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  1. Re:Who is the 5%? on UK Gov. Wants IWF List To Cover 100% of UK Broadband · · Score: 1

    They do have the legally mandated filter on there, but as far as I can tell nothing much is blocked.

    There isn't a legally mandated filter, just the IWF's, so if anything is getting blocked it isn't for legal reasons.

  2. Re:Windows 7... Is it really that much better? on Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate · · Score: 1

    Because the only real reason people ever upgraded their (Windows) OS was security (adjustable UAC helps with that tremendously) and UI.

    I can't say I've ever upgraded Windows due to security. Stability and compatibility, but not security. And that's the reason MS have a problem - there is no compelling reason to upgrade from XP.

  3. Re:Even if the answer is no... on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 1

    ADSL is available up to 24Mbps via Bethere or O2. I sync at the full 24Mb but real world downloads are about 22-23Mbps.

  4. Re:Cuts are to Trim the Fat on Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide · · Score: 1

    *Cough* XBox360 *Cough*

  5. Re:How much spam? on Washington Post Blog Shuts Down 75% of Online Spam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Gmail holds spam in a separate folder for 30 days before deleting them. Usually I have around 3000 emails in there, around 100/day, but at the moment I only have 1442; over the last 4 days I've only averaged 30 spam emails a day (900ish a month).

  6. Who Chooses? on First Mars-Goers Should Prepare For a One-Way Trip · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do we get to nominate people to go?

  7. Re:Think again on UK UFO Sightings Declassified, Still No Intergalactic Relations · · Score: 1

    The Air Force doesn't let Jim from the trailer park fly their planes

    Why, what's he done?

  8. Re:As a parent... on Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia · · Score: 1

    Just playing devil's advocate for a second - have you checked that the parents of any friends your children may visit are as diligent as you?

  9. Re:Must be a pretty crappy university. on Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? · · Score: 1

    Add a backup or DR server, and there goes your $264k.

  10. Can we get them to release the source? on Now Google's CAPTCHA Is Broken · · Score: 3, Funny

    I always have a hell of a job reading Google's CAPTCHAs; a tool to do it automatically would be very useful.

  11. Re:Public Records on Palin Email Hacker Found · · Score: 1

    Because there are laws in place that say what you can and cannot do with government services and equipment. What you do not seem to get is she was abiding by these laws. Thats why she has 2 (or more) email accounts. The hacker ought to be prosecuted, he even said he did it with malicious intent

    You have sarah.palin@yahoo.com, spalin@yahoo.com or moosehunters4ever@yahoo.com for personal emails. What you don't have is gov.palin; anything sent or received in her capacity as governor should go via her .gov address.

  12. Re:Fishy on High Cost of Converting UK To High-Speed Broadband · · Score: 1

    It's not rubbish. There's a very large housing development in Aylesbury, Fairford Leys, which was cabled with fibre when it was built. BT had to overlay it with copper because they wouldn't provide a broadband service over fibre and everyone was stuck with dial-up. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there were similar situations across the whole country, given the proliferation of these types of development over the last 10 years.

  13. Re:Magnetic or geographic? on Scientists Discover Cows Point North · · Score: 1

    I'd like to think they spent all day spinning around in circles.

  14. Re:Vacation... on Has Google Lost Its Mojo? · · Score: 1

    It's the jobs with the largest pool of labour that are most likely to include public holidays in the yearly allowance - low paid and unskilled.

  15. Re:Encryption on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because only paedophiles and terrorists encrypt data, or so the government and law enforcement seem to think.

  16. Re:A great idea but bound to be executed badly on Smart Self-Service Scales · · Score: 1

    I've not had a problem with the scanning part, but really can't see the whole point of the bagging check. You've scanned the item, so you're going to pay for it, and if you're trying to pull a fast one and not pay for something you're hardly likely to put it in the bag.

  17. Catchall change? on Where Has All My Spam Gone? · · Score: 1

    Could the configuration of the catchall address have changed? Is it possible that emails sent to unconfigured mailboxes were previously delivered but are now be being dropped? I'm not seeing any decrease in the spam received by domains where I host the email with Google.

  18. Tunnel on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: 1

    And SwissVPN to a roaring trade from UK customers.

  19. Re:Fireworks on TV on Olympic Opening Ceremony Fireworks Were (Partly) Faked · · Score: 1

    During the New Year fireworks in London the BBC have a clueless commentator talking over them. I'll take music over that any day.

  20. How Do They Certify The Machines? on Ohio Sues Over Missing Electronic Votes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If these PCs are running anti-virus software, how do they get certified? Do they certify a certain set of definitions and hope they don't get hit by a newer virus, or do they update the virus software after certification and hope there's nothing dodgy in the update? And even more importantly, what are these machines being used for that makes them susceptible to viruses?

  21. Amazonbay on Amazon Payment Systems Take On PayPal · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Lets hope it means there's an Amazon auction site on the way too: ebay needs some proper competition.

  22. Re:Rogers are Scum on Canadian ISP Hijacking DNS Lookup Errors · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd switch back if I was you, they seem so be replacing proportional fonts with fixed-width.

  23. Re:I wish I could remember .... on Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can do something similar in Mumps:

    New Day
    Read Newspaper
    Job Sucks
    Kill Supervisor
    Open Fly
    Do Secretary
    Close Door
    Go Home

  24. Re:speed on SSL Encryption Coming To The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    The network overhead to an SSL connection is minimal, to the point where it is negligible. Up to a point. By default, Apache has Keep-Alives turned off for SSL connections from IE because of a problem with the SSL implementation in IE5, and no one seems to quite know whether it's fixed in later versions. Consequently, there is a handshake for every request, which can add 5% to 10% to your server's bandwidth use.
  25. Circular Reference on Wikipedia's Content Ripped Off More Egregiously Than Usual · · Score: 2, Funny

    If someone references e-wikipedia.net in an article on Wikipedia will the internet collapse in on itself?