Posts by Dick

@Ian

"We'd only end up sending researchers to the US duplicating the work the US is doing already."

Please send 'em, the ones we have don't seem to be making much progress and could use the help :-(

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's offshoring we go

"HP to vacate 9 buildings in Palo Alto and Cupertino" http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_8635271 today.

Home Server 2008 – which is built on similar code to Vista’s kernel?

Really? Is there a "Home Server 2008 – which is built on similar code to Vista’s kernel"? I thought this problem was with Windows Home Server - which is built on Server 2003?

Need a prescription?

It's not difficult to get one...

http://iteamblog.abc7news.com/2007/11/doc-420-the-med.html

What was the 50th state?

Texas, the AG had the balls to say he didn't believe any of these sites could be made safe.

How Many Mortgage Companies?

Don't forget that the key to these investigations is the availabilty of disgruntled former employees to drop a dime/grass on their former employers. There's been a surplus of those in the US mortgage industry in the last few months.

$20bn to $2.3bn

Hilton was a public company, so the $20bn was shared between ALL the shareholders.

Maybe he had a few beers

like the last CA system admin to go postal

http://www.localnews1.net/1state&localbriefs/9_7_07/vmfbi.html

If you really want gruesome

check out deaths by wood chipper. Sample:

a 33-year-old California worker died as he was loading pine and eucalyptus into a wood chipper. His coworkers were some distance away when they heard “strange” and “overloaded” noises.

A supervisor approached and realized that the worker had been pulled through the machine. The official cause of death was “total body fragmentation.”

Brit slang translation please

"a grocers cum newsagents cum off licence" is that what used to be called a "knocking shop"?

@ a bunch of people

Let me re-phrase my comment so it's crystal clear:

If you rely on a crap free email service like hotmail to receive critical safety notifications - you're an idiot.

If you sell a commercial critical safety notification service and you allow subscribers to sign up a crap free email account like hotmail - you're an idiot (or a scammer) if you don't point out to that user that there is no way they can rely on your service.

Euthanize this!

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20070927/NEWS01/70926011

Farce of using profiteers ????

@Kevin Hall

Nowhere in the article does it say it's proven that Siemens f*cked up, unless they are also responsible for physical security. IMHO it's just as likely that this PC walked out of a facility with a little help from a friend ;-)

ELT

According to the Guardian:

Fossett's plane, a Bellanca Citabria Super Decathlon, had a locator device that sends a satellite signal after a rough landing, but no such signal had been received.

Fossett always wears a Breitling Emergency wristwatch that allows pilots to turn a knob and immediately signal their location, said Granger Whitelaw, a fellow pilot and a co-founder of the Rocket Racing League.

Give consumers what they want eh?

"Sure consumers want stuff for free. However unless you achieve a reasonable balance with what creators want too - ie a decent living - you end up with nothing but junk"

Unfortunately the problem is that what we have now is already mostly junk - but it ain't free.

But heck, at least he was saved from this fate

"In a letter written to a Superior Court judge, Green-Bressler's parents said his computer skills led to a job offer from Microsoft at the age of 12. "

(From the Arizona Daily Star article)

Why not just spell it

Ivreal ?

Clearly

Sony should be more sensitive to cultural issues. Maybe even promote games with religious themes?

Coming soon to PS3 "Torquemada - Hero of the Inquisition" (Rated M for Mature).

Quit whining

and get a Yahoo! account.

So you'd like to go to prison?

Did you read what you were posting?

"a place of confinement especially for lawbreakers; specifically : an institution (as one under state jurisdiction) for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes -- compare JAIL"

and if you do look at Jail you'll see:

1 : a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody; specifically : such a place under the jurisdiction of a local government (as a county) for the confinement of persons awaiting trial or those convicted of minor crimes.

She is/was in JAIL, but hey, if you think there's no difference, next time you get a traffic ticket feel free to say to the judge, "Jail? No thanks, I'll go to prison instead. It's the same - right?"

Maybe she can get a job at the

carwash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5XaZG_UX-E when she gets out.

No Matthew, you've got it wrong.

There are limited exceptions to housing non-discrimination laws for single rooms and roommates. The problem addressed by the original lawsuit is that regular landlords, not just roommate seekers, are using these services to get renters, and landlords are generally subject to the law.

Well Deserved!

Yep, nailed at last! Very misleading selling warranties offering "on site" service when there's less than a snowball's chance in hell of ever getting a tech to come and fix granny's PC.

Don't worry guys

if the axis of evil sends you a nuke on a missile one of those millions of UK surveillance cameras is sure to see it coming, and some copper can shout at it and scare it away.

Hair trigger

"Most nailguns wont even fire unless firmly pressed against a solid surface. How do you "accidentally" shoot yourself with one?"

Not true unless something has changed since I bought my last framing nailer (shoots a hefty 3 1/2" nail) in the U.S. a couple of years ago. As supplied they have a "contact trigger" meaning you can hold the trigger and then it will fire a nail each time anything touches the business end. If you want a safety trigger, which needs a sequence of first contacting the surface and then pulling the trigger to fire each nail, you have to order it, wait for it to arrive, then install it yourself.

Framing nailers are very powerful, imagine banging a large 3 1/2" nail in with a single stroke and with power to spare. Even so I doubt many accidents are direct nailings. Most newbies underestimate the wrist strength needed to handle the recoil, so the first nail fires into the wood, then the gun bounces one or more times and, without a safety trigger installed, it fires more nails which fly off in all directions. If the nail hits another nail in the wood it can be deflected anywhere, if the wood splits or is too weak the nail will fly straight through. Not a tool to be taken lightly...

In the buff?

"It involves soaking malt barely" I guess that's so the endosperm can fly free?

Doesn't sound so bad to me

I would happily trade a nice peaceful dead one, for some of the fidgety, noisy, coughing, sneezing, snoring, farting, sweaty, smelly, live ones I've had sitting next to me on long haul flights.