* Posts by Frostbite

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BlackBerry's AD BLITZ: Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated

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BES10 woes

I can edit everybodys email signature on my BES4 and BES5 servers.

Can I do that on BES10? Can I? Can I?

No, I have to pray its going to be a future feature. Come on RIM, pull your bloody finger out of your ****

this is only one example of many annoyances with the new platform.

END OF RANT

Hiroshi Yamauchi, bizlord who gave the world Donkey Kong, dead at 85

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A more fitting end would have been if he had got run over by a barrel.

An autopilot the size of a postage stamp

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Nothing new....

This sized technology has been available in toys and is nothing new, just type in 'Hubsan Quad' in YouTube and you will see what I've been playing with since October 2012.

You would be amazed at the tech that the model flying community has at its disposal, the MOD advertise for our talents in our mags (can't think what they must be building, LOL).

It's a fiddle! Funnyman's Irish tax flashmob floods Apple flagship store

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Facepalm

Own goal ?

Video edited using iMovie

Official: Sky to buy O2 and BE's home broadband product in £200m deal

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Unhappy

Oh bugger

Noooooo, holy crap this is bad news, I've been an extremely happy O2 home broadband & phone customer for 3 years, can't fault them, everything was perfect.

Sky will cock it all up for sure..........I'm off to ZEN

Sony PS3 extends lead over Microsoft's Xbox 360 by a cool million

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Mushroom

Re: Not in the UK I don't think.

Are you qualified to judge each system considering you have never used a PS3?

I have 3 PC's, 1 Mac, 1 Wii, 1 XBOX and 3 PS3 systems in the house.

Why 3 PS3's? To meet family demand.

UK is first class for train Wi-Fi in Europe

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FAIL

Too bloody expensive though

GiffGaff in data spaff, goodybag gaffe: ICO says its 'avin a laff

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Not a good article really

A poorly informed and bias article. I'm used to better from El Reg

Volvo claims V40 is first car with an airbag for pedestrians

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Re: Stir Fried Chicken / Egg Foo Yung

No, just checked, like most things these days it's now owned by the Chinese (Geely Automobile)

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Chicken / Egg

I'm sure Ford own Volvo, so will they / won't they patent it?

Troubled Game wins reprieve on debt, mulls axing more stores

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FAIL

Game Over!

Game stores are a last resort for me too. They are expensive, everything is top price, massive fail if you expect to stay in this market sector, you need to be able to compete against online retailers and supermarkets.

Another big fail is their property management, it's all too familiar to see 2 or 3 game stores within close proximity to each other in the same mall, town or city. They do indeed own GameStation, therefore, in my local mall there are 4 game group stores within two minutes walk of each other. I wonder why their rent bill is so high?, doesn't take a genius does it?

Southampton Uni climbs aboard LOHAN spaceplane project

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It's good to see Paul Heckles doing the flying, wish it was me :-)

Bog builder pushes out poo-powered motorbike

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Coffee/keyboard

Crap puns

I had a similar bike once, it was a Sackacacki and featured a SatLav.

The chain broke in the end, so it had to be crapped.......err I mean scrapped.

Laptop batteries made of jelly invented

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Mushroom

I was wondering exactly the same as I use Li-Po's in my RC aircraft

(3.7v per cell is currently a typical for my Lithium Polymer batteries)

'The most ambitious project at eBay for a long, long time'

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Coffee/keyboard

Step away from the keyboard.........now!

Nothing wrong with the fleabay search engine if you know how to use it (it's not rocket science).........stop tinkering with yourself eBay before something drops off and dies.

Here lies /^v.+b$/i

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Happy

More BASIC

10 IF HEART$ = "OK" THEN GOTO 20 ELSE GOTO 40

20 PRINT "Hello World"

30 GOTO 10

40 PRINT "Goodbye World"

50 END

Sony: PlayStation Vita will win gamers back from tablets, phones

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FAIL

Sony: PlayStation Vita will win gamers back from tablets, phones...

No it won't

ISS 'naut shoots first ever 3D footage in space

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IT Angle

confused.com

Can somebody tell me how I'm going to view this on my 3D TV? Surely I would need a 3D encoded Blu-Ray disk?

Videogames caused riots says plod

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MW3

As I have said before on another posting, just release MW3 early and you won't see a rioter for weeks as they will be instantly stuck in front of their ChavBox360's.

Sony distribution centre engulfed by fire

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MW3

Nothing to do with Sony but how about releasing MW3 early, then there will be no chavs left on the street, they will be busy online for a few weeks in front of their ChavBox360's.

DIY aerial drone monitors Wi-Fi, GSM networks

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FAIL

Close but no cigar....

I fly RC aircraft and have 20 years experience, if this thing has actually made it into the air I doubt it would be able to stay up any more than 20 minutes at best.

A 10 minute flight time is more likely or this kind of airframe.

Bullfrog Syndicate

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Fantastic Game

Just bring it back to PC untouched and I'd be happy.

Schmaltz-powered Chrome overtakes morally superior Firefox

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Nah :-(

The number of computers I have seen over the past 6 months where Chrome has hijacked and taken over their computer, admittedly installed by the dim-witted owner where Chrome got installed while they were updating Google Earth or some other program. At least Firefox hasn't employed this lame land grabbing tactic yet.

I will still be using Firefox, I just don't trust Google.

eBay shopping lands wild colonial in lock-up

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Joke

XXXX

He wouldn't give a "Castlemaine XXXX" for any other auction web site.

Triceratops horn find supports meteor extinction theory

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Give me a doctorate

An asteroid/meteor strike would have vaporised anything living, dead and fossilised.

Whatever hit the earth wouldn't have bouned off the surface, it would have destroyed the surface and below, hence nothing to find there.

Call of Duty given ultimate Star Wars makeover

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One word

AWESOME!

Aussie retailer accuses UK shops of HDMI 'scam'

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Devil

Suckers

Most of my HDMI cables were bought for £1 on eBay and they work just as well as 'branded' ones that came with kit.

I just love telling customers in the stores to put down that £30 cable and get one online.

Tis' great to make a salesmans day even worse.

SMEs get hit harder in a market crisis, say biz profs

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Holmes

NSS

NSS

RAF Eurofighter Typhoons 'beaten by Pakistani F-16s'

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Headmaster

Oh no Lewis

Poor journalism again Lewis, stand in the corner until home time.

When will people start calling the Eurofighter Project aircraft by its assigned name 'Typhoon'?

Virgin Media frustrates customers with 'intermittent' routing blues

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FAIL

Amazing!

Amazing that their network status page is all in the green.

Playboy sneaks NAKED LADIES onto iPad

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Joke

57 Year Back Catalogue

Brings a new meaning to "Grandma wants an iPad to view her old photo's".

Japanese still locked out of PlayStation Network

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Alert

Welcome Back

The Welcome back package will be available when the Playstation online Store re-opens.

This is what was reported on their official blog.

NASA restores Pluto to league of planets

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Joke

Predictable

The IAU always talk out of their Uranus

WTF is... IPv6?

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Joke

Amazing!

I'm amazed that the Sony Playstation Network is not a participant

UK net banking website falls flat on its bank

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Haaaah Haaaaah Haaaaah Haaaaah ROFL

Serves them right, unhelpful .....stards.

RAF Eurofighters make devastating attack – on Parliament

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Agaiiiiin?!

Oh come on Lewis not again, just another moan about Eurofighter, there are bigger fish to fry, time to move on don't you think?

NASA hands out second-hand shuttles

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@Highlander

There are documented official facts that members of the crew on board Challenger were not dead or incapacitated, if you read my post correctly you would have realised this.

As for the 'tape', yes, they are digitally recorded, there is no tape, it is stored onto memory due to less weight, cost and more importantly takes less to power.

Noob

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b166er

Yes, those reports are fascinating, my interest is purely that the truth be reported as it certainly wasn't the case for Challenger, the truth had to be fought for from many sides both internal and external to NASA. Many of the populous do not realise this.

I for one would not want to see video of the crews fate, nor do I believe that anything like that should be made public, however the truth should always be laid out first time without question.

No, I can't say that I am "a rubber necked twit", are you?

I just wanted to highlight that NASA should be transparrent, not bow to political pressure for anything and ask if we can believe what they report.

My hat is already off and saluting those that aim to "slip the surly bonds of earth".

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What of the others?

and what will happen to the recovered parts of Challenger and Columbia?

NASA reported that the crew of Challenger got 'vaporised' upon the explosion of the external fuel tank, unfortunately that was not the case. The crew compartment was intact and took just under 3 minutes to freefall back into the ocean. The astronauts, still strapped into their chairs hit the ocean at 200mph, which had a devestating crushing result for the compartment and it's contents. Human remains were found weeks later and recovered, together with the compartment. It is not known when the crew died, most were probably unconscious and died when they hit the water. It's worth noting that PEAP packs (personal air tanks) were activated, used for over 2 minutes and gated switches had been moved in the cabin post explosion.

Brevard County were not permitted to the autopsy of the remains, which is unusual and unlawful, their eventual public invitation was revoked shortly before it happened on a USAF base near to the Cape.

As for Columbia it's interesting to see the video of the cabin that was recorded during their re-entry. Normally this camera runs for the entire phase of re-entry, showing the cabin and crew. The recovered video runs normally but stops a few minutes before the break up.

NASA reported that the rest of the 'tape' was 'destroyed'...............really?

Kentucky man denies drunk driving, blames blow job

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Joke

ooooh err

The police officer suspected him doing 69 in the 55 zone too

Beeb say sorry for Stephen Fry A-bomb quip

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You know what......

......I think Stephen Fry's got a point.

Assange vows to drop 'insurance' files on Rupert Murdoch

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Genius

Thumb drives with a copy of the Bill of Rights encoded into the block device is genius

US Air Force studies fruit-flies to build killer insect swarm drones

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FAIL

Easily prevented

.....have they thought about the rolled up newspaper?

PARIS threatened by the bends

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Go

Another Forum

Perhaps you need help from another forum dedicated to flying model aircraft?

http://www.modelflying.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=42805#842894

Iran unveils 'robot bomber'

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Going up!

It's handy that their shiny new aircraft can "Gain Altitude".

Boeing's 'Phantom Eye' Ford Fusion powered stratocraft

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FAIL

Ahem.....

Have you not heard of TARANIS then ?

New Xbox 360 said to 'still scratch discs'

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Badgers

It's no good...

......ye canna change the laws of physics!

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FAIL

noobs

What kind of noob moves a device whilst a CD/DVD is spinning?

Let alone knocking a device with a spinning hard disk in it?

FAIL for people who don't understand gyroscopic effects on spinning objects, what do schools teach these days? "How to be a noob" I guess.

Huge new airships for US Army: designed in Blighty

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Under development......

"Taliban develop large pins to pop US baloons".

Vodafone UK iPhone tariffs leaked

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Don't be ashamed...

The 6310i is the best phone Nokia has ever made.

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