Should make for an easy appeal

"The Judge demonstrated no competent understanding of the technical issues involved and was therefore insufficiently able to pass down an informed judgement"

Simples

Shock news!

Antivirus is at least partly snakeoil.

And also no substitute for educating yourself and using common sense.

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Religious views:

Too many people die from it

reasonable grounds

'Evidence' would be better, this is the UK police after all.

We were hopeful that there could be a simple solution

Right.

And which, CuddleFluffyMumsieKins exactly, has the technical fucking werewithal to produce this hi-tech panacea?

These la-la land people are precisely why safety labels should be removed from everything allowing Darwin to steer his true course.

There's something better than prison

It's a called a boat. Preferably a leaky one.

Why it seems like a good idea to someone to pay for their detention for up to 9 years instead of telling them to fuck off and don't come back unless they want to be <strike>shot</strike> put in prison I do not know.

Lifetime suspended 3-year sentences enforced upon their return to UK soil would be a shitload cheaper and possibly even effective.

Unless you're American or Chinese

Buy European or Japanese, Korean wherever possible instead.

Divert your money away from these countries' companies. Always buy a .co.uk (fr, de, es, etc) companion domain

Simples (ish)

So, I deduce that...

1. Aussies have a far better sense of humour as they were ON THE SHOW having the piss taken out of them royally (goes for Germans, too, Sabine Schmitz and last TG's international Anglo-German compo, anyone? Fancy having less sense of humour than the GERMANS, cripes!)

2. Mexicans aren't above trying to grub for some ambulance-stalking cash

3. This woman is more of a Mexi-can't than a Mexi-can if she's STILL a student at 30 (or maybe she went back to school so she could play with shiny things)

A deuce of a case, what, Holmes, old boy?

Oh and I think you'll find it's political correctness against the world rather than anything against political correctness. No-one hates simple truth & facts spoken plainly more than the feckless and likely flatulent PC community (in general, not in TG land!).

Microsoft respects...

How much doing this could dilute non-H.264 support. Maybe their altruistic tendencies will prompt Apple and Linux versions shortly.

Thought not.

Wonder how long it'll be before someone finds a security flaw in it.

Make sure you're present

All the way from the swab to the post-office so Chavelina can't swap your swab for the real parent's goop while your back's turned...

About time too!

Perhaps this forms the first 'thrust' of the Wikileaks banking mega-leak?

Not long before wikileaks truth-rapes someone in banking, now

Where's Andrew Crossley when you need him

Someone ring him up and tell him there's a job for him

Actually

"Truth-rape" is probably more apposite

If you have nothing to hide

Then you don't need to squirm

Simples.

(So I guess all the banks are squirming. Good. Maybe WL can info-rape some UK banks next.)

Facebook moving into search

Would be an outstandingly comical idea to anyone who's tried to find someone on Facebook using 'Search'

No. I don't think Failbook will be moving into online search, either.

CIA asks Apple for...

Backdoor.

LibreOffice

Apart from being an awful name (surely FreeOffice would have done and be snappier off the tongue?) I wonder if it'll make its way into Orrible Oryx or Petulant Panda or whatever the next offerings from Canonical are in their fine Ubuntu range

Oh yeah and stuff Oracle. At this rate they'll have to end-of-line all the stuff they're not getting 99% free development on.

By golly, a conspiracy!

Come, come, Mr Ellison, surely you don't expect me to believe you have the power to hack all Open Source projects on the planet to insert your own code before suing them?

Public sector workers

That's a lot of jobs to go but, economically speaking, public sector employment is way too large.

The problem (or a fair part of) lies in the fact that public sector workers are tax *consumers* as they are paid for out of taxation whereas private sector workers are tax providers. So if you don't have enough tax providers for the tax consumers you're going to get a negative cashflow, essentially and go into debt, and the only way to fix it it to try & turn the cashflow positive again, meaning public sector cutbacks.

Harsh but true, not the employees' fault, either, but that's not going to cheer them up any.

I sometimes wonder if the gov could be privatised, giving everyone 'shares' based on their tax contributions or something... The annual shareholder meeting would be amusing...

Dear Trapster...

conf.php:

<?php

define('PASSWORD_SALT', 'uyfgde7i6I*D&^Ri7wi8DI6fI7I*^%(HgkghkYG&*');

>?

everywhere else:

<?php

$pass=$_REQUEST['password'];

$spass=PASSWORD_SALT . $pass;

$mspass=md5($spass);

?>

I, my teeange kids and most of the El Reg readership are available at reasonable rates on consultancy basis.

P.S. This took me less than the time to read about your screwup.

Ah but!

Does that mean that witch burning is actually still legal then ?

To Westminster my righteous brethren, with torch and kindling!!

So...

Goopon?

Coople?

To paraphrase the MAFIAA...

"They were made available"

So, Mr Bond...

You acknowledge that WE DO hold this patent...

Need an icon for gun+foot

In other words

MS software is still responsible for about 1/3rd of security issues? (18+13 = 31)

Here's a radical idea, then

Don't support Apple products

Effort vs reward

Anything that requires some effort to achieve/comprehend will be better remembered by people, is kind of obvious but of course nothing exists until someone's done some kind of study ;o)

Maybe that explains why many many stupid people watch XFactor, etc but... is XFactor the cause or the effect....