* Posts by michael

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Put down your pens: Cartoons next on censor block

michael

I am shure I own

some annimi (sorry I can not spell it) witch might well fall foule of this but has apently been cleared by the bbfc .

descuse

o btw sara is there anyway we can make pepol read the articles and other links before commenting on them?

Geo-located malware appears over the horizon

michael

geo ip lookup

if that is the same as the girls who pop up on the adds who want my hot body then they are all in Edinburgh when i am in Oxford

Great Aussie firewall claims first victim

michael

hold on

it is after lunch so forgive me if I am a bit slow but this is what I thought the article said

guy submits link to authority saying "I think this should be banned"

guy posts in forum saying "look I just sent them this link lets see if they are stupid enough to ban it"

authorities ban it

authorities send letter to forum saying "this site you are linking to is on a black list please remove it"

some things come to mind

1. did authorities not check the site?

2. did they not read the forum post before they sent the letter and see they where being taken

3. did they not care?

4. how is the law written so that they fine pepol for a forum link?

Lights out, Britons told - we're running out of power

michael

good read on this topic

http://www.withouthotair.com/

I agree some hard decisaions need to me made but form personnel experience on power plants (I have lived near nuclear and wind and gas and coal) the one that produced the least effect on me was the nuclar and the one that almost ruined pepols life was the wind (have you ever tryed to work wiht the sun shining thought wind turbines the flickering is a nightmare)

Right-wing Oz politico in nude snaps rumpus

michael

@Sarah Bee

yes but you work around it journalist so you might be desensitised

@kissingthecarpet

"cunsumer"

somone who buys porn or makes it them self

Pandemonium at NYC 'Top Model' audition

michael

@ac

bootnotes need no it angle other wize they would not be bootnotes

Scottish Parliament pr0n law faces angry opposition

michael

"deep-fried Mars bar"

"deep-fried Mars bar"

that bings up a good point if I have a picyure of a naked person eating a deep-fried Mars bar doser that class as a " a threat to life in a pornographic context:" god forbid smoking

Pro-filesharing Swedish party hopes for seat in Brussels

michael

yes there is a pirate party

but how long till we follow the lead of the ozies and get out own sex party?

Robbie Williams, Billy Bragg et al say downloads aren't illegal

michael

@bod

"Besides, how different is downloading to the days when we'd tape stuff off the radio or copy our mates records and tapes?"

only in one way it is easer to do

rember the "home taping is killing artists" and "don't copy ythat floppy"?

Designers mock up bonkers 'leccy car concepts

michael

@ john bayly

no what worries me is they have forgotten the chain gun on the back how can i take out the hunters brutes and eletes without it?

Italians boffins prove plausibility of spam-javelin spam

michael

not in erect

http://xkcd.com/194/

says it all realy espicley the mouse over text

Last day for anti-snooping petition

michael

@psycochief

yes I am sure from all I have read on el reg (and I have read a lot) that phorm profiles your traffic and then serves up adds on THERE AFFILIATES SITES ONLY they do not replace your adds or anything like that

michael

@Jason

to answer your questions in order

by agreement wit the site

no

no

not for adds

they do not

to sum up phorm collect all your surfing habits by spying on your traffic at isp lvl and then use this info to create a "surfer profile" then put a cookie on your comp with this profile when you visit one of there affiliates you get a add based on what your surfer profile is

our problem with it is the spying not the adds witch we all ignore as a matter of coarse

Multi-sense VR helmet in development

michael

how long before

they come out with a crotch atachment for it?

Epson EH-DM2 projector with built-in DVD player

michael

think I will pass

when is the blu-ray verson with hdim and hi def res out?

US cops called to McDonalds menu cock-up

michael

"toss off some work time?"

I prefer to do that in privet and with more exotic web sites

o you said ....never mind

michael

sorry but I call error

"only to be told there weren't any pieces of poultry-based nourishment left"

it has been proven that mc food has no nourishment in it whatsoever

Barclays heralds new wave of wallet-waving

michael

@ pepol who hav not read the article

it will be quicker cos it dose not do the talking to the back that the current system dose so there will be speed increases and it only chagles you for the pin at random intervals so you will not need to enter your pin every time

Telenor shuns IFPI's 'block Pirate Bay' demands

michael
Coat

@mr.K

you know of any good it jobs going over there?

failing that how do you say "would you like fires with that" in Norwegian

coat hat and bags pls I am leaving

UK opposes copyright exemptions for mash-ups

michael

@Paul Donnelly

"I might have to report all of our politicians, one by one, for breaking copyright law."

yer good luck with that look at bt and city of London police for how well those sort of things go

Great Australian Firewall dead in the water?

michael

re:Re: Who's exploited?

I agree with everything you say sara

ok course I always agree with you cos it microscopicley increases my chance knowing you intermitley

michael

sex party

*snigger*

Arms biz glovepuppets Parliamentary kit probe

michael

british independance for USA?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

*breath*

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

*wipes eyes*

sorry you where serious?

I bet the resaion jack straw will not disclose the cabinet discussion on the iraq war is it prob when something like this

"I do not care weather or not we have eve dance gorge wants us to go to war and if we do not *insert dire concenqunces here* so we are going end of descusion"

Pirate Bay prosecutors get jiggy with charge sheet - again

michael

also

in a case dependent of the intracity of bit torrent I can not believe the best they could find to give eve dance was someone who did not know how torrents worked Hurley they could have found another hi up person who DID understand how torrents worked?

michael

but

if you go to goggle and type in Coldplay torrent (as TPB only searches through torrents that is a more fair comparision) you get a lot of torrents downloading what you want

Home Office plans to force CCTV on shops and pubs

michael

most worring part

is the plans again for the law to as the power for the government ministers to bypass parliament when ever they feel like it

Pro-Heathrow demo challenges Carbon Cult killjoys

michael

my 2p (if it has not been given to the banks?)

"How does airport expansion further the objective of clean limitless energy, exactly? "

because it is all part of a system scince and development dose not happen in a vacume the more developed the country as a hole is the more progres is made or to put it anotehr way having eppol more free to moev around incrouges more exchange of views and that incruages more thinking withc will give us more creative idars and it is thouse we need for invention

for pepol looking into energy costs of various activities try this

www.withouthotair.com

because as he says the global warming debate is relay a energy debate

on public transport the most telling thing I have ever seen is a top gear program where they bought cheap cars and drove them to Manchester and back and even including tax insurance and petrol it was les than the cost of the train tickets

Mozilla, Skype join iPhone jailbreak fight

michael

apples argumemt

"jailbreaking would sanction "copyright infringement, potential damage to the device and other potential harmful physical effects, adverse effects on the functioning of the device, and breach of contract.""

ok on a point by point bases

1.copy right infringement: I would like to see more eve dance of this clam it seams to me that "fercliating copyright infringement" is one of the new stop everything buzz words and is used with out merret

2. potential damage to the device: so if they have bought it why stop them if they brake it then it is void warentie and they just need to get a new one and you get another sale

3.other potential harmful physical effects: i assume they mean to the user again they messed with it there fault

4.adverse effects on the functioning of the device: dito points 3.2.

5.breach of contract: a matter between the 2 parties to the contract anbd all ready insrined in law dose not need more sporting law

in short there seams to be a trend over the last years for hardware manufactures to think they still own the hardware after they have sold it to you this needs to be stopped

Minister trashes ex-spook chief's liberty warning

michael

irony meters

<...> her "loose" use of language "plays into the hands of our enemies". <...>

<...> blocking the plans on civil liberties grounds would grant terrorists "a licence to kill".<...>

and all the irony meters in the room exploded

I mean when I read those comments I just thought "dose this guy know what i fool he sounds?"

Rail workers get shirty with see-through blouses

michael

leaves nothing to the imagion

but you had no pictiures??

shame on you :(

UK 'bad' pics ban to stretch?

michael

dont look now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyvPeAkMc8c&feature=related

and

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h__0_5?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=kiddy+grade&sprefix=kiddy

certain seans in the vid will defentley be caught in the law but they are BBFC ed and on sale??

did anybody point that out to our glorious parliamentary overlords?

Pirate Bay prosecutor tosses infringement charges overboard

michael

@ bobby

the problem is with a country based on laws and not on fealings or the opinion of the man on the street you catuley have to PROVE they have done something wrong witch is going to be very tricky as the pepol who run it are very cerfull not to cross the letter of the law

michael

@Adam White

some thoughts on your arguments sorry these are out of order

"The difference between the Pirate Bay making copyright material available and Blockbuster doing it is that Blockbuster has paid a license fee to the copyright holder for this very purpose. Pirate Bay material is not similarly covered."

block buster have a licence to LEND you the dvds but they are also fecliating your copying of them by lending you them by lending you a dvd they are making it easer for you to take it home and copy it and you copying it is defently out side of there licence and so you can argue they are doing a simlar thing to TPB (I know it is a technical argument but the law should be about logic not emotions)

"PirateBay is not Google, Microsoft, Sony or Toyota. Your analogies are inept. Sony does not sell Walkmans pre-loaded with gigs of unlicensed copyright material. Google does not solicit donations in return for hosting torrent files and a torrent tracker. Microsoft does not encourage, condone, turn a blind eye to or feign ignorance of software piracy. Toyota does not equip its vehicles to automatically accelerate when approaching stop signs."

true but nether do they make any effort to stop you doing any of those things it would be very easy for car manufactures to put a speed limiter in ther cars sold in UK to stop them going over 70 but they do not google makes money off adds a lot of witch are dubus legality (see el reg article on adobe adds) and as for Microsoft well I believe they changed media player to enable you to rig unprotected mp3s that sounds like encouraging pepol to copy to me

and yes TPB do host torrents but they do not host FILES see all the previous arguments

Mobile phones to get universal charger

michael

@ apple and data transfer

sorry but I was assuming that micro usb could also be used for data transfer as that is what usb is all ready used for plese tell me if I am mistaken?

also it is not the connector that is being a problem on iphones it is probley goign to be the volatage

Hydrogen motoring too heavy for pundit

michael

hydrogren inforstructor

the problem is that hydrogen <> petrol for any trype of storage or transport petrol is a nealy liquid at room temp and presser where as hydrogen is a gass till you squees or frees it a LOT so we will need new storage tanks new pipes new everythign execpt the buildings and that is the same sort of cost accocet with having a lecky infrostructor they only way we are goign to get by with the same infructor is by having a fule with very simlur chemical properties

@mirus and other

for pepol looking into energy stanibility try this http://www.withouthotair.com/ I think he says there is actuality plenty of uniaium left

michael

never realy a goer

there is only 2 advantages that h powered cars have over battries

1. refule time

2. life span of compents (and even this is debatable)

and battries are catching them up on both counts wheres the disadvantages of h powered cars are laws of phisics (compresion and energy dencity)

but my bet is still on some sort of artificle bio petrol maby made of some sort of algi that could be force gown in fatcory like conditions

Scots and pilots brace against ID cards

michael

re:yes minister

pendent mode

actual the ep you mention did not have id cards it only had a big data base called the national integrated database there where id cards mentioned (ironical they where called Euro pass and where going to be European id cards) but it was in "the writing on the wall"

pendent mode cancel

michael

caught with the card

I would like an explanation of how they would have slipped thought the net before the card was introduced. or is this an example of "we caught him out side the bank cos of cctv instead of inside the bank when he puled the shotgun"

Operators and handset vendors plug standard charger

michael

re duh...

"How has it taken until 2009 for mobile phone manufacturers to agree to a common charger?"

the same way we have built in obsolescence and patent trolling welcome to rapent capitlizem

Landmark copyright trial against Pirate Bay gets underway

michael

@Robin Field

but the pepol who make maps with the banks marked on them and all the roads round the bank shown do not get done?

this is where the legal gray area is and this is why it is going to be a hard case to prove

How to survive the crisis: Sell kiddies booze

michael

yes minister refrance

"actually wholly dedicated to making Britain and better place for our children and our children's

children, etc, etc."

that is about how long it will take

Jacqui's jihad on web extremism flops

michael

the problem

is the goverment sees the internet like news papers or tv but realy the internet is a bit like a bloke in the pub or your mates hanging out

Brits find accommodation a little uncomfortable

michael

being teached how to spell

being dyslexic I had enormous trouble at school learning how to spell and actuality got expled over a spelling test once but my main trouble with it is

HOW THE FUDGE ARE WE MEANT TO KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT WAY TO SPELL THEM IS????

it is not like maths where it is sensible and logical the best I can do is to try to spell most things phonetiley but with the verity of ways of prouncing things that some times makes matters worse best example of this is my way of spelling pepol witch is exactly how I pronounce it but witch a spell checker will not even give me the real spelling for

US lawmaker injects ISP throttle into Obama rescue package

michael

@first AC

"...make betraying your country or the public you represent for profit or other such personal reasons to be considered treason?

I mean what's the difference in betraying your country and its citizens to a foreign power or for profit? your still betraying them does not matter to whom or for what"

unfortunate weather you like it or not the MPAA are still American citizens so he probably thinks he is doing the will of his country at least the ones that can afford to pay to whisper in his ear and after all an rt those pepol the real Americans making lots of good money for the good old USA?

China preps internet porn snitching awards

michael

sorry could not risist

"be a government informer

betray your family and friends

fabulous prizes to be won"

of cores we geeky types all know what that is a quote off so I shall not bother stating it

We need cheap, abundant energy. Here's how

michael

this point alpies to every bissness

r ember what your core bissness almost all the companies in trouble in the last "credit crunch" forgot what they where supodt to be selling banks became stock brokerages and etc r ember what you are selling and sell it if you are a electricity company concentrate on generating and selling lecky

michael

@Sillyfellow

"Generation of free and clean electricity has been done before, but was either patented long back (and only used to prevent anyone else from using this tech), or cannot be patented, since you cannot patent something that defies any law of physics (as currently written).""

could you elaborate on those points pleases

or to put in it proper internet forum language

"pics or it did not happen"

DSA looks at 3D animated driving tests

michael

@stu

they are 16 nuff said

Users: The weakest link in laptop security

michael

@RW

the reason to can put multiple pepol in to is there are times I need to see who else it was set to for example a email about problem spreading over our mobile vpn and accounting system I need to see it has been sent to just me (vnp) or me and our accounting systems expert and if not I need to email him

You're barcoded: The sneaky under-25 route to compulsory ID

michael

@G4Z

cristian values as in "christ like" I.E the life guidelines give to us by chrst ( the main one being "do on to others" NOT the rules of a church that was Servley croupted in the middle ages will not go into detials now just thought I woud make e distention

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