Posts by Dances With Sheep
52 posts • joined Tuesday 9th March 2010 20:01 GMT
Re: RIP act?
the government assured us that it would only be used against terrorists.
Terrorists ?
It's used by local councils to snoop on school catchment areas and people not cleaning up dog shit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000#Oppressive_Use
Re: Making a stand.... or just thick ?
" You do realise that telling plod you "forgot" your password still counts as "failing to disclose the password" under the RIPA legislation. "
My understanding is that there has never been a prosecution for 'forgetting' a password.
There have only been prosecutions for outright refusal.
If you can find a reference otherwise, I am very willing to be proven wrong.
I'd suggest that the courts know that trying to prosecute somebody for forgetting something is a potential minefield. Maybe even enough to call the act into question.
Making a stand.... or just thick ?
OK.....
Even under RIP, you can tell plod you have "forgotten" your pass-phrase and there isn't too much they or a jury can infer.
By saying to plod "I'm not telling" he is either making a stand to get RIP struck down (and has very big, hairy balls indeed), or he is a bit thick and has had crap legal advice.
Prace bets now.
Re: and no more secure then than today
I learnt to type at school on a manual typewriter (it beated doing extra-French back in 1990).
As part of the exam, us budding audio-secretaries had to explain why it was important to lock the typewriter ribbons (and dictaphone tapes) in the office safe at the end of the day.
It seams they did think about data security back then. :-)
Re: Free coffee
No tea ?
Fucking heathens.
unable to use it
Unable to use it more like.
I spent a year as a dole monkey {1} and met plenty of people desperate to find work, but unfortunately not very bright. Not bright enough to use the intertubes at any rate.
The other biggie?
People obviously unemployable due to serious alcohol / drug problems were being sent on training courses to learn "new skills"....... Because when you are "in training" you don't count as unemployed on government statistics. A waste of the instructors time & government money.
{1} With a physics PhD. Go figure.
Re: 12 months porridge for a FB 'hack'?
12 MONTHS !
Christ. Assuming concurrent sentencing, you might as well give the copper bringing you in a kick in the bollocks and get your monies worth.
Re: No, You need to get real.
"But it's still theft."
Repeat after me:
"Copyright infringement is not theft'.
If I steal something from you, you no longer have it.
If I *copy* something from you, you still have it.
Maybe you have trouble understanding the concept of a copy?
Re: A sad day
"Ordinary' people will become familiar with using proxies"
Proxies ?
Is that a bit like using google translate then?
A bit like translating a "forbidden' website from Esperanto to English and ignoring the warning that the original wasn't in Esperanto?
Cool. :-)
Posted in So, what IS the worst film ever made?
> Highlander II
You utter bastard.
I thought I had banished that abortion of a film from my memory.
... you have reminded me of the lowest point of the 1990's. A sequel so shite it makes the Matrix II look like Citizen Kane by comparison.
Re: mad max
Dude, I've been to Australia......
Mad Max wasn't a film. It was a documentary.
Re: "Defendants will now have to disprove that they..."
Don't forget....... you can't prove a negative.
Never mind HongKong. Wot about the bogs in UK pubs?
I've noticed pubs here in Blightly putting spy cams in the mens bogs.
Ten years ago, you wouldn't have believed it would you?
....and before you ask, when one of us comes back from a scoot and gives a positive perv-cam report, we make a point of drinking elsewhere. (Not that the teenaged bar staff GAF about what we do)
How much would it cost us to change the laws of physics?
We know better than you
> "We know better than you" nanny-isms coming from these self-righteous medical researchers.
I hate to say it, but those self-righteous medical researchers actually DO know better than you. (Since I take it you don’t have a medical degree?).
They have given genuine scientific advice ("corn syrup is bad m'kay "). On an individual level, you are free to ignore this if you wish. On a national level, you can vote for a government that either takes or ignores scientific advice.
*cough* EcstasyIsSaferThanHorseRiding *cough*
I'm just sayin' :-)
Dyslexia ?
I have a rare form of Dyslexia where all private number plates appear as " fuckwit ".
Does anybody else have the same?
A much better idea
I named my Wi-Fi "Police Surveillance Van 2"
That should keep my pikey neighbors on their toes.
Posted in Why your tech CV sucks
Mobile Phone Number ?
"Why do you send your CV to me with no mobile phone number? "
Is he taking the piss?
Who the fuck is going to give a mobile phone number so you can call me at my current place of employment or when I'm sat on the bog? You get a home landline (with voice-mail) and a private email address sunshine.
If you think you need to contact me instantly, right this minute..... you don't. Any company I will work for isn't shitting themselves trying to employ the first person they can phone in a blind panic.
Posted in Beeb measures Blighty in doormats
Standard form
In the name of all that is holy, will the buggers *PLEASE* just use standard form and stop all the fannying about?
Saying 10^12 makes far more sense.....
....... it's also more amusing to point out the UK is in debt to the tune of one tera-quid.
Porn friend ?
If leaving your inter-web passwords in your will, you might want your porn friend to access the account(s) first and delete your stash.
Paris, just because.
Charity ?
*Charity* Electro-Sensitivity UK ?
A charity no less!
What is even more amusing is that they have a web page..... no doubt best viewed without the aid of any harmful electrons.
> Anyone who wants to charge me to spend my own money in a slightly more convenient way can go fuck themselves
For what it's worth, every time you pay with a *credit* card, Visa / Mastercard takes a 2-3% cut, which, surprise, will get added on to the shop prices to compensate. (And with American Express, it's nearer 5%...... ever wondered why so few small shops take Amex?)
If you are paying your friendly, local business, pay 'em in cash. They will appreciate not letting the credit card companies dip a finger in the pie, and cash-flow can be an issue with small business. (The credit card companies will only pay the merchant monthly)
Debit cards on the other hand, charge a flat fee (rather than a percentage) typically of a few pence. All the same, I'd rather pay cash and not let these parasites take a cut.
Hmmmm
According to this......
....back when I got punted off my motorbike on the A57, I died.
Me too
Chatted with him at Bletchley park only a few months ago.... He was a top bloke.
One of the things he said is the difficulty of getting hold of VINTAGE VALVES for colossus computer. If you have any old 1940's valves knocking about in a drawer, send 'em to a good home....
Coo
Quality in flight entertainment !
Posted in Murdoch's PIE BOY jailed for six weeks
Six weeks!
With this menace off the streets, I feel safer in my bed already.
I just hope the poor fucker can cover his rent/mortgage for the time he is in the nick and still has a job to go back to.
Our taxes at work people.
Timing?
So, this survey wasn’t carried out when students woke up the next day with eyes like sheep’s cunts then? Catch them all driving the porcelain bus at 9am and you might get a different answer. :-)
Posted in Do we really want 100Gig Ethernet?
Network coax?
Bastard!
I'd banished the nightmare of coax to the back of my mind..... alongside memories of Highlander II and other things best forgotten about the early 90's
Call the Guinness Book of Records
I reckon that dude has the worlds longest neck...... check out the pics :-)
Why indeed
> Why listening to people who tell you what to eat and drink.
Ummmm....
Because they are doctors and know more about health than we do.
Of course, if you are too thick to tell the difference between useful scientific advice on health (which you are free to ignore) and "OMG, they are gonna make us all eat sprouts" then I suggest reading the Daily Fail where you will find other people who share your misunderstanding of science.
Yeah I'm gonna get pissed & stoned this Friday. But I wont kid myself it's healthy unlike some fuckwits out there. (HINT: moderate drinking is healthy..... not necking 8 pints of ale and toking a few ceiling scrapers.)
Posted in Inventor of the Workmate dies
Gutted
I haven't been this sad since Mr "Karate Kid" Miyagi croaked back in 2005.
Posted in Census threatens spies' cover
Holy shit this is intrusive
Christ, did they want to know your employers name and address at the last census?
Anyway, on a lighter note for Q20, Id suggest such religions as Fellater or Felcher (Jedi is SO last decade). And Q35 "What did you do at your job" is just crying our to be answered with "drinking" , "lighting farts" or perhaps "not much".
Lets face it..... in 100 years time, some kid will be reading through this lot as part of a school genealogy project. At least give them a giggle.
Just to clarify....
It's not very clear in the article, but Pink Floyd (and Gilmour in particular) have a great sympathy for those suffering mental illness due to the Floyd's founder member Syd Barrett's illness.
Syd was a genius.
*shrugs*
I used to bullseye womp rats in my T16 back home.
@ Loyal Commenter
> details of treatments (which I suspect would be along the lines
> of "admitted with suspected broken leg, received x-ray,
Maybe also the fact that.... her daughter had an abortion.
Or had mental health problems
Or was on a methadone programme
Or had signs of sexual abuse
There are a fuckload of reasons why medial records are very private. Any idiot not securing this data needs to be made an example of.
Day off
Fuck it.
The only thing we all want to know is if we all get the wedding day off work as a public holiday.
Posted in Murder victim-mocking troll jailed
@Bluenose
> he should have been foced to wear a sign in the street saying "I am a tosser".
It wouldn't work mate.
What would happen is all the chav's made to wear the sign would just band together and say "look at us, we're a bunch of tossers", before nutting little old ladies and stealing their pensions.
Organised fun?
Organised fun courtesy of Facebook and a soft-drinks company?
Kids these days are just too cool for the likes of me!
Posted in Report damns health records scheme
@BristolBatchelor
" My old practice already had all records electronic, including prescriptions. "
I think you will find all these electronic records were held locally at your surgery , and not uploaded in any national (badly secured) database.
Posted in Report damns health records scheme
The letters sent out are very dodgey
I ain't thick...... Yet I had to read my badly worded letter twice to realise WTF it was on about (putting our medical records on a national computer database). There was also no simple opt-out form attached, so I had to type, print and post my own reply opting out.
No wonder the opt-out rate is so low. Especially when the letter tells us how wonderful the 'new system' will be without explaining any of the negatives. Ten quid says the database gets left on a laptop in the back of a taxi.
Posted in Swiss watch auctioned for £3.76m
Mine is more accurate
Bollocks to that. My £20 Casio watch picks up the time signal broadcast from the NPL's atomic clock. So stick that in your Swiss pipe and smoke it.
@Good grief I must be lucky
A rucksack full of hard drives in anti-static bags looks remarkably like a rucksack full of 9-bars........
Don't ask me how I know this, I just do OK.
(Paris, 'cos like airport security, she's a fuckwit who needs to justify her existence as well.)
Ridicule is nothing to be scared of !
Woohoo !
Time to dig out the Adam Ant makeup and dance the 'prince charming' again.
Who's in with me ?
Cool
Looks like a fanny magnet to me.....
Anyone remember the strip in Viz where Sid the Sexist buys a moped & rides to a bikers pub to try and pull ?
Madness I tell ya
All together now....
# All the teachers in the pub
# Passing round the ready-rub
# Trying not think of when
# The lunch-time bell will ring again
Posted in Met launches net café spy operation
I can see the the phone call now
Brrrrr Brrrrrr..... Brrrrr Brrrrrr......
Hello, Police ?
I'd like to report this bloke in a turban.
Thats right..... I saw him accessing the Nu-Labia website.
What's that ?,
You will send SO-19 around to give him a Brazilian ?
Right you are gov'nor. Just doing my bit for Blighty.
But.......
I won't be opening the champagne yet
When this was read out on Radio 3 this morning, the news article following it was the wish for cyber cafe owners to grass up customers for accessing 'terrorist' (read 'Islamic') material.
Passports for jobs
Actually, as an ex-dole monkey I had the opposite experience needing a passport. Every single "professional" job I applied for insisted I bring a passport to my interview or I would not be considered for employment. (An NI card wasn't good enough apparently, 'cos you can still be a furriner and have an NI number!)
Turning employers into boarder guards is *definitely* throwing up a barrier to the disadvantaged trying to apply for work..... Not that this justifies ID cards and the Nu-Stasi database obviously.
Another licence?
Just what we need, yet *another* open source licence to add to the confusion.
Either use the GPL or BSD licence and get it over and done with.
