belongs to us.

Good to see amanfromMars posting again, probably has a lot more time on his hands now that he has finished upgrading CA-7

Re: Opt in vs Opt out

Yet again Facebook demonstrates it doesn't understand the concept of 'Opt in'

Fixed it for you

Yet again Facebook demonstrates it doesn't give a flying fuck about the concept of 'Opt in'

Re: Who needs a trojan to do this?

Binary file? Why a Binary file?

I remmember one PFY who worked for me who created a report on the mainframe from the engineering system parts catalog.

Every thing was fine until all the parts begining with the number '1' were printed, '1' being the ansi control character for a form feed.

Big report!

Re: There I fixed it for you

25 years ago when I was working on a site that used a mainframe based internal email system in a company that boasted of it's paperless office, I never understood why one of the managers printed all his email

Until I discovered that printing an email left it marked unread (you could see if an email you sent was read).

clueless managers, no, they only want you to think they are clueless, devious bastards is a better description

Re: Out-sourcing is bad

Maybe the 800 Indians can't read German.....

Alles touristen und non-technischen looken peepers! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights.

Re: Weird

I have a faint memory from the early 80s of a procurement scandal in the US Air force because they buying a radar antenna adjust tool from the manufacturer for $600.

Turns out it was a 7/16" allen key.

Re: Colour me confused!

Magnesium!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That will add nicely to the conflagration in your lap created by the overheating/exploding battery. See Icon.

Re: "Experts" at what?

Marketing.

Re: Hilarious

gassing Curds????

What did the coagulated milk proteins (casein), with or with out rennet or edible acidic substances such as citrus juice or ascetic acid do to offend Soddin Insane?

Although I have to admit that most coagulated milk protein products also give me a bit of gas.

Did you mean Kurds?

Re: potentially embarrasing purchases

So you haven't tried Nutella [1] then?

[1] a chocolate nut [2] spread.

[2] hazelnuts I believe.

Paris, she can lick the chocolate of my nuts [3] any time.

[3] hazelnuts; you dirty minded b******s

Re: Got one thing right

Skype was successful precisely because it didn't do this sort of shit. And MickeySoft thinks that this sort of avertising actually works!!!!! Because GM doesn't. so.

In addition that are also going to target , spy on people and track them.

We may use non-personally identifiable demographic information (e.g. location, gender and age) to target ads. This will help ensure that non-paying users see ads that are of greater interest and relevance to them.

Oh! do you really think so?

Searching google for "blocking google ads" produces 'about' 127,000,000 hits, it won't be long before "blocking skype ads" does the same.

There's plenty of browser add-ins to block tracking, ads, flash cookies etc. One of the best things I've ever done was to use a modified hosts file see http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm for details. It's not a perfect set up, but I do take a certain amount of pleasure for seeing the pop-under window opening up to display "unable to connect to server".

My PC, my broadband, I'll decide how it's going to be used.

Re: Once again, how does this square with the PATRIOT Act ?

@Mike Smith

No No No Mike, you are wrong, Ms Richards has missed nothing.

“Theoretically, it shouldn’t matter where data is held as long as our rules apply,” Richards told The Reg at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London. “The legislation in the US is not so different from the legislation we have in the EU.”

All praise to the Sir Humphrey's and George Orwell and the Ministry of Truth"

This is bureaucrat bullshit of the highest order, the logic is perfect, its the facts that are wrong! Look at the first word, Theoretically, it shouldn’t matter where data is held, this statement is correct, it shouldn’t matter where your data is held, practically though, it does matter where your data is held (see next point).

"The legislation in the US is not so different from the legislation we have in the EU.”

I forget what this logical fallacy is called (false analogy? ). The phrase "not so different" is meant to convey the notion that the data protection laws are nearly the same when they are not.

Ms Richards has missed nothing, she's just hoping that you did.

Re: W3C - The finest standards that Google can buy.

Why is it that everyone thinks that FarceBook, Google and other vested interests are telling the W3C what to do?

Oh! Hang on.......

Well what do you expect, Amerikan special forces in 'nam adopted a version of Arnaud Amalric's (died 1225, a Cistercian church leader) infamous statement "Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoset" (Kill them all. God will know His own) or if you prefer the modern version "Kill'em all, and let God sort'em out".

Or maybe the perp is playing too much GTA

Re: Windows is the OS of the Cloud

the danger with fog is that if it gets polluted it will turn into MicroSmog

Re: In all fairness...

What!! are you a MicroSheep or a MicroSlave, either that or you have been using MicroSloth Idiot Exploder for far too long or you have been MicroShafted

how about MickeySoft, MicroShaft, Mightgosoft, MicroSnot or MicroSlug

And the funniest of them all "MicroSoft Works"

Re: Time will tell?

Should be easy to check, what was the huge jump in sales when Oink was closed down???

Re: @Graham Wilson -- Corporations can't confiscate property.

Fantastic post Graham,

However I would not agree that "rampant capitalism succeed".

Rampant capitalism in the form of Thatcher/Regan monetarism has been as big a failure as communism has been in Russia. Just look at the problems that have been created in the US and Europe because of corporate greed, the rich have continued to get richer while the poor have got poorer.

Georges Clemenceau (French PM 1906-1909) said that "War is too important to be left to the generals", to paraphrase that "Banking is too important to be left to the bankers". The bankers have been tested and they have been found wanting, time to take the banks away from them.

Re: Corporations can't confiscate property.

[1] Actually I can't think of any examples of a genuinely communist state since communism was invented

I think Cuba made a good attempt at it, pity they pissed off corporate Amerika, by nationalising everything, who then wouldn't play with them until they got all their toys back.

Q: What's the difference between capitalism and communism?

A: Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man and communism is the other way around.

To be fair though both systems have one thing in common, shortages will be evenly distributed among the lower classes.

Re: oh noooooo

What i fail to understand, is the reason for these bans?

Because it gives the copyright mafiaa the impression that they are doing something, i.e. trying to protect their monopoly, it also creates a bogyman for them to blame, i.e. sales are falling due to piracy and not due to the fact that in worsening economic situation, people are less likely to buy formulistic, shit, boring, mass-produced, muzak filled records.

Re: Oligopoly is a great word

Oligopoly is a great word...... to describe price gouging.

Re: Wow.

If crApple are so desperate that they are comparing the Samsung Tab 10.1 to a harmful mis-branded drug, then the fruity firm can treat all their own fruity products as suppositories, good thing they have patented round corners (c) (tm).

Icon: thumbs up, guess what's on the end of it. . . .

Re: Investers' failure

Why is it an investors failure?

Weren't Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, the underwriters for the IPO, also running roadshows for the IPO as well, telling everybody that FarceBook was well worth $38 a share. I'm sure that was good advice for such reputable and upright firms.

Oh Hang on, Goldman Sachs, aren't they the same people that helped Greece cook the books when they joined the EU and shorted their own (sub-prime) mortgage backed financial derivative products into the market?

I think I see what the problem may have been....

Re: "And what have you composed that I have heard?"

Sussshhh!!! Jedit, don't feed the trolls, especially ones from PRS.

Re: Extortion racket

They're not called the copyright mafia for nothing you know

Re: I'm so glad ms bought Skype

So am I.

I can't wait for MickeySoft to start embedding bits of Skype in all the Windoze DLLs so that you can't uninstall it.

Sound familiar?

Re: And they call the mafia criminals??????

Sir,

you can't short a stock within 30 days of its IPO.

Yes you can, it's only the underwriters of an IPO that can't engage in short selling for 30 days after the IPO.

Stocks aren't marginable within 30 days of their IPO either i.e. you can't use then as security against a potential margin call as the Fed and brokers consider then too risky an investment. Funny that, brokers have rules that protect themselves but not the investor.

There are plenty of ways to short trade a stock with out ever having to borrow the stock, contracts for difference is one that comes to mind