Posts by Gordon Pryra

Can we add sounds to the database?

I have got the call of some bird from Newcastle on my voice-mail, its a perfect example of its kind.

Not going to comment on this one

To much chance of being shot by one side or the other

I got a bit of a scare reading part of that

"for copyright owners who use the tools responsibly."

WTF? Since when has ANYONE in the history of the internet used any tools responsibly?

The next line showed me that Google are actually on the same planet as the rest of us

"Google will improve its tools for those would wish to challenge a DMCA takedown with a counter notice"

Who cares if Google are evil? At least they treat the rest of the world as equal (equally menial maybe, but still equal)

BTW Gimmi an "I earnt £934554 from the internet while I was asleep" icon

kids......

@JaitcH

"had anyone used ice picks, marbles or chile powder (horses do breath), on the horses I would have not been upset."

Which is why normal people don't complain about "plod" slapping you down.

Give yourself 10 years to lead a real life and then reread that amazing load of tripe and tell me you don't shudder.

No offensive to our iron gecko overloads

But that footage of the ferrous lizard is about as good as the film you see of Nessie.

After all that time and sitting through 3 loads of lizard falling off the ceiling, they couldn't set a decent camera angle?

If she received only $166,141 in salary

Over 3 years that's only $50k a year so she hardly seems to be a big player in this, how come no mention of the people actually making the money out of it? or was she just the one who took the blame with the promise of a nice pay-off after leaving jail if she keeps her mouth shut?

Skynet?

I'm disappointed by the lack any mention of Skynet in this article :(

Friends?

People never mention the fact that you actually need friends to be a part of any social group.

How many people on your facebook friends list are actually friends? And why would you trust their recommendations?

How long will anyone trust a search that is in some way affected by a loose confederation of anonymous internet social network profiles?

I brought twitter followers and face book friends to help game the systems and get increased presence for some blog articles. kind of preparing the way for what may happen in 5 years or so time. Social network systems are far easier to game than Google's algo and therefore not that useful.

Ehh?

Surely the line "On the other hand, a medieval Facebook might have made the crusades a whole lot less bloody?" is totally incorrect?

The whole point to this story is that the weird religious types used facebook as a tool to force their oppressive views onto others.

Wasn't that the entire point of the crusades?

I reckon if we had a medieval Facebook we would have had the same affect as some of the "face book party's" you see nowadays.

Unfortunate Arab parents coming home to find their hose trashed by the Christians turning up with a free open house invitation garnered from a foolish child's facebook page.

Is it true

That Apple HQ is actually constructed of bricked Macs and iPhones created during "updates"?

Ask have been involved in some desperate stuff

I've been seeing forum backlink spam coming in from Ask on some blogs I administer.

Poor show from these lads and I had a soft spot for both them and Excite from the "old days"

Lots of hot air.

Many people complaining about privacy laws and crying about going to court.

But when it comes down to it, nothing will happen. Look at Phorm for example, not only were BT let off by the British Police because "They didn't realise it was a crime" but the English Government refused to comment about it to good old Viviane Reding.

When these company's are doing the dirty work Governments want, then they will be above the law.

To be honest

If the UK had companies with a million people employed in manual labour supplying goods to the West, then you would see security walking round with truncheon's.

We ALREADY forget all about human rights when it suits us, or when the Americans tell us too. We would act no differently to the Chinese (our uniforms would probably be better though)

The landlords claimed that they weren't aware

ummmmm

and they normally pay through paypal do they?

Is anyone actually bothered by the problem itself?

If the climate sceptics are being "silenced" by the "its getting hotter!" camp, then why is no one doing anything about the actual issues?

Having a group of sceptics who have financial interests in their NOT being any impact from human actions is about as useful to the nay-sayers as a bunch of evangelical idiots is to the "its getting hotter!" camp.

It seems both sides just want their cash to buy their nice cars and pay the mortgage sod the actual problem.

Anyway, there is no problem, China will get hotter and we will just buy our stuff from them and their brutalised workforce!!!

Hypocrites

The Western world relies on China et al treating its workers like this so we can get our cheap new mobile phones every 12 months.

We also push all our resource wasting and pollution creating industry's over there so we can stand back and let them take the blame for it.

Company's like Apple don't give company's like Foxconn contracts worth billions without knowing exactly what's going on. I use Apple, but it could be any company that has anything to do with silicon.

People can't complain or even comment when they conveniently don't give a monkeys as long as they get a new shiny toy every few months.

Would these DOS attacks

improve their Alexia rating?

Guess not, but the MoS are taking the mickey a little bit. They could argue that anyone ripping any single song from their catalogue is guilty of taking the entire thing, considering they are all the same tunes with different names

Yawn

"criminal gangs are using cyber communication to plan their crimes and launder the proceeds"

Skype?

www.genericbankonine.com?

Anyway, us Brits are too dam lazy and stupid to do it.

Lets give it a go!!

goo.gl/Chy6

Fun, what surprised me was the fact I've been using this service for weeks now. And I've got a list of all the shortened URLs to prove it.

Is this service being used by other services and repackaged? Some twitter apps maybe?

Apples and Oranges

The average Google site takes you 3 seconds to view (do I have a new mail? no? then close the browser)

or 5 seconds to type in the keyphrase and then click off to the chosen search item the user goes, Google app now closed..

If users spent as long on Google products as they do on Facebook (for example) then the Google product would be broken.

As an aside, I doubt Google are to worried about Facebook. No one clicks on Facebook ads and the demographic viewing them don't have credit cards to play with so the revenues from them are low to none.

Just look at what is actually advertised on Facebook, its all the same stuff you used to see spammed at you in e-mails until the filers got decent.

Whats the problem?

If you don't like Google, then go use Bing

Otherwise, stfu

Still a fluke though

I mean, how many boffin play football?

They know nothing!!

What do you expect from Siemens?

Almost 100,000 men and women from Auschwitz worked in a Siemens factory inside the camp.

They are still allowed to function as a company to this day. Money talks and always has done.

This legal case has a snowballs chance especially when you see the amount of people still doing business with Iran, China and any other questionable regime (with cash).

Thanks a lot El Reg

I read this article and immediately tested this out by beating the crap out of the little old lady who makes the tea in the canteen here.

Imagine my surprise when I was then unable to beat into submission the 5 coppers who arrived.

Not one to give up, I am even now whispering evil words into the ears of my cellmates hoping to build up the strength to punch my way through the walls of Wormwood Scrubs….

very good, but

Theres a reason why it wont be cats that destroy the human race.

Cats are stupid

Super Computers are Evil Geniuses

Why copy how the cat brain works?

He should spend his grant looking at how the Evil Super Computer's brains work

Heres what you webmasters should ALLWAYS have strived for

"On average, pages in your site take 0.4 seconds to load (updated on Apr 10, 2010). This is faster than 99% of sites."

This is a site that is almost 100% high rez images.

Good webdesign should be aimed at users ability to actually ... use it.

Flash sites allways look shit anyway, if you had to have a lnk that said "bypass this" then why do you think your visiters wanted to see it in the first place?

Risk Taking? IBM?

Is the author talking about the same IBM I know?

Remember the old phrase "Noone ever got fired for buying big blue"?

The whole point about IBM was that they were boring and dependable.

Cracking Keys?

Is that the best people can come up with?

If it can crack current encryption, then just use it to create a new key that its peers can't crack

Whats more scary is the fact that if this thing is being tested with systems its designed to learn from, then it Skynet time.

Add to this, the fact that its plugged into the heart of Google and all they control....

When Google start ordering heavy construction gear, its already too late to head to the hills.