If you're that worried about it becoming public, don't put it on Facebook. I really don't understand the issue here.

Let's hope it's an improvement on the CrapBerry MKI. I've been lumbered with one of these for nearly a year now, and only in the last month or so have the software updates made the thing anymore use than a paperweight - albeit a paperweight with a battery that goes flat alarmingly quickly.

I'm not tempted, and my MKI effort will be going in the bin when my contract is up ...

P.S. On Vodafones contract, you can't even watch any educational Internet smut without paying Vodafone another £1, "to prove you're 18". Bloody cheek. Or so I've read ...

WHAT? I used (or tried to use) Sage for my self-employed accounts, and it was a complete pig for a non bean-counter type like myself ... then I read an article on El Reg about Microsoft Accounting, installed it, and very soon uninstalled Sage and never looked back.

Microsoft ACcounting had a definite place for some people, and was/is much more reliable and easier to maintain. I shall miss it.

The one thing about all this that I think is a little unfair is the short notice that Microsoft have given to users of the product.

Smartarse ....

The guys name is (sorry, was) Sun.

You owe El Reg an apology :-)

I couldn't have put it better myself

speaking as someone who earns some of my living from selling photographs, if he took pictures of someone elses child, without seeking at the very least a nod of consent, it's hardly surprising that he got into trouble.

He's either impossibly naive, or stupid.

"Morden day devolving Britain. What a sad sad place she is becomming."

The standard of English in her schools isn't doing too well either, by the looks

:-)

"It's good news for our customers who will increasingly benefit from a group that has consistently championed best value and award-winning customer service."

Has Mary Turner been drinking?

I think we should be told.

at least they bother to lube the rails in London. On the trains around the MiseryRail network up here, they can't be arsed, so we all get to go deaf as we trundle through the tunnel loop, stuck to our chewing-gum covered seats.

Mind you, they frequently can't be arsed running the trains either, especially on the Wirral Line, so that tends to keep the noise down a bit.

Her Ladyship, because even she could run a rail service better than MerseyRail, and she certainly wouldn't be tight with the lube ...

Will there ever come a day when the anti-MS fucktards will shut up? Fuck me, you lot are boring. Tha same drivel in the comments to any article that dares use the word Microsoft.

how much did DiskLabs pay for this "article" then?

I work for Headland Media, maybe I coukd think up something interesting about our maritime news services that could qualify as a "news story".

I'll get my coat ...

The iPod truly is the audio tool of the devil. If I could ban one item of modern life, it would be the f**king iPod.

As a poor sap that has to travel into work every day on Liverpools MiseryRail network, I can atest that there is very little of the 'personal' about the stereo from one of these devices. Why the fuck can't they design a pair of earplugs that keep the sound in the ear, rather than annoying the crap out of anyone within 20 feet?

I truly, truly hate the iPod.

{Rant over}

I would alter that slightly to ...

"Anyone who uses Facebook deserves to have their PC taken away."

You don't want to get on the wrong end of them. I had a 'run-in' with BT, who passed the debt to Moorcroft, despite having told me that they had cancelled the debt. Not pleasant.

It makes you wonder who would would want to work in a place like that, and if the rest of the staff are there on sufferance because it's all they can get, no wonder the business is so crap. They reduced an ex of mine to tears once, over a debt that had already been paid.

One of my small pleasures in life is knowing that I once got a debt collector (not from Moorcrofts, sadly) fired, because he phoned my house one afternoon and discussed the full details of my apparent inabilities to pay my bills with our cleaning lady!

B**tards, the lot of 'em.

*Mines the one with the CCJ's tucked in the pocket.

... try visiting a page on MSDN. If it renders many pages as badly as it does the MSDN site, most people will never use it enough to suffer an attack.

Paris, because at least her misrenderings are kinda cute.

"But the sad git still hates diesel!"

... and he's right.

Diesel sportscars - the bastard offspring of Jeremy Beadle& Noel Edmonds. I'll take my Vrs without the shower of black-soot, thank you :-)

Paris, because she prefers a decent ride.

and of course every small business has its own web server these days

Time to develop a rival UK service, I think.

I might call it "Twatter", and have people put a little "Twat Me" button on the bottom of their blog posts.

Paris, for obvious reasons ...

the chap sat opposite me was fed a breakfast of Vista SP1 first thing on Monday morning ... by elevenses time he was sat looking at a Blue Screen of Death ... first one I've seen in a good while.

His PC is now healthy again, but only because he was able to remove the SP1 update.

Think I'll stay with XP, for now anyway.

reading your comment makes me think that perhaps Nike should call the trainnees (as they apparently call them around here) the "Nike ShitStabbers".

As this probably won't make it past the El Reg censors, I'll just get my coat and leave quietly ...

" .... video or software pirates ... "

For Ryanair to accuse anyone else of being a "pirate" is frankly unbelievable.

Paris, because even she couldn't afford a ride with Michael O'Leary

... and there I was planning to start a Facebook group for plods that had managed to arrest/harass/embarrass an innocent snapper.

Business.com appears to still be for sale ... or for sale again perhaps.

And to think I was chuffed at getting $900 for a speculatively registered domain name.

(Note to self: Must Try Harder)