Posts by Andrew Moore

'phishing' is only one letter longer than 'hacking'

Re: Well argued, but..

It's what would have been called in the old days "a diversion".

Re: Error in title

Many, many years there used to be a CB (remember them) magazine that had a comic strip called Buck Fusby which was a piss-take of BT's mascot at the time, Busby. Buck had a brother called Wusby and I always remember the line "Wusby is a banker"

Re: Honors? Honored!

"Don't know why you (controversially) saw different."

My guess would be time difference.

Re: Microsoft?

"MS has a lot to loose if Dell stumbles and falls."

Maybe a quick tighten is all that is needed then.

Re: You've written your favourite order of captains??

ah- the Big Bang Effect.

Re: Even if the parent's knew how to restict their childs phone...

I agree with you, however my wife says it would be unfair for our daughter not to have a mobile as most of her class has one. I pointed out to my wife that as she attended a CyberBullying in Schools seminar last week, then she should understand why not letting our daughter have a mobile is a good idea.

Re: Lack of faith

I've seen a MakerBot made from a MakerBot. But obviously it was smaller than the original.

Re: The FBI thinks they're being polite

My guess is Mossad didn't like the cold.

Re: Google Docs...

Believe me, there's nothing important there. If Google wants it they are welcome to it.

In fairness, their motion controller gimmick was pretty awesome. However, the article is spot on, since my daughters got an iPod (the eldest) and a Android Tab (the youngest) I don't think the Wii has been switched on once.

In other news- anyone notice how all the kids are playing MineCraft these days??? Take that, Club Penguin, Moshi Monsters, Panfu, Bin Weevils and all the rest.

Forgot "Sounds like 'knee'"="No"

Re: Finally

I just hope they've fixed the issues with the OS going deaf for several seconds; and then processing all the multiple screen-taps. iOS6 has been one miserable experience.

Re: Pound sign

possibly right- I also seem to vaguely remember some hack by sticking a locale or charset command into autoexec.bat.

I made a couple of quid by writing an old GWBasic program which sent a command to the printer telling it to print a pound sign whenever a dollar sign was received.

Re: I'm sorry...

And yet a quick google turns this up:

http://www.safeconcerts.com/tickets/directory/hydeparkconcerts-com/

Can say anything about the ranking because it's been there 3 years. However it would appear that while the warning was put up in February, people were continuing to use (and get scammed) as late as June (from the few sites I looked at).

There's 'trust' and there's 'diligence'.

Re: The guy went a bit overboard

I seem to remember that Angel Dust is the preferred tipple of your average America carney.

they could be 6/7 for all we know.

Re: ...the septics are fond of prosecuting you...

'yank' comes from the dutch 'Jankees'; a common name/nickname for the settlers.

Re: She said "graph"

yes, graphy, graphy, graph, graph.

If they say it often enough, it must mean something, right?

Re: Burns night

and high on haggis.

I miss haggis.

Re: Don't have a Tv Licence... Love Netflix

I thought you needed to have a license as long as you owned equipment that was capable of receiving a TV signal (TV, DVR etc). As long as you are playing Netflix on a PC, or phone, or tablet, you should be okay.

Re: Hang on...

should really read RIGHT to the end before commenting.

Oh, and Alistair- you're a bastard. I've got that song stuck in my head now.

Re: I've watched it carefully

An excellent film, worthy of a rewatch.

Also the reason why I kept giggling at my Spanish teacher when she was teaching me the word for 'neither'.