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Comment Correction (Score 1) 783

The site showing the image has removed it. Google don't appear to have 'removed' it from their index, just promptly re-indexed the offending site.
However, I don't remember Google (/youtube) being this proactive when offensive Thai royalty videos appeared. Or the 'Bush chimp' images (although those were funny*)
*IRONY

Comment Bill Gates (Score 4, Interesting) 541

I know this is contentious, but I quite like being the devil's advocate. Isn't Bill Gates more suited to the Nobel Peace Prize?
His philanthropy is unparalleled (by monetory value alone, anyway). His influence on the world of computing is undisputed. I'm not saying his influence has been good or bad... just that he's had influence. The world wouldn't be the same without Windows. Regardless of which operating system you favour (for me, it's a tie between OSX and Ubuntu), you cannot deny that Windows has been an important component in the spread of information and education across the world, and enabled all kinds of communication.
A lot of this stuff would have happened anyway, without Windows... but then I could argue that the US civil rights movement would have happened at some point without Martin Luther King (a previous Nobel Peace Prize winner).

Comment Re:The US should control the technolog (Score 1) 453

What, because the Chinese are only interested in subverting the American way of life, and couldn't possibly be looking at it from an investment point of view!

I'm fully aware I'll be modded as a troll, but I find American's suspicion of Chinese investment ironic, considering the amount of American investment, development and exports worldwide in the last century.

Comment This is very irritating (Score 4, Interesting) 438

I don't have a car. I commute by bus and ferry. There's a Cineworld on my way home that I frequent, but now cannot as I carry my laptop to work every day (I use it to get in a bit of work/browsing on the 2 x 30 minute ferry crossing daily commute).

Cineworld Southampton have therefore just lost my business. This is particularly stupid of them, as quite often (even with newly released films) I can count the audience members on my fingers.

Comment Outlook for work, Facebook for play. (Score 1) 266

Most people I know (non-techies) use Outlook for work communication and Facebook for friend communication. I can't help feeling that if Sharepoint was all that Microsoft promised it would be, we'd be using it for work communication like we use Facebook. But when people have to call IT support to ask how to move a document from one folder to another, it's not going to get that far...

Comment Class? (Score -1, Flamebait) 205

I don't know how relevant this theory would be to America (I know class boundaries are not as evident as in the UK), but here the most obvious cause of this evidence would be class lifestyles. Poor, lower class, under-educated children are more susceptible to criminal influences; while well-educated middle class parents are more likely to obsess over their children's diets. As goes the popular tag, correlation is not causation. You could equally theorise that wearing trainers cause crime, as children who wear Nike trainers are more likely to offend than children who wear Hush Puppies shoes.

Comment Cracking success? (Score 1) 275

I'll admit Sharepoint is a success when it works with browsers other than IE. After evangelising the benefits of alternative browsers around our company, I looked distinctly silly when we started rolling out Sharepoint and had to admit everyone had to revert back to IE.

I would also warn people against believing Microsoft's hype about Sharepoint. It's a good tool for a specific purpose, but it won't solve every problem you have. Make sure YOUR company is suitable for the way Sharepoint works. Don't expect Sharepoint to be flexible to your requirements.

Comment Re:Llamatron! (Score 1) 78

Yes, llamatron was AWESOME. And very, very funny. And very hard. I did manage to complete it (well, get over level 100, where it reverts to level 1) in the 'assist' mode where instead of a second player you have a robot pal. Hard is good though: It keeps you coming back. Not hard as in 'stuck at one particular point and can't go further', which seems to be a problem with modern games (eg. GTA4, there's one mission I can't get past, so I've just stopped playing), but hard as in 'try again, and again, and again, and gradually get better'

Comment I have an original iPhone on contract (Score 1) 789

This is exactly why I stuck with my original iPhone for an extra six months, rather than taking the free upgrade to the 3G. It was obvious that Apple were bringing out the next version, and I would rather save money and have a phone I'm happy with than pay through the nose for the latest shiniest very-slightly-better version. Now (hopefully) I can have a free (or greatly reduced price) upgrade to the 3GS.

Comment Wow (Score 4, Insightful) 209

The big banks really are intent on shooting themselves in the foot. If they hold the auditor liable for security breaches, nobody else will be willing to offer certification services for PCI-DSS. And considering that it's the banks who desperately want everyone to be PCI-DSS compliant (does anybody other than the banks get any benefit from it? Really?), that is particularly stupid.
It's hard enough achieving compliancy as it is - whenever we get near to completing the questionnaire, they change all the questions!

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