Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon

Sir

Probably spend a productive hour making a camberwell carrot, and then the next 3 hours unproductively smoking it.

He was supposed to be a carpenters son, yet I never heard how good his tables were. He was probably stoned all the time which is where he got all his sky fairy ideas from. I doubt he could even manage a little wooden spoon.

For those of limited humour - this is a JOKE. I'm still allowed to make fun of religious figures, aren't I?

Sir

"If I was Assange I would have distributed an encrypted file already"

I was under the impression he had already done this*, under the heading 'insurance policy'.

*Citation required, I can't remember where I read this, prolly here somewhere :)

Sir

Cor Blimey, strike a light! A yank with a grasp of history!? What will they come up with next I wonder. I'm guessing you're a prototype that they just didn't think would sell, because I haven't seen any others from your (red) neck of the woods.

Sir

Were these sci-fi books?

I only ask because I'm aware of a very large torrent with around that many titles in it. Most of the books are represented in multiple formats (so not 20000 individual titles) and the formatting/OCR correction is a bit poor.

The fact that someone paid money for something that is freely available is a bit odd, unless they don't know about torrents.

Personally, if I was to go down that route, I would select only titles from the torrent that I already owned and re-format and spell check them myself before converting them to Kindle format. I don't suppose the end result would be perfect, but as I'm already familiar with the material any spelling mistakes and formatting errors would be live-able with.

Sir

All it would require for a Darknet to become an Internet is a peering agreement and someone to dish out IP addresses and domain names.

The powers that be REALLY don't understand technology do they?

oh, and whilst we're at it..

"By working through Nominet, however, it would be much easier for police to block such efforts centrally by revoking the domain name of any website republishing the allegedly illegal information"

..can you imagine the shady shennigans to be had by hacking a public site with 'censored info' so the police order it taken down. A new kind of DOS.

Sir

I think an analogy would be one of those custom car shops that take a stock model and soup it up to be the dog's danglies - but it would also have to involve the ability to use replacement parts for the car that were free.

If that were true I would expect the car companies to cry foul, but I doubt it would be under DMCA 'laws'.

Protectionism at it's finest. The history of gaming is strewn with 'pirating', yet it is now a larger industry than the movies...go figure.

Sir

Perhaps you think like a quantum particle, you know, everything exists in all possible states at all times etc.

Sir

Appreciate the nods, but that minecraft looked like a rollercoaster sim based on the original doom 3d engine :) not exactly what I was looking for.

And I've got the X series up to Terran Confilct, but they take up soooooooooooooo much time, which I don't have as much of these days sadly.

I'm really loving Red Dead Redemption, but there's only so much poker and dice games you can play (if you aren't into killing everything).

Something with the quality of RDR but with some more non-lethal options.

I know Sims + RDR would be about right :D

Sir

"Wills and Kate"

my GOD! he isnt' marrying JORDAN is he? or are we talking about some other royal?

Which is that overdone sarcasm icon again?

Sir

you do WHAT!!?

Isn't trusting a browser (even the hallowed fox) a bit like, well, trusting a fox with the henhouse?

Sir

I know it's a bit off-topic, but could you explain how that barcode relates to me? I didn't get a specially assigned to me bit of paper at the ballot box that I'm aware of, I just got given the next one in the pile, I think.

Sir

"I had my arm in a sling after an operation"

It's a good job it wasn't in plaster; after all, it could have been SEMTEX PLASTER!!"!11!123214fuck mewe'reallgonnaDIE11!!!3

Sorry, I went a bit 'security' there.

Sir

"Without knowing it, I might have lent it (and my 3G dongle) to an Al-Queda 'sleeper'."

You know that could actually be the case.

Bwah hahahahahahahaa-aaaaa....

Sir

M$ are also missing a trick here. If people are interested enough to break into these devices, then there is another market. They would do better to facilitate modders etc. instead of alienating them.

Oh right, it's about control, not market forces or freedom. Bummer.

Sir

I would be more accepting of the White Hat argument if the creators of the malware also created the way of detecting it, but they didn't.

The path to Linux is paved with good intentions.

Sir

@Peter Snow.

Look up member states of the EU and let me know if you see 'England' on there will you?

Sir

Word of advice to anyone pursuing a defence in a court of law..

Ask the ISP to provide proof positive that all the devices involved in recording the IP address, including the netscraping tool that picks up the IP's from the torrent uploaders, are in actually stratum 1 compliant.

If they're not, how can they prove that it was you?*

*Most IP leases are quite long so this doesn't completely hold water - but it does mean you can prove they're equipment isn't 100% in synch regarding timestamps.

Christ, the number of machines in the company I'm working for that are still using GMT (not adjusted) when they're redundant partner kit is on BST (well, GMT now but adjusted).

Makes going through the logs a real pain the ariston.