* Posts by hplasm

5610 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

Sex ban IT man loses appeal – but judge labels order 'unpoliceable'

hplasm
Terminator

I'm the law in this here town, boy.

*spit* ding.

UK's mass-surveillance draft law grants spies incredible powers for no real reason – review

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Gimp

Re: Will Godefrey And another thing

"You really think your prattling would be of any interest to anyone? "

Why not? You do.

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Facepalm

Re: Poor sods.

" I went to a privileged university with some of Them."

And if someone said to Them that you might be the next Kim Philby...?

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Big Brother

Re: Poor sods.

I don't.

Hope they sleep well.

No, I don't...

Radio astronomy pioneer dies at 92

hplasm
Unhappy

Another Bruce (S)lee gone

Another master sadly missed.

Systemd adds filesystem mount tool

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Mushroom

Do one thing, Poettering-

Fuck Off- and do it well.

Windows 10 Anniversary Update completely borks USB webcams. Yay.

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Gimp

Oh and don't tell me I have to get new Apps.

Ok then.

(Apps are for toys.)

hplasm
Happy

Re: Windows 10 = Windows Vista

Close.

Windows 10 = Windows Vista Plus

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Gimp

Re: MS is in decline, but Linux will never replace it

Whether you work in IT for years,or not, installing Windows on any platform/brand has always been a crap shoot. It either works, or it wont and there is no fix for it, unless you are willing to pay for it yourself or wait until Redmond get round to it.

There- FTFY

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Devil

Re: All fine

"Sew up your anus. Quick. While you still can."

Wow. The hoops you have to jump through to run Windows these days...

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WTF?

Re: The beginning of the end

""Linux is in the hands of the "developers" and they don't care about end users."

rather

"Microsoft is in the hands of the "developers" and they don't care about end users."

Didn't you get the memo, forced down your throat?

Or are you still on XP?

Microsoft’s Continuum: Game changer or novelty?

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Coat

Re: Oooerrr HP

Happy-Like a dog with two docks?

My headset is reading my mind and talking behind my back

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Childcatcher

Re: Yellow 'sunglasses'

Yellow 70's style sunglasses make you look like Bono.

Not good....

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Happy

Re: Fat-Burning Hats

"Well... Except Skegness..."

But...its so bracing!

UK IT consultant subject to insane sex ban order mounts legal challenge

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Meh

Re: So,

"at what point do we officially recognise that 'guilty until proven innocent' is a thing of the past?"

You mean- 'a thing of the present'?

Microsoft promises free terrible coffee every month you use Edge

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Gimp

Re: Wrong data

In the Appstore? Oh wait- that's the empty wasteland in WinApp world, isn't it?

Windows Phone dives into irrelevant-like-BlackBerry territory

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Holmes

Re: Just wait until the Surface Phone

Is that the other can on the end of the tramp's string? Aha...

Five-hour Azure wobble

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Facepalm

Did they have to...

...turn it off and on again?

Windows 10 needs proper privacy portal, says EFF

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Devil

Re: Thank you!

"I enjoyed today's two-minute hate on MSFT!"

You were late...

Wearable fart generator

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Happy

Re: But .. But ...

That Virtual Dog, again?

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Coat

When it is running

- does it make a faint hum?

Happy Anniversary: What’s new, what’s missing in Microsoft’s giant mobile update

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Gimp

Re: Skype on Winphone 8.1

"Go for it hope you enjoy playing with toys"

No, he's moving away from Windows.

BT best provider for 10Mbps USO, says former digi minister Ed Vaizey

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Meh

Has-been talks bollocks.

Film at eleven.

Microsoft to overhaul Windows 10 UI – with a 3D Holographic Shell

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Happy

Re: Shitting crikey

"I don't remember "Fly Fishing" having that much swearing in it."

It was withdrawn from general sale, I understand...

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Happy

Re: If it at least came...

"...in a convenient suppository format!"

Wouldn't it just be Win10?

hplasm
Happy

Re: The glorious future

"Those who complain of nausea will be entered into an obligatory intense ipecac-based training program."

So spawning the next installation downloads of Windows.

hplasm
Big Brother

So-

Now the NSA*/AdMongers will be able to see what you are doing, too!

*Other spy TLAs are available.

We're going to bring an asteroid fragment into Lunar orbit

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Coat

Re: What can go wrong?

"Andromeda strain?"

No, I pulled a hamstring.

*baboom-tish*

Colour us shocked: ISPs not that keen to sign up for Universal Service Obligation

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Devil

Re: Universal Service

"Do you see BT burying fibre 6" underground along the pavement?"

No, I usually see them sitting on a little stool in a little stripy tent scratching their head because a week ago they were driving a delivery van.

Physicists believe they may have found fifth force of nature

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Holmes

I've often thought stupidity is a fundamental force of nature.

Inertia for the intellect.

Hence- "They are quite dense." etc.

hplasm

Re: Oh come on, we know that other force..

Damn! The strongest of all the forces!

hplasm
Alien

Re: Matter/antimatter vs "regular"/"dark" matter

"I have come from a dark matter world to probe some arse"

Sounds like marketing speak, to me.

Hide.

Some Windows 10 Anniversary Update: SSD freeze

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Meh

Re: Proxy

I'm not angry- just because you don't understand networking, after all neither does Microsoft.

You are correct about your grammar, it does make you look a bit dim, when coupled with your zealotry.

You have my sympathy, however.

Perhaps Clippy can assist?

hplasm
Headmaster

Would of...!!!

How can anyone take the rest seriously after that?

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Gimp

Re: Where are all the MS apologists?

"Rather like a someone who keeps stalking his ex-girlfriend's facebook to insist that he's totally over her, and life has been so great since he left, and he's not fixated on her and he's happy tell everyone so, repeatedly."

No man, she's your girlfriend, and we actually said she was a dog.

hplasm
Meh

Re: Why doesn't Win10 support multiple drives better

"Yes, trying to use Windows as an OS won't work, believe me."

FTFY

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Gimp

Re: Leaving Microsoft

"You have not used Microsoft for 10 years so your opinion is useful BECAUSE ?"

He's no fool?

Farewell Patch Tuesday fragmentation: from October, MS will roll just one monthly patch

hplasm
Happy

Re: Then when a fox borks something...

You have to install hounds from the Appy Store!

hplasm
Meh

Re: Xbox...

"PCs just aren't Xboxes."

Yet.

London cops waste £2.1m on thought crime unit – and they want volunteer informers

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Coat

Re: Proposed new crime

"Using social media with intent?

What about caravans?"

No signal in them.

hplasm
Happy

Re: High Inquisitor

Dolores (May) Umbridge. Nee Palpatine.

Baffled Scots cops call in priest to deal with unruly spirits

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Coat

Re: It's happening already.

"I reckon the mark of an angry deity is almost certainly a chihuahua on a hedge."

And a dim looking fat red cat- oh, sorry I thought you said 'on the edge'...

A Russian cyber-gang, the Oracle MICROS hack, and five more POS makers in crims' sights

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Holmes

Re: POS

Cashier? In a cashless transaction...

Business users force Microsoft to back off Windows 10 PC kill plan

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Happy

Re: Windows Beta

To be fair- he may be using Win10 Enterprise.

Only spies during office hours...

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Facepalm

FTFY!

"“Enterprise customers are moving to Windows 10 faster than any version of Windows …since ME."

Thieves can wirelessly unlock up to 100 million Volkswagens, each at the press of a button

hplasm
Devil

Volkswagen is the People's Car

So not like MS then.

hplasm
Windows

Re: Look to the future

A whole new raft of problems there.

The doors probably stay wide open, for starters...

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Facepalm

Re: BBC on car privacy

"Audi has...special proxies in place for all that traffic to protect privacy..."

The way Audis are driven, the drivers probably need to hide their identities.

Shame about the vanity plates though. Tossers.

hplasm
Happy

Re: Quick Release or build it like it is in my head

You are Mr Bean and I claim my Five Pounds!

Brexit Britain: HP Sauce vs BBC.co.uk – choices that defined voters

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Meh

Re: Class divide

"This tallies with studies which show an educational attainment split."

And is therefore also bollocks.