Posts by lpopman

titular incandescence

We have both said things which you will regret, but we can put our differences aside. For science. You monster.

titular nonsense

I'm not giving any spoilers, but you are dead wrong on the time-scale. It's many years after HL2-EP2.

titular thingy

To be fair, I think if the government hadn't told either company that what they were doing was legal, then the CPS would have proceeded with this. Government tied their hands from the outset.

That said, I really do wish that BT and Phorm could be prosecuted, but sadly, we were let down by our surveillance society government :/

titular nonsense

@Pet Peeve: "Do brits say "Arseholes", or does "assholes" work fine too?"

Yes, we say Arseholes. It also sounds nicely condescending ;)

Anyway, if a Brit says Asshole, it makes them sound like an Arsehole.

titular musings

Yep. With Banks of mighty computers, that dwell within the halls ;)

Wow, I must be getting old.....

titular nonsense

"sorry your (sic) right!" - Yes, you must ;)

What was the grammar nazi corralry again?

titular thingy

And what is wrong with cloud saves?

I use steam, and recently had a hard disk die on me. One new drive and re-install later, and my saves were there waiting for me. SteamCloud FTW :)

titular agreement

Nice one Chris, at least he didn't try the old "Atheists are just rebellious of God" line, which I see with an increasing frequency.

Also with faith there comes an absence of evidence. There is more than enough evidence around to disprove religion, but a more thorough refutation would probably put Sarah through living hell moderating us as the flames fly here.

titular informative

The streaming on LoveFilm.com isn't too bad, no buffering or stutters here and I'm on Sky at 4mbs (Yeah, my local loop is pretty crappy here). The only niggle I have is that the movies are encoded at a bitrate of 800k.

titular obsession

AC - "I haven't hacked into the US .gov or anyone else. I don't even have a parking ticket to my name. But I am almost friendless, relationship less and jobless, with eleven year's work history to my name at the age of 46"

I'm with you there, man. At almost the age of 40, and an AS sufferer, all of the above apply with the exeption of about 7 yrs work experience. Can't work with a crowd around me as I feel overwhelmed, and if I work alone, I get distracted quickly. * sighs *

titular admonishment

Now, now TMC. Please don't bring the g-word into a debate about sciencey stuff, it's silly.

titular amusement

Or how about the drink made in commemoraton of the launch...7up and a drop of Teachers...

Mine's the one with the dusty joke book in the breast pocket

titular blatherings

erm, I'm SPARTACUS?

titular correction

@moitey: RTFA, misfeasance is a specific law, seperate from malfeasance.

titular murmur

I'd wish it upon those that came up with webuyanycar (dotcom), though!

titular advisory

Yep, I own my Sky box too. The only thing they retain ownership of is the viewing card, understandably, which is where the DRM happens. This also highlights the grey area that Sony, in this particular case, is in. Sky owns the card, so you can be held liable for any tampering with that device. Sony can't really go after you for unauthorised access to the device as you are the owner, thus have the authorisation to access said device.

titular something

Here they come to save the motherfucking day, yeah!

/me places face in hands, and shakes head whilst sighing

titular gurning

I was just going to say exactly the same thing ;)

Also, around my way, you could probably get 10 times the quantity for that price. Including delivery.

Smiley, as I remember the 90's pills fondly :)

titularly inebriate

Yeah, and a pink umbrella too methinks....

Where I come from, even the girlies drink pints :)

titular agreement

Never saw that one, but I remember Ceiling Cat flipping the HBC screen upside down if it detected any cIOS, and announcing that he's "watching ur ISOz".

titular amusement

Nice rebuttal letter :)

I particularly liked this paragraph :-

"Second, you seem to think that we might censor a student’s thesis, which is lawful and already in the public domain, simply because a powerful interest finds it inconvenient. This shows a deep misconception of what universities are and how we work. Cambridge is the University of Erasmus, of Newton, and of Darwin; censoring writings that offend the powerful is offensive to our deepest values. Thus even though the decision to put the thesis online was Omar’s, we have no choice but to back him. That would hold even if we did not agree with the material! Accordingly I have authorised the thesis to be issued as a Computer Laboratory Technical Report. This will make it easier for people to find and to cite, and will ensure that its presence on our web site is permanent."

Kudos to Prof. Anderson, beautifully put!

titular appendage

"F1 Circus (one of those funny Japanese lost in translations)"

I remember that one. It was definitely an Engrish translation, but the irony is that F1 is also known as the F1 Circus because of the moving from venue to venue.

titular bollocks

"the face book connect that shows up in all the websites is the main thing it will eat into google's AD revenues when FB starts displaying ADs on all websites."

Erm, since when have the FB conect buttons carried advertising?

Oh, and [citation needed] too methinks.

Google == Ad broker to the entire internet

FB == Ad broker to its own network.

I don't like either companies, but I have to live with them....

titular amusement

hows about .sheepf.uk?

titular tsk

"They're both spackers...Two mongs don't make a right."

What are you, 12 or something?

titular thingy

Just to add a little scope, it is an EU investigation at the expense of every country in the EU.

titular musings

Or more appropriately, Does Clive Sinclair use a BBC Micro?

titular nothingness

Except it was a running gag in Viz for quite a while before that bellend said it.

titular titter

"ran them through the autoclave" - Classic!

titular stuff

The Custodial Sentence was quashed, and was replaced by a Community Order.

meh

titular thingy

Eat my goal!

The proof in the pudding is the eating, and he's got football pie down his shirt !

Shit!

Hehe, that's my fave AP bit on the Day Today :)

An optimist says "The glass of milk is half-full."

A pessimist says "It is half-empty."

I say, "It is sour."

titular admonishment

"some of their hate crime legislation may prove very useful in dealing with the individuals who have posted here."

You mean the anti-miner, anti-europe, anti-poor and anti-socialist hatred being spouted?

titular thingy

"No, I can't prove I'm not. But a CRB check CAN prove someone IS / WAS ... does sexual preference change after a few years? No? Okay, then "IS". Which is sort of the point of doing a CRB check."

Ah, but the CRB check goes much deeper than just criminal records. The database contains stuff like - "Anonymous Coward is a paedophile, Joseph Bloggs says so.", which is just hearsay.

RTFA before you post, at least.

titular agreement

Yay! Another "hold the tomatoes" guy:)

I don't even bother with Mc Donalds these days, because I've lost track of how many times they didn't hold the tomatoes. The stupid thing is they have a button on the till for this sort of thing, and they still don't notice :/

Oh, and I'm a veggie too, so I get the juice soaking into the burger which makes it kind of soggy...

It's what you get for paying people to act as robots instead of allowing them to think for themselves.

titular hypothesis

Her name could be Jaqueline Daniels, actually :)

Kids clothes started going downhill when the boob-tubes for 9 year olds came out..

Kids should be allowed to be kids, and not be forced into growing up too soon.

titular anouncement

"I suspect someone with knowledge of plastic molding machines would do away with the first part of your post, too."

Having worked in plastics, as a machine operator, I can categorically state that any moulding equipment I came into contact with all used heated rollers and hot air to form the shape.

I can't say anything about injection moulding though, as I have no experience on that.

titular titter

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titular thingy

Well, speaking as a heavy bassist, I can see the need for drummers to have feedback from their bass drums because people like me drown them out.

Obligatory druumer joke:

How many drummers does it take to change a light bulb?

Only one, but you have to shout slowly at him 'cos he can't see to read your lips...

Beer, a peace offering to all pot beaters who frequent here

titular rapture

I was always under the impression that rap was beat oriented, and hip-hop was groove oriented...

Back on topic though, the raps will probably be whack. Snoop be illin' on this one methinks

titular nonsense

erm, if you reat the article, you would find out that it isn't lab-only crypto. It is in use by banking institutions amongst others.

I'll give you the initial outlay and local access points as prohibitive though...

titular thingy

Actually, DEP (or lack thereof) isn't a factor of this attack as the actual code is executed in the .dll in question, not on the stack.

See the paper here: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/talks/blackhat08.html for more details on ROP.

ASLR would help to prevent this kind of attack, though I'm pretty sure there could be a work around.

titular golgafrinchamism

BA should have a light-up sign with "Don't Panic" on it, in big friendly letters...