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Vault Loads? |
Apr 6, 2003, 15:52 |
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Is that the phrase over there? In the UK it's shed loads, a measure technically larger than bucketfuls and less than squillions.
edit:Also where has page one of the comments gone?
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| Anvil - from the land of warm beer and mad cattle. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Hmmm |
Mar 31, 2003, 15:45 |
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regurgitated chris morris stuff, sexist auction of the day. poisoned Blue, could there be a connection?
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This comment was edited on Mar 31, 15:46. edit curly brackets damnit
This comment was edited on Mar 31, 15:47. |
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| Anvil - from the land of warm beer and mad cattle. |
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| News Comments > Tech Bits |
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Re: Slashdot damns MS |
Mar 30, 2003, 04:27 |
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I have no doubt that either the february fix for this issue, or the march security patch, whichever you applied will have resolved this issue. Whichever way you cut it the /. story resolves down to, there was a problem introduced in SP1 (which BTW slows load times not execution times apparently), for which there has been a fix for at least a month now.
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| News Comments > Tech Bits |
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Slashdot damns MS |
Mar 29, 2003, 11:21 |
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My God theres an anti-MS story on /. hold the front page.
In other news the .dll that has the problem is the self same one that you should just have patched for security reasons anyway - and which was fixed for the memory alloc problem in February, so in all likelihood this 'issue' no longer exists.
sad geek signing out
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Freedom To Tinker is Full of It |
Mar 28, 2003, 11:21 |
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Now at least in the UK the law is interpreted by Judges according to the wording, as understood by the 'common man' and with reference to the intention of the law makers, I'd imagine something similar would apply in the states - which is to say that a judge would likely rule that 'the state legislature did not intend to ban firewall technologies which are in any case protected under <insert moderately relevant act here>'.
Now this doesn't mean that poorly worded laws are A Good Thing (tm) - they are crap and lead directly to miscarriages of justice - but any commentator that states 'Law X outlaws Generic Thing Y' without the backing of court decisions is just talking rubbish. See slashdots passim.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Viagra pops |
Mar 24, 2003, 15:52 |
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The new stuff just means that the drunk guy will be able to keep it up long enough to finish Or more probably start.
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Re: Ugh... |
Mar 21, 2003, 15:44 |
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I just love the image of Vlad the Impaler being shocked by the anti-war protesters violence 
Seriously compared tp deciding that its OK for nation states to arbitrarily change the leaders of other nation states by force, after failing to get any sort of international agreement on the issue, yep that really compares with blocking traffic.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Spam Filter |
Mar 21, 2003, 15:40 |
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So... how do you guys end up with so much spam? Publically accessible,valid email addresses - for blue that would be the ones he publishes on the web. For me, well I do give advice via usenet, and on a point of principle give a valid email address. Post a valid email address on usenet and watch the spam roll in.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Go back to bed |
Mar 18, 2003, 06:36 |
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So far the number of people dying is 9, According to the centre for communicable diseases it is likely it is spread through close personal contact. (hence the proportion of victims who are health care workers)
the relevant authorities so far have been working on the problem for only 10 days. Well funded western labs for far less time.
I'd rate the threat at not much more than a 'be aware' level if even that (with the obvious exception of health care workers and those who have recently travelled to hong kong or China)
in the last hundred years we have seen far worse diseases, both influenza strains and others (measles for example).
chill out man.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: WoMD |
Mar 13, 2003, 09:44 |
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Thanks for the legal update two_sheds. I was however using WMD in a less technical sense which is pretty close to
1) The term "weapon of mass destruction" means any weapon or device that is intended, or has the capability, to cause death or serious bodily injury to a significant number of people.
which 21000 tons of TNT in a single device certainly does.
If we are using the technical US definition it is worth noting that the FBI doesn't use the definition above but
"A weapon crosses the WMD threshold when the consequences of its release overwhelm local responders"
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Re: to Craw |
Mar 13, 2003, 09:21 |
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Hmmm....you do know how Israel came into being, dont you? The UN created Israel, its their screw up so OF COURSE they arent going to clean it up.
Of course I know how Israel came into being, curiously I also know how Iraq came into being look it up sometime. As far as changing the subject is concerned I'm just trying to shed some light on the US/British motives for this upcoming war, they aren't based on respect for international law and order. Its primarily self interest based on Oil.
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Re: to Craw |
Mar 12, 2003, 17:09 |
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However, inspectors or no inspectors, Iraq ended the Gulf War based on an agreement with the UN that they refuse to live up to. No one debates that issue, not even the French. Everyone knows that Iraq is not in compliance. The disagreement comes in the form of the answer to "What are we going to do about it?"
I agree with your identification of the question, I'm not sue I agree with your response.
there exists a country that has broken 69 UN Security Council resolutions. Its lack of compliance goes back to 1948, not 1991. It has a verified nuclear weapons capability which threatens its neighbours - indeed to threaten its neighbours was the reason for its weapons of mass destruction program.
If 12 years is enough for Iraq surely 54 is enough for Israel.
If war is the way to enforce UN resolutions why does the western alliance not age war on Israel?
Of course since you aren't sticking your head in the sand on international issues you will have been calling for an end to the 6 billion dollars a year funds flow to Israel from the US.
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edit rearrange the above words to make an actual sentence
This comment was edited on Mar 12, 17:12. |
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Re: Freedumb Fries |
Mar 12, 2003, 16:59 |
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North Korea is run by a nutball drunk
And again, so are we.
Um, NO. Do a wee little bitty bit of research on Kim Jong II and I think even the most bleeding heart liberal of you will see that there is no comparison.
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North Korea Leader=deranged psychotic
American Leader=semi-literate ex drunk.
I'll be resting easy then, completely different reasons to be scared witless by either of them controlling nukes, and not giving a damn what other folk think.
More seriously, I am scared by the apparent determination by the US (and to a lesser extent Britain) to emasculate the UN, not because I think Hussein should remain, but because I just wonder what happens with Tibet, Chechnya, India/Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Israel, Libya when it is decided that self interest of the poweful is the new (old?) world order. It worries me that the country of which I'm proud to be a citizen, and with a thousand years of (ever increasing) democracy and freedom, and the most powerful state on earth, and which was born as a response to opression, should be sacrificing freedom, liberty and the rule of law for external values, imposed regimes and the rule of might.
yeah and the MOAB isn't a weapon of mass destruction - right.
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Re: Anti-Telemarketing Bill |
Mar 12, 2003, 16:43 |
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latin works well, as does french or spanish. Though one does of course run the risk of encountering a university major in that language doing the cold calling for extra cash hence latin as language of choice.
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Couple of clarifications |
Mar 11, 2003, 08:24 |
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UK Currency, yes we did have pound notes. The coins were introduced because 1) inflation was eroding the value of the pound and 2) coins are better value for small change for a treasury, since they last longer and cost little more to produce. edit I liked pound notes,bagpuss and blakes 7 but sadly the 70's had to end sometime
UK Income Tax. National Insurance in the UK is also an Income Tax, thus top tax rates rise to 51% (from April), rather than the 40% quoted. Though as I understand it the Massachusetts tax is in addition to federal taxes and so isn't directly comparable to the UK rates. Unfortunately UK citizens seem to be addicted to having 'the Government' do things for them, rather than arrange them themselves - viz Higher Education and Health Care. A large public sector requires a large tax take. US citizens seem to be far more cynical about big government. The reverse seems to be true when considering big corporations.
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This comment was edited on Mar 11, 08:26. |
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Blue is the new pink |
Mar 7, 2003, 13:41 |
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I did a double take till I read the comments, whilst clearly Blue cannot be the new Pink that would be silly %), I read the "I just don't want to be Mr Pink" as an homophobic comment - which is so out of character its untrue.
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Re: I don't exist |
Mar 4, 2003, 12:46 |
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Mr Grimm writes My name wasn't found anywhere. So sad, so lonely.
Surely you have brothers Mr Grimm 
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Reuters |
Feb 28, 2003, 10:29 |
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It may be that reuters failed to understand DNS propogation, OR it may be that the govt appropriated a specific IP address, rather than the domain name, when the site itself was held on two different machines.
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