Posts by edge_e

Re: Prosecution would be proof of idiocy..

Yawn, here we go again. I walked into your house because you left the door unlocked and I'm only surveying the wallpaper in this street - still illegal, still going to jail, still not passing "Go", and still not collecting $200.

In the UK, this would not result in jail time. It's unlikely to even result in prosecution. The only reason it would be against the law at all is because of recent changes to squatting legislation

Re: To confuse things, masala chai

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Fixed it for you

Woah they didn't already have this? Like it or loath it, this is one of FB's biggest security nightmares waiting to happen.

Re: Grammar

Learning to program is probably good for grammar in general.

If nothing else, you learn that it's near impossible to write to write a few hundred lines without making a mistake therefore making it much more likely that you'll actually read back through what you've written.

Re: Ethical question

Because their mates are.

I would now like to point out that I think this reason is lame, but it is the reason.

Re: Took me a while to read that right

Kept reading Estonian as "Etonian".

I did the same initially. Quickly realised my error though; as if an Etonian would be broke ...

Re: the point of the game?

that's what I thought. What exactly did he do to deserve getting fired?

Re: Idiots

Idiots or just not thinking

Same thing isn't it?

Maybe you'd like to explain how this is any different to a surgeon leaving a scalpel inside his patient?

Re: Just to expand on AC 20:12

20:12 !

sure I read somewhere that we'd be able to edit posts for a few minutes after posting them ????

Re: @JaitcH: When you die...

Write a few songs and live off the royalties for 70 years.

Clean toilets everyday for minimum wage and be lucky to live that long.

There is something seriously wrong here

comments

The article was bollox.

I'm guessing that the only reason there's so many comments is because every one else is as bored as me, which leads me to the point of this:-

Christmas is even more bollox than this article

Re: Typical knee-jerk reaction to technology

Microwaves are not xrays

Re: ...verbose, complicated terms and conditions...

If this makes one person pay attention to the permissions they grant things, it'll be a job well done in my book.

Re: Plusnet are owned by BT?

Different prices, different call centers, different staff. BT have, quite sensibly, been completely hands off the plusnet business since they bought it.

I'd happily recommend them to any non geek.

Re: voting system was borked

Vote with your feet

mmm

But urine has antibacterial properties.....

Re: Odd.

I like the recorded in one take now lets get down the pub sound. certainly better than the over compressed crap that seems to be norm these days

Re: What else will they want? A DNA sample?

It'll happen.

They'll sell it as a security feature or some such bollox.

Re: "The need to redesign corporate defences, according to Trend Micro."

Crikey, how many smileys

@Another Justin

This is alright by me as long as the message appears at first boot and then generates a key for the image it is booting and doesn't display the message again unless I've been hacked.

Re: Fixing stuff

I lodged with a couple in their 80's who between them couldn't change a light bulb. They were both physically active, so this had nothing to do with physical ability. They had both been brought up in an environment where you got somebody in to do that sort of thing.

I, on the other hand, fix a lot of things myself.

Other posters have suggested it's more about upbringing than which generation you belong to. I think this is closer to the mark. It doesn't tell the whole story though because that would lay the blame squarely at the feet of parents. This can't be entirely true because parents have a habit of trying to pass on what they're good at to their offspring.

I think the reason for the decline is because of the change in the aspirations of children. Back when i was a kid, everybody wanted to be an astronaut or a train driver. Now they all want to be pop stars or footballers.

Selling the idea that putting this engine back together is a worthwhile learning experience to the later is a lot harder than it is to the former.

I'll leave you all to discuss what caused the change in aspiration.

Re: How effing much?

I'll Fill in the glaring hole

The cost of 86 uk staff ~ £5 million

The cost of the other 4 ~£20million

Re: I forgot... our own culture is the only True Way

But I don't hear outraged voices accusing our government of outrageous censorship.

Listen harder, they're there.