Posts by Ascylto

@ Live hard

Good Luck!

@ Brett Brennan

I, too, can't understand why they haven't licensed it. Surely it's a revenue stream for them. Maybe they see the iPhone as a direct competitor to the 'Berry.

Oh no!

The next thing is the Unemployed will have iPhones (that they've not stolen) just like the RAZR!

THEN I'll have to change. The style 'thing' will just be TOO much!.

@ Tony Paulazzo

And replacing it with the tyranny of what?

Millions of viruses?

A convicted monopolist?

A mad Monkey Boy?

It's business ... what do you expect?

@ Anonymous Coward 00:19 GMT

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

And for breakfast this morning I had two HW23a tablets and a lovely drink of 342.

I went to work on my Dringod 350 Squricycle and my Boss gave me a salary raise of 45 skrimbles per month!

Wife No5 has complained that our children aren't getting the right education on Zarg 4 and wants them back. I explained they can't come back until they're 46 yargs old.

Honestly ...

the things people will get up to to avoid Microsoft problems.

These poor lads risked life, limb and freedom to be free of the yoke of Ballmer and, as has already been said, used a Windows vulnerability to commit their crime (so, nothing unusual there, then!).

@ Charles Manning (and Jason DePriest)

Charles, don't have a go at someone who has had the courage to say he bought a Zune. Admittedly it was for another person.

The only questions to be asked here are concerning his wife. Does he hate her THAT much? Was it his wife who demanded a Zune in order to humiliate her husband? Things don't look good there.

All power to Jason for public admission of buying a Zune. Of course had he been in the UK he would have been put on some Register or other.

Babs Folly said ...

"...and that they will remain compliant with the provisions of the VRA on a voluntary and best practice basis."

That's like having a voluntary Code of Practice for MPs expenses.

Fat chance!

@ Nodick Framelhammer

Go on!

Back under the bridge!

Troll!

@ kain preacher

Presuming you are a US citizen and therefore know nothing of international news ...

The reference is to the extradition Treaty signed by some twat in the United Kingdom which gives the right of extradition of UK subjects to the USA authorities with little or no evidence of guilt. Not even a prima facie case. Whereas for the UK to extradite a US citizen would require the UK to present evidence. Well done the US!

The particular case involves a UK subject, Gary McKinnon, who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome and who admittedly hacked in US 'secure' military computer systems looking for, he claims, UFO information. The US authorities want to take him to court. The should actually give him the Congressional Medal or somesuch for showing how pisspoor the security was.

I would rather he remain in this country and be employed by GCHQ to hack into US military computers.

The UK person (aka twat) who signed the Treaty should be sent to Afghanistan with a target on his back.

@ E 2

Wow!

I didn't realise it was THAT good!

Past and present glories

Aah, IBM.

Is this the same IBM which has a big stake in introducing ID Cards in the UK, AND a past which included working with the National Socialists in Germany (aka the NAZIS)?

They seem to go together, dontcha think?

Available at ...

No doubt the Install and Backup disks will be available, free of charge, at the new Microsoft Stores soon to open near an Apple Store near you!

Snigger.

Pity

It's s pity, really, as this seemed to be, at long last, a real competitor for the iPhone.

From an Apple fanboi and iPhone owner.

@ Juan

Well, said!

Of course, you know it's nothing to do with bad or lazy spelling, it's because they're dyslexic (or dissleksik as they might have it!).

It is rather worrying, though, when you discover they also have degrees!

Tee! Hee!

Even if this isn't entirely true, IT WILL HAPPEN.

The dark side of me was hoping the Manchester Congestion Charge would come into operation just so that the system could be broken within a few weeks by some teenager.

Lo! We voted against the Manchester Congestion Charge and we're getting the money for the increased services and Metro extension anyway! Quelle surprise!

Ha ha ha!

Whoever at ITV made the decision to buy Fiends United should work for the government.

He does? Oh!

God's way

This is God's way of punishing those who are not true believers ... He makes their iPods explode!

Others, true believers, He saves from death ... like the girl who was saved from electrocution by lightning strike because she was wearing her iPod.

Mysterious ways indeed!

Oh! No!

Looks like the UK government's going to get stung again!

@ Simon Buttress

Oh dear. You just don't get it, do you?

We Mac people ARE superior in ALL respects. We buy expensive machine because we CAN. We earn more because we are CLEVERER. We appreciate good design as we would a fine wine. We fanbois snigger behind PC owners backs. The real sheeple are the hordes of PC owners who are too thick to get out of the Windows fold. They build their own PCs because they try to impress their girlfriends (or boyfriends) with knowledge of the interiors of their computers whereas we Apple owners have merely to flash the Apple symbol.

We ARE smug. Deservedly so, and your vomit will serve only to underline our superiority as we would not stoop to such low levels.

And ...

Governments want our information on a Database!

The ID Cards bit seems to have done a runner temporarily.

Twats!

STASI? Amateurs!

And those with even shorter memories will recall the UK's RIP Act and the ID Cards fiasco.

Microsoft + BT

Do you think they imagined that two negatives would make a positive?

Hello! This is Customer Servicings, Kevin speakings, how can BTSoft help me today? Which cloud linings would you like to be experiencing today?

A mature debate ...

is what this man wants. So, let him have it according to HIS OWN rules ...

I hope one of his legs drops off.

I hope this will be swiftly followed by two of his gonads.

I hope all the hair in his armpits grows out of his nose.

There, a mature debate according to Mr Sutherland's principles.

Tag 'em!

EDS staff set loose into society!

These people should be tagged or 'kettled' as they will be a menace to ordinary people ... sucking their bank accounts dry ... and a real and present danger to government projects.

On the other hand, we could send them to a country we don't like!

@ alan 39

What a prize knob end YOU are!

Do you seriously think the USA is our ally? We've only just repaid the 'loans' the USA made to us after World War II.

The US is a free country? Read the Patriot Act!

They have a decent legal system? Their judges are picked by politicians who put our duck-house, moat cleaning bunch to shame for depths of cynical opportunism.

They do exactly as they please, UK or not, and I wish WE took the freedoms of our 'citizens' as seriously as the US Americans do.

FFS ... McKinnon is a wanker, but he did break into a supposedly fortress data system! They should employ him, not imprison him! Better still ... WE should employ him at GCHQ!

There is such a thing as BAD Law and those who oppose it are right to do so.

Incidentally ...

My nephew has Asperger Syndrome. On holiday in Vienna he memorised the entire Vienna Metro system within two days and advised Viennese natives on best routes ... but can he get a job as a Postman in this country? No, because he can't pass the Post Office test paper!

@ Gaius

I have already opted out of the NHS 'Spine' (of course I realise that doesn't mean they don't have my info) ... nonetheless, with a name like yours - beware the Ides of March!

I don't think EDS or Accenture have yet been convicted!

Missing the point

Contributors so far have missed the point.

The 'wings' are to facilitate inter-office memos. You enter the co-ordinates on the large screen then launch the device into the air. The wings deploy and cruise between colleagues/offices delivering the missives before you can say 'Bob's yer Uncle".

There must be money in it

We've just been told about the big clandestine bonuses awarded to some police officers by police authorities. We've been told that police numbers may have to be reduced in the spending cuts which are not going to happen under NuLabour.

And now we're being told that coppers will spend more time finding out what we say and do online.

What is it with these fuckwits? The public knows that in order to catch crims we need coppers ON THE BEAT to pick up real intelligence. But they consistently refuse to do this. There's obviously not enough money in it for the bonuses.

Works fine here

The iPhone works just fine here in Reception,

Well, of course we take all mobiles off people for recycling when they 'move on' as it were.

More Microtards on burner 7 please!

Lou Sipher.

CEO Hell Inc.