Re: Grauniad
By heck, I do believe you've got it! When you search for "Bistors Wurld", nothing nasty shows up.
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"...adds that in as it is sent by the Phoenix box's mobile phone link....."
Which'll work really well after the local authorities have locked the cell system into "emergency services only" mode while they deal with the disaster in question.
Even if that doesn't happen, the fact that everyone within a 20 mile radius will be trying to phone world + dog should make getting a data connection rather fun.
"...in Ubuntu Netbook Edition...."
Ah, makes sense now. Seeing as the whole idea of netbooks was that their el cheapo specification would be disguised by the use of cloudy applications, it seems that Canonical are the first to get it right in this segment by having their netbook OS default to using same OOB. Let's face it, it's either that or sit on their hands and wait until ChromeOS (which has this approach built in) cleans their clock for 'em.
I'd say it's only Google docs because if you want an alternative you're pretty much shit out of luck right now. I'm sure this won't stop the conspiracy types and freetards slinging the jolly old vitriol around though.
I'm sure that the USAF, USN, the US Army and their Air Corps (not to mention the somewhat secretive lads in the fledgling Space arm) will be delighted to be completely overlooked like that.
The US seems to feel the need to maintain all the other bits, despite the Marines. Maybe they're not quite the be all and end all that you suggest they are?
Apple's ads for the iPhone do (or rather did) state "the internet", "the full internet", "not just the mobile internet", etc and made no reference to the WWW. Those claims are what the ASA nailed them to the cross for.
Clueless yes. But it's the Lord High Cultist and his ignorant sheep you should be dissing not Mr Webb, he's just accurately relaying the iCobblers....
A custom cloud architecture (yeah, like no-one else has got one of *those* already), a browser-cum-OS (Chrome) and a revamped search engine (Google without the traffic)?
Is playing catchup with Google the new definition of innovation?
(No idea what Midori is or whether it's genuinely innovative but, even if so, 1/4 is still well into "see me after class" territory.)
It's perfectly all right to call Gordon Brown a one-eyed Scots idiot in the runup to the election, as long as you stand for Parliament?
Worth the 500 quid deposit all on its own that and there's an outside chance of a fat salary, decent pension and huge expense account* in there as well. Like the Lottery with fringe benefits added.
*Ok, maybe not that.
All that about "Kookaburra" has dragged to the fore some well-buried memories of "Time and Tune" on the radio in junior school, singing along in class and some tone-deaf teacher with a Xylophone. No flute part AFAIR though.
I always got stuck with the ridged wooden fish thing that you scrape with a stick. I WANTED THE BLOODY TAMBOURINE!!!111!! Some smug little git whose mother was chair of the PTA or something always got the tambourine. Scarred for life I am.
There are some things that should remain forgotten......
It may be complex to fix the memory handler so that JIT-spraying doesn't work. I'd have thought that fixing DEP so that it isn't fooled by obfuscation techniques might be a tad simpler.
Accept Adobe's crapware stomping around in data memory, just make sure that what it stuffs in there can't be executed later (like wot DEP is supposed to do).
Get into a car in, say, Prague and drive to Manchester*. Listen to the radio on the way, retuning as necessary. Now do that with a DAB tuner.
FM won't go until cars have been fitted with digital tuners as standard for at least five years. Vehicle manufacturers won't find the things as standard until they get to somewhere above chocolate teapot in the usefulness stakes.
*Yes, you probably will need to stop for a wee a few times.
I believe that the first pilots to fall foul of this particular problem were those flying the Me163 "Komet" in WWII.
They found the hard way that the standard tactic of approaching the target from above and behind, firing a burst as you close and then levelling out to pass beneath the target with the intention of going around for another try put them neatly in the hail of 20mm cannon fire that they'd unleashed a couple of moments earlier.
Not a good idea when flying something that's quite prone to explode without any external intervention anyway.
All that extra functionality just from cutting the plastic edges off? Thanks for the explanation, the world got rather surreal there for a moment and I was wondering which things that I own would benefit from having a fews bits filed off.
The answer's got to be, as others have suggested, to prevent data plan "sharing" between devices. I can't think of any other reason why a larger device would need a smaller SIM apart from sheer bloody-mindedness on the part of its makers.
"Centre manager Tim Lamb" owes me a new bloody keyboard. Big time.
Reminds me of that outtake with some councillor promoting tourism in Scarborough doing a piece to camera at the castle with a background view along the front over the beach below. Something like this: "Look at that. Sun, sea, sand, everything you could want. Why would anyone want to go to the Costa del Sol when they could come here?..............and if you believe that load of bollocks, you'll believe anything.............is that still on?"
"Honey trap" and "lavish hospitality and flattery".
Right then. I'm just going to get a T-Shirt printed with "I am an important western executive" on it* and then I'm off to a Chinese trade show.
*Working on the assumption that the reason they reckon we can't tell the difference between the real thing and a cheap knock-off is that they can't.
".....the new deal would allow Amazon to make more from Macmillan titles than in the past."
I do hope that the nice, fat profit increase they're getting here has gone some way towards alleviating the terrible pain and anguish they must feel from having to offer these publications to us at prices that they feel are too high.
Conning people out of all their money via dubious religious promises using an *existing* religion as a front is always going to land you in trouble. You're muscling in on someone else's established racket.
The way to do this correctly is to invent a *new* religion. Something with Space Aliens in it* seems to go down well as a purse-loosener with the faithful.
*Any resemblance to any existing Cults^H^H^H^H^HReligions here is purely intentional.
How can someone with "Information Society and Media" in their job title say so many things that are so mind-numbingly sensible? Must be a terrible mistake and I'm sure there'll be a clarification later.
'...ensure that: "our EU legislation and international agreements are based on evidence rather than on emotional responses to the latest scare."....'. Yeah, right. Good luck with that.
Never mind that, the bloody government obviously doesn't know.
Where's the unctuous PR from the Home Office celebrating Data Protection Day and taking the oppportunity to remind us of the sterling work they're doing with ID cards to "protect our data"?
Lazy, good for nothing bastards ruining a perfectly good slagging off opportunity round here....