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US Navy's plane-hurling mass driver in tech hiccup

Wednesday 12th May 2010 15:57 GMT John G Imrie

Dammit

So that was a squashed fly on the Spec and not a minus sign after all.

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Trident, nuke energy looking poorly under LibCons

Wednesday 12th May 2010 15:13 GMT John G Imrie

But we must have Trident

Trident is the Roles Royce of Nuclear Missiles, it's the Missile Harrords' would sell

- Sir Humphrey Appleby, Yes Priminister

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Biometric passport 2.0 scrapped alongside ID cards, NIR

Wednesday 12th May 2010 12:15 GMT John G Imrie

Freedom Bill, and the Great Repeal Bill

Or as Andrew 'brillo pad' Neil almost got the Tory he was interviewing this lunch time to say 'The Great Repeal Freedom Bill' :-)

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Cameron aims to bring LibDems into government

Monday 10th May 2010 09:36 GMT John G Imrie

Lib dems share of the vote

was 20.1% ish.

Which if they got the same number of seats as their share shuld have given them around 148 instead of the 57 they got

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Monday 10th May 2010 09:36 GMT John G Imrie

Elected PM

In this country we *never* elect the PM.

The PM is the leader of the party who can sustain a majority of votes in the House of Commons. Under this definition the PM might not even have a constituency, or may have been voted out of their constituency in the election.

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Sharing bank PINs leaves consumers at risk

Wednesday 5th May 2010 12:31 GMT John G Imrie

If chip and pin is so secure

Why do banks ask you to cut through the chip when you replace your old card?

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Megan Fox not world's sexiest woman: Official

Thursday 29th April 2010 19:03 GMT John G Imrie

Taste?

What, were they polling the people in Ann Summers buying ball-gags?

No they have taste. Mainly the taste of rubber I'll grant you, but it's still taste.

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Workers scared to befriend bosses on Facebook

Friday 23rd April 2010 13:35 GMT John G Imrie

How soon...

until *not* friending your boss becomes to look suspicious?

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Marmite sends in the lawyers against BNP

Thursday 22nd April 2010 15:21 GMT John G Imrie

Hate Party

So Griffin will be the leader of the Hate Party then.

Me .. I'm after some free Love :-)

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Lib Dems demand niceness, ignore technology

Wednesday 14th April 2010 23:49 GMT John G Imrie

Not a bus user then?

Every bus I've been on on the last 5 years has a two way radio and a video surveillance system installed.

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Wednesday 14th April 2010 13:31 GMT John G Imrie

Won't be the passenger.

Depends on how the law is worded, but I'd suggest that if you get off at anywhere other than a bus stop then you agree to shoulder the risk.

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Primark pulls 'disgraceful' padded bikini for kiddies

Wednesday 14th April 2010 13:31 GMT John G Imrie

New El Reg term

El Reg Hacks call people who download stuff of the internet for free 'freetards', so I propose calling retailers who sell crap to children 'retards'.

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One fifth of humans say aliens walk among us

Monday 12th April 2010 12:32 GMT John G Imrie

In which case they would say that, wouldn't they?

Yes I would.

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Murdoch tells old media to 'stand up' to Google, Bing

Wednesday 7th April 2010 14:55 GMT John G Imrie

Well he has several options

One don't put the stories on line

Two Set up an RSS feed ant let Google use that to index the site

Thee, Oh hell why am I doing his techies job for free.

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Microsoft roasted for Office 2010 standards FAIL

Wednesday 7th April 2010 12:10 GMT John G Imrie

Micosoft Announce

That Office 2010 does not conform to any approved ISO standard.

Can we now stop our respective governments from using their products?

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Wikileaks video shows US gunfire on Reuters staff

Tuesday 6th April 2010 10:08 GMT John G Imrie

How long

Until the US Government orders a take-down notice to YouTubeunder the DMCA for violating the copyright of its helicopter pilots?

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New Reg comments system ready to launch

Thursday 1st April 2010 11:22 GMT John G Imrie

Re: Andrew Orlowski

If there is such an option I doubt I'll ever be able to afford it.

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LHC particle-punisher in record 7 TeV hypercollisions

Tuesday 30th March 2010 23:21 GMT John G Imrie

That and the fact

It will probably take them the year it's down to process all the data they get from the 7TeV collisions.

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Tinfoil Condition Red! LHC 7 TeV mega-blasts today

Tuesday 30th March 2010 09:49 GMT John G Imrie

Coincedence

The Jury in the SCO v's Novell Court case is due to give their verdict on Tuesday. Is SCO planning to sabotage the LHC, thus destroying the world, in a vain attempt to delay what's coming to them.

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The Pirate Party is the shape of things to come

Friday 26th March 2010 14:34 GMT John G Imrie

Do you want Noddy's children to starve?

No I want them to go out and earn their own fucking money.!

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Brown's website as mad as he is

Thursday 25th March 2010 23:53 GMT John G Imrie

Re: Prince Philip

Isn't that why the 'locals' invite him over?

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Sophos sorry for blog comment spam campaign

Monday 22nd March 2010 16:00 GMT John G Imrie

Yes there are lots of them

Just look in your local bankruptcy court listings.

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LHC boffins crank beams to 3.5 TeV redline

Friday 19th March 2010 22:45 GMT John G Imrie

Just remember

To take your crowbar with you.

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Manchester's on fire for ID cards, claims ID minister

Tuesday 16th March 2010 14:07 GMT John G Imrie

Actually it says

"tick here if you don't want an ID card as well".

but there is no box

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Tuesday 16th March 2010 14:05 GMT John G Imrie

I do have a passport

But I don't recall ever having to use it to be included in anything.

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Spooks scramble to replace failed secret messaging system

Monday 15th March 2010 13:43 GMT John G Imrie

Revenge

"We are doing really quite well on this more modest CLiC programme, which is not being run out of the Cabinet Office, it is being run out of SIS and GCHQ,"

Is this the revenge of the intelligence agencies over being dropped in the brown stuff over the Iraq war?

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Hull Daily Mail pulls porncoder comments

Monday 8th March 2010 12:47 GMT John G Imrie

Oh Bugger

I new I should have archived the comments page on the HDM story.

Oh well I'm sure someone will have a torrent available soon.

Fail on my part for being so short sighted.

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NHS denies pre-election stitch-up

Tuesday 2nd March 2010 13:55 GMT John G Imrie

There should be a law ...

There is.

It's handled by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments see http://acoba.independent.gov.uk/

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Nexus One in trigger-happy 999-dialling bother

Tuesday 23rd February 2010 13:43 GMT John G Imrie

Isn't this sort of cockup...

Why they wont let hackers muck around with the code.

Oh it was Google that did it :-)

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UK government won't be keeping mobile database

Tuesday 23rd February 2010 13:43 GMT John G Imrie

You are being too leaniant

Underpants and shoos should be banned.

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Warner Music gives up on free streaming services

Wednesday 10th February 2010 16:22 GMT John G Imrie

Warner Bros. want to stop free streeming services

So are they also going to give up on radio as well? Idiots they have just given up on selling to the next generation of music listeners.

If I owned an Independent Label I'd be laughing all the way to the bank.

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NHS appraisal toolkit yanked offline

Wednesday 10th February 2010 16:20 GMT John G Imrie

10 out of 10

For the action that they took.

Its a pity that the NHS couldn't have arranged the audit so that it's results wouldn't clash with a high volume period, but that's a minor nit pick considering the actions taken.

NHS in IT success story.

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OpenOffice is the new David Hasselhoff

Tuesday 9th February 2010 12:12 GMT John G Imrie

That Lib Dem thing may be changing

People may well vote Lib Dem as they came second last time and they see it as a way of unseating the incumbent.

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Gov tempts young London onto ID database with booze, 'games'

Tuesday 9th February 2010 00:37 GMT John G Imrie

How to leach off the government for the next 10 years

Easy, set up an IT consultancy.

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Climategate witchhunt fingers scientist

Friday 5th February 2010 17:59 GMT John G Imrie

Answer to number 20

Fuck yes, I live in the 21st Century.

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Retailers fooled by fake and borrowed IDs

Friday 5th February 2010 14:33 GMT John G Imrie

Lying to get into a pub

In my day we didn't have to lie. As an under-age drinker I used to have pints baught me by our local Bobby.

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Stats boss slams Tory use of crime figures

Friday 5th February 2010 13:53 GMT John G Imrie

Re: Undermine public trust in official statistics

Have you tried using imaginary numbers?

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Think Aussie election rules are draconian? Look at the UK's

Wednesday 3rd February 2010 17:06 GMT John G Imrie

So what happens if ...

an MP with connections to a foreign country sets up a web site in that country supporting one or another party and then buys a .uk domain that redirects to that site?

What happens if the site is paid for using earnings not generated in the UK?

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Aussie censor balks at bijou boobs

Thursday 28th January 2010 14:40 GMT John G Imrie

Raceist?

Asian women have traditionally had smaller breasts than their occidental counterparts. I'd have thought the Ozies would have been more sensitive to their nabours.

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MPs demand UK government end secrecy over ACTA

Wednesday 27th January 2010 15:00 GMT John G Imrie

My MP isn't on the list

I'll write to him tonight.

I suggest you do the same.

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Solicitor General takes fresh pop at PunterNet

Tuesday 26th January 2010 14:42 GMT John G Imrie

Living off immoral earnings

Being guilty of the offence my self, I accepted tea and biscuits from a friend on the game, there is a very big problem with trying to prosecute under this law.

All the fellow sex workers my friend new scrupulously paid their taxes . So the Government and anyone who has ever received any benefit from the Government is equally guilty.

Now how do I get Gordon Brown prosecuted?

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Tuesday 26th January 2010 14:28 GMT John G Imrie

Regulation?

Hell you cant do that, you would be able to tax it properly and offer punters and prostitutes medical screening and ...

Oh hang on a sec :-)

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Airport scanner staff object to vetting

Friday 22nd January 2010 13:47 GMT John G Imrie

"We have bombs and knives on our minds and that’s it."

So we have a bunch of people looking at artificially enhanced pictures of nude passengers with "bombs and knives on our minds and that’s it."

Either they match the profile for terrorists, or the are falling foul of the extreme porn laws.

Take your pick.

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MS spins IE security disaster into Windows 7 upgrade opportunity

Wednesday 20th January 2010 00:19 GMT John G Imrie

it's endless

That's because it lists bugs in *everything* in the distro.

Try concatenating the bug lists for Windows, Office, IE, SQLserver, Outlook, Outlook Express, IIS, mIRC, ....

Oh look it's endless.

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Darling forces ministers to draw up spending hit lists

Tuesday 19th January 2010 13:20 GMT John G Imrie

My I add my list to the discussion

Scrap ID cards

Scrap the NHS IT project and sue the contractors for incompetence.

Sack EDS and all the other IT consultants.

Mandate F/OSS and open standards for all new IT projects.

Advertise on billboards, on TV ( saving ITV into the bargain), and in the national and local press the creation of a load of IT jobs working on F/OSS projects for the Government (stimulating the UK IT industry)

Teach children proper IT skills in class, not just how to use MS Word.

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