* Posts by Elmer Phud

4520 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Mar 2008

End of an era: Atlantis hits the tarmac

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Forgetting something?

With the demise of Atlantis we also see the birth of LOHAN.

Five years time and we'll have El Reg as well as Elon.

iPhones look good enough to eat

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Boffin

Full English?

Need an iPad cover for a full English.

And one of the new Apple screens for the Northern Ireland version.

Will they do one for the German market - or does that require a 42" screen?

Go ahead and spy on customers, says judge

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How long?

How long before it's widely known by potential customers that Aaron will spy on them?

How long before Aaron close?

Google sends warnings to machines with infected search

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Stop

Why is it down to the ISP's?

The customer is supposed to be responsible for thier machine - either we have a fully nannied-up system or we have freedom.

your choice?

OS X Lion roars, coughs on appearance in App Store

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Download blues

Not only that but once the schools have emptied everything just crawls -- leave it until after the pub and it's fine.

MPs probe science behind bogus gov booze guidelines

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Alcoholic?

I thought an alcoholic was someone who drank as much as thier doctor.

LulzSec say they'll release big Murdoch email archive

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Lawyers

They might try but I doubt if they'd get far.

If emails carry proof of manipulation of decisions of the Police (and others) to pervert the course of justice, perjury, bribery, blackmail etc. then the judiciary have grounds to tell the lawyers to naff off.

UK top cop: Coulson 'blindingly obviously' mixed up in hacking

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Obvious?

If it was 'obvious' then is he guilty of abetting (or whatever it is ) if conspiracy can't be proved?

I hope they will ask 'Why did you do nothing about it?' and 'who were you reciving directions from?'.

Boris was extremely pro 'nothing to see, minor incident, it's all bollocks' a while back. These coppers are appointed by Boris, where was he hiding?

note to Reg people -- need a 'popcorn' icon.

How LulzSec pwned The Sun

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Headmaster

I suppose

I suppose they might not have.

I suppose they may have just got to one area of the front page

'may have' absolute FUD!

It's one lot of supposition for some and another lot of supposition for others.

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Coat

Wrong again!

It's a theatre near Piccadilly.

Get your kit off for Putin, win an iPad 2, Russian ladies told

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You mean . . .

It's not an advert for Eastern European Airbags?

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Headmaster

Boris

Nope, he 'is' not 'has'.

Ordnance Survey, other gov databases move to Biz dept

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Free?

Unlikely - the move to BIZ doesn't look promising.

In these troubled times of hardship and struggle (etc. etc.) expect to see HM.Gove try and milk as much as possible from the public.

The last lot in seemed to have tarted it all up to flog if off.

Educating Verity the OU way

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M$??

I did some of my stuff on Framework - on an XT

cue other 'when I were a lad' anecdotes

Rebekah Brooks quits - Murdoch accepts this time

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Let's see if I can get 9 thumbs down again:

No, let's not have a willy-waving competiton, boys.

Anyway reading Vlad's stuff carefully and not getting hooked on the emotive stuff he seems to have several valid points.

However, we are in the standard moral secnario of 'freedom fighter/terrorist' - it all depends which side of the fence people choose to be on or whether to get splinters in their bums.

Personally I find 'for the lulz' preferable to 'for the money, power and blackmail potential'.

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PR PM

Wot like Call-Me-Dave?

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cats

and the flying monkeys

Paul McCartney joins Atlantis love-in

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Coat

Not Yet

There's still Sir Cliff to come

FBI probes claims of Murdoch 9/11 hack

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Headmaster

A bit quick?

It's not just the Mirror that's reporting it.

The Mirror - in the Reg article - is claiming a private dick was hired.

Everywhere else is reporting the FBI are to investigate.

Scientists snap amazing technicolour dreamtoad

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Aceeeeeeed

Cor, now I can stop licking toads to see all the colours!

Half of Virgin Media broadband ads are wrong, says ASA

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Flame

Prefer them to be honest

Considering that when doing a test from exchange to customer premises they know damn well what they can expect based on noise, capacitance etc. and always have done.

Sorry, that's "Those testers who are not sitting following screen prompts and have actually gone out and got thier hands dirty in the past". Not thier managers who on the whole are corporate gobshites or those who say that the test either says pass or fail and do not allow testers to correctly interpret the actual results and not just 'pass/fail'.

I got pissed off tryng to fight this particular corner for years (and others) for customers (that's me as well) at BT and eventually took the money. "You are not allowed to read the result figures, they won't tell you anything." "Do you have any idea what these figures mean? No? well fuck off 'cos I do. It means they will get 2meg and no more - ever, until someone goes out and either sorts out all the cable joints or puts in fibre".

The muppets in charge would not let us do what we were trained for - as we began to turn in to automatons in fornt of a screen many of us just left. They wanted trained monkeys and to pay them peanuts while the customers were mushroomed (kept in the dark etc.)

California Mrs cuffed in drugged-hubby todger slash case

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Confused

I can't work out who the ' sick' person is.

" "nothing more than the divorce proceeding" as a possible motive for the attack. The 51-year-old husband initiated the unhitching process back in May after 11-and-a-half years of marriage, the LA Times notes."

'nothing more' after 11 1/2 years may seem trivial to the cops but we don't know what led to the divorce - or at least not in what I've just read here. If he wanted to just go off and wave his knob around and taunted his missus with such things - 'I can't wait until the papers come through then all that pussy is mine' sort of thing, she might have got a tad upset.

That ain't sick, that's a pre-emptive strike.

Most Adobe Reader installs are out of date

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Boffin

Put up with it? Nah.

Others don't, they use Foxit.

It doesn't take up huge amounts of HD space, doesn't want to check for updates every half hour or so, is very easy to use and comes with a usable set of basic tools.

Cisco may slash 10,000 jobs

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That's inflation for you

Lower down on the Reg arse feed Cisco are possibly losing 5000 - do you reckon they've gone "well, we've started . . ."

'Unconvincing' Met top cop Yates: My phone was hacked

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Of course they'll let you off

" "I felt the evidence had been followed," he said. " From the (police) horses' mouth.

Nuff said.

'Meltdown Monday' Anonymous hackers leak military mails

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Needless?

If the actions taken are 'needless' then why the hell hadn't 'security' firms sorted out security.

At least the latest bunch actually published what they'd found - who knows how many others have been browsing around and for how long.

I would suggest that if the security was a bit iffy then personnell were compromised a long time ago.

MS to WinXP diehards: Just under 3 more years' support

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Thumb Up

Three Years?

Fine by me, I'll need to replace this four year old box of chips by then.

W7 should be patched and sorted by then with Service Pack whatever.

Sunday Times accused of blagging Gordon Brown's records

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Boffin

Oh yeah?

So , how many Murdophobes here will be cancelling thier Sky contracts?

Hello?

Hello?

Thought so.

Sweaties decode ultimate mystery of chips

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Welcome

Spuds You Like?

London could face cuts for not sharing services

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Payback

They have finally realised how much money Brian Coleman has spent on taxis.

Portuguese hackers strike back at Moody's downgrade

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Not just the pink

Not running Ad Block, either.

News of the World TO CLOSE

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FAIL

Decimation?

"Right, you lot. After three, fall on your swords. Wait for it! -- one, two, three. "

No, that's just keeping Cameron happy, a head to wave over the castle walls.

Virgin and Spotify: A step forward for digital music

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Alert

Uncle Ed

Maybe, instead of jumping at the wordf Ed would like you to hear think about what BT and Talk Talk were trying to do.

Vaisey would prefer people to forget the governments idea to have the ISPs become internet police. Anything the government decide is iffy - depending on thier whim of the day - and your ISP is bound by law to screw you over. And before you complain to your MP it's the ISP who is doing it not the government - excuse sorted, blame passed elsewhere, business as bloody usual.

Sony pains pre-owned game punters with PSN Pass

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Pirate

Only a matter of time

"Sony hasn't said how much the pass code will cost.

Whatever the price, the PSN Pass is essentially a tax on folk who buy pre-owned games."

That'll be another Sony users register, then.

has to be the Pirate icon

'Transparent' PM dishes up more public datasets

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Transparency

"David Cameron's "transparency" "

So, Steve Bell's condom-man cartoon image is spot on (as usual)

El Reg to unleash rocket-powered spaceplane

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Sellotape?

If this is to be done properly shirley it should be gaffa tape

Cameron backs public inquiry into NotW hacking claims

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Meh

Phone turned off?

The flame-haired Murdoch employee surely can't try 'I wasn't there guv' excuse.

Does the editor of such a mighty organ not keep tabs on the latest gossip even while on holiday?

meh, indeed

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Headmaster

History

It goes back even further than that.

The way that BSB was sidelined and the need for Post Office Telephones to be privatised for Murdoch to have access to satellites is far older. It's almost the culmination of a plan set out back in the years of Thatch.

Sony quietly tests PlayStation Network revamp

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Brave Face

"Sony are trying to gain some trust back by giving customers pretty things to look at while still keeping shtum over thier servers"

South Korea to throw away schoolbooks by 2015

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Headmaster

Slight correction

"Primary School students (not pupils these days - PC BS)"

Nope, they are clients, customers, service recivers etc but not pupils.

They are now considered to be potential long-term debtors -- after all, they are all supposed to go to Uni and get a loan. They are the future of the furture markets. housing went broke on debts being bought and sold - next it's the students.

Not 'PC BS' but 'market potential'

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Nope

Isn't that a bit like this stupid idea to have 'everyone' connected to the internet?

Are you saying 'look, here's a book, you can't touch it but it's been scanned as a pdf'

Pissed-off elves bombard Icelandic town with rocks

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Coat

Undergound music

Were this a bit further south he might be Cacophonix.

In the meantime, Elves have left the building

Scotland Yard still have no idea why their network fell over

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Captain's Log

Do they have to meet up first to make sure the logs all match up?

Wallabies battle cattle farts

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Mushroom

Careful now

Are you seriously suggesting getting rid of the one thing that us men are good at?

Icon of a lit fart

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Boffin

Nope

We get the cows to eat wallabies instead of grass.

Xboxer SWATTED by armed cops after online spat

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Stop

Not just the kids

"When will we teach our kids that it's OK to lose ?"

When thier parents stop acting just like little kids behaving in the same way?

Many kids are told it's bad to lose, a disgrace, less than being a 'man' and all that shit.

German vulture detective hits turbulence

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Cheese

There was a paper from an Austrailan Agricultural department (or something like that ) taht looked at what attracted corvids to food.

It seems that the chemical smell they go for is in most rotting stuff and also in stinky cheese.

I have conducted a couple of experiments aong thes elines with stilton rind - the local magpies arrive within ten minutes, even if I've not seen them for days. They then beging to squabble and fight over tiny bits of cheese rind.

As Vultures are important for removing dead meat from the environment it's very likely they don't give a toss about human or other animal - it's gone off and therefore ripe enough to eat.

Anonymous smites Orlando after charity arrests

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Coming soon . . .

There wil be similar thngs happening in London in the run up to Boris's Olympics.

Think of the money the punters have coughed up to get tickets, and wil be spending withthier official Visa cards on the official sponsors crappy burgers.

Boris has already said he wants the riff-raff cleared away - that's just about the entire East End apart from the places where the property prices went up.

Draw and fold working circuitry with the silver-ink pen

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Now that's a great idea

Voodo Pen - draw your symbols and they become real.

(which way does that gate go?)

Microsoft hires Disney man for consumer crusade

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Boffin

May I be the first . . .

. . . to say something about it being a 'Mickey Mouse O/S/2

and using either a Penquin icon or a shouty-shouty or flames or explosion.

Well, it's gonna happen so . . . .