Slashdot Mirror


User: norfolkboy

norfolkboy's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
58
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 58

  1. Paedophile, not a hero on Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions · · Score: -1

    I'm not sure why he's considered one of the lads. McAfee is a paedophile, who purchased the company of a 14 year old girl, Amy. He claimed in 2010 she was 16, but curiously, in 2012, she was discovered to be 18, by Wired Magazine.

    http://john-mcafee.com/2013/01/john-mcafee-psychotic-pedophile-trying-to-murder-his-victims/

  2. Re:No Love for Internet Brands on Internet Brands Sues People For Forking Under CC BY-SA · · Score: 2

    I've heard some horrible things about how they've treated Randy Peterson, the Flyertalk fonder. I've more or less stopped using the site since.

  3. Re:TSA screens rape victem, further traumatizing h on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they didn't think it was 'legitimate rape' ?

  4. Re:Not Surprising on RIM May Need To Write Off $1 Billion In Inventory · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not quite.

    It's very popular in the UK for teens, who use BBM rather than SMS.

    Other than poor chavs and kids, you're right.

  5. Re:UK isn't England on Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off · · Score: 1

    Well, that's not a very good comparison.

    If we take the US Tour example, the idea of calling it a US Tour would be laughed at if it toured only one of your many states. This is precisely what Microsoft did in the UK, when they toured only one of the UK countries, and called it a UK tour.

    So if, for example, only Missouri was part of the US Tour, I'm sure most Americans would laugh at it, and point out that it's a Missouri Tour, not a US Tour.

    This is the same situation I have highlighted.

    And as for your rant about getting our own sovereignty, this is precisely what we're in the process of doing.

  6. Re:In their defense... on Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off · · Score: 0

    Or even more accurately...
    Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

    But that's a bit of a mouthful.

    She is not Queen Elizabeth the Second, no matter how much she may wish to be.

    She is Queen Elizabeth the Second of England, or simply Queen Elizabeth.

    In Scotland, we have never had a Queen Elizabeth the First, as QE I was queen of England only, long before the Act of Union. This is why Royal Mail postboxes in Scotland show ER and not ERII. Following incidents in the 1950s that saw postboxes with the EIIR cypher being attacked by militant Scottish nationalists who objected to the term Queen Elizabeth the Second on the basis that Scotland had never had a Queen Elizabeth the First, the then GPO undertook to use only ER in Scotland.

  7. UK isn't England on Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't pay any attention anyway.

    Microsoft insists in referring to England as the UK when in fact they mean England.

    Scotland has different holidays to England, but these aren't available to Scottish users according to MS.

    Last year Windows UK had a UK tour, which only toured English cities. Nothing in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.

    A peeved UK citizen in Scotland.

  8. Re:Is there anything they won't mock? on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 2, Informative

    That said, have they ever refused to parody or ridicule someone or something? Is there anything that is "sacred" to them?

    I suspect not. They seem consistent.

    Remember Chef/Isaac Hayes - despite being a great character, they were happy to let him protest and walk, in the name of freedom of expression.

  9. Re:Is there anything they won't mock? on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 1

    That's because none of their other targets are ambassadors of the religion of peace...

    Seriously. These mental fucktards need to crawl back in their caves.

    Good on South Park for having the balls.

  10. Great for us travellers! on UK Gets Europe's First 3G Femtocell · · Score: 1

    I often visit the USA for several weeks at a time.

    With this device, I'll simply be able to plug the cell into my broadband in the US and have access as if I was home in the UK, without any worries!

    I do begrudge the idea of paying Vodafone for traffic in the UK, but outside, this sounds ideal!

  11. Rubbish - all major networks offer unlimited texts on The Cultures of Texting In Europe and America · · Score: 1

    ... at least, all the UK ones do.

    Since the owners of the UK networks (Vodafone, o2, three, Orange, T-mobile) run networks in most other European countries.... I'd be very surprised if there weren't similar plans in the rest of the EU to as in the UK

  12. Re:Medical records? Finances? Sexual life? on NASA Employees Fight Invasive Background Check · · Score: 3, Funny

    If they're fit, I'm more than happy to be their unpaid tester!!

  13. Re:Almost certainly a scam on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, it's "Limited" not "united"

    I have a subscription to Companies House Directors lists. The officers of that company are:

    (for non-Bits - you can obtain the home addresses of any Company Secretary or Director of any company registered in the England and Wales or Scotland - it is a criminal offence to give an incorrect address or mailing address unless you have obtained a confidentiality order, which is barely possible to do, even for Directors of very large companies)

    BATH, HARPREET SECRETARY
    HOUSE 3038
    SECTOR 19D
    CHANDIGARH
    CH00018
    INDIA
    CH00018 Appointed: 13/07/2007
    Nationality: INDIAN
    Date of Birth: 10/12/1970
    Company Appointments: 336

    IVANCIC, VALDI DIRECTOR
    LUNDENVAGEN 24
    HUSKVARNA
    SWEDEN
    56134 Appointed: 13/07/2007
    Nationality: SWEDISH
    Date of Birth: 26/03/1970
    Company Appointments: 1

  14. Pointless on Pirate Bay to Purchase Sealand? · · Score: 1

    Sealand , no matter what they believe, are not a country, principality or anything else.

    Sealand is tolerated by the British Government - it would be too much trouble to do otherwise. For this reason Sealand have never really overstepped the mark _too much_ .

    If Sealand was operated contrary to English Law with serious copyright breaches encouraged - Sealand would be offline quicker than you can say "fraud".

  15. Re:Hmm? on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 1

    I'd be surprised. They have a studio in Washington.

  16. Re:This is screwy... on Flying To the US? Pay In Cash · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's an extra $500 if you're planning mass mayhem Make that an extra few thousand dollars, naturally, if you're going to fly into a building, you might as well fly first class - it's not like you'll be around to settle the credit card bill.
  17. Re:Sleep vs Hibernate on Why Vista Took So Long · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not sure how you've lasted so long then...

    "sleep" sends a computer into a low-power mode, but leaves the machine running, and information stays in RAM.

    "hibernate" sends RAM data to an image file on a hard disk, before turning the computer off, powering it down so the machine can be moved/unplugged/or just use no energy...

  18. Oh well, try getting them to act on U.K. Outlaws Denial of Service Attacks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When one of my websites (with over 130,000 active members) was being attacked, South Wales Police told me they couldn't do much to investigate the perpetrator because all the funds were tied up in fighting online paediaphilia.

    What's the point in making the term of sentance tougher, if there aren't any resources to investigate online crime in many UK forces?

  19. Re:49 people + 180 days = proof?? on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: -1, Troll

    well, have your cunt cut out then?

  20. Re:Ugh. on OpenOffice.org Newspaper Ad Mockup Released · · Score: 1

    worse than that, i think this advert may do damage. there is serious potential to make OO look like a nerds product, with no real substance, and no serious development or thought behind it. this is not the case in reality.

  21. Re:Crackpot not a "town" on Satellite Navigation a Real Crackpot! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hawes... yes, I remember staying there on a fieldtrip at high school!

    Not only is Hawes pronoused Whores, but there is also a dairy there called "Hawes Creamery". http://archive.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/2001/4/27/ 172568.html

  22. Devoid of useful applications on Switching to Windows, Not as Easy as You Think · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "devoid of useful applications"

    You are moaning that Windows is by default "devoid of useful applications ".

    Of course it is! Remember the fiasco any time Microsoft try bundling anything useful with Windows? It ends up in an anti-trust trial! Of COURSE Microsoft aren't going to bundle anything useful with Windows any more.

    I thoguht that was what a Linux user would want? Choice of their own applications, not MS's choice.

  23. Re:Already rolled... on The exhaustion of IPv4 address space · · Score: 1

    You didn't notice www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk in that case - they've been doing IPv6 for a while - http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/services/adsl

    "Our ADSL service is IPv6 enabled; all customers will get a single static IPv6 address allocated to them by default if their equipment can support it. We can also allocate a /48 of IPv6 address space if a customer wishes to deploy it on their internal network.

    This is native IPv6 not IPv6 over an IPv4 tunnel"

  24. Strategic partners on SpecOps Labs offers $10,000 to Emulator Developers · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Non-issue on CentralNic Enables uk.com Wildcard DNS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, you can actually.

    But you have to demonstrate a good use for it.

    For example, police.uk or nhs.uk or even the British Library's bl.uk

    You're right, you and I couldn't get a *.uk though