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  1. Re:Something else was safer on The World's Safest Operating System · · Score: 1

    I just knew some dickhead was going to claim that.

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com
    http://cs.bell-labs. com
    http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp

    okay not a massive list but it's not like I keep one knocking about

    > I wonder if there is a cause and effect relationship between the two.

    That's called a "correlation" btw.

  2. Don't forget direct marketing on More Online Publishers Inching Toward Paid Content · · Score: 1


    With unsolicited email illegal here in the UK unless a previous by opt-in registrations are becoming a valuable resource.

    Having a trail to where email addresses come from could save you from prosecution.

  3. Something else was safer on The World's Safest Operating System · · Score: 1


    The number of successful break-ins to plan9 systems was zero

    beat that MacOS !

  4. Mozilla next on Microsoft Forces wxWindows To Rename · · Score: 1

    New > Navigator Window

    surely infringes

  5. I beg to differ on Internet Job Boards a Bunch of Hype? · · Score: 1


    I run two job web sites.

    One is for graduates and any company can advertise and one is to deliver the sales jobs for a particular recruitment agency.

    Job agencies often get paid by placing candidates for interview. We would usually achieve this by emailing the registered members. Someone at interview is probably going to get the job.

    Once we have companies on board it is quite rare that they cancel their arrangements with us. We place a high number of candiates.

    I know directly that Monster make a lot of money, they are a multi million pound company. Impossible if they don't place candidates.

    We've seen quite a bit of negative press regarding online recruitment recently.
    One of our competitors recently went bust.

    I think a lot of money was been spent in this area and the rewards aren't quite what people thought they would be. Job hunting, like many other things, can't rely on the internet alone but to dismiss online recruitment out of hand is to miss some of it's strength. Finding ot of town jobs is very difficult and the internet can bring them closer.

  6. Re:get an EPIA on Homegrown Wireless Media Servers? · · Score: 1
  7. Re:and yet silent over *real* experiments on Whiplash Causes UK Controversy On Animal Testing · · Score: 1


    Seems like you're the one with the threats.

    If you are doing vivisection or hunting I would advise watching your back.

    Jail is the least of your worries.

  8. Re:and yet silent over *real* experiments on Whiplash Causes UK Controversy On Animal Testing · · Score: 1


    I'm not threatening anyone.

  9. Re:and yet silent over *real* experiments on Whiplash Causes UK Controversy On Animal Testing · · Score: 1

    >Spread the word, pal: no more threats. No more trespass and damage. No more assault. If you or any of your like-minded chums try it on, you are going to jail.

    Spread the word, pal.

    Get ready for threats, tresspass and damage.

    My chums are coming for you.

  10. Time passes .... on On The Over-Saturation Of MMO Games · · Score: 1


    The Everquest2 is launched and we'll see what this so called saturation is about.

  11. You can smell the sponsorship from here! on Microsoft Packs Up, Moves To Catan · · Score: -1


    Why else would this advert be news?

  12. Re:Bad Idea on Ebay Suspends Phone Number Sales · · Score: 1

    no, it's not a great system nowadays

    but think back 100 years when

    • no-one had anything worth stealing
    • robbers couldn't take stuff very far


    they still have their place today - think "police auctions"

  13. get an EPIA on Homegrown Wireless Media Servers? · · Score: 3, Informative


    one of the MII boards with PCMCIA & CF slots built in

    mini-itx.com

    You'll be paying a whacking premium for something called a "media center"

  14. Re:Bad Idea on Ebay Suspends Phone Number Sales · · Score: 2, Interesting


    If you bought stolen property from those outlets then should it be discovered it would be taken from you without returning your money.

    Whereas if you bought it from an auction it remains your property, the loser having not shown due dilegence in recovering the item.

  15. Re:and the answer is.... on Sun's Simon Phipps Answers ESR On Java · · Score: 1


    try this one

    MSFT vs LNUX

    btw. Sun's stock has been steadily rising since Q4 '02

  16. Re:Bad Idea on Ebay Suspends Phone Number Sales · · Score: 4, Interesting


    Ironically enough an auction is the *only* place you can sell stolen property.

    Auctions exist partly for that reason. That's why in order to have an auction it must be publically advertised and the goods displayed *before* the day of the sale.

    If property had been auctioned in this way it was deemed to be un-stolen.

    At least in the UK anyway.

  17. Re:I love Google. on Yahoo! Switches Search Engines · · Score: 1


    paid submissions (those on the right on a google page) are a revenue stream

    also https://www.google.com/adsense/default

    which places those same paid ads on *your* website

    I make $30 a day from those puppies

  18. Re:Surely you mean on Yahoo! Switches Search Engines · · Score: 5, Funny



    Reverse Polish Notation, he speaks in.

  19. Re:Great time for a party... on SCO Lists Specific Code-Infringement Claims · · Score: 1


    this might help

    The punter is the one who starts out with money but leaves with a smile/disease.

  20. Re:The UK's seems to work on Appeals Court OKs FTC's Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1


    oh man. It was such a rush. I got slightly flustered with excitement.

    It caught me slightly off guard and I found the phone was down before I'd said 'can I speak to your supervisor please'.

    My hands were shaking slightly afterwards and I was walking round the house with a big grin on my face.

    I never knew it could be so good.

    I can't wait for the next one!

  21. Re:Better than I expected on On Xbox's Progression, Positioning For The Future · · Score: 1


    > (My guess is that you meant Amped- not SSX Tricky)

    I'll check. Mybe the MSN one was in Links. SSX Tricky definitely had a 7up.

    > This actually adds to the realism for me.

    Adds to the realism of SSX Tricky?

    I can cope with the Rallisport example because of the motorsport angle but I baulk ad having ads for MSN shoved down my throat. I'm trying to get away from the daytime not have it advertised at me.

    If it's all or nothing then I'd settle for nothing.

  22. Re:and yet silent over *real* experiments on Whiplash Causes UK Controversy On Animal Testing · · Score: 1


    > Oh, you mean violent thugs who like to beat up scientists, set fires in laboratories,

    yes those good folk protecting those without a voice

    > "Animal Rights" thugs are sick, demented individuals who use "poor ikkle bunny wabbits" as an excuse to cause terror and mayhem.

    There are no excuses for hunting and shooting and vivisection, violence begats violence.

    > I hope they all get a currently uncurable disease. That'll teach them for fucking with the progress of medical science.

    I've got one thanks and it's put me out of action. Thankfully where one falls down there are hundreds ready to take his place.

  23. Re:and yet silent over *real* experiments on Whiplash Causes UK Controversy On Animal Testing · · Score: 1


    I haven't missed the point

  24. The UK's seems to work on Appeals Court OKs FTC's Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 5, Funny


    I registered on the UK's do not call list (a list that's not exactly advertised)

    http://www.tpsonline.org.uk

    I was totally fed up with the weekly telesales calls.

    I registered in September 2002. I've had the letter on my desk ever since, ready to complain.

    It was not until today (nice synchronicity) that I got my first sales call.

    The sales drone thought I was pretty interested in the call, asking for their address and telephone number and the exact nature of the 'wonderful special offer'. Of course, what I was doing was getting the drone to tell me the details required to fill in the online complaint form.

    She sounded genuinely shocked when I said "Thank you, I feel it is only fair to inform you that you are in breach of the Telecommunications (Data Protection & Privacy) Regulations 1999 and as such have just been reported to the TPS".

    hehe well worth the wait :)

  25. and yet silent over *real* experiments on Whiplash Causes UK Controversy On Animal Testing · · Score: 4, Insightful


    I don't rememeber so much fuss from any Members of Parliament about *real* experiments, such as when General Motors were using live pigs in car crash tests.

    And I don't hear much support for Animal Rights prisoners from our elected representatives.

    No, it's "I know, I'll get fucking worked up over video games, that'll get me in the papers"

    fuck them