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  1. Re:It's all a question of media on How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive? · · Score: 1

    well they are now beta testing line bonding , pairing two copper wire lines with a special router to give up to 48mb down and 5mb up. cannot wait till that puppy is rolled out! i stay 300 meters by wires from my exchange!

  2. Re:It's all a question of media on How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive? · · Score: 1

    yeah, i am with Be too. they kick ass. i know Be and o2 are related with tlefinoca owning both but i had never heard of the excessive usage. i stand corrected bud. but Be.. would heartily recommend to anyone!

  3. Re:It's all a question of media on How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive? · · Score: 1

    and also a couple of ISP's who do uncapped and unfiltered for less such as http://www.bethere.co.uk/ and http://broadband.o2.co.uk/home/index.jsp

  4. Re:Samsung Spinpoint anyone? on Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows · · Score: 1

    you tajke it 3 wrong. been buying them for years and they kick ass. never had one fall over yet

  5. Samsung Spinpoint anyone? on Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows · · Score: 1

    absolutely fantastic drives! very reliable indeed. i also like WD flavoured drives too but Spinpoints are definitely rock as far as HDD's go.

  6. Re:Because of the DRM on Spore the Most Pirated Game of 2008 · · Score: 1

    maybe he doesn't give them away for free because he has now built up a fan base willing to buy his works?

    it's a bit like the New model Army song about drug dealers

    " tell you what i'll give you your first one free,

    and when you want some more then you come back to me"...........

  7. Re:Where's Bruce Schneier? on BT Silences Customers Over Phorm · · Score: 1

    carphone warehouse bought out aol uk and thus uk's aol customers are also getting phorm through this. mind you aol always have and always will suck balls..lol i am with www.bethere.co.uk and they kick ass and have openly stated they have no interest in phorm at all. also for a up to 24mb down and 2.5mb up (i get 23 down and 2.5 £22 per month and a set up of £24, however on the advice of my cousin i asked them to drop the set up fee and they did!

  8. Re:Heuristic: on BT Silences Customers Over Phorm · · Score: 1

    no we don't have the "patriot act" but new labour have brought in pretty much the same thing by small increments

  9. Re:Heuristic: on BT Silences Customers Over Phorm · · Score: 1

    100 years? what you on about? BT was born in the 80's from selling off a division of the post office History of BT

  10. Re:Like to see this replicated on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 1

    Delta-32... i had "is it maybe delta... and is it 22??! but i just could not remember and yes you are spot on in what you say. maybe if i hasn't been SO stoned i would have recalled much better..LOL

  11. Re:Like to see this replicated on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 1

    moot point, it's the way it attacks the system that helped make the link. more to the point i never said it was! what id did do was lump them together at one point "black death/HIV" and taken in that contexy is fine and funky....

  12. Re:Like to see this replicated on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 5, Interesting

    IIRC i watched a TV doc about HIV immunity and how it was found. there is a link to the black death here too.

    AS it was discovered that the very same genes that help immunity from the black death are same for HIV.

    if you have none of this gene pair "switched on" then you are gonna get ill quick and die......

    if you have one of the pair on then you will go on for a few weeks THEN come down with symptoms.

    However with BOTH genes switched on you are immune but carry the black death/HIV virus. Was on the discovery channel....

    It was also apparently found that is was only ethnic Europeans who had this gene switched on... this led to some conspiracy theories about HIV/AIDS being created to be targeted at non whites.

    NEVER let it be said that a late night spliff to chill out whilst Discovery is on is a waste of your chill time!

  13. Re:I hate their lying ways on UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes · · Score: 1

    New Labour are FAR FROM liberal. the chap who told of their thatcherite heritage is 100% spot on in his assessment. westminster has two main parties and both are very much right wing with labour bringing in over 4000 pieces of legislation over the last 11 years. we also haev a form of patriot act BUT it is split oer a fair few different pieces of legislation, but it's very much there too.

    New Labour wouldn't know what "Social Democracy" was it it ran up to them and kicked them in the collective ass whilst shouting " i am social democracy!!!" to call them liberals such a ridiculous notion but it does show you don'#t really know how the land lies on these islands maybe...

  14. Re:It's to help you guess others' genders on IBM's Teri-is-a-Girl-and-Terry-is-a-Boy Patent · · Score: 1

    erm... how about "Kyle is a name of Scottish origin and from the Gaidhlig(gaelic language).. and means handsome, near the chapel, narrow, narrow channel, strait. In Scotland it's never given to a girl and the closest you get here is an old english name of "kyla" for females. i AM Scottish and this annoys me a bit!! Another thing that annoys me is the people who make up name spellings as they are just too plain dumb to either check using a book of names or google it! i mean FFS! "laetisha"?? WTF shouldn't that be "LETITIA".. and let me tell you YES IT BLOODY WELL IS!!!!!

  15. Re:Warcraft III on A Look At Successful Game Mods · · Score: 1
    From TFA

    Counter-Strike is a case in point; a mod that turned the alien infested Half-Life into a detailed tactical shooter. It became so damned popular it overshadowed the original game engine it was built on, like the student outshining the teacher. Counter-Strike - like other big names in the modding world - only served to fan the flames.

    there are however a fair few HL2 mods mentioned such a Garry's Mod,Hidden source,Half life 2:Wars. thus not only does counterStirke get a mention but also loads of other HL2 mods do to. remember though, this is just a recommended list from those guys.. you list may differ!

  16. Re:Who is VIA anyway? on S3 Jumps On GPGPU Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    i once had a machine with the dreaded S3 Virge in it... what a piece o crapioca that was.... the day i got my voodoo card and put it in...what a difference! then another voodoo was put in for dual card lovelyness! as i recall there was a wee cable used at the back called a loopback cable to use the cards together. i think nvidia bought out 3Dfx who made the voodoo tio grab the tech and this formed the basis on SLi. After the vodoo i went onto a TNT Riva! ad whata difference. to me though S3 will always represent the low end shitty end of the market and VIA's chipsets will always be shitty. do VIA chipsets STILL have a prob with USB?

  17. Re:Probably just for P2P on Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit · · Score: 5, Funny

    You would still lose the election.

    but would he lose his erection?

  18. CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER!!!!! on Dell Found Guilty of Fraud, False Advertising · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_manslaughter

    http://www.hse.gov.uk/corpmanslaughter/faqs.htm

    http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2008/03/15/41798/corporate-manslaughter-legal-q.html
    i am pretty sure this law was brought in due to a few things where the coprorate body was deemed to be liable for deaths caused but there seemed to be inadequate laws to punish the heads of the coprorate bodies

    it's not just businesses but also the national health bodies here in the UK and also local/regional councils too.

    from what i gather the charges being brought are rare and even rarer is a successful charge.

  19. Re:6.6m area, eh? on R2D2-Shaped DVD and Videogame Projector · · Score: 1

    i imagine that will be from top left hand corner to botton right hand

  20. Re:England != UK on CCTVs Don't Work in the UK · · Score: 1

    LOL, this is me calm, very calm

    and this laddie is 38 sonny jim

  21. Re:England != UK on CCTVs Don't Work in the UK · · Score: 1

    Welsh/Irish/Scottish.. yeah yeah so you have a mix of blood.... however i would hazzard a guess where were you born/do you live? wouild be the more approriate question than hiding behind you alledged linnage?

    you ballsed up at least have the balls to admit it!

  22. Re:England != UK on CCTVs Don't Work in the UK · · Score: 1
    mixed them up intentionally? um.... yeah ....sounds pretty much like a bunch of arse to me!

    I'm Scottish NOT british

    and was that a wee dig ?

    howevever attemtping to dig yuorself out a hole with such an UBER LOW quality excuse is beyond piss poor.

    (I'm part Welsh, part Scottish and part Irish myself. But no whining nancy boy.)
    and all muppet for the aforementioned guffola excuse

    i also see your "homepage" has been suspended just like your credability with that oh so witless retort

    Saor Alba

    Alba gu BrÃth

    Prosperity to Scotland and nae union!

    LOL
  23. Re:England != UK on CCTVs Don't Work in the UK · · Score: 1

    quite right bud,this is yet another reason why i, as a Scottish Nationalist, grind my teeth at such ignorant comments. however with only 2 more years MAX to go before the Independence referendum ,and Scottish Labour backing it LOLOL, not much longer to go before Scotland gets to determine it's own future... bliss bliss bliss!

  24. Re:This is Hilarious on Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality Is Already Gone · · Score: 1

    well check out this FACTUAL DMT Screenie this is what i connect at, and it's a fabulous service. i don't work for them and quite frankly i have had nothing but a good experiance with them.

    So i am betting that you live well over a mile from your exchange(Burnley). i have a friend who is 4 miles from the exchange and he's with Be and he gets 4.6mb, which isn't bad considering the distance. so you either had knackered copper wire that needed replacing or gash equipment.

    also anyone with half a brain checks out what the terms of service are before entering into an agreement especially in rented accoms where you have to be out within a certain timescale. perhaps you should have gone with an isp with month to month contract instead of one with a contract that you have to give two months notice to. i own my property so this isn't an issue for me.

    Also i am far from a troll....LOL and who was it with the foul mouthed litany flaming a company i have had the best ISP experience with, never had any probs with in fact?? that'll be you..lol

    my conclusion ROFL! 'nuff said!

  25. Re:This is Hilarious on Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality Is Already Gone · · Score: 1

    hmmm you are quyite the foul mouthed morn arent' you?

    as far as canceling you have to give two months notice... AND you aren't tied in for a minimum period

    you also can tell you have NEVER Been with Be, the only user name you have is get into the member center. the touter doesn't require one.

    Again you are NOT LOCKED INTO A CONTRACT.. SIMPLE YOU JUST HAVE TO GOVE TWO MONTHS NOTICE

    there are also three types of accounts at Be, up to 8mb, and two flavours of up to 24mb. Alsio if you fidn that speedas are as low as 2mb then i would suggest you live MILES from your exchange and NO DSL WILL GET TOP SPEED. either that or as it appears from the wild innaccuracy of youir statements about be that you NEVER HAVE BEEN WITH THEM!!!

    as a final point to note i have NEVER heard of ANYONE with Be who have 2mb...lol and as another point to note Be install their equipment into the exhange as they are an LLU and this Be would NEVER say that a whole exchange is only capable of "2mb" as the CLOSER you get the faster your connection potential will be

    OH MY GODF I HAVE JUST SEEN YOUR WEBSITE AND YOR PICTURE ON IT...!!!! i see your anus is placed just under your nose!