* Posts by Cunningly Linguistic

305 publicly visible posts • joined 23 May 2010

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James May 'hologram' raves about old tech at Science Museum

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Trollface

Re: James May

He does according to the super-secret court injunctions :)

Ten... two-bay Nas boxes

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I've never really understood the benefit of NAS boxes when a fully functioning PC could be had for the same price or lower. Or for that matter the bits left over from a recent upgrade.

Hanging's too good for 'em - so what do you suggest?

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Put them to work in the Foxconn factories, but all their wages go to the Chinese person they replaced.

Metallic Glass iPhone 5 to battle pottery Samsung Galaxy S3

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Terminator

Re: iphone liquidmetal

"But can it form knives, and stabbing weapons?"

And curvy blondes?

Hamburg court: Google must police YouTube content

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Re: The users lose out

The music industry should be killed.

It's the artists who need to live on, not the accounts who populate the "industry".

'Don't break the internet': How an idiot's slogan stole your privacy...

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Re: freedom?

Not been to the US much then?

The land that no shoed person shall enter,

I wonder if they got the idea from the Muslems?

Five charged after fanboi sells kidney for iPad and iPhone

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Devil

At least he'll have something to play with when in the hospital awaiting death.

IPv6 networking: Bad news for small biz

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They can have my IPv4 static IP...

...when they prise it from my cold, dead router,

Ape sanctuary seeks funds for armed Robo Bonobo

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Paris Hilton

Given that Bonobo's are the primates that lurve to fuck. It can only be presumed that once they have access to words then it won't be long before we can expect some Mills & Boon bodice rippers from them.

As far as the robot is concerned, I hear Ann Summers has expressed an interest in partnership with Duracell.

Dot-word TLD registration closes tonight, maybe for many years

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Anyone applied for...

... .ellipsis?

Chinese to burn iPads in upcoming celebrations

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I'm surprised that...

...Apple haven't gone after those printing pictures of the rounded corners.

Female Chinese astronauts must have no scars, straight teeth

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Holmes

I'm wondering...

...if finally someone is going to do research on just how long a fart does hang around in a spacesuit.

Robotic surgeon successful in first prostate snip

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Coat

Keyhole surgery?

More like peehole surgery... yeah I know, I'll get my coat!

Enormous Apple market cap swells and swells ... like a bubble

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Facepalm

Eggs & Basket are the words that spring to my mind.

Russell Brand 'threw small voice-enabled iPad through window'

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What a shame it wasn't Brand who got launched through the window, with the accompanying "Just trying to make people laugh fucker!"

Jimbo Wales 'to advise Whitehall on transparency'

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WTF?

Sheesh, Jimbo is as transparent as a not very transparent thing.

I wonder if he'll regale the Whitehall staff with anecdotes of his career publishing porn?

India splurges £100m on new mega internet snooping HQ

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FAIL

I'm sure India's starving millions will consider the price to be a bargain.

Please remind me again, why is Britain sending millions of pounds in aid to India?

Doctors sick of anonymous-coward NHS feedback commentards

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FAIL

People don't seem to realise that 50% of all doctors were in the bottom half of their classes, and of that 50% most end up as a GP.

A Jack of all medical trades, but a master of none.

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Looks like the doctors are having difficulty adapting to their new pedestals which seem to be a lot lower than they ever used to be.

Apple vs Amazon in ereader format smackdown

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Who cares?

Write them all and let calibre sort 'em out (paraphrasing of course).

Google and Facebook remove 'offensive' content from Indian sites

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Facepalm

Pah! Fucking religion!

As if life wasn't complicated enough.

Android users more likely to put out

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Paris Hilton

Huh

I put out on the first date regardless of the phone I have in my pocket!

Newt Gingrich wants Moon to be 51st US state

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Black Helicopters

Aren't you forgetting Sweden?

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Trollface

Shouldn't that be Mediocre Britain these days?

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It's just unfortunate that it wasn't Newt in the boot!

Man vanquishes robot cop in hand-to-hand combat

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Headmaster

Errr

That would be Metal Mickey, featuring the voice of Mickey Dolenz.

Kiwis collar Megaupload kingpin, Anonymous exacts revenge

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Big Brother

Commentards in lynch-mob fervour...

...why is it in the post-9/11 world people are automatically assumed to be guilty?

Has the "innocent until proven guilty" mindset in this world of terrorism disappeared for every big media bust?

Is it any wonder that the US is the most reviled nation on Earth?

Virgin Media takes itself in hand after punter-package tickle whoopsie

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Facepalm

Our street is 50mb compatible. I don't use VM at all. As a result I must be pissing them off as they send me tons of junk mail. It's ridiculous the amount of trees that must have died to try to persuade me to take on something there is no way in hell I'd use.

So one errant email? Meh!

Child labour, lost wages uncloaked by Apple factories audit

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Trollface

"...treat workers with dignity and respect..."

Unlike their customers of course!

Ten... stars of the Consumer Electronics Show

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Boffin

The Nikiski picture

I can't help but see the parallel, from times gone by, with the pictures of Rolf Harris advertising the Stylophone.

Japanese boffins crack arse-based ID recognizer

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Headmaster

There's no such thing as American English, let alone British English.

The UK uses English, Americans speak American. There is no England in America (and although it tried, New England is still not England).

The "ish" on the end of English means pertaining to England. HTH

Facebook suggests you get out more - and it'll tell you how

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Gimp

I bet it won't know about my swinging weekends much less advertise them :)

Brits turned off by Smart TVs

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If you can find me a 50" plasma monitor (none of that LCD/LED rubbish for me) at a TV price I'd be more than happy.

I only watch blu-rays, occasional DVDs and HD-DVDs, downloaded TV shows in hi-def and MKVs. That's it. Broadcast TV is so shite these days it really isn't worth the expense of putting a tuner in a TV.

Gimme a hi-quality screen where the usual expense of all the fripperies is spent on the plasma panel and its associated electronics and I'd be a happy man

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Don't need one.

I have a 3-year-old Panasonic plasma with a PC with HDMI out (and a Keysonic wireless keyboard with integrated trackpad). Far smarter than any smart TV out there.

But if I were to buy a new TV it would have had to have all the money spent on getting the best picture it can. No 3D, no 'net access, no media streaming. Just a very, very good monitor really. My Denon amp and Mordaunt-Short 6.1 supplies the sound so it wouldn't even need a volume control.

These days TVs are getting more and more like the integrated stereo systems of old and it'll get to the point where they do everything with mediocrity but nothing with brilliance.

Boffing boffins create 3D map of orgasmic female brain

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Gimp

Bugger...

...no sound on the video!

Purely to get the relationship between activity and result of course.

Ice Cream Sandwich

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Coat

A quantum leap of difference?

Oh boy!

Fragged, fragged and thrice fragged! 20 years of id Software’s Doom

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Mushroom

Infant2

Ah I remember the Doom obsession well. Spending literally days downloading mods from the infant2 server circa '93. I think my personal stash of mods ended up at around 1500...though I think I only actually tried a quarter of them.

Engineers seek funds for world’s largest Tesla coil

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Ten stories?

I thought this was going to be a partwork in installments.

Bloke gets wedding tackle trapped in ring

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## Pink thing in the ring dah, dah, dah, dah, dah ##

Fingerprint scanner can detect drugs in sweat

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I've been on opiates for nigh on 30 years, all courtesy of a long list of quacks of course, first dihydrocodeine and now tramadol (the latter I have a physical dependency on...my pain clinic consultant says "addicted is when you mug old grannies for your drugs, patients are 'physically dependent'" - I like my consultant. So what happens if I get scanned? I'm doing drugs quite legally with the full knowledge of my quack and the DVLA, but I'm sure Mr Plod won't give a shit at 3am on a cold night when my brakelight bulb has gone (and I have a digital camera on the seat next to me!).

Deep-sea squid go from transparent to dark as fast as a Kindle

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Great, looks like I'll be able to read a Kindle underwater soon Well I take mine everywhere else!

Yelp update ridicules Republican (ex)-hopeful Rick Perry

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Mushroom

The US wasn't a fascist state then, it was trying to be one, but bin Laden was on our side then and hadn't started in the demolition biz.

Lost cities found beneath sands of Sahara by satellites

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Trollface

Are we sure...

...that it isn't the actual storage area of the legendary Weapons of Mass Destruction that Bliar and Bu$h knew were hidden round here somewhere?

Robot cop tackles mystery tinfoil poo-bomb bandit

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And if , as requested, they do report to the police, will they find themselves in the shit?

Gadget Shop kingpin cuffed in nightclub 'toilet sex' incident

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Looks like Mr & Mrs Gorman like to watch the BBC.

Blogger freaks after airport lackey fondles checked-in vibrator

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Facepalm

Since when is scribbling a note an invasion of privacy? The TSA guy had to search her bag anyway.

Sounds like this 'lady' needs her vibratory friend as she's too uptight to get the real thing!

Official: Kindles get heavier as you add e-books

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Headmaster

I've sussed it...

...it's all this physics shite, it's very heavy reading. That's why Kubiatowicz's Kindle got weightier.

Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant really evil

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He may be a bit raving, but I have to agree with what he says.

Apple gets patent for ‘unlock gesture’

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Ah but, they didn't invent it. They merely patented it.

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Headmaster

"the one’s we can immediately call to mind"

Sod Apple and its patents, it's the blasé use of the greengrocer's apostrophe I have a problem with!

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