* Posts by Pete4000uk

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Plusnet? More like Plus-naught: Mobile data on the fritz for days for some unlucky punters

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Let me think...

I honestly can't remember the last time I had a problem with my FTTC connection. Maybe my pipes are well flushed out

Ruh-roh! Rick Ruhl rolled out of Ham Radio Deluxe in software kill-switch aftermath

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Re: "OMG all the infrastructure's failed we're all that's left!"

I love some of their cats and trucks. Wannabe police cars with more antennae than GCHQ.

US voting machine certification agency probes potential hack

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I'm always glad to...

Put an X next to whoever I don't want elected and put the piece of paper into a black box.

Murdoch's 21st Century Fox agrees £18.5bn Sky takeover deal

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Hope so for you Americans. I understand it would be a big jump up in quality

Adblock again beats publishers' Adblock-blocking attempts

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An idea

Stop making adverts so bloody intrusive!

No super-kinky web smut please, we're British

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Re: Spanking or caning that leaves a visible mark is out, as well as anything involving urination

Urination?

That takes the

Rolling out flash in the enterprise? It's a matter of application

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Really?

Rolling out Flash in 2016?

Apple drops dongle prices to make USB-C upgrade affordable

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Re: How generous

My laptop has both serial AND parallel port!

Really, its from 2002 and now on Debian but is still useful

Brexit judgment could be hit for six by those crazy Supreme Court judges, says barrister

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Re: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

I agree. There is equal amounts of igroants on both sides but some like to trott up the high road and look down on others.

Remember the EU constitution farce? Three countries rejected it bit it went through under a different name.

Countries working together is a great idea, the EU had gone to far which is why I voted out.

Another view -not really my own but said to me by a friend- was 'The posh nobs have had a dump taken on them from the rif raf and they don't like it'. I don't subscribe to the class system but I can almost see where SHE was coming from.

Still, Trump might distract us later this month

New MH370 handshake and wing debris analysis suggests rapid descent

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Sad part is

Most of the bodies will never be recovered.

There are some really crap budget phones out there. Vodafone's Smart Ultra 7 isn't

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Impulse purchase

I had its Vodafone branded predecessor with a battery that the user was not supposed to remove. Well, I didn't know that and tried to prise it out only to damage the thing causing the battery to combust Samsung style.

So, I ended up with one and I have to say, apart from not being sure about the speaker it's a good bit of kit. Would spending an extra £200 really make much of a difference??

Stripped of its galaxy, this black hole is wandering naked in the cosmos

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The big question

If black holes swallows everything where does it all go?

Dark web drug sellers shutter location-tracking EXIF data from photos

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Thanks

I didn't think of that!

Star Trek's Enterprise turns 50 and still no sign of a warp drive. Sigh

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I will be happy

With a picture of a exoplanet.

Microsoft promises free terrible coffee every month you use Edge

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Edge?

I had totally forgot about that

UK IT consultant subject to insane sex ban order mounts legal challenge

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Giving the police

The ability to be Judge, jury and executioner.

He was found not guilty, therefore he is innocent and should be able to get on with what remains of his life.

Researchers crack homomorphic encryption

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Oops...

I came in here to see how encryption could be homophobic...

Its to early

New US spy satellite in orbit

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Re: A lizard sitting on a rocket?

That is a awesome mission patch!

Coup-Tube: Turkey blocks social networks amid military takeover

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Periscope kept working as I spent a couple of hours watching the events from the peoples perspective.

Technology shares slide with Brexit vote, except ARM

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ARM...

do business outside the EU? But I got told there was no business outside the EU...

PM resigns as Britain votes to leave EU

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So then

This means our courts can't be overruled by another court over the channel and that if we want laws our elected government will have to pass them?

That's good then. It was always going to be a sh1t storm this result anyway.

Queensland creep cops charged with snooping through police records

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What would they have got here in the UK?

Microsoft cancels Remain speech after death of Labour MP

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I agree with you, quite a measured and sensible post. I just believe that our courts should have the last say on things such as deporting terrorists, for example. Also laws that effect us should be made in Westminster where we get some kind of say over who sits in the House of Commons.

Our democracy isn't perfect, but its a dam sight better than the EU's

Microsoft to buy LinkedIn

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Oh dear

The kiss of death

Helium... No. Do you think this is some kind of game? Toshiba intros 8TB desktop drive

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I remember...

... Going to Tempo in Gloucester to upgrade from a 2.1Gb drive to a 80Gb drive. That set me back about £100.

Yet I see things like this and think 'Where do they fit it all?'

Airbus to build plane that's even uglier than the A380

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Re: Ugly, beautyful or purposeful.

Concorde. She was the queen of the sky

India roasts as mercury hits 51°C

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This shows why...

... we here in the UK need to build more wind farms and get rid of the last of the coal fired plants.

Yes I am being sarcastic.

In all seriousness, how long have we been able to measure tempriture acuratly?

Windows 10 free upgrade offer ends on July 29th

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I've been thinking

About installing Longhorn on a virtual PC.

ICO fines NHS trust £185K for publicly airing personnel files

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Why do they need to know

Whether I sleep with guys or girls?

E-cigarettes help save lives, says Royal College of Physicians

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Why the need

to shove something in your mouth and suck on it? I really have no idea. But I am repulsed at the sight of people smoking, but I am currently watching my father kill himself by smoking. :(

Misco: We're moving to the cloud after yesterday's bit barn meltdown

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Cloud burst?

Ofcom puts aside a little bit of spectrum for Internet of Things things

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Takes me back...

'70.5-71.5MHz and 80.5-81.5MHz bands.'

Old fire brigade base and mobile frequencies.

With a very small antenna and fly fart power there is still plenty of interference during a 'lift'.

Wide area comms, analogue or digital, would be more suited to those frequencies.

Mighty Soyuz stands proud at Baikonur

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What a workhorse

Another launch? They sure do knock 'em out

Tech biz bosses tell El Reg a Brexit will lead to a UK Techxit

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Re: Freedom of movement.

Its not who you are or where you're from its what you offer us.

You can't roll up at most borders with no skills and expect to get in.

We need smart people. Like you lot!

Yahoo! recruits! two! more! pallbearers!

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Yah...

Whoo?

Follow ESA's intercontinental ballistic missile launch live today

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Swoosh

That went like stink.

Not a patch on the old Space Shuttle.

Coding is more important than Shakespeare, says VC living in self-contained universe

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Tell me

why learning Shakespeare is so important?

I managed to avoid that stuff through illness and part time schooling yet I seem to be able to write pritty well (better than those who did GCSE'S I met at college)

Norks stabilise non-threatening space speck ... for about five minutes

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Re: Missing the point?

They so much as threaten such a thing the regime will be over within a week

Official UN panel findings on embassy-squatter released. Assange: I'm 'vindicated'

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So

Is he coming out or what?

13 CubeSats to ride mighty US lifter

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Launch cost

The shuttle cost about $450 million to launch and I read somewhere the SLS would cost almost double.

Do they really know what this will be used for?

Brit airline pilots warn of drone menace

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Re: How bad?

Or a poor cat, as what happened once when a moggy went into the cannon after some fresh meat during the lunch time..

Come on kids, let's go play in the abandoned nuclear power station

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When I wasca lad...

I went to Oldbury on the Severn with my local school. We went up the one tower and looked down on the hot rod water thingies. Of course, the radiation screening machine wouldn't let me out!

I can also look out my bedroom window and see Barkley NPP, also on the Severn and that's in the latter stages of decommissioning.

A reminder of when the future was great.

Brit 'naut Tim Peake thunders aloft

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I hope he realises he has just become a hero to many many children

Royal Mail mulls drones for rural deliveries

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Drones?

Why not use a rocket like they tried to use to deliver post to that Scottish island?

New Horizons: Pluto? Been there, done that – now for something 6.4 billion km away

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Re: Slow download speeds

Subspace would be much faster

No 4King way: Dolby snuggles its high-def TV tech into MStar SoCs

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Remember when

If you wanted a new telly you had the choose of colour/black and white and 14in or 12inch?

Microsoft now awfully pushy with Windows 10 on Win 7, 8 PCs – Reg readers hit back

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Telly

So if it does this to me what's going to happen to my media centre recordings?

Look! Up in the sky! It's letters on a plane read with a 250MP camera

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Put it on a satellite and point it into space

Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership election

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It will make a change. The others seem like your regular cardboard brown positions from the same mold as most others.

Still LOLing though

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo good to go!

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I would think so

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