* Posts by hplasm

5610 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

Intel's new TV box to point creepy spy camera at YOUR FACE

hplasm
Angel

Re: Tape

depends how many layers you wrap around the box...

Register reader Ray revs radio-controlled Raspberry Pi race rover

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Happy

Re: For the love of gawd...

The minute he does, it will stop working...

Get up, shake off the hangover: These 57 Microsoft holes won't fix themselves

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FAIL

Re:Re: Same S---, Different Day

Do the words 'Test Environment' mean anything to you?

Didn't think so.

LIVE NOW: Never mind Windows 8, speak your brains on Server 2012

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FAIL

you have no understanding off.

Ferry bad Accsent...

Permafrost melt to boost atmospheric CO2 faster than thought

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Coat

So-

Stop flying over Siberia!

Linux Foundation ships UEFI Secure Boot workaround

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FAIL

Re: Want to run Leenawks?

That is the saddest shit for a long time. Go away.

Microsoft Surface Pro launch: It's easy to sell out of sod all stock

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Headmaster

Re:Re: This is a standard tactic...

"...can have..."

That's the difference.

Microsoft needs to keep visible under waves of Blue

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Windows

Re: this is not by choice

"...if it means my documents and mail aren't indexed by the NSA..."

It doesn't.

Boffins find RAT-SIZED bug-muncher links man to beast

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Happy

Re: No peaceful co-existence...

Decendants of Apes perhaps, but this find explains the origins of all the Ratbois that seem to flock around here...

Taiwan's Polytron promises see-through phones

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Happy

Re: Why do we want this again?

a novelty- thin and transparent?

there's the USP right there... oops here comes Apple...

Paper computers: Not mere pulp fiction

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Happy

Re: Paris, because I've heard tell that she is a bit of a sport.

Like a pink giraffe or an eight legged cat?

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Flame

Re: Fire hazard?

Oddly, electronics PCBs used to be made from paper- bonded with resin- rather than fibreglass, in the good old days when valves were hot, and didn't catch fire as much as you might imagine.

They did catch fire, but mainly because they were hot, and if TVs, had doileys on top.

<== fire

The business mullet: Cool or tool?

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Stop

Re: Not cool, definitely tool

'Professionals' - credible? Give it a rest.

Professional is as professional does.

"Business" suits mean "I am going to rip you off, or order you about" Nothing else.

Nemo cancels Microsoft's Surface Pro launch

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Headmaster

Re: Quick...

MS had a launch party, and nemo came...

<== latin teacher, just in case...

Eyes in the sky: UK.gov's CCTV code to IGNORE MILLIONS of cameras

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Big Brother

Re:"At the end of the day, if you're innocent, what's your problem?"

You.

LibreOffice 4.0 ships with new features, better looks

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Devil

Re: The more MS pushes people to rent their software

Renting MS software is like renting a condom.

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FAIL

Re: I always assumed...

Well aren't you stupid, Stupid?

Why you need a home lab to keep your job

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Devil

First rule of Contracting

All Work Time Is Chargeable. No Exceptions.

You seem to have slipped a bit there... careful, you might end up a Permy.

Now UK must look out for crappy SPACE weather - engineers

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Happy

Re: Update required

I think TELSTAR is out of commission at the moment too...

Microsoft can't even shift Windows 8 slabs in the middle of a tablet frenzy

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Facepalm

Re: Metro Now

Down, Fido- you don't want RICHTO sniffing at yer bum...

British games company says it owns the idea of space marines

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Stop

Outrageous!

Games W need to watch out- there were lots of miniature figures about before they were for one thing- nearly as many as stories with Space Marines in them.

I would also suggest Amazon get a grip.

Bloody Cheek

Microsoft sails into Africa with White Spaces and Huawei phones

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Meh

Africa

Still the dumping ground of the world.

There must be a lot of whitespace spectrum though, due to a sparseness of TV ?

Could be an interesting testbed for *good tech like this.

*For relative values of 'good' as compared to W.... You Know What...

Microsoft 'touches 16k shop workers' to flog Windows 8 hard

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Joke

Re: You don't need to close apps... let the OS deal with it.

That's why so much Surface capacity is used by the OS- All of the installed apps are running all of the time!

Review: Living with Microsoft's new Surface Pro

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Windows

Re: The iPad is a toy that some people choose to bring to work

The Surface is a toy that no people choose to bring to work

Microsoft to open 11 new retail stores by summer

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Happy

Are they building the stores

out of piles of Surfaces?

Tick-tock, TalkTalk: Users face fourth day of titsup broadband

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Happy

No-

BT Infinity.

Blobs that swarm spark ‘it’s alive’ hypegasm

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Coat

Re: Didn't someone already study flocking with sheep?

Is there an iDevice in the centre of the flock?

Wikileaks reveals Icelandic FBI shenanigans

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Devil

Re: Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

That's just what they would want you to think.

Well done.

Windows Server 2012 kicks ass: discuss

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Linux

Re: Linux is cheap. That's why.

Therefore Windows is a waste of money?

Samsung mocks Apple lawsuit in SuperBowl teaser ad

hplasm
Meh

Your point?

There's nothing special about Apple stuff either- except the price.

Oh, Sony, you big tease: Mystery PlayStation reveal date set

hplasm
Happy

Shhh

He's sleeping...

We're not making this up: Apple trademarks the SHOP

hplasm
Meh

Re: Prior art ?

As are the iTables in the Manchester Arndale iShop... non-compliant with Head Orifice?

Nokia tries its luck with a sub-£150 Win Phone 8: The Lumia 620

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Happy

Re: I'll take 10 of them.

So now there are 28 happy Win8 users? Who knew!

hplasm
Angel

Re: how is it obsolete?

I like this definition, it seems apt:-

Obsolete: imperfectly developed or rudimentary in comparison with the corresponding character in other individuals.

hplasm
Meh

Re: No, this phone is WP8

So still £150 for an obsolete system

Surface left on shelves as world+dog slurps up small slates

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Devil

Re: "...ultrabooks and Windows 8 laptops that are all stuck on the login screen..."

That's to make them look good- imagine if they *were* powered up...

How to destroy a brand-new Samsung laptop: Boot Linux on it

hplasm
Meh

Yeah, I put diesel in my petrol tank ... guess what?

You can't read?

hplasm
Windows

Re: Oh How I Laughed...

Windows users have enough problems already.

Is your Surface Pro a bit full? Slot in an SD card, it's not from Apple

hplasm
Gimp

Re: Lets try to put this in to some context...

iPad 64gig spellchecker isn't very good, is it?

PC sales in the toilet? Excuse Lenovo while it gut laughs at you

hplasm
Devil

Re: PC Sales in the toilet

Wrong, er, Pad...

They didn't predict that: Astrologers! blamed! after! Yahoo! hack!

hplasm
Windows

Re: Where's Eadon?

Obvious MS flaw is obvious.

You don't need Eadon for that.

WTO ruling emboldens pirates of the Caribbean

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Pirate

Yarr!

Why not!

Worst broadband notspots in the UK named and shamed

hplasm
Devil

Ah- Dudley

Jewel in Telewest's crown...

Filter Great Firewall of China's architects at US borders - petition

hplasm
Headmaster

"wish you weren't hear..."

We wish you were deaf?

Don't like your cell network? Legal unlocking ends TONIGHT in US

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Happy

Re: American law does not acknowledge the existence of the phablet.

Tablerone.

Meet قلب, the programming language that uses Arabic script

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FAIL

Re: What bollocks

"Oh look I just farted, make it two."

Only another 13 minutes of fame left, then.

Sympathetic Scots scoff-house offers hard-up Apple fanbois a discount

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Devil

100% extra charge ...

...and poor service for WinPho 8 users.

Asteroid mining and a post-scarcity economy

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Pirate

Re: hmm

I agree with Thorne, although it might make sense to start smaller by mining the dead satellites and other space junk first, for practice, and to clear up the junk; they are easier to get to and their positions are well known.

Space Salvage- nearly Yarr! so

<++

Raytheon to build low-orbit, disposable satellites for DARPA

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Terminator

Re: The Bic lighter of surveillance. Nice!

Counter? More like a target.

Wake me up when these are the size of a grape and can accelerate at 10G- I'll be zipped up in the acceleration tank...

Chinese boffins crack cloaking tech for camouflage

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Happy

Re: In aircraft combat how useful is this?

Sir, we have 3 birds on radar... they're flying at mach 2...

Meep!Meep!