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130 posts • joined Tuesday 14th April 2009 12:22 GMT

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DarkNerd

Bruno Mars on standby : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkf9nV1NEeE

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And in the backend, the NSA pre-pop mugshots, you know, 'just in case'

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Re: Out of the box

I tried it, random lock ups with my SSD Raid OS Drive

After half a day or so digging around, for reasons, Microsoft tried to blame my choice of hardware

Windows 7 works fine

DarkNerd

Let's launch a neodymium magnet satellite built with thrusters which are designed to guide it (and anything stuck to it) into the atmosphere in 2 years time.

Bagsy it lands in my back garden so I can claim the scrap

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it was channeling the spirit of a Vel Satis

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oh no, there's this really dangerous thing that's in a place you didn't think of

And the thing you thought was dangerous isn't

We can help you fix that and only for a medium amount of money

DarkNerd

still lamenting http://www.sagetv.com/

DarkNerd

I wrote to my MP outlining why it's a ridiculous piece for the government to be cocking about with

(I even persisted in the consultation piece even though it was a disaster)

I got a 'won't someone think of the children' reply, seems to be the common response in all things from this government, how could anyone possibly not want to protect children from nasty things.

In other news I saw a report about a parent having to skip meals just so they could put a bowl of soup in front of their child due to cost of living overtaking salaries

Won't someone think of the children

Fucking government is the shits

DarkNerd

20 grand for a cardboard box with a potato in it

priceless

DarkNerd

Re: Mostly correct...

took out a broken link to something

added a working link to the same thing

reverted

arses to wikipedia, not worth my time either reading or writing

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it continues

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YaY, more pissing money up the wall by the incumbent government

Good Times

DarkNerd

Re: Oh for a bike with built in security

carbon fibre on a mountain bike can laminate on stone chips

DarkNerd

New Machine comes into the house

Remove all the crud, patch to latest everything

create to-the-metal disk image on home file server across network

set up weekly scheduled backup to home file server across network

give to whoeveritisthatneedsit

/out

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Trollface

I'm gonna need popcorn, a LOT of popcorn

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for(;P("\n"),R--;P("|"))for(e=C;e--;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);

Happy Days

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Thanks, I've loved your work

beers!

DarkNerd

no title required

punch card...

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as ever

3D added nothing but a headache

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willing to bet

that something as simple as dialectizer breaks this let alone getting technical

DarkNerd

If I was a corrie fan

I'd be happy to drop £5 into an online wallet at ITV and then burn though it against PPV as long as me fiver didn't expire and that I knew there was more stuff in the pipeline soon

DarkNerd

Yeah, make sure they feature match the rest of the list as well

http://www.google.com/analytics/features.html

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ICO

The ICO has an implementation of this live right now

www.ico.gov.uk

See how nice it looks? /sarcasm

See how it fails gracefully when you click Continue without ticking the box /sarcasm

I like a bit of sarcasm

i think the ICO are doing us a favour by showing how crud it is, shame they dont sell stuff or carry advertising

DarkNerd

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start

good, cos I'm frikken sweltering

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Another load of crap from people who are clueless

Puts netcard into promiscuous mode, goes to jail

Makes website drop a cookie, goes to jail

Does a cartoon of a tiger and a laaaydeeey, goes to jail

I hope someone, somewhere is writing a list

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Mushroom

get off your arse, you techie agoraphobic

commenting on here is going to do nothing

Write to your MP suggesting they stop listening to these nutters

http://www.writetothem.com/

DO IT NOW!

DarkNerd

ah right,

http://www.findaproperty.com/crimefacts.aspx?edid=00&salerent=0&areaid=1373

Yeah, swearing, that's the fucking priority aint it

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ah, found them...

www.barnsley.towntalk.co.uk/news/d/19708/is-it-fair-to-fine-people-for-swearing/#list_comments

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ooooh...

Punji Sticks

vicious

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well yeah

obviously, but what *IS* an HPC ?

I've got something running on a 980x, are we talking bigger than that?

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I was lost

The Hasty Pudding Cipher ?

wtf is an HPC ?

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Grenade

tbh, tl;dr

Did he just crawl the sitemaps?

wow, impressive ... erm... wait... no...

DarkNerd

Echelon

First rule of Stoneghost, don't talk about Stoneghost

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It's blatantly obvious

that any mechanism that can be implimented will immediately be bypassed by 14 year old boys in their bedroom on a PC that their parents think is 'safe'.

The knowledge of how to (offshore VPN a connection) will immediately be shared and passed around to lots and lots of other 14 year old and younger and the whole mechanism will be rendered redundant withing 2 weeks.

The only people left being filtered will be the parents, who should have known better in the first place

I'd suggest contracting a VPN in the Ukraine, or using Tor

People who think this kind of filtering is a good idea are damning themselves to having to learn about stuff they've got no hope of understanding if they think they can stop little Johnny from looking at porn with ISP filtering

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Grenade

some...

might say that the ICO are toothless and that the fine is tiny and inconsistent to the crime committed

Others might think that by not wringing the parasite dry there might be some cash in the assets which will be distributed amongst the wasted costs claimants which Judge Birss has opened the way for

DarkNerd

wow, that's quite aggressive and personal

compensating much?

DarkNerd

Well...

I guess it's only a matter of time until The Register gets a Stig-a-like

Cars are boring

Posted in Motorola Xoom
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very nice HW

I've got one, it's amazing.

My non-technical partners first exclamation on having a go was 'oh, it's so much faster than an iPad'

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Big Brother

fsck the title

This is gonna be awesome

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Grenade

well..

That don't look 3D to me

(hahaha)

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Grenade

may be...

it's because no one actually wants 3D?

May be they realise it's just a fad pushed by tech corps as 'the next big thing'

May be

just saying like

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Well,

this can only end well

DarkNerd

ah,

I was wondering if it was the same one, is it the same one as they broke on that awful The One Show as well?

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Grenade

okaaaay,

If ever there was a time when the phrase 'cutting edge' should be avoided, this was it.

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Grenade

hmmmm

Hope they're backing it up somewhere

DarkNerd

RM Machines

ah, the 380z ... Have RM updated anything since then?

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errmmm

I don't like it when you draw the mouse down from the searchbox (where you left it to do some typing) and mouseover the related searches (by accident) changing the list of products you were heading for.

gakk

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Grenade

I'm 12 years old and what is this?

brilliant

DarkNerd

Rampack wobble

fixed with a match jammed in for anyone who didn't buy a vastly more stable memopak

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Grenade

it'll never catch on

When will Gaikai be able to offer games to everyone, everywhere?

Gaikai's business model may be different than what you'd expect. We're not trying to offer a subscription-based service, so there's no expectation that everyone will be able to play from day one. Instead, we're powering demos of games on publisher, retailer, and associate sites. These demos will only be offered to users who meet the standards required for an awesome gaming experience. Users who don't meet these standards will never know they missed anything ... but they will help us understand where we need to add servers next. Over time, we'll be able to serve more and more demos to more and more users, across the world.

Yeah, sounds like a winner

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