They decided to peer at a personal note, private to that individual. As nothing more than security guards on private property, they had no right to look at his private notes! I would certainly conisder a private prosecution on the grounds of harrassment.
Lucas said he'd gone shopping to buy Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter, but the first three pages of Google's search results all pointed to illegal versions.
"It was extremely difficult to find something that was legal ... I do not see why search engines should not be able to block these things."
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You are a plank! How about you start with a Google search for, oh I dunno, "audiobook and book retailers", like erm...what's it called, Ama-something or that other one Waterwoods or something?
Strange when I searched for "Pervy Nights in Bangkok", I got loads of links to porn sites not DVD retailers!!!
Nice! Thanks for enforcing the attitude that all of us Linux and Mac users are wrapped in our perfect little bubbles of security, care-free!
Balls! Wake up and smell Steve's coffee! I own a Mac and having spent years learning to fight off nasties on my Windows kit I am not so complacent. I know there are limited nasties on the Linux and OSX platforms, the money isn't there yet to make it worth while. However as more people get fed up with Windows, the market share increases for OSX and Linux and as it does we will start catch the malware maker's eye.
You'd better start learning about proper Linux and OSX security, because Linus and Steve don't give a monkey's about us, so we need to learn to do it ourselves, not live in this perfect little bubble of protection that Steve and Penguin fanbois would have us believe!!!
I found my parent's house, I must have been visiting when Big G went past as my car was parked outside. The odd thing was that when you look from one angle the car is there, when you "turn around" in the view, my car is missing. I can only assume they didn't simply upload the pictures as is, they must do something when they blend them.
Could they come back to my house again please as I was out and would like appear in person, just get my 15 mins as it were?
I quite like StreetView, it's been very useful for planning my photography trips as I can find really useful places to park in town streets!
Something in the "Typical Country Girl/Soccer Mom Made Good" image that has been carefully crafted for her, that obviously appeals to the average voter.
Lots of politicians have cottoned on to the appeal-to-the masses-by-pretending-to-be-an-average-Joe, such as our Eton educated Dave Cameron, the Hoodie's mate!
Why bother downloading DVDs on your superfast connection? Two minutes after you get it the Rozzers will be banging down the door, suitably attired in MPAA tabbards, then 6 months in limbo in the court system while the Gov cuts off your connections ( ooh nasty! )!
Yep, we have no idea how to explain the fact that the priests cannot keep their hands off the alter boys private bits...hmmmm....hey I know, we have this ready made excuse that no one can argue with! We'll blame Satan! You want to know about Satan? Listen to BBC's Old Harry's Game by Andy Hamilton!
George Carlin's great quotes...
"God, the all seeing, all wonderful being that he is. has a set of 10 things he does not want you to do. If you do any these things, he has a special place full of pain, misery and eternal torment, you will be made to suffer for eternity! But God does love you!"
"I was a Catholic, until I reached the age of reason, around 13 years old!"
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Thunderbird is still the best on all three platforms! →#
I remember long ago using CCMail client to dial into the CCmail servers directly and pull down mail...
Thunderbird is still best, I have moved my mailboxes from Windows, to Linux, back to Windows, back to Linux, then finally to Mac. Not once, not one single time, did I ever lose an email in Thundebird over a 3 year period of chopping and changing! All I ever did was simply ZIP up the mail directory and copy it about!
I have a LG GW520 and it has loads of similar gestures to my wife's Jesus-phone, like swipe-smooth scroll in picture gallery, twist and tilt to rotate the on screen orientation! I use Apple desktop kit, like it but Apple can be very, very short-sighted and childish about things like this.
What's next? Suing the UK pound stores, seizing the kiddies plastic toys that look a little like the J-phone?!
' The study says that 15 million Americans think that broadband access is irrelevant, calling the internet "a waste of time" and saying there's no content of interest to them or that they're satisfied with dial-up. '
To a certain extent I can well believe that's perfectly true. Apart from the odd bit of software like a Linux distro or some new Oracle release, quite frankly I download about 3 MB and upload about 2MB each day at home!
I hate Face-Twat-mySpac or whatever it's called and YouTube is full of chavs in Slough, setting fire to each other! Somehow, a world with without Twat-Space-Book and Chav Video Central sounds quite nice actually!
I consider myself a pretty average bloke, I like a bit of filth once in a while but surely when you seen one set of bits in about half-dozen positions with various "attachments", shall we say, surely you've seen them all?
A couple of GB tops, maybe sort you out, but 0.5+ TB?! Really need that many bongo-movies and "money-shots"?!?
This and the Italian decision to convict Google managers over YouTube videos of bullying, things are not looking so good for the chocolate mountain mob!
I too have nothing meaningful to add to this discussion, but your attitude is just disgusting! People like you should...,should...., well I dont know, do something else! Nazi Germany started like this you know!
( See, pointless and a pathetic attempt to drag Godwin into it too! )
Manufacturers in defence of own product shocker! Well blow me down!
Hardly surprising they are all ganging to together, there must be a very tidy sum to be made punting these little boxes that attach to practically every till in the western world!
I used to enter useful information on my registrar record but the spam got be a pain. So I dumped the email addresses that were getting hit and put a load of crap in my registrar DNS record and I get one maybe two spams a week now.
Now sit back and watch all the finger-pointing begin, as everyone blames everyone else for the problem and we, the customers, continue to get fleeced by inadequate security.
All storage array vendors do it. Heck even NetGear with their cheap'n'cheerful ReadyNAS boxes, issue a list of drives that will be supported anything else and they can refuse support on your unit. Let alone when we get up to the big boys like EMC and HDS!
You MS fanbois are worse than the Apple ones! The merest whiff of a new mythical MS product and you're all wetting your pants in anticipation! You then have the nerve to take a pop at Job's acolytes when they start getting excited.
Sit on the fence with your popcorn and enjoy the show!
Same old story though isn't it? Give something first offer everyone something they all "think" they need, while slowly building a cage around them.
So as I said a few months back, Google is intent on building it's own private internet, which will allow access to the older public one for a price. That price is yet to be fixed, ad revenue, a cash sum or something else?
I feel like most here, a good model that was working well, just punched in the face by Warner's greed.
However will it make any difference? Doubt it!
Most of the shit that Warner sell is sold to supermarket checkout plebs, wandering around TESCO or Sainsburys at the weekend during the "Friday big-shop", they will still pick up Warner DVDs of the latest US TV pap, they will still pick-up the latest X-Factor/Talentless screecher cack, so Warner's sales will still carry as usual.
Personally I listen to death and black metal and hate TV shows, so baring a handful of bands, Warner's snub doesn't bother me much as they wouldn't touch my music with 15ft barge-pole!
I want WGA to carry on being used, it's fantastic! Treating genuine customers like dirty little freeloaders while the rip-off merchants get around it! It forced me to drop MS and find something far better, hopefully if they keep using it others will do the same!
So if you want anarchy nothing to stop me coming round your house ( no doubt you live somewhere and pay rent?! ) and shooting you in the head or nicking all your stuff and no one will stop me or tell me off?!
As an anarchist you have enough faith in "the system" to get a computer and expect electricity and internet to make your computer work then?
I believe that due to the diabolical water quality in the 1700's, everyone was encouraged to drink beer, due to the fermentation process killing off the nasty bugs used in the water! Now it's healthy too!
Anyway, aren't pregnant women supposed to drink the "Black Diesel" to build up strength or was that a marketing ploy put about by the owners of the big golden G?
Anyone who has had the pleasure of using the new, revamped Oracle Metalink Support site will know the joy that an entire Flash enabled support site brings. The joy of restarting your browser while researching very important support calls. The deep pleasure that resubmitting support cases over and over 'cos Flash decided it had had enough and wanted to scramble the uploaded text files!
Oh yes, Oracle support is a real buzz now it's 100% pure flash website!
So what, big company cannot deliver on brand new product, people get disappointed. Where's the story here? It happens to us all, we want the latest and greatest whatnot and 'cos it's bleeding edge it has problems. Fact of life!
Sorry, but irrespective of product or company, if you decide to get the latest major incarnation of the product, due to rapid development and rush to market, it will almost always go wrong, not work properly, breakdown, etc.
Good system and database admins always abide by the mantra, 'Never install GA point release of any software! Always wait for at least .1 or more preferably, .2 release, before upgrading!", this applies to hardware gadgets too!
Really such a surprise given the fact that any company in the hardware game is currently knocking-up plans to put out a tablet! They all want to get on the muppet-bandwagon, fanbois will buy anything, so if dopey, more-money-than-sense fanbois buy the gadget of the moment, then surely there is a market for the more financially challenged gadget collectors to buy a similar gadget.
I wish some people would rememeber that these companies don't make gadgets to improve humanity's evolution, they do it for cash, pure and simple. If that means jumping on someone else's bandwagon, so be it!
Perhaps they are, is there someone next to you right now with a gun to your head forcing you onto the Apple site to buy Apple kit?!
Techno-lust is all it is! Pure and simple. You want it and you want it your way! Well tough luck the world doesn't work that way sonny.
If Apple want to cut off half the potential market by doing something you don't like, that's their own stupid fault, they must a have reason for it. They sell the device, they dictate the conditions the device comes with, don't like? Well f**k off and buy something else that does work the way you want it to!
Still want it though don't you? Then you turn around call people who buy it, "Sheeple"! Pot, this is Kettle, I think you have a lot in common.
I am more worried about a world my kids will grow up in dominated by a company so overbearing that they will soon own the "common" internet and have enough power to build their own private internet!
This bullshit from a bloke who trotted out the tired old mantra, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear from Google."
I encourage my kids to learn to read, but more importantly I encourage them to think for themselves. Reading is a skill it can be learned as required. Thinking individual thoughts has to be developed from an early age, very hard to develop later on in life when you're more set in your ways or brain-washed by corps like GOOGLE!!!
Haven't you got a tablet thingy to worship somewhere?!
I own 4 macs and I think they are great machine, but they still have their own problems, the heat coming out of my Macbook annoys me no end. Nothing like Steve's baby frying my nads when I am on a train!
Perhaps try taking the blinkers off once in a while fanboi!
You can download this cack, alright historic documentation, about a bald-headed looney-toon who looked like Alexi Sayle, yet some bloke couldn't flog his Dad's Army board-game on everyone's favourite tat-market, 'cos it had a swastika on the front!
The app-store let this through? Yet they routinely stop a little bit of page-three nudity, I think I find a fascist nutter inciting people to bump off anyone he doesn't agree with, far worse than a pair of soaped-up jubblies!
Just 'cos it's crap, doesn't mean it isn't popular, take Windows ( oop, had to get that in there, haha!).
Flash might be complete crap, bloody annoying, slow and the bane of most support desks, but the damn thing is everywhere like a rash. Sites are using it 'cos it's cheap and cheerful, whether you lot think it's good or not is irrelevant, Mr Joe Public wants flashy ( no pun! ) sites and lots of eye-candy, Flash gives it and makes it quick and easy, when it works of course.
The iPad may not be technically fantastic, but it will sell like hotcakes, Apple have a well-known brand and the device is small and capable of doing what the makers say it will do, nothing more.
It doesn't have to be good to sell, take VHS, Windows ( get in there! ), Skoda's ( early ones! ), Pot Noodles and SUN hardware, it just has to be good enough to do what the makers say it will do!
They all want to a) convert their old apps or b) knock out some shitty naff app that will run on the iPad, but be the first in the queue to have an app available for the thing!
When the first people to buy iPads they want stuff to run, so if you're app is first in the queue on launch day, you're quids in!!
Either way, it will take 2 months and 16 submissions to break get your app through the diabolical AppStore vetting process, they want to get started now, so you can't really blame them!
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The Fuzzy Wotnot
Exactly! → # ↑
Posted Thursday 18th March 2010 04:30 GMT
In Muso turfed off train for 'suspicious' set list
Exactly what I was thinking!
They decided to peer at a personal note, private to that individual. As nothing more than security guards on private property, they had no right to look at his private notes! I would certainly conisder a private prosecution on the grounds of harrassment.
Good luck if he does!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
OK → #
Posted Wednesday 17th March 2010 13:31 GMT
In Incredible Hulk snared on Street View
1) Who's the wally dressed in black with the day-glow orange wig, looks like he's doing a very poor impression of Iron Maiden's Eddie the Ed?
2) What's that Wally doing wearing a tin-foil hat in the second shot?
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Oh for the love of... → #
Posted Tuesday 16th March 2010 13:11 GMT
In LibDems drop net blocking, blame activists
Lucas said he'd gone shopping to buy Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter, but the first three pages of Google's search results all pointed to illegal versions.
"It was extremely difficult to find something that was legal ... I do not see why search engines should not be able to block these things."
----
You are a plank! How about you start with a Google search for, oh I dunno, "audiobook and book retailers", like erm...what's it called, Ama-something or that other one Waterwoods or something?
Strange when I searched for "Pervy Nights in Bangkok", I got loads of links to porn sites not DVD retailers!!!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
It doesn't even look very nice does it! → # ↑
Posted Tuesday 16th March 2010 09:45 GMT
In The $20K iPad
The whole point of Apple kit is to look minimal and functional, this just looks like a kid's toy version you'd get with a Barbie doll!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Wake up you muppet! → # ↑
Posted Monday 15th March 2010 10:44 GMT
In Trojan armed with hardware-based anti-piracy control
Nice! Thanks for enforcing the attitude that all of us Linux and Mac users are wrapped in our perfect little bubbles of security, care-free!
Balls! Wake up and smell Steve's coffee! I own a Mac and having spent years learning to fight off nasties on my Windows kit I am not so complacent. I know there are limited nasties on the Linux and OSX platforms, the money isn't there yet to make it worth while. However as more people get fed up with Windows, the market share increases for OSX and Linux and as it does we will start catch the malware maker's eye.
You'd better start learning about proper Linux and OSX security, because Linus and Steve don't give a monkey's about us, so we need to learn to do it ourselves, not live in this perfect little bubble of protection that Steve and Penguin fanbois would have us believe!!!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Whoa! → # ↑
Posted Monday 15th March 2010 10:44 GMT
In ICANN delays decision on pornography domain
Naughty boy, fishing for free advertising there? Punishment time for you....
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Can they come back again? → #
Posted Friday 12th March 2010 20:18 GMT
In Blighty surrenders to Street View
I found my parent's house, I must have been visiting when Big G went past as my car was parked outside. The odd thing was that when you look from one angle the car is there, when you "turn around" in the view, my car is missing. I can only assume they didn't simply upload the pictures as is, they must do something when they blend them.
Could they come back to my house again please as I was out and would like appear in person, just get my 15 mins as it were?
I quite like StreetView, it's been very useful for planning my photography trips as I can find really useful places to park in town streets!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Euro laws? Pah! → # ↑
Posted Friday 12th March 2010 14:08 GMT
In BBC might pay for Tory broadband promises
Since when have our wonderful leaders ever paid attention to far more sensible Euro laws?!
Correction, they do pay attention. When it suits them, their policies and any hint of lining their pockets!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
All BS isn't it?! → # ↑
Posted Friday 12th March 2010 14:08 GMT
In Sarah Palin to testify in email hack trial
Something in the "Typical Country Girl/Soccer Mom Made Good" image that has been carefully crafted for her, that obviously appeals to the average voter.
Lots of politicians have cottoned on to the appeal-to-the masses-by-pretending-to-be-an-average-Joe, such as our Eton educated Dave Cameron, the Hoodie's mate!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Why bother?! → # ↑
Posted Friday 12th March 2010 14:08 GMT
In BBC might pay for Tory broadband promises
Why bother downloading DVDs on your superfast connection? Two minutes after you get it the Rozzers will be banging down the door, suitably attired in MPAA tabbards, then 6 months in limbo in the court system while the Gov cuts off your connections ( ooh nasty! )!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Stop worrying → #
Posted Friday 12th March 2010 10:25 GMT
In Euro Parliament threatens court action over ACTA secrecy
Why worry, I'm sure Wikileaks will have a copy up very soon!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
FFS! "Caving runts", the lot of them! → #
Posted Thursday 11th March 2010 21:34 GMT
In Tories on cyber war: Waffle, mutter, waffle. Um, vote for us!
If those were the important bits, I dread to think what the rest of it was like! A serious snooze-fest by the sounds of it!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Indeed... → #
Posted Thursday 11th March 2010 13:29 GMT
In Top exorcist says Satan at work in Vatican
Yep, we have no idea how to explain the fact that the priests cannot keep their hands off the alter boys private bits...hmmmm....hey I know, we have this ready made excuse that no one can argue with! We'll blame Satan! You want to know about Satan? Listen to BBC's Old Harry's Game by Andy Hamilton!
George Carlin's great quotes...
"God, the all seeing, all wonderful being that he is. has a set of 10 things he does not want you to do. If you do any these things, he has a special place full of pain, misery and eternal torment, you will be made to suffer for eternity! But God does love you!"
"I was a Catholic, until I reached the age of reason, around 13 years old!"
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Thunderbird is still the best on all three platforms! → #
Posted Wednesday 10th March 2010 20:48 GMT
In Whatever happened to the email app?
I remember long ago using CCMail client to dial into the CCmail servers directly and pull down mail...
Thunderbird is still best, I have moved my mailboxes from Windows, to Linux, back to Windows, back to Linux, then finally to Mac. Not once, not one single time, did I ever lose an email in Thundebird over a 3 year period of chopping and changing! All I ever did was simply ZIP up the mail directory and copy it about!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Hardly surpirsing is it?! → #
Posted Thursday 4th March 2010 13:51 GMT
In SeaWorld killer killer whale must die, Bible insists
Keep an animal that roams thousands of square miles of open ocean in a 50m wide pool of water and it goes a bit mental!
Doesn't take David Bellamy to work that bloody obvious fact out!!!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Oh for flips sake! → #
Posted Wednesday 3rd March 2010 12:49 GMT
In Apple turns the flamethrower on Android
I have a LG GW520 and it has loads of similar gestures to my wife's Jesus-phone, like swipe-smooth scroll in picture gallery, twist and tilt to rotate the on screen orientation! I use Apple desktop kit, like it but Apple can be very, very short-sighted and childish about things like this.
What's next? Suing the UK pound stores, seizing the kiddies plastic toys that look a little like the J-phone?!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Of course! → # ↑
Posted Wednesday 3rd March 2010 12:49 GMT
In Naomi Campbell bitchslaps NY limo driver
Oh yeah! My heart really bleeds for someone forced into life of Reilly, modelling for thousands a nano-second!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Trolls are coming! → #
Posted Wednesday 3rd March 2010 09:43 GMT
In Apple is suing HTC
The basements of the western world become a seethbing cauldron of bile and abuse as the trolls awaken from their slumbers!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Hmmmm... → #
Posted Tuesday 2nd March 2010 13:22 GMT
In Apple kicks out quack app, keeps boobs/farts
To bend and old saying, "Quality Assurance is not assurance of quality"!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Always bothers me... → # ↑
Posted Tuesday 2nd March 2010 13:00 GMT
In Secret documents: The Truth about MoD's UFO files
"Near miss"? That should be "almost hit", shirley? Much like "attempted murder", "failed murder" shirley?
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Almost side with them... → #
Posted Wednesday 24th February 2010 13:55 GMT
In 60 million Americans don't use the interwebs
' The study says that 15 million Americans think that broadband access is irrelevant, calling the internet "a waste of time" and saying there's no content of interest to them or that they're satisfied with dial-up. '
To a certain extent I can well believe that's perfectly true. Apart from the odd bit of software like a Linux distro or some new Oracle release, quite frankly I download about 3 MB and upload about 2MB each day at home!
I hate Face-Twat-mySpac or whatever it's called and YouTube is full of chavs in Slough, setting fire to each other! Somehow, a world with without Twat-Space-Book and Chav Video Central sounds quite nice actually!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Really? → # ↑
Posted Wednesday 24th February 2010 13:55 GMT
In 60 million Americans don't use the interwebs
I consider myself a pretty average bloke, I like a bit of filth once in a while but surely when you seen one set of bits in about half-dozen positions with various "attachments", shall we say, surely you've seen them all?
A couple of GB tops, maybe sort you out, but 0.5+ TB?! Really need that many bongo-movies and "money-shots"?!?
The mind ( and the pants presumably ) boggles!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Italian decision → #
Posted Wednesday 24th February 2010 13:12 GMT
In EC sharpens long Google probe
This and the Italian decision to convict Google managers over YouTube videos of bullying, things are not looking so good for the chocolate mountain mob!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Typical! → # ↑
Posted Tuesday 23rd February 2010 13:38 GMT
In Everything you ever wanted to know about Xbox hacking
I too have nothing meaningful to add to this discussion, but your attitude is just disgusting! People like you should...,should...., well I dont know, do something else! Nazi Germany started like this you know!
( See, pointless and a pathetic attempt to drag Godwin into it too! )
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Too late! → # ↑
Posted Friday 19th February 2010 06:41 GMT
In Attack code for Firefox zero-day goes wild, says researcher
Thought they were already doing that by cutting off anyone that so much as downloads a gif/jpg they have no copyright on!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Bears/Woods, etc → #
Posted Thursday 18th February 2010 13:54 GMT
In Industry groups leap to Chip and PIN's defence
Manufacturers in defence of own product shocker! Well blow me down!
Hardly surprising they are all ganging to together, there must be a very tidy sum to be made punting these little boxes that attach to practically every till in the western world!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Spot on mate! → # ↑
Posted Thursday 18th February 2010 13:54 GMT
In 77% of domain registrations stuffed with rubbish
I used to enter useful information on my registrar record but the spam got be a pain. So I dumped the email addresses that were getting hit and put a load of crap in my registrar DNS record and I get one maybe two spams a week now.
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Bears/Woods, Popes, etc → #
Posted Wednesday 17th February 2010 15:39 GMT
In 'I'm an IT worker not an assassin'
' The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has launched an investigation, adding "we believe the passports used were fraudulent." '
Well bugger me with a fish-fork! Jesus, with brains like that it's no wonder we're number one in the dopey-kids league in Europe!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Typical → #
Posted Friday 12th February 2010 14:10 GMT
In Chip and PIN security busted
Now sit back and watch all the finger-pointing begin, as everyone blames everyone else for the problem and we, the customers, continue to get fleeced by inadequate security.
The Fuzzy Wotnot
What's the fuss here? → #
Posted Thursday 11th February 2010 13:25 GMT
In Dell servers block un-Dell HDDs
All storage array vendors do it. Heck even NetGear with their cheap'n'cheerful ReadyNAS boxes, issue a list of drives that will be supported anything else and they can refuse support on your unit. Let alone when we get up to the big boys like EMC and HDS!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Bloody MS fanbois! → #
Posted Thursday 11th February 2010 13:25 GMT
In Microsoft erases Windows 8 optimism
You MS fanbois are worse than the Apple ones! The merest whiff of a new mythical MS product and you're all wetting your pants in anticipation! You then have the nerve to take a pop at Job's acolytes when they start getting excited.
Sit on the fence with your popcorn and enjoy the show!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Interesting times ahead. → # ↑
Posted Thursday 11th February 2010 13:23 GMT
In Google will build 1Gbps fiber networks to the home
Same old story though isn't it? Give something first offer everyone something they all "think" they need, while slowly building a cage around them.
So as I said a few months back, Google is intent on building it's own private internet, which will allow access to the older public one for a price. That price is yet to be fixed, ad revenue, a cash sum or something else?
Interesting times ahead for sure.
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Oh no! → # ↑
Posted Thursday 11th February 2010 13:23 GMT
In Google will build 1Gbps fiber networks to the home
Not so much Sky my friend, more like SkyNet!
Better get the Connor's on the phone while we still can , we might be needing their help soon.
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Really make a difference though? → #
Posted Wednesday 10th February 2010 21:36 GMT
In Warner Music gives up on free streaming services
I feel like most here, a good model that was working well, just punched in the face by Warner's greed.
However will it make any difference? Doubt it!
Most of the shit that Warner sell is sold to supermarket checkout plebs, wandering around TESCO or Sainsburys at the weekend during the "Friday big-shop", they will still pick up Warner DVDs of the latest US TV pap, they will still pick-up the latest X-Factor/Talentless screecher cack, so Warner's sales will still carry as usual.
Personally I listen to death and black metal and hate TV shows, so baring a handful of bands, Warner's snub doesn't bother me much as they wouldn't touch my music with 15ft barge-pole!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
WGA works! Well done! → #
Posted Wednesday 10th February 2010 12:30 GMT
In Microsoft genuinely chuffed as judge drops WGA case
I want WGA to carry on being used, it's fantastic! Treating genuine customers like dirty little freeloaders while the rip-off merchants get around it! It forced me to drop MS and find something far better, hopefully if they keep using it others will do the same!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Anarchist my arse! → # ↑
Posted Tuesday 9th February 2010 18:49 GMT
In Buster's World gives Guardian Professional balloon-sized headache
So if you want anarchy nothing to stop me coming round your house ( no doubt you live somewhere and pay rent?! ) and shooting you in the head or nicking all your stuff and no one will stop me or tell me off?!
As an anarchist you have enough faith in "the system" to get a computer and expect electricity and internet to make your computer work then?
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Well said! → # ↑
Posted Tuesday 9th February 2010 13:06 GMT
In Microsoft kills FAST's Linux and Unix search biz
Interoperability, hmmm. "We use TCP for the network layer and you have a browser for the GUI don't you? What more do you people want?!"
The Fuzzy Wotnot
BRAIN! HURT! BAD! → #
Posted Monday 8th February 2010 14:00 GMT
In Gov tempts young London onto ID database with booze, 'games'
UK Gov statement: Kids mustn't drink or play video games as it kils brain cells and is anti-social.
UK Gov statement: Kids can get a plastic card that lets them buy drink and computer games.
Brain! Confused! Need to lie down....
The Fuzzy Wotnot
1700's here we come again! → #
Posted Monday 8th February 2010 14:00 GMT
In Drink beer not fizzy pop for pity's sake, say boffins
I believe that due to the diabolical water quality in the 1700's, everyone was encouraged to drink beer, due to the fermentation process killing off the nasty bugs used in the water! Now it's healthy too!
Anyway, aren't pregnant women supposed to drink the "Black Diesel" to build up strength or was that a marketing ploy put about by the owners of the big golden G?
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Calling Oracle DBAs! → #
Posted Friday 5th February 2010 13:24 GMT
In Adobe to Jobs: 'What the Flash do you know?'
Anyone who has had the pleasure of using the new, revamped Oracle Metalink Support site will know the joy that an entire Flash enabled support site brings. The joy of restarting your browser while researching very important support calls. The deep pleasure that resubmitting support cases over and over 'cos Flash decided it had had enough and wanted to scramble the uploaded text files!
Oh yes, Oracle support is a real buzz now it's 100% pure flash website!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
I don't get the fuss here? → #
Posted Friday 5th February 2010 13:24 GMT
In Apple offers hush money for dodgy iMacs
So what, big company cannot deliver on brand new product, people get disappointed. Where's the story here? It happens to us all, we want the latest and greatest whatnot and 'cos it's bleeding edge it has problems. Fact of life!
Sorry, but irrespective of product or company, if you decide to get the latest major incarnation of the product, due to rapid development and rush to market, it will almost always go wrong, not work properly, breakdown, etc.
Good system and database admins always abide by the mantra, 'Never install GA point release of any software! Always wait for at least .1 or more preferably, .2 release, before upgrading!", this applies to hardware gadgets too!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Always makes me laugh... → #
Posted Thursday 4th February 2010 13:48 GMT
In Researchers penetrate last bastion of Windows security
The worst most insecure browser demanded, usually by banks, to access the world's most secure sites!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Quelle surprise?! → #
Posted Wednesday 3rd February 2010 06:24 GMT
In Google reveals nonexistent Chrome tablet
Really such a surprise given the fact that any company in the hardware game is currently knocking-up plans to put out a tablet! They all want to get on the muppet-bandwagon, fanbois will buy anything, so if dopey, more-money-than-sense fanbois buy the gadget of the moment, then surely there is a market for the more financially challenged gadget collectors to buy a similar gadget.
I wish some people would rememeber that these companies don't make gadgets to improve humanity's evolution, they do it for cash, pure and simple. If that means jumping on someone else's bandwagon, so be it!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Just another techno-lusting sheep! → # ↑
Posted Monday 1st February 2010 13:09 GMT
In Adobe heats up iPad Flash bash
Yeah, but no one making you buy it mate?
Perhaps they are, is there someone next to you right now with a gun to your head forcing you onto the Apple site to buy Apple kit?!
Techno-lust is all it is! Pure and simple. You want it and you want it your way! Well tough luck the world doesn't work that way sonny.
If Apple want to cut off half the potential market by doing something you don't like, that's their own stupid fault, they must a have reason for it. They sell the device, they dictate the conditions the device comes with, don't like? Well f**k off and buy something else that does work the way you want it to!
Still want it though don't you? Then you turn around call people who buy it, "Sheeple"! Pot, this is Kettle, I think you have a lot in common.
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Of f**k off! → #
Posted Monday 1st February 2010 13:06 GMT
In Google boss worries about the future of reading
I am more worried about a world my kids will grow up in dominated by a company so overbearing that they will soon own the "common" internet and have enough power to build their own private internet!
This bullshit from a bloke who trotted out the tired old mantra, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear from Google."
I encourage my kids to learn to read, but more importantly I encourage them to think for themselves. Reading is a skill it can be learned as required. Thinking individual thoughts has to be developed from an early age, very hard to develop later on in life when you're more set in your ways or brain-washed by corps like GOOGLE!!!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Oh shut up! Macs are perfect! → # ↑
Posted Friday 29th January 2010 14:23 GMT
In Windows 7 upgrades Vista laptops to lower battery life
Haven't you got a tablet thingy to worship somewhere?!
I own 4 macs and I think they are great machine, but they still have their own problems, the heat coming out of my Macbook annoys me no end. Nothing like Steve's baby frying my nads when I am on a train!
Perhaps try taking the blinkers off once in a while fanboi!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
No one else? → #
Posted Friday 29th January 2010 14:23 GMT
In Greenock pensioners cuffed for Tesco 'sex romp'
OK I'll say it then....ahem, "Clean up in aisle 6 please!"!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
What a world! → #
Posted Friday 29th January 2010 14:23 GMT
In Italians salute Mussolini on the iPhone
You can download this cack, alright historic documentation, about a bald-headed looney-toon who looked like Alexi Sayle, yet some bloke couldn't flog his Dad's Army board-game on everyone's favourite tat-market, 'cos it had a swastika on the front!
The app-store let this through? Yet they routinely stop a little bit of page-three nudity, I think I find a fascist nutter inciting people to bump off anyone he doesn't agree with, far worse than a pair of soaped-up jubblies!
What a world, what a world!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Say it again! → # ↑
Posted Friday 29th January 2010 07:41 GMT
In Adobe sounds off on iPad's Flash slap
Anyway...
Just 'cos it's crap, doesn't mean it isn't popular, take Windows ( oop, had to get that in there, haha!).
Flash might be complete crap, bloody annoying, slow and the bane of most support desks, but the damn thing is everywhere like a rash. Sites are using it 'cos it's cheap and cheerful, whether you lot think it's good or not is irrelevant, Mr Joe Public wants flashy ( no pun! ) sites and lots of eye-candy, Flash gives it and makes it quick and easy, when it works of course.
The iPad may not be technically fantastic, but it will sell like hotcakes, Apple have a well-known brand and the device is small and capable of doing what the makers say it will do, nothing more.
It doesn't have to be good to sell, take VHS, Windows ( get in there! ), Skoda's ( early ones! ), Pot Noodles and SUN hardware, it just has to be good enough to do what the makers say it will do!
The Fuzzy Wotnot
First in line! → #
Posted Friday 29th January 2010 06:41 GMT
In 1,000 devs raid iPadded code kit
"There's gold in them thar hills I tells ya!"
They all want to a) convert their old apps or b) knock out some shitty naff app that will run on the iPad, but be the first in the queue to have an app available for the thing!
When the first people to buy iPads they want stuff to run, so if you're app is first in the queue on launch day, you're quids in!!
Either way, it will take 2 months and 16 submissions to break get your app through the diabolical AppStore vetting process, they want to get started now, so you can't really blame them!
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