Posts by John Tserkezis

No matter.

We'll wait for the fifteen different versions of the clean DVD release, it'll STILL cost nothing, and we'll STILL be reminded that Hollywood can't actually make films anymore.

I can do them.

"there are still five more million-dollar challenges out there"

42.

Sheeze, I can't belive no-one had realised that before...

@ How much ???

"Shirley, they could have just commissioned a software company to write an app, then just distributed it free."

They did.

They called it NetAlert.

It cost AU$85 Million to AU$189 Million depending on who you ask.

It was started in 2007.

It was canned on December 2008.

I couldn't get clear numbers on how many people actually downloaded it, nor how many actually used it past the "let's play with it" stage. Though I can guess it wasn't many.

Clearly no-one was interested.

Note, there were other FREE filtering softwares available AT THE SAME TIME.

For a modest cost, more with a greater range of features available AT THE SAME TIME.

Yet, we had to pay for this crap anyway.

Seriously though, any project manager who spends AU$85-198Mil on a software project like this needs to be shot. Twice, just to make sure.

Not such a great idea after all? But that probably wasn't the point anyway.

The cynic in me says it had a back door.

And since they couldn't get the masses to run the newfangled censorship machine voluntarily, Conroy and his ilk would force it on us. One way or another.

Steven Conroy is still a screwball.

Steven Conroy says:

"It will deny 1,000 towns across Australia access to fibre technology - the gold standard broadband network," he said.

Of course he can say that. He isn't the arsehole who's going to pay for it now is he?

The meek? Hell no, it's the morons who will inherit the earth.

Fading memoris of the "Good Times" virus.

It managed to get through two of our sysadmins in two different offices before it found itself my way.

Those two idiots where still working there when I was retrenched and moved on.

Turned out later, managment wasn't too far off the IQ scale either.

Seeking forfeiture?!

"Prosecutors are also seeking forfeiture of the $9.4 million in proceeds from the alleged crimes."

Good luck to them.

Respect for Apple?

I would have lost it by now.

If I had any to start with...

...from later this month

"Despite Senate touchiness on the subject, the entire episode will, according to itNews, be legally available for sale in Australia with a MA15+ rating from later this month."

They're very wrong. The "offending" episode "Back to Woods" is the first episode on the Australian Family Guy season 8 disk set, which has been on sale since late september 2009.

For those who are interested, the sequence is 12:00 minutes into the episode...

Or YouTube "2 girls 1 cup brian stewie" if you don't already have it.

Gotta love the Streisand effect... :-)

I don't like Dell, but fair is fair.

Can't blame Dell too much on this, as this can happen from so many different angles it's not funny. Not even remotely.

At one place I worked at (before the internet days), they prevented malware from coming in by one simple rule. If you turn up on the premises with a personal disk (or other media type), you no longer work there. Period.

At another place, after determining our infection was due to one of our offsite offices giving the gift that keeps on giving (not mentioning any regions - asia).

Took us two days to clean up our end, and told them to clean theirs. After insisting they were not at fault, we disconnected them from the VPN till they cleaned up. Oh boy did they scream. But stopped once they DID admit to being the source of infection.

Apparently, their delay in cleaning up the mess was because it was impossible for them to rebuild any systems from scratch - every single program they had was pirated. And they no longer had the pirated software or keys, or keygens.

They failed to mention this because over there, it's normal. It gets worse, but under a REALLY tight fist, we manage to mostly keep things within reasonable bounds.

Perhaps we need something like the "Hitch Hiker's guide"

"In the event you find yourself on board a United Airlines flight, ensure you are not carrying anything that could be used as a weapon, or in the event you are carrying a weapon and are travelling to Dallas, ensure you carry it overtly, where the stewards will kindly stow it for you during the flight, and return it at your destination.

It is vitally important you always maintain an inert poker face, and at _ANY_ cost, do NOT ask the stewards if food will be served during the flight"

It's all in the way you interpret it.

"The hope is that software makers and researchers can put aside decade-old differences about the best way to handle critical defects so that end users are best protected."

Translation:

The hope is that software makers and researchers can put aside decade-old differences about the best way to handle legal terminology so that software makers and researchers are best protected.

Yep, now that makes sense.

Links dead

The Computer History Museum's download area appears to be dead at this time (website not found), would make an interesting read once the code eventually becomes available though.

Sport on BBC site

We still get occasional football headlines on our papers here in Australia.

If it isn't one footballer bashing up his wife, cheating on his wife, dropping his wife for some floozy,or has taken drugs. Again.

Seriously, you could create a template and just change the footballer's name.

an "outdated procedure" was used to initiate the repair,

"So not the Grunt's fault then, but the management for not updating the procedure or not notifying the Grunt of the update"

Yes, and you can bet the same management will take the credit for "bringing the system back to life", then give themselves a payrise to justify that.

Yep.

"However, Ceglia has his own legal problems currently. In December the New York Attorney General took out a restraining order against his company, which markets wood pellet fuel. Authorities claim he lied and repeatedly took customers' money then failed to deliver goods or refunds"

So he would fit into the Facebook crowd nicely then?

I don't care either way.

I've long since gone out of my way to make sure any box I buy does NOT have a vendor brand only power adaptor.

No Dells, no Apples, no worries.

If I want to buy an el-cheapo third party option, then damn it, I'll do that.

If I want to buy a second, for work, home, car, whatever, then damn it, I'll do that.

Basically, I will *not* be held to randsom to have to buy the vendors' overpriced boxes.

That said, if the third party knockoffs are sold at the same price as the Apple native adaptors, then said retailers deserve what they get. Sell a third party el-cheapo if you want, but price it accordingly.

Who buys what?

The opinon of a referee can be bought.

The determination of a piece of software can't.

This is very bad, especially if you're the one who's buying opinions.

The technology has proved itself in other sports, and I'm sure it can be refined to work with soccer.

And this *should* happen IMO, because there is no doubt that a referee's "opinion" can cause a riot.

Something like Hawk-Eye will give a determination that you might not like, but would statistically by far more correct than a human.

Face it, we're not perfect, and when you're talking of a game that causes major riots because a ref was allegedly "persuaded"...

The plot thickens..

Not only were the users holding it wrong, they're also *standing* in the wrong place.

Whew!

How lucky was I to have the "Shaved Beiber" plugin installed and enabled?

I've averted some serious brain damage there. Well, more brain damage.

What?

You mean Facebook users are not "saddos" after all?

I'm in the wrong business.

1.4m for selling freaking water.

It's not even bloody snake oil, just plain 'ol water.

Am I missing something?

Reader for windows is up to v9.3.0, which is the same as what I had downloaded a little earlier.

Surely for a super duper urgent release like this they're going to up the version?

Gmail

"Of the 30 or so downloads I've done, all bar 1 insisted on creating a gmail account, and since I don't have or need one, the install stopped right there."

That's the clue right there.

It needs some way of spamming you.

If it has no means of doing that, it doesn't have a reason to run the app.

Regardless of the description leading you up the garden path.

An XBox is NOT a CD/DVD/PC media player.

Sure, it can do those things, but first and foremost, people buy the things so they can play games on them.

There's the odd 43 year old gametard who thinks they're going to the world championship XBox games, but they're just idiots. Most players are your typical child/teen/early twenties person who uses the XBox for, shock, horror, playing games. Who would have thought?

And *that's* where the "you wouldn't do this to your PC/CD/DVD player" argument fails. The XBox/PS/Wii/whatever are NOT PCs, CD players or DVD players, they are games consoles. And more importantly, they are treated as such.

And so they should be. The *environment* is very different.

Need I say that Sony hasn't had problems with THEIR players in very much the same environment?

Need I say that Sony probably spent two more bucks on their trays ensuring the disks are not going to crash against the sides when some kid pulls on the handset lead? Or moves it because they don't want to step on it, or sneezes?

Where have I heard that before?

"..asks users for their approval before downloading.."

"..we think of it as a legitimate upgrade.."

"..turned off by default.."

"..collects no user information.."

Never paid for porn before, not about to start now.

Past their introduction, you get nowhere farther than some low resolution images obscured with "play" symbols, unless you're paid up.

So, for anyone to see any "dildo" action, they had to be valid subscribers.

Or are they whining about the little blurry pictures?

Ah, I'm probably safe then.

And people call me an idiot for disabling both IE, *and* WMP.

Pfft. Who cares.

A friend went from Sydney, to far north Queensland, australia (cape York) in an early model Holden Camira. The one that blows smoke.

He didn't have GPS covering his trip, he didn't have backup, he didn't have sponsorship, he didn't have a cheap photoshop image of him standing in front of the car with a fake background. And he didn't advertise his choice of vehicle to world+dog.

You want to approach that, then you might impress me.

Would be nice if it actually existed....

Because I have no idea what they're talking about, and don't want to look like a complete tool.

I feel so red carded.

google.com.au, google.co.uk, AND google.com all return Goooooooooogle.