Posts by chris

Not just universities

Hotmail / Windows Live Mail are mad keen on blocking mail from small providers with that "a complaint has been made" message. I think it's based on SMTP addresses more than return addresses.

brain drain

Funny how we never hear sustained complaints of "brain drain" when science funding gets further cut, but put income tax back to mid-1980s levels and its all over the papers that our "finest minds" are taking their private jets off to Bermuda.

Thinkings...

So a password "wallet" type program (I'm thinking similar to KDE's KWallet, Windows / LInux issues aside), would that be protected from this type of attack?

After all, you aren't typing in the passwords yourself and I can't see what use the passwords for a locally-held file would be to botnet barons.

I <3 the CBI

"The gender pay gap can be misinterpreted. ... It reflects the fact that fewer women have higher paid jobs"

And why might that be? Clearly they are biologically unsuited to long lunches, trips abroad and conning pension increases out of shareholders.

Exactly what jail's for :/

Wouldn't it be cheaper to soundproof their house?

Economic Darwinism

(a) What kind of moron buys a car sight-unseen over the internet?

(b) Can I have their email address, since I need to transfer many millions of dollars out of the royal bank of england.

AC 17.06

I bet the non-UK nationals can at least spell properly. Cheers for that Alf Garnett.

Godwins Law for rape

"Charging AU$80 for a game and $30 for a CD or DVD is rape. Pure and simple. Rape is worse than theft. When you stop trying to rape me, maybe I'll stop "stealing" from you."

What's the equivalent of Godwins Law for claims of rape?

Most moronic comparison ever. Really, get a grip on yourself. Go and speak to rape survivors. No you better read about it, I don't think you're old enough to be allowed out of the house alone.

Fuckwit.

Building safer communities

@AC 2258 - the cops are supposed to wear numbers on their uniforms. Conveniently for the Terrortorial Support Group (sic., by the way), those numbers can be removed from the shoulders, as happened in this case.

Never ceases to amaze me, the number of excuses that people will make for police brutality, despite the evidence. Is it some kind of fucked-up pro-hierarchy evolutionary psychology? If officers can't cope with the "stress" of masking up and beating people with impunity, then they should seek alternative employment, or not volunteer for the parts of the job that involve that.

But Mr 85 minutes - KETTLING, you fud. He was hanging around for ages because THEY WOULD NOT LET HIM LEAVE THE AREA.

Mr "A tap on the leg wouldn't cause a heart attack" - FOAD

....nope.......

....can't bring myself to do anything but laugh.

oh well

I love scroogle....

It gets worse

Don't forget that this comes just a couple of days after the board awarded itself tasty new bonuses and options.

So, taking poor peoples' money to give to a banker that broke a bank and wiped out workers' pensions, followed by making more people poor (by firing them) in order for those at the top to get richer.

I can haz revolutionz, plz?

Weirdos

Who the hell sits and watches their PC boot up in the morning? You boring bastards. Hit "On", go to the kettle and make the cup of tea that you were going to make. Talk to your colleagues, find out what's going on.

It is possible to work with out a computer being on, you know. You all are just looking for excuses. There's more "loss of productivity" attributable to dancing cats falling down stairs.

@andy

Except the "real rate" of inflation includes the price of unwanted tat (aka "consumer goods") that has seen a dramatic fall in price as the credit crunch bites and a third HDTV starts to seem unappealling at any price.

Meanwhile, important stuff like food, gas, electricity has rocketed in price making for a cost of living increase far above the headline rate of inflation.

I'm not a wise master of the universe type

...so I can't see how this is different from anything else related to the stock market, ever-rising house prices or investments.

"returns of about 3.5 per cent per month with little risk of loss.

Regulators allege that no such magical program actually exists"

And most of us poor fuckers have been duped / pushed / forced into pension arrangements based on that.

Meanwhile in cafes that don't suck

You ask the folk behind the counter, "what's that you're listening to?" strike up a conversation, flirt, smile, interact and leave with a burned CD and/or a phone number.

Do you think I could patent that?

Hang on, this isn't right

I'm confused, this seems to have slipped through without the obligatory dab of "global warming is a scam" crap that defines Register environment stories.

What's the angle then? Welsh people / greens are silly luddites compared with wise metropolitan IT types? The magic market will find a way to deal with all environmental problems?

@Ian Johnston

True. But Teenagers don't go to doctors or family planning clinics. Teenagers go to schools and .off licenses.

They're potentially free in supermarkets, too, but I don't expect the thmbnls folk are enough down with the kids to make videos advocating that ............

Tubes.

Thanks for the reminder to clean out my browser's biscuit tin. Even with Firefox, NoScript & AdBlock there seems to be useless crumbs left lying. Don't want to attract rats.

Would be nice if FF didn't keep resetting prefs to silently allow all that "helpful" crap each time I update it.

Would be even nicer if Google didn't spit a cookie onto all sites that have embedded one of their videos on.

Not just the records that're escaping

"the NHS cabal, they are more interested in putting into place Sharia law, and tithing to the pharmaceutical companies."

Hi. Have Your Say is over that way, behind the door marked "Psychiatric Outpatients".

thumbsup

Nice interview, thanks. Can't afford the book though, so I'll wait till it turns up on the pirate bay....

Like the wobblies say

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.

21st century class struggle FTW.

Not for me

Far be it from me to be negative but....

...paying the world's poorest in "virtual mobile" money doesn't sound like a winning proposition

And: "For those in the emerging markets it’s the difference between eating and not eating tomorrow." to be able to pay by a mobile phone. How are they paying the leccy bill to charge the damned thing?

This stinks of groundless technofix to a social problem and mobile companies trying to get a foothold in a market. Last thing folk need is another intermediary between them and their livelihoods.

ahhhh

I love watching geeks defend themselves against perceived slights.

Remember the despicable behaviour of Nottingham University

""Approved Reading List" next, followed by an "Authorised Reading List","

That's no safeguard, considering the case of the guy in Nottingham who had the police after him for downloading a text that was on his course reading list. And then they try to deport him to cover this up.

Unbelievable(*) they're trying to turn that monumental fuck-up into a general case.

(*) - or maybe not

Thought crime

"Isn't it strange that something should be legal if you do it in your head but criminal if you do it with a mechanical aid? Are there any other laws like that?"

100s.

Rape, murder, burglary....

At least until Tom Cruise shows up.

Nominative determinism

The most appropriately-named service ever as it allows folk to witter on endlessly about nowt of interest until those around learn to tune it out

Police everywhere, justice nowhere....

" Post their details on the BBC homepage, the Sky News ticker and the Countryside Alliance forum. See how they like it"

Isn't that what the tabloid press is for? Can't let the proles get out of line and question the judgement of their betters, can we?

Child molesters get lighter sentences than the SHAC folk got for running a website but apparently that's all OK.

fwiw

Article good, most comments bad.

FIT like?

How long before the "balaclava" provision is used to aid spying on a political demonstration?

Oooh, about a week after the legislation goes through.

Less than a week before photographing a cop becomes illegal:

fitwatch.blogspot.com

Meh

Sounds like a belated casualty of The War on Terror to me....

@John Savard

"that could make something like this worse, causing untold harm to billions of people worldwide,"

Dude, he was going to zero the mortgages. Think of it as a bailout from the bottom up.

Certainly wouldn't have made things worse, since they already have no idea how much debt the banks are liable for. What's the nth derivative of zero?

curious

How much did MS donate to the Obama campaign? I presume they tossed cash at McCain as well, but I'd still be interested to know.

Not that I'm bothered, because everyone that uses Linux is a communist anyway...

good.

good news. getting rid of Schengen would be worth twice that price.

In other news

...Gary Glitter to open a nursery school.