Posts by ShaggyDoggy

Both ways

I expect this doesn't work both ways.

So there will be no rush of US executives being prosecuted in non-US courts.

Pity.

Entire Work ?

"The BPI believes it is analogous to defamation injunctions, where publication and distribution of an entire work can be halted because of an offending passage."

Wrong - they don't halt publication of the Daily Mail because of one offending passage three days ago, do they

Pah

I'm back on Altavista

Intergration

Oh, I thought this was going to be integrating the ads into streetview e.g. popping them onto a handy billboard in the image, or creating one if one wasn't there.

Now that would be something (awful)

Nope

Manuals, or more correctly 'Maunals', are just not a bloke thing.

And since there are no females in IT, why do they bother writing them ?

10Mp

Why do we need 10 Mp ?

How big is that at 300 dpi ?

What's next ... 15Mp .... 20 Mp ... 25Mp

Do we really need this ?

Playmobil

Playmobil or it didn't happen !!!

YouTurn

Erm, correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the moby industry trotted out 'fact' after 'fact' 'proving' that mobiles have no effect on your brain.

So, over to you, Mr. Nokia

Meanwhile, presumably you'd need to be pretty demented anyway to use a moby for that amount of time, oh wait, I forgot the 'manager class'

Shared Secret

Please, make totally sure that your secret answers for the ID DB are unique i.e. not the same ones you've used _anywhere_ else.

That way when they lose stuff on a train your bank a/c etc won't be compromised. I mean, any more than it already is.

Previous

"I wonder if the only reason that they paid attention to the tiger video was because the other video that he is still being prosecuted for had something very wrong going on in it"

Exactly - then when the March trial comes up, they can say he's got a previous, and make the sentence all the more severe. I suspect that the March one is actually a bit flimsy, and needed this tiger one to 'bolster it up'

"Seriously though, what would you use more than 20 Meg for?"

Same as I use more than 20 Meg for.

(in case you don't get this, look up XT286)

Not a search engine

FFS when will you stop believing that Google is a search engine.

It's an ordered list where who pays most comes nearest the top.

Of course Google won't need to pay themselves, they can just "cream off" searches for their own products at the first level.

Doh

Advertising

Google also announced on 5 January a plan to launch "pay to call" adverts that would appear on mobile phones.

First one that appears and my Nexus One becomes Nexus Zero very fast.

I'm not falling for it

Au Yeung Kwok-fu

that's got to be an anagram

Record sales

No pun intended ... how does Bono's whinging stack up against record music sales last december ?

0 BC

1 BC was not followed by 1 AD

It was followed by 0 BC, then 0 AD then 1 AD

366 days BC was the last day of 1 BC since after that there would not be a full year BC.

0 BC ran from 365 days BC to the actual birth day.

Then 0 AD ran from then until 365 days AD after which it became 1 AD since it could not be 1 AD until an actual year had elapsed.

(I'm ignoring leap year possibilities here)

So it's worse than you think, there was not no year zero, there were TWO of them !!

Re: I smell a fruit

My first thoughts exactly

Some

"sole member of the YesToID" ... brilliant

and I pronouce it furor-ay since I did Latin at school

two words

Johanna Upton

OO

I recall another website out there with "OO" in its name.

And it's a SEARCH ENGINE to boot !!

Of course they predate Google.

Perhaps googol.com should sue Google, after all the latter

freely admits their name was "stolen" from Googol

Yes

When they blocked in China

I remained silent; I was not Chinese.

When they blocked in Italy

I remained silent; I was not Italian.

Ah but ...

"There is some chance... that it will open up a dimensional portal... a disappointingly tiny and short-lived one"

But what if the forces on the other side grab hold of it and hold it open, then enlarge it so that vast armies of lizard (contd page 94)

More

Indeed, so to solve the, say, 100,000 crimes a year in the Met area we'll need, tap tap tap, 100,000,000 cameras in London. Hmmm.... time to buy shares in camera makers

@ AC 11:08

Don't be silly - those things are memory stored, not disk stored, so no point switching them off "for privacy and security reasons"

Erm

Those corporates ditching him would gain more public respect if they supported him.

Oh wait ...

@yarr "They DO own it"

ok mate go to the next <insert bandname> concert and record that on your iPhone

you'll have copyright ?

hahahaha get real

Elimination

What about all those guys, who when there was a 'big' rape investigation, were asked to, erm, come forward and provide DNA to eliminate them from the enquiry. 10-20,000 were done. are they now "he's on the database so must be suspicious" ?

erased

Do you really think they will erase it ?

Or simply "put it beyond use"

To be later retrieved from "backup"

Place your bets

Party

Come on you guys at the LHC we want to have an end-of-everything PARTY and want to know when to start

oh wait ...

Huh ?

Can this perfect world get any more perfect ?

Oh wait ...

Huh ?

"gifts" surely you meaN "gives" dood yo !!

Bunny

It's the Duracell bunny not Energiser can't you lot get anything right

Huh ?

There's an even simpler app than this.

It's called nothing.

If you can still type sensible stuff into the phone, you're not drunk yet.

Simples.

Huh ?

I can't see any of them.

Wait ... I'm in the UK

Huh ?

Who do these people think they are ?

I buy the product, it's mine, not there's anymore, they took the money instead.

But they seek to prevent me from selling it (unopened as new etc) for some spurious reason.

They took the money, now they want control over MY property.

Fuck off.

Extradite ?

I thought we didn't extradite people to countries that have the death penalty and engage in torture

Oh wait .....

Huh ?

More weather "anomalies" forecast then .... just ask the residents of Cockermouth what was happening at CERN at the precise time 12 inches of rain landed on them ... remember in science there's no such thing as a coincidence

Huh ?

It might be a picture of a midget

Passwords

I like evil_trev's idea #2 withe the double password. Excellent.

3. What about if the password to my encypted files is not actually held by me e.g. a friend typed it in and I actually and genuinely don't know it (I do the same for his files)

4. What about if the password is about 50 characters long and I only ever copy/paste so I have no recall of what it is, like who can realistically be extected to remember a 50-char password made up of mixed alpha, num, and special chars ... oh and the source I copy it from is online "somewhere" can't remember the URL which is not a "key" it's a URL - important difference - the key is located at the URL but I'm being asked for the key itself, and nothing but the key