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On principle I have to object. In practice I've known some appalling racist griefers who shouldn't banned, only so they can be found and flung into a furnace.

I have a feeling I inadvertantly offended her. I have a positive GENIUS for doing this to women. I should write a book. For the record, ~Di. You're awesome. Post more often. EDIT: At another thing today, where a bunch of ostensibly important and clever people COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLE OF TURNING OFF YOUR PHONE. I'm trying to perfect a visible facial twitch so I can convey my irritation better. I'm also beginning to see a trend in this behaviour correlating with being a smug oily tick. Them, that is, not me. FURTHER EMPHASIS: I actually wrote one of the bastards out of the running for a project. Phone went off with some sort of choral symphony, and he let it go on for at least twenty seconds before turning it off, with an expression you'd normally reserve for watching a seagull defecate on an empty beach. EVEN GREATER EMPHASIS: Do you think I could get away with using one of those illegally powerful laser pointers to blind people, if I worked it into my talking and claimed it was an accident?

Story with pictures I'm thinking it's purely to mess with our tiny little minds.

Talking about the spread of tech, rather than new tech, the Mexican cartels have begun building their own microwave network...

You know a bunch of accounts got hacked? I'd cancel your credit card and get a new one issued.

To be best of my knowledge, Raithe is correct. English cuisine not only benefited from being at the centre of a vast empire, but our lower classes ate better than many other nations. Admittedly because we were taking bread and rice directly from those nations, but the point is sound. I might also point out, since it is Remembrance week, that much of our changed habits in eating came about following the first and second World Wars. You Euros might spare a thought for our contribution to fighting against the subjugation of the whole damned continent, with all its sacrifices in the kitchen, before acting so bloody superior. We were on rationing until well into the 1950s, you know.

I just finished playthrough of Borderlands. It's lightweight, and enjoyable. Glad I only paid 4 quid for it though.

Was that you, chasing those swans around Hyde Park?

Observed the two minute silence, albeit with a hangover. Made me think about all the poor sods who died wanting a drink, and how many thousands or even tens of thousands who died 'dry', Methodists, Muslims etc. All churned up by the wars. Wars do change, Fallout notwithstanding, or at least they take the people who fight them by surprise. I thought about what the next big one would be like. Am now listening to excellent radio adaptation of Len Deighton's Bomber on the BBC. Mixed drama and real people talking. Bomber command, luftwaffe, ground crews, German civilians...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/....11-threat.html

My point, which may be wrong was that splurging unedited mass data like this is precisely the aim of sites like Wikileaks. But there are consequences in doing so.

Sorry. What I mean is he _may_ be right. But that argument is too complex for the news. So we just get the banana skin and swanee whistle edition.

Yeah that was what I was getting at, right now the biggest fraudsters get bonuses and a nice retirement fund. Which is sending a signal that it not only pays to be a greedy bastard, you'll also get away with it even if caught. I'm willing to debate it, but I'd come down heavily on the notion that internal fraud and external fraud is committed by the same sort of people working to the same motivations. In my experience internal fraud is something committed by improperly supervised individuals who undergo some sudden shock to their motivations. Either transition to a greedy lifestyle, drugs, or unexpected financial loss. External fraudsters are a profession in their own right.

It is funny. But I do wonder whether we are judging our politicians on too simplistic lines. Simply because we ourselves are too thick to understand the correct complex ones.

Doesn't surprise me in the least.

Chicken or the egg. If the financial sector had been more responsible and the government before that had been more open about rolling back regulations and if the public had been more vigilant etc etc. This isn't just a product of openess, but an underlying problem about how society handles disproportional greed. I don't follow you, Ros. If you read the story these are external (apparently) fraudsters. Probably professionals since they worked the human angle using the copied materials. I don't think "stop people wanting to take millions of pounds" is the solution. EDIT: Although it would also help if fraud convictions carried more than a slap on the wrist. And were actually pursued with vigour.

I am now assuming that 'limbo' in your status means the dance, not the location.

In general I'd agree. BUt judging by Krez' manic enthusiasm for tech I'm going to put on my deerstalker and suggest he either works for ASX:TLS or knows them really well. Surely that would enable him to know about things like forthcoming patents and so on?

Story. Fraudsters used documents obtanied from transparency material to siphon off millions of pounds. I'm not against transparency, but this is precisely the sort of irrseponsible, unedited material that 'powers' Wikileaks.

I was just about to follow those instuctions then I realised to do so would cost 2D3 SAN.

People in the public eye don't always say what they want to?!!!!

You could get a person and put it on that robo mule. Have a cycentaur.

Tarna, I don't know how reassuring this is, but: I know how physically undignified you must feel. But morally and intellectually, on here, you're shining brass.

It can be a little wearing. However, the thing which really boils my bacon is when they post total gibberish and some godforsaken link. It's noise in the signal, trash, waste. How many ergs of power and man-hours of effort are being wasted on this crap?

This is true. However, the point is that it demonstrates how much the thing can schlepp. I can imagine the artillery loving those things.