* Posts by Anonymous Coward 15

699 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Sep 2011

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Valve to raise Steam for Ubuntu

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Happy

Will it work with Bumblebee? Will Portal{, 2} be available?

More Steve Jobs iPad mini attacks from beyond the grave

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Eat up Martha.

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Re: Developers, Developers, Developers!

> > > chomping at the bit

> > champing at the bit

> Chumping at the butt

What what

Olympics security cockup down to software errors - report

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Re: Probably using Excel 97

A floating point bug? I'd like to know how they intended to provide .25 of a person.

Lego ponders Portal pack

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Re: I'm not racist but...

Lego Simpsons!

Christians get God-optimized 'Edifi' Android fondleslab

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Thou shalt not witness thy neighbour's ass. Even if she's hot.

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Re: "......peak at inappropriate content."

@StealthMountain

"I alert twitter users that they typed sneak peak when they meant sneak peek. I live a sad life."

Rovio chucks up Angry Birds successor, hopes it will fly

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Re: Permissions

Have a look at "Permissions Denied". You'll need root.

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I'm totally buying this.

O2, GiffGaff network goes titsup for unlucky punters

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Re: Ooops

He said the O-word without being an official sponsor! Sue him! Sue him!

Ebuyer on the naughty step for fondleslab promo cock-up

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Holmes

Currys sells plastic crap at inflated prices

More at 11.

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Joke

Re: If DFS can get away with it

Homophone? We'll have none of that round here, the kids might start calling it.

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If DFS can get away with it

then this is small potatoes.

Can neighbours grab your sensitive package, asks Post Office

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Re: Number 10

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Captain Obvious!

iPad Mini maquette spied on web

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Tablets are used for lots of things besides movies. IMHO 4:3 is better for browsing or reading a book.

Facebook shuts down face recognition APIs after all

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Re: This facial tech aint up to much anyway...

And it promptly got pulled...

Apple unveils tightened Mountain Lion requirements

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Pirate

How long before it gets Hackintoshed?

Lookout mulls flagging privacy-invading phone apps as adware

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Re: Their hand in your pocket.

It's a bit like the premium-rate porn diallers that were a problem when most of us still used dialup modems.

British Gas bets you'll pay £150 for heating remote control

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Would anyone like

any toast?

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Re: Retrofit

Ethernet over power over ethernet over power over ethernet over power over ethernet over power over ethernet over turtles all the way down.

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But be careful with polling a DS18B20 too often because they self-heat.

Lowery: The blue-collar musician at the eye of the copyright storm

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Nope

Two flaws:

- Once bridge builder has been paid for his work he probably isn't getting a cut of each person's toll.

- Buying a CD is not like paying a toll, it's like buying a lifetime pass to that bridge, which can be sold on if you move jobs and don't need to cross that bridge any more.

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He's making the argument against the users that he should be making against the record megacorps.

NatWest seeks volunteers to bonk with their iPhones

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Re: Bonk?

Oh, we use "screw" over here too.

Security firm in Tor Project 'mass surveillance' row responds

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Holmes

Re: Standard stuff

In other words, the high-ups are up to just as much no good as the minions?

Computer error triggers mass rocket launch

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Joke

Re: PE

"Why aren't you wearing any trousers?"

"Because I just came in my (under)pants."

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Re: Its only fireworks

Was waiting for that one, and if I didn't see it I would have posted it myself.

Europe's prang-phone-in-every-car to cost €5m per life saved

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Re: Fuck this shit

Darwin FTW.

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Re: Nanny state...

It'll call them to an incident where there was no sudden deceleration and the engine was stopped gracefully by turning and removing the key, half an hour ago?

41 London tube station platforms now WIRED for Wi-Fi

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Trollface

If you're waving your expensive phone about

on a crowded tube platform, you're just asking for someone to stick their hand out from behind, grab it and go "Yoink!"

YouView launches with pricey premium DVR

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Re: Cost

I presume you're referring to the CPC464. Where you had to buy the modulator box if you wanted to use it with your own TV, a feature which pretty much every other home micro of the era had built-in...

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Separate box is good

Because these smart TVs are going to become unsupported by firmware updates six months before you buy them, and you don't want to waste your money buying a new 50" screen each time.

Can you judge a man by his Twitter followers?

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Mushroom

Re: The only winning move is not to play.

Unfortunately you can't get all Global Thermonuclear War on their arses.

Orange San Diego Intel-based Android phone

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Bitch, please

I think it is also surpassed in awfulness by the Go Compare singer.

iPhone spontaneously combusts on CCTV

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Re: Really, really bad combination.

Did you not do chemistry at school? Lithium and water produce a highly exothermic reaction.

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Re: No reported Windows combustions yet

It's a bit cold in Finland. Phones that get hot might be useful.

'Young people don't want to become like us', say IT pros

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Paris Hilton

Re: IT was never cool

Now it's more like something else with the initials DP.

Mozilla's 'Boot to Gecko' morphs into Firefox OS

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This bandwagon

had better have some kick-ass suspension.

Capita ITS asks to-be-axed staffers to pose for marketing pic

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Holmes

Re: Capita management: What a bunch of bastards

And that's news?

Jaw-jaw no more-more as calls fall down tally of phone tasks

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*geese*

Sussex bobbies get undisclosed tablets in networked-copper trials

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Flame

Krispy Kreme in the UK?

Are we getting Taco Bell too?

Dimming the lights on smart(arse) TV

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Re: 'Smart' tv

You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Android Jelly Bean won't get Flash Player

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HTML5 is a solution waiting for a problem. A browser without Flash is as broken as a mail client without POP3- lots of people use webmail, but there is a considerable existing installed base.

War On Standby: Do the figures actually stack up?

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Re: Must be doing something right.

If your daughter's hair straighteners are left plugged in overnight that's not just a power drain, it's a fire hazard.

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I always thought the standby power issue

was about CRTs. Someone's digging over old ground.

Google Drive IOS or Dropbox

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I've allowed the photo upload thing

Convenient backup, and beats fscking around with Bluetooth or ejecting a card that also has apps on it if I'm taking eBay photos.

Microsoft: Don't overclock Windows 8 unless you like our new BSOD

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Re: Make sure you do not have hot pockets

No, have ramen noodles instead.

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Re: RAM Timings

Shouldn't those come from the SPD on the module and be known good?

Techies evac'd as raging wildfire menaces $100m Colorado data centre

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Re: Where's Waldo

It's f*cking WALLY!

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Flame

Our data is all in the cloud!

Cloud of smoke, that is.

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