* Posts by hplasm

5611 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

Rest your head against a train window, hear VOICES in your SKULL

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Re: More subtle than an axe

I see this as a public service, and a new way to enjoy boring train journeys!

Cloud computers are like bananas, says Deutsche Börse

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Re: Yup. Just like bananas.

Bananas don't roll very well because they are bent and faceted. Clouds are bumpy and nebulous so they probably don't roll too well either.

You may well have a good point there!

Surface Pro for enterprise: We name the dates and the lucky partners

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Re: Having just spent today using one...

There will always be cheap laptops- not necessarily MS ones.

Microsoft's murder most foul: TechNet is dead

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Re: Peoples simply have a mistaken definition of testing

No need to test- MS products are becoming increasingly unsuitable.

'The Apprentice' is a load of old codswallop, says biz prof

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Happy

No Jihad on the moon with less than 8 D size though.

Snowden speaks from Moscow: 'Obama lies'

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Big Brother

"...but in the end they will be held accountable for their crimes..."

Who? The US Govt? Fat Chance.

Windows 8.1: Here at last, but is it good enough?

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Re: "Why would 'Professionals' want to deal with such an amateurish OS"

" it is part of their job..."

No, it isn't.

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Re: Well...

"My 14 year old loves Windows 8..."

I rest my case.

The target demographic.

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Re: I see that some at least of the....

Why would 'Professionals' want to deal with such an amateurish OS?

Microsoft's MoodScope app predicts smartphones users' feelings

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User is...

Using Windows- yes

Predicted mood- Unhappy/Angry.

Not rocket surgery, is it?

Idaho patriots tool up to battle Jihad with pork bullets

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Boffin

Rather-

Where the fireball touches the ground- used to determine possible fallout.

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Alert

In an emergency-

will they just use a pork sausage as a silencer?

Flippin' Equus! Unfeasibly old horse bone DNA triumph

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Re: How

In the beginning was the Horse...

Home Office launches £4m cyber security awareness scheme

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Re: Might like to start with the House of Commons

Which strain? Red, Blue or Yellow.

Spaniards deploy self-propelled ROBOT BALLS

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Re: Two hundred years from now.....

The carnage was awful. "we have all seen too many body bags and ball sacks" said Kissinger's Head,

Cuba bound? Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong

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@fibbles

TSA: "What is this Commie bullshit!?"

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Re: Sadly

They did go away when I answered holding an inflated rubber glove, and said I was a little busy...

(a pretend udder if you must know... That doesn't help, does it...?

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Re: Sadly

Wear a t-shirt with a picture of a gun on it, or Osama, or some Arabic; or as suggested, put 'yes' in all the boxes that no-one in their right mids would ever pick- "Are you or have you ever been a Communist/ Terrorist/Democrat/ Member of New Model Army?"

They have no sense of humo(u)r and will boot you right back out.

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Mikeyt

We are all persons of interest to them. But some are of more interest than others...

Using encryption? That means the US spooks have you on file

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Re: All of 'em

"As a society we demand almost absolute security..."

Who are you calling 'we', Kemosabe?

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Re: Large files

Download the Internet, encrypt it and use it as an email signature.

That should keep them busy,

Might need a bigger processor, possibly won't work on a Tablet.

Cultivated dope-smoking Welshman barred from own shed

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Re: Jazz cigarettes

Niiice!

El Reg rocket squad poised to select Ultimate Cuppa teabag

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Re: Just wondering

Tea eggs! Little mesh ball things, great for loose tea.

Can Jonny Ive's new 'iOS Vista' SAVE the BBC's £100m BRAIN? Yes!

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Re: Is it just me...

Look at it as real- like Yes, Minister.

Then everything makes perfect sense.

AXE-WAVING BIKER GANG SMASHES into swanky Apple UK store

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Re: @Symon

Run. It's Dibble!

Latest NASA ASTRONAUT class is HALF FEMALE

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Re: Careers 'Advisor'

I tried that at school- the careers advisor looked blank for a while, then advised me to 'go to college'.

Microsoft lures buy-curious vixens, corduroys with a cheap fondle

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Re: Does this heavy discounting

4. Price it so the Gleetard demographic in the adverts might just buy it.

Oracle's Ellison outlines plans for Hawaiian Electriclarryland

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Larry wants to be Tony Stark

Pity Elon Musk has already beaten him to that!

Fifty, fired and fretful: Three chaps stare down CAREER MORTALITY

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Re: Options...

There always seem to be jobs for fork-lift drivers. The training is cheap, and it looks like fun...

Nearly went there when the contract market went a bit dry, once upon a time.

New material enables 1,000-meter super-skyscrapers

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Re: A note on elevator safety

"Those springs at the bottom of the shaft really do work."

Yes, but it did take an hour for him to finally come to a stop.

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Re: Before you read on, see if you can guess how the new stuff will be used

An extra 500m might be useful- somehow...

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Re: Uri

As in Gagarin, or Geller?

Boffins find evidence Atlantic Ocean has started closing

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Re: new series of Preppers...

This will, no doubt, be seized upon by the UK 'No-Nukes' lobby to prove that the UK is unsuitable for both Atom Furnaces and deep storage of Nuclear Bric-a-Brac, due to being Geologically Unstable, Like Japan.

Reg hack prepares to live off wondergloop Soylent

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Re: Defication

I imagine they would more likely resemble breezeblocks, and be more worthy of the name 'bench' than

'stool'

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Re: keen.

Non-nomnomnom.

Will your teeth fall out in protest if you eat just this?

Microsoft Office 365 on iPhone NOW: No, we're not making this up

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Big Brother

Get used to it?

No.

NSA! NSA! NSA!

Microsoft botnet smackdown 'caused collateral damage, failed to kill target'

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Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit

Like watching kittens swimming in treacle.

Boffins fire up old dish to send interstellar SMS

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Hello-

Food speaking.

Come and take our women..

Thx.

Sol III.

You've seen the Large Hadron Collider. Now comes the HUGE Hadron Collider

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Re: Is that the best site?

True, but it's the only known location of the Godzilla Quark.

Patch Tuesday: And EVERY version of IE needs fixing AGAIN

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Re: So...

....what would you prefer? MS to not patch bugs?

Not at all- just wondering how the older versions in particular managed to work in the first place, as they musy have been about 10% good code and 90% bugs.

Just another regular occurrence. like Halley's comet coming around, although that may stop one day.

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Windows

IE patches

Plus ça change...

NSA PRISM deepthroat VANISHES as pole-dance lover cries into keyboard

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Re: Curious

But- the US can get you on the moon.

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Re: Booz Allen

Booz Allen - Isn't he a Republican senator?

Ex-CIA techie Edward Snowden: I am the NSA PRISM deepthroat

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Re: Don Jefe Courageous and principled

Matt Bryant.

You are talking out of your rectum.

Microsoft borks botnet takedown in Citadel snafu

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Re: You had one job microsoft

Hard to tell if this is inept lack of expertise, or a case of clod-hopper MS World Police.

Bigfoot strikes - again.

NSA Prism: Why I'm boycotting US cloud tech - and you should too

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Re: @Matt Bryant

When has MB ever had a point?

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What?

"The best answer, of course, is to utterly destroy terrorism at its source."

Are you threatening the whole US Government?

BEYOND Marxism: What Google learned from staring Glassily at Norks

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Re: Summer is nearly here

Or busily manning a burning Bong?

Google accused of hypocrisy over Glass ban at shareholder shindig

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Better not get the kids

To sit in front of Kinect then, eh?

Obama weighs in on NSA surveillance imbroglio

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Pirate

Then...

once you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to lose.