* Posts by Andrew Moore

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Brit ISPs censor Wikipedia over 'child porn' album cover

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Unhappy

Dammit....

My money was on Blind Faith...

RIM Vodafone BlackBerry Storm

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Urgh!

The boss got one of these to replace his iPhone. I didn't think there was a worse mobile than an iPhone. I was wrong. RIM has taken everything that's crap in an iPhone and made it crappier! Congratulations.

Battlestar Galactica prequel shuns space, spaceships

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Damn right.

>The battlestar IS the series.

Precisely- The best sequences in the current run was were you get to see Galactica pour megatons of ordinance into a Cylon Basestar.

Game Group growth slows

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Are the price of stupidity...

I contacted them regarding purchasing Guitar Hero World Tour (full) works to be told that they do not sell to the Republic of Ireland, which is news to me seeing that I pass one of their shops daily here in Dublin.

BBC relives The Day of The Triffids

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I was only saying the other day...

...this new series of Survivors is in serious need of some triffids.

Robo-flower wilts as power burns

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Looks familiar...

Reminds me of the Death Flowers from Ulysses 31. If I put one of those in the house it will be guaranteed to give the eldest daughter nightmares.

Sons of Macintosh - shaking the Apple family tree

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Flame

Translation:

"What does "On the gridiron, that'd be Oklahoma Panhandle State versus the Crimson Tide." mean, please?"

"In a game of Girl Rugby, that'd be a Fourth Division team versus a Premier League team (named after a euphemism for menstruation)."

Yes! It's the USB Toaster!

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So...

El Reg has become the Wayback Machine then...

Aussie government muffs plans for internet filtering

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Ah censorship...

"an Insurance company was rather surprised to find that after implementation of its in-house filtering system, direct mail campaigns to Essex, Sussex and Middlesex ceased entirely – as did communication with the inhabitants of Scunthorpe."

and not to mention the poor inhabitants of Fuckwich and Anusbury.

Social workers sacked over Gary Glitter email

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Jobs Horns

A bit convenient...

So your a company looking to downsize your workforce but you want to do it in a that does not require large redundancy payments?

Answer: Develop an extremely intolerant moral high ground and go through your employees email. Bound to find some sackable offences there...

MPs declare their ignorance on the web

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Peter Hain's new nickname is...

Odo

Beeb reprieves Xmas Top of the Pops

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Oh no...

Does this mean no Christmas TOTP2??? Where will I get my Greedies fix this year!!!!

BNP leaked list claims first victims

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Recent entries in the Merseyside arrest register include...

'Loitering with intent to use a pedestrian crossing.'

'smelling of foreign food'

'Urinating in a public convenience'

'Coughing without due care and attention.'

'Looking at me in a funny way'

'Walking on the cracks in the pavement,'

'Walking in a loud shirt in a built-up area during the hours of darkness,'

'Walking around with an offensive wife.'

'Possession of curly black hair and thick lips."'

PETA cooks up gory game in Cooking Mama protest

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Hmmmmmm...

I think someone needs to teach PETA how to exsanguinate their virtual turkeys...

El Reg seeks top net neologism

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Linux weaktops poised for death by smartphone

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Go on, tell us then...

"That's funny. I know of another device that can't support much beyond web browsing and checking e-mail, but is backed by the full faith and credit of Steve Jobs's divinity."

It's a MacBook, isn't it.

India draws up own Google Earth plan

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Unhappy

"It is expected to be tied into an ongoing Indian project to develop its own GPS system."

It's a pity that IRNSS is not directly GNSS compatible

BOFH: The paperless cafeteria

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Happy

"Sapphire's not an element!"

but then, neither is Steel...

ah nostalgia

Attorneys for Palin email hacker: 'Don't call him hacker'

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Meanwhile, in HA...

"Hello, my name is Andrew and I'm a hacker..."

Retro piracy - Should the Royal Navy kick arse?

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Coat

The solution...

Scupper every pirate vessel (there's a dhow (Davy) Jones sinking joke in there somewhere).

Royal Society of Chemistry defines perfect Yorkshire pud

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Flame

I've never had any problems...

but then it takes a Lancastrian to do the job properly anyway.

Love bug worm inspires Asian film

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Coat

I think I know how this one goes...

it turns out that the girl of his dreams is a ladyboy, who gives him a love virus of his very own.

Boffins: global warming kills lemmings, not suicide

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Walt Disney strikes again

Anyone know what Disney's pollution index is?

Barack Obama will be president

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Happy

not only a win for Obama...

but a landslide anniliation of McCain/Palin.

And to AC#1"It's called a democracy- if you don't like it, move to China"

Undetectable data-stealing trojan nabs 500,000 virtual wallets

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Sheesh...

An undetectable master boot virus- pull the other one.

I smell bullshit.

IT contractor broke law in data raid on playground firm

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Corporal Jones...

"Can you imagine Clive Dunn handing over his password to some thug under "threat of violence"? He'd have been shouting for Mr.Mainwaring and the rest of the Home Guard to come and sort these chaps right out."

No he wouldn't. He'd be sticking it up 'em- because "they don't like it up 'em"

Skiving Aussie fingered on Facebook

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Interesting...

...the way the muppet turns into a total retard in the final message- "LMAO", "Epic Fail", "Facebook"

1,400 Yahooligans perish as Yang raids needle cabinet

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Heart

But, but, but...

Isn't Web 2.0 all about monetizing eyeballs???

One billion unwanted opinions in real-time: Now SHOUTED at you

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Unhappy

Isn't this already being done...

...with those stupid Talking Head videos on YouTube???

Dutch court convicts teens for stealing pixels

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Can't happen now...

Jagex have nailed down interplayer equipment exchanges.

Hands on with Sony's slimline Vaio TT

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Meh!

It's a Sony and it's a Vaio. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole thanks to Sony's extremely crap after sales service.

Putin's dog gets satnav tracker collar

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Why not GNSS???

I can understand the patrotic reasons behind using GLONASS in this situation but they could have just gone GNSS which would have included GPS and therefore a) Provided a better fix all times of the day and b) Provided a backup when one of the constellations gets switched off...

Hubble in double trouble

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It could be Pauly Shore

Because ""If it rhymes, I can cause trouble in it"

Airport baggage screener charged with stealing passengers' stuff

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@David Wiernicki

Yep- it's called GNSS. Russia has had the GLONASS system up nearly as long as the American GPS. China launched a minimum complement of BEIDOU in time for the Olympics- this system will be extended and will be known as COMPASS. India is quite far into the IRNSS project and even Europe has managed to get a couple of Galileo sats into orbit.

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It's been going on for years...

I had a Psion Series 5a stolen from my luggage while travelling from Newark to Vancouver. I was told to put it into my hold luggage because it presented a danger to the flight (it had an InfraRed port which would allow me to take over the flying of the aircraft apparently). When trying to claim for the unit I was bounced between airports, baggage handling companies and various insurance agencies- I eventually gave up 6 months later.

Windows Mobile on iPhone a cruel joke?

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Brilliant

"You don't have girlfriends in Norway"

"Yes of course. But they program too"

Serial troll bitchslaps Reg hack

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Errrrr....

>However, it *is* true that America came to her aid when it wasn't obliged to.

I think you find that rather than rendering aid voluntarily, America was cockpunched into WWII by the Japanese

Indian Moon mission is go for 22 October

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Hmmmmmm...

'Of course, as the BBC notes, the project has taken flak for being "over ambitious" and a "waste of resources" for a nation where "millions still lack basic services".'

The same can be said for the USA...

Big Blue shares cloudy thinking with developers+dog

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Won't be the first...

...and won't be the last the abuse the whole "stick the flavour of the day buzzword on our products"- I remember when Java was this way and then XML (I'm looking at you, Bentley Microstation)

Harvey Keitel to experience Life on Mars

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Unhappy

Kick it to the gutter

I've already unenjoyed the pilot with Colm Meaney as Gene Hunt. God that sucked.

Apple surrenders the Pink (to Microsoft)

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Remembering Rick...

"The software is just fantastic, that is really what I think.

Oh by the way, which one's Pink?"

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Errrrrr.....

@David Kelly

"Stole from Xerox eh? Yeah sure, clearly Xerox had a long term OS business plan in mind, ROFL!

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.txt

Educate yourself !"

You don't even have to read between the lines to see that the MAC fundmentals all hailed from PARC.

Mapping the universe at 30 Terabytes a night

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No backlog...

when you take into account active compression.

Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia's naked shorts

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Question:

Isn't SlimVirgin an invert of FatSlag???

Ballmer gives Norwegian students free love

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Gates Horns

Funny

I see the world "PEST" displayed rather prominently below Ballmer

Tw*tdangler defends Benito Mussolini stunt

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Happy

Actually...

Twatdangler is not the best phrase I've heard all week. That accolade goes to the person who referred to the under-educated cannon fodder in the US Army as "hick bullet sponges".

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Question

If it was a "death leap", why is he still alive?

In fact, just discard the first half of that question.

UK WoW fans plead for Lich King Collector's Edition

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Unhappy

Reminds me of Bladerunner The Collectors Edition

aka "The Suitcase". I managed to buy from a company that shipped from the states.

Shouldn't have bothered. It was crap.

How an Italian judge made the internet illegal

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Anything with a headline can be considered a newspaper???

Better watch the use of those <h1> tags then.

Woman sues EA over 'secret' Spore DRM

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PDF???

Another vote for Foxit reader here too.