* Posts by g e

3255 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jul 2007

Apple says no to Android-oriented iPad mag

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WTF?

God Apple are so childish

Or scared of Android.

Botnet takedowns curb spam volumes

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ummmm

But I got 4x the spam I used to have in the googlemail 30-day spam box.... 123k spams instead of the usual 40k

Twitter joke martyr loses appeal

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Paul Chambers

Obviously a terroristy name, too.

Wonder how much the taxpayer paid for this mindless assclownery

Utter cocks.

What was the name of the officer that pushed this into motion, Lackwit Jobsworth?

Seagate and Western Digital sued by patent ambulance-chaser

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FAIL

Toroidal?

Seems bloody obvious to me as toroidal transformers are more efficient than their non-toroidal counterparts therefore you'd expect toroidal recording heads to be, also. They're almost the same thing.

Except, presumably, in the united states of americaland. Fail.

Maybe someone should sue the USPTO for employing people underqualified to accept these technical patents. That would be a good one.

Twitter muggers stab rap star in buttock

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Haha!

So, if he advertised his gig in The Times it'd be the paper's fault? Or was he walking down the High St tweeting 'I is on da High Street'. What nob-cockery. Verging on Darwinian to be fair.

Still, least he now down wid the homies in da hood. He jus' needin' ta be shot now, bro, to be fully made up. Styli. Innit.

Word.

'Pervy' private chat case springs back into life

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FAIL

Errrr

Then the CPS is actually the publisher and the accused merely the author?

Apple coughs to time zone problems

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And

My old HTC Magic running some Victorian ver of Android

Volunteer biker gang foils Westminster CCTV car fleet

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Time wasters

Surely the plucky Motorcyclingists are free to 'waste' their own time as they please?

It'll be an offence to follow the cars soon, you wait.

Nokia, HTC, Sony attacked by hidden megatroll

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Patent implementation

What's wrong with having to prove that within five years of filing (not being granted) you attempted 'substantially' to implement your patent or it lapses?

Oh. Common Sense. That's what's wrong...

Panasonic bags Avatar 3D BD exclusive

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FAIL

So 3D is failing already then

Proprietary, fragmented standards... ?

Fail

iPhone alarm bug: now it's the UK's turn

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FAIL

Icon says it all

qwertyuiop

Over 100,000 stops-and-searches: zero terrorists

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Maybe this helps

It will be true for a small number of people, but using the 6-degrees rule...

1. How many times have you personally suffered directly from terrorism?

2. How many people do you know who have?

3. How many people do you know who know people who have?

4 etc.

5.etc

6.etc

Suffering from terrorism doesn't mean 'being made a bit late', either.

#4 or 5 for me, effectively as I know someone who was working in NYC when the first WTC got hit and looked out of his window and typed on IRC 'Fuck. A plane just hit the WTC' so I guess he knows someone who knows someone. Pure chance I was in the same IRC channel at the time, too.

Suffering directly from terrorism is the exception not the rule. Same can't be said for suffering from beaurocracy though :o(

Apple unloads patent suits on Motorola Androids

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No

Absolutely not.

Apple make nothing that I want.

Now march me off to the stake and burn me.

Daily Mail rails at Street View in women's refuge wrongness

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and that's.. GOOGLEFIGHT!

'The Daily Mail' 226000000 results

"Google" 98300000 results

Whodathunkit

iOS bug unlocks iPhones sans password

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Ummmmmm OK

Yeah those precious apps, not the 09xx £1.50/minute calls they made on YOUR sim to THEIR premium rate account.

Least the Apps are safe, thank god.

UK border police seize £500k from Nigerians' hand luggage

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Troll

To rise to your rise-to

The UK government and their banking buddies ensure we can't afford to leave this shithole.

;o)

Ms. Gates: 'Bill does not use a Mac'

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What we really wanna know

Is why 'Ms' Gates not 'Mrs'

Is she divorced or does it mean 'Microsoft' ?

LimeWire (finally) dies under judge's gavel

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Only if

I can bring it back for a cash refund.

Oh. There you are then.

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@Paul

Abso fecking lutely

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Troll

Sad day?

Oh I don't know, I suspect Apple ringfencing all Apple users might be a boon for the world at large...

The Appleists will call themselves an Elite Club and everyone else can get on with getting on with whatever they please, how they please, as they please.

Trucker jailed for deadly motorway gamble

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But his many brothers

Are trying to kill me every day on the M6 and M42 and one punted my sister off the road yesterday in Somerset wrecking her car.

Can we just have these bastards executed?

Or maybe reversed over in their own wagon... ATTENTION VEHICLE REVSERSING! BE-DOOP ***SKWISH***

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HGV License

I should imagine this fecker has lost it never to be regained. Hopefully his livelihood gone forever too.

If not I wanna know why not.

Wikileaks outs 400,000 classified Iraq War docs

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It's not the best

Wikileaks, afaik, aren't trying to score points or improve on their last release. They're just releasing what they've been given.

The hype is coming from the Pennergarn and the neocons

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To be fair...

In the UK we're taught about how our predecessors murdered and slaughtered and used their power for their own ends, e.g. Henry VIII and Cromwell for a start... And don't forget the East India Tea Company.

Our history books don't say we brought freedom to x, y, & z and it was bloody but ultimately glorious, etc, etc and I don't remember them being written like that back when I was at school, either.

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Learning from history?

Not the US's strong suit.

They inherited the entire volume of history of Europe and ignored that. What makes you think they're gonna take more notice of their own pamphlet-sized history book ?

As long as control & influence can be extended now who gives a toss for tomorrow.

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Or maybe

UK.gov could grow a spine and, when the banks post a few billion profits (albeit not the usual 40+ billiion) they can seize it and give it us back.

Police turn to extreme-sport mobe sucking

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ah but

the sugar crystallises on the surfaces when dry, affecting the electronics where water evaporates away, often with no real residue

Genuine white iPhone 4 spied in wild

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seek to emulate?

In (You there! That Boy!) Fry's case you need an IQ of 20 million and an encyclopaedic knowledge of everything just to get started ;o)

(Or a team of QI researchers permanently on hand ;o)

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That's nice!

I knew it'd happen. They made an iphone that finally looks like my 18-month old HTC Magic. Not quite as nice mind you but hey, points for admitting Google had it right a year & a half ago ;o)

LOL

(watch the fanbois Pavlovian bite response)

Grocery terminals slurped payment card data

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Of course

That's the actual purpose of C+P, to actually give the banks that exact get-out so they don't have to pay up under the terms of their contract with the customer. They know the customer almost never has the resources & tenacity to pursue the issue to a satisfactory conclusion thereby helping ensure the flow of money is more from customer to bank than the reverse.

I thought everyone knew that??

Ministry of Sound floored by Anonymous

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Down is down

So as a result of Anonymous their site is still down, 'vountarily' or otherwise. Score.

Anti-piracy lawyers' email database leaked after hack

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Grenade

My I (possibly) be the first just to say...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Unity – iPhone code swap approved by Jobs (for now)

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Go

So make a flash client in Unity

Then it will be banned, esp if the code is open sourced so 000's of clients can be made & submitted to Honest Steve's goblin shop.

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just buy something other than an iphone

simples

Sony to announce iTunes-alike streaming service

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Pretty please

CAN WE JUST HAVE A PS3 SPOTIFY CLIENT

thank you

SCO gets sale approval

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Seriously...

I might bid twenty quid.

Apple goes social with musical Ping

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HDR photography?

So Honest Steve has invented that now, eh.

Photographers with exposure bracketing cameras have been doing that for a good while now. In fact Il Honesto might want to look at some software made by his friends at Adobe which is called Photoshop.

No doubt the fanbois and fangurlz will be proud to own this brand new previously unheard of invention in photomagography and lord it over all their pals - at least the ones with shite cameras, anyway.

Oh, did Stevo mention what display devices would be capable of rendering the whole dynamic range of an HDR merged image? Perhaps that got accidentally overlooked.

Paul Allen launches patent broadside on world+dog

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The dress sense

Paul Allen's waistcoat is made from the scalps of innovators, not semtex.

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Thank you!

For a truly special mirth-moment :oD

Can we get El Reg to add 'VPT' to it's descriptive arsenal ? Let it be added to the fabulous vocabulary that regularly gives us Bulgarian Airbags as a memetic reference?

Cos Vacuous Pointless Twaddle really does hit the spot on so many levels.

37 out of 10 for that combination of words

Half of UK road users support usage-based road charging

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And can we ad...

up the 40p/mile mileage allowance to reflect the 100% price hike in fuel since it was set at that level.

We spend 000's more on fuel per year than maintenance, should be more like 65-70p per mile by now!

If anyone knows how 40p was calculated I'd love to know the breakdown (pun not intended!).

Home Office unveils new UK passport

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Maybe they should dip them in a strong baconfat mixture too

To ward off Mossad forgeries

Government calls for intellectual property evidence

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Probably more like...

Britain must have an Intellectual Property system that the ones with the most to gain, and the Americans, approve of.

In the outcome.

Apple eyes kill switch for jailbroken iPhones

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One thumbs-down?

I guess Honest Steve is reading after all.

Anyone have a message for him while he's around?

Unhackable PS3 finally jailbroken, video claims

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XBMC is brilliant

I have two chipped XBOX1's running XBMC specifically as media players. Works a treat, better than many commercial mediaplayer apps including the XBOX360 and PS3 players in most cases.

Can't be arsed to even consider pirated console games. Ebay ensures a steady supply of cheap used games in great condition, some even with promo codes unused, too.

OpenSolaris axed by Ellison

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I predict

Something MySQL related within 18 months

London tenders for speed cameras

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Yeah....

Road humps aren't a revenue stream...

Oracle sues Google over Java in Android

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In other news...

Google releases an Enterprise-level database system with seamless Oracle migration.

For Free.

CEOP claims success for Facebook 'panic button'

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Haha

Well they'd never call it a total failure would they.

How many of those 'reports' were people puching the button to see what happened, they happen to mention that?

What did they say the conviction rate was?

'Push this button for instant protection from something that can't actually harm you unless you're pig-thick enough to get on a bus and go visit them'.

I much preferred 'Do not press this button' followed by 'Do not push this button again' - Hitch Hiker's Guide style.

They should give themselves an award and send out press releases saying how they won their own platinum standard award for being so platinum-standard-worthy.

EC probes Apple for anti-competitive antics

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WTF?

not converting anything to Objective C that wasn't originally written in Objective C

Ummm ... what ???

Unpatched kernel-level vuln affects all Windows versions

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and

one legged ducks swim in circles :o)