* Posts by TRT

9611 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2009

Sight for sore eyes: Dropbox lands on Win 10 with iris recognition

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Re: Assmetrics

Facial recognition is built into Windows 10.

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Steve Austen...

That's who we're talking about here, right?

Police Scotland will have direct access to disabled parking badge database

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Re: Also Parent and Child bays

Yes there is. It's usually codified in the local planning regulations. Same applies to schools, college, businesses etc, and often depends on how far away they are from public transport. Mind you, one could always charge blue badge holders for parking anyway like they do at some hospitals.

How to save Wikipedia: Start paying editors ... or write for machines

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Re: Remove anonymity

As WikiWheaton might say, "Don't be a wikidick."

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Re: Meh

But WITIKIpedia* isn't as catchy.

*What I Think I Know Is..."

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Re: Not quite getting the WikiCar bit...

Cars cost quite a bit though. And if they are poor quality, lives are at stake.

Wikipedia is free and any inaccuracies are hardly life threatening - a bit of slanging off at a pub quiz and some rogue statistics in news articles. It's not like Mr Thompson-Smythe, registrar surgeon at St Mary's is going to be hauled before the BMA and offer as a defence "But the Wikipedia article said to make a MEDIAL incision into the lower aorta..."

It's hardly analogous. I know what an analogy is... I looked it up in Wikipedia.

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Not quite getting the WikiCar bit...

Do you mean a virtually free car that's engineered by eager hobbyists as well as "experts" during their spare time driving on roads created in the same way?

Commuters slam UK rail operator c2c. You slow, late, er... privacy violator

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One thinks it is time...

to stop employing simple humans.

"which is blamed on simple human error rather than a system issue."

Squeeze the banana to log into this office Wi-Fi

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Re: The tactile office...

The power and the glory hole.

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The tactile office...

OK, I squeezed the banana to get a WiFi code, but tugging the raw sausage on the washroom wall didn't make the toilet flush like the marker-pen instruction said. It just dispensed some moisturising cream. Eventually.

BOFH: I want no memory of this pointless conversation. Alcohol please

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Re: Pint Maths

And I counter your altitudinous advantage with "You are aware that they can fly? They're birds."

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Re: Pint Maths

Or the Holly-Hops drive...

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Re: Pint Maths

Swans can break you arm with one flap of a wing, you know...

Cabling horrors unplugged: Reg readers reveal worst nightmares

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Re: Illuminati Online

You could have illustrated the point to Steve Jackson thusly...

Page 63. "You have reached the Starship Jupiter's comms cabinet. In front of you are thousands of wires. There are red ones, blue ones and green ones. One of them must control the security grid defences protecting the bridge. Unplug it and you will be able to enter the bridge and regain control of the ship before it hits the planet. Quickly now! Choose a cable, but choose wisely - pick the wrong one and unplugging it will damage the life support system.

If you choose a red cable turn to page 234.

If you choose a blue cable turn to page 137.

If you choose a green cable turn to page 345."

On pages 234, 137 & 345.

"If you chose the left hand half of the bundle turn to page 378 (etc)"

And then just "You follow the cable into the corridor service duct. Turn to page ..." again and again until finally, after 50 pages...

"The cable disappears through a hole in the wall. You open the adjacent door and follow the cable through to the other side. Turn to page 63."

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Re: Insufficient room to swing a cat

Insufficient room to swing a Cat-5...

Oracle blurts Google's Android secrets in court: You made $22bn using Java, punk

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Pint

Re: Wait a minute

...exit pursuing a beer.

How to help a user who can't find the Start button or the keyboard?

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Re: Start Button

Ah! So removing it from Windows was all part of Microsoft's anti-scamming drive. Maybe I've misjudged them over it.

Florida cuffee surprised by pills in vagina

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Re: To be honest, I think it would be difficult not to notice an empty vodka bottle in your minge...

Shaken, not stirred.

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To be honest, I think it would be difficult not to notice an empty vodka bottle in your minge...

well, if you ignore all the warninks...

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Laughingly simple explanation really...

She got the bag mixed up with the one containing cocaine and heroin.

Five technologies you shouldn't bother looking out for in 2016

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Re: FaceWatch...

I quite like the idea of combining implanted electrode stimulation of behaviour with Twitter and AngryBirds. For that kind of augmented reality social networking experience that really delivers.

Does anyone know what their broadband costs? The ASA hopes to change that

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Re: 3D & Hoverboards

@drand. But can they advertise them as waterboards before the twatshed?

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Re: Wow, ASA stating the bleeding obvious.

Ah, but with Virgin, you can get the phone line for £15.99 in which case, you can claim the multi-service discount which reduces your broadband-only price by £15.99.

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Nah. I gave up...

trying to understand the ISPs ads. Especially the crap-laden BT ones which don't make sense from a tech point of view, let alone a financial one.

But I do understand the adverts for GoCompare, CompareTheMeerkat, USwitch, BroadBandChoices etc. They pay people to do the sums and read the small print for me, providing I bear in mind that there could be a bias from all the kickbacks...

Now which one should I use?

Is there a comparison site for comparison sites?

Boffins: There's a ninth planet out there – now we just need to find it

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Re: If Pluto is taken.

I want one of those with 8 arms, a picture of a blue crystal and Metabilis III on it.

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Re: If Pluto is taken.

Planet? Shmamet! Janet.

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Our transformer just blew up...

There seems to be an energy drain...

Waving Microsoft's Windows 10 stick won't help Intel's Gen 6 core

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"businesses holding out on Windows XP and Windows 7 on old PCs,"

As a business user, can I just point out that I buy my new hardware with Windows 7 on it. Mainly BECAUSE it has Windows 7 on it. Actually, I may not buy the very latest... Anyway, it clears the slightly older hardware channels of stock, what are you complaining about?!

Robots. Machine learnin', 3D-printin' AI robots: They'll take our jobs – Davos

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Re: DAVOS

"Also, asscracks are pointless on robots"

My hoover has a crevice tool and a crevice on the ass end to hold the crevice tool.

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Re: DAVOS

Nah. There will always be a need for the trades. I mean, who's ever heard of a robot plumber, eh? I don't think we'll ever see the day when a robot turns up at your door armed with a sink plunger.

Trump's new thought bubble: Make Apple manufacture in the USA

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Definition of a palindrome...

a word, phrase or sentence that reads the same backwards as forwards.

Whereas a Palin-drome is just backwards.

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Re: No limits

Is that ignorance quotient?

Eighteen year old server trumped by functional 486 fleet!

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Re: Silicon uptime?

That needed an overhaul in the 1960s, though.

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Re: Long liven silicon

The outer ring of Stonehenge was a patch for the first millennium bug.

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Re: Does my Amiga 1200 count?

I still use my Psion with a rangefinder to do room size / rad output calculations.

LOHAN takes the stage at Oz Linux shindig

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Re: LOHAN

Would launching from a great altitude be of any advantage? Like the Atacama plains? And can you take your motors across the Mexican border?

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Re: LOHAN

Ship launched? Off the coast of Cuba maybe?

UK can finally 'legalise home taping' without bringing in daft new tax

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Ruling not available in English...

But you can make as many photocopies of the Spanish version as you like; for your own personal use, of course.

Twitter goes titsup

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8am outage...

Breakfast consists of Shredded Tweet.

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Keyboard not detected.

Press F1 to continue.

El Reg mulls entering Robot Wars arena

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Weapons systems

Well, whatever weapons systems are chosen, there will be a whole panoply of defence experts lining up to praise and criticise. I guess Lewis Page will get some mileage out of it.

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Re: Jihad bot

72 litres of virgin oil awaits in silicon heaven.

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Re: Web of Death

The rule reads "12.3 Stopping Combat

Weapons or defences, which tend to stop combat completely, of both (or more) robots. This includes, but is not limited to the following:"

i.e. Suicide devices. BOTH robots.

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Re: Against a Dark Background

The floors are mostly, IIRC, plywood on an aluminium box-section underframe that can be dismantled easily and allows access to the flame grids and modular trap units (flippers, pits, spikes etc).

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Re: Got a point there...

Yes, there is a rule against flying 'bots. But not hover-cushions, not that you'd really want that in a pushing contest.

You are also not allowed projectile weapons - they must be tethered. And you can't have e.g. grinding discs that can shatter.

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Multi-cannon...

If against a petrol engined opponent, launches a cloud of air-filter clogging particles.

Against an electrically powered opponent, a web of sticky Kevlar fibres shot into the wheel housings.

Or a stinger-like device that could penetrate the outer shell and fill the interior with expanding builder's foam.

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I can safely predict...

That it will involve much beer and pipe.

Swivel on this: German boffins build nanoscale screwing engine for sluggish sperm

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Re: And the result will be...

This.

Put your private parts on display if you want to keep earning a living

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Re: Not long now...

There is. It binds us. Penetrates us. My boss figured out how to use it some time ago. He uses it to pick people up by the throat and strangle them. His asthma's gotten worse too...

Serving up IT on a silver platter, also known as ITSM

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I remember Silver Platter!

That was a CD-ROM based references service wasn't it? Circa 1995. SPIRS. Silver Platter Information Retrieval Service.