* Posts by hi_robb

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Goodbye cruel world: Robot 'commits suicide' in KITCHEN FIREBALL

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Poor Robot

His last words were..

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to clean up after them!"

None of your Bezos: Jeff's wife gives one star to journo's Amazon tome

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How lovely.

It sounds like Jeff and his Wife's romance is doing well and they won't have to rekindle their relationship....

/Gets coat

RIIIGHT. Sysadmins: Have you ever even MET an overly suave IT guy?

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Well done.

Us IT people by the very nature of what we do for a living can be seen as boring, non sexy people. So I'm all for a bit of innuendo at work!

In fact I try to slip it in whenever I can..

A-list celebs, biz barons' privates EXPOSED in limo hire hack – report

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Oh dear

A posh person's dildo in a car?

That really is stuck up...

Cyber dragnet: Five new HACKERS join FBI's 'most wanted' list

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Err.

"Five new HACKERS join FBI's 'most wanted' list!"

Now there's an Enid Blyton title I never seen in the library :-(

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Baldness fix from foreskin follicles

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Errr.

This is worth celebrating so I'm off to the pube, sorry pub!

But a couple of thoughts before I do...

1: Does this mean in future that you won't get head lice, you'll get head crabs?

2: It certainly puts a whole new spin on the "just going to get my hair snipped" saying.

3: does it mean we have to call 'mohicans' 'brazillians' now?

3: do helmets now need to be called something else!!!!

/Gets coat and calls taxi

EasyJet website crashes and burns

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IMHO

Easyjet obviously changed something and it's gone titsup!

Rather than just going for the big bang, they should have had a pilot..

Apple's Steve Jobs was a SEX-crazed World War II fighter pilot, says ex

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Now

If Steve was around, he'd spit fire...

/Calls taxi.

Whodathunkit? Media barons slit own throats in flawed piracy crackdowns

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Err.

In other news bear shits in woods.

Congrats on MP3ing your music... but WHY bother? Time for my ripping yarn

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Good article.

I've also got a lot of CDs (now running in to the thousands).

I've thought about starting the process of ripping them but it would just take too bloody long. The wife would also disown me as she can't be faffed with anything other than grabbing a CD and sticking it in the cd player, and the kids would not be able to find barbie girl or justin beaver or whatever crap it is they want to listen to.

I also like the author love having the physical media, it makes me feel like I've actually bought something. Not only that but people who visit always comment on the music collection and love thumbing through it.

I've also got a fairly high end hifi at home consiting of two speakers, an amp and a cd player. the CD player is magical as it has a magnetic puck! So to put a CD on you - a: manually pull cd drawer out, b: pull magnetic puck off tray, c: place cd in tray, then d: place puck over top of CD and it clamps the CD down, then finally close tray and press play.

Call me nostalgic but it's abit like putting a 12' on a deck and putting the needle on and it never fails to make me feel a little bit good doing it.

I have Mp3s obviously as I listen to music on the go but it just feels sterile putting on of them on.

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Apple Maps directs drivers INTO path of ONCOMING PLANES

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Re: bong

"Then please switch your phone to flight mode"

Fan whips out own pair of iPhone 32Cs, 'unlocks' mobe using breasticle

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Personally

I just love unlocking my new iPhone with my nipple!

Sorry, just had to get it off my chest.

Chaos Computer Club: iPhone 5S finger-sniffer COMPROMISED

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Errr.

Cop - "So what makes you think theives managed to bypass the new touchID in your iPhone 5s?

Crime Vitcum : I don't know, I just can't put my finger on it...

Official crackdown on Apple fanboi 'shanty town' ahead of London iPhone launch

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Err

Looks like they've got a small iQueue...

/Gets coat.

THE TRUTH about beaver arse milk in your cakes: There's nothing vanilla about vanilla

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Just realised...

They use this it in perfume to!

"Hello Miss, I love the smell of you beaver.."

*SLAP*

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All I can say is...

Dam...

London Underground cleaners to refuse fingerprint clock-on

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So...

The cleaners are going to be sticking two fingers up at the scanners!

Someone needs to tell them that one's enough for the machine to work...

EXPLICIT VID: Man filmed trying to bang brand new 'budget iPhone'

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Errr.

Looks like an iPhone in a case to me!

Possible new range of cases by some unknown firm perhaps?

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'But we like 1 Direction!' Rock gods The Who fend off teen Twitter hate mob

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Coat

Well...

I bought my wife a one direction ticket earlier!

To Australia...

/gets coat

20 injured at LG phone giveaway as PR stunt turns into riot

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Well...

It sounds like it was a popular event.

/gets coat

100,000+ Earthlings star in 'reality TV contest' for ONE-WAY ticket to MARS

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Beep, Beep, Beep

PASADENA CONTROL: It's looking good. It's going good. We're getting

great pictures here at Nasa Control, Pasadena. The landing-craft touched down on

Mars 28 Kilometers from the aim-point. We're looking at a remarkable landscape,

littered with different kinds of rocks - red, purple.... How 'bout that, Bermuda?

BERMUDA CONTROL: Fantastic! Look at the dune-field.

PASADENA CONTROL: Hey, wait. I'm getting a no-go signal. Now I'm losing one of

the craft. Hey, Bermuda, you getting it?

BERMUDA CONTROL: No, I lost contact. There's a lot of dust blowing up there.

PASADENA CONTROL: Now I've lost the second craft. We got problems.

BERMUDA CONTROL: All contact lost, Pasadena. Maybe the antenna's...

PASADENA CONTROL: What's that flare? See it? A green flare, coming from Mars,

kind of a green mist behind it. It's getting closer. You see it, Bermuda? Come in,

Bermuda! Houston, come in! What's going on?

Tracking station 43, Canberra, come in Canberra! Tracking station 63, can

you hear me, Madrid? Can anybody hear me? Come in, come in...

Cameron demands Brits BOYCOTT angry-troll-infested websites

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Well I think...

That Cameron's idea of boycotting troll infested websites is a good one and I'm going to take his advice!

By avoiding any sites ending '.gov.uk'

So, who here LURVES Windows Phone? Put your hands up, Brits

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Erm.

My arms are staying down.

I'll only put my hand up for kinky sex.

/get coat

ISPs: Relax. Blocking porn online won't really work

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You know...

All these people against internet porn filters are just wankers...

/gets coat

Modern-day Frankenstein invents CURE for BEHEADING

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Hmmm.

Thanks for the headsup...

D

Flippin' Equus! Unfeasibly old horse bone DNA triumph

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Was just about to say...

It's amazing what they can tell from a pack of burgers nowadays..

WarGames IMSAI machine for sale (again)

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Facepalm

But...

Will it play Crysis...

Boffins create tabletop ANTIMATTER GUN

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Joke

Re: Teflon eh?

People who don't know the difference between your and you're, their very stupid.

New material enables 1,000-meter super-skyscrapers

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Joke

Wow

I've seen some elevator stories

but this one is on a different level entirely..

Drone to deliver beer-as-a-service

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Pint

Well

This looks good but only for short hops....

/gets coat

Windows Blue preview to land at end of June

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Joke

Well..

It's a Start >

/gets coat

COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO: NASA rovers scrawl giant willy on Mars

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Pint

Well..

that settles that then

When they open the first pub on mars it has to be called 'The Prince Albert'

Ofcom fines TalkTalk AGAIN - a whopping £750k over 'abandoned calls' gaffe

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Devil

Re: AMD?

AMD = Answer machine detection.

Basically the dialler tries to tell the difference between a human answering the phone and a voicemail or answering machine. With AMD enabled (or the Ofcom button as it's known), the dialler dials the number lists automatically and only puts a call through to an agent when it thinks it has a human on the other end. Obviously the system isn't foolproof, and it can get confused and think a machine has answered when it is a human, at which point the dialler hangs the call up on them.

That's one of the reasons for silent calls. The other reason being that a company auto dials lists too quickly. So, more people answer than the company has agents to connect to, then the dialler sits there waiting to pass a call through to an agent so the customer again hears silence and after a few seconds they hang up.

Ofcom figures allow for 3% of dialled calls to be misdetected or abandoned when auto dialling. Once that limit is reached companies are supposed to use something calle preview dial where every call is put through the the agent and they decide what is answering.

Obviously that is way slower than using AMD. A list of 10,000 numbers could be completed using AMD for example in a day whereas preview dial might take a week! When it works it is much more effecient and cost effective.

You'll see various AMD success figures branded about by the dialler makers, often as high as 90% successful detection rate. That's completely bollox and the actual varies but generally runs more toards about 55 or 60% success rate.

I believe Teleperformance use a Avaya dialler as they use Avaya ACDs. I could be wrong on that though.

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NASA probes spots temporary third Van Allen radiation belt

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Joke

You know...

I loved Van Allen's song "Jump"

/D

Apple files 'iWatch' patent application

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Joke

Erm

It's about iTime...

/Gets coat

El Reg contemplates the ultimate cuppa

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Pint

Don't you all know...

That estate agents do the best cuppas?

they do proper tea...

/stage left

Cable Cowboy lassoes Virgin Media with HUGE £15bn deal

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Re: Title is too long

Yes it's right,

Something to do with previous years losses v a tax offset.

It's mentioned here.

http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-MHR92J0YHQ0X01-7L9B54DG4SDQ7BNEPPCKBLFNEB

Spammers joyride Doctor Who's Twitter TARDIS, turn man into Shirley Temple

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At least

One of those accounts could say "my body is a Shirley Temple"

Now Spanish sperm takes a kick to the cojones

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Coat

Hello and...

Welcome to the Spanish sperm sampling clinic.

Please "don't" come again soon..

Panasonic: We'll save Earth by turning CO2 into booze

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Pint

Well

I'll breathe / drink to this news.

D

Pubic louse falls victim to eager Brazilian strippers

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Childcatcher

You have to feel sorry for the...

Poor crabs!

Their regular enjoyment of bungee jumping using the tampax string might soon be a thing of the past :-(

Unbelievably vast quasar cluster forces universe-sized rethink

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Joke

Re: How about ....

Your mamma's so fat she's the source of the unvierse's gravity.

I do though still prefer the classic...

Your mamma's so fat, when she fell down the stairs everyone thought Eastenders was coming on.

Latest exoplanet discovery is a virtual CLONE of Earth

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Alien

May I be the first

To welcome our new Kepler based clever dolphin earth overlords

Bob Dylan's new album is 'Copyright Extension Collection'

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Big Brother

Hmmm

How many copyright changes must a man talk down

Before they become law to a man.

GRAIL orbiters make DEATH DIVE into lunar mountain

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Massive underground dykes!!

Lesbians, they get everywhere..

Fish grow ‘hands’ in genetic experiment

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Joke

Hmmm

Does that mean the first humans were Finnish?

/Taxi for one.

Prisoner found with phone + charger in anal cavity

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Joke

Hmm

The all new Apple iThrone

There's a Crap for that.

Dolly the Sheep creator scientist Keith Campbell dies

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R.I.P

P.s have you met his identical brother yet?

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