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* Posts by Crisp

1347 posts • joined Monday 16th January 2012 14:00 GMT

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Re: 50-Year lifetime

Where can I buy a 5.25" stone tablet engraver for my PC?

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How is this different from running a TOR exit node?

With a TOR exit node you've got plausible deniability. Running cloneware software explicitly designed to clobber an investigation smacks of intent.

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No Zettabyte drives yet then?

Windows 11 is probably going to need at least an Exabyte just to install.

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Re: desolder and remove the USB ports

Or you could just turn them off in the BIOS. Save trashing a perfectly good motherboard.

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If it can be viewed

It can be recorded.

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Double Jeopardy

I don't think it works the way you think it does.

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Re: You are the terrorist threat

I didn't know I was a terrorist!

I guess I'd best turn myself in then. I wonder if I'll get a reward.

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Is that a rebranded Asus Transformer?

Because that's what it looks like.

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Re: OK, but there are competition problems in retail markets too...

Because some clueless stuffed suit in marketing looked at the numbers and thought to himself. "Mbps looks bigger! Bigger is better right? No one really understands what these numbers mean anyway. Lets just use the biggest one."

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The future is bright!

The future is Mandarin.

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Should have just said it was a Companion Cube

And just left it at that.

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"Responding more urgently to terrorist threat warnings"

What terrorist threat? And how does monitoring every thing I do online help prevent that?

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Re: Merchandising!

Dammit! Given a list of n items. People will only remember n-1. Which is why I always put an elephant at the end of my shopping list.

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Merchandising!

Where the real money from the movie is made!

Spaceballs the T-shirt!

Spaceballs the Colouring Book!

Spaceballs the Lunchbox!

Spaceballs the Breakfast Cereal!

Spaceballs the Flame Thrower!

(The kids love that one.)

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Re: Probably doesnt trigger gaydar

He's probably picking interference from a gay weather balloon.

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We should be sending more.

With today's technology we should be able to get better instrument packages to the heliosphere in less than 35 years surely?

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Re: "God Speed"

God Speed isn't fast enough!

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He's looking a bit peaky

Someone call 111!

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Re: Council statement is here

"Argyll and Bute Council wholly refutes the unwarranted attacks on its schools catering service which culminated in national press headlines which have led catering staff to fear for their jobs"

I'd fear for my job too if I was producing meals of the quality depicted in the article.

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5.3 million kilometers away

I guess that's too far away to hit it with a mining laser and scoop up free metals?

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Kids today!

With their legitimate blogs with interesting stories.

If Martha had been blogging about anything else and had got her picture in the papers, you can guarantee that the Head would have capitalised on the publicity.

If I was in charge of El Reg I would be offering her a job. Lunch Register anyone? :)

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Re: It's an adult game

It's not something that I would want to expose children to.

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Re: It's an adult game

It's an adult game. Marketed at and played by adults. It depicts the main character gunning down various other characters. Killing them.

If the game explored the issue of racism, then I would fully expect it to have racist themes.

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It'll never happen

That sounds too much like common sense Benjamin.

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We can negotiate for a lower tax bill!?

I'm writing my letter to George Osborne now! :D

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Bi-sexual Icons too please.

Let's not leave anyone out.

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It's an adult game

Why should it not have adult themes?

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PRC Have a better patent than that.

They have a patent for an "Image display device", if they enforced that patent, then they'd make billions!

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Quote From Article

"I don’t think we should pass broad laws on a promise from government that they will never abuse them."

I think Julian Huppert is a bit late...

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This is difficult

Lately I'm finding it very difficult to tell the difference between the government and the terrorists that they claim to be trying to protect me from.

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I don't think women are that influenced by what they see on TV

Or if they are... They haven't been watching enough Lynx adverts.

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Lawyer hands out free advice

And it turns out to be worth exactly what was paid for it.

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Paris Hilton

Sales Reps usually are hot.

Because sex sells. There's a reason that advertisers drape scantily clad women and men all over their products. Because it works.

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Integration across Whitehall is an issue

That's always been an issue. The governments right hand is barely aware that its left hand exists.

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Re: apollno

Any hyperbolic trajectory for him would do.

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That's the deadly threat of torrents dealt with once and for all.

I for one will be happy that pop stars, actors and movie moguls will be able to eat three square meals a day and keep a roof over their heads now.

Or at any rate, it should give them one less excuse to hang around begging on the streets of LA.

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A4 LOAD LETTER

It was a printer wasn't it?

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Alert

Where can I buy some lead underpants?

I'm now concerned about x-ray laser wielding scientists rampaging over the city. Run for your lives!

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Paris Hilton

I was disappointed the the article did not relate to the picture.

Paris Icon. Because that doesn't relate to the article either.

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What goes around

Comes around I guess. At least on poorly configured networks anyway.

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Definitely Beerworthy

I'll bet there's some champagne corks popping at SpaceX right now too.

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That is frigging genius!

I'd always thought that some of the worlds major problems could be solved with magnets.

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Paris Hilton

Conventional Access

So maybe it's time for a little unconventional access.

Paris... because, well... you figure it out.

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It's Science Jim,

But not as we know it.

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Not quite SpaceX is it?

I'm surprised Mr Branson didn't just buy SpaceX and slap a Virgin Galactic sticker on it.

What? It's what Virgin Media did with Telewest, NTL, etc.

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Re: Contracts

I'm not telling everyone what I think the law is. I'm asking what the law is.

Is ticking a box and clicking a button signing a contract?

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Contracts

Checking a box and saying I agree to the terms of use of your website is not a contract is it? After all, nothing has been signed. You could even argue that for most people, checking the box and clicking the button is just a hurdle to jump over to do the thing that you actually wanted to do with the site.

Same goes for EULAs.

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Re: Win-win

That's all very well ukgnome. But do they know how to program my TiVo?

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I'm not scoffing.

At least, not over an unencrypted traceable internet connection anyway.

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Re: Is it just me....

Funny, I was just thinking the same about the members of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games...

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