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Register boffinry confab: Mass debate on the Perfect Kilogram

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Trollface

Re: So

Redefine the dollar as 0.00063326222 ounce of gold, or its non-weighted equivalent, 0.0001 mole of gold.

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Patent trolling to go under anti-trust spotlight

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Re: version of Godwin's law

Stop banging on about??? What, are you kidding? Then there'll be no reason to read the El Reg forums any more!

Still, Newton's Fourth Law... I like it.

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Re: What do you call it when

Pomification?

(I'm surprised, 5 comments and none of them Apple-related?)

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4chan founder Moot threatens site for using his handle

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IT Angle

moot.it

So why isn't their threat written in Italian?

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Ten Linux apps you must install

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I haven't used vanilla Ubuntu either, I've always shied away from it for coming with Gnome, preferring Kubuntu instead (and I guess with Unity it's not a bad thing). Still, have always used command-line apt-get for package managing. Caches through apt-cacher-ng that way, especially now that Kubuntu comes with Muon as its package manager.

And there's another one... apt-cacher-ng is useful if you have several machines that you want to maintain all the packages/updates for. Especially useful when my first command line on a barebones system is something like:

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update; sudo apt-get --yes install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu; sudo apt-get install firefox testdisk gimp ubuntu-restricted-extras libdvdread4 pdfedit unzip kcharselect traceroute gcc g++ krdc virtualbox scribus scribus-template scribus-doc xsane imagemagick libdvdcss2 mplayer vlc flashplugin-installer sshfs nfs-common fslint; sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

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Re: nano

nano is also what you get when you try to launch pico.

And on the topic of text editors, vi vi vi ... the editor of the beast

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35 US states petition for secession – on White House website

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Re: where?

Yeah, Puerto Rico, who just had a referendum to seek statehood.

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Re: Drokking Hell, Earthlets!

Or maybe Texas and California can come to some sort of arrangement to swap territory, say... Austin for Cupertino.

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Apple is granted a patent on the rectangle. No, really

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Or better yet, count to 132.

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Devil

Gotta sue 'em all!

I want to be the only one

Like no one ever was

To squash them is my real test

To sue them is my cause

I will trawl across the net

Searching far and wide

Each fondleslab to understand

The patent that's inside

Applemon!

It's only me

I know it's my destiny!

Koh, you're my best friend

For a patent we must defend!

Applemon!

Round corners so true

Our cash mountain will pull us through

You sue me and I'll sue you

Applemon!

Gotta sue 'em all!

Applemon!

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Microsoft and Skype to axe world's most popular IM client early 2013

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Happy

Re: poor reporting

So Gabon was the "small African nation" that Eadon was referring to above (12:14).

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Ohio voting machines have 'backdoor', lawsuit claims

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FAIL

Re: That video is of a calibration issue

This one also looks like a calibration issue...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ

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Credit card-sized mobile simplified for oldies

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Re: Crap

It has rounded corners. Maybe that's why it's so expensive.

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O2 roaming rates to rise by up to 140%

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Re: O2 will increase ... by nearly 140 per cent this month.

The charge to receive a call goes from 39p to 90p, which is an increase of 131%.

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Re: Is that to call home

And you can keep the SIM (and the number) alive by throwing $10 onto it every 3 months (and of course, pay T-Mobile USA's almost-equally-rapacious per-minute rate to use it in the UK).

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Hmm, I think I'll order an iPad Mini on Amazon ... Oh no I won't

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Headmaster

Re: You do know that Google stuff has been sync'ing for years upon years, right?

Four years = [two] years upon [two] years. It doesn't have the "gravitas", but technically true, and certainly true in the fast-moving world of mobile computing.

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The Big Debate: OK gloomsters, how can the music biz be FIXED?

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Linux

Re: Water finds its own level

Donna Summer wasn't crap.

She was the great poet who served as the inspiration for...

Herman Cain's presidential campaign!

(Penguin because it looks almost like a Pokémon.)

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No GPS in the iPad Mini Wi-Fi: People are right to criticise

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Re: Offline mappage and google politico crappo mapo treachery, too

But doesn't Korea take all your mobile devices off you and only give them back when you leave the country???

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Apple's iPad Mini mishap: scratching out the retina screen

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Re: Apple Share Price ....

The old adage...

Buy on Rumour, Sell on News.

(And why am I still being told to be the first to comment when there's easily a dozen comments here already?)

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Apple unveils iPad mini, upgrades its big brother

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Re: Your cut-out'n'keep guide

And speaking of RIM, Playbooks are down to C$149 for the 32 Gb version. (Staples had this price for a while, but it seems London Drugs has joined the fray.)

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Re: To us in the UK

More like £1=$1.47 (taking the retail price of £269 to be £244 + 20% VAT to compare prices like-for-like without consumption taxes).

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Salesforce CEO Benioff: Win 8 is 'the end of Windows'

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Re: You're Late

And in 1987 I said that the paperless office would lead to greater paper consumption and waste.

(Flame because that's what happens to all the paper.)

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Canonical to Windows XP cliff-clingers: Ubuntu safety net's ready... now jump

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Happy

Upvoted from a Torontonian in Vancouver!

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When cookie spewers single you out, it IS personal, barks watchdog

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Pint

Re: you're happy living inside your Google Bubble?

I'd be more worried if I had to resort to using Ryanair!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPyl2tOaKxM

(Then again, they did find the flights on Google!)

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Spiceheads keep Austin weird at IT's Comic Con

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Flame

RAWR!

Should be a green fire-breathing dragon.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/29/samsung_dragon/

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Samsung, not Nokia, fans' most favoured WinPho brand

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Windows

So we're going to need a new name

Apple -> Fanboi/Fangrrl

Android -> Fandroid

WinPho -> Fanborg (from "Borg of Redmond" - anyone have other suggestions?)

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Inside the mind of a Bond supervillain: Psychotic, autistic - or neither?

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Black Helicopters

Assange in a hollowed-out volcano

Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador, perhaps?

Needs sharks with frickin laser beams though.

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'Mapsgate' fails to dislocate iPhone 5 demand

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Mushroom

Re: It's Friday I can't be bothered....

Best line (from the iPad 2 vs the library)...

Your stupidity has caused me to spontaneously combust.

The pain is incredible.

Are you happy?

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South Korea on top of the IT world

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Big Brother

I'm so ronery

The only thing they can say about their censorship is, "At least we aren't as bad as North Korea."

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Drinking too much coffee can MAKE YOU BLIND

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Re: If drinking too much coffee can make you blind ...

I'm sure the Finns drink far more coffee...

Depends on your definition of coffee.

If one definition (say, the Finnish definition) is the infusion of water through ground coffee beans*

and the other (from a coffee shop called SunDeers) is a pint** of water or frothy milk with a small tincture of the above coffee mix, then the proportion is far, far greater than 3:1.

*this is El Reg, no doubt I'll be given correct terminology

** venti = 20 (ounces) = 1 pint

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Re: so, how much coffee is a "cup"?

A pint (20 ounces) is the size of the Tim Hortons Large cup. (The Extra Large is 24. Mmmm... Tim Hortons double double.)

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Is lightspeed really a limit?

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Re: Light or Gravity?

Downvoted because breakfast is at the Big Bang Burger Bar.

(Mine's a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.)

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Japanese boffins unfurl banner above newly-discovered Element 113

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Happy

Chanseynium

Rakkiium?

I'd love to see what happens if they discover 121.

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Shuttle Endeavour buzzes the Golden Gate Bridge

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Headmaster

Endeavor?

Even Americans spell it "Endeavour"! Named after Captain Cook's HMS Endeavour, of course.

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LONDON iPHONE 5 MADNESS: 'You must be CRAZY to buy Apple'

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Paris Hilton

But they're only holograms anyway!

(Paris, not quite Hatsune Miku.)

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iPhone 5 has 'laser keyboard, holographic images'

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Re: Fox News is great....

Like this one...

http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-laptop-with-no,14299/

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New hottest-ever extreme temperature records now easier to achieve

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Pint

One of the problems with a Six-Bellini thermometer

I think after six Bellinis I might have problems reading a thermometer too!

*hic*

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Here we go again: Critical flaw found in just-patched Java

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WTF?

Re: Buying Sun was...

Trying to find an alternative to Virtualbox?

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

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Mushroom

And with an aging population...

... and a greater chance of accidental incontinence, this can be lethal!

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New rule on blood-soaked metals in mobes is POINTLESS

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The first "Haven't Apple Patented...?"

Original Sin.

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Shenzhen wage hike causes supply chain jitters

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Re: Forget it Jake, it's China.

I'm trying to find the source of the materials that Beijing was trying to implement half-decent (or probably only quarter-decent) environmental regulations, but was stopped by same objectors who did just that, threaten to take their business to countries without such an "onerous" burden, in which case it will be the United Fruit Company vs weak (and corrupt) governments. But agreed, it's good to see that in Shenzhen at least, they're trying to break out of this "race to the bottom" mentality for wages and conditions.

So now the question is... will the United Fruit Company see this as (a) a reason to pull out of Shenzhen and move to, say, Indonesia or even Chongqing, or (b) an excuse to hike retail prices of orders of magnitude higher than the increased wage cost?

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Meh

Still no doubt there will be strong opposition to the wage hikes from industry leaders (in Bentonville and Cupertino) and the local authorities will be forced to back down.

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Google gets hands on 'glove-cam' patent

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WTF?

And the purpose is...?

To send the patent back in time to 1988 in time to troll the following year's release of the Nintendo Power Glove.

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Cook's 'values' memo shows Apple has lost its soul

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Big Brother

Re: Kudos to the author

Most valuable public company. Saudi Aramco and State Grid Corporation of China are far from public!

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Train crash knocks out fibre cables, delays 9/11 hearing

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Re: Comms Disruption Ahoy

Intercontinental. Southern Pacific Railroad Intercontinental Network of Telecommunications. And yes indeed there is a history of telecoms infrastructure with railways. Anyone remember BRT (British Rail Telecommunications) before it was gobbled up by Racal?

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UK.gov's minimum booze price dream demolished

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Headmaster

"Anthropomorphic Global Warming?" Really? I'm sure the Encyclopedia Dramatica crowd would love to know of this climate change hypothesis. Sea levels are rising! Blame the furries!!

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Anonymous takes down UK government websites in Assange attack

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Big Brother

Allowing him to get away like Assange pi Britannia.

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China and Taiwan complete historic undersea cable

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Headmaster

Re: China's policy...

All your mothboard etc. are make by the CCP?

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El Reg nails Street View spycars to Google Maps

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Black Helicopters

Belfast

Saw one in North Queen Street earlier this week in Belfast. Tried to take a picture but I was on too much of an angle to get it. It was black, and it had the Google logo on the side.

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