I've been breath tested several times in the UK. If the tests had shown I was over the legal limit then I'd have been arrested, taken down the station and a further blood test would be taken. It would be the blood test that the court would take as evidence, not the breath test.
It seems strange to me that the breath test is enough to convict someone. The police over here wont even take the test if you've had a drink within the last 20 minutes because it gives false readings.
Cellphones, on the other hand, are useless paperweights as soon as you stop paying for monthly service.
and...
I think the truth is, cellphone makers are really only interested in one thing... selling you expensive monthly service plans.
I haven't had a monthly cellphone subscription in 5 years. I don't know anyone, except my Dad, who does have a monthly contract. Contracts seem so old fashioned; you might get a free phone on signing up but upgrading your phone twice a year through ebay works out cheaper in the long run. My mate always has the latest and greatest phone and only seems to spend thirty or forty pounds upgrading.
We all use pay-as-you-go. Everyone that I know under thirty years old uses pay-as-you-go. It's a pain when you run out of credit and can't make calls but that doesn't stop you receiving them.
I for one don't have enough money for a cellphone and an Ipod. Loads of people are in the same position. I do have enough money to replace my phone once a year. I'd love an MP3 player and when they appear on low-cost phones I'm going to have one.
I did the same but with my colour television. Turned the colour right down so everything is in black and white. Brilliant. Watching the snooker, just as it was in the old days, is delightful.
I keep my passwords in a plainext file at home. I encrypt the plaintext file with a long passphrase afterwards. I've always thought that was a reasonable solution for keeping lots of passwords safe.
I don't have 3G but I can surf the whole internet using GPRS on the Tesco's branded O2 network. It doesn't even cost me anything in credit - I suspect this shouldn't happen. I only wish I had a better phone with a better browser.
A mate of mine bought a new motherboard and graphics card. Be damned if we could get it all working properly. "I'm taking it to a computer shop" he said in a moment of frustration. The shop fixed it for him.
6 months later we were mucking around with something. The task manager showed Blaster was running - not that this was related to anything we were doing...
He uses his PC for playing games and nothing else. He doesn't even have an internet connection. Three guesses where he caught Blaster from?
Nah, the TV goes on before the Internet each morning. It was the breaking news story before that tanker caught on fire on the M4.
The TV version actually had an Internet expert talking about how the keylogger was probably installed. He talked about pop-up advert distribution, email distribution and malicious websites. The TV version gave away more information than the website version.
I see you got your posting rights back. Going to troll again and stop the whole company posting? Not that I give a shit any more, you're welcome to that crappy shithole. I hope the internal mail made you laugh as much as it did me.
He seems to be using the owntracker.com free tracker. Not the best choice in the world. Many of the files aren't seeded. Some of the torrents have hash errors.
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I've been breath tested several times in the UK. If the tests had shown I was over the legal limit then I'd have been arrested, taken down the station and a further blood test would be taken. It would be the blood test that the court would take as evidence, not the breath test.
It seems strange to me that the breath test is enough to convict someone. The police over here wont even take the test if you've had a drink within the last 20 minutes because it gives false readings.
what was the first arcade game to feature a "punch" button?
Double Dragon.
How about the first solid-object polygon game?
Um... Double Dragon!
How many years before the 2nd one?
Double Dragon?
Yes, I got banned from ET for having a shite ratio!
I feel so much better now.
Hijacking the word 'leech' was the worse thing BitTorrent ever did. I remember it meaning something totally different back in the dayz.
If you view the alt text for the image it says "random letters - if you are visually impaired, please email us at pater@slashdot.org"
I'm sure your browser reads that bit out and I'm sure the slashdot admin will turn the feature off for you.
+5 Troll me thinks.
Absolutely disgusting.
http://www.google.com/search?q=star%20wars%203%20r evenge%20sith%20filetype:torrent
The ball's been rolling for a long time and now it's big. There's no way anyone can stop it.
Nice, but I think the link is broken...
okay so i'm not the alpha nerd. i do have a better cabinet than anyone who home built theirs though, ESPECIALLY better than those dorks that put a computer monitor in their cabinet.
Made me smile.
Have a quick go now!
http://193.151.73.87/games/lemmings/
Javascript is needed.
Where are you going to plug it in dude?
Cellphones, on the other hand, are useless paperweights as soon as you stop paying for monthly service.
and...
I think the truth is, cellphone makers are really only interested in one thing ... selling you expensive monthly service plans.
I haven't had a monthly cellphone subscription in 5 years. I don't know anyone, except my Dad, who does have a monthly contract. Contracts seem so old fashioned; you might get a free phone on signing up but upgrading your phone twice a year through ebay works out cheaper in the long run. My mate always has the latest and greatest phone and only seems to spend thirty or forty pounds upgrading.
We all use pay-as-you-go. Everyone that I know under thirty years old uses pay-as-you-go. It's a pain when you run out of credit and can't make calls but that doesn't stop you receiving them.
I for one don't have enough money for a cellphone and an Ipod. Loads of people are in the same position. I do have enough money to replace my phone once a year. I'd love an MP3 player and when they appear on low-cost phones I'm going to have one.
hmmpt.
Well, I just use IE and Firefox at the same time for double the security. Tools > Options...? hmmpt.
Get a Mac indeed (and install IE and Firefox on it).
Do kids these days even know multiplication tables without reaching for their cell phone's calculator app?
Computer says no.
I did the same but with my colour television. Turned the colour right down so everything is in black and white. Brilliant. Watching the snooker, just as it was in the old days, is delightful.
I keep my passwords in a plainext file at home. I encrypt the plaintext file with a long passphrase afterwards. I've always thought that was a reasonable solution for keeping lots of passwords safe.
I'm a Brit and I like to complain about the crappy service I get.
i resent that. ive bean doing all 4 for years and it aint done me no harm.
if anythin i fink it has aktualy helped me get my first star at the drive thu.
I have two friends who are diabetic. Neither of them talk about their conditions much and I don't like to ask unless they started the subject.
Both have talked about shortened lifespans and infertility in the past. Would this new treatment help in these areas?
I don't have 3G but I can surf the whole internet using GPRS on the Tesco's branded O2 network. It doesn't even cost me anything in credit - I suspect this shouldn't happen. I only wish I had a better phone with a better browser.
Switch to a better network indeed.
I've never used that particular program but I do use Instant Demo 4 for Windows. It too creates Flash movies in a second. Worth a look also.
Kid next door?
Short story:
A mate of mine bought a new motherboard and graphics card. Be damned if we could get it all working properly. "I'm taking it to a computer shop" he said in a moment of frustration. The shop fixed it for him.
6 months later we were mucking around with something. The task manager showed Blaster was running - not that this was related to anything we were doing...
He uses his PC for playing games and nothing else. He doesn't even have an internet connection. Three guesses where he caught Blaster from?
Nah, the TV goes on before the Internet each morning. It was the breaking news story before that tanker caught on fire on the M4.
The TV version actually had an Internet expert talking about how the keylogger was probably installed. He talked about pop-up advert distribution, email distribution and malicious websites. The TV version gave away more information than the website version.
Look Mum! I know HTML too!
Don't waste mod points on crap posts like this.
That's what the TV version of the BBC news has been saying all day too.
I see you got your posting rights back. Going to troll again and stop the whole company posting? Not that I give a shit any more, you're welcome to that crappy shithole. I hope the internal mail made you laugh as much as it did me.
He seems to be using the owntracker.com free tracker. Not the best choice in the world. Many of the files aren't seeded. Some of the torrents have hash errors.
http://owntracker.com/Charbax/
Maybe someone could help him out..?
And sharing's what it's all about.
Fun too.
http://news.google.com/news?ned=:ePkh8BM9E...
Popular sites at http://del.icio.us/tag/bittorrent
RSS feeds are available. Neat!
Try other tags like warez, torrent, bt, etc, etc.