Posts by Steven Foster

It begins...

So am I to expect more random censorship then? It seems to me that every time some unknown person somewhere decides that there's the remote possibility of a kiddy porn picture somewhere on some site, that site ends up unavilable. But not blocked properly, oh no, instead you get some generic 404/connection error.

So either the IWF are being nazis, or the ISPs SUCK at filtering and don't know their arses from their elbows. Or both.

But it's always so reassuring to know that a legitimate site may one day appear to be "down" when I need it. Only it isn't down, it's actually blocked, without saying it's blocked, because somebody wouldn't THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

Idiots.

@Matt Smart

I hear ya mate. I worked for PC ServiceCall (Now the Tech Guys) a few years back and DSGi sold us down the river when they handed management over to Capita. Suddenly we found ourselves being fucked over with shift changes and other disasterous new policies (despite original assurances that things would remain the same) and lost any "benefits" of being a DSGi employee.

They can crash and burn for all I care.

Wut

It's a game. He gave out his password. Ridiculously disproportionate "punishment".

That is all.

Not good enough.

Doesn't change the fact that you're still being treated like a criminal. Doesn't change the fact you're still at the Mercey of EA if things go wrong. Doesn't change the fact that EA still think this crap works.

Woo!

They're back!

Not bad.

Overall I like it. But as others have said, fixed width isn't a good idea, and I preferred the old Icons.

Bah

Serves them right. EA are a terrible company. 90% of their games are terrible. This DRM bollocks is a complete backwards step and nobody in their right mind would subject themselves to such nonsense. I only hope those who have been unfortunate enough to have been bitch slapped by this "You're a criminal" system have the sense to not do business with this company again.

Yeah....

Excessive profanities aside, this article sums my feelings up nicely.

I admit I like Chrome, but it is just a Web Browser. That's it. It's not that exciting.

Re: IE6

Glad someone said it. I was about to launch into a similar tirade about CSS and Web standards but someone beat me to it.

IE6. Is. Disgusting.

Snore!

I don't know what people are going on about giving them Kudos for writing a tirade filled with foul language. If I was a member of that site I'd be rather worried about my personal details being in the hands of such idiots by this point.

There's nothing down-to-earth or real about writing in such a way. I hate spin and "business-like" talk as much as the next guy, but I still expect some level of professionalism from a site Admin. In the site I admin I swear sometimes as well (ZOMG :O!!), but their rant really does seem to be swearing for the sake of swearing.

The whole thing just reeks of "Look at how down with the kids we are, we cuss every second word like all the other cool kids out there" - Maybe I'm just too old to appreciate it now (I'm 21, I guess their target audience is 14?), but the whole thing just strikes me as pretty pathetic.

Then again, I can't be arsed with social networking anyway.

Hahahaha!

Thank you Lester for making my Friday Afternoon.

Serves her right

About time the hasbeen drama queen learnt she's not above the law.

Utter Bull

Stupid hypocritical company, on the one hand advertising super fast mega speed broadband and on the other throttling (read, punishing) users who actually take advantage of this.

Glad I left them when I did.

Victory, yeah...

Wow looks like the MPAA/RIAA cartel has won. Oh wait, how many other Torrent sites are there? And like others have said, what are the odds of them getting the money? Slim methinks.

Yes, go MPAA, we're all very proud of you.

Oh yay

I wonder if SP1 will fix the rather minor problem of my display drivers refusing to work on Vista?

Yarr!

Stick it to them Pirate Bay!

Great!

Now if only they could ban her from appearing...anywhere at all. That'd be brilliant.

Paris. I like her more.

Blergh

Never really used TorrentSpy much myself, but any victory by the M.P.Ass.A is a victory against freedoms and what not.

Boo!

Good!

I wish her the best of luck in crippling this near-criminal organisation. Any story which involes the R.I.Ass of America getting in trouble and losing money is one which will bring a smile to my face.