Study finds 95 per cent of INQ rumours, predictions come true

Subject: not wearing trousers is really pants!

Hello

Until the experts can determine which brand of trousers spontaneously combusts, all my pairs will remain hanging in my fireproofed wardrobe - locking it does make it fireproof, right?

Fortunately the cold weather requires that I wear thermal longjohns, which might be a bit grey and bobbly, but still keep the ladies interested (at least I imagine they might).

Cheers

snedger

Subject: mobile phones cause cancer

Mr Magee,

I think everyone is ignoring the proven dangers of mobile phone use, and you are just making it worse by printing every new study, shame

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5v9lxodVsHc

mr bill

Subject: Vista retail to come with 32bit DVD only!

Thought I'd point out that the retail version of vista (that i was planning on getting at launch) only includes the 32bit DVD in the box. This seems contrary to every other report and news story I've seen.

I myself am a beet peeved at this. How much does it cost to put another DVD in that fancy looking box? 50p?

For more info on how you can "send away" for a DVD, see this forum post.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17683611

Martyn

Subject: BD and HD DVD

BD = Bad Disk

HD DVD = Horribly Defective DVD

Markus

Subject: Everywhere Girl

This is hilarious. The argument itself has become "noteworthy" at least by the Wiki standards. Those who are arguing for deletion, increase the noteworthiness of an article on the "Everywhere Girl" with every post that's made. Would this not count towards a "worthy" source in support of an article about the "Everywhere Girl"???

Sometimes, you just gotta wonder how that follicle managed to get into that bodily orifice in the first place..........

Dragger

Subject: How one ink cartridge destroyed my printer

Mike,

I'll leave it up to you or your journalists to determine if this is news worthy but in either case I thought it was an interesting experience about the dangers of using third party ink replacement cartridges.

Instead of including my story in this email, I've created a simple web page with pictures that details my ordeal with inksell.com, a company that specializes in supplying replacement cartridges for all manner of inkjet printers. However I'll summarize it here by saying that I contend they destroyed my inkjet printer due to a faulty cartridge design and they say that they can't replace my printer because it's not covered by their warranty printed on the back of each invoice, so in my attempt to save $5, I lost my entire printer (~$300).

http://www.exalien.com/inksell/incident.htm

Neil

Subject: Mobile Phones DO fry your brain

Maybe you should tell the authors of the study that you wrote about.

From their abstract:

"We found no evidence of increased risk of glioma related to regular mobile phone use (odds ratio, OR = 0.78, 95% confidence interval, CI: 0.68, 0.91)."

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114072761/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Andy

Subject: Cell Phones Do Cause Cancer

Funny you mention smoking. Here in the States, they're banning smoking everywhere, including bars, because of a possible 25% increase in lung cancer to second-hand inhalers. While that sounds impressive, the real numbers just show that instead of a 12 in a million chance of developing lung cancer, as a full-time second-hand smoker, you have a 16 in a million chance.

This whole thing about cell phones is just another FUD tactic and you can see how statistics can be tossed around to prove almost anything. Not to mention these people were using the cell phones of ten years ago which pretty much was a portable RF-emitting satellite in its own right.

Paul Subject: cell phones fry your brains

No they don't. That is not a reasonable summary of the report. And, I might add, it's an irresponsible summary of the report.

If big words like "statistical significance" are beyond you, perhaps you should let other people cover complex issues.

D. Lindsay, Ph.D.

Subject: AMD feels share pain on NYSE

You dastardly PIMP !

I praised you for NOT reporting our bad news - and here you go telling the world that we forked up big time.

I have told Bob Rivet to cancel all pimp-payments to you and Chuckie Cheese.

Suing and Puking-From-My-Gut And Gestapo Raids At Dawn, Hector

Subject: Recently Wiki problems

I have taken it upon myself to post in the Wiki "discussion", as they like to call it, area about the INQ in relation to the Everywhere Girl.

I think, with a name such as the Inquirer, it beckons to resemble the American Enquirer. Have you known about this magazine? It is one that has articles on alien babies and Bush meeting with Big Foot. That might be where the relation comes from. Maybe, instead of saying "fiction" under your name, you could put "rumors". It's hard to get past people that this is a hardware and tech site rather than one that deals in silly American... whatevers.

I have also found that 95% of your rumors or predictions come true, so I see it as believing everything that goes up on the INQ is pretty much a safe bet.

Kevin

Subject: Mobile phones fry brains

It is very very simple.

Most people are right handed. My observation is that most cell phone users have their mobile jammed up against their right ear most of the time. Thus, if there is any evidence that brain tumours are more common on the right than on the left, then Bob's yer uncle.

Cheers.

Jeffy

Subject: x86 Solaris

AMD's claim that the opteron gave Sun experiance with x86 is blatently wrong.

Solaris has had a fully operational and tested x86 version shipped with it every release since 1993.

Bryan Hunt

Subject: Mobile phones DO fry your brains

No, that cannot be correct - no way, no how. Besides, even if it were - WHICH IT IS NOT - if I want to stand on a sidewalk and look cool w/ my cell in one hand and my cig in the other, I have every right to do that. Next thing you know, there will be laws saying my cell phone's radiation is harmful to bystanders, futher infringing upon my RIGHT to talk on my phone and hurt others. What a crock - I'll bet its just like how the so-called medical experts claim my cigarettes are somehow harmful.

Jim

Subject: Book Burning Nazis

>However is seems some little revisionist >book-burning Nazis take pleasure in continually >libelling us in your pages, a situation we can >no longer tolerate

Damnit, it was a fine email until you started with the Nazi comparisons, have you never heard of Godwins law?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

The impact of the argument was lost when you threw in the half baked tabloid Nazi reference.

Oh well, ta for the good rag anyway ;)

Duncan

Subject: AMD feels share pain on NYSE

You know we can count on you, Fuad, and Charlie to put a lipstick on a pig!

Good try though

abuna

Subject: Sir...

You don't know what you're talking about. Comparing people who doesn't use legit windows versions to thieves or muggers only shows how ignorant you are.

Some people like you live inside a bubble, I hope that bubble doesn't break for u... cause you won't like the real world. And the fact that people use pirated versions of windows is because there's no other real choice and we can thank M$ and it's monopolic position (and I mean... they "cheated" to be where they are) for this.

And I can't blame you... you don't live the reality of other countries.

Stop writing articles like this cause only a 2% of the inquirer readers are interested in reading such bullshit.

monrad

Subject: Mobile Phones DO fry your brain

I didn't have a chance to look at this study, because it seems to be not yet published.

However, there was a similar study about a year ago, which linked cancer in the ear to mobile phone use by finding a statistically significant correlation between which ear developed the tumor and which ear the patients claimed to have used with their cellphone.

But this not exactly a nice clean double-blind setup, since people hit by a potentially lethal tumor could possibly overrate the use of the affected ear with their cellphones.

On the other hand, any competent doctor should be able to determine with relatively low error margin if a tumor affects the left or right ear - after all, they want to operate on the right one later without jeopardising their malpractice insurance.

A quick poll among friends showed that a great majority of them used mainly their right ear for phoning. Assuming that this ratio would be same in the country where the study was conducted, this should have resulted in a larger number of tumors on right ears than on left ears.

However, there was no mention at all in the study about which side was affected more often, even though this data must have been available to the authors.

This lead me to speculate that either these academic researchers were not bright enough to come up with this simple test, or chose not to publish the results - for whatever reasons.

So, before drawing conlusions like "Mobile phones do fry your brains" in the headline, have a look at the study yourself, and apply some common sense.

KLS

Subject: More BSOD

Today's vending machine BSOD reminded me of some recent choice BSOD in my own collection (we must ensure that the world knows that the plaural of BSOD is BSOD)

London Underground Oyster machine http://www.flickr.com/photos/salimfadhley/328587340/

And presumably the DVD on offer here is "Microsoft's all-time greatest crashes" http://www.flickr.com/photos/salimfadhley/280191448/

:-)

Salim

Subject: Ever-Ready PCs

Here we manage 5000 users and they HAVE to leave their PCs on so that we can push updates and fixes while they are not at their desk. To do this while they are supposed to be working would also amount to losses due to loss in production. It's a lose/lose situation...

Control

Subject: Italian P2p ruling NOT applicable to current situation

Hello Nick,

I'm an Italian-Swiss journalist who follows IT and online copyright issues. The Italian court ruling does not apply to the current legal situation in Italy.

The ruling relates to the state of the law as it was before 2001, when the so-called "Urbani law" was passed which introduced stiff fines even for not-for-profit file sharing.

Yes, it does take years for the Italian High Court to get involved in a legal case and provide a final decision.

Unfortunately, many Italian media have presented this as applicable to current Italian law. That is not the case, as pointed out by the more law- and tech-savvy journalists in specialist sites such as Punto Informatico.

This has caused great confusion in Italy, as you can imagine. The law is largely ignored anyway, so this ruling makes little difference in practice, but I thought you'd like to get the facts straight.

All the best
Paolo Attivissimo

Subject: The INQ and its Drama.

Man, you guys attract a crowd.. not all good either. In regards to the EverywhereGirl stories, The Great Iraqi Mattress Wars, Anti-Sematic Claims of INQ Unscholarism, The Four-way Chip Wars, and miscellaneous stuff.. it almost seems like you guys "ATTRACT" drama to the company lol. Of course, this worked for Mel Gibson's 'Passion of the Christ', but I think most people wanted to see it anyways. Anyhow.. I've used some of the articles for my college assignments for discussions in my 'Human Diversity' class.. basically about racism, prejudism, discrimination, etc.. and these are from the "fan letters" not the INQ people themselves. Anyhow.. homework calls. Seeya! ~The Dude Subject: Apple's Leopard screenshots leaked

Apple's own publicity shots seem to give more away, to be honest.

Subversion built in, for scheduled volume backups Up to 4 virtual desktops (ala KDE or Gnmoe, but probably accessible via a hot-key, just like expose) and network grep, using spotlight (but presumably only on other HFS+ filesystems: i.e. other Macs, iPods or that stupid phone).

Most of the interesting improvements have been down at that file-system level, anyway, during the more recent iterations of 'Mac-taxing'. All that eye-candy shit is mostly take-it-or-leave it.

Daniel Walker

Subject: Phishing Fraud.gov

re: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37198

The monetary figure "170£" was a stroke of genius by whoever did this. Almost as obvious as "Dear user" in the eBay and PayPal ones.

Robin

Subject: Robin Hood indeed

T.B. made an interesting point about users downloading poor quality movies, and then deciding whether or not to buy the full quality disc with all the menus & extras.

In fact, I'd say this is true of what I have seen other people doing as well. It kind of makes you think, what if the Content Mafia just released free versions of all their movies on YouTube?

Anyone could watch whatever movie they wanted for free, but if they liked it they would go out and buy the real thing (because, let's be honest... you can only watch low-rez for so long). Real piracy would be less attraction as well, since you can legally watch the movie without all the fuss of finding a working copy on P2P (harder than it sounds).

Ben

Subject: eviwerrrgirl

Hi Paul, I read that post

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Everywhere_Girl

One thing about the wiki, the people there are doing a great job.. Wiki has everything from skunk growing to explosives,… that needs a hell of a lot of editors. Anyways, onto my rant…

2 points

1/they are missing the most ultimate aspect of their existence/presence Encyclo's are about info, if you want info, u read the encyclo, well u google, but... there are many times u look at wiki - it can cut through loads of ‘google crap'

It's about info, u would think that wiki would try and get as much info as possible onto the site(hopefully, thanks to the wiki ed's, info that's screened, clarified and correct).

So, if u want info on….. everywhere girl. don't wiki it…., bwcause there is none. google it??? wiki are hurting themselves, losing hits, Whether they like it or not, google are competition in wiki's market,. the info area,..

But wiki have to take google on in their own game, not censor like china does as Joyce said, The great appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Point no.2
The wiki boffins are so concerned with being PC (politically correct) about this take down on the everyw..(so pissed off writin that fuxkn name), they not doing what they do best. -not barely anyone can be a good editor, it's a shite job imo, but some people are very good at it the wiki is full of good editors, all experts in their own fields … look at the site, so much info, so well screened imo they are way better than britanika

Wiki does such a great job in what is does, can they not establish a new law that states if 4 or 6 or 8 editors agree for a deletion to be overturned, it gets overturned and that's that… Public interest… page hits….

Instead pissed off ed's (demonesthis or summit), thinks their/everyone's time is better spent chasing down a personal vendetta, tying up about every other editors time and removing information from the site..aka the net, the wiki net…

Doesn't he/they get it? Google are on the way out- loads of info, but no ed's= piles of google crap wiki is the way forward, loads of eds, good at what they do, but no forward thinking The net is about information, the wiki is about info Why cant they just include it, then all the ed's, go back to doing what they do best

G'nite from p0ln
Steve