* Posts by yeah, right.

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Google tells the world how to talk

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Where's the BOFH?

There's a BOFH episode where he replaces all the speech modules with the "drunken scotsman" module. That's what we need. A BOFH with a drunken scotsman module.

Homework late? Blame Russian hackers

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backups

If the little shits don't have backups, they get zero. That'll teach them.

Spacewalking astronaut drops toolbag

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my oh my

What a bunch of sexists we have on board here. How can one tell? Replace "woman" with "black" or some other superficial distinguishing factor, then tell me the statements wouldn't be considered racist. Even as a joke it stopped being funny years ago.

And I'll try to refrain from the obvious: http://www.clichequest.com/index.php?pos=328

The person fucked up not because they were a woman, but because they were just too stupid or hurried (as an individual) to attach a tether.

I assume the engineers DID provide a tether for the toolkit? Because if they didn't, then the real fault lies with them. Not to mention creating a grease gun that doesn't work right in a vacuum.

Lame Mac Trojan limps into view

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Meanwhile

Trend Micro seems to be playing it up as a major threat. I guess the dearth of any real threats (so far) to the Mac platform has made them rather desperate to find anyone willing to purchase their (so far) rather useless software?

@david kelly: LOL. Although shouldn't that be: sudo_rm_minus_rf_slash.sh?

Academics warn of EU 'three strikes' back door plan

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Due process? (@Conor)

It's called due process, and this law denies that. It's disconnection based on SUSPICION of doing something that MIGHT be illegal. Not disconnection based on actually doing something illegal. It allows a private corporation to summarily target anyone they see fit, without having to justify their actions or prove their case. It's also based on supposed "evidence" whose very accuracy is questionable.

It's a bad law, no mistake.

German bawdy house offers free entry for life

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hypocrites?

Odd that the Saudis anyway would object to having their flag on an uncommon bawdy house. Given what I've seen the hypocrites up to in Dubai when I worked there, I can well imagine the house having several of them as customers.

I guess it just doesn't look good to have ones hypocrisy broadcast quite so loudly, hence the protests.

Filesharing ambulance chasers get into the gay smut racket

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Same

By the way, this is the same "accurate" targeting that will be used to determine who is going to get cut off in the French "three strikes" law. Anyone see the problem yet? Conor, you there?

BNP leaked list claims first victims

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@martin burns

An interesting argument. However, just because someone belongs to a political party, or is at least on their membership list, doesn't mean they agree with ALL or even MOST of that party's actions or tactics. The might only agree with one or two lines in the party manifesto. Hell, I know a few people who, out of curiosity, have joined every political party in order to see what kind of material the members get. I for one can think of several valid reasons for a poilce officer to join a legal but otherwise reprehensible political party, none of which involve that officer agreeing with them.

So although your argument is perhaps one of the more cogent, it still doesn't hold water. Either the UK is a free nation where political expression is legal, or it's nothing more than a Orwellian "New World" full of double speak when it comes to actual freedom.

BNP races to get membership list off the net

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Tough one.

Whereas I strenuously object to the goals and methods of the BNP, the *are* a legal, registered political party. The news that I'm hearing that certain companies and even government departments are thinking of making membership in this legal political party a firing offence is, to say the least, scary.

It's scary in its implications on a supposedly free society. Of course, the UK has been heading toward a police state for quite some years now, but it's always worrying when so many citizens are happy to jump on such an anti-freedom bandwagon. It's a very slippery slope from there to a truly fascist society.

Now, if they strengthened the anti-hate laws, and the BNP fell foul of them, I'd be first to cheer. But right now the BNP is a legal, registered party, albeit to the far right of the political spectrum. Let's not act like savages and give them an even stronger platform to stand on.

PC virus forces three London hospitals into computer shutdown

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Secure?

Hospitals and other such institutions should be forced to use systems that can be secured properly. Last I checked, Microsoft systems don't really do well in that department. They're OK for trivial tasks, but to run a hospital with them strikes me as irresponsible.

Lord Ahmed faces dangerous driving charge

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Much ado

Nowhere does it say that the person who owns the phone must be the one who sends a text message. Given the other occupants in the car, that's some pretty tenuous evidence to hang a case on. Not to mention the message was sent 3 minutes before the accident.

He was probably much more distracted by having his wife AND his mother in the car with him at the same time, both of whom probably insisted that he look at them when he talk, or something.

That said, if he hit something on the M1, with its huge clear lines of sight, then he's a right incompetent driver and should be locked away for the safety of others. Of course, if the UK did that, the prisons would be full and roads mostly empty.

Cybercrooks launch DDoS assault on anti-fraud site

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@pete

Don't be bashful, tell us what you really think of Fasthosts.

I hope Bobbear gets some help getting back online. More likely Fasthosts will ditch him as being a "troublemaker".

'Meh' makes Collins English Dictionary

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dictionaries...

...are descriptive, not prescriptive. So long as they document where they got the usage from, and date its first known use, then they're doing what they were meant to do.

If you want historical usage, then get a historical usage dictionary. Dictionaries of contemporary language need to keep up with what is actually contemporary. "meh" seems to fit that definition.

Gartner: open source software 'pervasive'

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Gartner

As someone else pointed out, Gartner backwards is "rent rag". You'll note in their original article that they made all sorts of wild warnings about all the liability that companies have if they use open source. It was straight out the Microsoft playbook, and I'd love to know who paid Gartner for that piece of "research".

French record labels sue, um, SourceForge

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Boggle

That and the recent UK laws against your standard sysadmin toolkit makes me wonder how many IT folks are going to be jailed in the next 5 years or so. Seems that now any form of communication software is illegal to own, distribute or make available? Maybe they should just round up anyone with a computing device and slap them in jail as a preventative measure? After all, that horrible TCP/IP could potentially be used to share music.

Bunch of wucking fankers. the lot of them.

Geek Wheels touted as the ultimate tech scooter

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not enough.

No pulse jet, no deal. Oh, and what self-respecting geek bike doesn't have a game console or other such toy to pass the time at the lights? I mean, really, what are they thinking?

Safari 3.2 update leaves Mac fanboys' balls in a spin

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Macs are mostly great

But some of the Apple software really sucks. Wouldn't touch Safari with a barge pole myself, prefer Firefox by a long shot. Safari is.... somewhere near the bottom of my preferences in terms of browsers.

Pity that their marketing and internal processes are getting to be just as nasty and unethical as Microsoft's. I liked them better when they were a real underdog.

One-eyed woman wants techno-vision

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New job?

Are we to assume that once she gets the tech goodies she's planning to apply for a job with her local spy organization?

Microsoft nobbled ‘Vista-Capable’ for Intel

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fraud

Advertising: Vista is all this stuff especially Aero. Aero is what Vista is all about! Buy us now!

Reality: Systems certified by *Microsoft* as "vista capable" didn't run what they were advertising.

Hence the lawsuit.

It's nice to see that Microsoft hasn't changed in all these years. They're still out screwing major partners, as they did back in the IBM OS/2 days. Hell, they've even managed to trash ISO's reputation recently. What's amazing is that these stupid masochists keep coming back for more abuse from the poster child for unethical, backstabbing corporate behaviour.

As I read somewhere: "Play with Microsoft, get burnt."

Endeavour launch heralds new dawn for piss-drinking

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Makes sense

It's $25,000 for the unit, and $249,975,000 for the 3 year on-site service contract.

Warrington first to get Virgin Media 50Mb/s

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@Alasdair, @Steven, @others.

Ah, so they throttle when everyone with a job comes home and wants to use it. How... useful.

@Steven "3Gb is enough for anyone except pirates". Can I make you eat your cable modem AND your computer when you're proven to be wrong, as you will be? I'll even let you salt it first. It might be enough for you, it certainly isn't enough for others who actually USE their network connections (for perfectly legal purposes actually). You and your buddies should go back to modems, they're cheaper.

I see the UK is still labouring under the pretence that "unlimited" implies a limit of some kind. How quaint. It's obvious that their various ISPs are overselling the services and underfunding their infrastructure. I wonder when that particular house of cards is going to come tumbling down, and if the toadies in government are ever going to pull their thumbs out and start enforcing fraud laws?

Judge: No cryptographic hash analysis without warrant

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Almost...

As others, I thought the ruling quite sane.. until I got to that last quote and realized that the judge just didn't quite understand what the hell she was on about.

The rest of the ruling makes sense, but that last line could put the judgement in line for being overturned. Which is unfortunate.

Reg readers in Firefox 3 lovefest

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Tell them to bugger off

As soon as IE traffic drops below 25%, I'm guessing you can just put up a page saying "sorry, your browser is shite, get a better one" to any IE user. Just like so many websites did for so many years with regards to using Microsoft IE, where I got really tired of seeing the equivalent of "fuck off you non-Microsoft using pirate, we can't be bothered to create standards compliant websites and we're only coding for IE".

Turnabout would be SO sweet.

BOFH: The paperless cafeteria

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Nice

Now THAT'S funny.

IBM employee poaching suit hypes Apple

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Slaves vs Competition?

Has it occurred to anyone that the guy might have been completely pigeon-holed at IBM and, after a multitude of requests to be assigned to something he hadn't already done 50,000 times, got sick and tired of the fucking bureaucracy and decided to LEAVE?

Apple wants this, IBM wants that, what about the poor sucker in the middle who just wants an interesting job that evidently IBM was unwilling to provide? Nobody thinks about that guy in all this!

All large companies want is slaves, not valued contributors. Doesn't matter how good you get, it seems, they still just want slaves.

Iowa: How the vote was won

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The real fraud

The real fraud is allowing local governments to "purge" voter records in order to benefit one party or another. Notice how it's never the probable Republican voters who get purged, but invariably the probable Democrat voters.

I hope this next administration fixes the gaping fraud loopholes in the American system, because right now that system is the laughingstock of most people I've talked to. A system that allows the election of partisan voter oversight? A system that allows partisan control over voter registration? A system with county-by-county rules and enforcement that differ on who gets to vote for national elections? That's just insane.

Inmate hacked prison network, broke into employee database

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@me (relevant....)

I'm an utter prat. Even having read the article 3 times I didn't notice that Dan HAD in fact mentioned which OS they used.

Sigh.

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relevant?

It would be relevant in a technology publication for the author to mention what operating system they are using, instead of just rewording existing news articles and claiming it as your own.

AT&T cops to Jesus Phone-as-modem app

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Unhappy

@Stop it

Haven't you noticed that the Reg writers like to flog a meme to death, then call a taxidermist to mount it so they can keep flogging it? Jesus phone, freetard and others were amusing at first, but are just fucking annoying now. It's as if some of the writers only get a new idea to flog so rarely they feel they have to re-use the limited pool they do have.

Luckily they have managed to score a few good writers out there, so we can quickly skip over the annoying bits. I just wish they put the blogger^H^H^H^H^H^H sorry, journalists name beside the item title as sort of a contents warning.

Barack Obama will be president

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meanwhile...

and unreported in the mainstream news, several states including California are passing anti-gay-marriage laws that outlaw the whole practice. People in California who married (ie: George Takai, amongst others) might see their marriages retroactively made illegal.

Welcome to the most hypocritical theocracy on the planet.

McCain pulls ahead in pharmaceutical spam

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Coat

not good

I guess the spammers really know their target market: the gullible, the foolish and those too arrogant to ask for help when they're in trouble. a.k.a. Republicans.

Mines the one with the plain paper ballots in the pocket, ta.

Jezza Clarkson cops flak for 'truckers murder strumpets' gag

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popularity?

Maybe the low number of complaints denotes the relative popularity of the show?

E-voting glitches hamper elections in seven states

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told ya

I've been saying for a while that the Republicans are masters of dirty tricks, and this stinks of their handiwork. It won't be over until the last vote is lost, that's for sure, and it's going to be a hell of lot closer than the polls have claimed with thousands of votes "lost", "miscounted" or simply "invalidated".

THIS is the "democracy" they're exporting by force of arms?

Donkeys refuse fodder as US election tension rises

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Early?

Early Friday for Lester then? Good to see the local pub getting a workout during the week. Publicans get lonely too.

Berlin bans handy iPhone metro app

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@Gareth

ROFLMAO. Nice one.

As for the rest, I'll guess it's because public transport all over are being run by hypocrites who don't use their own services. If people start actually using all that scheduling information, they might start to notice that the schedules were written by sadists or incompetents, sometimes both. Doesn't help that every single transportation authority I've bothered to check out has big ties to... car dealerships, usually through relatives. This of course gives even more incentive to make sure the public isn't being served right.

OpenBSD 4.4 released

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opportunity

Just installed it for testing. Good stuff, but still a pain in the ass to install. Definitely an opportunity waiting for someone there.

Facebook rattling tin in Dubai?

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advertising?

Don't know about advertising revenue, but last time I was there I got the same advert 40 times, even after having marked it as "uninteresting", "misleading" and "other->fucking infuriating". If that's their revenue stream they're going to need some seriously deep pockets.

And all for WHAT exactly? If a business can't make money, why on earth is it still here?

French Senate passes bill to disconnect filesharers

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Napoleonic

Unless the article is poorly written, it would seem that the person needs to merely be accused, not actually found guilty of anything.

Seems very retro really. But this is fater all the neo-con government of Sarkozy, who owes a lot of favours to a lot of very rich people - people who probably own the RIAA member companies. Given that viewpoint, and thus following the money, the law makes sense to someone who is indoctrinated in RIAA style thinking.

Top aero boffin: Green planes will be noisy planes

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Noise

As I see it, noise is just as much a pollutant as smog. Smog hangs around and destroys lungs and wildlife. Noise goes away faster, yes, but still provably causes mental damage, as well as destroying wildlife. Any solution needs to consider all pollutants, including noise. If this means using fast, underground bullet trains then so be it. The startup costs would be huge, but the overall benefits might be worth it. Pity that our society does not reward forward thinking, only short term compromise.

Relocated Oz croc menaces tourist beaches

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drawcard?

More like tourists are a drawcard for crocs. Yum, crispy on the outside, squishy bits, then crunchy. What's not to love?

BT pays compensation to MoD for faking performance figures

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targets

Targets are created by management who know nothing about the process involved, know nothing about the reality of system, and know nothing about how the real world works. They create these artificial targets and reward people based on these targets. Then they don't provide enough resources for people to achieve these targets no matter what they do.

It's a pity they didn't "release" the idiot senior managers who made the target decisions in the first place. I'm betting they "released" the people on the front lines who got stuck with a "improve your call times or be fired", then weren't given the tools necessary to do that ethically.

Microsoft wants open-source recruits for new model army

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Embrace. Extend. Extinguish

Microsoft hasn't changed those tactics in over 20 years. Sad part is, they keep finding deliberately ignorant idiots who refuse to learn from the past, and keep thinking that "this time" Microsoft has changed. Fools.

Deleted cloud in second fall from sky

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this is why...

... I want my data and apps close to me. Backups far away, live stuff close. The reasoning is simple. We all know to keep our friends close, and our enemies closer. Computers, software and data are my enemy.

Still, companies going bankrupt because they lose access to their data and apps will just weed out the weak and the stupid. So perhaps I should thank the "cloud" merchants for that at least.

Microsoft unveils 'lightweight' Office for Web

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back to the... past?

Way-back-when, we had these mainframes to which we connected terminals. If the connection went out, or the mainframe went down, no work was done.

Now we have this thing being billed as the "cloud", which is nothing more than centrally based processing using your terminal as, effectively, an almost dumb client. And again, if the connection goes down or the servers (ie: mainframe) goes down, the entire organization depending on these tools is out of luck.

Keeping the tools you need local makes sense. What Microsoft and others are selling is nothing more than perpetual lock-in. Especially if you store you data on their mainframe, in which case it really is a "pay or die" system.

Student charged after alerting principal to server hack

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even without info

Even without any more information, it sounds like your utterly stereotypical kneejerk arse-covering by an incompetent management that was caught not only with its pants down around its ankles, but buggering the local goat.

Willing to be proven wrong though, but I've seen too much of this type of bullshit.

Man threatens lawsuit after negative eBay feedback

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wow

To think that a case like this would actually go to court, rather than be summarily thrown out as it so richly deserves to be. I hope that the punter not only gets his costs, but also counter-sues for malicious prosecution.

NASA's greatest clanger

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more beer

I can only assume that Mr. Orlowski writes articles that don't include his favourite word "freetard" only when he is well lubricated?

Given that I otherwise enjoy Mr. Orlowski's writing, and so long as you promise to never, ever again show a picture of his face, I vote that Mr. Orlowski be given a raise to be paid in his favourite tipple (yes, even if he does prefer a shandy) at his local pub, available throughout the week and not just Fridays. Then maybe he'll start writing readable articles again.

Steve Jobs 'heart attack' citizen hack wasn't a short seller

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was Harry?

yes, but was Harry or any of his cronies short-selling?

Woman cuffed for deleting virtual husband

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hmm.

If convicted (and in Japan convictions rates are very high thanks in no small part to the use of various forms of torture to extract confessions, which are then considered to be irrefutable evidence) are they going to put her in a virtual prison, with virtual counselling? Inquiring minds need to know.

Skiving Aussie fingered on Facebook

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sick?

Actually, he WAS sick, it was just self-induced. Does his contract specifically exclude self-induced sickness? I doubt it. Last contract I checked certainly didn't think to exclude it.

Oxford Dictionary says: sick: adjective 1 affected by physical or mental illness. 2 feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit. ...

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