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  1. Re: Screw your laws on Uber Offers Free Rides To Koreans, Hopes They Won't Report Illegal Drivers · · Score: 2

    The driver works and pays for the upkeep of the car and pays a weekly or monthly fee to the taxi company. .

    Not quite.. the driver pays what is called(in Scotland anyway) a "weekly weigh in". this covers the rental of the car and the rental of the tech by which they will the clients(meter and bookings equipment) .
    The mechanical upkeep of the car is in the hands of the owner of the vehicle and not the driver
    the cleaning of the car is the drivers responsibility as is fuelling it.

  2. Re:ASUS still trendy on Intel Core M Enables Lower Cost Ultrabooks; Asus UX305 Tested · · Score: 1

    same here, ASUS is quality. at present i have an ASUS z97 sabertooth mk 1 mobo, ASUS ac68u router, my previous router ASUS again an RT N66U and i have an ASUS EA-N66 Ethernet adapter/wireless extender(i live in a VERY old apartment in Edinburgh's old town built in 1797 and the walls are literally rock solid.. not a hint of plasterboard) to extend the wireless to the back rooms. Also have an ASUS tablet and bought one for my sis at xmas.. they are great quality and they don't piss you around with support/returns

  3. Re: Oomph. on Intel Core M Enables Lower Cost Ultrabooks; Asus UX305 Tested · · Score: 1

    similar to what my mother still says
    buy quality ... buy once
    buy cheap ... you're a dunce
    and she and your father are spot on.

  4. Re:no on Samsung's Portable SSD T1 Tested · · Score: 1

    3 x ocz vertex 3 480's working fine after 18 months

  5. erm.. really??? on Torvalds: "People Who Start Writing Kernel Code Get Hired Really Quickly" · · Score: 2
    Ars has an article about 2000 new developers

    Linux has 2,000 new developers and gets 10,000 patches for each version Linux recently saw "busiest development cycle" in its history.
    The new developers are helping fuel an ever-bigger Linux community, according to the latest Linux Kernel Development report, which will
    be released today by the Linux Foundation. The report is expected to be available at THIS LINK .

  6. Re:But, but, you're using logic and science on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    "Spaced out on their pot"? Methinks we have found one of those drug warriors.

    "Why, it's even worse when them kids is hopped up on the goofballs!"

    ooooh lucky I had my "BRASS EYE" in to catch that reference :P

  7. Re:Meanwhile in rural U.S. on BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom · · Score: 1

    LOL... sorry son yer a wee bit of an amateur...
    If she was so loved as you seem to think... why were there street parties and even club nights to party when she died????
    These things do not happen to popular people.
    she asset stripped the country selling off the likes of BT at cut down rates.. most of the shares being bought up by her cronies, their hedge funds and the likes while offering a tiny amount of shares to the public.. just enough for them to think they are "in".. she DECIMATED industry and started the ball rolling on many other privatisations to come.. even the creeping privatisation of the NHS was started under her watch. splitting it down into smaller units and giving them borrowing powers.... designed to fail... don't take my word for it.. listen to an expert on that
    Dr Lucy Reynolds is an expert on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    Luckily i live in Scotland where the NHS is run much better and we have a govt at Holyrood that seems to be very much on the ball with social justice issues unlike any of the twats from labour, the tories or the spineless lib-dems.
    BTW I called you an amateur due to your piss poor attempt at a dig with your last sentence....

  8. Re:Datacaps? on BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom · · Score: 1

    Pipex 512 down 256 up ... unmetered vanilla dsl
    Pipex 1014 down 256 up unmetered vanilla dsl
    Pipex 2048 down 256 up unmetered vanilla dsl
    Bulldog 8mb down 1mb up unmetered ADSL MAX
    Bethere 24mb down and 2.5 up unmetered ADSL2+ with Annex M
    BT 76mb down and 20up unmetered FTTC
    AND when I move soon to my new place FTTH available at 330 down and 30 up unmetered
    so i correct myself .. vanilla adsl speeds went up to 2048 down not 1024 but ADSL MAX went up to 8MB.
    NEVER EVER have i had a metered connection with any of the companies i have been with. none of them were low profile boutique type ISP's and thus easy to find with a simpe google search and/or a little bit of knowledge.
    So there you go.. fifteen years worth of ISP's me laddo

  9. Re:Meanwhile in rural U.S. on BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom · · Score: 1

    yeah michael foot... really electable....... and the other stupid rabble of labour/liberal leaders we not exactly the most electable bunch on the planet.
    Just because you are more electable than a bunch of utterly chronic pricks, does not make you the choice of the century.
    The woman was a horrible,nasty, spiteful arsehole.

  10. Re:Only a matter of time... on Indian Woman Sues Uber In the US Over Alleged New Delhi Taxi Rape · · Score: 1

    And how the fuck would you suggest that Uber "find a way to stop this from happening?"

    Oh.. say they have to go through the same checks that licensed taxi drivers go through.
    In Scotland that includes criminal records checks.
    .. simple really

  11. Re:Meanwhile in rural U.S. on BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom · · Score: 2

    As someone who was actually there through the Thatcher years i can tell you that you are talking utter shite.
    Thatcher was Thunderscunt number 1 on every front.

  12. Re:Datacaps? on BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom · · Score: 1

    Some ISPs have their own equipment in the local exchanges (LLU)

    In reality they lease equipment from BT and it's maintained by BT Openreach engineers

  13. Re:Datacaps? on BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but this is how it was with ADSL too.

    Back when ADSL rolled out, and people only got 512kbps, there were no limits. You could literally download constantly at maximum speed for the entire month.

    Then along came ADSL Max and people got bumped to 1 - 2mbps. Suddenly caps started getting introduced, so low that your speed had gone up but the amount you could download had literally declined by several orders of magnitude.

    So whilst with the advent of basic FTTC unlimited has once again become the norm, don't count on currently unlimited bandwidth meaning perpetually unlimited bandwidth. It wouldn't be the first time in the UK that increases in speed have seemingly paradoxically meant decreases in the amount of data you're actually allowed to download. That's exactly what happened last time.

    ummmmmm... nah , speeds went up to 1024 down ... ADSL MAX went up to 8mb down .
    I have NEVER had anything other than unlimited with DSL.. EVER.. there have always been options for unmetered bandwidth.
    so it's not what happened "last time" at all

  14. Erm.. If Telefonica is selling.... on UK Broadcaster Sky To Launch Mobile Service · · Score: 1
    It's O2 business and network to Hutchinson whampoa(Three mobile) then how the fook are they gonna do this deal with Sky?

    Three owner agrees to buy O2 for £10.25 billion

    http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/th...
    I am aware that the competition commission bods will want assurances as they did when Three bought out O2's Irish business however........ it seems to me that perhaps Sky is betting on Three ... as when three and O2 merge it'll be the biggest cell phone service provider here.. as i doubt the sky deal will do anything with the 50 billion hole Telefonica finds itself with O2

  15. The obligatory.. on Doomsday Clock Could Move · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Who What Where When Why on Google Plans Major Play In Wireless Partnering With Sprint and T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    Those are the 5 questions any article is supposed to answer. And it does not say why?

    the why is SIMPLE... to make money initially by being a tax deductible and also as an investment.. if the investment fails.. there's a tax write off for you

  17. Re:Nostalgic for Windows 7? on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Good luck with pushing 8 to the corporate world... it's about as adoptable as an angry badger with syphilis.

    SIR I SALUTE you.. .. I am gonna use that in as many circumstances as possible!

  18. Re:And? on Unbundling Cable TV: Be Careful What You Wish For · · Score: 2

    $400 ticket +$25 for luggage +$25 for 2nd piece of luggage +$50 for a seat that isn't between two 300 pound men who haven't showered yet this year. +$75 for to not have your legs knees shoved in your face when the person in front of you reclines +$15 for internet, 2G speeds only +$5-15 to use the entertainment console at your seat +$10 for a light snack +$25 to sit near the front of the plane so you don't have to spend 30 minutes in your seat both before and after the plane lands

    wtf are you on about..... every year i fly to Denver from Edinburgh Scotland.
    I fly from Edinburgh to Amsterdam then onwards to Minneapolis then to Denver.
    my baggage allowance without purchasing extras gets me 1 x 25 kilo suitcase, 1 x 12 kilo hand luggage plus one "accessory" which is my asus transformer tablet in it's own wee case. the meal and the snacks are included, the movies and TV are FREE and i get to chose my seat too from within the standard class seating. KLM to Amsterdam then Delta the rest of the way.
    dunno who you are flying with but they are sticking it right up your anus pal and you are taking it.
    When in America i fly with spirit... some Americans may laugh at that as they are considered to be a crappy low cost airlines with little legroom.. to those people i say "have you ever flown with BMI,Easyjet or ryanair??" because then you'll KNOW what no fucking legroom is actually like..lol mind you last three times i flew with spirit i got upgraded seats for free so had plenty legroom. Spirit while being a basic flight isn't bad at all.

  19. Re:I agree on MasterCard Rails Against Bitcoin's (Semi-)Anonymity · · Score: 2

    Money Laundering Laws... pretty much EVERYWHERE

  20. simple solution!! on Flaw in New Visa Cards Would Let Hackers Steal $1M Per Card · · Score: 1

    why not use on of these cheap and simple solutions?????

  21. Re:Hmm, says here: on New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping · · Score: 1

    "slow down" time. Now if the earth has "Lumpy" GRAVY,

    FTFY.. just needed some Zappa magic :P

  22. Re:Not enough on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 3, Informative

    free CHILD CARE? does ANYWHERE have that?

    Yes, it's quite common in Europe.. for example here in Scotland we have free childcare, free healthcare, free education, free prescription medicine.
    But we also have private childcare,private healthcare, private education.. we have choice.

  23. Re:Not a very exciting name on 'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand · · Score: 1

    inept? ma fatti una sega..

    indeed AC.. marcello_dl can go argue with the people of Tuscany.. particularly Lucca and the surrounding area where my family is from ;)

  24. Re:Not a very exciting name on 'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand · · Score: 1

    Remember the Mitsubishi Pajero debacle? Perhaps it really doesn't matter which word you choose as it is always another word for 'wanker' or 'prostitute', etc., in Spanish.

    Yup just like the Sega consoles were marketed in Italy as Genesis as sega means wank in Italian ;)

  25. Re: What's so hard about using the time-honored on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: 1

    Some Comedians (The Chasers) in Australia booked and checked in online for a flight using the names Mr Terry Wrist and Mr Al Queda. When they didnt show for their flights, the calls across the terminal were pretty comical. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FkYPV7Iwu4

    Chasers war... fucking classic!