Re: I wonder......

No Sky here, but a self-installed Freesat box. Would rather miss 1/2 the F1 then give money to Murdoch.

Re: So 0% are staying?

Might be unlikely, but it's possible. Bear in mind people actively chose Be rather than one of the bigger, cheaper providers because of what made them different, so it's not unexpected that those same people will look for an alternative.

Re: What about the testing ?

Having dealt with a few penetration testing companies on behalf of some of our customers, they seem to largely rely on using the same OS tools that anyone else would use and provide a report that is simply the unfiltered output, including such gems as proposing an ssh server is insecure because it reports its version (hint: this is required for interoperation between servers and clients).

Re: " because it may easily be used to lute users into visiting malware-tainted websites."

I want to know who is orchestrating it all

Re: Im not an investor but....

Tom7, your mistake there is in assuming capitalism isn't working. For those at the top of the pile it clearly is. The rest of us are simply resources.

Re: Feed the children Microsoft crack whilst young....

The problem is, by the time you've gone through GCSE's, A levels and university, the latest version of Office that is going to be used in the real world is likely to be as different to the one you learnt as OpenOffice or anything else is. Add to this the "parrot-style" tuition that often passes for computer literacy these days, and very few kids have the skills to use a word processor or a spreadsheet - instead they have a qualification for Word 20xx and Excel 20yy.

@Vin King

The clue is in the first line "Congress shamm malke no law..."

It does not say that anyone else cannot stop you, just that the government (the rulers) shall not be allowed to.

Re: Probably...

@AC 08:55:

"Those decisions are for the democratically elected government and the judicial system."

As I understand the US legal system, it is the exact opposite. The right to free speech is the right to NOT have the government make that decision.

Their right to free speech does not mean they can demand or expect that having pissed others off, those others are not allowed to drown out their speech.

Re: @ AC [Microsoft Salesman?] = The joys of open software

Windows 8 System Requirments:

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2

So no 386's then.

PAE: Pentium Pro or newer

NX: Pentium 4/AMD64 or better

SSE2: P4/AMD64 or better

(from Wikipedia)

So, Windows 8 doesn't support 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium 2 or Pentium 3 architectures it seems, or any of the AMD equivalents.

Re: 8080, bloody Hell!

@Fatman - the fact that you know what SSSD means without thinking it is a mistype of a new fangled non-spinning disk thingy dates you (and me).

Re: anyone else?

"keeping Samsung around wouldn't have helped."

If the process had been licensed to them, I think it might well have helped, given their manufacturing prowess.

@AC 16:47

If you have had to sign the Official Secrets Act, then you will know that everyone is already bound by it, whether they have read a copy of it or not. The bit you sign is just a reminder of your existing obligations.

Re: Very typically English

Expensive and rubbish?

Re: Why ...

DNS is supposed to be a hierarchy. The existing JANet name system was reversed (quite literally in this case) into DNS. Technically we should have a .gb name space, but .uk was preferred against the relevant standard. Nominet did the right thing and used the hierarchy to set up a sensible name space, and manage it in a way that is genuinely better than any other country registry that I am aware of. Now they seem to want to throw that all away.

Re: "this does not appear to fall under those strict parameters"

The problem is, the police request was:

"@twitter - rly imprnt - can haz dox for terrist pls?"

Re: Nick Leeson Software inc.

At the very least you'd think they would set a maximum loss setting for the test. I would assume the point of the algorithm/system is to make money, so sensibly that should be 0 - trading goes negative, stop and report it.

Re: Intriguing.....

Surely the problem is it was buying shares and then immediately selling them at a lower price. Doesn't matter who or what you are trading with if you do that.

Re: Baffled now.

I think they're referring to this "Flash": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Paget_Flashman

In particular the part: "He became an expert cricket bowler, but that was through hard effort (he needed sporting credit at Rugby School, and was afraid to play rugby football"

Re: Shock

Continually increasing sales graph in change of direction shock. City analysts quoted saying "we've never seen that happen before".

Maybe people are waiting for the iPhone 5. Maybe sales are approaching saturation level for the market.

Re: I was wondering when...

If it was about protecting children, I suspect there are plenty of better ways of spending £1.8 billion.

@Spelling

They'll be changing the spelling of Eigg next!

Co-operative multi-tasking is still multi-tasking

Incorrect. Windows 3 had co-operative multi-tasking, and task switches were performed when you relinquished control by polling the message queue for your application - as long as your application was processing messages, tasks would be switched correctly. If you decided to sit in a loop and not poll the Windows message queue, you would lock up the system.