* Posts by David Neil

601 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Feb 2007

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Google may face grilling by MPs over 'immoral' tax avoidance

David Neil

Re: Hmmm..

If I could structure things so that I could, damn right I would

Amount of CO2 being sucked away by Earth 'has doubled in 50 years'

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Re: It's lobsters

Study published in nature and points out there are things we still don't know.

You knee jerk away, but the science is far from settled.

New 'nauts ride Russian rocket to shift change at the space station

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Don Pettit

Science Hero

BA staff to google for snaps, dirt on biz-class passengers

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Re: You've given an airline your passport, address and credit card details

And if you don't want people to find information about you on FB, Flickr etc. don't put it there.

Fuck me, it's like complaining someone called you when you scribbled your phone number on the back to a toilet door.

Who runs UK? 'Tories, Lib Dems and Google' says Labour

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Re: Hmm

Then again this does smell iffy in light of the orphan works landgrab the Govy. seems so keen to fast track into law.

iPhone spontaneously combusts on CCTV

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Flame

Re: Let the Flames Begin

LiPF is not Hydroflouric acid.

HTH

RBS collapse details revealed: Arrow points to defective part

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Trollface

Re: Hell yeah!

Three exclamation marks in the middle of a sentence, serious business.

Iran: Our nuke facilities still under attack by US, Israelis 'and MI6'

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Trollface

Re: Operation Olymic Games

They'll be fine as long as they don't put a poster in the window

GiffGaff in data spaff, goodybag gaffe: ICO says its 'avin a laff

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Re: Not a good article really

Really?

Thief open-sources Richard Stallman's laptop, passport, visa

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Paris Hilton

So the thief wouldn't have to do that?

Dole office to roll out digital benefits to north-west – 6 months early

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WTF?

Re: ...

Allow me to disagree, I live in an area of predominantly council housing and regularly see the same people, young and old, squander their benefit money and screaming that they are entitled when someone says no to them.

From the young lady in the chip shop who stood with a bottle of cider under her arm demanding the assistant let her off with £2 otherwise her kid wasn't getting fed tonight, to the young lad two floors down who is perma-wasted and stinks of dope, to the bloke in his 50's who comes out of the shop every day with 6 cans and a bottle of cider.

The minimum wage could be £25k, these people still wouldn't do a days work as we enable them to live these lifestyles on our tax revenue.

BBC deletes Blue Peter from BBC One

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Re: *Yawn*

Kickstart - I'd watch that no problem, although the H&S brigade would have kittens.

Kelvin MacKenzie blasts 'footie rights warehouse' BSkyB

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One big problem with his pitch

The current structure at least shares the revenue around so tha a team with a small fan base like Wigan at least has a fighting chance. If they moved to per-club deals like they use in Spain, the money in concentrated at the top end and the more "unfashionable" teams are reduced to feeding from scraps.

'I'm no visionary': Torvalds up for $1.3m life-changing gong

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Trollface

That's one hell of an exchange rate

"The award, worth £817 ($1.3m), recognises technology innovations that improve the quality of human life."

'Super rogue wave' scuppers Lego pirate

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Pint

Re: YouTube?

Done, with due respect to the ANU

http://youtu.be/ayd1rvuqBzU

Xbox 360 credit card slurp alert under fire

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Re: Wipe it?

The Xbox drives come pre-formatted in MS' secret sauce

Virgin Media's latest throttling rules

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Re: A few things on this

I have several Android devices using a VM connection, what issues do you get?

Angry Birds Space flings 10 MILLION downloads in 3 days

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Sales number?

Free download innit (ad support) ?

Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer

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Re: For a moment, I almost felt..

You do realise the article is about Windows 8 Server and not Desktop, right?

Pakistan blocks 13,000 grumble flick sites

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Whoosh

The post is required, and must contain letters.

Megastar personalities are intellectual property in draft law

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How would this have impacted...

The counter claim by Victoria Beckham to the Patent Office over Peterborough United's attempt to trademark the term "Posh"?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/peterborough_united/2404115.stm

HP hands in-house Android code to TouchPad tablet hackers

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My daughters going to be annoyed when I take her Christmas toy back off her to play around with.

Starship Voyager dumped into skip

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Did I imagine the bit where it said his missus had been paying the mortgage while he was building his playden?

Time to grow up

German ISP doesn't have to block foreign 'illegal' betting sites

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The frowning tends to be done by Governments who don't like the idea of their citizens spending money which they aren't getting a cut of.

Footie club sacks striker for homophobic tweet

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There's a difference between shouting a bit of nonsense inside a ground at opposing fans and getting a shoeing because you happened to go to a different school.

Comet 'sold 94,000 pirate Windows CDs', claims Microsoft

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The main thrust of the post I replied to was about the use of recovery partitions and how the poster felt he/she was being cheated out of drive space.

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FAIL

Nice rant

But it's the OEM who choose to use a recovery partition to save a few pence, not Microsoft.

UK space agency to boldly send techies ... behind a desk

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Let me google that for you

http://www.eusc.europa.eu/images/stories/grill_de_salaire_spain.pdf

Although if you're too lazy to do that you may not be a good candidate...

Apple fined $1.2m for flouting Italian warranty law

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Why not

The US did it with people who ran Gambling sites

London Fire Brigade issues voracious tambourine warning

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http://boingboing.net/2006/06/30/doctors-remove-light.html

No further comment

Apple trains store bosses to ignore deal with unions

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Did you join the union before or after the allegation was made?

Makes a difference in how bothered they are imo

Apple was OK to fire man for private Facebook comments

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I know a bloke who got binned from a local authority job recently for some of the things he posted on facebook.

To be fair it was pics of him "planking" on top of someones kitchen cupboards. Again a colleague showed it to the boss and he was binned within 48hrs.

Dixons knocks £200 off laptops before Xmas...

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Meh

So let me get this straight

They knock £200 off the shelf price, give you a further £50 off voucher and additionally another discount on some app store?

I'm amazed they aren't making more money

BBC iPlayer to require TV licence

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WTF?

So you only watch repeats by choice, but you don't think you should pay towards that?

Facebook's Swedish data centre will be subject to Snoop Law

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Why use SSL, you are posting data to FACEBOOK. A bored 15 year old with ten minutes can get all the details of your profile.

If you want privacy, posting to the internet equivalent of the back of a toilet door is not the way to go.

BT gets 14 days to block Newzbin2

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Are you quite sure about Spycatcher?

Published in 1987, gagged in England but not in Scotland, gag overturned in 1991 by ECHR

Euro banks unhappy with proposed e-payment rules

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But you aren't physically moving anything, it's 1's and 0's

Yes there is some element of processing, but I would imagine the economies of scale should bring that down to fractions of a pence. Perhaps a fair comparison would be the per transaction fee's levied at a Stock Exchange?

Vegas man begs web for $1m to fix gigantic scrotum

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No, the doctors agreed, especially once they were able to ensure they could still carry out private consultations.

Virgin Media broadband in two-day wobble

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And if they don't meet the SLA then you at least get to invoke a penalty clause.

An SLA never, ever guarentee's 100% uptime, it just gives you agreed comeback when it goes tits up

RIM stands, staggers, falls again

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Fair enough, but that's what RIM have been calling it in update calls with Enterprise customers, sounds like they are calling their 'barely' functioning network location their Network Operations Centre (NOC)

ISPs end PM's web smut block dream

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Try this

OK, let's substitute Muslim for Christian, the final paragraph now reads:

The measures address proposals spelled out in the Bailey Report – written by Reg Bailey, CEO at Muslim charity Mothers' Union and released in the summer – in which Bailey asks firms to make it easier for parents to block adult and age-restricted material on the internet.

Now that would drive the Daily Mail mob into a wee frenzy, so lets try something else, say dropping reference to religion at all.

The measures address proposals spelled out in the Bailey Report – written by Reg Bailey, CEO at charity Mothers' Union and released in the summer – in which Bailey asks firms to make it easier for parents to block adult and age-restricted material on the internet.

Suddenly it becomes more "palatable" which begs the question, why invoke religion into something which is a moral crusade?

BlackBerry BBM, email downed in epic FAIL

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Happy

Word is it's hoofed again

Might get some peace at work at this rate

Gas bill climbed £13,000 after correct online reading given

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Unhappy

Scottish Power don't

With last years cold spell my daily electrical useage spiked at 65Kwh - about 2.5 times normal. Got to love the rotten storage heaters my landlord has fitted :(

At the same time my fixed price deal came to an end and it was a month before I clocked on.

The didn't call me, but I did get a nice message when I entered my meter readings that my monthly direct debit was going from £40 per month to £106, some haggling got it down to £90, but I'm seriously considering moving somewhere warmer - ideally with no snakes though

Belgian telcos ordered to blockade Pirate Bay

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Both of the examples were legal enterprises until the law was changed?

F1 2011

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You sure about them not being your fault?

In 2 seasons I have had 3 penalties, and every one was for rejoining the race and causing an incident

Amazon's app store spotted outside US

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Almost, at least in the shop I know what I'll get back from each sale and any loss is meant to be eaten by the shopkeeper

DfE probed over Gmail use for official business

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That's quite a claim your making. Any evidence to back it up?

Apple makes a hash of password security (again)

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And that rant is relevant to this particular issue in what way?

Games review site goes titsup at launch

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T&C's

If they keep the language on the game chat safe, then whatever they stream via another service should be fine.

Not sure about Sony T&C's however.

Newzbin2 pirates prepare to sink BT web block

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Missing the point

Newzbin were never in the dock, the court case was the rights holders vs BT.

Newzbin are allowing their paying customers to access a search engine, which points to newsgroup postings held elsewhere.

If they really wanted to stop it they should have asked for deep packet inspection to block access to binary newsgroups, instead of asking BT to use a targeted service in a way it wasn't designed for.

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