* Posts by Probe

18 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Feb 2008

Offensive, iconoclastic internet trolls will not be prosecuted, says DPP

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Flame

Re: I knew of a

Did it give you a stiffy? Tosser!

Kim Dotcom victim of 'largest data MASSACRE in history'

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Unhappy

Re: The feds are not going to stop themselves

Reply to myself to say the above was addressed to Mad Mike but the reply system appears to be broken (or possibly my brane).

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Re: The feds are not going to stop themselves

Addenum - just re-read your post , the job of the law is to make laws - laws have fuck all to do with morality.

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WTF?

Re: The feds are not going to stop themselves

So it's ok if I pimp children as long as I make a profit?

Review: Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock

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FAIL

Re: woah woah wah

My March 2009 Macbook Pro is 16:10 1200p, so "way before" is at best gross exaggeration.

1TB USB stick shoved into Swiss Army knife

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Weight

It's detachable.

Trojan poses as skeleton key jailbreak utility

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FAIL

I'm no hater...

1. The malware is installed on windows not iOS.

2. If you jailbreak you leave the walled garden.

3. You can't even read a simple article and understand it.

Have a nice day.

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Anonymous Coward

If that is the case then apologies to Anonymous Coward.

IE and Safari lets attackers steal user names and addresses

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Teaxt mode?

Can you get text mode images?

The long and the short-term of it: Apple's future

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Growth

It's about growth not absolute value. Investment x growth = profit, if I invest 1 million each into two companies the one that grows the most will make me the most profit, what the two companies are worth is irrelevant. That's where Apple has scored.

Ex-MySQL chief puts open source in its place

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Not just you

Fills me with horror.

Mammoth patent troll holder snags smartphone threat

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No

Different people different views - or would you rather have a Reg Party line which all Reg hacks are obliged to adhere to?

No, not broken.

IBM: Mainframe emulator part of a conspiracy

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There is no such device?

So, Hoover have never made vacuum cleaners then?

Waledac botnet 'decimated' by MS takedown

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I mean...

They probably wouldn't have been decimated if they had won.

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Language changes...

Sofa was originally the verb "Sleep", now its a piece of furniture.

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Because...

In all probability if a Legion was decimated after a battle the opposition had won, therefore a decimated legion was one which had lost, probably quite severely.

UK ID card project descends into muddle

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Headmaster

Bum fodder

Bumf only has one f, it's short for bum fodder (toilet paper).

Hamster-in-rain emergency prompts 999 call

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@ Stratman

There are many different species of hamsters throughout the world and most hamsters inhabit semi-desert areas where they live in burrows.

Not a lot of rain in hamsterland - just because it's an animal doesn't mean it can survive outside in the UK.