Posts by John G Imrie

Never believe anything until it's been officially denied:- Jim Hacker, Yes minister.

Re: New technical terms.

Although this does inconvenience the user a little by requiring them to sit perfectly still with a hard drive vibrating away on their head, it's worth while if it means they get their data back surely?

The problem with that is if they do move you get the smell of burning hair as the lazer hits their scalp.

Re: but what if..

What do you mean loads, I thought you where all the same person :-)

Re: Who needs an HDLC serial driver?

Maybe it would be better to have a choice of kernels in your distro, from "average PC" to "kitchen sink included".

Actually that's why we have different distros from Red Hat and Ubuntoo include everything to Gentoo and Linux from scratch, include only what you want and compile it for your system.

Re: Pot meet kettle

They called the company

; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD

For a really good time it should have been

'); DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD

Re: AI?

Hay look at the stone ground kernels on that slice!!!

Re: "extraterritoriality"

Could we get the US Judge arrested for GBH against the English language?

Re: Defendants

I don't know what you call the defendants but the case is usually called a test case

Was about to say the same thing

These fines should be based on number of calls / texts / emails sent with no upper limit. Also it should be the company that has to prove that any of the above was legally sent. If you don't have the records how can you know you weren't breaking the law.

Re: It ain't over till the fat lady sings

This has given me almost as much fun as SCO v's the World. Though I hope Battistelli does not last as long.

You can't just fire people like that.

You can in the Land of the Free to go and find a new job.

Re: At Tesla forever?

I thought he was launching a new company to investigate clinical immortality.

Re: TEXT files!!

Text files would be ok (ish) if there was an MD5 or smiler digest of the file sent on a separate channel. But encrypting the files at rest would have been better.

Where is the turn everything off button?

There is no off button, everything now just goes into standby mode.

Re: Dance with Beyonce

The Doctor Dances?

Re: Make your MP pay.

But the lackey has to read the end of the letter to find your name so flood the office and with any luck he'll miss the letter giving him his peerage.

Re: Yay

They aren't using Facebook, they are using Google instead.

Come back PJ

We miss you.

when are people gonna priorities Security over time to market?

When the cost of not fixing the security hole rises above the cost of fixing it.

Re: V for Vulture

I'll see your one empty can of Monster Energy Ultra, slightly dented, and raise a raisin.

Re: Too bad...

Well I looked up 99 on Google and all I got was an ice cream

Re: Sweepstake time ...

Actually they did that and Trump replied

'Take a look at this spreadsheet I had prepared', which shows how fast the value of the twelve's investments would fail if Trump was assassinated, 'You where saying?'

It's country specific

but goes on to exclude minorities from the ban. So as it's directed at Muslim majority countries, guess who's actually affected.

Re: Graduate of CS @ Hull Uni Here

You missed The Adelphi http://www.theadelphi.com/ now that's a good night out.

So remind me again exactly how a 13 year old kid gets to be helmsmen of the flagship

Who's his mum sleeping with?

Re: Wait!

Would this Plan be as cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?

Re: A man is not dead

The Auditors can take a running jump of a frozen bridge.

Re: ponders:

'E's not hibernating'! 'E's passed on! This OS is no more! It has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker!

'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't booted from that USB stick 'e'd be pushing up the daisies!

'Is processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig!

'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!

THIS IS AN EX-OPPERATING SYSTEM

With apologies to John Clease

Did I miss anything?

Only the honours for everyone involved except the intern and the web site developers, who where dismissed for trying to work out exactly what was required

What have the Lib Dems done for us?

The Lib Dems opposed this all the way through the Coalition.

+1

for mentioning Lord Nome's mighty organ.

To win

It pays to be honest and open, especially when you have a reputation for deceit.