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I worked for Kingston Interactive Television which was the first commercial launch of an Interactive Digital Television over ADSL in October 1999.

KIT offered the three services that are now called Triple play, Telephone, Video (both VOD and broadcast) and data (Internet and Walled Garden content).

Kingston Interactive Television October 1999.

then it implies that UK citizens in the UK are subject to US jurisdiction. Follow that slope very far, and you end up with the US ruling the world (or at least trying to).

You're not in the UK, then. The news here has been full of this story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3746082.stm

Note that what they were accused of is a crime here as well as in the US, but British prosecutors didn't consider the evidence as worth the trouble of starting a prosecution. They were extradited to the US without the US having to produce any evidence that would stand up in a UK court.

Note the the US doesn't ship its citizens off to a foreign judiciary without trial or evidence. Unless they're brown

Can you cite a source? I can't find anything on Comcast's terms of service, or on Google.

"As mentioned before, the attack are most likely not from China at all. No decent hacker would leave traces from his own machine", suv4x4

It's not as if they had access to the hackers computers. They would use evidence of portscans being run against their own computers.

"A few minutes ago, we received a complaint from the U.S. Department of Commerce about them being portscanned"

"Attacks on UK government systems using a then unpatched ,Microsoft Windows Meta File (WMF) exploit last Christmas were traced back to China."

"Last June the UK's .. (NISCC) warned that approximately 300 UK Government departments .. have been the subject of such attacks, many reportedly originating in the Far East.

How the heck does this get modded up Insightful?

was Re:Not Chinese, Insightful)

Well, why don't you google it? (2.4 billion in the unlikely even that you;re interested).

And if you conduct a search, you'll notice that Yahoo has adopted the colour scheme for its search results page of Google's search results page. I wondered if this was because they used Google's search technology, but the Wikipedia assures me that Yahoo uses its own crawler and database and has been doing so since their involvement in JFK's assasination.

That's about 22 million American tons of people. If you're checking my math, remember to allow for kids.

Look up your own satirical comparison here, for example New York alone allegedly produces that much waste anually.

This suit has already achieved success. The purpose of filing this suit is publicity for professional author and pundit (and sometimes lawyer, and sometimes disbarred lawyer) Jack Thompson. That's its only purpose, although the rubes that Thompson's duped into putting their name on it probably don't realise that yet.

Thompson makes his money from selling books and punditry. He's only a lawyer in the loosest sense, and perhaps not in any sense for long: Google for jack thomson disbarred.

you'd better tell google their calculator doesnt work

1.21 gigawatts / 88mph

I live in the UK.... TSA? Am I supposed to know what that is?

I don't live in the UK, but I found this useful:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=TSA

SGI also had a few mighty fine designs for their desktops, but looking at their product range now it seems like the gave up on the desktop. Some links: http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=SGI&ie=utf-8&o e=utf-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Another old design which still looks good comes from what was NeXT: http://www.channelu.com/Turbo/NeXT/i/cube1a.jpg

Roger Taylor (The drummer from Queen) wrote an excellent song about Rupert Murdoch, to be found on his 'Happiness' album.
Check out the Lyrics :-)

And that is pretty much what's happening here, except that between the skeptic nutters in the US, the petrochemical-funded astroturf pseudo-science that the Royal Society publicly protested about yesterday. By the time the evidence is clear that not only are massive changes occurring, but that these changes are going to kill tens or hundreds of millions of people, it will be too late.

Hence, We're all doomed. I rest my case.

Yeah, there are loads of 'em

I used to use a Glide Wrapper so I could play The Sentinel Returns properly on my system.

"you'd probably look for a website that was specifically about disseminating info about cryptography."

Sure, but most people would start with a Google search:

      http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=cryptograph y

First result is a Wikipedia article.

I'm all for getting information out to the greatest amount of people, I just don't think that rebuilding a section of Wikipedia in a separate location (and from scratch) is a particularly good way of doing that.

Ms Maguire has claimed that John Gill, of Drumline, Newmarket on Fergus, defamed her by posting offensive remarks on rateyoursolicitor.com. Mr Gill, chairman of the Victims of the Legal Profession Society, denied that anything concerning Ms Maguire was published or posted on the site.

The cached results of a google search for John Gill at that site turns up several hits, including a link to a letter from Woods, Ahern and Mullen solicitors threatening action against John Gill if "offending entries" are not "deleted" from "his website" (Could that be CrookedLawyers.com?).

The postings under the name of "John Gill" on rateyoursolicitor, about several different solicitors, are so offensive and far-fetched that I cannot see that any sensible person would take them seriously.

Somebody is laughing at, just a matter of who actually are the terrorists them or us.
IMHO the US/UK goverments are the terrorists and 9/11 7/7 where orchestrated.
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=32497146 75910247150

Theism its all about GOD "Gold Oil Drugs" repent your sins, you gold wearing, oil using, drug taking, theism.

Perhaps not, but some of them are awesome: Xiquets De Banyoles.

I'm not gonna beat around the bush, I don't use a mac... Can anyone tell me if this has happened to their Intel-Mac yet ;) http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6415770 050655464328&q=intel+mac+advert

Perhaps practicioners of conventional medicine should have a large warning sign on their establishments explaining the meaning of the word 'Iatrogenic' and that according to the latest statistics deaths due to 'medical errors' currently run at 195,000 people per year in the US.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iatrogenic/me ssage/1451

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Iatrogenic

Makes holistic and homeopathic therapies look positively benign by comparison...

Nullmodem.com Article

Wikipedia Article

Centronix

Though I agree, it's a no-brainer to retreive data from C64 format media.

How could such a happy cat kill himself, eh? =^_^=

Segway failed because they underestimated how lazy people are, I bet those electric scooter chair things are outselling it by far.

It is unlikely that they developed a modern web browser from scratch.

There is no indication on their web site that it is based on anything though.

http://www.browzar.com/

I found this one message on google groups (in french) which indicates it is based on Internet Explorer.

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/fr.comp.infosyste mes.www.navigateurs/browse_frm/thread/19f96a99deb3 0fc1/76965389104729e7?lnk=st&q=browzar&rnum=2#7696 5389104729e7

Anyone know any better?

You mean Hat McCullough... http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hat+mccullough&st art=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I think the parent was referring to a phenomenon known as "Rip off Britain" (bonus: Wikipedia entry) in which things cost more here in the UK than in the US for no apparent reason.

For me £249.99 seems like a likely retail price for a retail version of Vista Ultimate, or £199.99 if we (OK not me, i'm now a dedicated Linux user) are lucky.

A process which takes the best of the natural world and the best of our scientific processes and gives natural selection a helping hand.

Because the desirable features all come from varieties of natural crops, the chances of three headed luminous offspring appear unlikely.

When they were first talking about skin colour of wild plants I thought it was a waste (because you can see the fruit colour), but they are sequencing the saplings of these plants before they have grown enough to bear fruit. It allows them to tell within days which of the crop has the desired features.

I just wonder how many samples it take to identify a marker though - you can't use a single sample and must really DNA test an entire range of pre-categorised samples.
I wonder if any of the seed banks will allow their stock to be tested?

This is in effect similar to the genetic testing of embryos for certain high risk hereditary diseases, but goes to show just how cheap and "normal" DNA testing has become.

Well the biggest problem I've had is that any forums I goto I get accused of being a pirate for one. It's the same error the early priated version has, but they found a fix for it, where as Valve isn't fixing it.. WTF is that?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X &oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=datacache+dll+ half+life+2&spell=1 Google link for the easiest way to ID the problem.

Any game that involves shooting a simalcrum of an actual creature must perforce be similiar in violence levels to Pac-Man (where the monsters eat the protagonist) and Dig Dug (where the protagonist inflates the monsters until they explode).

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
Groucho Marx.

P.S.
Read 'Harpo Speaks'
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=ha rpo+speaks&btnG=Search&meta=
It's a wonderful biography :)

Hurricanes and typhoons here on earth show similar spiral arms in their formation and nobody thinks its dark matter, it may simply be the underlying shape of the particles which make up the universe which is doing it.

And if true means the owner of these piranhas may be in BIG BIG trouble with our Goldfish overlords:

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=12735231 47807051976

Unfortunately, that probably won't help the cause. The media will conveniently forget that that information should never have been collected in the first place, and spin it as "evil hackers steal identities", not as "company commits egregious invasion of privacy". (If you do want to steal someone's identity, BTW, you can do worse than look here for inspiration.)

As always, the best way to protect yourself is to lie through your teeth when asked for personal information and never, ever be even vaguely consistent across different requests. For instance, if you pretended to be an Albanian nun to get a NYT login, pretend to be a Portuguese sausage-maker with hobbies of sword-fighting and watch repair to get an IMDB login -- but don't mention anything ecclesiastical or Albanian.

Nostalgia - blowing on the Nintendo game cartridge.

My old Genesis did this, and who can remember the old wobbly ram pack?

I've always wondered if the blowing actually helped and if it wasn't just the remove/reinsert that did it. When I used to work for a computer laptop manufacturer, we found that a large portion of broken units could be fixed via "reseating the cpu". With the number of contacts in these high-density connectors, an odd broken contact is inevitable. The way I see it, any dust that could be removed by blowing would not cause an open circuit. It would be just as easilly pushed out of the way by the contact.

Corrosion on the other hand is a pain. Clean it up with ethanol (ask your drunkard uncle for some) and it's as good as new.

Havn't seen "lose change 2nd ed" have you?

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=71671514 89146455453&q=loose+change+2nd

I know I'm only quoting it, but I'm pretty sure it's right. aircraft fuel doesn't burn at a high enough temperature to melt the girders used in the twin towers construction, and isn't it interesting how other similarly constructed buildings burnt for far, far longer, across more floors, without miraculously, and cleaning folding in on themselves perfectly as only otherwise seen in controlled building demolitions ?

There is nothing stopping terrorists from taking out all the people standing around waiting to get through security.

If your project can't meet at least 75% of it's goals, it's a complete failure. Anything less than 90% compliance is pathetic.

Not true, have you never heard of the 80/20 rule.
Basically you can get a product that does 80% of what you want by only implementing 20% of what you've asked for. It's used all over the place for requirements management.

There will always be thouse project where anything less than 100% is a failure, and CSS fits somewhere between 95 and 100%.

Good ol' Jack... If you don't know him, he's an attorney and activist determined to squelch violent video games. He has been quoted saying, "[Video Games are] dangerous physical appliances that teach a kid how to kill efficiently and to love it." Sounds like someone was pwned too much when gaming as a kid. If you ever see his gamertag online, let him win a match so he stops crying.

One of my old favourite's oopsies are upload scripts that don't prevent you from uploading PHP or other web script files.

It's amazing how many webmasters leave little scripts in their public directories not stopping to think search engines may find them.

It would be nice if someone would put this on the 'net.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=Z0C&hl=en&client =firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%2 2The+mondragon+experiment%22&btnG=Search&meta=

Terrorists do not only exist in NYC and London, although they are popular targets.

I live in London, have done since i was born 18 years ago. I never really lived through the IRA bombings, but we just stumbled through it. The greatest freedom that i feel i've been robbed of due to terrorism at the current time? There's no bloody bins on the Tube, as they were a favourite IRA target. After the 7th July bombings they removed the bins from overground trains for about 2 weeks too.

Since the 7th July London bombings (The biggest single attack on London since the war, and second highest loss of life since Lockerbie) the only restrictions i've noticed? Well, none. Excluding the short term removal of bins and the short term increase in visible policing, the only long-term idea proposed has been to have bomb-scanning equipment on the Tube, an idea that's been deemed unrealistic ever since it was proposed and won't be implemented.

Ever hear of Pan-Am flight 103 which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. People died in that village (with population of about 4000), did you really think they believed they were a terrorist target in 1988?

Look at the list here to see who was a "target of terrorism" and effectively asked for it:
July 4 2002: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing 2 Israelis before being killed himself.
October 23 2002: Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue three days later.
July 5 2003: 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow.

Just because it's not affected you yet, doesn't mean it won't and can't. As mentioned in many comments above, wiretapping was only applied after a tip-off from a relative about the group and their intentions.

Hi there David.

Its not that impoverished muslims are not rational cost-benefit analysis types.

Because of whats going on Lebanon right now, everyone has had their lives and houses destroyed, families ripped apart and they will want revenge. Its pretty much the same for Palestine. Crimes like these beget more crimes - its a vicious cycle without end.

The average (non-Wahabi/non-Al Qaeda) muslims place tremendous value on life, however the general feeling in the west seems to be that perhaps these people count for less. The people are not looking for ways to get killed and go to heaven - they are going about their daily lives and worrying about how to pay for rent, save and buy a nice car, put kids through college - the regular old joe stuff!

The Lebanese were rebuilding their country and democracy taking hold. The Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, contrast with Iraq, a miserable failure, was a success. And now the country has been turned into rubble. A MILLION people displaced - do you know what its like to be homeless with roads bombed, bridges destroyed, airports closed and no way to escape?

Apart from the criminal action of destroying a sovereign state's infrastructure and people, this is also self destructive for Israel as it will encourage MORE attacks. A vacuum in Lebanon will do what a vacuum in Iraq has done - draw in extremists from across the region to engage in battle.

The way forward was to help the moderates and thus isolate the extremists. Collective punishment just makes things worse because it just validates the extremist stance and closes off all avenues of dialogue since you're no longer talking to anyone in power to do anything.

Take a look at: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4537410 289542379413&q=george+galloway

While, the US must support Israel's right to exist, it must also not provide Israel a blank cheque for violence in the middle east. Doing so only draws anger towards the US for supporting these war crimes and incites MORE attacks against Israel.

Had the US reigned Israel in earlier, so much destruction and anger would not be around to defuse. And even Israel could have called off the attack without losing face. Encouraging the attack was... stupid!

As it is, the Middle East has now become even more unstable and violent. All these displaced people will now, justifiably, see the people fighing the invasion as their only hope since everyone is encouraging the Israeli attack till it cripples Hezbollah!

How?

By destroying Lebanon!

MORE support for war! More rockets, more shelling!

Its MADNESS!

This happened on Deputy PM John Prescott's watch. "Tony Blair is beginning his delayed holiday to the Caribbean ... While Mr Blair is away, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is expected to take control of the day-to-day running of the country." - BBC 8/8/6

So I'm waiting for further evidence before deciding whether this is a real threat or just "security theater".

But we better hope the ban on hand luggage works, because the next step for John Prescott could be really scary: "Naked ... On a Plane".

here is the video of the FIRST take of the moon landings!

They said I was crazy! Well I'll show them NOW!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

*burble*

And they already been doing that for years.

http://www.google.co.uk/press/zeitgeist.html

Storing every single search performed by every person in the world across a whole epoch could pretty much give you the pulse of the world.

What, like Google Zeitgeist?

See for yourself:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22malicious+java script%22&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0& ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla :en-US:official

Results 1 - 10 of about 83,700 for "malicious javascript".

use WINE you wally... Google is your friend here... a simple search (such as keywords wsftp+linux or irfanview+linux) reveals irfanview [

I just tried to install irfanview without success. I followed the instructions there, I just downloaded and installed the last version of wine. Unfortunately I get an error saying "the ordinal 6880 could not be located int he dynamic link library MFC42.DLL". I tried googling about it but the only result is a forum where the answer does not work (I already placed MFCxxxx in the system32 folder).

Oh, and of course I took the time to do all this *hacking*, the real problem is that non-hacky users would have a really hard time installing WINE in first place (yep I got to compile and install in my home fodler, as i dont have root access :])