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The Register to boldly go where no Vulture has gone before: The Weekend

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Re:MS Paint?

Political correctness gone mad! That's Mrs Paint to you

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iPhone 6 flip tip slips in Aussie's clip: Apple's 'reversible USB' leaks

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Re: FFS

What's wrong with circular connectors? Old-style GPO phone plugs, anyone?

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Re: Just what the world needs

Yes, damn Apple and their USB plugs that fit into USB sockets. What's wrong with PS/2?

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e-Borders fiasco: Brits stung for £224m after US IT giant sues UK govt

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Re: Fear of competent people by senior management

That can't be right - my senior management love me ...

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Re: Was that sarcasm

Sorry, typo. Rather than 'reputable' I meant to write 'feckin' shitebags'

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Re: A touch unfair surely

Common knowledge among the commentry: the only people who know how to make the Civil Service work are the people who aren't currently in it.

Hence my new PFI contractor - Schrödinger Systems.

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Re: Clusterf**k

I think you'll find all the senior management are recruited from industry. Reputable suppliers like, say, Capita, Atos, KPMG, etc, etc

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UK government accused of hiding TRUTH about Universal Credit fiasco

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Quite right

And that means, when it's broken, it's working

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Keep schtum

"If only we can suppress the facts till after May 7 ... we'll all be non-execs at Raytheon by June"

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Apple analyst: fruity firm set to shift 75 million iPhones

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Re: Shipped vs "in users hands"

Breen Whitman fabricates 103% of the world's fabricated stats - fact.

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Re: leaked?

Reporter reports on rumours and predictions while complaining about hype? Yep, irony bypass fully functional

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Call of Duty daddy considers launching own movie studio

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Re: Just record a playthrough of COD...

Why not let hard core gamers rent out a small screen at a multiplex to play their favourite game on a really big screen and sound system to an audience of friends?

Hmm ..friends

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Cops baffled by riddle of CHICKEN who crossed ROAD

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Re: also meant to die...

IT version:

Why did the button commit suicide?

It was depressed.

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Re: What?!

Are you an anime character?

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Re: What?!

Fact: when you run over a chicken, the noise sounds like the word 'escalope'.

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Steve Jobs had BETTER BALLS than Atari, says Apple mouse designer

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Re: Lucky that Atari hadn't patented their design then

Prior art. See US patent: Position Control System Employing Pulse Producing Means Indicative of Magnitude and Direction of Movement," R. A. Koster, Feb. 14, 1967

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Caught red-handed: UK cops, PCSOs, specials behaving badly… on social media

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How odd

Back in the day, rozzers got in trouble for friending criminals not victims. Not to mention the antics of the underduvet shag-a-demonstrator squad

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This'll end well: US govt says car-to-car jibber-jabber will SAVE lives

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Flocking useful

Swarming, and other animal group behaviours will also have interesting applications here

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Munich considers dumping Linux for ... GULP ... Windows!

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Re: paying someone to write software

Here's some obey. Write me an open source clone of Outlook please. Easy, innit?

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Useful definition

Bloated - software that contains features the commenter does not use, most often those that ease interaction with other humans

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Assange™: Hey world, I'M STILL HERE, ignore that Snowden guy

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When he finally leaves

How long before somebody posts a speeded up video of the event with Yaketty Sax on the soundtrack

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Re: "Soon"

A Roman ballista, a circus cannon, or a series of trampolines ...

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Ad regulator pulls down Branson-backed magic undies

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I wore a pair

and my dictaphone stopped working

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FEAST YOUR EYES: Samsung's Galaxy Alpha has an 'entirely new appearance'

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In other news ...

Oasis deny being a Beatles-tribute band

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Dolby Atmos is coming home and it sounds amazing

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Re: This will be great for listening to classical music

So 50 mics & 50 recording channels just for the choristers, plus a few more for ambience. Alternatively, a single Ambisonic mic and four channels for recording

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This will be great for listening to classical music

Particularly those performances where the cellist is perched on a step-ladder and the violinist hangs upside down from a trapeze

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£100m DMI omnifail: BBC managers' emails trawled by employment tribunal

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Re: Public money

So true. In a word: banks

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No more turning over a USB thing, then turning it over again to plug it in: Reversible socket ready for lift off

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Reminds me of something

Can't think what. I'm sure it will hit me soon - like lightning. Wonder if there is any prior art?

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Re: Standards proliferation

MacMini? Drivers? What sort of monitor still needs drivers? Every Mac/monitor I've used has just worked (in OSX)

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Gartner's Special Report: Should you believe the hype?

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The higher up in Gartner they are

The weirder they come across when presenting, especially when you see them on a giant screen. The top bods never blink and they inject

long

pauses at random points

in

their presentations, usually illustrated with the gesture commonly used by anglers to indicate the size of fish they didn't catch

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Yosemite Siri? Apple might plonk chatty assistant on your desktop - report

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Re: Or like original Star Trek?

Fantasy doesn't constitute prior art - hence my daydreams of killing irritating commentards by the power of thought will never make me rich

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Re: Disability Access

So, does Dragon understand that a query like "how many baseball players in the US" should be transparently redirected to Wolfram? Or is it somewhat dumber than that?

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Ex-Apple man Sam Sung - for it is he - sticks namebadge on eBay

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Re: Why did Jasper

Really? I'm commenting on his journalism which seems to me to consist of minimally rewriting press releases in an inflammatory way purely to generate page views in the comments section. In other words, a form of trolling - at which he is very successful, it has to be said.

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Re: Why did Jasper

You can't blame Jasper for being jealous, since he gets paid in billy-goats rather than cash

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Gov.uk's broadband boast: Superfast fibre piped to 1 million Brits

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It's all in the definitions

A billion people in China have high-performance cars, so long as that category extends to include engine-less two-wheeled vehicles

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Nuts to your poncey hipster coffees, I want a TESLA ELECTRO-CAFE

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Re: You think you have problems......

They have their own compression algorithm

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Superb rant!

First world problems indeed - but those are the best kind to have!

Might I venture to suggest an addition to your Tesla Cafe? Along the lines of the vintage audio coffee shops in Japan, a pair of massive Western Electric horn speakers. Perfect for playing classical music with sudden VOLUME PEAKS to unsuspecting froth gurglers. My first encounter of such blasted the top off my flattie and left me having to prise my eardrums apart with a warm teaspoon.

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Newly spawned Dixons Carphone leaps onto LSE as £12bn sales org

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Re: As someone once said :

... of two uglies bumpin'

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Henceforward to be known as :

Carsons Dickphone

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Brit kids match 45-year-old fogies' tech skill level by the age of 6

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I would say the average 6 year old has mastered -

- Making a persuasive case for new technology purchases

- Outsourcing tedious procurement activities

- Agile methodologies

- Green screen interfaces (or whatever colour of poster paint is to hand)

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Compute+storage upstart Nutanix reveals $200m-plus run rate

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Posting a comment here because ...

Commenting on this story serves to illustrate the futility of life

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Who will kill power companies? TESLA, says Morgan Stanley

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Re: near the SpaceX facility

Why? So they can use exploding reject batteries for rocket propulsion?

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Apple wins patent on charging iThings THROUGH THIN AIR

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Re: Perhaps I'm being needlessly alarmist

Gosh what a disaster that would be. And imagine the health disaster that would occur if people started to send wireless telegraph messages across the ether. Ban these evil waves now!

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Re: Prior art. Massive quantities of prior art.

Thumbs up for having actually RTFA.

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Surfing the web from Android? We KNEW it – sorry, iOS fanbois

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Re: Even Forbes can give a link to the report

Fans of any techie stripe look silly - except bottleheads of course

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Even Forbes can give a link to the report

Can someone at Vulture Central show Jasper which button to press?

So, this report. Does it show that 'devices powered by Android were used more than iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch devices running iOS throughout July 2014'?

Of course not. It reports on 'data from the browsers of site visitors to our [Net Applications] exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers.' In other words, on some websites, Android devices show up more than iOS.

Did anyone at El Reg even read the press release?

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NASA tests crazytech flying saucer thruster, could reach Mars in days

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LENR works!

Sorry for the lateness of my post - it's due to the transmission delays between you on Earth and my lair on Mars.

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END your Macbook SHAME: Convert it into a Microsoft SURFACE

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A fool and his money ...

... and his keyboard and his screen are soon parted

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Re: Kickstopper

I like it. Put me down for -£50

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Windows Registry-infecting malware has no files, survives reboots

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Re: This is silly.

Insecurity through obfuscation. Oh, the irony

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