* Posts by Reading Your E-mail

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If this headline was a security warning, 90% of you would ignore it

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FAIL

Right idea, wrong reason

Pop-ups are like car alarms, when they go off nobody really looks anymore as you become immune to the repeated false alarms. The propeller heads have managed to abuse pop-ups so badly that they get immediately closed without a look, as 95% of the time they will be garbage, the resultant popups from all websites thanks to the cookie laws hasn't helped either.

More quality research there then...

'Hackers racked up $$$$s via the Android Play Store, and Google won't pay me back'

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"March 2013 and August 2014"

Probably should check your bank statement once in a while.

Grand Theft Auto 1997: 'Sick, deluded and beneath contempt'

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Re: +1 for the comment

There was one mission I never got past, not because it was difficult, but because it was so much fun. IIRC you had to "borrow" a taxi, pick up a guy then scare him silly with your driving till he confessed to something or squealed on someone, don't recall. It was the sound of his protesting coupled with driving like a loon that was such a laff. Played it soooo many times :)

I need a password to BRAKE? What? No! STOP! Aaaargh!

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"the fridge has crashed and the cupboard containing the glass tumblers is in the middle of a scheduled update"

That made my day !!!

The Register Monopoly Pubcrawl Mobile Map: VODAFONE VICTOR in LONDON

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No Fenchurch Station, tsk tsk :)

BT FON fail: Telco CHARGES customers for FREE Wi-Fi usage

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or just switch of the FON section, it's not difficult to do!!

Mozilla fixes CRITICAL security holes in Firefox, urges v31 upgrade

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Re: Mozilla is as stupid as any big company.

Just like MS did with Windows 8.........DOH!!!!

AVG: We need laws to stop biz from tracking our kids

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How to tell?

I could be a 70 year old, a 40 year old or a 10 year old. How you gonna tell on the internet?

Let me guess AVG has something to flog that will "help"?

Assange™ makes fresh bid for FREEDOM from Scotland Yard's 'physical encirclement'

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Coat

Re: Who cost the taxpayer £6M?

"Ship Lifting" damn they do step it up a notch in London ;)

Final Windows XP Patch Tuesday will plug Word RTF vuln

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Re: Where have you been?

Working, how about you :P

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"Those who decide to remain on the Windows XP platform will be pretty much defenceless against these attacks unless third-party security solutions, such as Network-based Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS) and Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) are in use"

Is anyone actually using XP, or in fact any version of windows, without a software or hardware firewall not made by MS between them and the internet?!?!?

BOFH: Is WHAT 'running slow'!? GOD

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Re: SIX!!!

Woah there, you'll progress to bigger sticks and bigger nails, and soon, you'll make a stick with a nail so big, it will destroy us all!

Internet Explorer 11 BREAKS Google, Outlook Web Access

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WOW, IE won't render a competitors search engine correctly !!!!

On a completely unrelated note, not in the slightest way linked to the above, guess we will have to use Bing instead.

Wasn't this from the same company that wanted standards for browsers then blew it off when it actually happened?

Apple's top bean counter: New spaceship HQ won't emit 'one atom of carbon'

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Ahh come on, he did screw up by inventing the nuke so he's just trying to get his heaven account back in the black again :)

BOOGIE BALLMER: Steve Dirty Dances at tearful Microsoft leaving do

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Makes you wonder why they bothered with the COO position if they are going to look elsewhere, presumably they will start at the local crazy house?

WarGames IMSAI machine for sale (again)

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Go

Re: WOPR: Today, ze home - Tomorrow...

He is serious.....and don't call him Shirley

Doctor Who? 12th incarnation sought after Matt Smith quits

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Radical Idea

How about Justin Bieber as the Dr ;)

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Re: Sherlock

Thirded, having seem him play Khan and Sherlock I think it would work really well, but I guess they won't use either of the main Sherlock characters as they couldn't write them out nor fulfill both filming schedules if they didn't.

Fried-egg sarnies kick off Reg man's quid-a-day nosh challenge

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Joke

Re: Good luck Lester...

Wish you well, although Fried-Egg Sarnie would be a great name for a future Android OS :)

Rotten spam causing more infections than ever – study

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FAIL

@Anonymous IV

"In the US you'd have a hard job actually finding a car with manual transmission, unless it's a sports car imported from Europe."

Oh come on, don't pull that, the corvette is available with manual as are some US manufactured VW's and Subaru's and that's just the ones I've seen myself and I live in the UK for 49 weeks of the year. Just because most US buyers pick the auto option doesn't mean that manual doesn't exist in the US.

Nvidia's 2015 Tegra ARM chip promises '100X' speed-up

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Re: Pity

not Johnny 5, phone 6 and Shakin 7 ?

Twenty classic arcade games

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Bang on

Yes there are a ton of others you could have had, but the 10 you picked were all bang on as far as I'm concerned, all ten have swallowed up their fair share of my time (actually probably much more than that).

Killer Instinct Arcade would be on their if it was my list, the only arcade I have ever 100% finished (even with eyedol) but it's your list not mine so 10/10 :)

4G operators move into new homes in the spectrum 'hood

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Facepalm

and you shouldn't post if you can't read.

I am aware of why they got the low frequency block, but not why the sort order came out with three nearest to the TV frequencies.

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WTF?

Now did Three pick that block or did the other ops dig deep into their wallets in order to put three in the most painful spot?

BOFH: Climb the corp ladder - and use your boss as a bullet shield

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Rejoice

....for the BOfH is back from his Christmas hols, was starting to wonder if Dilbert had managed to eliminate another competitor.

Have Brits fallen for Netflix, or do they still LoveFilm?

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Re: LG TV

Bought in the Jan sale in 2012, so guessing 2011. Doesn't show in the premium features menu anymore.

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Meh

LG TV

Don't have a lot of choice right now, since LG hurled lovefilm at us Netflix is no longer a choice, unless I want to watch it via a smaller screen on my Xbox, as they removed it from the dash to make way for lovefilm.

Lovefilm is ok when you get it going but the LG app is awful on the LW650t, it takes 2 mins to load the app (sometimes more) from the dash and forget trying to browse, better to do that on your pc then jump straight to it on the TV. That said, once it gets going it seems fine, so far no pauses even at peak times.

Amazon-bashed HMV calls in administrators, seeks buyer

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Re: Wonder how much tax HMV paid

"Amazon avoiding taxis is equivalent to a very rich murderer getting away with it due to a technicality that can only be revealed by a horde of blood sucking parasetical lawyers manuipulating natural lanagage and bending the legalease until they get their vermim off the hook."

Really?!?! You honesty think that's a good comparison, WOW, swinging wildly and making stuff up is very hard to counter with facts, so I'm not even going to bother.

"It doesn't make it right, it makes it 'legal' in a very loose sense (before the loop hole is plugged and deemed illegal a week later)."

Last time I checked legal means legal until it is made illegal. When it is I'll be right behind HMRC for bringing a court case, until that point it is still legal, despite popular opinion.

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Re: Wonder how much tax HMV paid

So, if your line of argument is correct then, no doubt, when HMRC last contacted you advising you of your tax code you contacted them and asked them to jack it up a bit as you felt you were not paying enough tax??

Doubt it, no-one wants to pay more tax than they have to, if a company does then that means less money to go around (one of which is less/no pay raise), but I'm sure you would accept that without moaning right?

BOFH: Cannot terminate PFY instance... ACCESS DENIED

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Re: There is another fun assumption floating around..

"It is possible to block editing when you generate the document, but I have only ever come across 2 docs that were protected that way."

and those can be quickly removed with any number of PDF security removal tools, both online and offline versions :)

Belgian finds missus was born a MAN after 19 YEARS of marriage

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Re: Relationships and stereotype imposition.

...It's complicated

ofc :)

Sam Sung found in Apple Store SHOCKER

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Re: re: Citroen press release about Charles Peugeot

You're right, that so much funnier than my comment!!

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Coat

Reminds me of the Citroen press release about Charles Peugeot being appointed Sales Director for UK.

Windows Phone 8 reboot woe causes outpouring of forum misery

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Joke

Good to see product testing is alive and rotting nicely in it's grave ;)

Sinofsky denies failed putsch led to his defenestration

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Re: If you're not pulling together...

Hmm, that's remarkably accurate......food for thought indeed.

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Re: We'll never know

Until he publishes his book, which won't happen until he no longer needs M$ to give him a reference.

Warner recalls Xbox Lego Lord of the Rings 'demo' discs

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I smell an ebay ***RARE*** auction coming

First eyes EVER SEEN (by definition) appeared 700 million years ago

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"I can't see the point of this" says 701million year old fish

Virgin Media's blighted SuperHub NOW comes with extra squeal (oink)

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Coat

That's nothing, he can hear pudding!!!

iPhone 5 'jailbroken' ... before most fanbois even have it

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Coffee/keyboard

<snicker>

Paul is clear that the jailbroken iPhone is about as stable and reliable as Mario Balotelli's pals at a domestic fireworks demonstration.

<Mr Coke meet Madam Screen>

A single web link will WIPE Samsung Android smartphones

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Re: Magic

Looks like it's not just Samsungs, reports on XDA include HTC sets too. Only Jelly Bean can save us as this problem is on ICS and Gingerbread. The Apple congregation are going to lap this up :)

Brave copper single-handedly chases 'suspicious' Moon

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Joke

but, but.....

It looked like the Dunkin' Donut logo!!!!

Last remaining reason to order an iPhone 5 disappears

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WTF?

Oh come on you lot

Simple trick, look at the author, if it's Lewis you know it's going to be flamebait, that's what he writes.

See his name, skip the article.

Simples!!!

Apple iPhone 5 review

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Re: A bit too much misinformation

But I'm glad they put that passage in first though, at least I got rid of my lunch at the start of the article.

It's time to burn the schedules and seize control of OUR TVs

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Re: Eeeh, when I were a lad...

2 channels ?!?!?

You were lucky, we had 1 channel and it was only black, it broadcast for 2 minutes a day.......but we were happy!!!

Hunt vows: 'UK will have fastest broadband in Europe by 2015'

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cities = city

"It hopes to introduce 'ultrafast' speeds of between 80 and 100 Mbps in major cities"

that would be just London then!!!

Microsoft dumps Metro from Windows 8

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Re: In response to...

WIndows 8 Morgue

Windows 8 Swansong

Windows 8 Whoopsy

Windows 8 Nosedive

Windows 8 Cratered

you get the gist...

Captain Cyborg accepts another degree from puny humans

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Re: Has anyone tried to find out.....

Does the Pope defecate in the woods?

Wait, that doesn't look right.

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Resistance is Futile

Looks like the Borg have come up with a way to skin themselves.

I'm sure the moon is starting to like more like a cube!!!

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