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  1. Re:Er, can we have that judge back, please ? on Slashback: Princeton, Terror, Farscape · · Score: 1

    Yes and we shipped all of the religious lunatics to the states, overall I think the criminals to australia was a more positive influence on the world

  2. Re:As quoted from my wife's website on Guy Fawkes' Explosion Would Have Devasted London · · Score: 1

    I lived in the area where the plotters did much of their plotting outside london. some of their houses are quite amazing like this one which wasn't finished and this small lodge which was the second one is especially strange and packed with wierd religious symbolism.

  3. Re:Too bad... on University of Wisconsin Wins FutureTruck Competition · · Score: 1

    So how long till the University of Wisconsin gets added to the Axis of Evil?

  4. Re:What, exactly, is the problem? on Ink Cartridges with Built-In Self-Destruct Dates · · Score: 1

    If you have to take your customers to court to stop them using other peoples cartridges then it isn't a free market. It's HP's fault that they are selling printers to people at a price that is uneconomic.

  5. Re:why? on Would Free Music Sell Cars? · · Score: 1

    I said that during the 80's look where it got us

  6. Re:why? on Would Free Music Sell Cars? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And what sort of music will the music industry make if only people who buy new cars get to choose what music is available. Because they will start to produce music that fits the new car buying demographic

  7. Re:quick answer... on Congress Asks Universities To Enforce Copyrights · · Score: 1

    As Another University Admin I'd say we aren't either. However Not being in the USA I'm in a totally different position. Firstly there's the fact that They can run A Software Audit on us whenever they like We signed our campus licences, they can come and check. It's not the chance we're going to get found out as having something unusual and unlicenced on our premises, it's the week or two we're going to lose from our technical staff which they can hold over our heads.

    The upside of our situation is that they can't install any auditing software on our PC's If they turn up they're going to have to do it by hand using pens and paper because it is illegal under UK anti hacking laws for them to install any software on our Machines (If they want to get petty then we can get just as petty)

  8. Re:League of Extraordinary Gentlemen on League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Trailer · · Score: 1

    I know that D.R. and Quinch is the piece of work that Alan Moore dislikes the most out of the stuff that he's done. He's gone as far as saying that it's the one thing He wrote that he would like every copy collected up and buried with him when he dies so noone has to read it.

    If you really want to see his best humour your'e best off reading The Bojeffries Saga A surreal UK Council house Adams family.

  9. Re:MSXML format on Is the New Microsoft Office Really Open? · · Score: 1

    I think there's an error there
    surely you've added an extra [/globaldominationmode]

  10. Re:THESE are the people they should be going after on Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy · · Score: 1

    Having seen this It appears that it is quite ok for them to steal my Intellectual property. If this comes straight off my CD drive without me even having a chance to refuse permission then I'm sure we must have at least a little of a leg to stand on. According to their shaky grasp of mathematics and logic it appears that they have not just stolen my information but also my entire CD collection. Perhaps we can get all of their mamabers to sue each other till they dissappear in a puff of logical smoke

  11. Re:Question about the precendence this sets... on Gutnick Can Pursue Dow-Jones Libel Case · · Score: 1

    So we can extradite spammers under either the theft or section 20. If they email someone in Australia we can get them a nice long term in the middle of the desert personally I think we should convert rockall into a prison for spammers, It's not like we'd need to add any facilities

  12. Re:why would you want users to mess with work PCs on Slashback: Encumbrance, Silence, Internalization · · Score: 1

    Rightly or wrongly, I think many helpdesks would be happier with machines that users leave well alone!

    If only we could get them to leave the machines in the cardboard box they are delivered in that would solve all of our problems.

  13. Re:Most shocking part of article on Musicians vs. RIAA At USA Today · · Score: 1

    WOW Kieth gets it.
    He can see that the world has changed and that no laws or technological solution is going to put the genie back in the bottle. but then We should have suspected that from here

  14. Re:One question... on Wireless Wales · · Score: 1

    Bugger I must be the other one. The Welsh assembly have also introduced a scheme where a selection of coastal towns are getting broadband with the installation subsidised. I have the Unfortunate problem that I live inland. actual coverage in wales looks like this. UK report if you then click on the welsh map a couple of times you'll see what it's really like. Just go ahead and klick on the map of Wales. (fortunately At work I'm sitting on the end of a 34 Mb link but that does make home access really crawl.

  15. Hmmm on On Balancing Career & College... · · Score: 2, Informative

    It all depends on how much time your business needs. However if you can't fit in a large ammount of time for the course then there's always distance learning for example Open University it all depends what you wish to study. Or if you're only in it for the social life.

  16. Re:British journalism sucks on BBC Hails "fair" Microsoft XP SP1 · · Score: 1

    And there was me thinking we had one already

  17. Re:British journalism sucks on BBC Hails "fair" Microsoft XP SP1 · · Score: 1

    Well it could be worse (but only slightly) if we had the waste of space who is the leader of the opposition in charge. Hague was fairly useless but compared to the new guy he was a tower of Charisma.

  18. Re:Next time gadget... on Russian Agency Charges FBI Agent With Hacking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So if You've got no expectation of privacy when using the internet, then those people who used their credit cards can have no expectation of privacy either, so the russians can't have been doing anything illegal by taking the public(according to the judge)credit card details.

  19. Copyright on A Medireview Approach To Stopping E-Mail Attacks · · Score: 1

    So where are the copyright lawyers when we really need them?

  20. Re:Watergate still?? on Nixon Tape To Reveal Secrets at Last? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Future historians are more likely to look back on it as only the first and most significant of a trail of republican electoral frauds.
    1. Nixon (this is the only one to be admitted)
    2. Regan/Bush meetings with Kidnappers representatives to ensure that hostages were not released until after election and so ensure their election over Carter
    3. The last election taking electoral corruption to new extremes.

    that's not countingthe political corruption, drug running,and other assorted crimes committed by these administrations.

    compared to this Clinton's only crime appears to be that he had sex (or some variation on a sexual act) with someone who wasn't his wife. Big Deal

  21. Re:He has a point on PVRs and Advertisers' Worries · · Score: 1

    No we pay 1 licence per house, no matter the number of TV's and radios. OAP's get them for free at above a certain age and there's some wierd exclusion for battery powered screens. Students also can use their parent's licence in certain situations as well

  22. Re:Skull and Cross Bones on This Place is Not a Place of Honor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Have you never been to the movies? everyone knows that no matter how obvious the clues there will always be at least one Archaeologist who will dig this sort of thing up.

  23. Re:Nonsense! on Why Hal Will Never Exist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they've brought speaking computers closer by providing those quotes that will look stupid in history. The computer could never have been a success till someone at IBM came up with the 'The world will never need more than six' quote. Likewise the train could never have succeeded without the man who said that you couldn't travel above 15 MPH because the air would be forced out of your lungs and you would suffocate.

    So remember when you next run into a talking robot that it just can't happen

  24. Re:Losing customers on Ebert, Gillmor on the Music Industry · · Score: 1

    No he was under 18 for 2-3 years. that sounds a lot like dog years to me

  25. Re:The other evil of Spam, a legal approach on Fighting The Spammers Down Under · · Score: 1

    Under the computer misuse act in the UK, it could be argued that the spammer, by putting your friends email address in the mail has attempted unauthorised access to his computer.
    We should be able to get said spammer extradited and get him five years to try and not drop the soap.
    The police will not be keen on this as it hasn't been done before against hackers. Once it has been done in one juristiction, then it can be used by people in other juristictions as a lever on their local police departments to get spammers rounded up and beaten like the dogs they are.