* Posts by andy 45

136 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jul 2009

Texan schoolgirl expelled for refusing to wear RFID tag

andy 45

Re: And regarding the "Revelation" rant...

You can look at it purely scientifically if you like, but science can't explain 'the soul'.

andy 45

Re: If the system was Opt-in, there should be no issue

Please dont bother using the Oyster card analogy. When oyster cards were brought in they doubled non-oyster fairs to make sure people used them. People didnt particularly want to sign up for them.

And your point is also moot as with Oyster cards one can remain anonymous by not registering the card and paying with cash. I also have a handy RFID-blocking wallet to keep my Oyster in.

andy 45

Re: And regarding the "Revelation" rant...

...as a christian you should know not to take the words of the bible/book of revelation etc too literally, especially from a book that has been translated many times. I would recommend just trying to get a feel for what the writer is getting at.

As an aside, it amazes me how many people dismiss god/the bible etc but are quite willing to believe in evil/the devil. Like, I don't know many people that would be willing to do a ouija board in their house or attempt to perform some kind black magic.

If you believe in ultimate evil you must believe in ultimate good.

Design guru: Windows 8 is 'a monster' and 'a tortured soul'

andy 45

Re: wat

What about your nan?

Restaurateur jailed for customer sex profile revenge plan

andy 45

Re: So...

Poor from you.

So you'd recommend avoiding all Chinese restauarants because you dont like Beansprouts for example?

And olive oil is hardly the same as Olives -- no-one said she disliked olive oil which is a completely different experience...

Windows 8 Euro PC sales SHOCKER: Results actually not bad

andy 45

Re: More fake statistics paid by Microsoft

Player-hater

You know who else hates Windows 8? Hackers

andy 45
Paris Hilton

Paris says:

All this extra security is fine...as long as it doesnt mean that MS will start deleting vital keygens from my PC off their own back, and out of my control...

Israeli cops penetrated by army of fake generals with trojans

andy 45

Re: Iran ?

It wasn't Iran.

FBI says Apple ID heist claim is TOTALLY FALSE

andy 45

Re: As with all American presidents...

what d'ya free?

Any country we think needs to be 'freed'.

Ice core shows Antarctic Peninsula warming is nothing unusual

andy 45
Thumb Down

'Unprecedented'

I like the quote in the BBC article link a commenter provided:

"The word "unprecedented" is often misused in terms of Arctic ice. In this context it means unprecedented in 30 years of satellite observations, as the press release acknowledged."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19269571

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahaha! ad infinitum

New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD

andy 45
Joke

Joke alert

"Since the Fukushima meltdown - as a result of which, not a single person is set to be measurably harmed by radiation - we know that nuclear power is safe."

Can YOU crack the Gauss uber-virus encryption?

andy 45
Alert

I know where I'd start

"hidden binary blob, when decrypted and executed, looks for a program specifically named using an extended character set, such as Arabic or Hebrew."

Judging by the countries it's been affecting, I'd start with Hebrew...

Atari turns 40: Pong, Pac-Man and a $500 gamble

andy 45

'Mrs' Pacman?

I didnt know she went on to get married?!

I do have fond memories of my Atari, but I always was a little disappointed that the actual games never quite lived up to the amazing pictures on the packaging...

I was really jealous of my mates Intellivison however. It had speech synthesis and everything!

'People should be free from Peeping Toms' snapping pics of them!

andy 45

Re: Droning on

American people should be worried.

Drones are...er....taking off in a big way in America itself. Wont be long before they carry a full arsenal of weaponry to rain down on the American public.

Ballmer says 500 MILLION 'users' to 'have' Windows 8 in 2013

andy 45

Re: New Improved Windows.

The Lumia is a good phone and very cool. That is all...

Boffins smash 3Gbps speed barrier with 542GHz T-Rays

andy 45
Thumb Down

But Terahertz rays unzip your DNA...

....possibly.

Well, that's what some people think which is why they want the T-hertz scanners banned.

LG: We're not walking away from Windows Phone

andy 45
Thumb Down

But I dont want Android or iOS

Let's hope there's still some other choices when my update comes around.

I don't want anything to do with Google or Apple, thankyou.

Cosmic ray source riddle mystery now even more mysterious

andy 45
Happy

@AC - No, more importantly.

Have these bursts of Gamma rays made anyone turn green, rip off their shirt and parade around the streets turning cars over?

UK.gov to unveil reborn, renamed net-snoop plans in Queen's Speech

andy 45

Normal people dont need to worry..

I'm paraphrasing, but I saw some authority figure on TV this morning basically saying the normal people dont need to worry about this surveillance.

Sounds more than a little like 'if you've got nothing to hide' which of course is rubbish.

Even if you trust this government (which would be follish), once the system is set up who knows whether it will be abused or not.

Americans resort to padlocking their dumb meters

andy 45
Thumb Down

I dont think enough research has been done

..to prove that these meters are safe.

The same with Wi-fi and mobile phones etc.

Maybe a threshold will be reached where we'll all start to cook!

PhD pimp's mobe lock screen outwits Feds - Google told to help

andy 45
Thumb Down

@fLaMePrOoF

fLaMePrOoF -- "to another recent case where encryption keys were refused; the feds eventually broke the encryption thus negating the need to enforce the court order demanding they keys be revealed."

In that recent case I think it was determined that the feds were either provided the password by the ex-husband or ot was a really easy, guessable passphrase...

LulzSec SMACKDOWN: Leader Sabu turned by feds last summer

andy 45

Lulzsec - "look we've managed to get the snitch list can you believe that?....er hold on.... Hector -- there seems to be someone with the same name as you on the list?!"

Hector Xavier Monsegur - "I duno guys -- must be a coincidence"...

Pirate Bay AND its users violate labels' copyright - judge

andy 45

re: The walls are crumbling @ TPB

That doesnt make it right Anyway I think the battle has only just begun.

I'm quite sure google lists more copyright infringing files than TPB, probably by 1000-fold, 10,000-fold -- A lot anyway.

TPB has no control over how much infringing material it links to, just like Google. They should not be picked on like this.

Scroogle: Dear Google, we're not bots, we're HUMAN

andy 45
Big Brother

There is no Scroogle in Google search results because...

...Google says they are FINISHED....

Russians drill into buried 20 million-year-old Antarctic lake

andy 45
Unhappy

Typical man

We're looking for life down there -- unique lifeforms -- which we'll blast with radiation, kerosene etc just to make sure it's no longer alive...

That's typical of man -- like landing (and killing) the world's largest octopus etc etc -- WTF! Just keep it the F*** alive!!

Anonymous releases law firm's emails about Haditha killings

andy 45
Meh

I think many people here

...are confusing Anonymous with anonymous...

Google and Facebook remove 'offensive' content from Indian sites

andy 45
Facepalm

@AC 23:59 GMT

You are using vowels yourself you fool.

Please refrain from doing so, or just refrain from posting please...

EFF helps MegaUpload users claw legit stuff back from Feds

andy 45
WTF?

@AC 06:05 re: EFF

What are you talking about -- 'wouldn't trust them' etc???

You provide nothing to back up your assertions about the EFF. With respect, I think you're talking crap.

As a regular visito to the EFF's deep links blog, I've seen the EFF frequently step in and back up the litte guy, and always stick up for 'what's right'.

If only we had a UK based version of the EFF. The nearest we have is Liberty, who are limp and the best they can do is make a 1-line statement about the latest freedom-taking scandal the government is thrusting upon us.

EFF are absolute heroes!

Iranian coder faces execution 'for building smut websites'

andy 45
Thumb Up

@Robert Carnegie

You make a good point Robert.

The US and all their war mongering friends have been sabre-rattling for years and in recent weeks have been really ramping things up. The US, Israel etc are all desparate for a war with Iran.

This does seem to be very conveniently timed to sway the public just before things turn ugly...

American search team fails to find women's G-spot

andy 45
Happy

I'm exonerated!

A good day for man...

Smart meter SSL screw-up exposes punters' TV habits

andy 45

No benefit for the consumer and we have to surrender all energy privacy to the energy company and are under their total control.

...And we get swamped in yet more wi-fi signals (which may or may not be harmful)

Great.

I dont want a smart meter and I'm going to do anything I can not to have one (whatever that is).

Phobos-Grunt 'crippled by US aurora station', 'is a bio-weapon'

andy 45
Mushroom

Haarp /is/ a very odd thing.

The Americans are messing with our ionosphere and refuse to tell anybody about it?!

Forget conspiracy theories, I think the rest of the world has the right to know what experiments they're subjecting us all to.

YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine

andy 45
Thumb Down

Google is a stupid name...

...that is all.

US stealth bombers finally get nuke-nobbling super bomb

andy 45

@AC

Another pre-emptive strike? Strange...

Iran doesn't really have a problem with America. I think Iranians would be happy to be left in peace.

Unfortunately America (and Israel) know absolutely nothing about Peace and are intent on ruining another country, killing hundreds of thousands of inccocent civilians and bombing it back to the dark ages with depleted uranium weapons which will cause untold problens to the people of those nations for generations to come.

I could go on...

andy 45
Mushroom

@Lieberman -- what's that, a pre-emptive strike?

Everyone knows American is the most dangerous, aggressive nation in the world.

Does it make you feel good that they just got more dangerous and will probably soon get even more aggressive?

Apple's iPad not so shiny once you get it home

andy 45
Gimp

@gurugeorge

If your regular laptop takes 30 seconds to resume from standby you must be doing something wrong. My crappy 2004 laptop takes less time than that on Win7 with a mere 1.5gigs ram.

I suggest you uninstall Realplayer or something mate.

I don't doubt that the iPad resume is faster, but I'm sure I can smell the all too familiar gut-wrenching whiff of exaggeration....

Pay-by-wave: At least it's better than being mugged

andy 45

I like ca$h

...and it means the bank doesnt get a slice of every transaction I make.

The banks have robbed us all enough.

I'm paying with cash at every opportunity, and I won't be installing NFC on my phone...

Colossal dead black neo-sphere approaching Earth

andy 45

Planet X?

It's Nibiru -- they've come for us at last...

London to get another £60m of CCTV surveillance

andy 45
Thumb Down

More CCTV?

The only surveillance device still to be implemented on the capital's transport system is anal-cam...

Apple was OK to fire man for private Facebook comments

andy 45

he should campaign

The sacked guy should stand outside the Apple store with anti-Apple banners (it would also give him a chance to wait for the coniving colleague to appear and then do what needs to be done) ;o)

5 SECONDS to bypass an iPad 2 password

andy 45
Mushroom

@Settings -> General -> iPad Cover Lock/Unlock

"Settings -> General -> iPad Cover Lock/Unlock #

Set to Off, wait for patch.

Tricky one that."

You forgot one step:

> Notify all users

Your suggestion is fine once all owners know there's a problem -- but how many won't -- for ages?

Apple iPhone 4S

andy 45

@404

Not after what happened to Blackberry last week -- not cool at all...

Busting net neutrality may amount to spying, says EU

andy 45

Does this mean that the EU would force Virgin Media to stop blocking (yes, it seems to be blocking) my usenet, forcing me to use SSL to achieve very high speed downloads indeed?

Righthaven may have to file for bankruptcy

andy 45
Megaphone

@AC

"I'll keep everyone posted about exactly *when* she starts to lose her soul, and the demons start taking over."

Probably when she sues yo ass for every last penny you got...

Why modern music sounds rubbish

andy 45

I dont think Dance music has helped the loudness war

Most of the dance music scene is about big fat beats and bass.

Over the years everyone has been trying to push it that little bit further to have 'the fattest beats EVER' because when a DJ plays your track to a floor full of dancers, the last thing you want is that your song sounds a little limper than the last one he played.

On the plus side, I've noticed a few tracks coming out which don't prescribe completely to the loudness war -- like Roisin's Boadicea. Maybe there's hope.

Facebook deletes hacked Pages, destroying years of work

andy 45
Unhappy

Facebook isnt necessarily free...

My friend reckons he's spent around £2000 in 2 years on FB advertising to build up a fan base on Facebook.

Imagine if that was wiped out with no recourse.

Facebook should have a better policy than the present one -- it's crap.

Antitrust nemesis accuses Google of 'WMD program'

andy 45
Happy

Webspam...

as opposed to Meatspam?

Tribunal: ICO was wrong to bin angry man's FOI request

andy 45

@Mordac - re: Green Ink

yeh, or perhaps someone trying to tarnish Mr Gardiner's good name -- someone on the inside with a grudge perhaps...

andy 45

re: Green ink

AC, From what I can see, your accusations are completely unfounded and are entirely based upon assumption.

The tribunal ruled the request was not vexatious and that Mr Gardiner had not contacted the council enough to be considered vexatious, so why are you still implying that he's a wrong'un and he's costing the taxpayer too much money?

As far as I remember there is a (small) fee for FOI requests to cover admin. Maybe Nottingham council should have played by the rules and saved the taxpayer some money in legal fees.

Good on you Mr Gardiner for sticking it to the man!

Android app logs keystrokes using phone movements

andy 45
Flame

I call bollocks

I don't believe this at all.

Sure, it may work fairly well under certain circumstances but I bet it can't take into account texting while walking or any other activity (like someone else said travelling on cars/buses), Swype sotware, whether a person uses two thumbs to text in landscape or a single digit in portrait etc etc.

The point is there are so many variables I don't think this would work at all in practice and is just a way for the Uni Of California to raise its profile...