* Posts by Robert Ramsay

575 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Sep 2006

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Wearables market set to EXPLODE... Wait, is that a STRAP-ON chair?

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As opposed...

to a chair with a strap-on...

Kate Bush: Don't make me HAVE CONTACT with your iPHONE

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Heh.

"Oh noes! My inalienable right to behave like a dick is being naysayed by the VERY PERSON I'm paying money to see! The horror!"

eBay bans CD sales of metal band Burzum, citing offensive material

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Re: I don't get the complaints about Mien Kampf

Hasn't Boris Johnson said he might be standing again? Just saying.

PEAK LANDFILL: Why tablet gloom is good news for Windows users

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Asus Transformer

...is what you're describing. runs Windows 8.1, comes with Office, has an SD slot for extra storage...

I don't work for Asus, but I do like the machine a lot...

Microsoft's Black Thursday: XBox Live goes down as XBox Studio canned

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Get Indiana Jones

"We have top men working on it."

"Who."

"Top - MEN."

Virgin Media struck dumb by NATIONWIDE DNS outage

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Heh...

I'd forgotten I'd switched over to OpenDNS until I read this story...

Hey, remember the iPod Touch? Apple just did

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I still want my 1TB iPod "Classic"

That is all, thank you.

Yes. App that lets you say 'Yo' raises 1 MEEELLION DOLLARS

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Sign up here...

to provide VC capital for my new app "Fuckoff" - unique chance to get in at the ground floor!

iOS 8 to PROBE your GUTS and your HOME

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Re: Why did I read that as

You're lucky - I ALSO read the guy's name as "Ferenghi"

Spy back doors? That would be suicide, says Huawei

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They didn't say it wasn't true...

...only that no-one had proved it.

Firefox biz Mozilla makes Beard new interim chief executive

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A beard...

Is also a slang term for a woman who a gay man goes around with to throw people off the scent...

NZ bloke's drunken poker bet ends in 99-letter name

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No 16 Bus Shelter

Sadly, it took me a few seconds to realise why you might want to call your child that.

PM Cameron leaps aboard Internet of Thingies

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Share and Enjoy

"Did your robots rebel against you?"

"Oh, no, worse than that - they liked us!"

'Leaked' iPhone 6 pics will make cool fanbois WEEP - it's a PHABLET

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that's what the iWatch is going to be for!

Apple won't bag HUMUNGOUS 4G deal... 'cos China HATES plastic iPhone 5C – analyst

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Glad to hear...

...that the Chinese can tell a rubbish deal when they see one...

Sky rapped over PREMATURE SEXY CONDOM ad

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I thought of Peter Serofinowicz

This voiceover was found to have "heightened the sensual nature of the ad".

"Frrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaan...?"

Big goolies-grabbing black snake nips unlucky bloke's trouser snake

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Glad he was none the worse...

...and I see the Register's obsession with genital mutilation stories is unabated...

Brit inventors' GRAVITY POWERED LIGHT ships out after just 1 year

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I saw it and read "Gravity powered light ships" which is WAY more exciting.

Google: YouTube fights off HUGE ASCII PHALLUS MENACE

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If you want to clean up YouTube...

...you will only do it by eliminating morons.

So let us know how that goes.

Chinese prof brands gamers no better than drug dealers

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Drug dealers?

Drug *users* shurely?

Om-nom-nom-nom! Google's Cookie Monster DEVOURS MORE DRIVES

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OmNomNom

This means that the operating manual is the dread OmNomNomicron.

POWER SOURCE that might END humanity's PROBLEMS: A step forward

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"Humanity has briefly achieved artificial fusion reactions, but sadly only in H-bombs"

The advert underneath said "Harness the power of flash"

Want to BUILD YOUR OWN Tardis? First, get a star and set it spinning...

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Dark Matter

Dark matter is the gravitational effect carried over from parallel universes. This leads to the prediction that the "amount" of dark matter measured will increase over time, as universes split and split again with regard to the time axis.

IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE! Google's secretive Omega tech just like LIVING thing

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Re: Name

I worked for one company where the username format was first name followed by first initial of last name. We had one developer called Chris whose surname initial was T.

"Do not worry about this problem - Christ will fix it"

Adobe exec puffs cloud shop: Online features are so 'compelling'... What are they again?

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It must be terrible

Saying the same rubbish things to people day after day when you know they aren't true, and the only reason to do it this way is purely to make more money.

HP 100TB Memristor drives by 2018 – if you're lucky, admits tech titan

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Tim Robbins isn't looking well.

<runs away>

Please, PLEASE, Skype... Don't kill our apps and headsets, plead devs

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Obligatory XKCD reference

http://xkcd.com/1172/

Diamonds are forever POURING down on Jupiter, Saturn - boffins

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"It's very uncertain what happens to carbon down there."

To sail the diamond seas of Saturn

A boat of tungsten under me

To know that deep below the land

Metallic hydrogen forms a second sea

Or perhaps the crushing forces

Turn the diamonds into jam

superconducting nanotubes

arrange themselves the best they can

A billion years of buckyballs

that reproduce and stick and spread

Giant neurons, giant brains

A gas giant for a giant head

And one day as old HAL comes cruising

A million miles, drifting by

Following signals most perplexing

The Great Red Spot will open, like an Eye.

NSA data centre launch delayed as power surges 'melt metal, zap racks'

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Re: Lightning in a 2 foot box

Maybe all the people who REALLY knew what had happened have been flash-fried :-)

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Re: I know what's causing it

Annihilating naughty things with bolts of lightning? Isn't that God's usual MO?

Android adware that MUST NOT BE NAMED threatens MILLIONS

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MUST NOT BE NAMED

...is it called Hastur?

Microsoft's swipe'n'swirl pic passwords LESS secure than PINs, warn researchers

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What a load of old correct horse battery staple.

Torvalds suggests poison and sabotage for ARM SoC designers

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Re: Never realized the Reg was so butt hurt.

I'd much rather the something happened to the HR departments.

Boris Johnson floats idea of 'London visa' to attract tech talent

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Tories don't like foreigners staying here too long anyway. I presume these 'visas' will come with an electronic tag?

Baffled boffins 'closer' to finding origins of extragalactic COSMIC RAYS

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Re: Never mind the physics

It's got cute little green eyes!

Microsoft announces execution date for failed QR code-killer

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Thanks...

...for reminding me of Old Yeller...

*twitch*

Bug-finder chucked for posting to Zuck

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Re: Facebork

I prefer Fritter and Wastebook...

http://thecaptainbritainblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/bonus-post-captain-britain-trash-talks-the-internet-in-avengers-arena-13/

Comet brand yanked from its grave: Tycoon vows to open EIGHTY new stores

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Never trust...

...someone who refers to themselves in the third person.

'But we like 1 Direction!' Rock gods The Who fend off teen Twitter hate mob

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Re: Well...

...did she go of her own accord? No, wait...

Superstar cluster-Zuck as Facebook tries out celeb-only edition

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Why stop there?

Why not recreate Facebook in a version that is so exclusive, no-one can use it?

Xbox One users will have to pay extra for Skype and gamer-gratifying DVR

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Major Nelson?

That was Larry Hagman in "I Dream of Jeannie"...

See a young Brit's mobe? 55% chance it has nekkid selfies on it, claims poll

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As Renton put it...

"In a thousand years, there's not going to be boys or girls. Just wankers. Fine by me."

Murdoch machinations mean Microsoft must rename SkyDrive

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ArseCloud

sprang instantly to mind.

UK the 'number 1 target' of online gangsters in 25 countries - e-crime report

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Re: Keith Vaz

He has always been slippery and utterly corrupt. Erm, allegedly.

Comet ISON seen eructating 300,000km-long methane and CO2 BELCH

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Oh - it's in space...

At first sight I thought you meant the defunct electronics and white goods flogger...

Boffins flip optics to make booster-free superfast fibre

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Re: Is it just me or...

Perhaps they are the only ones putting their hands into their wallets for it...

Unreal: Epic’s would-be Doom... er... Quake killer

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I loved it. And Unreal Tournament too.

Nowadays the games are so realistic you can be as crap at them as you would be in real life.

BlackBerry's Heins beams: We WILL make some cash, just you see

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"Heins beams"

...good one :D

There is a blinds company in Wandsworth whose slogan used to be "Deanz Meanz Blindz"...

Big Beardie is watching you: Lord Sugar gets into facial recognition

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Minority Report

"Hello Mr. Yakamoto and welcome back to the GAP!"

PEAK SAMSUNG? Shares slide ahead of BEELLLIONS in profit

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Re: Stock Market

I would give you two upvotes if I could. One for the body of the post and a second for "big greasy moose dick".

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