Posts by Gordon 10

Re: Firefly

Err Game of Thrones, Borgia's etc etc

Re: so in a nutshell

Or from the MOB. (flaming torches variety). As its well known that porno watcher = paedo. Cameron and the Daily Mail told me - it must be true.

Re: Energy Deception

I dont think it needs to be cheap in relation to normal gas - just cheap in relation to the crazy subsidised wind farms.

Royce are a proper british engineering company well known to the cycling fraternity and famed for their high quality components. Was cool seeing them in that vid.

Re: Dear United States of America

In fairness, until the non-stop anti-snowden propaganda changes their minds for them - even half of the US think he was more right than wrong.

Re: Bonkers

David - its not that hard. Felony and Misdemeanor are roughly analagous to our Criminal and Civic offences - the major difference being jail time is not involved at all for civil offences but it can be for felonies.

You do know what the Send Corrections button is for dont you? Or would you rather be a grandstanding commentard than helpful?

Re: SpiderWHUT

Huh? what kind of dumbassery are you spouting? The Amazing Spiderman 2 hasnt even been released yet and they still have the rights to make a 3rd.

The fail is yours sir.

Re: Dr Who is lame crud

You do get that there's room for more than 1 genre in Sci-Fi dont you? And that millions of people watch DW precisely because of its current tone. If it wasnt for the current interpretation - whether you like it or not - it probably wouldnt be running again.

I would also argue that since Moffat - the man responsible for 2 of the BBC's biggest hits in recent years - and whose worked with half of Hollywood - knows more about what works for a Global audience than you do.

Oh and BTW the fact that you cant come up with anyone but Iain M Banks and his lesser sweary clone doesnt give your post much credibility.

Dont get me wrong I have every Neil Asher in HB but he's a sweary bloody derivative of Banks and is no more heavy duty science fiction than DW is. Now if you had mentioned Donaldson, Stross, Doctorow, Scalzi et all you might have gained yourself a little more credibility.

Re: Terrible waste of resources

Yes because the world is being deforested because of demand for paper. Get Real.

Re: Don't titter

Indeed - if only Julian Assange had served a term in the Household Calvary he might not be sleeping on an embassy sofa right now.....

Re: Juries

"there are just too many cases where the individual jurists have ignored the information provided"

Really? are you sure? are you making assumptions on the fact that a few cases are reported in the papers whilst thousands of other trial go without a hitch.

Dont make the mistake of assuming that just coz bad news is the bit that is published thats all the news there is.

Thats how we get knee jerk politco's making laws for edge cases.

Re: Note to laptop manufacturers...

The problem is that laptop manufacturers have missed the boat with big screens with 10 and 7 being the tablet sweet spot they can get competitive prices on hi res screens, and if they can get competitive prices for screens they cant sell competitive laptops.

Simple economic chicken and egg - they cant buy in sufficient volume to drop the prices low enough to sell a large volume of laptops.

So whilst I agree with you - the boat with cheap hi-res laptops on it missed its depature slot :(

(fail on behalf of the laptop makers)

Re: Conflicted much?

Of course it would be worth much more if he then went on to say .... Just like we do for America.....

Seriously - does anyone here not believe all these telecoms companies are at the same game?

Re: OMG UK official watchdog *might* be growing some?

Newsflash John - Privacy International are not an official anything. They are an international privacy pressure/advocacy group and a UK charity.

(Not that it invalidates what they are doing - which I support)

New Weasel Words

"No systemic problem" aka we dont admit anything was wrong. Stupid tack to take.

One sublety to be aware of - the people went to prison - not because the system was wrong - but because their response to it was considered criminal. ie they panicked and cooked the books to eliminate the issue and got done for false accounting.

Not saying their jailing was correct (it obviously isnt) but there a lot of areas where the law punishes people who break one law as a result of trying to avoid the consequences of something else.

Another less extreme example would be speeding tickets or running red lights taking your wife to hospital as she;s in labour.

Both are situations where the Prosecution/Judge needs to be in full receipt of the facts - in this case it sounds like they were not.

Re: Waste of time

would certainly like to see an estimate of that probability.

Re: Where is the border to a police state?

Scared - yes. Allow it to stop what you feel you should morally do no. Their power only exists whilst they persecute individuals. The more of us who protest - the safer we are.

Re: Dear Mr Snowden

Indeed. How can you be angry at his antics and still be against what the NSA are doing? How the f*ck do you retarded rednecks expect to been shocked out of your complacency without him?

Or is it just because he's hiding out with the Russkis?

Re: @AC - "... one has to wonder ...".

"I think this sort of thing is all too frequent and well crafted to assume anything but intent."

Not convinced myself if it was a deliberate slurp I would have thought that it would have gone for the whole address book.

Although it begs the question is this before or after the App permissions are set? if its before its an android fail for making the phones number available - if its after then its a false flag by Symantec and its the users lookout - if they have already given slurp permissions then there's not a case to answer.

Re: "doesn't actually risk the earth-shattering kaboom of a matter-antimatter annihilation."

@Alan

Not sure your analogy stands up. According to the article there are naturally occuring sources of antimatter - all we have to do is build an interstellar starship to collect them and hey presto! Antimatter Reactor.

Nasty

Oh nicely borderline racist sir!

If you had actual worked with Offshore teams you would be aware that whilst there is a lot to critise about the offshored environment their work ethic isnt one of them. In fact 99% of them I have known have bust their asses off marking do with poor training and poor handovers of badly documented processes and systems.

Re: I'm amazed

Im amazed at you thinking that just because "everyone knew" it doesnt make it worth causing a scene or fighting about it. Laws are made in response to the political climate - they can be repealed in the same way.

I'll think you find all the civil liberties people DID protest about the Patriot act.

Re: This wasn't a hardware flaw. This wasn't a mainframe flaw.

Correct me if Im wrong - but not even IBM mainframes cost £450m its entirely possible that this budget includes new teams to run the stuff.

(Its also possible that they have just spunked £450m just to IBM - but Im a glass half full type person).

Re: This would be an Assange view of the law.....

Indeed yet again we have Assange muddying the waters and confusing a personal legal issue with issues affecting Wikileaks. Julian Assange <> Wikileaks although the odious little man has a vested interest in creating a view that it does.

"And now they are to seek out child abuse images. What kind of people work at IWF?"

I think the Govt and the Daily Fail have already answered that one for us. PREVERTS and PAEDIATRICS.

<---- Burn them all.

but seriously - do IWF workers have to do CRB checks or is that still just limited to Saturday morning Ref's and School book readers?

Re: Common sense?

Have to agree with ANT - love the fact that if you get an exceptional personal income in one year HMRC are allowed to assume its going to happen next year and send you an anticpatory demand that you have to pay by law.

Indeed they often are

3 Million people may read the sun - doesnt mean Im going to.

(and where does the article say facebook is new AC muppet?)