* Posts by Andus McCoatover

2969 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Nov 2007

Nervous Samsung seeks Android Plan F. Or G, H ....

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Is everyone in Korea called "Kim"?

Another hit on Nokia.

Amazon man to shoot his pocket rocket this afternoon

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"vertical landings"

Erm....

Russian Progress space truck crashes in Siberia

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Unfortunate, but...

I think this old rocket still has an excellent success record.

Room-temperature brown dwarf spied just 9 light-years off

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Purple hue?

Obvious.

If it'd been coloured as a "Brown Dwarf", people would've mistaken it for a turd.

UK could have flooded world with iPods - Sir Humphrey

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Why does Britain fuc*k up?

Liquid Crystal Display?

Jet engine?

Oil in Saudi Arabia?

Dear God, why are us British so careless, and the US so careful whith their IP???

Bundled music newbie Boinc aims for year-end launch

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They can't last.

As the only currency they seem to have on the "explanation" site is the $, and that's fuc*king buggered, they're dead in the water already

Hundreds of Brit pubs to offer free WiFi

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Er....

Many premises will not let you use a plug to recharge your laptop therefore limiting the working/drinking day to the length of time your battery lasts.

Er... All my locals will let you plug in. Most've even got phone chargers if your phone battery dies.

All will give you access to their WiFi, but we have panoulu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PanOULU) if there's a problem.

I thought it was about attracting customers.

Ah. OK, got it. Thank God and king George I got out to Finland, never to return.

Microsoft loses grip on slippery Mango

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(Bloody Greek keyboars)

Is that Android or Iphone

Well, there are theoretically two more. Symbian and Meego.

I DID say theoretically ..........Both dead as a nail on the lamp-room floor

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OEM's are the least worry...

...Unless we place Nokia in the OEM category.

This is gonna pan out so fuc*king bad for Finland and Nokia, Elop/Wallop/Whatever should be strung up for High Treason. Can't see Elop at the President's Independence Day dance somehow.

Think I'll change my nickname to Sendo. Prophetic, I reckon.

Bloody Moon stuffs the Perseids

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Nah.

It'll be leaves on the line, or the wrong kind of snow.

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Isn't this like 'troposcatter'?

It's the method I remember from years ago of communicating by over-the-horizon microwave to offshore oil rigs. In their case, chuck shedloads of RF in their general direction, there'll be enough particles floating about to establish a connection.

Remember building a specialised noise measuring tool to test the connnection for this when I was at BT.

Prime Minister recalls holidaying MPs after London riots

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Seems I wasn't far off...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9563177.stm

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Respect is earned.

As my grandfather who raised me, taught me that respect is very hard to earn. He was a Gentleman, and I believe he brought me up correctly..I've tried to emulate him, while sometimes failing miserably.

Respect for Police? Unequivocal. Absolute.

But, I agree with you somewhat, "some poor sod in a dodgy area of That London with no job, no hope of a job, and even the job centres closing around me I imagine the answer might be less equivocal....".

It's the hopelessness that gets you. In their case, they've maybe burned the shops down that might have given them a job.

In my case it's being 55, and 'foreign'. However, I don't feel a desire to burn a shop down, or throw bricks at police.

Mad, mad world nowadays...

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They seem to be organising rioting mainly on Blackberry Messenger system

Gov. should just demand it be shut down for a couple of days.

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Solution is simple.

Some folks hunt rabbits. Some, deers. Dunno why someone doesn't organise (via twitter, facebook or blackberry) a "Hoodie-hunt". That'd fix it.

I'm not advocating violence.

Police kill mobile phone service to squelch protest

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BART??!!

Gordon Bennett, when I once went to 'Frisco to be trained at Nicolet Paratronics, I didn't want to drive. Busy city, and I was barely out of my nappies (driving-experience-wise).

People in the office said "Use Bart". They didn't explain further.

I somehow got it in my mind "Bart" was an old git living in a shed, who'd give me a lift in his pickup in exchange for a bottle of whisky... Well, I was a kid then...

New DVD discs claim 1,000 year life

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I have a Windows ME disk.

Unfortunately, it's still readable...

Will the looters 'loose' their benefits?

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"Its a bloody stupid idea"

Innit?

Or, did you mean a job "in IT"? Aha.

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Loot food?

You should read or watch "The Road".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/

Might change your mind a bit...

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"No less an authority than Mark Twain"

"Counted twice"? I wouldn't exactly describe Mark Twain as "An authority".

Thought he just wrote books.

DARPA drops another HTV-2

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"The line is immaterial!"

Thanks, Lady Bracknell.

(Oscar Wilde, the Importance of Being Earnest)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278500/quotes

Nokia snubs UK with N9

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"Geeks loved the N900"

Phew. Thought you said "Greeks". Going in a few days.

Oh well. "Blessed are the cheesemakers...etc."

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Hit the nail on the head.

"..got used to Android.."

That's what Elop seriously missed when he shut the door in Symbian^3. You are comfortable with what you're familiar with. If you bought an Android thingy because a W7 isn't available yet, what's your next phone gonna be?

Oh yeah. I bitched sometime earlier about no apps. on websites (e.g.BBC, Guardian, etc) for any phones other than iPhone and Android. None for Symbian.

Seen any for W7?. Right. Tata, Nokia.

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going to Greece next week...

..maybe I can snap one up there. After all, with their financial problems, I guess Elop will call them an "Emerging Market"...

Gordon Ramsay sues father-in-law over alleged spyware plot

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Reluctantly agree.

I hate "Hell's Kitchen" where Ramsay acts like a primadonna on steroids, but his rescue of failing restaurants is indeed inspiring. Shows what can be done, given the right mind and hands.

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Heh. Chair falling off time again.

See my post above "Thought Gordon Ramsay was broke..."

I'm with you on that. Someone's going to give him a 'Stiff Upper Lip' if he doesn't tone down his rhetoric soon. I don't understand these 'primadonnas'

But, as I said before, he's an excellent chef. I've made loads of the recipes he's created. Maybe it's just playing for the cameras?

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Thought Gordon Ramsay was broke..Maybe the reason.

But if I worked in his "Hell's Kitchen" and he started yelling and swearing the bollox off me, I might suggest quietly he doesn't do it while I'm holding a fuc*king sharp meat cleaver.

(But, he's a bloody good chef. I've learnet a lot from him. bbcgoodfood.com is a daily visit.)

LOHAN team buried under ballockets

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This is the way to do it...

http://i.space.com/images/i/10634/i02/shuttle-atlantis-lifts-off.jpg

10-year old hacker finds flaw in mobile games

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Grief! You're as old as me!

Remember finding - in a ditch - an old LW/MW/SW radio that had those old wartime red-painted valves. Chassis only. Carried it home, all I needed to do was short out the power switch. Think I was a bit older, maybe 13? Used it for years.

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Bejeezus!

10 year old lass?? She must be as bright as a button. If she thinks like that, she's a good future ahead of her, especially as the BOFH will be retiring about the time she graduates ;-)

Yep, certainly made me feel old and withered. Think another glass of tramp-juice is in order. Or two.

Hobbyist killed by home-made hovercraft

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Angus McCoatup is someone else, mimicking my nick.

Must've been chatting to my Indian mate, Mahatma Kote.

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"You don't know you're name either.."

You don't know "Your from You're either". Gotcha.

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Okay, Okay...I admit defeat.

...But as my grandparents sent me, would that be a "grannie" school? ;-) Leamington College for Boys (Now Binswood Hall), which I really want to refer to on a CV as "Bugger Hall" and see who reads the thing.

Did a report once, where I said...we used a CMD57 (Rohde and Swarz measuring tool) , and a P2C2E....

In the vocabulary of the report, I had to explain all the abbreviations I used. Then the document was reviewed. Nokia way.

P2C2E? "Process Too Complex To Explain"*

From the reviewers (20 or so) only one person picked it up..Review process practically worthless.

*(Salman Rushdie - "Haroun and the Sea of Stories". One for your kids, it's well written, good reading, and damn funny)

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"only transport less operable is a hot air balloon."

Disagree. My friend's husband makes his living flying these, and he can put it down on a sixpence.

But Your quote "allowing drunks on pogosticks to motorways" had me rolling about again. Ta muchly!

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"Stick to horse riding",

Even for that, you'd be daft not to wear a (reinforced) riding hat.

Same as riding a bike. Helmet. It may not look cool, but sitting in a hospital chair, dribbling, while a nurse tries to spoon-feed you doesn't either.

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YOU'RE retarded, not YOUR retarded.

Please, get it right. My grandparents afforded me a place at a "Grammar" school. Therefore, I worked hard at my English, as I now am doing with my Finnish.

I know people have trouble with "their", "there" and "the're".

But getting it wrong is like being interviewed for a senior position wearing a baseball cap pointing backwards. It just says "Numpty"

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"My hovercraft is full of eels"

-sprang to mind. However, when I flew microlights years ago, you wouldn't start the thing if spectators were in direct line (i,e. 90 degrees) from the prop, which was wooden (I kid you not!). There was always the risk one of the two bades would shear, or throw some stones at the onlookers.

I'm just a bit confused how the blade came forward, and not out of the side.

Hackers breach chocolate recipe on Hershey website

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"changed a baking recipe for one of its products"

Gordon Bennet (or Ramsay) hope they modified " Hershey's Kisses"

They're bloody awful. Taste like they're made of lard.

Ofcom report: Mobile operators feel the squeeze

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Dammit, wrong key

Of course I meant "Foxconn". My mistake. But, they'r adjacent keys.

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.."complaining that poor Dell is forced to build PC in a sweatshop ..."

Are you referring to that excellent company called Foxcomm?

Google points finger at human after robo car accident

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Toyota, anyone?

Happened to me once. Not a Toyota, but an Opel Astra automatic here in Finland, I was taking my girlfriend's brother and wife to the airport. I switched on the cruise control to maintain 80Km/h. I came to a junction, tapped the brake to turn it off. Nothing. OK, press button on the steering wheel. Nothing. Fortunately, no traffic. Howling along at 80Km/h

I thought "This is going to be an interesting day!". OK direct road to the airport, let's keep going - and more importantly, don't panic the passengers.

Solution was simple. Switch the bugger off, without activating the steering lock. Coasted to the car park, passengers none the wiser.

When they were checking in, I discovered the problem. Autospeed relied on a small servo to pull a cable attached to the throttle by a cable. On the last service, cable had got trapped between engine and bulkhead.

What I can't understand is the family of 4 who died in a full-speed Toyota crash in US didn't just do what I did, and turn the ignition key.

Zuck's sister leaves Facebook to start new venture

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MBA? "The letters MBA weren't worth contaminating my soul"

If you worked for a company in Camberley, travelling back by train home to Leamington Spa every day, arriving at about 8 in the evening, then study 3-4 hours for your Open University MBA, get some sleep (forget 'horizontal jogging' with your wife - too knackered) then get the 05:45 back to Camberley, you'll know the letters MBA were worth the "blood, sweat and tears" that 4 years took out of my soul.

Yet, I'm still on the dole. Why, why, why.

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Fuck*ing facebook...

Maybe it's me, but facebook seems to have the most confusing UI imaginable. It's like a teenager wrote it for a bet* Sure, I use it occasionally, but, grief! It's bloody awful.

*actually, I know it was conceived by two students in their shared apartment, but FFS!!!

NASA's Juno roars off to Jupiter

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Dunno if I should read El Reg. anymore - doing my ribcage in.

The 4-ton Juno rose heavenwards at 16:25 GMT atop a bloody big United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket, boasting a quintet of solid booster strap-ons. Despite this extra lifting grunt,...

Thanks Lester. Another couple of cracked ribs....;-)

Anonymous unsheathes new, potent attack weapon

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Alright. That's it.

Enough. I'm shutting my TOR off. Couple of years ago, it was the highest bandwidth TOR server in Finland.

But I'm not aiding this shit.

First smut site erected on .xxx address

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"Finally, somewhere safe to w*nk"

"Have you ever been caught masturbating in a wardobe"

"No!!"

"Great place to hide, innit!"

(With respect to the late David Carradine, natch)

It's official: Journos are dumb as a bag of IE users

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"Recursive Headache"

Beautiful. Thanks for that. 10/10

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Well, as a Firefox user...

I keep my Mensa membership card in my pocket, in case I need to log on with new credentials..

Microsoft man saves drowning woman

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That's seriously good to read. Great outcome.

Good folks.

I see it here. Finns are supossed to be reticent, but they've always got a phone stuck to their ear. But, they can't multitask. Get hit by traffic. Distressing.

(OK, it was a "Microsoft man". S'ppose if id have been a Linux man he'd just waddled over.. Nah, Andus - stoppit)

Columbia debris emerges from Texas lake

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This is about as good as it gets

http://i.space.com/images/i/10634/i02/shuttle-atlantis-lifts-off.jpg

Astounding.