Posts by bluesxman

"consummate"

Is that a roundabout way of saying they fully intend to screw Yahoo!?

Too bad ...

... they didn't take the opportunity to revamp their god awful train search engine as well.

RE: Simple stop spam idea

Something like that is already theoretically possible (though unworkable in reality) with the likes of Gmail -- IIRC they call it "plus addressing". Imagine your email address is yourname@somesite.blah ... you would sign up at (say) The Register with yourname+elreg@somesite.blah* ... the resulting email will still be delivered to your "yourname" account, but you can then filter based on the "plus" part**

* Caveat #1: I did try to get something like this going on, but I quickly found that the VAST majority of websites (that I attempted this on) insist that "+" is NOT a valid character to include in the email address. If all those eejits would get wi' the program it'd've make my life a helluvalot easier!

** Caveat #2: in order for this to defeat most effectively those dirty spammers, you'd have to sign up with a "plus" suffix every time, and filter your email such that emails without such a suffix are always considered to be spam. Which would also mean your friends would have to remember to include the tag too.

lop-sided

Forgive me for adding an air of practicality to the proceedings, but unless you're wearing two of these, wouldn't this make for unevenly toned leg muscles, by reducing the impact of the exercise on the leg it's attached to?

And by extraction, even if you were to wear two (attractive as they are), aren't you going to have to walk/run further to get the same aerobic effect you used to due to it "helping the leg somewhat with its task"? Doesn't that defeat the object of the *cough* exercise of exercising?

@ Alistair

"At least Lfilm carry those rarely rented oddities that you always wanted to watch but were always too afraid to ask for."

So you're saying they carry pr0n? Didn't realise it was THAT kind of "Love" film...

can't think of a title

<pedantry>Looks like a cheeseburger to me...</pedantry>

I vaguely recall such a device was frequently visible on the counter in a café on a TV show I watched as a yoof. I'm thinking it was Home & Away, but can't be certain.

extended family

Can anyone else hear duelling banjos and the distant squeal of a pig?

RE: Product Difference?

A quick glance at the Nokia site leads me to conclude that the N95 is a "slide" type phone whereas the N82 is of the "candy-bar" type.

So, yeah, no difference at all there...

RE: Jeez

"Even the cases are poorly designed, why put a 5" disc in a 10" case?" ... I always assumed it was so we could put them on the shelf next to our legacy VHS media and everything would still look neat and tidy.

RE: Why O Why O Why

Using the serial number as the default password would seem the way to go, to me. It's unique, somewhat random and unknowable to a remote attacker. More importantly it's printed on the device (not just the box), so you can't possibly lose it. Naturally an alphanumeric serial numbering scheme would be preferred.

Yes OK, someone looking at your router could potentially compromise it, but if they have physical access to your router then the breaching of same is the least of your concerns.

RE: tarded

That is all.

morons

... but that aside (and pretty much off topic) recorded delivery is a waste of frickin' time, since it carries no more guarantee of arrival than a 2nd class stamp. If you post something recorded that is even *slightly* more interesting looking than a simple letter it's a red flag to to some skanking chav in the sorting office that this item might have some importance/value. Straight away the "yoink" factor goes through the roof. Not that Special Delivery is any less of a red flag, but at least Royal Mail are financially liable for losses thus they more likely to better secure the items ... one would hope.[/rant]

@ Peter Leech

Have you worked in IT recently? There's morons all over the shop!

Since when...

... did R2D2 have ears? And arms? I'm not even going to start on the rest.

RE: How about V90!

How hard did you look? I'm guessing you're easily discouraged.

After roughly 1 minute of Googling I found this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dynamode-M56EXT-USB-T-Slim-line-external/dp/B000RFUNNC

As a rule of thumb you should not trust SALES people to give accurate product advice. Even (maybe that should that "especially") for things they "know" about.

RE: Sweet

A decent method for playing media files from a network share, SD storage or USB connected mass storage device would be Job #1.

And some online games.

Nintendo, where in the heck are the on-line games?

Oops, personal source of Wii annoyance revealed. Move along, nothing to see here.

WinMe2

Vista seems to be living up to its donkey of a cousin's legacy ... I seem to recall copy estimates were often wildly inaccurate (I.E. high) when Me1 was (briefly) installed on a laptop I had way back at the start of the millennium. It's great to see that they're apparently still using the same code base ;)

@Elijah // Way off topic, but ....

Got put on to this by my semi-Luddite father, of all people...

http://www.saynoto0870.co.uk/

Now I can waste my "free" mobile minutes calling useless call centres, rather than my work phone or work supplied home phone. Hmmm, wait a minute...

deterant?

Is this really going to have the desired effect or just cause the culprits to work that much harder to cover-up their incompetence post-factum (or just strengthen the "blame the junior" mentality usually displayed)? What good is punishment when there's no culpability?

Inconsistent censorship?

What with lots of people querying the logic of censoring "faggot" (for example) but not "arse" it brings to mind a broadcast I saw of Courtney Love reading Kurt Cobain's suicide note (bear with me).

Basically she was reading bits out and commenting on them and at a couple of points, where she seemed to strongly disagree with what he'd written, she called him an "asshole". At least I presume that's what she was saying as only the word "hole" was bleeped out. Go figure.

RE: T-shirt!

How about this contender?

"I wrote it on teh Wikipedia so now it R true"

RE: Oxymoron

Actually it's not oxymoronic, since there is no contradiction. It's just that "pointless" is an unnecessary qualification of "celebrity".

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"confusion" my arse

I've no doubt they are up-selling the insurance for the same reason PC World et al try their utmost to flog you a costly (and generally pointless) extended warranty -- the get cock all commission from the tangibles compared to what they get for that piece of paper.

PS3 is the deciding factor? Pish Posh.

All this speculation and premature celebration will amount to nowt.

The answer to one simple question will settle the format war debate for good and all:

>> Where is the porn?

The people need, nay, deserve to know!

Obligatory Withnail & I quote

"The wankers [on the street] don't drink it because they can't afford it!"

RE: Well, if you will break the rules...

Don't forget the most important rule of all ... never indulge in self mutilation in some shady tattoo parlour abroad ... Notwithstanding the language barrier evident in this case -- say hello to your new BFFEs Hepatitis + HIV (etc)!

Workaround, of sorts

If you select the 28th (for example) and select the 3 days either way radio you can get at the mythical 29th o' Feb at the next stage. So not a completely broken system. But still more than a bit shit.

How the hell did Trainline's engine get to become the de facto standard, when it's such a heaping pile of crap?

RE: No animals were hurt during this experiment, yeah right

"if birds have natural talent for flying why shouldnt they ( or rather their brains ) fly planes."

Based on the amount of birds I've seen expressing this natural talent by braining themselves on patio windows, I going to say "no thanks!"

RE: Withnail & I is full of quotey goodness!

It most certainly is...

"'I fuck arses' ... who fucks arses? Maybe HE fucks arses!"

"I called him a ponce, and now I'm calling you one ... PONCE!"

"I have a heart condition, if you hit me it's murder!"

"Started coming on really 'bald' with me"

"If I spiked you you'd know you'd been spoken too"

"If I medicined you, you'd think a brain tumour was a birthday present"

"Cool your boots, man"

"You can shove it up your arse for nothing and fuck off while you're doing it"

"Danny's lost his clog!"

"My thumbs have gone weird!"

"We're not from London, you know" .. "I don't care where you come from!"

"Are you the farmer?".. "Stop saying that Withnail, of course he's the FUCKING farmer!"

"I want something's flesh!"

"I've been watching you - especially you, prancing like a TIT, you want workin' on boy!"

"I'm not homosexual Monty!" .. "Yes you are, OF COURSE you are!"

And the list goes on and on...

RE: "try the FOX network, they're pretty even in their news."

Thanks for that, funniest thing I've read all day. OK it's only 10:07, but I still can't see it being beaten.

Not playing computer games...

...makes you violent. Official.

Suck on that, Jack Thompson.