* Posts by Nev

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iPhones, iPads to be FULL OF FACEBOOK and NOT GOOGLE

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FAIL

Phone app "improvements"...

...Stuff that standard voicemail/handsets has been offering for the past 15 years. Sheesh.

My operator even lets me listen in to people leaving messages on my voicemail and pick up, whilst they are leaving a message, after screening who it is/what they want.

C'mon Apple. INNOVATE!

Vodafone and O2 to merge mobile networks

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Tax Dodgers V2.0

People of Britain: Prepare to be ****ed.

Flying Dutchman creates dead cat quadcopter

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Joke

Re: his own cat? is that even legal?

Bit of salt 'n' pepper would probably sort that.....

NHS fights record £325k ICO fine after clap records appear on eBay

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Re: ?? in this time of austerity....

Look like he got some nice pay rises too:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8195349.Brighton_hospital_boss_earns_more_than_the_Prime_Minister/

"Duncan Selbie, chief executive of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has an annual salary of between £180,000 and £185,000. "

Stepping down in July to head up some Quango:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9634864.Brighton_hospital_chief_stepping_down/

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Riiiiight...

""In a time of austerity, we have to ensure more than ever that we deliver the best and safest care to our patients with the money that we have available. We simply cannot afford to pay a £325,000 fine and are therefore appealing to the Information Tribunal."

Can we try and use that defence for parking and speeding fines too, then?

Facebook goes offline, shares stabilise at merely disastrous level

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Re: No tip ?

Years ago, maybe.

But bar tending and waiting are seen as professional jobs and have proportionate wages.

You'll see "Service-Compris" on the bill.

Only tourists tip twice.

Panasonic DMC-GX1 compact system camera

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Still waiting for the built-in Electronic Viewfinder.....

C'mon someone: come out with a MFT body which has an integrated EVF, for a good price and I'll buy it!

Don't give a fudge about touch-screens on the back.

Online bookie can't scoop £50k losses made by 5-year-old

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Cool!

Can we apply this loophole to other online "services"....?

Vauxhall Ampera hybrid e-car

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FAIL

Better than a classic Hybrid...

...but still pointless in countries where the bulk of electricity generation is coal/gas fired.

World+Dog to demand ever larger tablet-phones

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Prophetic..?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xut__-uXG8U

Orange pulls out of women's Fiction

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"As opposed to being awarded to a novel from a female bovine author?"

I'd pay to read that!

Vodafone's cash mountain rocked by eurozone emergency

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Re: A survey

Not many at HMRC is would seem, as they are hoping to send a few of their employees back to school:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/tax/9172401/HMRC-sends-tax-inspectors-back-to-college.html

Facebook underwriters accused of hiding forecast

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Classic pump 'n' dump

See title.

Sony's customisable Xperia U hits retail

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End of the road...

...for me and Sony phones.

Been with them ever since the K750i.

Was that really 7 years ago..... [sigh]

After the Xperia Pro Mini I'll have to look elsewhere.

Pints under attack as Lord Howe demands metric-only UK

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Re: Idiot

"What is the problem? Jeeezuz. Daily Mail reading Brits."

Exactly.

This kind of non-story is there to sell newspapers, froth-up the natives and divert attention from real issues/problems.

Carriers, prepare to bleed: EU pops a cap on data roaming

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Re: @ Shardik

Exactly.

With the ultra-low offers from the likes of Free and Prixtel the major players have (after first crying foul and trying to generate FUD/bad publicity) all now massively lowered their prices and are even offering all-you-can-eat international call from your mobile to try and compete.

Kelvin MacKenzie blasts 'footie rights warehouse' BSkyB

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Stop

Are we listening to the views of the scumbag who was in charge of the Sun's coverage of Hillsborough now???!

(Views regurgitated not that long ago by Jeremy *unt.)

Apple sneaks iPad 2 with 32nm chip into retail

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Re: wow, I've got one!

There are a few devices out there that won't charge from a standard USB charger.

(Be it a 12V car or 230V mains one.)

My old TomTom (Go910) has that problem. As does the Asus Transformer.

You need a USB charger rated at at least 2A. (Most are not.)

LinkedIn buys SlideShare

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FAIL

Pfft...

$118.75m ?

Obviously LinkedIn has no idea how to negotiate these kind of buy-out deals.

Otherwise they'd have paid $1BILLION.

Facebook lowballs on initial IPO price

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Stop

Dotcom Bubble Burst V2.0

Watch as the execs from this company (that produces squat) and their bank chums cream fantastical amounts of cash whilst dragging down the NASDAQ and plunging the world into (yet) another financial catastrophe.

UK's new drivers now in safe hands... of laser-wielding robots

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At least it won't be just a pink piece of folded card* with a photo stuck on it...

... as they have in Gemalto's home country of France.

*Think 1940s style identity card.

The truth about Apple's mind-boggling low tax rate

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Re: Double standards

"Tax Evasion = Illegal."

Just get your head or corp tax affairs to have lunch with the head of HMRC and the evasion/avoidance point becomes moot.

Murdoch 'sorry' he didn't shut News of the World years ago

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Re: Look ...

"It's tailored for mass market reading, and is very popular on building sites."

Apart from Merseyside ones.

Spam Text Revenge

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Anti SPAM SMS software

SFR in France now provides anti-SPAM SMS software:

http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sfr.android.sfrantispam

'Apple will coast, and then decelerate' says Forrester CEO

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Re: Huh?

By "better marketing" do you mean pR0n industry adoption?

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Unhappy

"I know 3 people with 3GSs"

Oh, the shame! they must get awful looks from all the '4/'4S owners!

I've got a V1.0 iPod Touch and after paying for the firmware upgrades (twice)

Apple then dropped support for it within 2 years.

Bryan Talbot's...

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A Classic

Genius stuff.

Jeremy Hunt clings on as SpAd quits over News Corp emails

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Jeremy Hunt

JIm Naughtie got it right on R4's Today Programme....

Google Currents

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Bloat

Large app,

Appears to caches editions to internal memory, not SD card.

Uninstalled.

Murdoch junior admits to a culture of 'cavalier risk' at NotW

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Re: Isn't this

Peston's not going to say bad things about his best buddie Will Lewis' employer.

Look back in Ascii: Computing in the 1980s

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Space Invaders on a Commodore PET...

Now that was addictive!

Home computing evolution for me:

PET->VIC-20->C64->Epson PX-8->Psion Series5->Sharp Zaurus

And nothing but Suns at work.

Never touched a Mac. Was forced onto PCs at work circa 2000.

Asus: Ice Cream Sandwich Transformer Pad out in May

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But I just spent all weekend playing Diablo3 beta on my MacbookAir ...

Well done, you!

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Killer device

Asus just don't get the credit they deserve for championing this killer format of device.

Still very please with my TF101 after a year.

Who needs a tablet and a laptop when you can have both?!

Good update support too, so far.

Vodafone agrees to Cable and Wireless buy

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No one is asking Vodafone to pay more tax than they legally need to...

... just the tax that they owe.

Shady lunchtime gentlemens' agreements with ex-colleagues are not the way HMRC heads should be looking after the UK tax affairs.

Analyst: 'revolutionary, compelling' iPhone 5 out in October

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Analyst

(noun) Someone who makes large amounts of money talking shit.

Boffins tout solar efficiency boost

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Check the Graph in the Abstract...

It seems to suggest an increases in efficiency of upto 2%.

Given the already appalling efficiency of such PV devices, that's not really much of an improvement.

French perfume house bottles 'Eau de new MacBook'

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Alert

Copying something belonging to Apple?

I feel a lawsuit brewing.....

Lesser-spotted Raspberry Pi FINALLY dished up

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Re: Why not a 68K board with a basic DAC and a basic ADC ?

Because building wire-wrap 68000 systems would be BEng level stuff?

(Well it was back-in-the-day...)

Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83

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Unhappy

The Man ...

... who really brought computing to the masses.

Not even a mention on the BBC news website.

I probably wouldn't be sat here typing this if it weren't for the PET, VIC20 & C64.

Renault Twizy budget e-car

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It's not a car...

It's not classed as a car in France.

It's a four wheeled scooter. (That doesn't even need a licence to drive it on the roads in it's 5HP version.)

Might do well running on all that super-clean nuclear/hydro generated electricity.

Market success will depends on the cost of the all important battery leasing deal.

Climate-change scepticism must be 'treated', says enviro-sociologist

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Go

Re-education camps...?

It's Year Zero time!

NDS says Beeb's Panorama emails were 'manipulated'

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Sue, Grabbit & Runne...

If NDS are so sure of their squeeky-cleanness, they should take the BBC to court.....

Who killed ITV Digital? Rupert Murdoch - but not the way you think

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News Corps...

... track record in illegal activity (illegal cross subsidy of media, broadcasting "to" the UK without a licence, hacking/cracking competitor's video encryption, phone monitoring, corrupt payments etc speaks for itself.

It's old news and nothing has/will be done about it anyway.

'Thermal cloak' designed, could solve major chip, spacecraft issues

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Joke

Only works for spherical horses moving in a vacuum.

Hacking scandal: James Murdoch quits UK newspaper biz

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Excellent

No need to pay for a lengthy/expensive extradition process when the Corrupt Foreign Practices Act proceedings start over there!

Asus peddles three-in-one smartphone, tablet, netbook

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Bluetooth works fine for handsfree in cars...

The real reason you see people holding their phones whilst driving is because they are arseholes.

(With little regard for the law or other road users that they may collide with.)

Or perhaps they frittered their company car allowance on other more vital options like an AMG, S-Line or M-Sport styling pack.

Stop: Because they may even miss seeing that if they're texting too.

News of the World hacker named after court block lifted

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Forget this part...

It's bad, but illicit payments to foreign (for the US) officials (The Met) coupled with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Acts applied to NewsCorp honchos in the US has WAY more possible infotainment value!

Brit pair deported from US for 'destroy America' tweet

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Brits Abroad...

They just don't get that they aren't at home in "Hobbiton" any more and have to comply with local laws and customs.

Just like the ones who are surprised when arrested and thrown in jail for ****ing on a beach in Dubai.

Funny how the UK can't even manage to deport people even if they mean it when making threats against the country.

Ten... IPTV set-top boxes

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VPN or Proxy?

Any of these boxes support VPN or Proxy use directly?

'Space Monkey' craze: Texan students 'get high' by choking each other

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Darwinism

Isn't natural selection great!?

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