IT RISES!
This actually looks bloody great. At least worth a comeback for MST3K (unless it actively self-parodises)
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El Reg - Funny Articles = ZDNet (- the funny bits there)
If the cab had set fire then it'd be even more Reg-relevant and even LESS IT-centric! *gasp!*
My advice: Build a bridge and get the fuck over it. I felt the same way about Paris Hilton articles because even giving such a vapid moron column space for irony's sake seemed like more than she deserves. S'not like you see me moaning about it *sniff*
Can we please stop referencing brands? You're in danger of inexorably linking "handheld computing devices that can run applications" with "the fucking iPhone". If they were using HTC Touch HDs would it be worth mentioning the exact brand?
Would you list all of the brands if there were many?
I seriously doubt the US Military is limiting it's research to just iPhone apps.
I do, however, approve of this use of technology to build hypothetical bridges
" Virgin Media said: "As a responsible ISP, Virgin Media understands the needs of law enforcement groups, however any policy changes must not sacrifice customers' privacy." "
So.. now CORPORATIONS are protecting me (were I a VM user) from the Privacy snatching GOVERNMENT.
This is so arse-backwards. Especially considering we pay both of these people.
This passing down to ISPs is just a saving-face way of letting it die. Unless they really do wnt to spend billions so each small ISP can hire a person and a multi-petabyte server to save useless crap that'll almost never prove useful.
I'd rather have a tax rebate thanks, c-nuts.
WE COME FROM THE SYSTEM YOU KNOW AS GLIESE.
TAKE US TO NICOLE, FOR WE HAVE A NEW REALITY TELEVISION PROGRAMME THAT WE THINK HER INABILITY TO GRASP NEW CONCEPTS AND EXTRAVERT PERSONALITY WOULD MESH WELL WITH.
OUR TELEVISION EXECUTIVES ARE OPEN TO ALL GREEN SKY THINKING AND WILL SURELY STEAL ALL OF YOUR VALUABLE AIRTIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE!
WE MAY SEEK TO REINVISAGE 'THE OFFICE' IN OUR OWN, WATERY, BOOMING VOICED FASHION THOUGH..
UNTIL NEXT TIME, HUMANS.
Can you vote FOR something? If not that might be why they incresed to 30%. I wouldn't like being dictated to by a minority of 25% (or 30 for that matter) if my abstenance was assumed to be apathy.
Much the same problem with politics today. I don't vote because choosing between turd A and turd B isn't what I want to do.
If wanted to appeal agains other users' votes against a term or condition, that shoudl hold as much weight as their moaning.
I don't really care either way though,in this instance, it has to be said.
Forgot to untick the comments box?!
We don't mind you mentioning Neo-Nazis, perhaps you might want to include some sort of releveancy though, like your last commenter (in the article) did.
I'm sure plenty of people work/ed with KKK members and didn't know, does that make them guilty by association?
Do you know exactly what sort of people pay your wages?
When I read the initial article it did just stink of you bringing in a fact that would clearly displease people just to bolster your obvious anti-freetardism.
To me, it might be case of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", but I doubt TPB are trying to overthrow all capitalism and I'm not aware of any racist or what-have-you evident in TPB (but then I'm not a user bar reading the occasional linked news/blog article), so joining forces with the Aryan Brotherhood (or whatever) doesn't seem to makes sense.
Unless you're intent on outing as many other average-profile, software-funding bigots as you can find? Then, please continue, knowledge is power after all.
Without an indication of some hidden agenda.. it's just using our liberalism (in the sense that we likely don't like people who don't like other people based on things they can't change) to make us not like someone that you don't like.
I hope that clears that up :)
Less smear, more news, I say.
As someone looking to have an electric car as a first car, I approve of this. Assuming the manufacturers don't just up prices by the same.
Making things cheaper makes the transition easier, EvilGav. New technologies will always have room to get better. "Shit and impractical" would be your, probably third-hand, opinion.
Unless, of course, you own an Tesla Roadster already?
(I'm excluding piss-weak quad-bike "cars", they just seem like a death trap)
Couldn't you just get it to map it in 3d (from multiple frames and therefore angles due to UAVs gerenally flying not hovering) then just say "someone riding a large quadraped" rather than "horse" or "camel" or "a centaur" if you accidentally load some mythology in there.
Level 4 Minotaur alert, sir!
1) So much for free fucking speech
2) If their clients are that easily confused, then perhaps that's why they are up shit creek
3) WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CONSTITUTION?!
Here in the UK we're not even allowed to think bad things about companies or the government or our wired collars will explode
Does "Die" constitute helpful feedback?
Because.. if MS died then people might start building games deliberately to work on Linux, then I could just use that and never have to worry about the registry or ridiculous OS security holes or having to pay for something that is (advertised as) working software only to find it was a beta and the REAL one is coming out 2 years later..
Step 1 - Secure contract, this may require some "on-the-fly" bullshittery
Step 2 - Think of 5 names, choose the most edgy as final.
Step 3 - (This is the most labour intensive step) Write aquick blog entry/press release about how painstaking it was to come up with your bullshit, making your service sound unique and not at all like we're being paid simply to write a few letters.
Step 4 - Profit
I'll bet the outsourced the "global suitability" as well.
You can make up words for product names, you can have localised names, YOU DON'T NEED TO PORK BARREL USELESS COMPANIES.
Major problems with the government? Sleaze, expense corruption, police killing protesters in the capital?
Scapegoat an assistant with a security breach and get them to resign for something Terrorism related, guaranteed front pages. Get to arrest some more people too.
Or maybe it really was a terrorist mastermind at work, it's hard to cut through the waves of my own cynicsm these days..
"People write their daily bullshit in under 180 characters hoping another person cares enough to read it"
There, I taught you twitter in a tweet near enough.
Now I'm going to go wash my hands/mouth.
How about we teach the kids how to stand up for their democracy and privacy? Always assuming that the TERRORISTS haven't blown all the schools and ISPs up first
(Emphasis is the governments in accordance with the latest amendments to the Terrorists Act to make sure we all understand the magnitude of the threat)
We have to disable it on our servers otherwise it messes with PHP's picking up of IP addresses (returns "::1"), or it's IIS that doesn't like it. Either way, causes issues. I hear Exchange doesn't like it either.
Apolgies if this was on page 2 or 3, got lunch to eat and boring technical comments to impart :)
You missed out
"Dependence on foreign, non-renenable fuel"
Unless you know of any UK Uranium deposits?
Wind, does get importd from other places, but at a significantly lower cost.
HVDC grid network for round-the-clock renewable energy.
We had a microwave link at uni, they then decided to replace with IR connections. On the coast. Where it gets foggy.
Oh look, the network is down.
MW-Tx ---> Windfarm Rx -> Underground cable under wind farm -> Windfarm Tx --->MW-Rx
I'm not too sure about the overlapping microwave caused by original/rebroadcast signals. Would it be hard to limit it only to the Fresnel area?
It's hard to beat free, right?
Make it convenient, cheap and DRM free.
Oh look, people who previously chose to download things becuase they couldn't find them for sale online/had to wait for a DVD with tat attached to be produced/didn't want to buy an online vid that expires after a certain amount of time/didn't want to buy a physical media implementation becuase shit gets broken suddenly start buying stuff.
I've not bought a load of EA games becuase I don't like shitty DRM, buy games from Steam all the time.
Let HMV.co.uk or whatever sell DVDs/Games/Whatever direct to people and you'll make money. Instant gratification encourages impulse purchasing.