* Posts by michael

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Government still losing at least a computer a week

michael

to give context

my company numbering about 300 imployes lost 4 laptops in 1 year

but as a result I am now involved in rolling out a truecrypt system to all employes

Filesharing ambulance chasers get into the gay smut racket

michael

@steve

you are out of date

using bit torrent you can be 90% certain that the torrent is what it says it is cos if it was false then te swarm would have disbanded as soon as it was found out to be fake bittorrent is less like 1 person giving it to another person and more like a giant sharing orgy (to use a metaphor in tune with the current topic) where the same file or completion of files is shared round and round with more pepol coming and going it is more certain cos it is setup by the starter of the swarm and as such you are more certain on what file you are getting unfortunate so can the pepol issuing the letters

michael

@James Greenhalgh

"""Come on... you work (mostly) in the IT industry, you don't have to watch a file to run an MD5 check on it...

Now stop imagining a bunch of Lawyers sitting around a TV getting excited and """

but imagining lawyers watching gay porn is what makes my life have meaning :)

seriously a md5 check would not be valid for a copyright check cos it would be different depending on the encoding and the cutting of the end etc they would need visual proof not a computerised check

michael

@ proof

I assume it works somthing like this

they downlaod a likely looking torrent

set there client to download only not upload

download the files whail at the same time noting all the ip's of the pepol in the swarm

watch what they have downloaded (haf haf)

if what they have downloaded is what it purports to be and is the copyrighted metrial then they send letters requesting the details of the ips

seames it has not ever gone to cort we have no proof this is how they do it but that is how I would do it

if I was taken to corte by them I would ask my lawer to get a technail discription so we can be shure there "proof" is proof positive.

Employees sue for unpaid Windows Vista overtime

michael

@do what everyone else in the world does

they are in a call center they probley have to w8 for the last shift to finish for the computers to be free

michael

@ the previous pepol

@ those pepol who are saying that 15mins is slow

you have obviously not worked in a office even with xp windows slows down noticibley after a user has used it for 6mounths usuley starting to take 5-10 mins to login to windows and be able to work and the only way I have found to restore it's speed is reformat it. I have no exprance with vista in my office but form my home experience I can easley see it take 15mins to boot

and beofre pepol flame me I welcome any suggestions on how to speed up boot times but before you sugest it I have spend hours on google looking and as yet have found nothing that works

Oz sex trade to spank parliamentary prudes

michael

well

"those who are worried about keeping their jobs have always to think about what the Daily Mail reaction would be."

sums up in 1 sentence why I have completely lost faith in our elected "leaders" (leaders are suppose to lead not follow)

Obama's BlackBerry to be banned?

michael

strange

as part of my job is notes/blackberry admin I know in our company at least all the emailes sent form the blackberry (excluding all the gmail but the same could be said for all external web email) go throught the notes server and are archived

French record labels sue, um, SourceForge

michael

noooo

""Hell, the entire Internet itself could be banned in France. ""

we can not let that happen world of warcraft servers and hosted in france!!!!

Linux weaktops poised for death by smartphone

michael

it dose everyting my laptop dose

the netbooks I am looking to get run XP so I KNOW I can use thinks like usb memory stciks bluetoof adaptors etc and they are a Proper computer so I can stick my memoy stick in on the train write a doc or save a pic of the internet and take it out at the end of te trip and plug it into my computer on my desk and it opens find

to me that is the BIG diffrence between a net book is a netbook runs the same os as a desktop

michael

hold on

where did the idar that a netbook JUST dose internet a netbook dose everything a 3 yearold laptop dose (the eee 901 is the same spec as the old dells we use in my office) and seames it runs xp it does exactley the same stuff

Attorneys for Palin email hacker: 'Don't call him hacker'

michael

he is not a hacker

he is a freedom fighter

patroit?

brave investigative reportor?

basicley he exposed goverment coruption he needs a wistle blower reward not a crim record

Republicans adopt 'Gore's internet' for grassroots salvation

michael

al gore

"Al Gore had never invented the internet*. * Yes - we know he didn't really claim that."

but he was still first emperor of the moon? right?

UK's 'secure' child protection database will be open to one million

michael

@who ever it was

"No they wont, IT staff will not have access, only working, approved practioners."

sotty what would do you live in again?

US senator demands clamp down on Obama ticket touting

michael

the problem in a nutshell

is it should be a persons right to sell on his property but it is not a comercle bussness to buy all the tickets and then sell them on to fans and this is a problem

no I do not have a solution but I at least know what the problem is

MPs: Fight grog-fuelled crimewave with PDAs

michael

specilities

"We've chosen to focus mainly on booze and technology."

cos that is where the expertise of the staff at el reg is especial the former

michael

pre loading

so pepol are loading up on booes cos it is to expensive and the answer is to raise the price? nice use of logic there gov

Finland's flawed e-voting scheme - blame the voters?

michael

title

"tested, tested and tested again". ust like t5 what they forgot to do was test it with real pepol

Passport and ID card price hike laundered via private sector

michael

@Suspicious Git

"Have you seen conclusive and absolute evidence that DNA is unique."

I assumed that identicle twins had identice dna

michael

@ the troll

"opening parts of the system out to competition, the price will come down"

2 points to that

1. competition only works when there is real competition not in a system where you have to get a card and there is only 1 to 2 bidders leadinfg on to

2. copertition has certainley reduced prices of the other formor monopilyes like the rail and the gass and the electric and all has it not?

3.EVEN if if was going to be cheeper do we realy want ecencle functions of goverment farmed out what next farm out tax colection cos that would defently be cheeper maby we could farm out the milirty that would be cheaper

Barack Obama will be president

michael

@ madra

or maby it is cos I am serviley dyslexic and find spelling and sentence struture harder than anything else (spelling is not importent to a computer)

michael

@ac

1. again not knowing the detailes of his plan but most goverments and I think the usa dose have rules restricting benifets so pepol who have been on the for 3gen usuley have a reasion

2. maby they can not for reasions beyond there control and. why dose my bosses boss who dose not work anymore hours or have any more technal knolage than me eurn 10-100x as much as me? if I am following obamas plans then his taxes will only efect pepol earning over $250,000 a year and thouse pepol are wealthy not poor pepol eather way taxes are the price you pay for all the inteagle benfits you get for living in a socity

3. cos pepol actuley like being fooled you some times need to force pepol to be fair and having seen some of the "unbised" opinions of the usa I am of the opinion some more ristrictions are in order

4. and bushes confrentnational aproch has been working soooo well has it not? and why are you trying to FORCE inderpendent nations to follow your will?

lastley not leastley I am using my name plese use yours I h8 shadow boxxing

michael

@Yet another viewpoint

adn now a rebutle

"1. HIGHER taxes - the promises about cutting taxes for 95% notwithstanding. Currently over 40% of the people do NOT pay taxes, so any "cut" for them is a payment back (can you say "welfare")"

yes wwwwweeeeeellllffffaaaaarrrrreeee ...... sometime it is a good thing to help the less fortunate

"2. "Spread the wealth around" - also called Marxism or Socialism." seepoint 1

"3. Curtailment of freedom of speech - already during the campaign, it has been visible from the Obama side. He has also promised the reinstatement of the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which will be used to muzzle talk radio in the States."

no coment do not know what it is refering to but it is sometimes usfull to have some limites on what pepol can say that is why we have lible laws

"4. Appeasement to terrorists - didn't work with Chamberlain in the 1930s." point of order germany was a country not teriost orgnisations so the comparisions are not valid and even if you are talking about "teroist" contrys (iran, north kora) just cos it did not work for chamberlin dose not mean it will not work for omaba it 1930's war healy 80 years ago times change

michael

@everyone

can we at least wa8 24hours before we become jaded and cynical?

Palin didn't know Africa is a continent, McCain aides say

michael

@DrewHew

techniley it is president elect not president till he is sworn in and has kicked the current loser out of the white house in jan

the worst part of this story when I read it was the comment in the last line of the paper I was reading saying "aids have urged her to run for the presidency in 2012" shudder

Bombproof TV rolling-news eco bins target the City

michael

LSE

"is the brainchild of former LSE students Kaveh Memari and Brian James"

is LSE what they where taking when they came up with this idar?

Lords demand DNA database deletions

michael

re:Everyone or no-one

"isn't there a technical problem here? It's not possible to preserve a complete and fully functioning audit trail without also keeping details of records that have been deleted or modified.

If the system allows amendments and deletions to be made without a full trace being preserved, then the data is not secure. If a full trace is preserved then records can only be cloaked rather than deleted.

Prof. Sir Alec Jeffreys, having reasoned through the implications of the technology that he ushered in, made it clear at the outset that if they were to allow social equity DNA profile databases would have to be all or nothing. Most still seem to ignore the valid argument that he presented."

not realy it is posible to have a delete stub in the database saying somthing like "record num # added #/#/# remove by request of subject date #/#/#"

nothing to point to who it was and no dna tag

Roadpricing satnav spybox trials under way

michael
Stop

insurance

I saw an advert for a certain insurance company and the dog on it (I will not tell you wat compnay it was oh no no no) was telling us about his deal and the small print along the botton sadi "tracking devices may be required for some vicheles" /i asume it is only a matter of time befre it is an insurace requirment to have tracking devices and the gov can wash there hands of it saying it is a requirment of insurance comnays not us

Is the internet going down down under?

michael

what do you filter?

when I got my first voderphone 3g data stick it said some content would be filtered till I proved I was an adult I thought ok I did not want to do "that" sort of browsing on the move(I have a fast adsl line at home for that) and when I tryed it I fpund they had filtered this site

http://freefall.purrsia.com/

never did find out why

Morning voting in America

michael

lots of exections

one question I have allways wanted to ask usaens why do you yote for so meny public offices and do you like it tjhat way it seams to me that voteing for pepol like chief of police and that menes that the person is more worried abut keeping voters happy than doing a good job

Music royalties group pooh-poohs Belgian P2P appeal reports

michael
Coat

re:Sooner or later the Pirates will buy a clue

that should be

Sooner or later the Pirates will steal a clue

ok ok no need to push

michael

my 1.6p (at current exchange rates)

re: why not block trackers?

time and man power and it is just as easley subverted as anything else

re:Sooner or later the Pirates will buy a clue

"troll troll troll your post gently down the feed"

ok I will bite. pepol have answered the why shouldn't they do it but my point is it probably is not possible the original article pointed out that the software they where told they should use for filtering did not work

The amazing, endless, bioterror pork conveyor

michael

@jake

"Just more far left liberal drivel, by both the author and most of the posters obviously skilled in posting untruths, half truths, innuendo, plus a whole LOT of HATE."

pelese do not feed the trolls

michael

uk?

love the article

you think someone could do one of the sort of thing new lab have been up to in there 10+ years in power?

Daily Mail punts Georgina Baillie filth

michael

am I the only person

who dose not know what is going on?

I am seroius I no not have a fing clue who thses pepol are?

is there some sort of abridged back sorty I could read? (prefibley i n a brown envlope)

Academic avoids extradition over Holocaust denial

michael

re:Bail?!

"but as others have said: what makes them think they have the right to extradite hime from the UK?"

probably the EU constitution....opps I mean treaty or what ever they are calling thses things

I still find it incredible that this came to court with out some sort of evidence form the procreation I think we are missing some sort of info here

Sarah Palin's words get data mined

michael

"For reasons that are too technical to go into here"

I take it that "here" is this context is 3 rd stool along at the bar of the reg local

Mandelson's dept mulls UK internet power grab

michael

why nominet

if I am reading this right the governments argument t is that nominet is such a vital part of a vital infrastructure it should be in there hands?

if so why are they happy to let other parts of vital infstrutures remail privite eg power grid, water, gas, and the phone lines them self?

Man threatens lawsuit after negative eBay feedback

michael

"Justification"

"It is then up to the defendant to defend the libel. Essentially there are three defences (a) Justification, (b) fair comment and (c) privilege. Obviously (c) doesn't enter into it. (b) generally applies to comment, such as a newspaper review. So that leaves us with (a) it is not enough that the words were true, you must be able to justify publishing them. I suspect that argument over a defence of justification would centre around the fact that a refund was given, whether the words are true and the phone was substantially not as described would be secondary to this"

BIG IANAL

but shuley the fact that ebay asks for comments and he comented on his expraince with this person would be the Justification for posting it? that is assuming that his expreance is true

BBC's TV detector vans to remain a state secret

michael

wrong attuide

"The BBC supported its claim with evidence that a growing number of people are dissatisfied with paying the licence fee"

so there responce is to be secritave and defncive about it

yer that will work

NASA: Google Gulfstreams not science experiments

michael

maby

it's cos I just watched T3 but dose the fact that a company with healy links to internet computing owning militry hardware a bit worriing

michael

head for the hills

""interrogate the atmospheric chemistry in real-time" in an effort to determine the effects of climate changes on greenhouse gase"

climit change is happening so fast we can monitor the changes in real time of a jet flight!!!!!!!!

HEAD FOR THE HI GROUND

Speaking clock gets Disneyfied

michael

anrgy?

"and not to punt some bloody speaking fairy flick"

do I sence a little anooince there? maby you should relax a bit and watch a film? might I sugest .....o hell with it I was trying to be funny but I just coudent be bothered any more it is just not worth it ......*bang*

Public ID card support holds steady - says gov report

michael

lies damed lies

and stats

says it all realy

MEPs warn on 'virtual strip searches'

michael

ok

"which effectively produce naked pictures of passengers."

when can I get one?

and is this comes under the extream porn law?

Police poison speed debate with fuzzy figures

michael

as I said in the last story

the problem is not realy weather they work or not it is that now they are SEEN to be just a revinew raising tool there hole purose has become discreditied. one of the best solutions would to be to disisoate the law inforcemnt/safty feature for the mony maby by donating all fines to charity or giving all fines to a diffrent department (schools hospitiles) or to change the punishment to a non monatry one

Woman cuffed for deleting virtual husband

michael

ok that is it

I am leaving the planet at the first opertuinity

Civil servants' pro-Labour memo reignites child data controversy

michael

gosub

gosub rant(antidatabase as string)

I am sorry basic is the only language I know

(don't look at me I am hidous)

Thrust SSC team to build 1000 mph 'Bloodhound' car

michael

@Pete James

"Kids won't suddenly embrace physics and want to become engineers just because they saw someone drive quick."

why not it works for top gear

Dutch court convicts teens for stealing pixels

michael

Mike Crawshaw

"I imagine you'd probably think differently if someone made a complete copy of all your personal information, HDD contents etc for their own enjoyment, and possibly profit? How about your ISP copying all your online actions and selling that - after all, it's to help you have a better online experience!"

I would feal up set BUT it is not steeling it is a diffrent offence I do not nkow what but it is nt stealing

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