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Who woulda thought it? The political correctness attitude has really gone a step-too-far and has suggested that Apes, seeing as they share 98% of our DNA, should have the same rights as humans?

For gods sake – people. When will someone come out and say that we are here because we are intelligent, and survival of the fittest has put us in the position we are in now: At the top of the hierarchy… Humans control the world.

Surely these morons realise that apes, mice and whatever other animal would just run riot? Or are those Politically correct specs so tinted that you can’t see anything but peace and harmony?

What next?

Technorati Tags: political correctness, apes rule the world, DNA, rights

I’ve just read an excellent article from ViolentAcres responding to the stupid news about Kathy Sierra, some blogger who apparently was getting stalked/death threats etc.

The BBC have been peddling a load of bullsh*t all day about how there should be a bloggers code of conduct etc and that Tim O’Reilly says so too… But no-one ever thought who the fuck would enforce these stupid ‘laws’?

Does anyone else find it disconcerting that all these strong,
independent women turn into piles of jelly the second they face the
smallest bit of adversity

It does make you wonder why everyone wants to jump on the internet bandwagon without first knowing what the web is, and what it’s about. The rules of ordinary life are bent a little bit on the ‘net.

Anyway – as always Violent Acres cuts thru the bull as per usual… Violent Acres for president I say.

Technorati Tags: violentacres, president, kathy sierra, bullshit, bbc

This article on the register tells of an interesting twist in the world of shoplifters: Apparently they are getting hi-tech and using things like foil bags to protect their heist from the security devices.

They are now looking into countermeasures, so shops can detect shoplifters using tinfoil:

[countermeasures] in the form of a “special security system specifically designed to detect booster bags, tinfoil-lined jackets, metallic underware, and similar shoplifting devices”.

As the register article points out – tinfoil hat wearers beware!

An article in the BBC says that RBS, the owner of Natwest and other banks, has threatened staff that they must have an RBS account as their primary bank account.

Companies these days are just getting so out-of-control; they think they can rule people’s lives.

It’s disgusting how they think they can demand X, Y and Z of an individual just because they work for a company. Sure – they can say that you must hold an account for your wage to be paid, thats reasonable, but to demand that it’s used as your primary account is just wrong.

Technorati Tags: rbs, royal bank of scotland, bank accounts

A nutter in Manchester reckons she’s allergic to wifi and microwaves, and has had to move house and paint her walls with carbon paint.

What a load of weirdo’s and scare-mongerers our world is getting to be. Daily Mail articles are almost always made-up crap, but this sort of thing just makes people panic more: Just the other day we had a drama on ITV based on some guy getting cancer from mobile phone masts.

If this person really believes she’s got something wrong with her – they should conduct a standard double-blind test on her. If the symptons occur then we know she’s telling the truth, if not then she’s just another psycho. My bet is on psycho.

Update: Maybe she should try some of this paint. Maybe she could paint her clothes too?

Suzanne Shell (the comp sci graduate who is suing archive.org for ‘copying’) has now put a pop-up on her website that says you have to agree to the terms and conditions before you can access the site…..

However if you click Cancel to the disclaimer – the site gets shown anyways – how funny is that?!

Meantime – someone has “copied” her site here –> http://www.sue-me.info.

Technorati Tags: suzanne shell, sue, stupid lawsuit, igeek

More internet hilarity – this time from Ms Shell. She’s suing the Internet Archive because they are keeping copies of her site without asking. It seems to be causing quite a stir on the internet, and she’s even put this document up to ‘explain’… And it contains this line in response to the ‘IGeeks’ (Do I hear a new internet slangword ?!):

Google indexes your site and when someone searches and clicks on the link that Google brings up, it goes to your site to get a copy – only if it is still available on the Internet. It does not store anyone’s web sites on its computers. Don’t you know ANYTHING about how the Internet works? – Ms Shell, igeeks.pdf on the profane – justice.org site. (Used under UK fair-use copyright law)

Clearly Ms Shell doesn’t know ANYTHING about how Google works .

Update: Turns out that Ms Shell is a bit off a nutcase, she got caught for [trying to?] take a gun on an airplane, and she’s been pretending to be a lawyer too!
I’ve removed all links to her crappy website – I’m not going to help her google ranking.

Technorati Tags: Ms Shell, google, archive, copyright, igeek

Oh my god – it appears that SCO has lied about their IP infringement, and it turns out that they now say that 326 lines are infringing their copyright…. However most of the lines are comments and header files.

It’s been obvious from the start of this that SCO are just lying bastards and that the only evidence they would be able to give were comments and header files that just-so-happened to be similar. As any programmer knows – comments and headers are usually similar in the same way that an apple-pie recipe from my great-grandma is similar to the apple-pie recipe from yours.

All that needs to be said is: When are the fraud inquiries going to start? Show Us The Code

Technorati Tags: sco, lying bastards, linux, showusthecode

Hilarious. Absolutely. Didn’t ever think I read something as funny as this. Some guy going by the name jerryleecooper who seems to be under the delusion that Linux can’t run a computer ‘.. without windows underneath it..’

Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

What makes it even more dangerous is he tries to put across that he knows something about IT;

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows

Update: And more here where he says:

Linux will have to find a way to work under Vista from here on, since it wont be able to rely on XP being readily available anymore.

Technorati Tags: jerryleecooper, linux, microsoft, moron

Following on from the petition about taxing car journeys, the downing street petition site has a petition made by the saynoto0870 people… It’s aim is to force organisations to publish local, geographic numbers as well as 0845 numbers.

I think that saynoto0870′s idea is a good compromise: You’re never going to stop companies using 0845 numbers. But forcing them to publish geographic numbers is a step in the right direction.

Anyway – I’ve signed it and sent it to everyone I know. I hate chain emails, but I hate 0870 more! Sign the petition here.

Technorati Tags: 0870, 0845, saynoto0870, prime minister, downing street, petition