Posts by ShaggyDoggy

"They're made out of meat." "Meat? ...

Brilliant short stiory by Terry Bisson

I always knew ...

... that my "Aladdin Sane" makeup kit would be useful one day

EU

You can not "imports decoder cards from elsewhere in the EU" since last time I checked, elsewhere in the EU was still actually inside the EU.

DOH

Denmark syndrome

It doesn't matter that the bill passed.

If it had failed the govt would just have re-introduced it a year later very slightly changed.

Until it got through. Like the Danish EU referendum, gets voted out, so try again later.

So we were going to get this regardless. Ever since Mandleson had his 'meeting' with Geffen.

"Money doesn't talk, it swears" - Dylan

Keep to your own area MS

Microsoft should stick to what they do best.

Writing software.

Oh wait ........

ANPR

... and still no evidence that ANPR has stopped or caught a single terrist (tm)

Death

There's an easy way to avoid having loads of expensive prisoners on death row.

No death penalty.

Simples *

* deliberate for Ms Bee's delectation

Superstud

Mine's the one with the train ticker to M/cr in the pocket

PETA

I'm guessing this episode was not endorsed by PETA

Fake

I'd buy a remade C64. I'm not buying this. It''s a PC in a flatcase.

Bollocks.

The point is ....

... that you only need the possibility of fake IP's in the swarm to get your case thrown out of court e.g. that wasn't me it must have been someone else faking an IP which happened to be mine. The prodecution can not prove beyond reasonable doubt that it was me. End of.

Free

This is Sky's attempt to make Freeview not free.

Round 1 to Sky.

Blackberry driving licence photo

Slight snag of course, I still have the pink paper licence and have zero intention of changing to a photo licence, until it runs out in 2026

Washup

Agreed - this style of "government" is abhorrent and very undemocratic.

It is the exact opposite of why we put MP's in parliament in the first place.

They need to be reminded of that.

cheap

I agree. In the pro and semi-pro muso world you really do get what you pay for.

I'm still using my Opcode Sonicport that I bought for £250 in 1999 guess what it's in a solid metal case, now that really is indestructible. These days this faux metal (read: then plastic) is the cheapo ..... oh just cheap

Re: Rabbers

"Webmaster: "As soon as somebody that isn't associated with our company complains about it, we'll be able to remove it.""

no problem, change the font to same colour as the background, until you get the complaint, which can be done by signing in as another user later that day

Time

Time travel is soooo next year

Geffen

When mandy leaves politics there's a nice non-job waiting for him there ?

Rodin

So let me get this straight, if I take a pic of Rodin's 'The Lovers' that's ok, but if by accident some kid gets caught at the corner of the pic then that's grossly offensive. Well done guys.

Proprietary

Indeed, I've often wondered how one could write a Basic inperpreter for MITS then weeks later the same code appears shrinkwrapped as the first MS product. Whose IP was it ? Is the whole MS edifice based on software theft ?? Oh the irony ...

So it's ...

... last orders please

I want

my CLI to auto-block withheld numbers .... can it be done ?

due process

"David Davies, said the ad was clearly racist "

hang on mate we have courts to decide that stuff

if you feel strongly enough file a case

otherwise shut up

and next time don't call the papers first

As was said elsewhere

..... branding the cows benefits the farmer not the cows

7/7

I remember after 7/7 when the police were calling for anybody/everybody to send in pics they took on/before that date.

Perhaps the chief constables need reminding of that also.

Street name

Why has Google mostly blocked out the street name sign of Whitehall Road,

while at the same time their own captions say "Whitehall Road" twice on my screen.

Oh wait, it can't be Whitehall Road unless Google says it is. I can sleep now

Only 50 !!!

In the UK Paypal is compulsory on ALL eBay sales

(not motors and property of course)

Again the UK gets the crap and says nothing

Prediction

In a couple of years time we'll be wishing we had Bush back

BBC1, BBC2

It all went wrong when they started to do "demographic" channels, I mean "BBC3 the channel for 16-35 year olds" what's that all about ?

Please BBC get back to core values and great programmes.

You don't need all this trendy targetted crap.

Oh God I sound old.

Maybe there's a channel I should be watching ..............

BBW

check the real story at Big Brother Watch

CTPO

Ah those were the days, back in the 80's, the old "Career Transition Programme"

Minimum/Sniffing

I would like to see Internet connections sold on the basis of MINIMUM speed not "maximum".

That would be fairer all round.

Also the packet sniffing thing is going to sniff packets as they fly by at 200Mbps ?

Thought not.

Moat

It's obvious that the moat is for the sharks with frikkin laser beams

CRB

Since a CRB check has to be done for every "employer" at the moment it's going to take several weeks and cost them £20 each.

(new vetting and barring is not in force yet)

Content

I still don't get how they cam match content to a set of copyrighted content.

Let's say Sony store the first 10 seconds of every song they own copyright to.

I make a file available for P2P wioth filename mysong.mp3

They would need to compare the first 10 seconds of my file to all the stored ones to validate whether copyright was being infringed or not. Gonna take a while.

Then they find it's actually a spreadsheet. This is going to be fun.

WAIT ..... since when was is Sony's remit to enforce the law, and law it will be once the Bill becomes Act.

Surely it's the remit of the police of other appointed govt body to enforce the law, not some global corporation ?

Why

Why do they cancel accounts at all ?

Short of numbers ?

After all there's only 999,999,999 after the 07 prefix

(ok some are reserved e.g. 999)

Bankers

£175m = 1/4857 of a bank bailout (£850bn)

or 0.02%

and they expect us to pay for it ?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/163850bn-official-cost-of-the-bank-bailout-1833830.html

There but for

Meanwhile this guy's life hangs in the balance.

Have some respect please.

Appstore

You don't HAVE to buy iPhone apps only from the Appstore, there are other places, although Apple (or is that iApple now) would not like you to know that. Classic ignorance-rading.

Hits

Excellent, now my webpage hit counter can go astro while I leave this thing clicking on it all night

There's more

but you'll need to think a bit ...

Cockermouth

Little Coxwell

Great Coxwell

HUGE

HUGE

Oh it's webby stuff

Sorry I though the article was going to be about real programming

Tweets

You can imagine the tweets from CPSO's

- hey there's a photographer approacing the cenotaph

- woohoo lets all get down there

- etc

iShit

Am I the only person thoroughly fucked off with Apple's addiction to prefix totally everthing with "i".

It's just so 1990's.

And I think they already used iBook, it was a laptop.

Unelected

I don't like it that unelected people are trying to control my life.

Mandelson, Adonis etc.