Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon

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@Qtoktok

And how long have you lived here exactly? It was hardly a serious request.

Sir

@Annihilator - and I thought I was the only one! Welcome to the club of 'I actually have paintball scars'

@The Infamous Grouse - first proper lol moment I've had on here for ages :D

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I feel for you regarding your problem leaving Vodafone, but consider this..

I'm about to do something I never thought I would do and praise Orange.

I used to have a PAYG with them, then ended up on a monthly contract for £35, which whilst I was working wasn't a problem, but became so between jobs. (over a year ago now)

I rang up to cancel, no problem.

Next day I get a call from their retention team and he asked me why I was ditching them, easy - price.

So then he asks me how much I would be willing to pay, again easy - £10 a month.

Next thing I knew he was outlining a £10 a month deal, with 400 free minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited internet - would I stay? Very easy - of course. I got a free Nokia too - basic but sufficient.

Now two days ago I got a call offering me a free phone upgrade (I have very basic requirements of a phone) so I ended up being offered a Blackberry 9300 - which seems quite nice. The other thing is they send me an envelope to return my old phone, which I find out is worth £35 if it's in good working order.

Overall I'm well pleased, and extremely confused. This kind of thing just doesn't happen in my world and I'm waiting for the almighty kick in the bollocks that's must be lurking around a corner somewhere very near in my future. Seriously, I'm totally bemused as to how this can work as a business model?

Sir

Personally I would think that 'waste' would come under the category of 'giving some artist £xm to dip sheets in the Thames' kind of thing.

Less of that, more nurses and coppers and Bobsherunkle, Faneezyeraren't.

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a) Blue

b) No, not in the least.

Sir

"Believe This Shit TV...."

"419 Channel"

these two have lots of potential. The first one could be in plain old English, the second, well, it could be in anything really.

Sir

Unfortunately not, she went to heaven a while back.

We have her sister-in-spirit now, but this one likes to eat all the seed that the birds drop, so her poo looks like peanut brittle :)

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I think the original poster has a point, but to include this statement..

"This doesn't mean "no single point of failure" idiocy,"

..kind of undermines it, as the poster who highlighted that the DC is a single pof.

In built resilience through software is a lot cheaper than lots of fancy tin to do the same job, but it does need to take advantage of not having single pof's - otherwise the software wouldn't cope, n'est pa?

Sir

"Renounce the honour immediately!"

Never!

If eating with your fingers was good enough for King Richard the Lionheart, it's good enough for me.

I fart as well you know - great big trumpeting blow-offs that scare the hounds! What jolly japes.

Sir

It's also worth considering the chicken and egg in this scenario. I mean, I spent loads of time playing computer games when I was young because my home life sucked and had an absentee father (apart from the occasions when he would turn up just to scare the shit out of us).

But no, it must be the computer games.

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Oh the hilarity that this springs to mind.

Cruel tricks such as playing a cat meowing etc. and watching the dog spin itself up it's own arsehole :D

Not that I would do such a thing of course, the thought police haven't found me...yet.

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I believe spam filtering occurs at the application layer, not the network or transport layer.

In your example if you were to run your own email server then you would need to employ your own spam filters - the ISP hasn't already removed them before sending you your communications.

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I don't believe these shadowy organisations work like that anymore. They tend towards agent provocateurs (sp?) to push the usual suspects into more extreme acts than they would otherwise.

The net effect would be the same however. The internet war has been going on for a while now. The fact that the man in the street may have heard of Anonymous just goes to show how far along it is. Sixteen years ago when I was trying to educate my friends as to this new thing called the internet they were like 'what the hell is it and what's it for?'.

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Damn, are they still legally allowed to supply di-hydrogen oxide?

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I sit on my back-side, properly corrected and educated. I'll go back to properly reading the articles then :)

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For you down-voters out there, it's like goldy, only made of iron. Sheesh.

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@John211

That's a really bad example mate, if the pirates were indeed the ones causing all the 'bad shit happening' then this would be a credible line of investigation. If it turned out to be true you would never know, because you've discounted it as bad science.

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"people I talk to mention the difficulties of filling the vacancies they have for highly skilled..."

People aren't usually born highly skilled. I achieved my highly skilled status by performing any number of entry level positions from cable monkey, telephone software support etc. on upwards.

Without the lower level jobs, no-one gets to be highly skilled.

@Jake

"When you have to explain it, it loses impact ..."

I know the feeling :) My clue was in the icon, it wasn't accusing you of being a troll, it was me being one - just for the lulz you understand :P

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No points on her fingers though - must be a lesbian :P

Just thought I'd throw in a parting shot. Very sad to see you go Ms. Bee, very sad.