Shaun

The worst thing about the DMCA is people self-censoring out of fear, it's very depressing.

Are you sure about that? What happens if you press R on the very first menu you get to (I think you have to agree to a license first, I can't remember exactly)?

Oh god, please don't tell me you like John McCain?

Did you do this?

I don't really know about politics debates on TV always being crap. I think maybe that's just true in the US with moderators and 30 seconds to speak. One thing I do like about UK politics is Prime Minister's Questions, which is every week on Wednesday when Prime Minister has to answer questions (duh) from members of parliament - MPs from the opposition parties and ruling party alternately, plus the leaders of the second and third biggest parties are always entitled to a certain number of questions. Sometimes parliament does get a bit rowdy, which I think is a good thing. I think the only thing I respect Blair for is being able to defend himself well in parliament, I'd really like to see Bush in such a situation.

I don't think I have seen many personal attacks in gun threads on here, though. Even so, I think these kinds of arguments go nowhere, people have deeply ingrained views on what the problem is, what causes the problem and how to solve the problem which are very hard to change. I don't think debating this sort of subject has much of an effect on most people - everyone just wants what they believe is best for society and without any way to really prove or disprove a lot of those beliefs the dialogue tends to go in circles.

Haha, wish I was him... You've obviously never seen him when he's drunk.

I'm Spartacus! Er.. Spardacus.. er.. Sparda.

Well you can use knives, but it's a lot easier to overpower someone using a knife, and regardless of the information on the Internet on how to build a bomb, it's nothing like as easy. Remember the attempted bombings a couple of weeks after the successful ones in July 2005? All those guys managed to do is look stupid and get arrested. I think one person had an asthma attack, that was their only success. I do agree though this is entirely a social problem, there's a reason kids on middle-class estates don't run around with guns shooting each other. The problem is poverty is a very difficult thing to eradicate, and I think doing it would require massive changes that society wouldn't really accept (not to mention how hard they would be to implement, I mean if a perfect communist system was set up, with perfect wealth distribution in theory not a single person would be below the poverty line - our country has enough money for that, but communism has inherent flaws that make it fail).

Have you read this? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297185

You can still be a member of a gun club or shoot though... just not with hand guns. And I think regardless of what you try to teach kids about guns not being cool, they will still be cool because they are in movies an rap videos, and that won't change. I think they do realise they are dangerous and kill people, but that is one of the attractions of them. I really don't know how much gun regulation affects availability (aside from my argument in the Virginia Tech thread that it probably reduces school shootings by kids), I can't seem to find any statistics so I can't really agree or disagree with that statement. All I can find is media sensationalism, which I hate because it is absolutely useless for getting real information about the problem.

Why wouldn't you want that!? Anyway I would hope they close the bathroom door when doing that sort of thing out of consideration for their house mates, but then again I did hear they are all actually part of a polyamorous commune, so maybe they don't.

You can still buy rifles and shotguns in the UK though, so that's not really the fault of anyone in particular. And if you mean hand guns I don't really see how just seeing a hand gun in real life would affect people's propensity to gun violence.

You don't lose your data if you reinstall windows, just tell it to use the existing NTFS volume (don't tell it to format anything). You might want to retry the repair thing Windows does first though (although if I remember correctly the XP install disk has two completely different options to repair, one takes you to the recovery console, and the other is when it shows you existing installation of Windows, use that one).

Can't you just test it by reading from/writing to a few cards at the same time and see how if it takes long to read/write a the file compared to the same file with just one transfer going?

At the (6th form) college Sparda and I went to your username was your student ID number, which anyone could get using the online email address book thing (you could search for a name and it would return their college email address which was <student ID>@domainname.ac.uk) and your password was your date of birth in DDMMYY format. This meant you had to keep your birthday a secret and even if you did manage that most people had just left high school, so you knew within a year when they were born. As you might guess you could brute force their password using a simple script (from home no less, since the online email access had the same password). The worst thing was you couldn't change your password for the entire first year.

I'd just delete all of them. Especially HKLMSoftwareMicrosoft.

That's a sign that it's in danger of exploding like a large hand grenade.

Run Firefox with the -ProfileManager argument and create a new profile to run it as, if it's still there it's not a problem with any settings you changed or extensions you installed in Firefox. Never used Fresh UI so I can't help you there.

They might have a similar effect when using them for tunnelling between two machines, but their capabilities and what they are designed to do is completely different.

Well he could, but it's a really useless technique which would yield no useful results.

I don't think so.

Does he want you to check his history? And what kind of crazy reasoning would make you ask in your first post if you could view his history from your website?

You know that image of Murdock (which is from Amazon) annoys me for some reason, I think it's the stupid expression on his face. I have to adblock it on every computer I use.

Oh, in that case that's still incorrect use of "one".