* Posts by Anonymous John

2374 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Oct 2007

Habitable HEAVY GRAVITY WORLD found just 42 light-years away

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Bootnote # 3

Pyrrus in the Deathworld series.

BBC in secret trial to see if you care about thing you plainly don't

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They should try this with Freeview. An EPG with only 15 channels would be much more manageable.

Prudential cops £50k ICO slap for giving customer's life savings away

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Asking for trouble.

Having the same name and DOB as another Prudential customer.

Epic FAIL: Anonymous didn't hack PayPal, managed to frighten Oz hippies

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No! Not ZPanel!

Er, who are they?

Welsh council's unused mountain of 2,400 laptops

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Re: I'll take em off their hands...

I hadn't realised I spoke Welsh. It's easier than I thought.

WAR HERO PIGEON carrying SECRET WWII CODE found in chimney

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Give it a medal?

Why? For all we know, the war might have ended in 1944 if it had got through.

Brain boffins: 'Yes, math CAN make your head hurt – LITERALLY'

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Please don't vote me up or down. I've already got a headache.

Verizon staff arrested for stealing customer's nude pics

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"I also find it interesting that El Reg notes that the woman is 'nubile' and 'attractive' - this seems like a bit of an assumption".

A safe assumption as the pictures were passed around. And they were referred to as "banging pictures" . It's a new usage of "banging" to me, but its meaning is clear.

We don’t talk any more... on the commute

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I did that on a Virgin train to Manchester last week with some pretext for addressing her by name.

Handy tip #94. If you want to be anonymous, don't use the SSID "xxxxx's iPhone".

Felix Baumgartner sadly turns out to be blinkered FOOL

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Unhappy

He seems to be one of far too many people who think that the money spent on space is sitting unused in a bank vault on the Moon.

Ailing Comet at last prayers: Cawing of accountants and VCs fills air

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Where I live.

The local Comet is next door to the local Currys/PC World.

Why? Just why?

Lindsay Lohan storm over Hitler, Hurricane tweets: 'It was hackers'

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Unhappy

Re: Well....?

Google is your friend. With little Nazis. Nope, I don't get it either.

Hitachi buys Horizon to save UK's nuclear future

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Re While some will no doubt point to Fukushima as a sign

It was certainly a sign, A sign of how safe nuclear power can be. Fukushima killed nobody. We'll be getting a more modern design, and aren't subject to major quakes.

Paintballs proposed as defense against ASTEROID ATTACK

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Re: It would then take up to 20 years

I don't like the sound of that. What if it doesn't work for some reason? Say the effect of the paint-balls hitting it, and the effect of the changed albedo cancel out. We need a plan B that could be implemented must faster. Time would be running out.

4G: Bad coverage, crap battery life - but at least it's really expensive

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Alert

Re: Also sitting this one out

And me. I've got a 3 Mifi gizmo on a contract that gives me 15GB pm for about £18, and I've yet to use all of it. I use it for a tablet, sometimes my Kindle, and my O2 phone since the last upgrade, when I switched to a much cheaper contract.. It's all I need for email and web browsing.

I went up north to Stockport by train earlier this week, and apart from a few stretches of open country, I had an excellent connection all the way. We've come a long way in the past few years. When I were nobbut a lad, we had to use two tin cans and some string.

Save hefty Dr Who and Bond girl 'Flossie', pleads vintage computer man

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Happy

I worked in an office that had one of Flossie's relatives in 1966. A £50 discrepancy was eventually tracked down to a blemish on a punched card. Happy days!

Windows 8: An awful lot of change for a single release

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Re:and Apple was so impressed it announced a lawsuit

The windows had rounded corners?

The hoarder's dilemma, or 'Why can't I throw anything away?'

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I think we must be related.

Moon was formed when PLANET SMASHED INTO EARTH

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WTF?

Re: giving a "day" of just two to three hours.

How would that work? By the time you got to sleep, it would be time to get up again. A quick shower, shave, and breakfast, and it would be bedtime again.

Ancient 16m-yr-old beastie caught riding on much bigger flying mount

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This has given me an idea for a film.

As soon as I work out how a dinosaur could get trapped in amber.

Newsweek succumbs to ad slippage, will kill print pub

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Well it worked for The Register,

Although I still miss it dropping through my letterbox every day.

Carphone Warehouse lauds Nexus 7 while eagerly eying iPad Mini

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Re: I was about to buy one...

The latest Argos mini catalogue shows it (508/325). Out of stock according to the branch machines, and not mentioned on the website.

Anonymous John
Meh

I was about to buy one...

But there are claims of a 32GB one also for £199.99 by Christmas.

http://www.itproportal.com/2012/10/15/exclusive-32gb-google-nexus-7-tablet-to-go-on-sale-this-week-in-the-uk/

Sky support dubs Germany 'Hitler's country'

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Unhappy

Damn you El Reg!

You've given the Daily Mail another excuse to print yet another picture of Hitler.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218040/SKY-Live-Chat-Help-Shocking-response-Sky-TV-worker-German-customer-contacted-them.html

Rover spots 'possibly artificial' MYSTERY SHINY OBJECT on Mars

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That will keep Apple happy.

SpaceX confirms Falcon rocket suffered engine flame-out

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Very few people in the US are happy about relying on the Russians for ISS resupply

That was always the case.The ISS needs enough docked vehicles to return the entire crew to Earth, and the Soyuz was the only vehicle that could stay up for six months, All the Shuttle could and did do, was to take one crew member up and bring another back.

Amazon to buy its Seattle HQ from Paul Allen for over $1bn

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Re: Just the start

Amazon.co.uk Trade-In Store

Did you know you can trade in your old buildings for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want?

Astroboffins to search for mega-massive alien power plants

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Re: If we are no alone

True. Flying Saucers don't just have rounded corners. They are circular.

Archaeologists resume Antikythera Mechanism hunt

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Ye Olde Regyster.

Consignment of iCalenders lost at sea off the coast of Antikythera.

Tim Cook: 'So sorry for Apple's crap maps app - try Bing or Nokia'

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"A paper, chart, map or Atlas doesn't run out of batteries, doesn't give false readings."

They don't make phone calls either.

Mighty quake shook ENTIRE PLANET, broke tectonic plate

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I've just had a great idea for a new Bruce Willis film.

NZ bloke gets eel stuck up jacksie

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So that's what was meant by Henry I dying from a surfeit of lampreys,

If you see 'URGENT tax rebate download' in an inbox, kill it with fire

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Not just spear phishing.

Phishing in general.

Elon Musk's new re-usable, hovering rocket ship in first test liftoff

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That's one small step for a grasshopper,

one giant leap for insectkind.

Analogue TV snuffs it tonight on UK mainland

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Happy

Re: The last time this happened

Re: The last time this happened

I can remember fitting a Band III converter to my parents' TV when ITV started in the 1950s. I would have been about 10.

iPhone 5 Lightning cables sticking in USB ports

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Re: 5?

Or rounded corners.

Japanese fanboy robbers empty shops of iPhone 5s ahead of launch

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Real phones in windows displays?

See title.

I spy: Drug drops and foxy couples

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Re an off-the-shelf directional microphone to match this kind of distance

A Sky dish and mic may work. Ask the SPB nicely and they might build you one.

Haynes Build Your Own Computer book review

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Re: Everyone...

I'm still using the 386 I built in about 1995. With everything replaced at least twice. Apart from the mains lead kept for continuity. So it's still the same PC. Right?

Health minister warns ISPs: Block suicide websites or face regulation

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Beachy Head.

Are sites that mention it going to be blocked?

Judge: Apple not liable for dropped, broken iPhone screens

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Re: Common sense from a judge - surely not! @VinceH

I hope you realise your wife is responsible for Apple suing Samsung for copyright infringement by designing a phone that breaks when dropped.

Phone hack cops nick journo over data taken from pinched mobes

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Re: By Appointment.

I think the alternative is for plod to come round at 6.00am and kick your front door in. Most people prefer the appointment.

Android dev smacked with £50k fine over premium rate SMS scam

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Can't victims sue Apple because their Android devices are rectangular with rounded corners?

'Immortal cancer' found in Australia

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Re: Cancer Duct Tape

As long as Apple haven't already patented "Duct Tape".

Pret-a-porter: LG boffins' bendy battery can be worn as PANTS

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A pair of chinos please.

40 inch waist, 31 inch inside leg, and 100,000 mWh capacity.

UK: 'We're legally bound to arrest Mr Assange'

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http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/assange-to-be-tempted-from-embassy-with-trail-of-secrets-2012082038528

"Last week Assange attempted to sneak out of the embassy in a very big laundry basket but his plans were ruined when he published them on the Wikileaks website."

UK ISPs crippled by undersea cable snap

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No truth in the rumour that the Essex lion had bitten through it, then?

Going viral 9,500 years ago: 'English descended from ancient Turkey'

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Re: Er Pictish?

Pictish was an indigenous language, not "is".

Anonymous John

Re: Not quite

There are a handful of English words from Gaelic.

Bard, bog, brogue (shoe), cairn, crag, dune, galore, shanty, slogan, smashing!, trousers, and, whisky.