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109 posts • joined Wednesday 9th May 2007 08:24 GMT

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micheal
Coat

I think it should be interpreted as

"we only ever caught one person and they had unlawfully accessed data 922 times"

the rest took us for a drink and it was all forgotten about.

Fixed that for them

micheal

At last

Doing something useful with the overpriced moneypit ISS.

Putting people in space for years on end isn't advancing colonisation one iota, and they'll never build a moon base whilst Fujistu, EDS and HP etc are draining the government pots with their overpriced support contracts and we rely on breathing oxygen.

As for bench testing, remembe how much money it took to build Hubble and launch before someone noticed the mirror was wrong BIG OOPS!

micheal

Re: Re-"...which has trawled through some old shipyard records..."

the holes were not drilled but punched into the hot steel plates

micheal
FAIL

Similar to BSB

"no one wants to watch VHS quality TV, they'll pay the premium for our superior services", same as sony thought joe public wanted to pay for betamax over poor quality vhs

micheal
FAIL

I like this bit

He added that all the DVLA's data is stored in the UK and there are no plans to change this, and IT systems will have to be managed to the same standards as if they were in the UK.

"We will ensure that all appropriate controls for data protection are in place, and will continue to be in place. These controls are independently validated and approved in line with government information security requirements and procedures," he said

SO expect to find unencrypted data on CD's, Mem Sticks and printed off in wads at the local Bangalore bus and taxi ranks

micheal
FAIL

Aside the others

No one here had to endure Open Water?

Or for the Brit's, Paul McCartney's 1980's turkey "Give My Regards To Broad Street"

Makes the Killer Tomato's and The Phantom Menace look like Oscar winning material

micheal
Coat

You have

A day of peace, lucky sod!!

micheal

lets add

Open water was a waste of almost 2 hours of my life

If it was based on a true story, and they both died, how did the scriptwriter know what happened overnight?

micheal
Joke

Re: Pile of water?

Perhaps they watched "moses" as the in-flight movie and assumed the sea's would part as they progressed

micheal

Re: So for all you guys out there...

see just as much flesh in perfume adverts on telly during daytime hours (think Dior)

Point as stated, dont go to anne summers website and complain about the buzzy toys they have,

dont go to underwear sites to complain about showing underwear.

As for the "target Audience" things, how many perfume ad's sell the sex angle of the fragrance?

All of them, yet perfume isnt as sexy as underwear

micheal

Re: Re Time to phase out cheques

Tell me if i'm being rather petty here,

He accepts cheques and you write cheques.....therefore you both have a bank account so why not do a credit transfer (they are free for personal banking), asd by way of you giving him a cheque, he has your account and sort code so you have given him your bank details.

micheal
Happy

Re: How quaint

sticky back plastic

Fablon (r) or Kontact (r)

micheal
Coat

Stop using this new fangled ISO units

One solar mass is equivalent to 1.98892 x 1030 kilograms?

how many double decker busses, blue whales and A380's is that?

micheal
Childcatcher

I only suffered

An hour from Antwerp next to some fat dude who clearly should have booked 2 seats or freight, played with his laptop (could have fitted a 30" screen on that lap) the whole way so flab and elbows spilling over the armrests.

He didnt know what deodourant was either

He had to be greased to fit into his seat.

there should be more airlines with passenger width and weight limits.

micheal

Re: All electric has a long way to go

As I said in a post a while back, trains that generate their own electric when overhead power isnt available have been about for years.

Why not the same with cars?

micheal
Holmes

Re: Re: Re: Tesla is the future, old people....

Almost everyone that lives or works in London and lives / works outside the M25

Not just the mileage, it's the use of ancilliaries whilst standing that drains the battery too (lights, wipers, satnav etc

micheal
Devil

Even as an non apple lover

(i have ipads and iphones as well as normal kit), I still see it as the Chinese governments attempt to dictate to the world that they can change the rules as they wish on legal agreements with any non state owned company

micheal
FAIL

PE32 2**

between Fakenham and Dereham, no BB at all, only dial up

and 130K plus line noise

micheal

It's was done in the 80's

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/

micheal
FAIL

Here in Rural Norfolk

We have bought a "3" sim card router as the speed (280kbs is almost 20 times the alternative which is dial-up

with a village of 60 people we are not even on the list to get mains gas anytime soon even tho the pipe runs across the field 200 yards away, likeways, BT went past us, into the town and back to us making it over the 4Km BB distance

micheal
Childcatcher

"where are your medical records?"

From what i remember of the last govt., somewhere in Mombassa or Mumbai i'd hazzard a guess

micheal
Black Helicopters

But seriously

would their mass be in elephants or gerbils?

this new money stuff is alien to me

micheal

RM statement also said

Our gold plated cash cow and pork barrel "preferred school computing supplier" quango will stay with us as it guarantees 90% of our income however crap the service we give it

micheal
Pint

all this

Another great British invention lost to the Eurotwats

It's called GMT cos it starts at Grenwich.

Like us moving to European time, all measures by them Germans to take over Not So Great Britain again, like in 1939 and 1918

micheal
Mushroom

Yet Another long standing

Company blinded by the idiots with boardroom bonuses, with little care for the people trying to innovate and create new products to make the money that funds it

micheal
Coat

And they were no doubt

Taught all their information security skill by the HNS before being wooed by the better pay in the private sector

micheal
Joke

Just wondering

Who paid the "Big Yellow Self Storage" bill for 165 years without ever asking what's stored there?

Did they find any patents to use against Samsung?

micheal

He's aware of the bankruptcy laws

and will be back as a new conpany soon as he can register it (not a typo)

micheal
FAIL

So I Take It

the richest person called smith will get .smith? or will it be done by a raffle ticket type draw?
micheal

Unfortunately in the UK

you tell them to pay it on the 4th, they take it from your account at Midnight on 4th, use it for themselves for 3-5 days, then pay it into the recipients account at midnight on the 5th day**

** or any time they feel, if it's late, not the banks fault, read the small print T&C's about electronic payments

micheal

You're so out of touch

"please key in your card number followed by the hash key"

bip, bip, bip.

Your card number is "*******" is this correct? press 1 for yes, 3 for no

micheal
Joke

I wonder if, at any point

HM actually has any input in this list? just a thought.

The PM has an honours list too, as possibly some others, Blair took good care of his "mates" with his departing one.

It just suprises me that HM knows and can choose single people from the 56 or so million UK residents and also knows the whole sum and names of UK nationals living abroad....or does she only get to sign the list and it's passed off as hers?.

Thatcher declined a hereditary one on grounds that it's not right, lennon handed his back, Piggot and many other crooks keep theirs....the honours list is worthless nowadays, when someone like Norman Wisdom waits 80 years for his, yet Beckham gets it in less than 30.

what an idea, Simon Cowell's new show, see which nobody they can big-up to get an honour in the new years list, to fill in after the hyped to Xmas number one slot.

micheal
Joke

I wonder which

preferred Gov IT bidder installed the system?

micheal

I remember

When SERCO won the court and prison transport from G4S, it turned from crap to worse.

Now a non IT company will be doing the IT?

Payback time!!!

micheal
Facepalm

Poor Atosercohpeds

No more pork barrel until 2012

micheal

The conundrum has always been

If they're psychic, why do they need to broadcast using an earth based transmitter?

The cost of psychic broadcasting is less than TV channel rental fees.

The church is still the biggest scam game in the world, and they dont have to say "services are for entertainment purposes only"

micheal
FAIL

Roll Up, Roll Up!!!!

the list-X pork barell is open for consumption!!!!

micheal
Childcatcher

Wierd Al Yankovic

Had a new album out about 2 years back, he, like the Baron Knights, Grumbleweeds and such do great setting words to the tunes.

I would also suppose that any recording not by the songwriter is in reality, a parody of the original

micheal
Coat

Been said before

The provider only blocks the imei in the country of purchase, not worldwide...hence the majority of stolen phones end up in countries of the 419 region.

Also, if you bought it from Apple, why would the provider bother blocking the imei? no loss to them, maybe even a new customer to boot!

micheal
Black Helicopters

They'll have made that back

From the clauses about cancelling the WES congestion charge area

micheal
Black Helicopters

Add the cost of

.coke in several languages, and the scale of teh problem becomes clear.

Who gets .jeans then? bet an american company would win over texstar so that company will buy the domain in it's home country, then we get more money spent for .jenans.usa, .jeans.america

lets ask the simplest question for congress, which state will be first to buy .governor?

micheal

It's illegal in the UK already to drive whilst distracted (phones or cofee)

but the police cant be arsed to do the paperwork and the young bee-emm drivers with the loud music still do it, even under the nose of passing police.

Before cell phones you got to the end of your journey and rang home to check all is OK......why suddenly is it more urgent to check?

possibly this will be just another rarely enforced legislation?

as previously said, guns and knives kill more people, ban them in all states first

micheal
Black Helicopters

Once again

besides a useless comment from someone who's only interest is to see his name on the net more times than Julian Ass(sad)ange.

Else good on Moto, but the fact that the Aussie courts didnt ask for a similar bond from Apple makes you wonder how many judges are fanbois and get free xmas i-Products in the post

micheal
Childcatcher

People seem to have forgotten

the US made a Dr Who for the Millenium, BECAUSE the Beeb had already canned the series.

Bad as it might have been to us Brits, it prompted the ol Baked Bean Company to rethink and give us David "Hamish Macbeth" Tennant as the new Dr.

I'm sure plenty of people have good / bad plot idea's, lets not judge what may happen until it does.

Go back to the 70's, and every sitcom and action prog spawned a cinema version, some, like Steptoe and Son had more than one cinema length version (sweeney, Are you being served etc) which was a seperate story, idea and backdrop to the TV ones.

micheal
Coat

It'll can be implemented and work well

So long as you keep FujHPSercAtos out of the pork barrell.

barcodem scanner? £25,000 each plus £10,000 per year support.

Keyboard? £50,000 plus £200,000 per year support

micheal
Devil

Back when

the earth was a lot hotter than now, life existed and will continue after we become extinct.....pity climate trolls only care about the human element that gets them continued funding and not the planetary evolution as a whole.

"we'll be dead in 2 million years if we continue burning fossil fuels"

doesnt sound so alarming when put as

"life existed for billions of years before us and will continue after us"

i suppose

the god botherers are safe anyway so why do they get involved? unless they have doubts as to the almighty's existence.......

micheal
Devil

They let

PEN 1S through, Steve Parrish had it on his Merc convertible for a few years

micheal
FAIL

Smart metering

Ah yes, remote reading so lost jobs there...also they can already send internet over power lines, many companies have done pilots but Telco's will pay them not to actually roll out, it may affect their cash-cows.

the amount of "jobs" created by the rollout would pale to insignificance to the number ousted after.

As for "catching meter bypassers", in the days gone, when you moved they sent a bloke round to remove the company fuse, and install one at your new place....now they leave the leccy on for the squatters and pikeys, yet dont seem to care about them using it

rant over :)

micheal
Joke

Prince Charming had a similar experience

Making love to Cinderella and next thing it's past midnight and he's charged with molesting a pumkin

micheal
FAIL

sounds like

They're saying "keep the same sh*t but call it a different name and throw more money at it in the hope that by lining the major directors pockets with more taxpayers money they'll come over all moral and feel obligated to get it working"

Lets face it, if you cant write a custom package with £XXBn and 10 years, why not try the "off the shelf" package every other Major company uses?

My GP is best placed to decide what would make their record keeping easier, not some consultant from FujSERCEDSHPIsoft who's paid to get as much money for as little effort they can

UK Gov IT, spending taxpayers money on endless failure to ensure a Lords seat and a Knighthood for their whitehall mates

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