* Posts by Scorchio!!

1640 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jul 2010

Police appeal for missing Taser

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Re: Re: Disciplinary?

I know, I know. Doesn't give me much faith in their capabilities. Especially since some of their firearms trained officers are ex forces. Oh, but wait, I was once nearly killed by a fellow soldier who'd put one in the breach and *failed* to apply the safety. Duh.

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Discipinary?

As a soldier I'd have been charged for a firearms offence, and it is one reason why I'm not very enthusiastic about paramilitaries carrying firearms, even if only electrical .

Mastercard downed by Anon-Assange-fans

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Property

Certainly not the property of Assange et al., plus there are certain things that a state keeps secret in the cause of defence and security. There a lot of citizens bright enough to understand the concept of security. For example, at this precise moment the UK is being targeted by large numbers of Russian spies. This is being countered, that is to say the property of the nation, its classified information, is being kept out of their hands.

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Cash

Indeed, the 'deeply principled' net generation do love to order shiny new toys online. There is a lot to be said for, wherever possible, using cash since this minimises the digital footprint. For those priceless things there is of course credit, but I have only used credit cards where necessary, and the recent débâcle shows the wisdom of using them with care.

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Illicit logical operation

Mastercard are not deciding to whom you pay your money, merely whether or not they are prepared to be accessories. Go and donate it by hand why don't you?

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Theft

If someone finds, picks up and takes home a million pounds they are guilty, in the UK (and US AIUI), of theft. Assange et al. have, one way or another, found, been given/etcetera, a vast amount of sensitive/confidential/secret information. They have broken laws in distributing it. These claims that no offence(s) has(ve) been committed are disingenuous, and they will not save this creeps from the much deserved fate that awaits them.

I suspect that a number of options are in play, including taking down the companies hosting the data, tracing the various sources and isolating them from the net in various ways. To claim they are only trying to save the world using these techniques is risible and unrealistic. What they are doing is releasing the diplomatic and intelligence assessments of various countries by one another, at a time when various theatres are in a condition of instability.

The claim that there are no confidential data and no one will be hurt is the most fantastic and insightless of claims to make, inasmuch that to prove a negative one must run through all possible permutations of all possible things. Even that notwithstanding I see no appropriate specialisations here on the part of those making such claims.

The law of unforeseen consequences hangs over this situation, and Assange et al. have to be barking mad if they really believe that no one is going to deal with them, because clearly someone is, and quite a lot of the dealing is going to be very unpleasant. Be sure of that. If your immediate internal response leads you to consider a childish response, just bear in mind that it is a good idea to work with reality rather than against it. There is a tendency to suffer much less pain that way.

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Dictionary

This must be some new definition of the word 'theft' that is not in the sophisticated dictionary. No, the data were stolen, are the property of various governments, and those who stole them will suffer the consequences, ditto those self appointed exhibitionists currently parading them. It's inevitable, no matter what sophistry you attempt to employ, and it is going to hit some pretty silly people hard, in the face. The amusing thing is that there is practically no government they have not annoyed. Thus most governments in the world have cause to smack them hard.

As I said before, I have ordered the popcorn. For the next few weeks and months it is going to be a matter of 'with a magazine of x rounds watch and shoot, watch and shoot'. The longer it goes on, the more damage they do, the more severe the retaliation. A frigging child could work that out, though evidently you have not.

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Heh

"Hmm, mastercard.com isn't loading right now.

The computers that run mastercard.com are having some trouble. Usually this is just a temporary problem, so you might want to try again in a few minutes.

Want more detail? See which nameservers are failing."

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Irrelevant

US government secrets are being released by Wikileaks. It makes sense for any organisation or group of individuals so attacked to self defend. Anyone expecting or exhorting otherwise is either not thinking very efficiently or engaging in duplicity and bad rhetoric. If you pinch a rat's tail it will bite.

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Logs

Except that the logs will show they downloaded the software which turned their machines into a slave. It may simply be that their connections will not work one day and that they will be black listed. Understandable. If they assist a man and organisation who are publishing stolen secrets they can expect this.

WikiLeaks payment service threatens to sue Visa, MasterCard

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Tsk

Hush child. The grown ups are speaking now. Back to your toys.

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BS

These leaks occurred because someone stole the data. Any spurious defence is akin to counting the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin, and will not stop the expected self defence and retribution. Saying or expecting that the case should be other wise is worse than naive and childish, worse than egregious.

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Yup

I expressed a similar in respect of the DDOS on the execrable ACS:Law, whom I detest for their similarly underhand tactics which, I understand, have extend to 'innocent' people.

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None taken

I agree entirely, and I would take action against the self elected guardian of international public morals, J Assange. Frankly I would be pleased if all of these so-called 'journalists' fell down a few deep crevasses on Antarctica, and would not question how they came to be there in the first place.

Expecting the banking and credit system to sit quietly by when they threaten to release information that is going to throw it into further turmoil is to invite a session with the public executioner. These people are scum.

PayPal banned WikiLeaks after US gov intervention

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Money

Sure the businesses in question would love to pay lots of money out, because they really want to help these self appointed guardians of international public morals, in the process of dishing out stolen secrets, right?

As you say it is time for those in favour to put their effing money where their mouths are. Meanwhile my money is on a lot of tracing back to bots, and the nullification/blacklisting of those machines, after finding out whence their instructions came, so that the owners of the originating IP can say hello to Bubba, whilst picking up soap.

The outraged screams of indignation by these people, whose only approval has been plucked from between their cheeks, merits a very hard slapping or three. Eeejits who honestly believe that their course of action will achieve what no other course in the whole of human history has done, namely ethical behaviour, no war and no espionage.

Someone must be responsible for the genesis of this behaviour. Who are their parents? Who taught these pr*cks?

French woman chased up tree by wild pigs, rescued by copter

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Happy

Hawheehawheehaw

Zere I was, eeenspecting my Xmas deener, when it started trying to baht ma derriere! So I ran up a tree and called for an officer of the lieaw.

DDoS attack, sex warrant won't stop Assange's leaky discharge

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Boffin

Neatly summarised

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8186569/Wikileaks-Julian-Assanges-fatal-mistake.html

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Like I said

It's getting warm now. Very warm. I expect to see results within a month.

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FAIL

Ding, wrong

You failed miserably; he has already said that he had *consensual sex* with these women.

So, the question remains, did he honestly think that he could do so without being smeared.

Try reading my original remarks and you will see this was my original question. Sheesh.

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Once a paranoid

always a paranoid. Our Julian was always not too tightly wrapped, it would seem: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11893104

So, anyone for bounty hunting in the snow? This could make Hollywood. Closing scene, claret spread across a snowy landscape, Santa stood astride a dead Assange, big grin on his face... ...no wait, what's that you say? Santa's a woman called Palin? A gift of lead for him? ;-)

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Big Brother

Meheh

What's the bets that bin Laden would make him wear a Burkha? ;-)

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Saddam

Apparently Saddam had a similar view, and tried to burn a Bush: http://hnn.us/articles/1000.html

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Terminator

Hmm

Stepping back for a moment, I find myself asking why this fool put himself in the position where someone could make these allegations possible. Did he not consider the possibility that use of his todger could put him in trouble? Did he honestly believe that he would not be public enemy number one after throwing large quantities of merde into the public domain?

This story is not over, and there are many turns in the road ahead. I've ordered a lot of popcorn.

Popular sites caught sniffing user browser history

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Add on components

Indeed, that and Adblock plus, BetterPrivacy (for preventing super cookie tracking), Ad blocker, Cookie Culler, Phish Tank Site Checker, Privacy Choice Tracker Watcher, and SSL Blacklist. Care is needed when using add on components. They've been known to bring problems of their own, accidental as well as intended.

Leslie Nielsen dead at 84

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Due South!

On the iPlayer no less? I will be watching that. A truly amazing piece of work. There was another one out of (I think) Canada that was also surreal and finely crafted. No sign of the Sqword Frod in there though. Heh.

The Mac that saved Apple (and Steve Jobs)

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Linux

That ugly?

Sometimes I wonder what all the shouting is about. His Jobsiness focuses on design for sure, but that thing is plug ugly. I found myself wondering if it can only be operated with the left hand. :-)

MS drops drive pooling from Windows Home Server

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Mir auch

Moi aussi. ;-)

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FAIL

Bad marketing?

So here we are in a recession. Some of us - and I stress it's not me - will be hard up, and M$ say "freely available"? To people without work and money this is going to have the same ring, exactly the same ring, as "let them eat cake". Sure, the monarch in question didn't know that the French people didn't have cake and was answering the question literally, and that is my point.

It is this kind of carelessness that will lose M$ customers, especially given the advances in other operating systems, including Linux.

M$ can't afford to have this easy come, easy go attitude, especially during a recession, especially when competitors are nipping at their heels. I am amazed at their attitude, and I say this as someone who has just bought a bare metal notebook and installed Linux on it. Clearly I am reconsidering Microsoft's role in the world.

Apple throws a wobbly over Steve Jobs dolly

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Coat

Hah! Pun

If the factory can't produce these statuettes people might lose their Jobs.

Mine's the one without an apple logo on it. Ta.

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Billy Connolly?

"I'm just a little Jobbie". From the Jobbie Wheecher.

So if Steven comes to the UK to enforce his rights perhaps the only sound we'll hear is "Wheeeech!!!"

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Ambassador

This ain't Kalifornyuh.

MP wants age verification for net smut

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Idiota!

I think someone needs Internet 101x lessons. Then she needs to go out and find a net nanny package, or to use free Open DNS.

Unarmed Royal Navy T45 destroyer breaks down mid-Atlantic

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Catapults

You are absolutely bang on the mark where nuclear powered carriers are concerned, since nuclear power is the only properly viable source of energy for modern aircraft. The experimental electromagnetic device in the US might be ready by the time we can afford the air craft for our new carriers, of course. Hmm. Let's gamble shall we? I know, let's tell the markets that we intend to sell our gold and see how much we can lose. Then let's make the MoD pay for our adventurism in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, let's see. I know. Let's completely destroy NHS dentistry (only 24 hours to save the NHS!). Let's have a covert immigration policy, fail to control illegal immigration, sneer at prognostications where new EU members are concerned (while France, Germany and other EU countries take 'steps'), and then let's cut back on border controls, and allow at least 1 million illegal immigrants in. OK that's 4 million. I know, let's have an amnesty. Oh I forgot. This isn't sustainable development, nor were our military and economic policies, but never mind! We can accuse the new incumbents of doing wrong everything that is our fault! People won't remember. It won't be long before they have forgotten, and start to demonise the new government, blame them for everything that is being done.

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Yarrgh

Nu Liebour's floating liegacy strikes once again.

Jumpin' Meerkats! Ubuntu moving to daily downloads?

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Desktop

Then he's dumping the desktop for something else. I dunno. I've been following the debate elsewhere and see a great deal of unease, if only because the man does not appear to be doing it as a part of the Linux community, but as a private initiative. I know that X windows has faults, but Shuttleworth's way of going about it has me unsettled. By that I mean he's doing it, not talking about it. That could be precipitate, and it could lead down a proprietary path. After all, he's a businessman, not a charity.

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X-windows

The move to dumping X-windows in exchange for something else is a tad alarming. It's like Shuttleworth is aiming to produce a proprietary form of Linux.

Twitter 'martyr' takes airport joke case to High Court

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Grenade

Hmm

What, because you say he 'should' he should? If something 'should' or 'must' be the case, it necessarily follows that a watertight justification underlies such a claim, usually an a priori one, but I see no such reasoning and, without one, there is no justification, if you understand my legal drift.

Had the man shouted in the street that he was about to blow up an airport - hardly likely to achieve stealth, you'll note - he'd at worst be given a plod section, followed by a Dr's section, followed by a hospital order. More likely disturbing the peace, move on.

You, however, would benefit from getting out a bit more in a place like the back streets of central London, having first viewed a few years of Usenet. It would help give you a sense of proportion, followed by a dose of reality. Try the south end of Waterloo Bridge, lower levels.

As to your suggestion that he deserved his conviction "if only for his terrible sense of humour", for that departure from the statute book no less than a confinement of several months is indicated, as you are very clearly a public danger.

HTH. HAND.

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Too busy

No, Cherie Booth will be too busy in the role of recorder, remonstrating with Muslim men for the crime of assault, and then letting them off because they are 'religious men'.

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Big Brother

Utter BS

This is an instance of the law being an ass since, even before twitter posters performed their Spartacus act, millions of similar remarks have been made online for many years (go read Usenet history for a few weeks, using Google's web interface if you want to see virtual blood). Singling one out for retribution is childish, selective, ill informed and not what is expected of a supposedly mature judicial system, employing finders and triers of *fact*, not speculation.

This shallow instance of mistrial not only shows a misunderstanding of the net, but also fails to take into account the fact that the so-called 'threat' was neither delivered to nor aimed at the body in question, was not delivered to anyone at all, but more resembled a child's plastic arrow, shot into the air, landing where it did.

The finders and triers of fact did not appear, to any degree, to have demonstrated intent, not to have shown a specific connection between the iterator of the alleged 'threat' and his supposed 'target' (other than being p*ssed off with the airport), no planning [...] actually what we have is an immature assessment of a remark clearly made in the heat of the moment (as any mature human ought to be capable of understanding), with no credible means of activation, including training, equipment and delivery mechanisms. The people who brought these charges would appear to have either responded as if Chambers' remarks were a personal threat to them, or to have taken exception to him, and this is another instance where the CPS is in urgent need of a swift, hard toecap to the crutch.

This is the legacy of 13 years of excessive legislation to cover even random farting in public places, the legacy of a box ticking culture where the letter rather than the spirit of the law is applied, a culture where police officers charge civilians for using a handkerchief whilst driving a car, a culture where things are taken literally and not for what they are, whilst simultaneously allowing its 'stars' to parade a shower of vitriol and stupidity (in return for vast sums of money), where a government can take its military forces to war on the basis of one sample of flimsy evidence and no corroboration, whilst making the MoD pay for their wars, not the contingency funds.

So perhaps I am unsurprised. Perhaps, if Iraquis can be slaughtered in their hundreds of thousands, on the authority of a naff presentation at the UN, and any fabrications that Tony Bliar can produce (remember the yellow cake episode?) that turn out to be false, then Chambers can be sent down for doing something that has been done millions of times before. Let's reopen the Gulag, let's put millions of people in clink for something they did not do, right?

Are readers aware that posting something online that can be construed - no matter how thin the evidence is stretched - to be a threat against the US President, they can be dealt with by the US judiciary/law? Are readers aware of the various devices sifting through online activities - these included - for evidence of a plot? That's it! Chambers was a plotter! Fegelein, bringen sie mir Fegelein!!!!

This is idiocy and the perpetrators are in need of that steel toecap to the groin. Several times. Idiota.

Anti-bullying charity demands more laws on cyber-bullying

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Big Brother

No need for legislation

The last government wrote a law for everything it wanted to control, where existing laws would have done. The law on religious harassment is a good example. This would be an excellent example of superfluous legislation if it went through, simply because the protection from harassment act 1997 can do the job: http://legislation.data.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/40/enacted/data.htm?wrap=true

It is one of the best laws of its kind, inasmuch that it pays no attention to mental states (cognitions/intentions), rather focussing on provable things, behaviours.

As has been noted once set up charities of this sort tend to take on an existence of their own, develop interests and purposes, and they often wield an influence that is disproportionate.

This would be very BAD legislation. Those asking for it should be made to read existing legislation, and see how very effective it has proved in cases of cyberstalking. Eejits.

Our PARIS becomes GLOBAL MEDIA SENSATION

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Ah yes

"Please return to your seats, please return to your seats"...

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Stop

Fame spreads

I had intended to raise this little item: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11734434

It's not in your article. Tsk!

Clive Sinclair unveils 'X-1' battery pedalo bubble-bike

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Microdrives

One of my theses originally resided on a micro drive cartridge. As it was too long (there was no space for both the temporary file and the original file) I had to pull some funny stunts to rescue it. I had bought a QL trump card you see. So somehow I managed to extricate it by transferring to the floppies (720k no less, yowieeee!). When the floppies died I edited the boot file/s on a microdrive to boot up and make virtual discs in RAM, which I still think is pretty neat. The system gave me a "you're joking aren't you?" message. I can't remember exact phraseology. The floppies were replaced under guarantee.

I bought the Taskmaster multitasking bolt on, and exchanged email with David Batty from Sector Software a few years back. He's still doing clever things.

When Windows was able to address more than 540k I moved to an XT, and thought myself king, and the rest is history.

Silly Clive though. He had a chance, but skimped on the ingredients.

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Paris Hilton

Life in the old boy yet?

Or has perhaps the 'former lapdancer' has (cough) gone to his head? Paris because she'd understand, from start to finish.

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Processors

It wasn't just the processor that was a problem. The QL had an eight bit bottleneck. Silly man that he can be.

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Coat

Dancer

That's no former lapdancer, that's an egg coddler!

I think that's my jacket, the blue one.

Ta.

Vulcan bomber lives to fly another day

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FAIL

Wrong

This aircraft is every bit as important in the history of these islands as the Victory, the Cutty Sark, Buck house, the houses of parliament and much besides.

It was for its time (1953-1884) an advanced craft - along with the Victor and Valiant - and is still leagues ahead of the Bear, which is so often sent to probe UK air defences.

Your throwaway attitude to such an important part of our history shows lack of insight into our cultural, technological, military and cultural history of such a magnitude that I can only think that you are unaware of the plane's significance, or that you simply do not care about our history and culture. The plane is up there with the Spitfire, Lancaster, Wellington, Mosquito [...]

Fortunately it is in any case out of your hands.

Frenchman cuffed for naughty lip-slip email to MEP

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Indeed

Indeed not; after the expenses imbroglio, various extra marital affairs and many, many more public farces, varying from illegal to merely contemptible, I can only suggest that we take a leaf from the French book, set up a guillotine in parliament square, and deal with our home grown problem with expedition. Starting with a former prime minister, whose expenses paperwork was 'accidentally' shredded, a former PM who took this country to war more times than any other PM in history, having inflicted his clandestine immigration scam on us, after asking for an electoral mandate to maintain "firm control" over immigration.

Perhaps the French will then follow our example, and cut off the head of the woman who inappropriately spoke of the economic pressures of giving head.

Dead baby taunting troll feels wrath of law

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Indeed

That is quite so. This was of course dashed off during the heat of other battles on this side of the screen, some 27 years after graduating in philosophy, but thank you for your pickiness.

Now for a finisher I'll point out to you that the Jimmy Edwards icon is not appropriate since it's for grammar. :-)

Do HAND.

Notorious Anonymous hacktivists launch fresh attacks

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Have another look

It's an even more humiliating view today. It's the cost of these things, isn't it? If these people charged realistic amounts for their product - and I include everyone in the business, from the 'stars' to the companies - then there'd be far less piracy, far less fuss, and far fewer fat cats.