* Posts by Euripides Pants

964 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Feb 2012

It! Started! With! A! GIF!... Yahoo! Actually! Buys! Tumblr! for! $1bn!

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Re: Lame! Yahoo! Headlines!

Just! pretend! William! Shatner! is! reading! the! headline!

Surface Pro to hit Blighty priced 25% up on top-o-the-range iPad

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Windows

"laptop-cum-tablet,"

Just shorten it to cum-top and be done with it.....

Copyright minister admits: Google has better access to No. 10 than me

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Trollface

Re: the difference between a liberal and a conservative

5 letters and one syllable

Hemp used to make graphene-like supercapacitors

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Re: So I can smoke it?

Sure. But why would you want to? Industrial hemp ain't got any THC.

Acorn founder: SIXTH WAVE of tech will wash away Apple, Intel

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Terminator

Re: the last "Wave" will be the Matrix

"Will be"?

Someone hasn't taken the red pill....

Rolls-Royce climbs aboard Bloodhound SUPERSONIC car

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Re: Re:proverbial brown stuff off a shovel

taxman knows his sh!t

Review: HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook

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Re: 1366 x 768 screen ?????

"The <redacted> ribbon in Office takes up far too much real estate on the screen"

Perhaps it is the ribbon that is the problem and not the screen resolution...

Bing uncloaks Klingon translator

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Re: And how many people will use that?

Then Microsoft really should not do this. Next thing ya know Microsft will put out a Klingon language version of Windows which will undoubtedly cause an interplanetary war.

Microsoft splashes big bucks to blast Google Apps

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Re: So the solution...

"Um, Docx (and the other modern Office files) are ISO standards."

You mean the ISO standards that even Microsoft doesn't implement properly?

On the hunt for a new ampere

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Re: African or European badger?

Either way, its a shitload of badgers

Icahn, SAM to give MickeyD the boot if they take over Dell

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Pirate

Re: Please stop

How about plain, old Pirate?

Bill & Jobs' excellent adventure: Steve's tech looked better than mine

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Re: Microsoft spent years trying to shoehorn a desktop OS onto a tablet form-factor

"Microsoft thunk different."

Microsoft and thunk go together like chocolate and peanut butter...

Ban Samsung sales in the US? Sorry, Apple: Tech titans say 'No'

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Re: @tjbee

"If the patented features are so trivial why does Samsung feel it necessary to infringe on them?"

If the patented features are so trivial why does Apple feel it necessary to go all sue-happy?

There, FTFY...

YouTube launches subscriptions with 53 paid channels

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Re: They need to start a porno service

Any "Android Personal Services" I get had damn well better come from a real, live android!

Where's the sex robot icon?

Coke? Windows 8 is Microsoft's 'Vista moment'. Again

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Joke

Re: Bob moment.

Well thank you very much.

It took *years* of therapy to wipe that from my mind and you undid all that progress in seconds.

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FAIL

Re: moments

So far, we've had the Bob moment, ME moment, Zune moment, Vista moment and Win8 moment.

When will MS learn?

Self-assembling robot inches towards WORLD DOMINATION

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Re: Anyone else underwhelmed by the video?

"Conquering robot armies aren't built in a day you know!"

Apparently they cannot even get down the alley in a day too!

Larry Ellison forks out over $200m to slurp up sexy Malibu strip

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Re: More power to him, but expect an Oracle price increase.

Yes, on Lanai.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/21/ellison_buys_island/

How did something so small and pink cause so much trouble?

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Re: Finger print readers

Butt what happens when the colon backs up?

Dunkin' Donuts temps S Korea with ultrasonic tags

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Re: "dogs shouldn't be hanging round the counter of a food shop anyway."

Have an upvote, my brain farts too.

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Headmaster

Re: "dogs shouldn't be hanging round the counter of a food shop anyway."

Shirley the Korean peninsula is in Northeast Asia.....

Tiny fly-inspired RoboBee takes flight at Harvard

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Trollface

Re: Or

"I've no idea how big a US one cent coin is."

Its a little bigger than a dime.....

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Easily defeated...

...by flypaper!

Peeping Tom suspects cuffed after 'falling through women's toilet ceiling'

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Re: Eh...

Newhart might be more appropriate seeing as this happened in the USA.

"Hi, I'm Larry and this is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083455/?ref_=sr_3

Impoverished net user slams 'disgusting' quid-a-day hack

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Re: To be fair, Lester ...

"instead of poo-pooing the commentary, finding a positive vector for the energy would be a better idea"

Agreed. But it is up to saintcroix, not Lester to find that positive vector.

So long, Hotmail: Remaining users migrated to Outlook.com

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Re: Gurrr

Don't forget such perversions as "using the new experience".

FONDLESLAB market DEATH STRUGGLE: Latest rankings in

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Re: @Smoking Gun

Smoking Gun, what have you been smoking?

Combover King Donald Trump: 'I miss Steve Jobs'

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Alien

Re: Like antone cares

That ain't hair, its an alien symbiote.

Pivotal a 'cult' led by charismatic visionaries

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Nothing new here

http://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Cults-Insidious-All-Consuming-Organization/dp/0814404936

Oi, journos. Try NOT to get hacked again. Lots of love, Twitter

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Alternatively...

http://www.internetisshit.org/print.html

Bogus gov online test tells people on dole they're just SO employable

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Re: Gov't tests

e. apple

Move space junk with laser shots

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Holmes

Re: What happens when a pigeon flies through the beam of a 10kW laser?

The pigeon is toast.

Yahoo! thanks! Asian! equity! for! 36! PERCENT! income! boost!

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Re: !

"you sound like the old guy who makes the same joke every time you see him"

Hey! kid! Pull! my! finger!

Microsoft brings back Windows watch after Apple seeks 'flexible' bod

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Re: meh....

"are people really going to walk around with a computer in their pocket, a computer on their wrist and a computer on their face?"

Yes, thats Progress...

In the olden days REAL multitasking was 3 PCs and a chair with wheels, in the future we won't need the wheely chair.

At LAST, scientists tackle the problems faced by alcoholic rats

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Joke

Re: We still need more kidneys!

Well, you can't have mine! I'm not done with it yet.

Flexible flywheel offers cheap energy storage

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Trollface

Re: 15KWh?

"Thinking of the mess these things would make if there was an accident (if, say, used in a vehicle)."

Cars have had flywheels inside them for about a century now...

Oh S**T, here comes a robot to take my job

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Coat

Re: am I the only one

The Queen

And when I say "the Queen", what I mean is Elton John...

NASA-backed fusion engine could cut Mars trip down to 30 days

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Coat

Re: "It's just a proposal to generate $1B in funding."

If the funding falls through and they have to renegotiate, the renegotiated funding would be known as FDR's New Deal...

Mali to give away .ML domains for free

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Re: Some potential there

ca.ml/toe

Android FOUND ON TABLETS inscribed with WORD OF GOD

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Re: Technology and Faith

"If God really existed there would be no need for religion."

If people didn't exist there would be no need for religion. There, FTFY...

Microsoft leads charge against Google's Android in EU antitrust complaint

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Re: Yeah but

"That's why Android has to pay royalties to MS."

No, Android does not pay royalties to MS. Various phone makers pay royalties to MS 'cause they figure it's cheaper than litigating.

Star Trek phaser sells for a STUNNING $231,000

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It would simplify divorce too...

Public cloud will grow when experienced IT folks DIE

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"So who will run the servers in the various 'clouds'?"

Illegal aliens

FBI on trial for warrantless Stingray mobile spying

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Re: Only Obama can trample civil rights

Nah, the Cheney Administration had a flair for that as well...

MI5 undercover spies: People are falsely claiming to be us

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Silly goose, the Real secret organization is MI-4REAL!

Microsoft's 'Gemini' project will be the Windows Blue of Office

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Re: Gemini were better the Windows codename

Janus would be more appropriate.

Revealed: Vendors’ worst sales fluff

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Lousy list

They left out "exceed your expectations". When I see that I don't expect much more than flatworms.

Google Translate for Android adds offline translation option

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Re: "Duke spit-feeding"

...those inscrutable Orientals