The problem with ignorance is not only the laziness of the culprits, but the hatred expressed by those who are better informed.
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I reckon most of us have our little sayings. “I don’t believe it!” and the like. I have a few. Some ripped off from friends or family — such as “you are” in reply to anything, or “you’re an X” where X is the object of conversation — others I’ve created myself. My latest beauty, [...]
I’ve moved house and being nowhere near the router that connects us to the net, I had to purchase an Xbox Wireless Adapter (rip-off!). Once it was setup, I had to test the network connection. For some reason UPnP wasn’t working even when enabled on the Linksys WRT54GR, so I had to set up port [...]
That’s it citizen, keep an eye on your neighbour citizen. Tell us citizen, and we’ll look after you.
Says our friends over at the British Transport Police. Apparently they want everyone in the country to be a boiling pot of paranoia and distrust. They’re festering a nation of narrow-eyed minions hell-bent on getting one over [...]
Yes, that’s a deliberate misspelling – a pun perhaps – of terrified; a reference to the excuse Mrs Smith, our most loyal home secretary gives for bringing sweeping new laws that pretty much solidify the UK as an authoritarian state. God bless her. This post is an attempt at putting down my thoughts and concerns [...]
My Xbox 360 kept freezing on the startup logo until I eventually turned it off and then on by hitting the DVD-tray open button. This probably indicates that the DVD drive is defective or on its way out – meh. Warranty here I come!
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To me we’re worse off; now their actions are out of the mainstream view and we’re subject to investigation and monitoring devoid of any real pro-active control. We’re now at the complete mercy of the ISPs.
I don’t want to be filtered or have my communications monitored and subjected to the scrutiny of a private company [...]