* Posts by Rukario

563 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Mar 2008

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Texas teen jailed for four months over sarcastic Facebook comment

Rukario
Angel

Re: I live in Northern Ireland.

Thinking fast, the driver says, "Actually, I'm Jewish."

Is that Protestant Jewish or Catholic Jewish?

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Trollface

Re: I feel sorry for the family - only!

Don't you mean: "perhaps you should try the exciting game of holding your breath for twenty minutes lol j/k"?

Or are you really Jack Thompson? Because you obviously are one ----->

(This is why we need the icons back on the left.)

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FAIL

Re: What the hell

It was a Canadian who started this whole Shitstorm in the first place.

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Main screen turn on.

Americans attempt to throw off oppressive, unresponsive rulers on 4th of July

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Access?

It's probably all kept in a series of linked Excel files.

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Stop

Re: Cameron really is a bloody twonk.

> The scheme was started under a previous government

Then this would apply to Obama also., particularly with Dubya admitting that Prism was his doing (or probably more accurately, Cheney's doing).

I'm 'pretty comfy' with PRISM + 'It's Google. What else do you expect'

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Re: Still...

> ...three's a trio not a quartet.

Ballmer counts as 2.

Twitter to let ad pals TRACK COOKIES on micro-blogging site

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Big Brother

Re: better ads, lol

You mean "6079 Smith W! Yes you!"

Going lo-tech to avoid NSA snooping? Unlucky - they read snailmail too

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Black Helicopters

Re: how do you know it's their public key and someone in the middle hasn't sent you theirs

"trusted authority"

an oxymoron

Boston U claims LED patent, files against tech giants

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Re: Timing?

> Were these patents found down the back of a filing cabinet during an office clear out? Why the timing?

They were in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign outside the door saying "Beware of Mac OSX 10.5". Had they ever thought of going into advertising?

Apple dives through iRon curtain, launches Russian online store

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"Сири, условленный имеет мою жену, что я спешу возвращаться в этот вечер для него высосать грудь."

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Pint

I took night classes in Russian when I lived in Belfast, I shudder to think.

<-- the only way it is at all comprehensible

FCC orders wireless carriers to protect customers' call info

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Re: Protecting customer information...

> It may be time to remember that NSA's actiities were authorized under democratically passed laws and subject to a variety of judicial and internal controls intended to limit their scope.

It may also be time to remember that their actions have always been ultra vires.

UK sitting on top of at least 50 years of shale gas – report

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@Link: Can I suggest shoving a pipeline directly into the gobs of leading politicians of all sides and fracking the heck out of their faces?

You'll need that pipe to capture the gas; you'll need to shove a pipeline in the other end to pump in the fracturing fluid.

China's piracy watchdog to keep tabs on Amazon, Apple & co

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Joke

How dare they!

Accuse Apple of piracy???

If Apple has "pirated" something, it's only something that the accusers have pirated from something that Apple hasn't produced yet. Once the Reality Distortion Field has been reconciled, we will see that Apple was truly the creator of the work, and the predecessor was the copy.

Mint 15 freshens Ubuntu's bad bits

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The year of Linux on the desktop?

What was the first year of that proclamation? I can recall 1998 though don't have any references (other than the neurons in my head-type-thingy). Can anyone either confirm my memory, or improve upon the date?

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Boffin

Prosyletisation

Where is Mint's usual prosyletiser, as seen on any Microsoft article? The silence is deafening.

OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK UP FOR MINT FAIL.

At last! Virtual domain controllers just work

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Clones?

Sounds strange...

And shurely, you mean Norton Ghost, not Symantec Ghost (as in the good one, before Symantec royally borked it)?

(BTW, glad to hear you weren't swept away by the chaos to your south.)

Sunday's night sky to be flooded by MASSIVE SUPERMOON

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Re: Sole natural satellite

Bertrand Russell's chocolate teapot?

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Headmaster

> the moon affects the menstrual cycle

"Menstrual" = of the moon. The moon affects the cycle of the moon.

(That the term "menstrual" is used to refer to another cycle that has close to the same period (pun intended) as the moon is a coinkidink - or possibly an evolutionary trait due to available light pre-artificial lighting.)

Apple: If you find us guilty in ebook price-fix trial, EVERYONE suffers

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FAIL

Re: Twisted Economics

> In a just world one freely sells to the highest bidder. It works on eBay.

[emphasis mine]

If you offer the same items in multiple auctions, you sell at the final bid, you don't tell the purchaser "you can't buy because 'sjobs' bought another one of the same in a previous auction for more than your bid and now I can't accept any auction results less than that".

Rukario

Re: Apple haters out in force today

Correct, and it's because Apple does shenanigans like this that there's such a hatred of Apple.

Google staffing boss: Our old hiring procedures were 'worthless'

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Re: World's cleverest company states the obvious

> The smart people thought the whole thing was an exercise in intellectual masturbation.

And were then disappointed to find out that it was a recruitment scheme from Google.

IT mercenaries and buy-to-let landlords are my HEROES - here's why

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Alien

Re: Correlation <> Causation yet again.

> Do you think that people can't see you when you cover your eyes with your hands as well ?

Yes, I'm the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

Global tax data exchange plan floated to recoup cash

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Re: Waste of time and effort

> We already have that - it's called income tax. Seems to work well enough for most of us...

Most of us aren't the ones with most of the money.

Not just telcos, THOUSANDS of companies share data with US spies

Rukario

Re: Many states are not up to the task.

@Paul McClure:

Some states are trying desperately to create a Christian fascist institution to rival the Taliban in thuggery. Those same states are teetering on bankruptcy and can ill afford not receiving that federal check.

There, fixed it for you.

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FAIL

Re: FAO The Register Team

> the fact a bunch of the 9/11 terrorists entered the US from Canada

That is actually a myth that has been long-since been debunked. However you're right about Canada being anything but a safe harbour.

Reg hack prepares to live off wondergloop Soylent

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Trollface

Re: keen.

> If you're a true hipster you won't want anything to do with it now he's went 'commercial'

If you're a true hipster you won't want anything to do with it unless it has a picture of a half-eaten fruit on the packaging.

Sony sucker-punches Xbox on price, specs, DRM-free gaming

Rukario

Re: The reason why it must be connected to the Internet is......

> provide system updates even new interfaces

Yeah we got the first look at what would turn out to be TIFKAM.

Mozilla, ACLU, others join fight against NSA domestic spying

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Linux

Re: How times change

* Pingas.

Thanks, NSA: Amazon sales of Orwell's 1984 rise 9,500%

Rukario

Re: Apathy tends to rule these days...

> There was the recent case of the Harvard professor, who was hounded out of his job for pointing out objectively the IQ distributions between different racial groups.

Sounds like Jean Philippe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario.

Cold, dead hands of Steve Jobs slip from iPhones: The Cult of Ive is upon us

Rukario

Re: Put an iPhone beside a...

> A reasonable design goal given the state of play half a decade ago when essentially no one had a touch keyboard.

The Sony Ericsson P800 came out a decade ago (2003), and its on-screen keyboard flipped case, and even keyboard character set depending on language. The outlined shift key to indicate case isn't so good because they're covered by thumbs!

Microsoft announces $499 price tag, new games for Xbox One

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Pirate

Re: XBone

Is that XB-one, X-Bone, or Crossbone?

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Devil

Re: But??

Nope, it runs Windows 8, Special Eadon Edition.

Apple unveils hints of Monday's new-product announcements

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Next OSX version?

Mandatory xkcd reference

http://xkcd.com/1056/

We're losing the battle with a government seduced by surveillance

Rukario

Re: Editor down the pub?

I should have also added above, particularly with the London buses, that cameras have replaced the driver's periscope to the upper floor of the bus. Also in Dublin on the Luas trams, instead of having huge wing mirrors to see down the length of the tram, they're using wide-angle cameras instead, with a screen in the driver's cab placed about where the view from the mirrors would be. Reduces land acquisition costs by about 1.5-2 metres of width. And it's recordable, unlike the bus driver's periscope or the tram driver's wing mirrors.

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Black Helicopters

Re: Editor down the pub?

"More cameras per city than anywhere else on the planet"? I can believe it. London has a lot of camera-intensive systems. Does any other city even come close to this level of surveillance?

Cameras inside every London bus (how many), and on the outside for bus lane infractions - and London has a LOT of buses. Cameras inside every tube/overground/DLR/Tramlink train and station. Cameras above every lane on (nearly) every gantry on the M25 (or have they covered the M4-M40 gap?). Cameras at the perimeter of the congestion charge zone. This all in addition to the town centre cameras, and all the private CCTV cameras, including the one in the pub where the editor (supposedly) is.

Amazon to deliver groceries in 20 markets by 2014

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Even if they ran up as far as Blaine it's good enough. For me anyway. And believe it or not, there's a fair bit of groceries that aren't that much cheaper south of the border anymore.

Hitchhikers' Guide was WRONG, Earth is not in a galactic backwater

Rukario
Mushroom

Re: Learn to reprezzent, yo!

"exterminate the roaches we call humanity"

That was merely a byproduct of a Disaster Area concert.

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Hipster districts?

Malus Major Alpha, then.

Rukario

Re: Watch out for hyperspace bypasses

Mike Tubby / jnemesh

These days, "Beware of the Mountain Lion."

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Re: Hmmm...

Barcelona the planet, the one where dogs have no noses?

Rukario
Alien

New money aliens?

But... Magrathea is still closed for regular business. Unless, the "new money aliens" are, of course, mice, the only clients special and extraordinary enough for Magrathea to reopen for one special commission.

iPHONES and 'Pads BANNED in US for violating Samsung patent

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Trollface

Re: Waste of Space

"Last year, Apple employees gave $308,081 to Obama's last reelection campaign" I guess, Apple's "paid-for property" is in this case the White House itself.

Look out, fanbois! EVIL charger will inject FILTH into your iPHONE

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Joke

Boring IOS UI

You must mean the router> prompt, which has the huge variation of changing to router# after an enable.

Steelie Neelie wants roaming charges gone by Easter 2014

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Stop

Re: When SIMs disappear all I need is my number to roam

SIM-less phones?

CDMA.

You don't want to go there.

China ponders joining controversial IP trade treaty

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Re: Oh, another Mickey Mouse Protection Treaty!

> "Lifetime" does not a limited time make.

I'm sure the MAFIAA can make appropriate arrangements for "lifetime" to be limited.

Canadian regulators welcome US Bitcoin refugees with open arms

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> On the other hand, you can have Harper.

Harper was always one of theirs.

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