Posts by Ash

Who cares?!

This is crapware which nobody wants!

GET A F*CKING CLUE, ERTUGRUL. Any ISP or company who signs up with Phorm will lose customers BY THE THOUSAND.

The horse is dead.

Godwin's Law

Need I say more?

My depression's coming back

I fucking hate this country.

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Forgive the cynic in me...

... but isn't this just like the "gesture" Chrstoper Reeve made to that spinal injury charity?

After suffering a spinal injury?

Granted it will help many others, maybe only others, but it's not as altruistic as it appears at first glance.

Either way, there will be no cure while there are still drugs to be sold by inhumane pharmaceutical companies which control symptoms over a period of time, instead of treating the cause.

@Simon Painter

I'd still tell them to get stuffed. I'm white with blonde hair, blue eyes, and middle class. Apparently you cant get LESS terrorist than me!

Thank you tabloid media :)

@amanfromMars

"making IT up as they went along?"

Slipping IT to us from behind?

God bless Simon.

@Ken Hagan

They can't use the tunnel: France are sending illegal immigrants down it on foot, and we can't risk irradiating future benefit whores.... err... Tax paying, contributing members of society!

Don't worry, though. Dish out Biometric ID cards to the staff on the ferry and they'll be immune to terr'rists anyway.

Give the standard to Microsoft!

Keep setting standards by the whim of major corporations!

YOU ARE FREE TO BUY WHAT WE SELL YOU!

USA! USA! USA!

GAH!

What the hell?!

Seriously, we're steps away from the Lego ThoughtPolice and the Duplo Ministry of Information.

My First NewSpeak WordBook, anybody? Double Plus Un-Good.

ISK?

My Rifter cost more than that fitted.

A lot more.

Well...

His name's Abu-*jihaad*.

In the words of jury member in Black Adder ('Witch Hunter Persuivant'), "THAT PROVES IT!"

What's wrong with the stereotype?

Is there something wrong with IT techs being male? Is there something unfair about having only male staff? Is it somehow WRONG for a department to have all male staff?

Leave the workforce alone. People good at the job will get the job. People bad at the job will be replaced by those good at it. We don't need guidelines to tell us we have too little women, elderly, disabled, or black people working in a specific place; it's just how it pans out sometimes. Screwing with recruitment quotas by saying "10% must be xxxxx" only means that 10% of the workforce would probably not be the best applicant for the job.

Surely with enough power output...

... you could induce current in a distant circuit?

Maybe they should team up with the "Tan in 60 Seconds" weapon brigade.

I now have a timeline!

I intend to have emigrated to a more liberal nation by 2011, then! Cuba, for instance. The former USSR?

At least in PRC they don't pretend that you still have the right to complain.

Oh noes! A Terr'rist lives next door to me!

He vanished two weeks ago, but came back with dark skin, dresses in odd clothing, carried a camera, and had several large cases with him!

He was even on his phone talking about "travel arrangements" and "flights"!

OMG!!!1

@Everyone who says "Block the cookie!"

No, no, and NO! The cookie is just a mechanism for building a profile for your browsing habits; it means they have a way of saying "Oh, but WE don't hold ANY data about you! It's ALL on your computer!" This does NOT stop them actually RECEIVING the data from the ISP (the bit which everyone is up in arms about)!

Anyway, by their own description of how the service works, blocking cookies would result in your choice to "opt-out" being voided, as that choice is ALSO stored in a cookie. Note that choosing to "opt-out" only stops them serving targeted advertising, not being sent your data.

This is they key issue in the debate, and why i'm so adament to get the right sections in the DPA, RIPA, Human Rights Act's to beat Virgin Media (my ISP) over their engorged head. I'll be visiting Citizen's Advice at the weekend, and seeking advice from one of these "No Win, No Fee" solicitors to see if their is a case. Just so happens I know one... ;)

JAM

Anyone for Cake?

Alien face? Haven't had them before...

One more to add to the pile...

... of detritus which litters The Register's front page.

There's only way to solve computer security

Never connect it up in the first place.

@Dave Houston

So you're saying the iPhone is a £900 (inc. tarriff charges) beta test?

Debollux button

DROP TABLE "Users";

COMMIT;

(IANADBE)

Two Words

Resonance Cascade.

Patent

I'm patenting "A means for the exchange of an atmoshperic gas through a permeable membrane, with a liquid-based transport system designed to distribute said gas through a network of vesels to various points along that network."

That's right, I have a patent on your lungs, and i'm not interested in settling the case out of court.

STOP USING MY BREATHING SPACE!

(Could 'God' claim "Prior art"?)

To steal from slashdot...

suddenshowofcommonsense!

Viable use

Embed the data into videos so we can google map Chav's happy-slapping passers-by and go beat seven shades of shit out of them.

CPU?

This *IS* an IT website, isn't it?

Someone's obviously in need of "Motherboards for Dummies"

I'd fly to America to get one...

... but i'd only get stopped at the border, strip searched, have my knob print taken for forensic analysis, and they'd make me power up the PS3 to prove it wasn't a suitcase bomb full of red mercury, and play some MGS4 to prove it didn't contain plans for world domination.

Which it almost certainly does.

Here's how it works...

I am in the process of dropping Virgin Media right now.

I will not take up a service contract with anybody who sells my personal information (identifiable or otherwise) to an advertising firm, or any other third party without my EXPRESSED, WRITTEN, INFORMED consent. Adding a clause to your T's&C's doesn't count, as Virgin are finding right now.

I'd rather not have the internet.

Clear enough?

@No choice

There's always a choice!

- You could choose to go with another provider.

- You could choose to go with a high use mobile tarrif only and forgo landlines totally.

- You could choose to don a balaclava, black fleece and jeans and start setting fire to the exchanges around the country until they start acting like decent human beings.

There are ALWAYS choices. The issue is never freedom of choice. It's always how stiff your backbone and how firm your resolve is.

With schemes like this...

... they should really turn the cameras around so they can watch the US citizens leaving for the more liberal Cuba.

Hoist by our own petard!

So El Governmente is turning the FoIA around and saying that because certain information is NOT covered by it, they're going to blank it out with an exemption notice?

Sounds... Typical.