milk snatcher abolished grammar schools because thicko Tories couldn't get their kids into them...

Echelon reloaded?

as title

patents schmatents

it'll all be over in a few years and we'll be able to use cranks to convert linear to rotary motion as and when we please. remember gifs?

hate comments

re the Eton entrance exam

it's 2060 and the mob have strung up members of the cabinet from the lampposts of Westminster bridge. write a speech explaining why this is necessary and moral.

just saying...

my bank has "been linked to" illegal money laundering (is there a legal kind?), drug running and murder. any chance of getting it shut down?

you can prove anything with statistics.

One can understand the Israelis might be a bit nervous about governments having location data on them...

don't like the rip offs?

then push back, fuckwits.

remember gifs? it's over after 15 years.

if you invent something and megacorp rip it off, you are sol. if you sell it to a patent troll you're in the money. OK OK I'm channeling orlowski here, but you get the point...

"numerous government agencies have tried the service and there have been no moves to squash it on the legal front"

so there's a backdoor?

chuck the computer in a peat bog.

hope your backups haven't preserved the nasty.

the internet is just a fucking snake pit.

not quite on topic

but lots of programs help buttons (i'm looking at you, firefox) open up a browser window (ok) to an addy on t'internet (not so good...)

so the dastardly Chinese hackers are given the power to plunge the nation into darkness and switch peoples tellies off during the last night of the proms. good plan.

I've got no TVs (hence no licence) and a phone that could probably (never actually tried) get a 'broadcast' via t'internet: are the tvl goons going to come at me?

the TV licence thing is all a bit Romania under the commies, they want to come and search your pad if you haven't got an idiot box. If people want to watch the government propaganda channel fine, it can't be too hard to do what the cable people do and deny access to non payers- job done.

Groupon earned the warning because of its practice of signing customers to multiple newsletters, but only offering the chance to unsubscribe one by one.

Bit like John Lewis in the UK then.

Google arrange not to pimp students data = they get a piece of the action. No problem, job done.

produces co2

not a problem if the methanol came from carbon recently acquired from the atmosphere.

single point of failure

there must be an attack or two to be developed here? enquiring minds want to know.

fixed it for you

one regular payment that can be claimed and managed online

one regular payment that must be claimed and managed online

- it's about giving people choices don'tcha know.

explicit, freely given, specific and informed consent

patient: I don't want my records 'anonymised' and uploaded to the GPES for use by 'the NHS and other approved organisations'

doc: Find another doctor then.

freely given consent? not so much.

see http://www.ic.nhs.uk/article/2245/GPES-benefits for more

dead reckoning brought up to date then.

Coke contains 106 grams of cane sugar per 100 litre

NSPCC drumming up business using FUD - nothing to see here.

Gave up with ff a while ago, bloated and buggy, using chrome atm and hoping the googly one isn't being *too* evil.

re hire car + food + petrol

another model is bottled water + ammunition.

"Customers will be asked to undertake to pay amounts due to the companies (without set-off or counterclaims) together with an undertaking to pay for the ongoing cost of services as they are incurred at the existing contractual rates,"

So the firm are wanting to rip off customers who are also creditors? If I was a customer, my reply would be good luck with that.