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Freeserve customer duped by reboot loophole
News I strongly feel that there must be very many people like myself, that although not quite the idiot I feel like now, are not clever enough or technically minded enough to register with these companies and understand exactly the dangers," said the...
[June 29, 2001, 11:19]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback Let me tell you in America the Medical Specialist Doctors are Indians, In NASA Scientists are INDIANS.And you wanna know one more TRUTH, Americans a buy DELL because they have the BEST Technical Support in INDIA.We are also using DELL Systems,our...
[April 23, 2006, 17:40]
Failing IT staff under pressure
Talkback Get your other staff IT literate so minimizing idiot calls. The biggest problem I have seen with execs in SMEs is that they don't listen to their IT staff, believing their own views, ideas and flowery imaginations are more accurate and possible...
[February 3, 2005, 13:49]
Only bad guys benefit from bad law
Leader Open goals are hard to resist, especially when the other side has been treating you like an idiot, but it's hard to identify where the public interest was served. The conviction of Daniel Cuthbert for attempted illegal computer access has done...
[October 7, 2005, 15:05]
RIAA's next moves in Washington
Talkback Ofcourse the idiot (short-term) response to that is ultimate market control and lobbying politicians 24/7 but that'll get you nowhere in the end. Right. Basically the RIAA (and similiair parties like the BSA, etc, etc) wants to see things happen...
[June 2, 2006, 22:34]
Hijacked Web addresses show weak link in Net
News You'd have to be an idiot not to use the strongest security available to you. Web.net, an email and information site for 3,500 charities and volunteer groups, and holiday website Bali.com had their domain names re-registered to people in Hong Kong...
[June 9, 2000, 15:49]
A Year Ago: Hijacked Web addresses show weak link in Net
News You'd have to be an idiot not to use the strongest security available to you. Web.net, an email and information site for 3,500 charities and volunteer groups, and holiday website Bali.com had their domain names re-registered to people in Hong Kong...
[June 9, 2001, 6:28]
Do developers really need social skills?
News Matt, you are an idiot. The idea is that software developers can (and should) break out of their code silos and emerge as leaders in their organisations. But for that to happen, programmers need more than top-notch coding chops.
[March 25, 2002, 11:53]
Dell dips in support ratings
Talkback Piece of junk, if I could afford another, I would dump these two and get another locally where they understand me and do not treat me like an idiot! A year ago in September we ordered two computers, same configuration, same everything.they are...
[December 20, 2004, 18:21]
Sick Sigma
Blog The idea here is to design the process or product to be as idiot-proof as possible. Have you been confronted by a Black Belt recently? Unless you are into martial arts then this has most likely happened at work when you have been hit by a Lean Six...
[May 12, 2009, 18:03]
10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid
Talkback It's this sort of ignorance (I'm not speaking about you and aren't intending to imply anything about you specifically) that creates the false, and racist, impression in college-educated whites that when an African American kid speaking AAVE...
[June 6, 2006, 23:46]
RE: Bursting the proprietary-software bubble
Talkback I think a newspaper cartoon in the 1970's which put the Chancellor's remarks in true focus and said it all - one guy telling another "If you believe that you are either an idiot or the Chancellor of the Exchequer".
[November 7, 2008, 7:35]
New virus creates Shockwaves
News It then sends an email to z14xym432@yahoo.com with the subject line "Job complete" and a message saying "Got yet another idiot". A new virus is beginning to send shockwaves around the world. Experts say the worm is travelling faster than the speed...
[December 1, 2000, 8:41]
EU clashes with Microsoft over Vista features
Talkback A few tech enthusiasts will have to wait a bit to play with Vista, but by then the system will have had the first rounds of updates and will be MORE stable than the idiot early adopters who have to make do with the inevitably buggy code released...
[September 28, 2006, 12:01]
Brown grants data spot-check powers to the ICO
News Data-protection safeguards must be technically robust and idiot proof. Gordon Brown has announced that the Information Commissioner's Office will have the power to carry out data-protection spot checks on government departments.
[November 22, 2007, 10:31]
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test
Talkback You're an idiot. Maccrap: Use your money to go on vacation to Hawaii AND buy a PC. Or, just buy a Mac that doesn't even have a gig of ram. That's great. It must be fabulous to live in a sheltered little fantasy world like your's.
[November 14, 2005, 3:04]
When support becomes sabotage
Leader And if it's just idiotic, then it never hurts to behave better than an idiot. As any technology journalist knows, the best way to attract attention is to write something critical about Linux. The operating system - as well as free and open source...
[April 7, 2005, 15:35]
BT's free flights offer hits turbulence
Talkback I don't like being treated like an idiot and I won't be standing for it! I've just had the phone slammed down on me by MELISSA from Rise Travel. She called to tell us exactly the same thing as was said in a phone call of 29th January.
[February 14, 2005, 19:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Having testicles is like being chained to the village idiot; sad, but there it is. Monday 7/3/2005 It's not exactly IT, but Boeing chief executive Harry Stonecipher has been given the boot for playing park the jumbo with a female manager further...
[March 11, 2005, 17:10]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Some idiot told him to dress informally; he did. The plan, of course, was to spend Monday (a day off from the show) doing exciting stuff down in the valley. Netscape was high on my list of must-visit people.
[January 11, 1997, 7:00]
