Posts by Gordon Pryra

although Bush has claimed he used email before becoming president

he also claimed he ran a successfull oil company for his daddy, and that he could write with joined up letters and everything..........

Burn them all to death

by self regualate, they mean "Find new ways to do the same thing, makeing it sound better"

All we need is a ground war in Asia to cull our populations to below the level that our society produces parasites like these.

They even prey on each other, how many organsisations all doing the same thing?

Na, hand to hand combat with physical weapons in some 3rd world country will do the trick

The Human Race needs to clean up its act and either kill them all or find a way to target their excess population to our advantage.

Maybe sacrifise them all to all the Gods we can think of? One of them may be real.

Did he say that with a straight face?

You can see why McKinnon wants to be tried in this country, I bet the American systems are the same, they would just never admit it

@Dapprman and John Scott and Fraser

Yeah the Kit you see in the offices, most of the servers etc are new and spanky.

But the databases and the systems in use on them are the same ones that have been there for 15-20 years. Just upgraded and modified along the way.

Try any form of data migration and scratch the surface and find the rotten core of bolt on quick fixes, single points of failiure and the old fav of mine. Yeah the guy that knows that system is retiring in 3 weeks.

I liked Indy 4

but thats just me

The firm seeks an undisclosed amount of damages.

Well seeing as how they lost nothing, having never had any intention of producing anything with their "IP", they can go fuck themselves.

If you ever wanted to see why the people hold the legal system in such comtempt, then this would be a good example.

What AC said

Who gives a shit? Its not like anyone can use them. Any rag stupid enough to print them would be riped apart in court.

Cheap shot at fundng the mothballing of their fleet

What a great way to get somone else to pay for the upkeep of their rusty metal birds. And when they need them again, they just take them back.

Allways check your licenses

I did, then looked at what we had actually brought, then had a polite word with the salesman about the over licensing we had due to his "version" of what the licenses meant. £175k reclaimed thank you very much.

And thats my overtime and expense claims signed off with no checking for the rest of the year!!!

Good investment in our countrys IT industry tbh

If we pay the banks tax money to fuck up, and then let the bastards continue to forclose on people and STILL get fuck off massive bonuses, why cant we thrown some small change at the IT industry?

See this as an investment, proping up one of our only real industrys left

But like most important techys

He was an ugly fucker with hairy palms :(

Since when did the music and entertainment industry

Ever do anything for the British People that gave them the right to force laws on us?

if they werent the parasitic bottom feeders they are, then maybe we should police the people copying files. Using such things as finding out who actually did it, rather then the best guess they currently use.

But to be honest, these guys do nothign apart from increase the cost of goods due to their adding advertising costs to them. They clog up the day to day running of the internet and email systems with spamm and dubious low level packet inspection.

For what? The same old shit rehashed and rebranded? Crap non-entitys plasterd on our screens and all over the papers?

We need a ground war in asia to weed out the surpless people, then we can move on from this crap over their dead rotting bodies.

A private organisation should not be able to dictate the law to the British People, they should not be able to remove the burden of proof from any case against anyone.

Any ISP giving someone name and address to one of the companies profiteering from these cases should loose their license as an ISP, and go to jail, and get a good honest kicking

do what everyone else in the world does

Be in work 15 minutes before your supposed to be.

Walking in at 9am when you start at 9am is lame anyway.

And what it he talking about lost time at the end of the day? Does he sit and watch the PC to make sure its logs out?

If the company knew that part of the time they were paying him for was to "watch the computer shut down" then the would get rid of him fast.

Press shut down, go home. Thats not hard.

Anyway VISTA logs in faster than XP on my machine, its still shit, but thats a different story.

whatever

The system was played with by someone who then gave it to the police saying "look what i've found on here"

The person giving it to the police was also the guy who was pissed off at the original owner for not paying his rent.

I wonder how this "Evidence" would stand up to any decent lawer? Legally obtained evidence or not, its still been tampered by a non-neutral party with a grudge to grind.

The police would do well to search HIS systems, 10 quid says hes hashed things up (hahaha)

and left soem of those files on his own computer when he copied them over

Its all a bit wierd for me

Im not sure I like the idea of cycling along with fucking great big blue lazer beams comming out the side of my head like that.

In other news

The average person is too slow and stupid to react to anything they would see through those lenses.

Our gene pool no longers allows this sort of inovation to work with the plebs, maybe some of the more affluent people out there may be able to make use of them but the top and bottom ends of our society are so inbreed that I don't think there would be a market for these

What can we say - but corruption

I wonder how much money that cost? And who got it?

Im not sure on the difference

Between the actions of the scammers and those of the lawyers

Not the best way to do things

I think that the "2nd laptop" should just go in the form of cash to the leaders of the western world.

In return they can stop selling arms and funding dictators in the developing world.

that way the developing world can actually progress and these kids can live in a world where they will need computer skills

@amanfrommars

That is about the worst she could have said.

If she came straight out and said "Your changing this law so that you can spy on people easier" she would be out of work tomorrow.

By drawing attention to it, she allows the media to do with it as they will. In the case of El Reg, work out what she meant, in the case of "The Sun" (UK newspaper) A pair of tits on page 3.

I think Reding is doing a dammed good job so far, and is actually taking on real issues.

The average MP wont do aything if there is any risk to it at all. Reding seems to be doing the opposite.

Screw the UK and their scum feeding leadership

im European now!!

@petition to uk.gov

Tell you what, why not have a poster campain or an intensive leaflet bombardment!!

Maybe some natty T-Shirts!!

N.B. The guy knew he was playing with fire. The fact that what he was so easy should have made him realise that someone would be so embarresed that there was zero chance of him NOT having the book thrown at him.

@jeremy

its very easy to aim at Chuggers. They give you all the warning you need to get a good right hook in before they get the chance to scamm you.

They make eye contact, then jump into a position 1.5 feet in front you of.

Perfect for that "fist to chin" love tap.

And you can claim you were defending yourself, its only a reflex action to strike out at something jumoing into your personal area like that.

Just don't put the boot in when they are down.....

@Rodrigo Andrade

You hit the nail on the head there

He has led a very sheltered life

"I think political correctness is one of the most ghastly things about our society - it's one of the most repulsive things ever to be invented."

If thats the worse thing we have in our society, then thank god!!

Lies and half truths

"40 athletes downloaded the album in an act of solidarity"

If the atheletes showed any solidarity then they wouldnt be there in the first place.

I've never heard of this albium, so this is just an attempt to get some hype around it so some mugs spend cash on yet anougher "charity" con with "all proceeds" going to charity (apart from admin costs of course)

@AC

I think you forget the fact that the Germans had begun to bomb your ports and couldnt afford to buy the steel you were selling them.

At that point you entered the war, not to save anyone, but to protect your "investment"

Take you cash, inbreed population, dumb fuckwit president and go read a nice safe, yank friendly CNN website instead.

@A J Stiles

How many home users acutally have different profiles for each user?

And if they do, why?

The irony

" "and I believe that united they will be able to make state-sponsored censorship a thing of the past."

Awefull hypocrisy comming from anyonme in the UK or USA

I am astounded at just how easy criminals are able to get access to Chip and PIN machines

Well, the moment you involve a worker on the minimum wage, all your security goes out of the window.

I don't blame the poor sods either.

You work for £10 an hour and see how much you care about the idiots you have to serve :P

Rather than call the MoJ idiots

Look at this in a wider context.

Every department

Every Company

EVERY DATABASE

Is going to be distributed to anyone who really wanted the contents.

With all the issues with actually keeping data safe, I think this actually prooves the average human beings inability to be trusted with the data (or trusted with access to the data)

I would rather go to jail and have my bio readings forceably taken from me, than hand them over to the Government for their fucking ID card

Maybe if people in Europe liked the Americans

We would give a monkeys, but I think the yanks have burnt just about every bridge they had with their amazing forign policy.

I'm guessing Brown would bend over nicely and sign away duty free exports (or imports - depending which side of thep ond you are on), but the French and Germans are a different matter (thank god).

This explains why Micosoft's search is bobins

If they rate the "Watford Hare Krishna Temple" as Sports_&_Recreation or Hunting, this may explain why no one bothers using their search,

And presumably, why no one is going to give them any cash to advertise on thier rubbish system.

Incidently, how much would Google charge for me to have the duck porn keyword? (And rest assured, I will be typing that in when I get home from work O.o)

@AC - about your experiance

"Nope, it's too revolutionary for the average user and support"

this needs fixing

"Nope, it's too slow for any user and support costs go through the roof"

how many times have we heard this trite statement?

"protection of customer data is extremely important to us and we are treating this very seriously"

If you were taking this seriously at all, you owuld offer thsoe affected a one off payment of 10% of their bill as a refund.

A letter to say sorry? that really makes things better........

The private Falcon programme run by Elon Musk could offer alternative astronaut lift;

The space program being put into place by my Grandad could also offer the same lift capabilities as the Falcon programme.

Unfortunatly, my Grandad has the same issues of not actually being able to get anywhere near space as the Falcon program....