Posts by Cameron Colley

Depends on your setup.

If your BES is in-house you can run the Blackberry through your own proxy servers -- that way you can block content if necessary.

http://www.blackberryforums.com/blackberry-network/17746-configure-bes-use-proxy.html

Hugo Boss suits all around then!!!

Quick! Let's kill a few people and steal their property so we can /almost/ invent the atomic bomb and make a few basic missiles!

Or were you referring to the great science breakthroughs made in the USSR during the years of communism like, erm, something I'm sure*?

*Yes, I know something was bound to have been discovered or invented, but you could hardly call it worth the reducing of most of the population to a life of drudgery akin to slavery worth it.

"...no reason to stick with XP"?

Are they giving out Windows 7 free now? With guaranteed support for legacy hardware and software?

Weird, because I thought if my PC worked, and did what I need, spending a hundred quid to update the OS and potentially loosing access to old apps was a bad move?

RE: minor misconception there fella

In a perfect world where everyone did everything expected of them you have a point.

However, people will have sex with other people outside of marriage -- even supposed catholics can, and do, give in to weakness. A good catholic, however, on giving in to weakness and having sex outside of marriage will not want to compound this by wearing a condom -- it's also a pretty good excuse not to wear on if you don't want to.

You see, carrying condoms and being prepared to use them is an intellectual decision -- having sex because you're a little drunk, or bored, or just plain horny is not an intellectual decision.

There is also the fact that catholicism is responsible for quite a lot of anti-condom feeling around the world -- making it harder for non catholics to get condoms.

So I stand by my point that the catholic church is encouraging the passing on of STIs -- it might not be a stated policy, but that's the net result.

Same here on Debian 64bit.

Apart from my plugins all seem to work most of the time, using plugin compatibility reporter (they do break intermittently, but usually only until the next day's release).

That said, I never had any issues with the 64bit Alpha, beyond the high CPU usage which seems ot be common on all platforms with all versions of flash.

OK, I'll bite.

If, however, you were swinging a hammer around a completely deserted road in the middle of the countryside you wouldn't expect to be photographed and prosecuted after the fact. In fact, even if you were in a more built up area if nobody was around, then when picked up on CCTV you'd probably only be sent home.

However, if you do 77MPH on a completely deserted stretch of road in the middle of nowhere where the only person you would kill by speeding is yourself, then you still get nicked. Yet you can drive at 30MPH past a school at chucking out time, between parked cars, and a speed camera wouldn't stop that.

I don't think most people think they should be able to go as fast as possible everywhere, most people just tend to think that real police spotting real dangerous driving is more important than cameras stopping something which may not even be dangerous.

Oh, and if people slow down for the cameras then, surely, they're doing their job by making people go slower? So, in what way is this guy preventing them working?

I suspect that the SA police are just pissed off they get less money from their cameras.

3D cameras do not create 3d images.

3D cameras create 2 2D images, these are then displayed one after the other to alternate eyes -- that makes humans think that they are seeing depth. The only things that currently create 3D images are the laser-scanner type rigs and the like.

I see that too.

Tile cat is watching you shower?

I propose a new unit system.

Starting with the basic Linguine, six and a half Linguine become a Pootle, and you get 7 Pootles in a Quadod. If you need smaller you divide your Linguine into 16 Selepates, three and a quarter of which make a Sorril.

A Square Sorril of water weighs one and one seventh of a Buldy. For smaller units 17/28ths of a Buldy is a Kasoop. For larger there are 3.33333/Pi Buldys in one Orgunt.

The above is how I feel about the constant 16 of this is 14 of this, but 12 of these is one of these nonsense in Imperial units.

I'm not saying that using decimal units is perfect (perhaps Hex will end up better, or binary) but using units that need constant mixed-base calculations is just a waste of time.

@Daniel 1

What are you harping on about?

Most of the "nerds" I know actually like being in a minority of users of their particular OS or device. For example, for some people I know a Nokia N900 would get you great geek points, regardless of whether anyone really wanted one or not -- because it's different and clever.

Same goes for OS -- if you're in the *Ubuntu crows then, yes, you're OK because you're part of a large group -- but to be a real nerd or geek even running something as mainstream as Debian is considered a bit too normal. Tell real geeks and nerds that you're running Linux From Scratch or something like VAX or UNIX7 and then, despite being in a minority, you'll get "geek cred".

I think the people you are looking for who go from MS to Apple to whatever as fanboys are "fashion victims".

I also don't know how you reconcile "...jumping ship, the moment some new thing hoves into view..." with supporting a monopoly? Surely jumping ship stops things being a monopoly?

Perhaps he's one of those weirdo's who work for a living?

Or, perhaps, he was to visit a friend afterwards?

Just because he had something on him doesn't mean he meant to use it in there. Do you always talk on your phone when you're in the cinema, or do you leave it outside with the staff?

As for the "...leave it in the car..." argument above -- the LS1 postcode (ie the centre of Leeds) where this cinema is located has one of the highest car-crime rates in the country. Plus, some of us don't use our cars to go to the city centre and some people even live there!!!!!!

Perhaps they're going pay-per-view.

Or maybe they're looking to market "a solution" to the Cable and terrestrial providers in various countries?

Sadly I don't think they will just open the website up, as is, to visitors from anywhere.

I disagree.

The people in Ireland are a great example that proves what I just said. Without the ability to call someone "Catholic" or "Protestant" or, even, without the fact that the two religions are, from the outset of protestantism, at war it would have been a bit tricky to polarise people in Ireland and maybe, just maybe, whoever was the most sensible may have become the majority without the need for murder and from-birth indoctrination of children to their cause.

If it weren't for people taking these fairy stories far too seriously to the point of using one as an excuse for murder or just using them as excuses to get people to vote for them we wouldn't be in this mess.

Yes, humans are violent and will war without these books -- but doctrines like these make great mechanisms to control large numbers of people who would otherwise call you a twat and ignore you.

The reason some of these cults started in the first place seems, from their history, to be to band people together to kill another group of people, in fact.

@Stuart Halliday

Gamma rays, X-Rays, ultra-violet, infra-red, microwaves, Long wave radio...

It's called "hypocrisy" and you don't want it in leaders.

Someone who is a member of the church and an opponent of pornography who actually looks at it themselves is someone you don't want in any position of authority or of trust.

Campaigning against porn then looking at it basically means he thinks that other people should be punished for something he should not be. He's a hypocritical fucktard of the highest order and puts his party into disrepute, whatever your views on pornography (personally, I like it).

Hitler was not "right wing".

In the US sense of the world this means neing against state regulation and being for a "capitalist", "democratic" society.

It also means being pro-Christian and pro-guns for selfe defense.

Or, to put it another way, Stalin and Tony Blair were closer to Hitler in their policies than George Bush.

I hate them all, by the way, but I also hate it when people try to dispute that left wing policies can lead to dictatorships.

@Anonymous Coward, Tuesday 31st August 2010 22:41 GMT

You scenario does sound plausible -- but if that is what happened then:

A) The guy is a pathetic, time-whasting, wimpy arsehole for calling 999 because his pinky was sore.

b) I hope to fuck he had to pay for the time of the ambulance and fire crew as people do when they cause car accidents.

I still think this is sad example of money being thrown away due to people being far too cautious. The number of people killed over the years by smoke inhalation from the burning of a few millilitres of hydrocarbons must be minuscule -- heck, some people regularly suck butane flames through paper tubes of cancerous chemicals and nobody rushes them to hospital if they burn their finger in the process.

I completely disagree.

if someone "sells" someone else a product then they are handing over that product (be it hardware or software) to the other person in return for money, after which point they give up ownership of that product.

For cases of software piracy we have copyright, and for hardware copies we have patents and trademarks.

If Sony feel they must tell someone what they can or cannot do with a product then the buyer should be made to sign a perpetual lease agreement wnich contains any terms and conditions they feel appropriate.

If you sell something to someone ekse then, by definition, you no longer have any ownership of the object sold. For a goverment to say that a sale is not a sale, but a binding lease agreement without the need to provide a signed contract, ought to be unlawful and, to my mind, is a breach of the rights of those they are supposed to protect.,

I have to agree.

When anyone suggests that these things are copying an iWhatever I can't help but recall that this is exactly how I imagined a touchscreen device would look back when mobile phones only had numeric keypads.

OK, so having a black screen border and metallic sides is a bit of a design decision -- but blandness is always going to be part of the design of something with no buttons.

Try Add-on conpatibility reporter?

Apart from a couple of nightly builds a few weeks ago breaking with NoScript and AddBlock I have 4.04b working fine with my add-ons.

I wouldn't mind, but I only started using it so I could get a 64bit version of FF running under Debian...

Agreed, but I'd go further.

Fit one of these with a transponder and wireless power antenna and you could change all your pictures simply by aiming a remote control at them. Fit a small battery and you could update them from a central location.

Oh, Oh, may I join in?

Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) mod_apreq2-20051231/2.6.0 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0

@Liam Johnson

That's kind of a corollary of what I am saying.

If the images don't involve any abuse -- then why are they illegal? If no child was harmed, then exactly what is the guy being punished for?

Locking blades are useless in the UK.

Unless you plan on only using them in the privacy of your own home. The powers that be here decided you are not allowed to carry any knife with a locking blade in public without "good reason" -- and from what I can gather "I'm worried about cutting my fingers should I need to use this on a rare occasion" doesn't wash.

Ok, I'll bite.

College students are not always the best judges of what is the right way to do things. For example, I'll bet that a good many college students used Kazaa back in the day when it pretty much guaranteed that malware would infect your PC the moment it was installed (OK, exaggeration, but I hope you see the point).

College students also, no doubt, will post stupid pictures and slanderous comments on their facebook pages -- let's hope they don't regret them when their prospective employer sees them.

Most of the people who comment against facebook and Office on here probably do so because their experience in the IT world has made them cynical and mistrusting. Years of problems with Office and reading news stories and forum posts of people being "owned" and having their the embarrassments of their lives laid bare can do that to a person.

Microsoft were bound to jump on the Facebbok bandwagon and, yes, college students may well like it -- but that doesn't mean it's a good idea any more than doing beer bongs or setting off a fire extinguisher in the corridor.