* Posts by Dave Ross

161 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jan 2008

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AMD ATI Radeon HD 4770 40nm GPU

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Happy

£10? Surely not..

if it comes out at that price, they will sell thousands! :)

Virgin Media pilots 200Mbit service

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200Mb/s!!

Wonder what the download cap will be...

Blunkett to press for cyberwar probe of BT's Chinese kit

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Interesting..

DB makes two bold statements in one day, first this and then the "scrap the ID cards" one. Perhaps he is starting to see the light...

DARPA at Phase 3 on solar powered surveillance strato-ship

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All of a sudden...

living underground doesn't look so bad.

Google to fund 'video Street View' for Central London

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Oh my god...

Yet another assault on the privacy of the average man on the street, this is disgusting!

(oh, and by the way, happy april the first!)

Apple plays catch-up with new iPhone features

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nice but..

While there is no doubt that the latest additions to the iPhone/godPhone are very welcome, I note with irritation that no extra control over the camera is mentioned.

Given the basic (to say the least) amount of control you have over it, this is a serious ommision, and thats before we even mention the lack of video. I guess we would have to buy whatever hardware upgrade Apple makes whenever.

I personaly would love just one tiny change to make the iPhone calendar useful, the ability to change the alarm sound for something you can actually hear.

When my current contract ends, I will be looking to see what the market has to offer, not just meekly buying the next gen iPhone, thats for sure.

Aussie firewall blocks Wikileaks

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So...

they are blacklising pages that link to pages that are blacklisted?

What about pages that link to pages that link to pages (ad infinitum) that are blacklisted?

iPhone 3.0 adds cut-and-paste, search, new dev toys

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Not bad...

Good to sese all those improvements, particulalrly pleased to se cut and paste, however, where are the improvememts to the camera? Surely this has to be the most requested upgrade to the 3G.

Also, it would be really nice if you could change the callendar alert sound for something that is actually audible.

OK, that last one is a bit nitpicky, but still, it wouldn't be hard to implement would it?

Metallica's Lars Ulrich illegally downloads own album

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30 minutes...

He must have the slowest broadband in the world!

BOFH: Aspie no questions

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Ah...

pyromania, that other terrible condition that many IT people suffer from :)

Brown backs down on expenses secrecy

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Public servants?

I feel that the title of this post is the hinge point here, the government no longer sees itself as public servants which is why they thought they might stand a chance of pulling this scam off.

Branson rocket piggyback plane has control 'issue' - report

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So...

Anyone willing to go up in one then?

NASA warns of 'space Katrina' radiation storm

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Dooooooommmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it just me or have we totally given ourselves over to the doom-mongers in this day and age?

Private firm may run UK spy über-database

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And after..

..we have done the "sensible" thing and voted out this bunch of profiteering scumbags and the next conservative government is in power, how long before they ressurect the same set of policies in the name of security ,one wonders?

BBC: Top Gear Tesla didn't run out of juice

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How is this any different?

I think we all know by now how "Jezza" revews cars (usually by comparing them to a Ferrari), so why is anyone surprised by the Tesla article? Top gear is primarily an entertainment programme not a car review one, and we shouldn't expect ant different.

Is filming someone in the street a breach of privacy?

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Paris Hilton

Photoshop is the answer!

For articles like this where the identity of the indiviual is not of import, surely 20 seconds with and image editor blurring the faces of all those visible would not be a problem?

PH because I bet she has had her photo taken in public as much as any other individual on the planet.

Oz men's mag recovers inflatable jubs

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So...

now they will be trying to find out who committed the boob?

Scorpions tale leaves IWF exposed

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Hypocrisy?

While our govenment bleats about "protecting children" on one hand, they can't be bothered to secure data well enough to prevent the loss of information belonging to 5000 young school children!

130,000 inflatable jubs missing at sea

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Tip-off?

fails dismally to restrain self from commenting on whether it should really be called a tip-off...

Boris cans congestion extension

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Paris Hilton

I wonder...

what the figures are for traffic within the congestion zone and whether these have anything to do with the descision to scrap it?

PH as it is the only icon with a question mark...

Government finally names the day for porn ban

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Alert

Time to...

encrypt your hard drives lads!

US prosthetic todger pair plead guilty to conspiracy

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Done for taking..

no, thats just too easy :)

Home Office to hand out more Tasers to police

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I wonder...

how long it will be before we hear the immortal phrase "don't tase me bro..."

Cybercrooks making easy money from virtual worlds

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Wow!

A non-sarcastic article on virtual worlds in El Reg? Quick, pass the smelling salts someone! :)

MP calls for Jezza Clarkson's head

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Who can I write to...

when I wish to complain about people who have nothing better do do with their lives than waste people's time with stupid complaints please?

Spanish cheesemaker launches ovine Lolitas initiative

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Blessed...

mmmm, cheesemakers.

MPs decry Heathrow T5 fiasco

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@Workstation

It may be obvious to the likes of you and me, however, corporate mangers need the bleedin' obvious spelled out to them, and usually by means of some overly expensive report.

Orange ditches Phorm

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A good start...

now we need to pursuade Virgin to ditch them too!

Virgin Media accused of shafting customers on upload rates

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@Stephen Hunt

Bloody luxury!

In my day we had to chisel the information into clay tablets and carry them to our ISP.

And then they whipped us for being so inpertinent!

US forces want man-hunting robot wolfpacks

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I for one..

welcome our new robotic overBANG!!!

Bank of England prescribes 'boredom'

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@Jimmy Floyd

So, the sudden dip in the currency rate isn't anything to do with his comment, despite coming immediately afterwards? I agree that the underlying problems are all that you have stated, however, sitting around and making comments that have immediate obvious negative effect certainly do nothing to help the situation.

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Self fullfilling

Why can't people like this keep their gobs shut.

Loss of confidence is the reason the markets are in such turmoil, and that confidence isn't going to be bolstered by people who should know better saying things like this!

Hoon: Not building überdatabase would be terrorist licence to kill

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Another..

nail in the coffin of civil liberty.

"hoonatic" we need to get rid of.

glimpse under the skin of how our politicians really think.

We have nothing to fear except politicians themselves.

Bloke knocked up kebabs close to corpse couch

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Pirate

Guy was just...

waiting to be served obviously!

Captain Cyborg to chew the fat with Ultra Hal

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I...

would be more intersted in seeing whether anyone can tell if a conversation with Captain cyborg is with the machine part or the human(ish) part of him.

UK minister looks for delete key on user generated content

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This..

comment has been removed for the protection of the children.

HM Govt.

'Extreme' extreme porn law puts Scots out of kilter

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Betcha...

that the English government will use this as an excuse to bring the same law in here.

China to combine four ships to form space station

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Not impressed...

unless it has it's own transformation sequence!

Artemis Fowl scribe to pen sixth Hitchhiker's novel

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Drink up...

the world's about to end...

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Surely it would have been better to have continued the Dirk Gently novels?

Eye-o-Sauron™ poked out by Great Wall of America

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Landmines?

I favour pit traps with tigers in them (hungry ones),

My name really is Ivan O'Toole, admits Ivan O'Toole

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I hope for the day...

we find that someone is actually called Warrick Hunt...

Did we say you can read that?

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Indeed...

we are truly becoming the type of society that Islamic fundamentalists "claim" to hate so much.

MPs lambast BBFC over Batman

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Why...

so serious?

Reg hack insults the Parachute Regiment

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And I thought...

that only two things fell from the sky.

UK.gov tells throttling petition: Choke on it

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Pointless?

Is there really any point to the online petition site other than to fob people off with the illusion that the government actually gives a toss what we think?

Cambridge congestion charge plans shelved

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Surprised!

I am quite surprised that Cambridge council have made this descision, as every single "improvement" they have made to the roads around Cambridge has been designed to increase congestion and make driving uncomfortable with the aim towads bringing this charge in.

Needless to say I am sure that they are now trying to think of how to rebrand the congestion charge and sell it to us again in a years time.

Police protester snap did not breach rights

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If he is bothered..

about having his photo taken by the autorities, then he had better not leave the house as every CCTV camera along his route will be taking pictures. Just a normal part of this autoritatian state we live in today... Sadly.

UK to outlaw cartoons of child sexual abuse

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Unhappy

Quick, stop thinking...

the mind police are coming!

Lesbians turn on lesbians in battle of Lesbos

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Paris Hilton

I parsed that as...

Lesbians "turn on" lesbians...

Paris for no particular reason, honest... ;)

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