* Posts by Cpt_Yukka

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Frontier wipes credit of Elite: Dangerous 'billionaire' badboys

Cpt_Yukka

The Good Old Days

Well there was a "feature" on the Amiga in Frontier where if you had a passenger on your ship and tried to sell it for a smaller ship (some sort of shuttle was the smallest IIRC) then you would get the credit back for the difference between your ships value and the shuttle but, due to you having a passenger on board, you kept your original ship......as you could do the sale by pressing one key on the keyboard and holding it down would repeatedly try to process it (increasing your balance over, and over again in the process) some people taped a dice onto the key and went out for a few hours.....allegedly.....

PRISM scandal: Brit spooks operated within the law, say politicos

Cpt_Yukka
Angel

Seems Legit

So the committee has accepted documents provided by GCHQ as proof that the GCHQ did not perform any illegal activities.

Strikes me as being the equivalent of a teacher accepting a note written and signed by a school boy saying that his homework has been eaten by a dog