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  1. Re:Bad Title on ISP Sued By Irish RIAA · · Score: 1

    To be a little more clear the Provisional IRA carried out most of the fighting/terrorism since the early 70's, the original IRA having decided to lay doen its arms to pursue their interpretation of marxism.

    Try looking online for a documentary called 'Age Of Terror â" 10 Days Of Terror' broadcast on 21st April on BBC 2, a very interesting account of the Rememberance day bombing and the gun running from Libya.
    The most chilling part was a member of the police force also revealed that the IRA planned a simultaneous attack on a Boys' and Girls' Brigade parade at the border village of Tullyhommon a few miles away from Eniskillen, but the bomb failed to go off.

  2. Re:Huh? on Xbox 360 Power Supply Blamed for Arkansas House Fire · · Score: 1

    FFS, are you seriously blaming a software company for the excess heat generated by a chipset and associated components in a PC?

    Microsoft's only involvement is the sofware running on it and a shiny sticker to say it's certfied/up to the marketing spec

  3. Re:Speaking of Google Maps... Argentina? on Google Earth 4.3 Offers a Number of New Features · · Score: 1

    Sure you did, it was Mexico 1986....

  4. Re:No, the contract defines if it is legal on UK ISP Admitted to Spying on Customers · · Score: 1

    However since that home office guidance it has also been argued that there is a strong case to say it's illegal. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7331493.stm

  5. BT are going to get screwed big style over this on UK ISP Admitted to Spying on Customers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This has been bubbling under for a few weeks, but really broke badly in the past couple of days.

    Essentially they appear to have broken the Regulation of Investigatoy Powers Act (RIPA) by performing an unauthorised interception of a communication over telecommuncations infrastructure.

    No word yet on legal action, although several MP's are kicking up a fuss about it.

    BTW BT are the only ones who have confessedd to doing this so far, the other ISP's haveeither kept schtum, or muttered paltitudes like we will wait and see

  6. Re:Stop talking out of your ass on Military Grounds Stealth Bomber Fleet · · Score: 1

    And who gave the Soviets a free run to Berlin? Bradley put pressure onto a rather weak Eisenhower to concenrtate in clearing up the Ruhr pocket, and in turn getting nice headlines about 300k+ prisoners. By that stage of the war Eisenhower was clearly sitting with an eye on a future White House campaign, the US military in Europe was pretty much running itself, Marshall was willing to give them a free hand and Roosevelt was not long for this world. Even the generals under Eisenhower, Ridgeway and Patton for example, wanted to push to Berlin, but were not told until the last minute that they would have to halt at the Elbe.

  7. Re:Creationism in Europe? on Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction · · Score: 1

    Catholics tend not to have a literal interpretation of the bible Transubstantiation? Pope Benny would beg to differ...
  8. Re:I got laid 4 times in Mass Effect on Mass Effect's Aftermath · · Score: 1

    The trick is to have more renegade points by that point - if your ahead at that point and ask for payment, you get the blue schmoo

  9. Re:How about the best on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 1

    ALT - PRNT SCR is the killer there, it grabs a dump from the active window.
    Not sure what you gain from the extra CTRL keystroke?

  10. Re:Isn't that bad logic? on 12 Companies Caught Stealing Software in 2007 · · Score: 1

    In the UK all relevant paperwork which may impact your tax must be kept for seven years.
    All expense claims, all purchases, the lot.

    HMRC may like to give away all our personal info on CD to anyone passing by, but they are without a doubt vindictive b#stards when you are missing a receipt.

  11. Re:Problems still not resolved as of last night... on Microsoft Giving Xbox Live Users a Free Game · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Got to say last night was the first time in about 2 weeks I've had a chance to even look at Live, and boy was it painful.

    Took about 10 minutes, and several dozen attempts to even get signed in, once in the whole thing was running painfully slowly. Generally not very good, especially as I was seeing lobby issues on PGR4 BEFORE Christmas.

    Looking around the forums there are a lot of guys over on PA who are maning that every live user will get the free download, and complaining that Silver members will get the same 'compensation' as Gold. You have to agree that at some point the users who pay to play (roughly £40 a year over here on Airstrip One) are going to complain more loudly as they are the ones who cannot play online, as opposed to accessing marketplace content, but to moan about a 400 point XBLA POS does seem a bit cheap.

    What is worrying is that these issues have been going on for so long (4 weeks is a figure I'm hearing a lot), surely even MS would think that they should maybe chuck a bit more coal on the boiler?

  12. Re:Heightism on Chinese Government Sued Over Dog Height Censorship · · Score: 0

    FYI - Up to 10% of people have hematuria. About 3% of people develop gross hematuria.

  13. Re:Altering Wikipedia is an assigned job??? on Guantanamo Officers Caught Modifying Wikipedia · · Score: 0

    Yeah, cos the Iranian Navy really are going to sail up the channel, bombard Dover and Calais and send an army across Europe. Get a fuckin grip!

  14. Re:Quite sensible on How PALS Help Secure Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 0

    Yeah lets blame the British.

    I mean, the Indians only fought for independence for a couple of hundred years, it's not like they didn't have a rough idea that they might just give it to them.

    Yet again, non-white killing non-white and guess who gets the blame - take some responsibility for your own actions - or are you suggesting that those who actually did the killing are too stupid to be held responsible for their own actions - like overgrown children?

    Flame away, but frankly it's getting a bit tiring seeing everyone blaming others when it it differences in their own societies that have led to so much suffering.

  15. Re:i just don't get it on Take Two Settles Hot Coffee Suit For Millions · · Score: 0

    Away ye go ya Tattie theiving Taliban. If you micks weren't such fussy eaters you'd have been fine. 'Places marshmallow on stick and awaits flaming'

  16. Re:The beginning of the end? on U.of Oregon Says No to RIAA · · Score: 0

    The first being that I can't get a digital Led Zeppelin song legally. Maybe not yet, but from later this month you can http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7045438.stm

  17. Re:looks familiar... on Japanese Stealth Fighter Announced as 'Return of the Zero' · · Score: 0
    From the ubiquitous Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ya._Ufimtsev

    Russian scientist Professor Ufimstev is considered the seminal force behind modern stealth aircraft technology. In the 1960s he began developing equations for predicting the reflection of electromagnetic waves from simple two-dimensional shapes. Much of Ufimtsev's work was translated into English, and in the 1970s American scientists began to expand upon some of his theories to create the concept of aircraft with reduced radar signatures.

  18. Re:The Microsoft mindset does not determine law on PC Superstore Admits Linux Hinge Repair Mistake · · Score: 0

    (but why did the guy not contact the manufacturer directly instead?).

    Simple, his contract is with the vendor, not the manufacturer.

  19. Re:Do I qualify for a rebate? on Apple Gives $100 Store Credit To iPhone Customers · · Score: 0

    If you're within the 14 day window, take it back, get your full refund, then drop in the next and and keep you're $200.

  20. Re:File synchronization... If you must... on Backing Up Laptops In a Small Business? · · Score: 0

    At my big company, we use Connected DataProtector, .... Oh, and it doesn't back up files in use (you know, like MSDE files under development), so a lot of stuff doesn't get backed up anyway. It does if you use volume shadow copy on your Windows clients, we use it at my company (10k+ users) to backup client deliverables which the auditors tend to leave on their machine, as well as local replicas of notes databases. I get what your saying about slowing down machines, we saw that initially, but after a upgrade of the client software and some traffic management on the WAN links back to the DC it's been fine for just over a year now.
  21. Re:SRB, not ET on Gouge Found on Shuttle Endeavour's Underside · · Score: 0

    Almost right, it cracked in the cold as the shuttle was left on the pad due to weather delays, they now have heating coils for the o-ring seals which are left on until approx 2 minutes before launch.

  22. Re:Not good enough on School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007 · · Score: 0

    The Concorde was retired because it burnt through fuel and money like there was no tomorrow. Well that and the fact it was going to cost a shed load of money to actually bring it up to spec in safety improvements following the Paris crash. Once Air France decided to retire it it was doomed, BA were never going to foot the maintenance and upgrade costs on their fleet alone.
  23. Re:Obligatory... on Mike Godwin hired by Wikimedia Foundation · · Score: 0

    Germany declared war on the US due to it's treaty obligation with Japan.

  24. Re:How much is it a problem? on Why Are CC Numbers Still So Easy To Find? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Thats 493 cautioned - no big deal - these people accepted a police caution (We don't have enough to take you all the way to court but we will lean on you like hell so you voluntarily accept a criminal record), with the attendant registration on a Sex Offenders register. Given that people caught up in the whole sorry debacle have come out since and said they accepted a caution to try and stop their families being dragged through the press - then find they cannot have access to their own children - no big deal http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6642465.stm may shed some light on what the whole bloody mess was about. Remember the UK police have in the past week admitted that they are chasing conviction targets - so much so that one 14 year old whole raised money for a chrity event and didn't hand the money over didn't get cautioned for one offence of fraud, he ended up getting cautioned for over 400!

  25. Re:This is on TV tonight on Scientologists In Row With BBC · · Score: 0

    The UK is referenced because we STILL can't have stores be open more than 6 hours on a Sunday because of some fictional character in some fictional pile of cod-swallop from 2000 years ago) Actually that may be true in England and Wales, but up here in Scotland, the stores can open as long as they want on a Sunday.