* Posts by Scott 19

365 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009

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Zuckerberg blew $1bn on Instagram 'without telling Facebook board'

Scott 19
Meh

Coin flip

Being lucky and being intelligent are two diffrent things, luck with FB, intelligent with Instagram.

i'll let people decide if Zuckerberg is lucky or intelligent but I will state he ain't both.

Asian recruiters on the prowl for IT managers

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It'd be tough

Lawyers and polititions don't get to go, what about celebs? civil servants I assume stay with the debt they have caused what about the public sector? do you want the bloke you talk to when/if you pay you pay your council tax?

With the collapse of the finance system in 10-15 years (the cycle gets sorter each time) should only people with enough money to live be allowed to go?

By the way I'm all for it, infact if you can phone the East and let them know we're coming that would be handy.

TSA bars security guru from perv scanner testimony

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Remember

'It's a Dildo, not your Dildo'.

Sorry was on TV last night and the TSA guys are 'a Dildo.' (There's me on a no fly list).

James Cameron back from dive to world's deepest point

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Next Time

Could he take every copy of Dancing with Smurfs with him and leave them there at least he would of done something more than grab the attention he is so desperate for.

And I've seen all this with Branson so it's old hat, liked The Abyss but the message trying to tell the world what to do ruined the end.

'We're crying out for storage'

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IT Angle

?

'He also controversially lopped 5 per cent off the tax rate for top earners.' 5% 0f 50p? or are you assuming that 100% tax is on the cards and taken it from there?

You're crap and paid too much for the little work you actually do

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Not real

Nope I didn't miss the point, be a good little butt kisser and you get a raise, it ain't hard to read between the lines of this pretty light piece of blogging.

The intresting part will be to see if anyone takes this advice and gets a raise because in the real world the best way to get a raise is to move jobs.

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Most

Most people work outside the London bubble.

And I work for a company of 300,000 IT professionals if your not willing to do the job the bloke in the next cubical will or is this aimed at the top end earners, the article doesn't specify? (If you earn under 60,000 a year please ignore sort of warning).

Are you just trying to prove you are the BOFH in human form?

Apple Store staff outnumber queues as new iPad goes on sale

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Maybe it was the fool rule

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, thrid time your just taking the piss (In HD, wow HD).

Apple resellers left to pick bones of dwindling iPad stocks

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iPad

So this iPad thingy is it an iPhone with a bigger screen or an iPod with a bigger screen, iGet confused.

Human 4G masts assemble roaming hobonet for pennies

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?

So the guys complaining including the author think it's better they stand in traffic with a dirty rag for your windscreen? I suppose they get there drug of choice then rather than shelter.

Halo friends frag harder, longer

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FAIL

Waste of time

And then you throw in MW3 and it's every man for himself. What a waste of time this study was, they would of been better study PUGs against Guild runs in WoW.

Hubble snaps exploding star's near-fatal weight-loss bid

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Money

Money where your mouth is Reg your going for a million, I'll take that bet put me down for 999,999 years from now.

3D processor-memory mashups take center stage

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Thought.

All to make porn download quicker.

Activist supplied illegally obtained docs to DeSmogBlog

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HaHaHa

There are a lot of idiots on this post and the biggest ones are the ones that use the word 'Trend ' in their comments, idiots.

Councils spunk £515m in 4 years on CCTV

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Meh

Lucky

Lucky our Government doesn't have to follow say a cost-to-benefit ration, then again imagine if they then used such a system on themselves?

The cost-to-benefit ration of a politician has to be negative.

2012 Games Preview

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Looking forward to...

a Skyrim patch that fixes the many bugs would be good, then it'll be that until ME:3 coms out.

2011's Best... Games

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Hum

If your still playing Fallout 3 buy Skyrim, it'll last you years if you want to try every aspect of the game.

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Rating system

So the only rating was graphics?

Nokia exec: Young fashonistas 'fed up' with iPhone

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Facepalm

PR

Might of been better using the line your parents all use iPhones, Android but they don't use these.

Abit of the old reverse psychology rather than the Yoof will buy these isn’t going to go far they generally follow the line ‘I tell you what to do and you do what you want.’

Malcolm Gladwell, tipping points and Climategate

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Pint

It's a shame...

...that the only people held accountable in this modern world are generally the ones at the bottom.

Be nice if the bums that perpetuated this CAGW scam would actually end up with some sort of reckoning.

Oh well back to paying for someone else's pension.

Mobile scaremongers want warning stickers on EVERYTHING

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So....

Who wants to make some money, a special hat? or special mobile cover? that protects you from everything in this report.

£19.99 for this special orange hat that stops you getting cranium cancer, just ignore the snake oil label on the box.

German states defend use of 'Federal Trojan'

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Yep

'The sample of the Trojan obtained by the CCC was apparently placed on a suspect's laptop when he passed through customs at the Munich International airport' - That's the bit that gets me, personnally if you have good/bad data on your laptop that you don't want other people to see use encryption people it's not hard.

Or simply switching your laptop on and using the free wireless at the airport installs this on your machine?

Fujitsu strike to hit back-office across UK.gov

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FAIL

Optional

I'm always amazed by the ignorance on such matters, if you have no idea what is happening then I would suggest you do not comment, then again round here everyone has a comment so that will not work.

And try and work out 1.5% of 13,500 grand? that will not cover the increase to get to work for the year, inflation in this coutry is running at roughly 5%.

French bloke fined for failing to shag missus

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Facepalm

Sue-ing

I guess in todays PC world it works both ways, now French men can sue there wifes for not enough sex.

And what about if the cleaning, cooking or taking the kids to school is not 50/50?

Prime Minister recalls holidaying MPs after London riots

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Have to agree

When the public sector is carving up the tax pot and then when it run out started borrowing more to nick then you can't blame a few people for thinking it seemed like a good idea.

If your allowed to screw the public over if you work for the Goverment why moan when private citizens do it?

Microsoft man saves drowning woman

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Joke

I'm a Southerner

And I always rescue damsels in distress, generally by leaving the pub.

Acoustic trauma: How wind farms make you sick

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ABC?

You joined El Reg comments just to post this comment? strange, what is the motivation I wonder?

Not a CWM then?

Tablets will overtake consumer PCs, says Fujitsu CTO

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Paris Hilton

Monkeys

You offer Monkeys a cardboard box with a banana in it and a cardboard box with selotape on it and a banana in it I know which one people (sorry i mean monkeys) will go for.

Although games consoles have been around much longer offering banana's to monkeys so it's not like apple bumbing down technology is anything new.

UK Govt refuses to ban shale gas 'fracking'

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Agree

Totally agree this will simply be sold off to some foriegn investor to make large sums of money for them and a little bit of tax for the goverment, in no way shape or form will this benefit me or you.

It doesn't matter where the gas comes from it's who owns it that will see the UK keep topping the charts for energy prices.

Lost 1967 spacecraft found crashed on the Moon

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Miss

They'll probably find a big pile of odd socks next to it.

Utah cops baffled in case of mysterious anonymous cuffee

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Stars

He's just checking out the facility's for the next Lonely Planet.

CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment

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Holmes

@AC - Consensus science

Try for some learning :-

http://judithcurry.com/2011/07/16/manufacturing-consensus/

Star Wars fans want Sony sued over game shutdown

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Unhappy

Ideas

I'd like to see the games industry come up with some new ideas at least, the big innervation this year was L.A. Noire and what a disappointment that was/is.

Does a flash motor make a man more desirable?

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Angel

poor-man's Porsche

'poor-man's Porsche ' - The guy at work just doesn't get it when I point out he may own a Porsche but it's a poor mans one. Nice to see it's more than just me that thinks this way.

Get a real car or get behind me and cut my hair.

MoD plans 'name and shame' crackdown on crap projects

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Mushroom

Time

I'll save him time BAE, BAE, BAE.

How's the aircraft carrirers coming along Mr Fox?

A sysadmin's top ten tales of woe

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The first 2

The first 2 times my engineer clicked shut down instead of log off on a terminal I smiled grimley and then threatened to break his fingers if he did it a 3rd time, 2 1/2 years later and hes still not done it again.

Forgetting to order the software that the customer has paid for and realising the day before so instead of telling your team they downloaded a bit torrent version and installing that on all the machines, the licence key generator gave it away.

And generally young up starts that think your just doing things the hard way to make more work for people and that all the rules that are in place for IT hardware/software do not count for them and then they do something stupid.

Psychology graduates remain poor for life, study shows

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1234

I thought with the crack down here in the UK they where getting rid of joke courses?

'Leccy price hike: Greens to blame as well as energy biz

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Missing something

The Goverment has to push the prices of leccy up because to make renewnables viable they have to have the same price as fossil fuels, so yes the payments to make re-newables viable will go only once leccy is at the world beating cost of renewnables.

But don't worry eevy one frothing at the mouth about CO2 and the enviroment as this will not effect your middle class exsistance as it'll only be the poor, helpless and infirm that are effected by this and who cares about them, certainly not any greens i've ever met.

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Idiot

Lewis is talking about leccy prices so why comment on something that has nothing to do with the story? I suggest you go back and have a re-think of your comment.

Attorney General threatens Twitter injunction-busters

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Windows

Makes you laugh

This bloke really does think alot of himself.

The only way this will work is if they put a firewall up like china but set the string 'Block' to 'all'.

Groundhog day: more Sony breaches

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Troll

Title

LoL, xBox, LoL.

<---Check the icon.

Then run's and hides behind the couch.

Hack attacks on US could spark military action

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Inward

I'd be looking internally if I was the US of A, i watched a documentor the other day called 'War Games' where a teenager hacked there military only using a dial up.

Quite scary stuff.

NHS IT dino-project NPfIT should be killed off - NAO

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Dinoincompetence

Man i was involved in this about 6 years ago and it's still going, shocking.

And it was so well managed as well /sarc.

Powerline networking pops up in Parliament

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(untitled)

21st century politics, la, la, la where not listening.

Well at least I get to decide how I vote for Christmas which is all important and not actaully who I vote for as there all the same. What noise do Turkeys make?

Insurance firm pushes out iPhone app that rates driving ability

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Troll

A few years ago

When I had the time at work to enjoy The Reg I use to love identifying the Apple Marketers that are employed to hang around the interweb bigging up Apple.

Checking out all your comments 'Wake up before you sleep thru windows last crash' I'm guessing your an apple marketer.

Oh the good old days when all the staff didn't get the sack and I had the BOFH book marked. Thanks for the nostalgia Wubystwlc.

Dell refreshes Alienware laptops

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Got mine

Last year and still loving it. Althought the AlienFx software can be a bit flakey.

M&S whips out carbon-neutral bra

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Bonkers

The worlds gone funking bonkers, carbon neutral underwear. what every next tuppence for every bottle you bring in that is full of your methane.

Council loses £2.5m claim against Big Blue

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Costs

Just bump up the council tax by a tenner should sort out the costs of this court case the council had to bring to prove there not a bunch of muppets...

....what a bunch of muppets.

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Lucky

I haven't got to my middle ages or had a crisis, so cannot comment on Motor bikes.

I will say i prefer four strokes to two though.

Txt tax would wipe out half UK deficit, claims union baron

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Title

And this blokes in charge of something? What a scary thought.

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