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I've been hearing too much about Apple - read DNA as NDA!
Posts by 46Bit
74 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Dec 2009
Microsoft's Courier tablet dies before it lives
Palin email jury reaches verdicts on 3 of 4 counts
Thursday 29th April 2010 23:37 GMT 
Well clearly Guilty of at least some of the rest...
Somehow it seems unlikely to me that they'd struggle to decide if it was Identity Theft if they've already decided he was Not Guilty of the Unlawful Obtaining charge - if Not Guilty of that it's unlikely they'd even need to debate Identity Theft!
Stick a fork in floppies - they're done
Monday 26th April 2010 22:57 GMT 
Loved the bit about wondering where 'floppy' came from
Whilst you might think people wonder why they're called floppy drives I remember myself being curious and examining a few by ripping open the plastic at the age of 10. Best thing was that they all still worked even when I put them back together having got my grubby fingers all over them.
Skewing statistics: Booze, money and sex
Electronic Bodyguards bureau sets up shop in Switzerland
Software engineer demands source of his speeding collar
If internet had existed before we were born would we be here now?
Legal high fire sale starts now
Tuesday 30th March 2010 19:31 GMT
Re: confused?
Whilst it'll be 6 years till I'm out of Uni so I don't qualify as an IT professional yet, you're certainly not the only one who doesn't take drugs - it's just that many people who think into it end up gravitating towards the approach that they're here and all banning will do is push them underground and hence create way more problems than it solves. In an ideal world I'd like it if these drugs didn't exist, but we don't live in one and so a more effectual response is far more important than what I'd say is strictly moral as I see it.
Tuesday 30th March 2010 15:09 GMT 
And so the whole mad saga continues
Having never tried any drugs (inc. alcohol) other than medical ones, I'd always have said that drugs are a force for bad and in the world and should be banned, but over the last few years I've completely resigned myself to the fact that they're here and that the only way to solve the problem is legitimising their sale (albeit still under limitations as to the amount sold to each person, providing some instructions with them, etc) so that you can control a) what they're diluted with and b) what's actually in them.
The entire idea of banning these and *most* other drugs is crazy in the extreme - all it does is make the 'rebel' kids think they have to have them and make other kids (and older) curious and so try them. But no, we simply have to, we simply must, put in place a ban destined to be ineffectual and cause masses of trouble and likely injury or death due to the highly likely increasing strength of the drugs and decreasing safety of what they'll be watered down with - and as I said vastly expanding the market.
Echelon computers can't cope with bad lines
CardersMarket hacking kingpin jailed for 13 years
World of Google zombies mistake news story for Facebook
Warner Music gives up on free streaming services
Microsoft's IE 8 misses Windows 7 updraft
Wednesday 3rd February 2010 21:14 GMT
Yep
To say that post reflected the truth doesn't touch the half of it. Realistically, all HTML5 should have been was <video> tags and a couple of the input field types (date etc) - all the <header>/etc is really just rubbish that people will be forced into fussing over and using for no real reason. Hell, even <video> is questionable - it's something to consider after you've got consensus on standards, not just to force through and hope something emerges from the mess (when in reality we're just going to descend into browser-conditional video formats).
Whilst I use a mix of FF & Chrome for most of my browsing, I honestly don't mind IE8 (other than some speed problems I always seem to have on all my comps), and IE7 isn't really that bad - it's just IE6 that's the problem.
New music file aims to sink piracy using blogs and Twitter
Monday 25th January 2010 19:21 GMT 
Pillocks
Gotta love the music biz:
Q) We're losing money because we don't know what good music is anymore and so hire awful artists - what can we do?
A1) Blame open-source advocates/the general public/free speech/invent fake pirating stats.
A2) Come up with some bullshit to convince people that they should pay much more for ad-/spyware that costs them v. little to produce.
A3) Demand control of the internet to prevent vastly exaggerated pirating that doesn't really happen.
A4) Extort money via entrapment off grandparents/other innocent people that half the time probably don't even know what HTTP stands for because we want to send a message that they're money grabbing bastards ... and that we're not.
Microsoft will issue emergency IE patch on Thursday
Apple's 'latest creation' debuts January 27
Cyber attack hits law firm that sued China
Security experts dissect Google China attack
Dodgy Haiti earthquake-themed domains point to scams
Women to 'chest drive' Bulgarian airbags
Serious IE and Windows flaws left to fester
Bono accuses ISPs of 'reverse Robin Hooding' over piracy
Monday 4th January 2010 16:12 GMT 
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I've honestly only ever 'pirated' about 5 or 6 songs copied off Youtube, but when you get rich, self-obsessed buffoons decrying the disgraceful free speech society we live in and instead hailing China as an example to the world it really makes me want to pirate any of their songs I ever want. Only problem is that (with the exception of Lily Allen who lets face it is as close to mass-produced music as there's ever likely to be so her opinions don't really matter) I thankfully have the sense to not like any of their music anyway.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
