Posts by Chizo Ejindu

@Anonymous Coward

Well if he had been involved in a fatal accident i seriously doubt he would have failed to report the incident or pervert the course of justice and again the courts would have made an example of him entirely because of his public position.

However he probably wouldn't have campaigned for stiffer sentences during his trial.

Err Hello?!?

Methinks you are forgetting the one actor/indestructible hardman who can slaughter an entire hospital full of gun-totting bad guys while carrying a baby inside of a half hour before jumping out of a 6th floor window and walking away!

There is only one Chow Yun-Fat. Accept no substitutes!

@ Dana W

Heh fair enough, i did think for a while that you were Apple-head going for the hijack rant but as you are in fact an ex-macrobloat user i feel your pain :)

And yes i was being metaphorical wrt willy-waving, i apologize if i came across as sexist. As Forrest Gump said, life is like a box of metaphors... or something :)

re: japan

IHMO the unfortunate truth is that people who don't know any better will equate the Japanese love of high tech gadgetry to a love of IT which in actuality are 2 different things. I would suspect (tho obviously this is my own supposition with no basis in fact :P) that PC's per head is significantly lower in Japan than most of the rest of the Western world.

Pre Casino Royale, yes...

Prior to Casino Royale i would actually agree with him, Bond was a gadget-laden sexist mysogynistic dinosaur, a cold-war relic. Casino Royale changd all that with a vengence. Gone are most of the gadgets (no ridiculous invisible cars), the slickness, the slut in every port. In comes a load more realism to the franchise. He gets his arse kicked and almost dies, he falls in love, he suffers tragedy. Typically a Bond film would open with some big set-piece spectaular stunt sequence, CR opened with a brutal hand-to-hand fight in a bathroom. If anything the Bourne films are becoming more ridiculous as he can seemingly have the entire US intelligence network after him and yet he'll end up in their offices searching through their files :P

Damn!

And there i was hoping to daub the virtual walls with hardcore furry porn, viagra ads and sell chinese babies!

So how long do people reckon it will take for someone to hack all the video streams in Home and start streaming porn? :)

re: Jesus Christ is Holy

You are obviously a religious person and this is a free and open comments section so all views are welcome. However there are a couple of things you have written which, imho, don't make sense.

Firstly you said "He loves us all no matter what our circumstances are." By "He" i assume you mean the christian God to be precise. Now if this statement is wholly true then "no matter what our circumstances", whether we are christian, muslim, bhuddist, atheist, agnostic, even devil-worshipping, God will love us unconditionally. He'll love us if we spend $1500 on a dirty piece of concrete or give it to charity.

Now the sentence directly before that one says "Without faith it is impossible to please God." If this statement is also wholly true then the only people who could ever please God are faithfully christians. By implication every other person on the planet who does not have faith in your God can never please him no matter what the circumstances. If a bhuddist brings about world peace or an atheist develops a cure for cancer your God will be angry because they do not have faith in him. But if a devout christian goes to war, whatever the reason God will be pleased because they have absolute faith in him.

How can God love us unconditionally and yet require us to please him? If he loves us unconditionally then no matter what we all say, do, think, feel, believe or disbelieve he loves us all and we should all equally benefit from that love. Faith becomes irrelevant, believing in him becomes irrelevant, HE becomes irrelevant. But if faith IS relevant, is a requisite for his pleasure, his love, then thats a pretty narrow set of circumstances, a pretty large condition for his love.

Great Acronym

Reminds me of the one me and a friend thought up about all those luddites who use computers and ask inane questions... oh and we work in Camden :)

the Camden Union of Non Technical Staff.

Good Form!

Ahh there's nothing like ruthlessly efficient arse-covering :)

Oh Dear...

Personally i think that's a pretty fair opinion piece.

Let the outpouring of grief, hatred, denial and vitriol commence!

/Battens down hatches

Bend Over and Take It Like a Slut, ok Europe?

I must thank Eminem for providing me with the perfect title for my comment, almost :)

I used to really respect Sony. For a time they made gaming actually cool, they appeared to respect their consumers all over the world, they turned gaming into major global industry. But it appears somewhere along the way they got arrogant, self-absorbed. They believed they could do no wrong and to this day still believe that. Unfortunately the truth is goes to kick them in the nuts repeatedly until they collapse into a pile of quivering jelly. And its a very simple truth - you fuck with your consumers, they'll go else where. You treat your consumers like third class citizens, they'll go elsewhere. You show an obvious bias in your "global strategy", the one's at the bottom of the pile will go elsewhere.

Europeans already pay the highest prices IN THE WORLD for these slabs of tech and no bleating on about taxes and exchange rates will make ANYONE think that we aren't being ripped off. Every. Single. Day. And now to compound it by this so called "exceptional value" pack AND not even bothering to give us the option of the 80 GB version? It would be quicker if Sony just called us all c***s to our faces and be done with it.

What's really galling is that i was just starting to come round to the idea of getting a PS3, ome of the vids from E3 are mightily impressive. But Sony can fuck right off if they think i'm gonna pay twice as much as anyone else on the planet.

IMHO...

Personally i cannot, and never will, think that execution is anything other than state-sponsored murder and harks back to the bibilcal eye-for-an-eye type revenge mindset.

There have been cases in the UK of people convicted of murder, sentenced to life imprisonment only for fresh evidence to come to light 20 years later that proves their innocence. Now if these people had been executed, following the eye-for-an-eye logic, wouldn't someone else therefore be guilty of murder of an innocent person and require execution?

I'm not saying that's the case in this particular instance but there will always be that possibility that the wrong person gets executed for a particular crime.

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!

Don't you all realise, they are here now, running the world! Let's look at the evidence...

All mechanical thingys need lubrication for metallic joints right? The most common and abundant lubricant is oil right? And currently the "coalition of the willing" is engaged in a "hearts and mind" kill-a-thon in Iraq to secure all the lubricant the machines will ever need, for the next 50 years or so. Is it strange that western governments spend ten's of billions on hi-tech warfare and it always comes down to young frontline grunts shooting poor people, not ultra-tech machines disarming terrorists from the other side of the world. How better for the machines to take over then to get us to wipe ourselves out!

In conclusion to my rambing rant i'll say this - the best trick the devil ever pulled was not convicing us that he doesn't exist, but convincing us that he's not a robot!

What's the point - i think you missed it :)

But you're a cost-conscious techy and therefore the absolute wrong type of person for an iPhone. You don't understand "cool" in the corporate america sense of the word "cool". You don't understand iLife. You're not a "consumer". You're just like in that fabulous Apple ad, PC vs MAC, the nerdy dweeb in the suit. Yes, your box may be a bit cheaper and uglier and full of "techy" nonsense features you may use. Yes, you may have to choose which company supplies the software widgets you want. And yes your mp3 player may be so functional and un-lifestyle that it doesn't have a colour named after it. But all thats is irrelevant, you don't buy Apple (tm), therefore you lose at life. I'm disgusted to even be in the same comments thread as you. Go kill yourself geek-boy.

Le Mans vs. F1

"Personally, I am not a F1 fan: I prefer endurance racing... Try keeping a F1 car running for 4, 6 or 24 hours at race speeds... (just to compare, my calculations for the US F1 Grand Prix, the winner was running an average of 201 km/h in a 1h 31 min. race. The overall winner at Le Mans, the Audi America R10 averaged 209 km/h over 24 hours... it's a bit more harsh on the hardware...and it's a diesel...)"

Whilst i understand your point its a bit tenuous to compare these 2 tracks as they are so vastly different. Correct me if i'm wrong but Le Mans has an awful lot of long fast sections where the cars are flat out for 15-30 seconds whereas the Indy track just has the one top gear section. I think its true that Le Mans racers have a higher top speed than F1 cars but F1 cars will absolutely destroy any other car when it comes to twisty technical sections of track due to vastly superior downforce etc and will out-accelerate everything :). I'd like to see an F1 car do a lap of Le Mans and a Le Mans car do a lap of Indy, then we'd get a really reflection of their overall abilities.

Typical Racist Lawmaking

Another nail in the coffin for freedom of expression in the good old US of A. And stunningly racist too. How can a law that will directly affect 90% of a minority population and barely 1% of the majority population be ANYTHING but racist?

And where does ths puritanical lawmaking end? Will the ban all bikinis, all swimsuits, all shorts as being obscene? Will they outlaw advertising and sell of all underwear as it can be used in an offensive manner? Will they have ritualistic burnings of all catalogues that dare to have pictures of men or women wearing only underwear? Will they ban all programmes that include scenes on beaches or really hot weather, because the risk of naked skin on public display will be too high? Utter madness! But hey as long as they are gun-wielding god-fearing christians i'm sure they have everyone's best interest at heart....

RE the Fashion Police comment, essex chavs may pretend to be 50 Cent etc, but when you're poor, black and living in the deep south of america, you generally don't "pretend" anything. It's fine you don't like people dressing a certain way, everyone is entitled to their opinion. But try not to tar everyone with the same brush - some people wear hoodies, low-slung trousers and caps sideways because they always have, others becuase they see it on MTV.

Typical

Wow. A 40 day sentence reduced to 23 days for "good behaviour" i.e. turning up to the hearing and now reduced to 3 days for "unspecified medical reasons". If she's ill shouldn't she be in a hospital? Ah no my mistake the "unspecified medical reasons" are that she's rich, famous, white and it's entirely unfair to expect anyone rich, famous and white to serve out their sentence. That's for poor, ordinary black people.

It wouldn't be American Justice if it wasn't blatantly biased and corrupt.

And there i was thinking i was a geek!

I had a look at that windowsecurity.com article and i must admit, a lot went over my head. So in simple laymans terms this is my understanding of it...

Program X, takes file Y and runs whatever standard process against it. File Y, while appearing to be a certain length, is actually longer by whatever means and therefore overflows the allocated memory space into space reserved for program X? The excess data outside the allocated space is then immediately evaluated (by windows presumably rather than program X) and if found to be a properly formed executable automatically run with the priviledges of the original program X?

Again i stress my understanding of the machanics of it all are very limited and i have a load of questions that i'll save for now but is that the general gist of it?

Who bother with thousands?

A few really big ones into the oceans and tsunamis would circle the earth many times. Couple that with a few big ones onto each continent and that'll pretty much wipe out everything, job done, home in time for Single Female Lawyer re-runs.

"I vote the defendant vulnerable yet spunky!"

Higher form of life

What, u mean a balti chicken tikka bhuna with pilau rice and a peshwari naan?