I am shocked
shocked
suprised
astonded
actuley i am not and that is what worries me the most
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"How can the Police make a qualitative judgment that BT's intention was to "improve" their service? BT's intention was clearly to make more money, and to do so covertly. What's the Police's definition of "improve" in this case? Is it "to make more profitable" or what?"
if bt can suberdise the cost of a internet conenction by selling adds they the cost of the line can go down or at least stay the same and that "improves" the prodect
amoung the non bugged options are
First Boot Device
Boot to Hard Drive [add £3.00]
Boot to USB [add £3.00]
Boot to Optical Device [add £3.00]
Boot to NIC [add £3.00]
Custom Partition - 50/50 Split [add £11.00]
Outlook Express Remove [£3.00]
Games Remove [£3.00]
Legacy Communications Remove (Chat, Dialer, Hyperterminal, Sound Recorder and Windows Messenger) [£3.00]
Dell Wallpaper Remove (black)
Disable Wireless Access [£3.00]
Disable Modem [£3.00]
Disable USB Ports [£3.00]
" Well 1 litre of petrol is 2.32 kg co2, so if we reduce our co2 by 1 kg we also SAVE 56 pence.
So the cost is negative, we simply use less fossil fuel by efficiency means and save 56 pence per kilo of petrol used. Yes? So fixing our CO2 problem is double plus good, saves us money and helps the environment."
saves yuo money yes BUT if you sdo not spend it then the garage makes less and the oil companys make lass and they can not pay there pepol who can not spend it on what ever you sell (or whoever pays your saliery sells) and you have less mony so spend and eventuley noboady can spend anything cos we are all sitting on our economic hands
economics is not that simple
"As one who's previously been Eurosceptic, I find the EU's line to be somewhat re-assuring, as is the interest taken by our non-democratic Lords...."
when we where fighting the Viloint crime reduction bill the only suport we could find against the goverment banning gunshaped objects was in the lords all mps on the red and blue sides where parots for the party line and the yellows just did not care
"Even those with nothing to hide are not idiot enough to give you access to their bank account, or to publish their home address and therefore invite every fucking weirdo to send them spam/abusive mail or worse. In fact, your belief that they ought to makes you the idiot."
the point is that that is precicley what the goverment will do with your detials and I can only hope it is by accedent
"There is no IT angle to this story. What is it doing here? I am removing The Register from my bookmarks. Please cancel my subscription. I am also dissatisfied with today's weather. Please make the weather the way I like it. Goodbye.""
p.s can you fix the firewall at my office as well
pps on topic it might be that he payed for a year and it just has not run out and all he did was cancle the direct debit
ppps can we have a pix of the eepc girl on this sotry as well?
""It is a well established legal premise that downloading for free deprives the record industry of revenue. Even the most abject Freetard accepts that this is a point of law and fact. By extension loss of revenue to record companies is loss of taxation revenue to the government so they will pursue this.""
I know a lot of freetards and most of them do not acept this point in fact most of there arguments revolve around the fact that a download <> a loss of sale most downloads are "for seeing of I might like it" or "I like it bout nowhere enought to pay the £20 they want for it" or "I want it but I can not get it anywhere else" or even "I own it but the orignal meida it damaged or wrong format or lost"
"That the boffins who 'replicated' what would have happened used a long mechanical arm to add the detonator in the explosions shown to the jury and the media. So a taxi ride to the airport and have you seen how they handle the stuff going through the scanners? HTMD your havin' a laugh."
the boffins who replicated it have good respect for there and others lifes suicide bombers do not
for sevral reasions
1 a lot of pepol do not pay by the bit if you have a unlimited contract or one with a absurdile hi limite then you are not paying any extra for reciving skype calls it is like sayign that we are all ready paying for reciving calls cos we pay a £per mounth for our phone contract
2 as the girlfriend in your story would say there is a diffrence between 0.06p (what I currentey pay per mb on my expencive bb contract and 5p (what even thje cheepest oprator is likley to charge me per call recived
3 if you say we pay for every bit we download (prapsh we do and we do not notice it) I wander how much I (more precicley my employer) is paying to view the anoying flash adverts on el reg? and maby I should kick up a fuss about it?
"You're related to Samantha Bee from the Daily Show here in the States, aren't you. Or maybe she's your long-lost Canadian sister?"
sara is not related to anyboady she is a travler form another dimnson sent to save the world from the lizzardman army and there leagion of mechenes and she got a job at el reg cos it was good cover and alowed her to keep up to date on events with their top class reporting
"Spend the money you were going to waste on a remake and make some original programming. It might fail, but equally, you might end up with something as good (or even better). Either way, you'd have tried something original rather than a tired rehash."
yer I have got this wander full Idar for a show you see there are these...
w8 what you doing...
why are you press ing that button...
at least let me get my coat....
***thud***
are in fact 2 questions
1. how did they deturn the number of downloads was it pepol conected or amount downloaded e.g my torrent client is set to stop uploading at 1.2 x the download value (eg if the download is 100mb it will stop uploading at 120mb) but druing that time 100's of pepol will have got a part of it so will I get sued for £30 *1.2 or £30*200 ?
2. how are they cirtain the pepol who downloaded it did not have a ligmite right to do so e.g earler this mounth I needed to reformat a mecheen with xp but the cd that came with it was lost but the key was stuck on it do I torrented a new cd that was not illagele?
"Since I don't do anything illegal the downside potential is only that the government shifts the goalposts on what is illegal to include things that I do which doesn't seem likely in my lifetime in Britain or that I will decide to start doing illegal things."
in the last 5 years the goverment have tried to make 2 of the things I was doing perfctuley leagaly illagal
1. airsoft (look it up ok wiki)
2. exrteme porn (prob best you do not look it up on wiki)
(I would like to stress thouse 2 are not related!!!)
I can not w8 to see what other of my hobies they want to crimlise maby my scifi book colection or maby reading el reg will be come illegal
this is a real question How meny lifes is the tech worth??
this is the reasion that it seames in war time we make more advaces that in war time the cost of life is reduced but it is allways somthing we should concider yes doing these things is risky but I think it should be done even if it is just for the sake of doing it after all you have to die of somthing to die in the attempt to make progress is the best epitaff I can think off
*breaths deap and used his mental fire extinguisher*
how wrong can you be let me count the ways
""How about someone having copies of launch codes for Britain's nuclear weapons "for research"?""
codes and passwords are not books codes , paswords , PINs etcare allways imune for free speech arguments
"Or how about a manual describing how to make and use date rape drugs effectively? Someone involved in pharmacology might have a legitimate use for such information but it would probably depened on the context of their research."
having the knowlage on how to make it and uning it are 2 diffrent things I know how to make gunpowder should I be arested?
"I don't see why books should have some kind of immunity. If someone has a slide-hammer and a screwdriver whilst working in their garage, that's perfectly reasonable. On the other hand, if someone is found to be carrying the same tools in a car park at 2am, they will probably be arrested for "going equipped to steal"."
again tools and knolage are not the same things and you would have to be doing soming suspisions.
"If someone has a book providing instructions on how to make bombs from household materials, it doesnt seem unreasonable for them to explain the context." yes but the burdon of proof should be "prove I am going to blow somthing up" rather than "prove you are not going to blow somthing up"
"Given that Al Qaeda has used British citizens with origins in various Islamic countries to commit acts of terrorism in the UK and abroad, it would seem particularly stupid for someone of that demographic to be in possession of such material." I call racisum on that!! seriousley it is that sort of profiling that causes a lot of hatrated in the first place
"So, is HMG covered by this proposal ?"
now who is being neive the goverment never has to play by the rules everyboady else dose after they are the goverment they can do what ever they like
(just to avoid the flames that was scarcasm in that sentance)
I do not see much wrong with this "except the silly name" as long as
1. for "commercial purposes" meanes selling it and the do not expand it to include "you downloaded it instead of buying it that is commercial you are nicked"
2. they keep the fines for online - realworld the same
my isp caps me to 50gb per mounth
but they tell me in advance my contract is eve called Max SoHo 50 it is when it is advertied as unlimited*
*subject to fair** use polices
** fair use is not eccesivicley*** using your connection over a 30 day period
*** eccesivicley is defined ad not exciding a maxium**** limite of data in clumitive uploads and downloads
**** defined as we feel like it
each line getting smaller
"(Yes, I *know*. There will always be unfortunates who are unable on medical grounds to write English without mangling it. But no-one else has an excuse.)"
I do I have a note from my doctor excusing me form english classes and everything
seriousley I got so fed up of my maths teacher corecting my spelling and gramar if you can understand what I meen then stfu
(sorry but I got soo fed up of the imposibility that is spelling and gramar that I got expeled from a school over it)