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6 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jun 2014

Mattel urged to scrap Wi-Fi mic Barbie after Register investigation

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Think of the (other) children!

When I was a kid my little sister had a doll with a cassette player in it and a mouth that moved so it could tell stories and sing songs. It didn't take long before me and my brother popped a Guns n Roses tape in and had it singing welcome to the jungle.

I'd love to know just how much of Mattel's server time was spent on teenage boys trying to get Barbie to say something a bit rude.

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Adam Afriyie MP: Smart meters are NOT so smart

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Why can’t we switch supplier within the hour with our meter reading?

Why do you need to? You're buying power as a retail customer, not a day trader.

When I switched suppliers (EDF to Ovo), it took me ten minutes on the phone to arrange for my supplier to change at the end of the month. At the end of the month I entered my meter reading on their website and my final bills got calculated automatically.

It was two weeks between me making the phone call and the switch happening, but setting it up only took a week and I personally only had to make one phone call.

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Major problems beset UK ISP filth filters: But it's OK, nobody uses them

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Virgin Media only badgered around 35 per cent of its customer base.

If other people gave them the kind of shit I gave them when I got an email about it, I'm not surprised they only got as far as 35%.

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Supermodel Lily Cole: 'I got a little bit upset by that Register article'

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Re: BTFO yet again

"I wish money wasn't #wasted on #vanity #projects like #this."

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Piketty thinks the 1% should cough up 80%. Discuss

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<i>"How can that be if the long term unemployed brits were not choosing to make themselves so?"</i>

There are a host of possible explanations.

If the only one you can think of is, "the unemployed are just lazy", it's a good indicator that you may be suffering from fuckwittery.

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"So your wealth would increase by one thirteen-millionth of the average jackpot (about £5 million-ish?), and decrease by £1. No?"

Only until they draw the numbers at which point the cost will still be £1 but the ticket's value will most likely drop to £0.

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