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  1. Re:Really? Why Doesn't the Demo Work in FF Then? on IE Flaw Lets Sites Track Your Mouse Cursor, Even When You Aren't Browsing · · Score: 1

    More correctly the demo shows the position on the monitor it was initialised in: I dragged IE to an adjacent monitor - the window representation moved out of the viewport as I did it - and I noted how it knew Ctrl Alt and Shift were pressed when it didn't even have focus.

  2. Re:Sounds reasonable on Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal · · Score: 1

    The only time I pay for receiving calls / SMS is if I am roaming internationally. Why anyone would sign up for a service where they pay when someone wants to call / text them *even if they don't want the communication* is beyond me. You want to send me stuff? You pay for it. All of it.

  3. Re:Clegg's making a stand against it. on UK Government To Revise Snooping Bill · · Score: 1

    Then there should have been a hung parliament. 20% of the total electorate voted Labour in last time. That's less than the amount of adult smokers ffs.

    Even less voted for Conservative this time, but marginally more than Labour. Somehow a coalition representing a quarter of the population's preference was deemed acceptable. It's bollocks.

  4. Re:the methods are probably patented on Google App Verification Service Detects Only 15% of Infected Apps · · Score: 1

    Damn. That explains a lot.

  5. Re:Darwin awards on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    Bonus points if you actually wanted to go to Darwin.

  6. Re:He was also a racist mysoginist on Sir Patrick Moore Dies Aged 89 · · Score: 1

    Couper.

  7. Re:A thousand books?!? on Sir Patrick Moore Dies Aged 89 · · Score: 2

    You would have thought that the BBC would be the gold standard for information on someone who had single handedly presented a programme for them for *55 years* with one edition off for illness. He wasn't happy about missing it either and felt he'd let the audience down.

  8. Re:Why not? on Some UK Councils Barred From Using Gov't Vehicle Database · · Score: 1

    B&H council did profit and quite nicely thanks to a massive reduction in free spaces along with exorbitant price hikes on existing ones. You now have about a 15 min walk from a free space (and that's in a residential area so you risk pissing off people who can't park outside their own house anymore) or a £2 one way bus fare to get near to the city centre.

    In any case street sweeping and other local services are paid for by the Council Tax.

    It's probably different in Scotland though...

  9. Re:Sick leaves on Stay Home When You're Sick! · · Score: 1

    This could be attributed to the change in terminology for employees: staff to personnel to Human Resources (a term I find offensive). Each term becomes less about the person and more that they are a good or chattel of the business. Being sick then equates to being faulty equipment. You throw out faulty equipment.

  10. Re:Sanctions on Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk · · Score: 1

    Wot no link to UK being an oil-producing nation as well?

  11. Re:We don't have any choice on Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk · · Score: 1

    That would be light minutes which is a unit of length not time.

  12. Re:I would go if there was a suicide booth on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    I got to "2875lbs of female flesh" and then my mind wandered to a very happy place.

  13. Re:I would go if there was a suicide booth on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    Biltong

  14. Re:Bullshit on Researchers: PATRIOT Act Can 'Obtain' Data In Europe · · Score: 1

    Because it is the law to disclose when that data leaves the EU. So you either break EU law twice or EU and US law once each. Nice choice. One way can get your company fined into oblivion, the other goes after personnel and (allegedly) imprisons them. Guess which will be chosen.

  15. Re:Worlds Gone Mad on Apple Patents Wireless Charging · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "That part would require quite some deeper study, and requires understanding of the whole field."

    Something the patent office never claims to have, even when presented with it. So this will get approved and the merry-go-round can start again.

  16. Re:Goldorak on Vega Older Than Thought: Mature Enough To Nurture Life · · Score: 1

    In Babylon 5 it is Minbar.

  17. Re:C'mon, idiots. on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if the so-called "normals" did that first it would help.

  18. Re:C'mon, idiots. on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    Maybe because people don't like being labelled as they rightly consider themselves to be more than an arbitrary point on a distribution curve.

  19. Re:Disorder my ass... on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    At what point does a phenomenon become an irregularity, an irregularity become an exception and an exception become a mild deviation? Some arbitrary number in a psychiatrist's notebook that pigeonholes someone who doesn't adhere to a set of "normal" criteria diminishes us all

    "Yes, we are all different!" (Life of Brian) is both ironic and profound.

  20. Re:You mean ... I've been autistic all along? Damn on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    Remove the impairment clause and that describes *everybody*. If anything, an AS "sufferer" in the basement managing the office network is more likely to recognise a repetitive pattern of behaviour and be able to change it than a loudmouth sales member. I say member, because they're pricks.

  21. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 1

    Yeah but it was necessary for me to reiterate my points as you didn't understand / chose to ignore them in favour of irrelevancies.

  22. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 1

    It's not proof, but Richy_T's comment *right above the one where I listed three interpreters that didn't support it* independently and explicitly cites ZX81 BASIC.

    That the Spectrum did support multiple statements is immaterial as I didn't use it and said as much (1981 was before the Spectrum was released in 1982. I should know, I was there).

    I never made the claim that all versions didn't support it, only the ones I'd used way back when.

    I also posited a reason why it wasn't supported yet you continue with your "la la can't hear you" mentality about a different version that did, and somehow that makes me the idiot?

  23. Re:I get this message on The Promo Bay Blocked By UK ISPs · · Score: 1

    Quite. If they can put up a page saying a site is blocked by court order they can include a link to the public domain information of that court order.

    Otherwise it can be used as a "don't blame us" get out clause for blocking anything just because they feel like it / fucked up.

  24. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 2

    Note the second paragraph of that page, where it mentions that the version of Sinclair BASIC used on the Spectrum was an *update* of what was used in the ZX80 / ZX81 (which was also called Sinclair BASIC funnily enough). Also note that I mentioned *1981* and that the Spectrum 16K came out in *1982* . Get it now?

  25. Re:Without the use of a loop!? on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 1

    Knight BASIC / Xtal BASIC (Sharp MZ80A/K) and Sinclair BASIC didn't. Seeing as I moved on to Pascal in 1981 my point remains valid: *no BASIC I ever used at the time* supported it.

    My memory is fine. Your reading comprehension needs improving.