* Posts by hplasm

5610 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

Bloke cuffed for blowing low-flying camera drone to bits with shotgun

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Re: It's time

Begun, these Drone Wars have...

Windows 10: A sysadmin speaks his brains – and says MEH

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Cortana-

"Microsoft's creepy doll."

Excellent.

Windows 10: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE to Microsoft's long apology for Windows 8

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Meh

Re: All your kids are belong to us

" Every single teenager in the (XBOX) world..."

FTFY

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Paris Hilton

Re: I'm disgusted!

Seems a lot of bother.

Why not just wait, and hate it for what it is?

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Devil

Re: Anyone know 100% that it's not a one way trip to windows 10???

As in '"Express elevator to Hell- going down!" ?

Windows 10 in head-on crash with Nvidia drivers as world watches launch

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Happy

"The pain will pass."

Are you suggesting Win 10 as a suppository?

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Joke

"There is a tool released by Microsoft..."

Come on- you can't pin this one on Ballmer!

Desperate Microsoft PAYS Win Server 2003 laggards to jump ship

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Devil

Loss leader...

As practiced by supermarkets and drug dealers worldwide

Email apparently from Home Office warns of emails apparently from Home Office

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Happy

Re: Aiiee!

Beat me to it!

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Alert

Aiiee!

Recursive spam!

Spam spam spam spam, etc.

Hole in (Number) Two: MYSTERY golf-course pooper strikes again

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Paris Hilton

Re: "an application to put up surveillance cameras has been denied."

You say that like it is a bad thing, Jake.

BONK! BONK! Windows 10 whack-a-mole – Microsoft still fixing bugs

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Devil

Bring it- bugs and all...

It's all grist to the The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

From the FructiferousBugwriter Beast of Redmond!

Unhinged Linux backdoor still poses a nuisance, if not a threat

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FAIL

This-

is demeaning to Igors (Ygors too).

YOU! DEGRASSE! It's time to make Pluto a proper planet again, says NASA boffin

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Boffin

Re: It's no big deal

Well, to shut up the debate, we could agree that the 'dwarf' bit is silent, and just call Pluto a ... planet.

Or we could invoke Stallman and call it GNU/Pluto - that would certainly lead to it being called a planet by most people, just like now.

After all, to paraphrase a wise elephant- "A planet's a planet, no matter how small..."

NASA: 'Closest thing yet to ANOTHER EARTH' - FOUND

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Welcome to Majipoor.

"My god- It's full of jugglers!"

Microsoft delivers Exchange 2016 Preview

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Re: Share point

"Often people get sharepoint out of the box and install it in a single server....yada yada yada..."

So it needs immense resources to even just work- why not stick it in The Cloud where we can all ignore it and get on with some work?

HP slaps dress code on R&D geeks: Bin that T-shirt, put on this tie

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Suits are for 'The Accused'

...or those who should probably appear in the dock at some point.

Windows 10 on Mobile under the scope: Flaws, confusion, and going nowhere fast

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Gimp

Re: What should Microsoft's enterprise clients do now?

what to do if you want to make life hell for all your employees...

Lock them into MS 'products'.

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Meh

"Windows Mobile 10 is already well polished"

You mean 'well rolled in glitter.'

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Holmes

Or perhaps-

unfinished mobile OS is Finished?

NASA briefing in HOURS: 'We are upon the CUSP of finding ANOTHER EARTH'

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Alien

Well-

It's bigger than, older than and 1000 lightyears away from Earth... so not quite what was speculated above.

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-kepler-mission-discovers-bigger-older-cousin-to-earth

Arctic ice returns to 1980s levels of cap cover

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Happy

Re: Good News

Don't forget to take the wrapper off first...

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Devil

Re: Good news for Polar Bears

The ice is MOLTEN!!! eleventy-one!

Dooooooomed, we are all!

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Happy

Re: No

"Germany?"

Belgium!

German police ARREST SQUIRREL for stalking woman

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Happy

Re: Releasing Grey Squirrels

"...whack it in the head with a priest."

Naw- give the squirrel and the priest an axe, and let them fight it out!

Your gadget batteries endanger planes, says Boeing

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Meh

Re: Fuck this...

And the only time planes are in the news is when they are in bits/on fire/missing.

Horses for courses? (They can carry batteries safely, so that's a possibility...)

WHOA! Windows 10 to be sold on USB drives – what a time to be alive

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Excellent marketing opportunity!

Not just a dvd in a cereal box, but now it can be a usb stick in a Kinder egg *

*Not available in US...

Google robo-car in rear-end smash – but cack-handed human blamed

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Happy

Re: What do the statistics tell us?

"What is different about the behaviour of these vehicles which contradicts the following drivers' expectations?"

They unexpectedly follow the rules of the road?

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Holmes

Re: "and they never get tired, irritable or distracted".

Let's hope they never run Windows, then.

Microsoft to Windows 10 consumers: You'll get updates LIKE IT or NOT

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Devil

Re: It's so easy

"All of my MS installed computers have one thing in common, they haven't a clue what a Lan cable is or the first idea of how to get on the internet."

Sounds like a trip down memory lane- Trumpet Winsock anyone?

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Windows

Re: THE SKY IS FALLING!

"And the answer is because you don't actually do anything productive with play games on a computer."

FTFY

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Gimp

Re: THE SKY IS FALLING!

"...fucktards like hplasm to flick one off over."

And here we see the wit of the windows supporter.

Sad, knowing his toys are becoming obsolete.

Fanboi, thy name is Dogged. (The anti-Eadon)

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Windows

Re: THE SKY IS FALLING!

"... the amount of weapons-grade numpties in the comments..."

Don't be harsh- someone has to defend Windows.

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Meh

Re: Seems reasonable

"IT illiterate children...where are they?..."

In schools only teaching from the MS bible.

TalkTalk deactivates hundreds of email accounts after legacy spam scare

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Joke

Well...

They are called Talk Talk, not Mail Mail...

Happy NukeDay to you! 70 years in the shadow of the bomb post-Trinity

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Unhappy

Whatever happenned to the good old says?

"At Los Alamos no one discriminated on the ground of where you came from, or if you were a Christian or a non-believer," Brownlee explained. "The only thing they discriminated against was to be dumb – and it was a top priority to show you weren't."

If only some things stayed the same- where would we be now?

Feel like you're being herded onto Windows 10? Well, you should

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Happy

"Architecturally there's not any major changes since Vista, so why not?"

Ah, the self-answering question!

Run Windows 10 on your existing PC you say, Microsoft? Hmmm.

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Windows

Re: Ha

"How are the screen drivers for Linux? Drivers for obscure peripherals?"

Better than the MS non-provided ones, I'll wager.

Microsoft nixes A-V updates for XP, exposes 180 MEEELLION luddites

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Devil

Re: "We strongly recommend that you complete your migration to a supported operating system"

"Not sure why "Apple or Linux" provoke the frown - I regularly use both and find both to be very good."

They're not blackmailware. People who have paid the protection money already are bitter.

HP won't ship PCs with Windows 10 preinstalled until mid-August

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Meh

Re: Fragmented

"Don't forget the gamers."

Don't worry, they'll remind us themselves.

Microsoft's Surface Hub mega-slab DELAYED 'cause you demanded it

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Gimp

Re: They're mad

"All I know is, the board are impressed by the level of after-sales service."

'The Board' are probably impressed by shiny powerpoints.

Nobody gives a fuck, how many fucks you give.

Just keep on buying the bloatware.

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Gimp

Re: They're mad

Lenovo and Dell probably throw away more laptops for quality control failures than there are Surface customers, or ever will be.

Probably not what you wanted to hear.

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Devil

Re: They're mad

"I didn't even get started on after sales and service."

Neither do MS.

Sixty-five THOUSAND Range Rovers recalled over DOOR software glitch

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Door software...

See icon.

On yer bike: Hammerhead satnav for cyclists – just don't look down

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Idea!

"I'd love to have one of these hammerhead gadgets for my motorcycle..."

Drop them a line- it sounds like a good idea for v1.1

Microsoft starts switching on paid Wi-Fi service with latest Windows 10 preview

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Re: Feaping Creaturitus

"I installed Win10 on a touchscreen AIO once, it was deeply unstable with a development environment on it, I rolled back to Win8.1."

I rest my case.

Win 10 definitely must be much worse than everyone is saying...

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Meh

Re: Feaping Creaturitus

"Wrongly pointing out shitness in a thing that's not what you like..."

Ah- so you admit the shitness? Even your Fanboiness is slipping. Win 10 must be much worse than everyone is saying...

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Gimp

Re: Feaping Creaturitus

Pointing out shitness is the opposite of fanboiness.

Your blinkers are blocking your view.

The END of WINDOWS EVERYWHERE! Is that really what Nadella wants?

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Gimp

Re: Hang on.

"A Ford or a BMW? You choose."

Or the Trabant - Like you say- no credible opposition- from WP.

NASA chooses ace SPACE PILOTS who'll take the USA back into manned flight

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Putin Time!

This summer! Two for One Space Launch! Much Cheapness! Book Now!!!!!

Limited Spaces available

May explode.