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  1. Re:BBC News piece on Google Purges Thousands of Malware Sites · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I buy crap poor quality tools/cars/housing etc... I expect to injure myself, why should there be any difference with operating systems.

  2. Re:Mental Disabilities on The Secret to Raising Smart Kids · · Score: 3, Interesting

    what utter crap.

    I can't spell for shit, have poor grammar, have never been able to learn another language despite huge amounts of effort I've put in (Learning a different language is an attempt to improve my skills in my native language) and my writing looks like a horrible mess. In short despite all my efforts I am still unable to do these things and I am the last person that you would expect not to try in as many ways possible to overcome these problems.
    Anyone that says otherwise it talking crap because 'everybody must be equal', if there not talking crap they can try to sort me out and prove me otherwise, I doubt I will have any takers.

  3. Time to report another bug in firefox. on Student Maps Brain to Image Search · · Score: 1

    The above link Traumatic Images looks like is searches google for clockwork orange images when infact it goes to goatse, if firefox scrolled the URL then you would be able to see all of it any know that it goes to goatse but because it doesn't you can't tell where it goes.

    This looks like a good one for some kind of attack (possible a goatse one)

  4. Re:It's just a matter of time on Google Goes Green · · Score: 1

    so does the price of coal become twice the price of renewables or not?

  5. Re:It's just a matter of time on Google Goes Green · · Score: 1

    and what happens in 340 years time then?

  6. Re:Vested interest on Google Goes Green · · Score: 2, Funny

    maybe we could round up a few fan boys and point them at a wind turbine and generate some power.

  7. It's just a matter of time on Google Goes Green · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's just a matter of time until the cost of coal rises to a higher level than the cost of renewables, google could just sit back and watch if they wanted to and their goal would still be met.

  8. Re:there is no such thing as "open DRM" ... on Why the BBC's iPlayer is a Multi-Million Pound Disaster · · Score: 1

    There will never be truley secure DRM, so all that is required is stopping joe sixpack from copying stuff. Open DRM could do this (especially with laws like the DMCA)

  9. Re:there is no such thing as "open DRM" ... on Why the BBC's iPlayer is a Multi-Million Pound Disaster · · Score: 1

    well he's selling apples drm to third parties where there would be no codec to peek at so it must be a full version including decryption.

  10. Re:there is no such thing as "open DRM" ... on Why the BBC's iPlayer is a Multi-Million Pound Disaster · · Score: 1

    didn't DVD John reverse engineer Apples DRM and offer to sell it, efectivly making it open.

    So there already exists an Open DRM system.

  11. if only on Why the BBC's iPlayer is a Multi-Million Pound Disaster · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If only they had spent those 4 years getting Dream working so that they weren't tied to Windows.

  12. and worse than that, think it's OK on MPAA College Toolkit Raises Privacy, Security Concerns · · Score: 1

    but it is ok comrade.

  13. Re:Skype unbreakable? on Skype Encryption Stumps German Police · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a good example,
    The US managed to get the UK to agree to deport anyone they asked for in case they were terrorists.

    The first people the chose to ask to be deported were a bunch of bankers that had done some dodgy dealings, hardly terrorists.

    And what's worse/better is that the US didn't hold up to it's part of the bargain and sign up to a similar agreement.

  14. Re:consultants ? on Technology Innovation Areas For 2025 · · Score: 1

    Paying in advance only works for long journeys that you know your going to be making in the future, sure some people will take public transport, many people will fly (which isn't public transport) because it's faster and about the same price when booked in advanced and some people will take public transport because they don't like driving long distance so this is one place where public transport can win (but often doesn't because of the other points)

  15. Re:consultants ? on Technology Innovation Areas For 2025 · · Score: 1

    I live in the UK thanks.

  16. Re:will it hold any water? on FSF Releases AGPL License For Web Services · · Score: 1

    the question would then be do EULA's hold any water, I don't believe their binding contracts.

  17. Re:consultants ? on Technology Innovation Areas For 2025 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most driving is done because:
    It costs less than the cost of public transport.
    Goes at exactly the time you want it to
    Allows you to take lots of luggage
    Is often quicker (especially when companired to busses)
    and goes from your house and travels very close to the location you want to be at.
    You don't have to stand or sit next to someone you don't want to
    runs through the night.

    Until public transport can do all that it's never going to catch on.

  18. Re:Three times! on UK Government Loses 15 Million Private Records · · Score: 1

    AES is a fast algorithm, making it fast to crack the password if it wasn't long enough.

  19. Re:maybe time for a port? on Firefox 3 Beta 1 Review · · Score: 1

    or Javascript, oh wait it already does that.

  20. will it hold any water? on FSF Releases AGPL License For Web Services · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked copyright didn't extend to the output of a programme, otherwise Microsoft would own all of your .doc files and everything produced by gcc would have to fall under the GPL.

    How can the AGPL work in practice?

  21. Re:Uh...No. on 90% of IT Professionals Don't Want Vista · · Score: 1

    Think you could get management to agree to a massive change like that?

    But it looks nice and that's the only criteria for upgrading to vista, which is also a massive change.
    Want to spend the next six weeks answering a, "Where is the start button?", "How do I get on email?" , "Where is the internet, again?" question every thirty seconds?

    If you use KDE you can set it up so that it looks a lot like windows.

    Think you could risk possibly put yourself out of a job after the adjustment period is over?

    So get a better job.

  22. Re:Uh...No. on 90% of IT Professionals Don't Want Vista · · Score: 1

    then why not upgrade to a Mac or Even Linux with a 3d desktop.

  23. Re:About Bloody Time on Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged · · Score: 2, Funny

    rich people employ mercenaries, poor people employ terrorists.

  24. Re:About Bloody Time on Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged · · Score: 1

    If only there were a group of people who could protect you from injustices like that...

    There called mercenaries or terrorists and they probably cost a lot less than most people pay in taxes.

  25. Re:Well, that's what you get on Police swoop on 'Hacker of the Year' · · Score: 1

    that's why police can quite easily get away with beating people at free parties, because free parties don't exist, they don't even make the news.