Posts by Col

10,000 leagues? Shome mishtake, shurely?

Add bacon lardons at the frying stage. Because bacon.

Is this the same RIM...

...who are apparently about to hand over information about their UK customers to the police?

I speculate! I speculate!

</Dalek>

I reckon the reason it's still offline is that PSN was so poorly designed form the start they can't figure out a way of closing the gaping security holes without borking every PS3 out there.

Hail to the King, baby!

Awww yeah!

"...share a G-spot..."

How would that work then? Does it affect both twins simultaneously, or do they have to pass it back and forth on some kind of rota?

"We like the Chinese people. We like our Chinese employees. We like..."

their money

Likewise

Agree with Caspah Scottorn, lglethal and Adam Salisbury - if the UK space industry is doing so well on it's own why, in the name of the wee man, should the Government - especially /this/ government - be allowed to get it's mitts on it? They just want to be associated with something which actually works.

To quote Pterry

As I'm prone to do depressingly regularly these days, 'the axiom "Honest men have nothing to fear from the police" is currently under review by the Axioms Appeal Board'

@MS Linux? Why not?

Do the words "embrace extend extinguish" mean anything to you?

Addon

Better Privacy (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623) lets you get rid of them.

$199? They saw you coming, pal.

Didn't Ben Goldacre do something similar a while back? I think it only cost him about $60 to get his cat a diploma. His cat was dead, though - maybe he got a discount.

Re Sarah B

To trollbait. You seem to be a past master. Sorry, mistress.

...hmm...sorry mistress...

2 per cent?

So the economy's knackered because - at least in part - banks were unable to cover their outstanding debts from cash reserves, and they're going to give tech companies carte blanche to do exactly that? Does anyone else see the problem there?

Google Docs

Why would I WANT to store my health records online, securely or not? Paper files, in mine or my doctors' custody, with a power of attorney being devolved by law onto my next of kin or legal representative (the latter, given proper proof, being prefered) should - and have been for years - be sufficient.

They're talking out their @r$e

"As with all digital records systems, complete removal would require the hardware holding records to be completely sanitised. This is a process that destroys all data held, for example on a server or hard drive, and not just a particular record."? You what? So I need to format my hard drive to delete an email? I had no idea...

We have no titles. In fact, we don't need titles.

Been using FileHippo's Update Checker for a while now and that seems to work pretty well in keeping me up to date. It certainly spotted more out-dated software than Secunia PSI just did, and doesn't want an email address - which always reassures me, for some reason. Having said that, there's still no beating a regular perusal of your installed apps and services to see what needs pruning. But persuading my non-geeks of that is nigh impossible, so I'll just have to keep doing it for them...

Shoot the messenger

Who's serving up these ads? Line them up and shoot them. Or fine them or something, whatever's easier.

I may disagree with what you photograph...

...but I will defend to the death your right to mis-attribute this quote to Voltaire

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmbills/130/07130.43-46.html#j400

"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." Oscar Wilde on Uncyclopedia

Broken by design

It would be hard to sit down and come up with a more insecure and pointless system than 3DSecure. It's what happens when the marketroids get involved in technical stuff.

@ Daniel Haynes - the best lost-password policy I can think of is the tried-and-tested email to a pre-registered address. Simple to implement, simple to understand.

"tons of cash developing a space pen, but forgot about a little something called a pencil"

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Myth Busted.

@Mycho

I'm saying that the fact that someone says "I'm with Anonymous" should probably be given the same kind of credence as someone saying that they're one of the Defenders of the Martian Crown. And that while the numpties who do claim membership probably do post on 4chan, they're representative of Anonymous posters consisting of themselves and anyone else who thinks that DDoS attacks and cracking minimally secured email accounts will do anything other than alienate the Fox News-watching public from the more morally responsible Anony-tards.

No icon because I'm getting kind of bored with the whole Paris thing, to be honest.

The truth is...

God, in his incarnation as the Most Holy Jobs, may be killing kittens, but we all know why He does it... And there's your Paris angle, too.

I thought the tradition in these cases

was to nail your complaint to a handy church door. Then there was something about... eating worms?.. I wasn't really paying attention...

Sign the petition...

...and guarantee you'll be red-flagged for life when the database goes live.

Even the bloggers have spotted it...

http://www.breakitdownblog.com/uk-government-needs-20-billion-for-increased-spying-program/

If a bloke in Tucson, Arizona has noticed, surely - SURELY - we can just torpedo it now and forget the whole thing?

Urine denial

The difference is that your pee isn't being sampled and stored every time you flush.

Rich list

The top 31 richest individuals (that Forbes are allowed to tell us about [cos I know the tinfoil-hatters were thinking it]) in the world between them have >$700 billion. Just saying...