* Posts by Doogs

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Leave it to eager beaver: Pre-orders for Samsung's next flagship are up for pre-order

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Nice beaver!

Thanks, I've just had it stuffed...

User needed 40-minute lesson in turning it off and turning it on again

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Re: The mouse that never worked in the afternoon..

I had exactly the same thing happening in a classroom of the college I was working in.

Solved it by coating the inside of the mouse case with insulation tape.

Paid Wikipedia-fiddling on wheels

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Re: I prefer the business of...

I thought Chrysoprase, myself.

Gullible Essex Police are now using junk science lie detectors

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Re: Goes back much further

I think it's more likely that Richard 12 is referring to John Napier's method of using a soot-covered rooster to detect a thief.

Linus Torvalds in sweary rant about punctuation in kernel comments

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Re: RSI ?

Does the US number pad not have an asterisk right next to the slash?

Humans and bees share the same sociability genes

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Coat

I like it

Hui Liu is in the news.

(Sorry)

Australia's Dick finally drops off

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Shame

My first computer was the Dick Smith VZ-200, brought home by my Dad when I was a little'un. Kickstarted the shift in my interests from electronics to computing, and so shaped my whole career and therefore life.

Funny how things happen.

'Hot Tech Talent' IT job board ads caught up in sexism allegations

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Re: Bring back the diet coke ad!

I've recently seen it "reimagined" by a cheap supermarket - Lidl I think - to sell hot cross buns.

Electronic Superhighway 2016-1966 – a retro: Texts, ar*se and ASCII rolls

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Happy

Art is subjective, therefore art is whatever I think is art.

Google to deep six dodgy download buttons

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Re: What does to deep mean?

I always thought it was Air Force slang related to the "clock" method of relating a direction: eg deep 6 would mean to put something far behind you (ie 6 o'clock position).

If you can't buy bootleg gear online in New York, this may be why

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You know, I really thought it said Unisex Smegma for a couple of seconds...

In redneck heaven, internet outages are the American Way

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And a big fella, too.

BAD things happen to GOOD robots in America: hitchBot DECAPITATED

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Trollface

An experiment in human attitudes

What? Still a valid result, isn't it?

Han Solo to get solo prequel flick in 2018, helmed by LEGO men

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Alert

Cashing in

Another Christmas special can't be far off, then?

Abort, abort! Metal-on-metal VIOLENCE as Google's robo-car nearly CRASHES

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Re: FURY ROAD!!!

Maximum Overdrive

Zionists stole my SHOE, claims Muslim campaigner

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Joke

"El Reg was unable to contact Mossad for a comment"

Wonder if having Mossad annoyed at you is worse than having Apple annoyed at you...

Microsoft finally finishes its PowerPC emulator

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Mushroom

Re: What about the original XBox

Yeah, and Total Annihilation still pisses all over Planetary Annihilation.

Did you almost prang a 737 jet with a drone over Dallas? The FAA would like a word

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Re: Freaking lasers*

"frozen chickens"...

http://www.snopes.com/science/cannon.asp

HTC execs: Oh dear, did we say we'd sell lots of smartphones? Our bad

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Yep, I'd've definitely bought an M8/9, but my 3 year old One X is still going strong and shows no sign of giving up the ghost any time soon. Excellent phone, best I ever had.

O2 craps itself on national Blighty holiday as cabinet minister moans: 'Oi, sort it out!'

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Was an odd one - both my missus and me are on giffgaff; she had a signal while I didn't.

So, in our house, the problem was "isolated" to me.

Manchester car park lock hack leads to horn-blare hoo-ha

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Blocking mobile adverts just became that little bit easier

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Operators blocking ads

and replacing them with their own?

Viagra makes it HARD for malaria, bug-boffins discover

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Re: I feel I should make some comment...

Missed it by a gnat's todger...

The yummy mummies' likeable wagon: Nissan Qashqai Tekna

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Customer Service?

I've seen a few owner reviews where they've had pretty terrible customer service when their new Kumquat went wrong (mostly electrical, if I recall correctly). Weeks at the stealer, with the problem still there when they finally get it back, that sort of thing.

I was quite interested in it until I saw those; put me right off.

Can anyone corroborate/refute this?

Another interesting looking vehicle is the soon-to-be released Honda HR-V "sub-compact crossover". Specs/price seem a little too good to be true, maybe?

Cyber-scum deface Nazi concentration camp memorial website

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@Cameron Colley Re: Objectively disgusting, obvs. Subjectively...

Nah, no cause. I'm obviously rubbish at trolling, only the one downvote.

Was just trying (and failing) to posit it from a different angle, but you're correct; the child porn means I chose the wrong subject for my experiment.

Sincere apologies if I have caused any offense on my part.

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Trollface

Objectively disgusting, obvs. Subjectively...

Better or worse behaviour than drawing an insulting cartoon of someone's prophet?

Amstrad founder Lord Sugar quits 'anti-enterprise' Labour party

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Re: Hmm

I expect some of those that voted Labour were actually voting for their local Labour MP. Some MPs can be quite decent people (for pollies), despite their party.

Huawei P8: Chinese mobes have arrived and the West should tremble

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Re: Who are we?

Huawei the lads?

US law enforcement rushes to assist bumbling Canuck pirates

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ffs

"reached out to us"

Choc Factory's king codec serves 25 BEELLION Tube hours

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Re: Must be my eyes

Pretty useless frame for comparison, bunch of people one side, a wall the other. The ceiling tiles look a bit sharper under VP9 according to my eyes.

Layla enjoys a Sanskrit makeover: Clapton set to become one of several Gods

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Which Leela?

Doctor Who or Futurama?

Can't pay $349 for an Apple Watch? Get a Chinese knockoff for less than $50

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Re: Not really a knockoff....

Unfortunately, my even older Ironman required a CRT monitor for the interface, so had to be consigned to the Drawer Of Ancient Technology eventually. Sort of dabbled with writing code for it while it lived, though; still have the SDK (or whatever Timex called it) around somewhere.

HAPPY 20th Birthday MICROSOFT BOB

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Whoops

Managed to crash it within about 3 seconds of starting it.

"General Protection Fault in UTOPIA.DLL" or something...

Storm in a K-Cup: My SHAME over the eco-monster I created, says coffee pod inventor

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Yep, love my Aeropress. No crema though. Apparently you can get a metal mesh to replace the paper disc that allows crema, but that'd add faff too.

Is light a wave or a particle? Beaming boffins prove it's BOTH

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Should that be "reverse the neutrality of the polariton flow"?

Watch: FIRE-SPITTING time-lapse images of Sol showcase NASA's sun-gazing highs

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Re: THAT !

The hero pic used at the top of the article has been my desktop background since it was released in 2012.

I like your thinking. :)

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Happy

Beautiful...

Just beautiful.

Searching to destroy ... Bing? Facebook JILTS Microsoft

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Re: Does this article...

Just replace www in the url with an m and... presto! stupid ginormous image be gone!

Sick of the 'criminal' lies about pie? Lobby the government HERE

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100,000 signatures won't necessarily force a debate; it just means they might think about possibly having a debate, if they have time.

Bang! You're dead. Who gets your email, iTunes and Facebook?

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Well, technically, as your sphincters relax...

The Nokia ENIGMA THING and its SECRET, TERRIBLE purpose

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Re: I no what it is

As any fule kno...

Bible THUMP: Good Book beats Darwin to most influential tome title

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Re: Don't Panic!

If it's breadth of time you're after, I rather enjoyed Deep Time by David Darling some time (SWIDT?) ago.

Probably not as accurate as it used to be, but still interesting I think.

UNCHAINING DEMONS which might DESTROY HUMANITY: Musk on AI

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Re: Nah.

I guess that why it's termed Artificial Intelligence rather than Artificial Sapience?

Agree with you about human/machine hybridization. I suspect that'll be the way of it. More of an evolution than a revolution.

Are there sounds on Mars? NASA launches audio athenaeum

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Re: I sense a Bowie listening session coming up

Or Lemon Jelly...

"Zero G and I feel fine"

One step closer to robot butlers: Dyson flashes vid of vacuum sucker bot

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Re: Apple school of marketing?

"Dirt or debris, you're coming with me."

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Apple school of marketing?

Clearly a "homage" to the original RoboCop, Shirley?

Drunkards warned: If you can't walk in a straight line, don't shop online, you fool!

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I remember my dad relating how he had to return an e-type Jag once after a drunken purchase.

Long before the www and online shopping, though.

Presumably before drunk driving laws too... :(

Chomp that sausage: Brits just LOVE scoffing a Full Monty

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Re: So basiclly,

Pretty sure I read somewhere that was true; UK has greater incidence of obesity per capita than US but, as usual, Yanks tend to take it to extremes. ;)

Too rich for an iPhone 6? How about a gold-plated Brikk?

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All that money...

and you don't even get a slice of lemon?

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