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  1. Re:Expansion pack... on Ask Questions of the World of Warcraft Team · · Score: 1

    An expansion is on its way, it's official. Nothing else is known about it though. There's some rumours on http://forums-en.wow-europe.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow -general-en&t=481612

  2. Re:That'll work on Bill Would Let Police Monitor Email · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously, the ones that use encryption don't get caught. ;)

  3. Re:Pfffft on Too Much Homework Can Be Counterproductive · · Score: 1

    I've also heard it used to describe injuries on humans - soandso has a lame leg, etc. But like you, I've never heard it refer to a handicap.

  4. Re:Dictionary Security Definition on There Is No Safe Web Browser · · Score: 1

    This is also redundant, but you have to also multiply the 59 million because of the downloads being sent from user to user, and from any website other than the official firefox site (download.com etc.), linux distros that it's included in, etc. etc.

  5. Re:BT on The Horror Of British Telecom · · Score: 1

    I'm with Telewest, I have been since September 2002. In those two and a half years, I have had my internet connection die twice.

    Once was because of a line fault which they fixed within hours, and once because they changed the MAC Address policy (changing it from a maximum of 5 MACs per account to 3 MACs, and in doing so removed the MAC I was using at the time), and so I phoned them up and they changed the MAC for me.

    I also originally paid for a 512k/128k line, and now it's a 1024k/128k line without me paying any extra at all.

    The price is fine, I have no bandwidth cap, and my line always operates at full speed - While my friend on BT (who has their 576k package (what a silly number)) rarely gets above 50k/s, when he should be getting 72k/s max.

    Telewest have their faults (the Tech support are mostly incompetent I believe from the two times I've contacted them), but you rarely have to contact them.


    NTL do suck though. And nearly all the ADSL (as opposed to cable) ISPs in the UK suck. Zen are quite cool, and A&A are fantastic - although expensive.

  6. Re:Firefox needs ActiveX on Firefox and Open Standards the Way Forward · · Score: 1

    http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm

    I havn't looked at it much, but it looks interesting. Obviously it won't be as good as IE (I never thought I'd say that!), but it's a start.

  7. Re:Roll the dice... on Israeli Army Frowns on D&D · · Score: 1

    FilePlanet sucks, but the queues for the file aint too long.

    http://www.fileplanet.com/86368/80000/fileinfo/Sum moner-Geeks-Movie-(.avi)

  8. Re:Don't demonise them on Australian ISPs Required To Report Child Porn · · Score: 1

    US: Sexual acts depicted on women under the age of 18
    UK: Sexual acts depicted on women under the age of 16

    So it's sick if you bang a 17 yo in the US but fine and healthy to do it in the UK.


    The age of consent (Male and Female) in the UK is 16, while in some US states it's 18 - So if you were, for example, 16 and had a girlfriend in the UK, you can legally screw - And so can legally see her naked, and if you say, recorded it, that's legal.

    While I assume the US law applies to all states, and so they've gone with the highest age of consent.


    So the "kiddie porn age" is the age under the legal age of consent, obviously. Which is why it's different in different places.