There is a saying "who will guard the guards". Nobody apparently.

But I'm pretty sure that almost ANYONE in their shoes would have done the same...it's called the human condition. You are given the power to abuse something and you think nobody will notice....so you do. Flame away but i probably would have.

Tetris = Testicles.... I can entirely see how that is offensive.

An article that gives the americans all the chance they can to make cheap jabs. I shall refrain from thinking or saying anymore, I'll just shoot you all.

That's funny...the first result I got gave me the answer - skeletons are a bad omen/bad luck in China. Maybe try Bing next time...it might have more pictures.

I'm not tossing out my zombie survival guide yet. We know nothing about it but it's harmless. *raises eyebrow*

Broadband is fast becoming essential and even if as another user has said - this plan gets scrapped, it is inevitable that another plan of this ilk will get thought up. You need it, they'll tax it, and with the state of the UK network compared to other countries, no suprise there really. BT actually makes a massive LOSS on its broadband connections and until its 21CN upgrade is rolled out they're frankly screwed when compared to LLU services. BT can't offer things like Annex M, they can't offer engineered broadband and they are selling products such as broadband with an SLA to try and claw back some of the market share....which just isn't happening. I don't think most people are below 2mbps, most people are on around 3 or 4 I'd say. Satellite is a waste of money for rural areas - one tree in the way and you're fucked. 2mbps for every citizen by 2012 just won't be met in my view, no way, and to my knowledge nothing about broadband has ever been guaranteed - least of all speeds!! Would be interested to know what they are going to measure this guarantee upon!! Just because BTs database SAYS you can have 2mbps certainly doesn't mean you're gonna get it, and even then you may well be synced up to your exchange at 2mbps but you certainly aren't going to be downloading at more than 1.8 if that is the case! Bollocks I say.

They were talking about satellite as one of the solutions, I forget what the project was called now but I think that this will be the option for people way way out.

at least spell arrogant right.

Disable USB and DVD? Whilst that may be "a solution" I think he was nodding towards something errrr...workable?? He said in his original post that it was needed for USBs as well. I'm pretty sure that there is sweet FA you could do if someone did run a .exe containing malicious code anyway. This happened at a place I worked once and all it did was disable the antivirus. Useful.

Do these guys ever get sick of writing useless downloads?? Every time I've ever bought a new HP device it's come with numerous pissy little apps to "help" me.

It doesn't quite work that way. As resellers we have to have the system that we are offered by the company that owns the main networks, and this is what they are offering, poorly written and IE6 dependent. I'm not even a coder and I think I could do better.

Yes but it's built by Microsoft!!!