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  1. A relief for those Cum Drenched Teens on Internet Only 1% Porn · · Score: 1
    Those double fucked College Cuties, horny a$$ Farmers Daughters, and cock craving Housewives can all sigh a collective Sigh of Relief.

    Previously they risked being spotted in real life A LOT. But with so much background noise of 'non-filth'[1], there is less chance. How many girls/guys must do their vids::: and later regret it when everyone finds out??

    Maybe not all, but at least some.

    Most of these guys would have some regrets

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    [1] British slang term for porn

  2. Viral Marketers on PS3 Lines Already Forming In America · · Score: 1
    The guys in the line are paid Sony Promotional people. Astroturf in action.

    Ok, so thats completely baseless, given that I'm in London, but hey, this is just a light hearted idea. I was in NYC when the PSP was released, and the Sony store mentioned sell-outs, the queue was very long then but I still got mine, and so did everyone else.

    What's the weather like there??, because in 2005 it was bloody cold!!!!!

    Perhaps you can measure the desparation of a company by how soon it deploys its Viral Fanbois.

    I mean just having a queue makes 'Organic' News Coverage that much more.

  3. Snake Oil on RFID To Track Play of DVDs And CDs? · · Score: 1

    This really should be in the Comedy/Entertainment section.

  4. 50,000 Lawyers jobs on Vista to Create 50,000 Jobs in Europe · · Score: 1
  5. Intelligencia display self loathing/importance on Consumer Electronics Causing 'Death of Childhood'? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I work just near Tower Bridge in London. We get school groups of kids all the time. The German kids all dress like adults. The Japanese kids are all in cute little kids uniforms and sit outside the London Town Hall and paint the bridge in watercolours. The British kiddy winkles are just as varied: uniforms or no, cute or chavvy.

    So much variety. Encourage a rounded upbringing. And if technology leads to a narrowing of focus then that is bad. But tech can lead to a widening of focus, that is good.

    No easy path through these waters, GPS guidance installed or not.

  6. You need Metacritic on Snakes on The Net Fail to Put Butts in the Seats · · Score: 1

    Try metacritic. They take all the industry web reviewers and weight their score. SO critics that give 5 stars very often, count less.

    What I have found though, is that you still get hype and groupthink from the self appointed cogniscenti of reviewers too. For instance on their Best Music Of All Time, they list Van Lear Rose as number 2. On listening to the record, it is nothing but hype. It may be produced by Jack White of White Stripes fame, but not as good as one of his own band's efforts.

  7. Dolphins still TASTE better than Goldfish on Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins · · Score: 2, Funny
    As a Delphinidaephile I can recommend Tempura Dolphin loin with Soy Sauce.

    The only comparable goldfish dish is too much like Whitebait.

  8. Re:Just did this myself on Open Source AJAX toolkits · · Score: 1

    So did I. I chose qooxdoo. It is a windows gui esq javascript library with _A LOT_ of widgets. Also, the team behind it are very competent.

  9. Other barcode representations for Mobiles on Image Recognition on Mobile Phones · · Score: 1
    For those interested you should check out http://www.shotcode.com/ . They do circular shaped codes which look more pleasant. Generation is free, they distribute a client, but you pay for code resolutions.

    Just in case anyone needed to know....

    T.

  10. Re:Stop the BLAME GAME! on The Whiz of Silver Bullets · · Score: 1
    I could not agree more. Alex E. Bell is Preaching to the Converted.

    But worse, has he opened his eyes?? Is he so *blinkered* that he does not see that Silver Bullets exist in all spheres of human activity?

    Failing Football Team? just add Wayne Rooney
    Global Warming? just change your lightbulbs to savers
    Middle East Crisis? just send in Condaleeza Rice
    Endemic Crime? everyone would be fine if there was Education, Education, Education.

    This guy needs to get out more.

  11. They will Phish for every required parameter on Phishers Defeat Citibank's 2-Factor Authentication · · Score: 1
    Given that a wget command to retreive any session authentication key only takes a couple of seconds, a full minute window is easily enough.

    The phishers can also mimic the error path if the token is disallowed or mis-typed.

    This is not an easy problem to solve!

  12. Re:programmers in Poland on Americans Are Scarce in Top Programming Contest · · Score: 1
    My girlfriend owns a Cafe in London. A few of her waitresses are Polish. One of them is even a Computer Science graduate.

    That waitress came to London because she said that Poland is so corrupt, a Pole cannot get a job unless you are very connected. She does not get a job here programming because her English is not yet Business class, but she's working at it.

    It seems these competitions are a good way to have access to free market opportunities. English is still a requirement.

  13. Re:Hot Coffee on Self-Heating Coffee Cans Recalled · · Score: 1

    It's not a bug... It's a feature.

  14. I'm lazy on Biometrics Win Support From the Lazy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would have voted against biometrics, but never quite got around to it.

  15. Re:Long Overdue on The Data Accountability and Trust Act (DATA) · · Score: 2, Interesting
    You said: I think a MUCH better law, would be to legislate that one's personal data belongs to THEM,

    Thighter definition is required than what you propose. I admire your sentiment, I really do. But it will never fit into law.

    Look at patent law. The idea of "An Invention" is left undefined in the law. And this leads to a lot of scope creep.

    If the law was defined as you mentioned, where do you draw the boundary of "Personal Data"?

    e.g.:
    Eye Colour
    Retina Pattern
    A fingerprint
    A fingerprint and the finger it comes from
    Your first name
    Your full name

    You can bet your last pence that Direct Marketers would start the scope creep to etch away at what would be considered Personal Data, and you will end up with those fuckwits STILL protected by law and still unaccountable.

  16. Re:Bandwidth always a worry at Cambridge on Security Fears Prod Firms to Limit Staff Web Use · · Score: 1
    A mate of mine does a little networking for Kings College at the moment.
    The accounting for Internet is paid by each individual College. So they pay for student excess.

    So why not block/filter these services? Skype and p2p "borrow" bandwidth. A student installs Skype for their _own_ purpose. The student has imposed an outside demand on the college network. The student will in general not have a grasp of what extra load they have imposed on the college network. How much of a load is determined solely by the Skype program. It is closed source, and so you are left assuming that Skype is all they are leeching.

  17. Classic Gaming - 8bit stylie on Two-Player Games for Mixed Skill Level Players? · · Score: 1
    I used to play C64 and Amiga games with my [then] little brother. Classic Games tended to be that little bit easier to pick up. There was less scope to over

    Download win UAE and CC64.

    There were some great two/multi players

    Wizball
    Bruce Lee
    Defender of the Crown
    Mario Bros [orignal version!]

    Hope this helps!

  18. jrat - Already does everything you need. on Build Your Own Java Performance Profiling Tool · · Score: 4, Informative
    Forget this article AOP Build Your Own. By the time you finish reading the article you could have used jrat .

    Download jrat here

    I've used it many times, and it's helped me find horrible Hibernate queries, Lucene bottlenecks, Batik rendering pipeline issues. It is fantastic.

  19. What this means. Traceroute and PING on Bridging 3G, EDGE, GPRS, and WiFi · · Score: 1
    Handsets have a SIM. Mostly this is a UICC we know and love.

    When a subscriber enters a zone where a connection is possible, this tech allows TMobile to 'phone home'. Then they have profiles on how to route all the services to that handset.

    So they need to:

    know about each protocol.
    know how to phone home
    know about the gateway services for each service the _ subscribes to.
    know how to bill for that route

    So it is non trivial.

  20. I vote for Windows on Linux vs. Windows for Schools? · · Score: 1
    Kids should learn skills they can take from the classroom. Then they can help themselves, help Mum+Dad and help others.

    95% of people use Windows in wider society, including businesses.

    I use Linux every day, it pays my wage. But for the 0.01% of people who would use the power Linux features, Windows has Cygwin, Ethereal and all that.

    They must learn Windows.

  21. My stereo goes up to 11 on Why 7.1 Surround Sound is Overkill For Most Homes · · Score: 1
    As long as companies tout features that look better in a brochure, salespeople and people themselves can convince themselves it is necessary.

    Even 7.1 may have some passing benefit. But my case in point is power leads , being rated by What HiFi as 5 stars. These are £50 per cord. I don't have a link to their magazine, but the blurb says about these Kords"you will notice more melliflous treble and more composure in the bass"

    To my mind if your stereo receiver needs a special cord to improve its bass or treble, then it is a fault of the receiver.

  22. Competition is a Good Thing on Google vs. eBay/PayPal · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The old arguments for Competition in the Marketplace can come out.

    * Drive to innovate
    * Prices closer to the actual cost of the service
    * External Innovators can become suppliers as the companies get creative to win market share.

  23. This is such old news on Rumsfeld Requests 24-hour Propaganda Machine · · Score: 1
  24. This is fantastic news to hear. on UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Anyone who values their privacy already uses non-OS provided encryption. This will raise public awareness of the need to do the same.

    The pleasant result of all this is that it dispells the whiff of paranoid conspiracy-theory. The government has been advised to ask for the backdoor access. By a british Cambridge expert. There is every reason to think Microsoft will agree.

    There is now simple historical evidence to point the public to. Previously there were more technical , less convincing ones.

    The average person is not going to care if Microsoft accidentally included some debugging code in a patch. Even if that made it look like it had a backdoor key. "Whatever that means?", they'll say.

    A BBC news article about an expert asking for such a backdoor is a lot more convincing.

  25. Crosscrypt for Windows Users. GPL too on NetBSD's Crypto-Graphic Disk · · Score: 2, Informative
    I've used this A LOT.

    Cross Crypt - Open Source AES and TwoFish Linux compatible on the fly encryption for Windows XP and Windows 2000.

    It uses the excellent Filedisk to appear as a volume in Explorer.

    It's GPL, sorry to restate that, but I dunno if you read the headline fully or not.