Author: Ian

US cell phones are really fucked up. I was (probably am) going to get a sprint lg 5250 cell phone. It has most of the features I was looking for. Then Verizon comes out with a new set of plans that allow you to use you phone nation wide with out roaming, which was on of the main reasons for choosing sprint. But, and this is the really crappy part I don’t like any of the verizon phones on there web site. The Lg 5250 is really small and dare I say it cute. I wouldn’t mind a nokia 3360 or 8260 but those are only available on att and voicestream.

Why can’t I get the phone I like on the provider I like

This is on Slashdot at the moment
An anonymous reader submits: “According to an article from law.com, yesterday’s decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (U.S.) will have far-reaching effects on web publishing. From the article: ‘… The court found that reproducing photographs to create thumbnail images is a fair use of the material, but displaying full-sized images violates the copyright owner’s exclusive right to publicly display his works….But the court found that displaying the full-sized images through linking and framing was not transformative and harmed the market for the original photographs.’ One lawyer is quoted as saying, ‘It’s basically going to do away with linking or framing without permission.'”

Bollocks, my email @dirk.demon.co.uk is down. Seems they don’t like my credit card. I will update my livejournal email to go to another account until I can sort this out tomorrow morning.

I don’t know if this is true, but it makes you wonder


If you are a regular traveller on the London
Underground, here are some
facts which you’ll wish you hadn’t read.

During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at the
Department of Forensics
at University College London removed a row of
passenger seats from a
Central
Line tube carriage for analysis into cleanliness.
Despite London
Underground’s claim that the interior of their
trains are cleaned on a
regular basis, the scientists made some alarming
discoveries.

The analysis was broken down. This is what was
found on the surface of the
seats:

4 types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog)

7 types of insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive)

vomit originating from at least 9 separate people

human urine originating from at least 4 separate
people

human excrement

rodent excrement

human semen

When the seats were taken apart, they found:

the remains of 6 mice

the remains of 2 large rats

1 previously unheard of fungus

It is estimated that by holding one of the
armrests,you are transferring,
to your body, the natural oils and sweat from as many
as 400 different people.

It is estimated that it is generally healthier to
smoke five cigarettes a
day than to travel for one hour a day on the London
Underground.

It is far more hygienic to wipe your hand on the
inside of a recently
flushed toilet bowl before eating, than to wipe
your hand on a London
Underground seat before eating.

It is estimated that, within London, more work
sick-days are taken because
of bugs picked up whilst travelling on the London
Underground than for any
other reason (including alcohol).