Comment You Are Disturbing Me. I Am Picking Mushrooms! (Score 1) 584
I decline to asvverr!
Comment This is 2009..... (Score 1) 970
Hate to say this..... but we've been doing this for quite some time now at the MoJ. HP has been doing this for years.
We just toss them out. Don't need to replace them cartridges no more; just hook up a new printer. And you're done...
We just toss them out. Don't need to replace them cartridges no more; just hook up a new printer. And you're done...
Comment All one needs in life. (Score 1) 496
slashdot.org, www.k2climb.net, www.ebay.com.au, en.wikipedia.org and news.google.com.au
Comment Red Tape industries (Score 1) 548
a.k.a. Big Brother Government.
Worldwide.
Comment Quality that lasts. (Score 3, Informative) 533
Getting these things up and running is no surprise to me. It seems that they used quality stuff in them days. I have loads of these oldies that haven't been booted for 10+ years and upon plugging them in they start off as if nothing ever happened. Drives with a ST-506 interface in particular seem to be of an indistructible kind of quality-make.
Feel free to contact me for disks, or as stated; check eBay of contact Bruce Damer of the DigiBarn [http://www.digibarn.com/].
Comment Re:Is it worth it anymore? (Score 2, Funny) 345
Is there any life after news:alt.slack and news:alt.binaries.slack? Hardly!
Comment Support a worthwhile cause (Score 1) 286
My default page has a banner that will direct visitors to the International Campaign for Tibet. A hidden folder serves as storage for the imagery of all stuff from my inheritance that I'm selling off on eBay - again - for the support of Tibet.
Comment Re:Screw all the way (Score 1) 490
Thanks... You just made my day ;-)
Comment It's easy.... (Score 1, Troll) 405
US$ 2 billion is a tag, that's LESS than ONE day of war in Iraq and Afghanistan..... An easy choice, I'd say.
Submission + - Google politically correct on the Olympics?
Qwrk writes: "I didn't check out a thing on the
Olympics, apart from the special Google logos that get racked in automagically
by a script [through
Wget]. Yesterday I noticed they had two separate
logos for the closing day. Upon checking subdirectories I noticed that they
were having a
censored version for Muslim countries, as the dog and the pig were missing.
I this a new attempt by Google on being PC, or are they bowing their heads in
more and other directions [read; totalitarian states / beliefs]?"
Submission + - Gary McKinnon loses extradition appeal
Qwrk writes: The BBC [amongst others]
reports that Gary McKinnon lost his extradition appeal.
"A Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers has lost a Law Lords appeal against being extradited to stand trial in the US. Gary McKinnon, 42, could face a life sentence if found guilty of gaining access to 97 American military and Nasa computers from his London home. Glasgow-born Mr McKinnon admits breaking into the computers but says he was trying to find information on UFOs."
"A Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers has lost a Law Lords appeal against being extradited to stand trial in the US. Gary McKinnon, 42, could face a life sentence if found guilty of gaining access to 97 American military and Nasa computers from his London home. Glasgow-born Mr McKinnon admits breaking into the computers but says he was trying to find information on UFOs."
Submission + - Google as anonymous eBay critic
defiant1 writes: I bet google is not very happy at the Australian competition watchdog. SMH writes "The Australian competition watchdog has accidentally revealed Google as the anonymous source of a submission that is highly critical of eBay's proposal to force its users onto the PayPal payments system."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/google-exposed-as-anonymous-ebay-critic/2008/05/30/1211654272331.html
Submission + - LiveLeak bins Fitna after threats.
Qwrk writes: Just one day after LiveLeak [http://www.liveleak.com/] started hosting 'Fitna', the controversial anti-Islam film by right-wing politician Geert Wilders, they've decided to pull it off the grid after receiving undisclosed threats.
"Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers. This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realised LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one. Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one anothers culture. We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high."
Exit freedom of speech?
"Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers. This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realised LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one. Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one anothers culture. We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high."
Exit freedom of speech?
The 30 Dumbest Video Game Titles In History 113
An anonymous reader writes "Not every game involves taking an axe to the head of a criminal; some classics from the 80's involved massacring camels from aircraft, or in the case of "How to Be a Complete Bastard" for the C64, something altogether different(unless you're a camel). CNet has collected the 30 most ridiculous game names and concepts from the last 25 years. Quite frankly, how some of these — including "Touch Dic" from Korea — ever made it onto store shelves is beyond me."
