Posts by Gordon Pryra

@Eddie Johnson - may as well send it all in clear text

There is zero point to encrypting your data. Your keys are happily going through the same DPI boxs anyway. (for SSL anyway, and for most, thats their online banking etc)

Serves them right for joining the Eu

nuff said

Dells Power Edge support team rock

Someone mentioned the Dublin server support team earlier, I've had many many dealings with these guys (usually due to my own cak-handed incompantence when called out at 3am)

I've nothing but praise for them, they even call back when they say they will and DO seem to give a shit.

I've not tried Dell home support, but having started IT on a helpdesk for Mesh Computers, I can understand thos guys getting sloppy, especially when the average person phoning up finds it hard to swap channels on the TV

simply confuse less web-savvy users

By that you mean people who don't read the dialogue boxs?

Its about time that people actually looked after themselves and read what is on the screen.

Just clicking "yes" should have the punishment of a public flogging

No one ever mentions the OTHER source of energy

When the wind is calm, then harness the other renewable source of energy

Humans!!

Remember "Conan the Barbarian"?

With the "God given right to breed" + the "I can't get a job" mentality

We can kill 2 birds with one stone.

Clear up the chavs and inbreed morons, creating a constant source of energy at the same time

Actually 3 birds, we may actually reduce the amount of half wits being born as the new “Turbine Operatives” will be too knackered to mate.

The current cookie opt-out is a standard practice for the online advertising industry

Because the "online advertising industry" is above the law and can do what the fuck it wants

Check out the total lack of action by the corrupt British politicians/watch-dogs in the Phorm scandle

I can't wait for one of these cases to actually come to court

Especially as the main offenders would be kids under the age of 16

They would obviously have to be very young, no one with any sense would have botherd downloading that POS

"he steered clear of "mechanical and technical things"

Which is why he has "invented" something that a million other people have also "invented"

Any why his stuff is so shite.

he should have stuck to the specky

They keep calling it a service!!

I wish they didn’t think the whole world was so fucking stupid.

It makes me angrier to be patronised by the scum suckers than have them actually sell my personal information to thieths and conmen

@William

I have brought and used Vista, I have uninstalled and re[placed with XP

The main reasons

1) Its slower

2) Its slower

3) Its a lot slower

Thats about it actually, compaired with the older product (and doing the same thing) its noticably slower in every respect.

And not offense, my machine pisses on Crysis, so its not the hardware

@JonB

Asterix WAS real.

He had potions and a fat mate

The French couldnt make that level of complexity up!

Thats not even a bloody Tiger!!

How can a picture of an Elephant ever be mistaken for the Panthera tigris amoyensis?

Poor Jamie

I hate it when im the guy in his place, but its better him there than me!!

To be honest, the difference between disk and disc doesent matter any more.

Words change meaning in IT daily, dependant on which idiot in marketing decides they are too techy for the plebs

look at DVD

the bastards changed that to "Digital Versatile disc" from its original meaning (10 quid if you can google that)

Just use less

But thats a bit hard when the average human bieng believes

1) In a god who made this world and all its resources for humans to use at will

2) Someone else will fix the problem

3) in nothing but himself, who gives a shite what happens 10, 20 or 30 years down the line.

4) That companies need to expand, and that, for the share holders, they are allowed to do what the hell the want

5) The politicians (ignoring the fact that they are just making cash for their own little enterprises)

No benefits to Vista?

hey I brought it!!

I went back to XP mind, but the Vista CD case is bigger and better than the XP one!!

Burn Frank Furedi!

He is obviously a paedo!!

@Mike Brown

Well done, a comment worth reading for once

@Solomon Grundy

"calculated the 3 gazillionth number of Pi"

Pi is Pi

nothing more nothing less

Macs are shite, and deserver to be trojaned to death, but theres no escaping that Pi is 3.14159

The ISP's still peddle this shit

"structure an advertising service that enhances the internet experience for our customers"

Someone, and theres a cash prize, tell me how targeting adverts at me in anyway improves my internet experiance.

Yes web pages need to pay for themselves, mostly with adverts. But thats not targeted (any more than them putting adds on their pages that the average visitor to the page would look at)

But I already pay the ISP for my connection. Why should the ISP get paid twice for my connection?

If it was actually free, then they could do what the hell they wanted (and i would still pay to have a safe ISP)

@AC

"We had a number of machine which were incorrectly syspreped"

I'm guessing that your not exactly experianced in the IT world then...

Buy 10 manchines from each of the top 10 manufactures and tell me the % that actually turned up on time were

a) What you ordered

b) Turned on and worked out of the box

great idea

Anything that improves the value of my house, at the expense of all those who never went to school is a GOOD thing.

I don't see what the problem is. Until such time as we can surgically "fix" the poor and stupid, then stuffing them in reservations is a good short term fix.

We can also ensure that NHS cash is given to the people that actually pay for it!!!

And what sort of hypocrisy is the ICO spouting?

They all need hard jail time and a public beating

Go Borris, get your jack-boots on and stomp their lying corrupt faces into the mud!!!

The police do spout some shit

"The Met works very closely with a number of countries, including Iraq, to recover items that are considered culturally significant."

I notice they seem to have ignored 90% of the contents of the "British Museum"

Good luck

Good luck getting anyone to buy a shitty DAB radio and then the poor sods actually getting decent reception.

Screw the lags

Why the hell should they get any perks?

They.Are.In.Fucking.Jail.For.A.Fucking.Reason

Burn them

They better hope its ice

Just in case, I for one, welcome our new Rock Men overlords!

Better to just kill them all!!

Thats 700 more contractors comming onto the market!!!

Dammit!!

Her side of the story?

She’s a pampered, abusive idiot.

how can "her side of the story" change her actions on the day?

Who does she think she is? And what grounds does she have for thinking she is better than anyone else? She wore cloths on a catwalk?

She had preferential treatment in the first place with the captain coming to talk to her.

It’s a pity she won't face the same consequences to her actions as a normal British person, jail.

Whats new?

Every government has been doing this since it was possible to listen in to a communication of any kind

Why are you all up in arms now?

The current government in power was voted in by you lot anyway, so its your own fault.

Then again you could argue that it makes no difference who is in number 10, the administration is still the same.

Thats your own fault too.

Why do people accept this sort of stuff? All we get is lots of moaning and noone actually doing anything about it.

90% of the population don't care and even if they did, they would only care because you told them to. We have ruined our DNA and turned the world/county into a holding area for sheep and morons

With a name like that

The poor sod is probably looking at an orange jump suit for the rest of his life, most likely via the UK and then some tin-pot 3rd world country where the Americans can torture him to their hearts content.

I swallow for a fiver

So for a free little box O trix(tm), I would do far more than lie on some forums O.o

Bad enough to loose a laptop

But to loose a desktop?

And these fuckwits want us to believe they can be trusted with ANYTHING?

No single government is this bolloxs, so it HAS to be on purpose

Burn them!

Burn them all before they sell your children to whoever they are REALLY working for.

dammed right

There is no need for companies to make the profits they do, let alone rape those who can't go elsewhere.

This is the same greedy attitude that is destroying our world, and I think the only thing that will stop the massive company’s and cash lenders is to actually start killing some of them to prove the point.

The point being, "raping the environment and your fellow man will not be tolerated"

Why the hell does a company like Microsoft need to charge those prices?

They could charge 5% of the price and still make massive profits

Kill the leaders!!

The same goes for the financial industry!!

The industry can learn a lot...

About a nice layout and ease of use from these boys

@Nano nano

Because returning the bios to default isn’t something a 5 year old can do?

The reason that these people are making such awful fuckups is because they believe they are important.

From my experience, dealing with banks, institutions, local authorities and government bodies. The higher up the person is in the organisation, the more they resent having to do anything "manual".

1 Like learning how to use the features of their machine.

2 Following the same rules as the rank and file.

3 Being held accountable for their mistakes

Who the fukcing hell leaves their laptop at work if there is any data on it that is sensitive?

They wouldn’t leave their credit cards on the table when they went home because this would affect them personally.

The ONLY fix is to make the bastards serve jail time.

This isn’t a joke, they need to understand that they ARE accountable, and if you set yourself up above the normal plebeians, pass laws to controls those plebs and then blatantly let them down, then 20 years in Pentonville should sort them out.

They will never make that stick

But they don't need to, surely her actions had the objective on giving distress to someone .

There must be a plethorer of "hate" laws etc they can call on, rather than thinking "OH NOES ITS DA INTERWEB!"!! MAKE NEW LAWS TO COVER OLD CRIMES"

But then they are yanks, and therefore dumb

Luckily the religious dickheads don't believe in science

Else there would probably be a directive for the papal "Surgen General" to hit the streets bringing God's "knife" to people.

Actually, how would the church explain their current doctrine that gays are abnormal/abhorrent when they are performing EXACTLY as the churches fairy story leader designed them to?

The headline is funny as fuck btw

These figures are rubbish

Remove the PS3 and your left with very few

I remembered testing the first batch of DVD's for inclusion on machines for Mesh Computers back in the day, and all we had to test them against was a copy of The Running Man and Porkies Revenge (best watched on the beta max format imho)

Considering those lines in the graph are almost the same, the REAL results are (taking out the fake PS3 numbers)

"No one is buying Blu Ray, and even though there were zero DVD's availiable when the older format came out, the Running Man and Porkies Revenge, were enough to put sales above the crappy Blue Ray readers, and thats with FAR fewer people at that time buying kit like this"

@ Michael O'Malley

Thats the old conundrum, while we can experiance substantial growth in old cells, the "Wife" input means thats a short lived bonus followed by either a slow painfull death, or loss of the house/car/dog

resupply US troops with ammo, food etc during battles

It is probably cheaper to just let the front line troops die and send in new ones to replace them.

Theres enough bieng born every day for this idea to work.

Saving millions in development costs and getting rid of the excess "American Poor" into the bargin