* Posts by hplasm

5610 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

Microsoft SkyDrive, Outlook stricken by cloud outage

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Happy

Wait...

PING microsoft.com (65.55.58.201) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- microsoft.com ping statistics ---

16 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss

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Coat

Re: nothing to see here

Renaming... SkyDrive Clown Services.

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Windows

Down, down

Deeper and down.

Do do do...

The theme tune for the SkyDrive adverts?

(Except in UK, where it's BSBDrive)

Bradley Manning: 'I'm sorry my actions hurt the United States'

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Big Brother

Re: There is something sad about this

First they came for Assange

And I said nothing, for he is a bit creepy.

Then they came for Manning

And I said nothing

For he was denounced as a traitor

Then they came for Snowdon

And I said nothing

For he was condemned to eternal exile

Now they will come for us

And there is no one left to hear.

Apart from the Ear of the State.

With all due respects, Herr Niemöller.

Microsoft to fund Blake's 7 return as Xbox Live exclusive

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Happy

Re: Nooooooo

Nobody in the UK, or the non-US world will see it, don't fret.

Make or break: Microsoft sets date for CRUCIAL Win 8.1 launch

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Happy

Re: Question

You can put facets on a polished turd...

Boffins harvest TV, mobile signals for BATTERY-FREE comms

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Meh

Also-

What happens when broadcast TV and radio goes away... WiFi and Cell Towers won't power much.

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Happy

Re: And is illegal in the UK

There was a case* of someone in a house under a powerline using a coil in the loft to get free power. It caused a noticeable effect in the Power Co monitoring systems, and also in an overhead thundercloud that blew his house up before TPTB could tack him down...

* May be a bit Urban Legendy...

However the Power Co systems are quite able to spot unexpected drain and standing wave anomalies etc, so who knows?

NORKS prepping glorious People's Smartmobe

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Coat

Re: ”Their camera function has high pixels”

"This is not just a high pixel camera- It's a Nexus Un."

No distro diva drama here: Penguinista favourite Debian turns 20

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Meh

Re: 20 years old...

Why do we need to know about your sex-life?

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Happy

Re: I picked this as my first distro.

I'm happier now I've seen all those exclamation marks you've made...

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Linux

I picked this as my first distro.

I've tried others but never been happier!

Torvalds frustrated at missing simultaneous release

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Windows

Re: Ironically

"...UI is not considered functionality."

Especially with Windows 8.

hplasm
Meh

Sounds like -

Ballmer to me.

Your point?

PEAK Apple: Cupertino's hopes died with Steve Jobs, says Larry Ellison

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Happy

Re: It's all gone a bit Princess Di

Edison stole quite a lot of his 'inventions' and Picasso may have seen people in a very strange way...

So perhaps he is right, in a manner of speaking.

Violent Hamlet 'bard' by British Library Wi-Fi filters

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Coat

Re: The Law of Unintended Consequences.

blocked Microsoft Technet!

Not all filtering is bad then...

Elon Musk unveils Hyperloop – the subsonic tube of tomorrow

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Coat

Re: 35 minute trip with no bathroom?

I can go 35 minutes without having a bath.

Nude swimmers warned of GONAD-GOBBLING FISH ON THE LOOSE

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Coat

Re: A few details:

The IT angle, is in the dangle...

NSA gets burned by a sysadmin, decides to burn 90% of its sysadmins

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Happy

No people-

Nobody to cry over when the datacenter burns down.

Bill Gates's barbed comments pop Google's broadband balloons

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Meh

Re: can't see howit will help

Bill gates views are rather short signted IMHO.

Bill Gates' views have ALWAYS been short sighted; nothing new here.

Android approaches 80% smartphone share as Apple's iPhone grows old

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Boffin

Re: "... the cyclicality ..."

Cyclosity.

Cameron demands Brits BOYCOTT angry-troll-infested websites

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Happy

Re: When I were a lad....

Is that you, Molesworth?

Infosec analysts back away from 'Feds attacked Tor' theory

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Black Helicopters

Re:Re: Sir

It's the TLA!

All of them!

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Coat

Re: @NomNomNom

National Serpent Agency.

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Gimp

Re: Baaa Mat.

Nurse! He's frothing again.

British ankle-biters handed first mobe at the age of SEVEN - Ofcom

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WTF?

Re: I do the same thing with my house keys.

now if my keys ever get lost people can just ransack my house.

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Happy

@dogged

Nobody picked on you for having no arse?

Manning's max sentence cut, may only spend up to 90 years in the cooler

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Gimp

Re: hspasm Place your bets!

Tut tut.

You do seem to have issues with criticism, don't you. Must be past your bedtime.

Perhaps you shouldn't bother your little head with adult topics, you know they upset you so.

Now jump down from your oh so moral giraffe, have another bottle or two of tixylix or whatever it is you are addicted to and get some sleep.

You get such a potty-mouth when you are overtired.

Knob.

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FAIL

Re: Place your bets!

Or you from your fucking high horse?

Obama cancels meeting Putin in Russia, says Snowden 'a factor'

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Meh

Re: @asdf

Ah- but the UK's residue of Empireis the Commonweath; the US will leave nothing but armoured forts and minefields.

Or is that what you meant~?

'Look, give us Snowden' - this Friday's top US-Russia talks revealed

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Black Helicopters

Re: take him out

"How do you know they haven't tried?"

There's been no embarassing cockup in the news...

hplasm
Devil

"Assuming the US can convince Russia that this isn't the case..."

Ah, now- there's the rub...

Horrific moment curvy mum-of-none Mail Online spills everyone's data

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Devil

El Reg is populated almost entirely with Grauniad reading socialists

And - Non ACs too.

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Megaphone

Re: BAN THE DAILY MAIL

Ban Passive Mail!

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Pirate

Re: Right now I am on my knees praying

piratizing - a good new word for what is happening!

Happy first anniversary, Curiosity!

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Happy

Re: A year? Already?

When did it set off?

Shack in flat-pack bric-a-brac lack flap? Whack on this 3D flat-pack app

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Thumb Up

Bollocks!

Best title so far!

Microsoft cuts Surface Pro price by $100

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Devil

Re: PC World...

"You don't really sell that many products that way, do you?"

They can't do much worse... Honesty in Advertising!

World's FIRST TALKING SPACE ROBO-CHUM BLASTS OFF to the ISS

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Coat

Re: Intruder Alert

It's ok, he's not called Dave...

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Happy

(Can you tell I'm not a cat person?)

Your Nickname is a clue...

Are you Brain, or Pinky?

Gov: Smart TV bods must protect users from smut-riddled badness

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Big Brother

In other news-

Govt wants DVD manufacturers to include a homing moth which is released whenever the case is opened and flies back to a reporting centre so they can tell what sort of content people might be watching that they can't otherwise spy on.

FFS. Do yer fucking job and stop prying!

Mystery object falls from sky, area sealed off by military: 'Weather balloon', say officials

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Happy

Drone from Pakistan...

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Alien

Feet of shining screw projected, when suddenly...

The lid fell off.

Buy a household 3D printer, it'll pay for itself in months!

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Coat

Re: The kind of people....

But surely people in the 3d world would want a 3d printer...?

hplasm
Meh

Pay £££££-

and put Poundland out of business...

Latvian foreign minister speaks out against giving up alleged Gozi writer to US

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Meh

Re: Poor comparison

Indeed. However, the US is not The World Police. Nor should it act like it is.

Wikipedians say no to Jimmy's 'buggy' WYSIWYG editor

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Coat

"... a fabulous upgrade because suddenly I see things that I would have never seen..."

Like facts?

Happy 20th birthday, Windows NT 3.1: Microsoft's server outrider

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Devil

Re: Next Technology? Damn..

Wasn't it called "Not Tested" when it first limped out?

Ha ha, Osborne, these Gov 2.0 web wranglers have wiped out UK debt

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Big Brother

Re: Open source please

"Isn't clear communication at the heart of democracy?"

Not any more- quite the opposite...

HALF of air passengers leave phones on ... yet STILL no DEATH PLUNGE

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Facepalm

Re: Only a matter of time

"...these people should be finned and banned from planes..."

Surely finned people would be using boats anyway?