* Posts by michael

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Dark Knight eyes Producers Guild award

michael

@ ac and nev

when I went to see the film I expected just a basic holwood block buster action movie but it was soo much more it was incitefull and moveing and scary made you think about issues and how would you act in thouse situations

and I have no idar who the actors are and I do not realy care they where good actors

Tories pledge high speed broadband for all in 10 years

michael

@ac 15:19

I would defentley vote for you

but I have no idar who you are can I jusr right Anonymous Coward on the balote paper?

MoD tops lost security pass league

michael

sorry but

37,863 out of how meny if the mod issues 100x the passes of the other departments then as a percentage they are in fact less likly to lose passes than other departments?

Spinning the war on the UK's sex trade

michael

so jackies plan

is to make every porstitute into a self imployed person and there for foster entrepreneurisum??

michael

@james

"The majority of people don't smoke, and most of them find the ban an exceptionally good thing."

I do not smoke and I hate pepol smoking and think it is a desgusting habbit

BUT

that was why I did not go into pubs that alowed smokers I do not think pepol shoul;d be banned from killing them selfs just cos I do not like it

Microsoft heralds 'record' prison terms for Chinese pirates

michael
Joke

“high quality counterfeit Microsoft software”???

that is such a good joke I nealy wet my self!!! like microsoft ever had any high quality software

Terry Pratchett knighted for services to literature

michael

about time to

his books vertuley alone are the only reasion I learnt to read

@iamapizza

I can aonly assume you have never read any of them the last thing he is is lacking in talent

Government pipedreams on internet ratings doomed to fail

michael

@forget age of concent

we can not even come up with a unified age for consumpsion of mind autalring drugs in this country (16 for tobaco 18 for acohol none for caffine illagle for most others) that is the basic problem with the internet is it spans the globe so the only way we are going to control it is to have a global goverment

and

@ the first ac

what exactley are you complaning abut the articley seamed ok to me it pointed out that age ratigns will not work and what most goverments seam to do is to maintain a secret blacklist and we shoudl probley be thnking hard about that

btw how long till the IWF's list gets leaked do you think?

Microsoft eyes metered-PC boondoggle

michael

re:Everyone else does it

the problem as mentioned is that with the home pc the hardware HAS to be in the users hands and therefor easley *modded* look at the problem apple are having trying to do the *rent* an iphone type modle the only reasion it still works with phones is that they are efectley dead after a year so they are thrown away

Health minister promises Rate-My-Doc! service

michael

tell me

is there a minister who's job it is to come up with pointless sugestions that might make it in to news papers and what is his job title?

UK.gov to push Obama for tougher rules online

michael

@ac

"". Structure legislation and penalties such that "unrated" is favourable to "wrongly rated" so that emphasis is on getting ratings right and building confidence - warnings would be included to permit corrections to ratings.""

there is the fall down as the internet spans the globe the legislation and penalties would have to be global as well and therefor would not work as most countryes would not inforce it just look at all the fishing etc web sites that are all ready out there if there could be global action on legislating the internet there would have been closed down in the first few waves

michael

re:Online Ratings

the only real problem I can see with that sort of thing is that absoultley everyboady who produces content on the internet would have to agree with it and imperlment it properley all it would take to render it usless is a few sort of contrnay that refuse to do it or spoof it or get lasy and jujst flag every thing as totley safe

I am sorry but I just do not see that sort of cororpratuion happening the much safer system is to have a perent install a "safe list" on there childs computer that only lets the child go where the perent lets them this is akin to how perents manage real life as soon as the child is old enought to bipas the lock they are old enougth to take some responcibilty

michael

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"'Burnham said: "Leaving your child for two hours completely unregulated on the internet is not something you can do.'"

neather is leaving your child for two hours on the highstreet or town center or shopping mall or park or a lot of other places just cos the internet gose into your house dose not mean it should be automaticley child safe

michael

well that solves it

"You can still view content on the internet which I would say is unacceptable"

we just have a content less internet ands then he will be happy

Last major VHS supplier ejects from tape biz

michael

re:Who said anything about re-buying all your movies??...

"DVD players aren't backwards compatible with VHS....Blu-Ray players ARE compatible with DVD, and it is easy to convert your VHS collection to DVD or store it on a HDD and stream it across your network."

and that is more or less why it will not take off pepol might buy a player but they will lok at the dvd for £5-15 and the blu-ray for 15-30 and buy the dvd cos they can still play it and the blue ray dose not realy provide x2 the increse in value till prices are almost conpariable there will not be a masive increse on sales

If you can fart, you can earn $10,000

michael
Coat

shuley it should be the

ifartinyourgenraldirection

ok ok I am going no need to push

iPlayer chief pushes tiered charging for ISPs

michael

re:Who pays?

the bbc presumably pay a service provider for there leased lines so they all ready pay to "brodcast" over the internet the same way any other ineter net company dose and you pay a isp to "recive" that broad cast in the same way the bbc pays to erect a broadcasting arail and you pay for a reciver

michael

re:competition

"All ISPs offer the same clunky service for the same subscription. If there were a demand for a faster/uncapped/lower latency/better service for a couple of quid more someone would already be selling it."

check out some of the smaller isps like mine http://www.keconnect.co.uk/ that do lines for small bissneses they give you some good bandwith but you do have to pay for it

Windfarm lobby bows to ASA and cuts CO2 saving figures

michael

re:Wind Power can help, don't be so negative.

"Yeah, what's with the anti-wind turbine nonsense?"

my main problem is the more pepol beleve wind is a viable alterntive they stop looking at the real need

we need LARGE power stations gnerating LARGE amounts of power even the current genrating capacity is bearly enought and of we switch to all electric infruxtor (cars heating cooking etc) we will need mutiples more so stop faffing around with turbines and strat thinking nuclure

"Anyone who has spent any time on the west coast of Britain will soon realise that a windless day is as common as hen's teeth. As for Lincolnshire - strong steady winds seem to blow consistently from the North Sea."

seam to blow and actuley do are not the same thing I think if we look at met office stats we will find a concibule numb er of wind less days

"The big bonuses for wind power are that you can still grow crops underneath (unlike other kinds of power station!)"

not true due to health and safty you can not even walk close to them I know a wind farm in north of scotland that has to be shut off every afternoon cos the light shining throught the blades causes office workers in the nearby office to get migranes

"and they can easily be sited in remote communities, negating the need for long power lines."

so can nuclear plants in fact most nuclear plantes are built in v remote places and do wnaders for the local ecomany

michael

@jerry

"From Aberdeen to Istanbul lights started blowing due to the excessive voltage generated by a bunch of Dutch and Danish wind farmers."

I vote bluff

Microsoft gives XP another four months to live

michael

@Amazing that people forget ...

yes I got thouse sort of coments when I started my internet cafe and decided to use xp pepol said I was crazy

BUT

I could point to a lot of the features in xp that made the computers SOO much better and easer to use the improved multi user and networking suport for a start was almost worth the hassle we had with leagcy games and the usb suport in xp was a vast improvement where are these "killer apps" in vista? I have not found anything to make me take the pain of the switch

Wireless-power pioneers band together

michael

wirless?

wirless is only realy better where the cable is annoying this usual means when wirless will go further than the 1-5 meters you can get with a cable or in situations where cables are dangrous other than that cables are better cos they are less complex till they start showing some proper uses in those categories it will not be widely taken up

Oz net censorship apparatus to target BitTorrent

michael

how the f

do thay plan to do that it sounds like a bit of a unworkable plan

what are they planing to look for?

how would they know what they have got is in valid?

*bang*

we are sorry this posters brain just exploded normal service will be resumed as soon as poaible

Google disguises capitalism as civil rights

michael

intresting spin

but allow me to present you with a counter argument

seams I live in the uk and youtubes servers are in the us (plese correct me if I am wrong) I am already getting worse treatment cos my packets have further to go that someone in the us so youtube is slower for me? so all they are doing is moveing there content closer to there customers?

to give you a silly analogy it is like me buying a flat in town center so I can get to work quicker and spend less time travelling

feel free to tell me I am wrong

Tesla takes Top Gear test to task

michael

power tarnsfers

"http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/12/18/launched-wx10-t-all-electric-race-car/

Just as Jeremy Clarkson complains about the Tesla charge time, West Race Cars go an launch a new electric racer designed to have its batteries changed in 45 seconds. Don't buy two Teslas Jeremy, take another set of batteries to the track.

This is a very interesting development. If racing improves the breed, then bring it on.\"

I seam to rember a descusion on a older el reg comment thread on the amount of power needed to be transfered over a cable to be the equivlent to filling up with petrol and the results where somthing along the line of enought to fry a cable about a foot thick

michael

@HA

thanks for your conspricy theroy now do not for get to colect your tinfoild hat on teh way out

Don't delay: Delete your DNA today

michael

@Martin Lyne

"When they'll still be watching all your emails, text messages, phone calls, brain waves, etc."

they are not readfing my brain waves I stuck one of thouse "quantum physical information wave " chips to my head to block them

Aussie protests over Great Firewall

michael

re:Apathy rules......never mind.

"BSF. Population of Oz is 21 million or so. Let's be really generous and say that several instances of hundreds of protestors gets to 10,000 in total. That's a massive 0.05% ish of the population that give enough of a shit about this one to get up on their hind legs and look bored while someone else says something about it. Yer average politician ain't going to be even momentarily distracted from his afternoon's bollock-scratching with that level of public outrage....."

but according to ofcom it only takes 4 pepol out of the millions that watch a program to classify as a valid compliant and get pepol fired ..strange world is it not

Cloud computing what’s really going on?

michael

just a comment on the new layout vrs the first poll question

FAIL!!!

Public support for ID cards dips to 55 per cent

michael

@b

"Now I'd expect the lazy drooling spunkbaskets in the dead-tree press to mindlessly regurgitate whatever pan-fried nonsense the government provides, thus allowing them to fill pages with minimal effort, but I expect better from El Reg."

as I read the article our belopoved El reg was giving us the facts of the goverment statment with prahaps a little scarcasm on the goverments comments and hi lights of the sillest bits

"One would have thought that some public-sector organisations - for instance the Immigration and Passport Service itself - would be able to access the information, but apparently not."

and then left it to us there beloved commenttards to criticise it it was a fact article not a comment article I am shure if they crawl out of the pub before mon they might put togeather an article on how silly this poll is but seames this comment thread is doing such a fine job at it they might not bother and just have another pint

michael

title title I do not need no stinking title

""There were also a number of people who believed public and private sector organisations will be able to access their information (56%), but again this is a false statement.""

if they can not access the data how will they use them (the goverment have said they will for age checks and stuff) or how will they be able to take the data (the goverment have been putting pepol up for tender to coletc the data now they are getting rid of the post office)

IWF rethinks its role

michael

again 2 points

@dennis

"When the OPA was created in 1956 " attudes where very diffrent so I think it is hi time it was updated it seames ludicrous that we are regesssing to a 1950's lvl of morlles

@shaggydoggy

"If this material is so corrupting that looking at it makes you a slavering paedo, how come the staff at IWF are somehow immune ?"

cos they have the "right" mental attude when they look at it it is like how pictures of naked pepol are of as long as it is for "art" so as long as you are thinking "art" or "just doing my job" when you look at it you are ok...eather that or they all take non crouption pills

michael
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re:Anarchy in the UK

I dought I will be the furts one to reply to this but here gose

you sir are a cirtfible loon your comments are not only wrong headded and your anoliges bad but the points you are making are so confused I can not even tell if you are being serious or scarcastic

"I think that anybody trying to keep the Internet just this side of anarchy should go on strike until they're shown some gratitude."

I assume you are a system admin and are not finding enought xmas cards delivered to you?

"Yes, I think I'll turn off my spam control so that users can't find their email amongst the 67% spam I'm currently seeing at the server"

and I will take my self of the telephone prefrance servace and open all my junk mail for the same reasions 50% spam is about normal for daily life live with it

"Obviously anybody with kids won't want them finding anal sex and bestiality when they're looking for CBeebies, so the web will be out as an educational resource, too."

that must be a very intresting search enging you use but realy anyboady who lets there kids use the internet unsupervised might as well let there kids play in parks at nite or real all the magisnees in a news agent (especley thouse ones on the top shelf) just cos it is in your home on your computer dose not make it yours

"Basically I'm fucking sick of fucking "libertarians" telling me that I have to view their sick pictures and have to put up with them snorting coke and going mental and have to accept their shit into my inbox."

and I am fead up of you controlling pepol telling me what I can not have in my inbox gess we will both have to live unsatified. seriousley if you do not want to see pictures in your inbox stop sineing up to thouse sites. reguardless this law will not stop you reciving thouse pics it will just make you a criminal when you do

"Fuck the lot of you, I'm off to Montana with a gun."

I thought you where not into the kinky stuff?

michael

2 points

1. @Why the new law?

the anser is simple the previous law only banded the "publishing or importing" of this stuff not the owning of it (IANAL) so with the internet you can get the mertail with out doing eather (importing needs to go throught a port) so a new law is needed baning ownership of the stuff to block the loop hole .... simple ........

well not realy cos the goverment have extended the law and changed parts of it and refused to give defnations to the turns they use like obseen and injury

2. asking the IWF was never the anser and the MOJ should have known this is this law covers images and movies of all types not just thouse on the internet the simple way to prove this is to send print outs of potentaly illagle pics to the MOJ and ask them if these would be illagle and see if then they want to get you to ask the

IWF

Reg readers in the dark over extreme porn

michael

*Internet* watch foundataion

so if I submitted the same pic on a pice of paper would they still refur me to the IWF??? that would be fun

Why the IWF was right to ban a Wikipedia page

michael

re:hypocrisy?

"The IWF has effectively told every UK news agent to tear out a specific page from every Time magazine. Would they comply?"

or to put it anpther way if a trade assoation had advided it members that selling this weeks "daily blah" might put them at risk of jail time cos of a possibley illagle aritcle in it then most of them would pull it of the stands

silly anoligoes work both ways

michael

re:Re: Censorship

"And since when did criticism of article A, appended as a comment to article B, become on-topic?"

since the topic of article B was cencorship and his comments or article A where (in his opinion) cencored

Firm touts anti-radiation chip for phones

michael

don't be to hard on the old el reg

all they did was miss the <scarcasm> and <\scarcasm> tags off the top and tail of the article

(if I got that wrong it is cos I am a real computer tech not a html coder)

Did speaker's statement show he doesn't know what day IT is?

michael

@Sarah Bee

well that is us told then :(

Human rights court rules UK DNA grab illegal

michael

@crime free= safe

"i post here as ac cos i know you will tare me to shreds and you have." so we will tare you to shreds under an ac rather then under an internet assumed name

what you think "michael" is my real name ......

Ofcom rules on Clarkson strumpet gag

michael

re @ Speeding vs Road Deaths

"You don't have to constantly stare at the speedo to know how fast you are going do you?"

yes you do cos you can not tell the diffrence between 30 and 40 (plese do not tell me you can cos you can not especley if you drive diffrnt cars a lot) I tryed driving on a dule carage way at 60 and if i did not look at the s[peedo regulay I found my self drifting up to nealy 80

M42 closed by marshmallows and beer

michael

re:fire

"I assume the IT content revolves around the marshmallows somehow?"

no the it content resolves round the beer fr obvoius reasoions

Obama tries to stay connected

michael

no wifi

"" to get information from "outside the 10 or 12 people who surround my office.""

dose the ovil office not have wifi maby all the led in the walls is blockng the signal

MPs lost for Word over creaking Microsoft packages

michael

compatibility pack

dose not allways work there have been lots of docs here that do not comatibility properley

Aussie government muffs plans for internet filtering

michael

Advertits

"My company's internal message board used to remove your semen"

you sir owe me a new keyboard

Government finally names the day for porn ban

michael

the large problem as I see it

is this now puts uk law at significent diffrence with the law in the rest of the world there is a clear world wide distenction on child porn but to take an example a lot of pepol have been menting a lot of us sites (like the kink.com mentioned above not that I know what it is about <.< >.> ) are perficetly legal there so pepol are going to have no idar that there content is now illegal in the uk and a lot of site that host legal (in uk tearms) porn might have banner adds depicting seanes that are illagle it is a total mine feilad and only pepol who have no idar how the internet porn inderstry works would ahve thought it up (again not that I am an expert on internet porn maby I should be poting anon?)

michael

@films

I beleve there is an excemption for anything with a BBFC certificate so buy a dvd of some horror film to "injoy" (a friend just sugested one called "the hostal" and I am realy starting to worry about him) and it is legal but download stills of the same file from the internet and it might not be

US intelligence predicts EU 'hobbled giant' by 2025

michael

@Warhelmet

have you been reading my screen play?

Filesharing ambulance chasers get into the gay smut racket

michael

@Frederick Karno

"This Digiprotect firm has been given the rights to upload these films ."

where did you see that form what I read I assume that digiprotect are the pepol who own the copyright or are acting for the pepol who own the copy right and have found or been informed that the torrent is on a torrent site and then have used a simler methord as I outlined above to track the pepol donwloading it

michael

@ Steve

well yes pepol still use emule but the article (and the previous ones about these p2p-cahersers) says thy chase bt swarms in fcat I think you can only do what they doing from bt it would nto work over emule or kaza and btw I have NEVER got the wrong thing from a bt swarm

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