Posts by Great Bu

Knees ?

I'll wager your knees were never sliced off by a falling mainmast........

sticky stuff does require other testing

Fnarr.

Re: and

""the $500m 'booking administration fee'"

Per person."

Each Way.

Re: injection

No, it's a preliminary injection, just in case the plaintiff is successful and the death penalty is applied, they have already started the ball rolling for the lethal injection so saving valuable time later at the execution.....

Re: I'm sorry

No, he was right, it's meant for Death so he can text "PLEASE SEND AN AMBULANCE TO COLLECT THE BODY OF MR. SMITH, WHO'S SOUL I HAVE JUST HARVESTED, THX DTH :)"

Re: Compute time was billed at around £750-800 per hour

mmmmmmm.....eat time.

Being abused by 12 year olds practicing there swearing was never a problem on the 8 bits.

You obviously never played round at our house......

Re: Simples

I took the case off my PC once, now the world is inflicted with 'Fluffor, the Beast from Beyond the Heat Sink' - if only HP had concreted the case shut when I bought it we wouldn't be where we are today......

Learn from our mistakes.....

Like this time, don't build it with an exhaust port that leads directly to the easily exploded reactor core.....

Re: Just a sign of (sales) sucess....

But back to my original point, though, the only reason those older windows systems would get infected in an hour if left unchaperoned in 'club internet'* was because they were so much more popular than OSX, Linux et al, not especially because of some greater secureness inherent in those other OS's.

Essentially, I don't buy the argument that there was no way to create malware that could infect those other OS's in the same sub-hour timeframe as the windows devices, just that there was not a big enough potential target base to make it worth the while of the malware creators.

Granted, as software becomes more sophisticated and OS creators are prioritising security higher than before they have become more secure overall.

I would posit that the sucess of a particular OS is a direct driver for how quickly it's security level has increased as this is the driver for how much that security is tested, not any inherently greater security attached to one OS over any other.

For example:

- Windows, the most popular OS for years, has increased massively in security but over the course of those long years.

- OSX is only a bit more secure than it's previous iterations as it is only a bit more popular than it used to be.

- Android is suddenly much more secure in very recent builds than it was only a few years ago but it's popularity is suddenly skyrocketing so it has to make big security leaps.

*Drinks are free....

Re: Rage on

I thought they were a group of superheroes, you know, the one with the rubber guy and the other one that looked like a friendly turd in swimming trunks.

Oh no, hang on, that was the fantastic four.....

Re: Asimov's gonna be spinning in his grave :(

"It is harmful to humanity to deny its members free will."

So the free will being excercised by a murderer when he shoots his victim cannot be interfered with because the zeroth law trumps the first law ? Not that effective a plan.....

In Cars....

"maybe the total cost of ownership should be considered in these comparisons, as it is with cars?"

Well it costs about the same as my car, so you are probably right.....

Re: It's crazy......

Whats a 'newspaper' ?

Limited aluminium resources ?

It's just this ridiculous over-use of (highly polluting to extract from the ore) aluminium foil in the hat industry that is leading to our certain doom.........

Re: "we are getting rid of our earthly form and ascending into the next stage"

Does this make them Operating Thetans yet ?

Re: Always

One does not simply fly into Mordor with ones smartphone on......

Re: Fragrant Turd [Was: Not good]

A wise man once said to me:

"You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter"

Re: Let's make everyone happy

....and by "Mineshaft" did you actually mean "Scorpion Pit" ?

Re: I know one person with a WP7

When you say you like ponies, are we talking in the 'they are cute little horsey things' or in the 'take a deep breath, this is going to get experimental but no need to go calling the RSPCA' way ?

Re: hospitals, hospitals, hospitals ...

Didn't they bin this idea a while ago (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15014288) ?

NHS staff (in or out of hospitals) dream about integrated health records - it would be so much better for all an individual's records (Hospital, GP, District Nurse, Mental Health, lab results, prescriptions, pharmacy records, radiology reports etc etc - from anywhere in the country) to be available at all times, but the complexity and cost of getting any such system to integrate sucessfully with every existing solution turns out to be more than we were willing to spend on it.

Re: @Graham Triggs: That's probably be because you don't collect coins.

"nobody issues legal tender made from precious metals anymore."

Some low denomination coins are still worth more in scrap metal value than the face value of the coin itself - that's why many countries make it illegal to melt down currency and why many are trying to reduce the number of low denominations they mint at all or what they make them out of (especially copper pennies - UK ones changed to alloys of steel in the 90's)

Of course, silver dollars and gold coins went that way decades ago.

(US coins for example: http://www.coinflation.com/ )

Re: Why don't they say the sad truth? It's all a farce

So what you're saying is that in a few years time the NHS could be on to a nice little earner - I'm pretty sure our servers and e-mail system can only access stuf that it at least 6 years old.....