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Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background – seriously

Friday 9th May 2014 08:57 GMT Isendel Steel

Prior Art

Got some hanging on my wall - taken by a Professional Photographer from about 6yrs ago....

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UK.gov data sell-off row: HMRC denies claims it'll flog YOUR private info

Wednesday 30th April 2014 10:04 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Bah!

And of course the elected MPS all come up with the ideas themselves.

The unelected support team behind every minister never really changes - the "Yes, Minister" icon is perfect.

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Really? Sigh. Really? Apple's lawsuit against Google is REVIVED

Monday 28th April 2014 12:37 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: I made a mistake

Sue, Appeal, Sleep, Repeat

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Asteroids as powerful as NUCLEAR BOMBS strike Earth TWICE YEARLY

Wednesday 23rd April 2014 12:11 GMT Isendel Steel

and a Coyote to wield it.

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Russian deputy PM: 'We are coming to the Moon FOREVER'

Thursday 17th April 2014 14:50 GMT Isendel Steel

The H2G2 version...

Russia, on the other hand, has a series of missions to the Moon in the planning stages, albeit unmanned ones for now. The first will be the Frogstar Class A which is scheduled to launch in 2016. After that will come Frogstar Class B, an orbiter that will map the lunar surface, followed by another rover that will explore the Moon's south pole. - Frogstar Class C ?

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BOFH: Oh DO tell us what you think. CLICK

Thursday 17th April 2014 07:40 GMT Isendel Steel

Happy "Season"

No Egg - Have a Beer

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'I like big butts and I cannot lie, hackers take Pinterest on a joyride'

Monday 31st March 2014 10:59 GMT Isendel Steel

But...t

"In a statement this morning, US West Coast time, the website's team told The Reg its techies have got to the bottom of the problem, and are in the process of cleaning up the mess:"

Minion 1: bottom "chuckle"

Minion 2: bottom "chuckle"

Minion 1 & 2: "chuckles"

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Facebook, you fools! Forget Oculus, you could have bought TRON-type headsets

Monday 31st March 2014 10:36 GMT Isendel Steel

How does it cope with prescription glass wearers ? or is it adjusted in software ?

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Malaysia Airlines mystery: Click here for the TRUTH

Monday 17th March 2014 12:58 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: It's obvious!

Almost what I thought - someone is creating a new series

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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Friday is Pi Day

Friday 14th March 2014 09:43 GMT Isendel Steel

Pi Day

As long as it's Raspberry

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NZ bloke's drunken poker bet ends in 99-letter name

Wednesday 12th March 2014 12:05 GMT Isendel Steel

Fenchurch

That is all

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STRIPPED DOWN and EXPOSED: Business kit from the good old days

Friday 7th February 2014 13:24 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Help

Viagra won't be any good then ?

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BOFH: Attractive person is attractive. Um, why are your eyes bulging?

Friday 7th February 2014 12:52 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Yay

sometimes subtle is good...and they were playing the director and waking the P.A.'s crazy for him.

(BTW upvote added)

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Friday 7th February 2014 12:48 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Yay

preferably from orbit...just to be sure ?

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Think British weather is bad? It's nothing to this WOBBLY ALIEN planet

Wednesday 5th February 2014 15:41 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Whereas our weather...

In that case it's probably best if we just nuke it from orbit....

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Coca Cola slurps millions of MAC addresses

Friday 3rd January 2014 15:47 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Thirsty!

"For me, Coke is and always will be simply something to put with JD."

Just say NO ! - but each to their own....

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Big goolies-grabbing black snake nips unlucky bloke's trouser snake

Friday 13th December 2013 11:33 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: George Orwell was right

So far as toilet snakes go... One Eye good - Two Eyes definitely bad in this case...

Although I wouldn't want a second One-Eye in the same cubical

(Orwellian Icon)

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OMG, Andrex killed the puppey! Not quilty, exclaim bog roll boys

Tuesday 10th December 2013 14:09 GMT Isendel Steel

Balance

ASDA (Shades) £8.00 for 24 rolls, slightly softer than Tesco...

..still can't make packed lunches with them though.

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MY EYES! Earth engulfed by BRIGHTEST EVER killer gamma-ray burst

Friday 22nd November 2013 13:09 GMT Isendel Steel

Que ?

Ball - only scored 30 points

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Hot digital dog: A man’s best friend is still his... K-9

Thursday 21st November 2013 13:35 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Sirius Cybernetics

They were

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Riverbed: Market for optimising WAN is pale, sick. Let's switch to LiC

Wednesday 20th November 2013 13:38 GMT Isendel Steel

Branch Servers

and so what goes around comes around - distributed servers for remote sites, consolidated to the data centre, to be moved out as "Location independent Computing"

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Ballmer: Microsoft stronger without Bing and Xbox tinkering

Wednesday 20th November 2013 13:33 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: any bets on how long EOP will take to bin the good bits?

hmm - I read EOP or Effective Organisation Project - not specifically referred to but generally what happens when you consolidate - seen a few of those....

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World's first selfie found on Wayback Machine

Wednesday 20th November 2013 10:21 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Selfie

certainly massaging something..

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Google, Microsoft to drop child sex abuse from basic web search

Tuesday 19th November 2013 10:09 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Isn't Technology Wonderful?!

or better yet (insert any political party) donate.

on second thoughts, this may result in big business / union / personally wealthy controlling the political appointments....

Might have already happened though.

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Why not build a cluster out of WORKSTATIONS?

Tuesday 19th November 2013 10:05 GMT Isendel Steel

You could just send that to a digital watch..

(towel icon please)

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What a plot of nonsense: Ten Master master plan FAILS

Monday 18th November 2013 12:33 GMT Isendel Steel

But not Izal - bloody useless stuff - good tracing paper though

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Norks EXECUTE 80 for watching DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES

Wednesday 13th November 2013 15:18 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: I read this and I think

"I was not being followed by my Intourist guide - I had left her to be shagged by the driver."

Sorry, re-read this several times.....but you or her being shagged by the driver ?

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BOFH: GOATSE? No, I said goat fetis... you know what, forget it

Friday 8th November 2013 12:51 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Baaaaaaaaaaa!

Maaaaaaaa !

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IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE! Google's secretive Omega tech just like LIVING thing

Monday 4th November 2013 15:38 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Won't they just take to sulking in basements?

Only if they get their own lift shafts, unless they are already in the basement in which case they could become the original "sulking machine", or they could create a Total Perspective Vortex...

Mine with the scratched Joo Janta 200s in.

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Obama to Merkel: No Americans are listening to you on this call

Thursday 24th October 2013 13:36 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: No Americans...

So... President Obama is not American, or he wasn't listening...

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THIS is the kind of clout a British Prime Minister has: Facebook pulls ONE beheading vid

Wednesday 23rd October 2013 10:31 GMT Isendel Steel

Content

I would re-post my fix of "content free ad network", but it appears that there was some content that has been removed (or is it hidden - given that nothing much leaves Fb once it's in there ?) but only one instance of that content.

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New Terminator-style 'bots can self-assemble, leap, climb and SWARM

Monday 7th October 2013 13:26 GMT Isendel Steel

Animation

Looks interesting

Unfortunately the video clips look a bit like stop-frame animation (reminded me of Chorlton and the Wheelies).

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The Vulture 2: What paintjob should we put on our soaraway spaceplane?

Friday 4th October 2013 12:20 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Has to be

and any LEDs should light up black - just so you know that the switches have worked...

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NSA spooks tooled up with zero-day PC security exploits from the FRENCH

Tuesday 17th September 2013 12:01 GMT Isendel Steel

Related Dilbert...

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-09-06/

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Forget Mars: Let's get someone on the Moon – NASA veteran

Thursday 5th September 2013 15:20 GMT Isendel Steel

Regally

So they'll be living like Kings ?

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Big blue Avatar movie spawns THREE SEQUELS

Monday 5th August 2013 09:07 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Personally I'd like a pre-quel

Sounds like a movie, trouble is it's now on the interwebs, and could be tweaked. Perhaps you could submit it before t gets poached ?

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BOFH: Don't be afraid - we won't hurt your delicate, flimsy inkjet printer

Friday 26th July 2013 10:17 GMT Isendel Steel

Happy SysAdmin Day

made better by a BOFH

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The IT crowd: Fiercely loyal geeks or 'inflexible, budget-padding' creeps?

Tuesday 16th July 2013 09:13 GMT Isendel Steel

Outsource

Because someone higher up thought it would save money by not employing an IT department, which then leads to a shadow IT department being created to manage the outsource, and the usual drop in support.

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Texas teen jailed for four months over sarcastic Facebook comment

Wednesday 10th July 2013 14:50 GMT Isendel Steel

Re: Looks like the family is lying about the LOL jk

hmm - then this will be in the Facebook logs.

NSA can confirm this

jk ?

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Put up your ... err ... hand for free vasectomy streamed online

Tuesday 9th July 2013 08:57 GMT Isendel Steel

the notches are at the lower end....

I was asked on arrival "do you mind if this (female) doctor observes ?"

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Ballmer: 'I call it all Windows, all the time'

Friday 28th June 2013 11:06 GMT Isendel Steel

Wikileaks a country now ?

Although I note that institutions can have diplomats, I think the general understanding is that diplomats are usually from countries - I could (of course) be wrong.

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