* Posts by WraithCadmus

328 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Dec 2012

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Blackpool hotel 'fines' couple £100 for crap TripAdvisor review

WraithCadmus
Unhappy

May it sink into the sea

Stopping bad reviews seems like it's going to cause more problems than fixing what's wrong with the hotel.

I have lovely memories from my youth of Blackpool, as such I know I can never return. It would be too painful.

Anonymous ‪hacks the Ku Klux Klan after Ferguson‬ threats

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Trollface

Re: Poke the Hivemind

More like sticking your penis in the hornets' net, as Colbert put it with HBGary.

Join The Reg in Sydney for beers, ideas and Christmas cheer

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Pint

Worth Going

If it's half as good as the London Commentard's Ball then I can thoroughly recommend it.

Icon: Cellar temperature

Far Cry 4 review: It's a far cry from Far Cry 3

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Thumb Up

Here's hoping there's no AC:U Gremlins

I really enjoyed Far Cry 3, and if this is more of the same with some improvements then I'm quite happy to snap it up.

U wot? Silicon Roundabout set to become Silicon U-BEND

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Boffin

Re: venti soy caramel pumpkin mocha latte

From my understanding of posh coffee, yes you could make this, but it sounds vile:

Venti = Large

Soy = Replace cow's milk with soy-derived milk

Caramel = Add caramel flavoured syrup, or caramel dressing on top

Pumpkin = Add pumpkin flavouring

I'm struggling to reconcile mocha and latte, as they are the 'base' drinks. I guess you could add a squirt of chocolate syrup to the concoction, can anyone help me there?

Icon: Coffee is srsbsns, peer review welcome.

'Yes, yes... YES!' Philae lands on COMET 67P

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Mushroom

Re: "land on comet and return science"

Do you mean the mystery goo or the green scrapings on the launchpad?

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Happy

Up Goer Word Rock

The flying space car has used line and grabbing fingers to hold the far away cold rock. It is talking to us through its friend space car near the far away cold rock. Now it has less than three days to do hard book work. We have gone into space today.

ESA sends back PRE-LANDING COMET CLOSE-UPS

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Coat

Re: Staggering Pictures

Geology - it's rocks!

At uni my brother got them to use...

Geology - It's the schist!

Microsoft to bring back beloved 1990s super-hit BATTLETOADS!?*

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Trollface

Re: That hoverbike level!

I Wanna Be The Guy is based off a ROMhack of those same levels.

Online tat bazaar eBay collapses in UK

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Joke

Re: Refund seller fees

The cheek, they're only $21M new!

Brighten your November morning: 900 in-browser arcade classics added to the Internet Archive

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Happy

Sometimes work may be undertaken in the office as well, for when playing games or reading news becomes dull.

[citation needed]

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Gimp

Hooray for the Mighty Bomb Jack!

Icon: Mighty Jill Off

Plasma-spaffing boffins plan spaceships driven by FRIKKIN' LASERS

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Boffin

Re: But...

If the laser is coming from the ground then there's no need! Simply launch from a floating platform and there'll be plenty of room for the sharks.

Apple CEO Tim Cook: My well-known gayness is 'a gift from God'

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Thumb Up

Seems to have been an 'open scret'

But I'm glad he's comfortable enough doing this.

Note to Reg Hacktards though... now he's officially out you may find use of the term 'Fruity Firm' comes with unfortunate implications.

Jim Beam me up, Scotty! WHISKY from SPAAACE returns to Earth

WraithCadmus

Re: Blasphemy

Maybe he got confused with Laphroaig 10 minutes up the road? I believe they use Jim Beam casks.

Doctor Who and the Dalek: 10-year-old tests BBC programming game

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Boffin

FORWARD 20; LEFT 90; BEEP

Never got enough time with the turtle, does remind me I need to find my copy of Robo Rally.

*does the Robo Rally dance*

Torvalds CONFESSES: 'I'm pretty good at alienating devs'

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Headmaster

Re: Eric Raymond's (in)famous quote

"[...]but then took offence that I had called him stupid[...]"

But you didn't, you called his idea stupid, which isn't the same thing.

Footie fracas: MYSTERY DRONE waves flag, incites Balkan brawl

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Go

Remove people without flair!

DOCTOR HELL and his henchmen score Nobel for the NANO-SCOPE

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Joke

Congratulations

Though this excerpt from his acceptance speech left me a little worried...

Behind the Facebook DRAG QUEEN CRACKDOWN: 'Anonymity soon!'

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Pirate

Re: Oh I see you wish to be anonymous

registered multinationals who might wish to do business with you

"Good afternoon, I am in the... pharmaceuticals distribution industry."

Official: Turing's Bombe better than a Concorde plane

WraithCadmus

Re: So somebody really did...

What you say ! !

Heatmiser digital thermostat users: For pity's sake, DON'T SWITCH ON the WI-FI

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Trollface

Re: Reverse Engineer

But surely, in the words of the Haynes manual, "reassembly is a reversal of disassembly" ;)

Yes, that spring will fly up from the corner of the garage back into the housing and re-anchor itself just right.

Ordnance Survey intern plonks houses, trees, rivers and roads on GB Minecraft map

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Flame

Choice of blocks

So local roads aren't flammable, but motorways are?

Icon: Flint and steel

'In... 15 feet... you will be HIT BY A TRAIN' Google patents the SPLAT-NAV

WraithCadmus

Re: NoNoNo

With stewed plums for afterwards?

SpaceX breaks ground on first commercial spaceport in Texas

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Flame

Re: Good place for it.

Are the Americans that bothered over the latter two of those?

Who fancies building the Kismayo Cosmodrome (Somalia)?

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Joke

Re: "dreaming bolder"

"To boldly dream" or "To dream boldly"?

Oi, Tim Cook. Apple Watch. I DARE you to tell me, IN PERSON, that it's secure

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You forgot something

Borrow these...

( •_•)>⌐■-■

Freenode IRC users told to change passwords after securo-breach

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Joke

Great

Now I need to change my password to 'hunter3'.

DUCKCROCZILLA 'alien' dinosaur could emerge from THE SEA

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Megaphone

Re: It's

DINSDALE

Found inside ISIS terror chap's laptop: CELINE DION tunes

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Mushroom

Re: Proof of the gateway theory

@silent_count

I thought Guns n Roses gave one an Appetite for Destruction?

Icon: Item liable to cause Megadeaths.

General Motors to intro hands-free driving tech by 2016

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Facepalm

Re: My mates had 'Hands Free' driving for years!

Have you considered some percussive maintenance to your mate's head?

BOFH: The current value of our IT ASSets? Minus eleventy-seven...

WraithCadmus

Re: Sharon T. Pokeworthy...

081 811 8181

And readers in the middle will remember the shoehorned syllable in 0181 811 8181

Like condoms, data now comes in big and HUGE sizes

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Boffin

Prosthetics

True story*, when working in a hospital I discovered that prosthetic bollocks are provided in sizes starting at 'medium'.

I think given the state of a patient in need of such things we can understand avoiding any further damage to their ego and sense of masculinity.

*I recall this being true, but it was a lot of beer ago...

Microsoft boots 1,500 dodgy apps from the Windows Store

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Trollface

Re: Windows has a store?

Windows has a store?

n/t

They don't call it NT these days Paul...

BAT-GOBBLING urban SPIDER QUEENS swell to ENORMOUS SIZE

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Woth apologies to Gary Larson

"Yes it's a lot of silk, but if we pull this off we'll eat like kings!"

RealVNC distances itself from factories, power plants, PCs hooked up to password-less VNC

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Meh

Re: Giving RealVNC a bad name

Security software going off like that is probably going to fix more problems that it causes but it's still a right cock when it happens.

"Can you reconfigure that old switch?"

*tries to use telnet*

*klaxons sound, telnet.exe deleted*

"No, it seems I can't..."

Gigantic toothless 'DRAGONS' dominated Earth's early skies

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Flame

Not a dragon

No big beefy arm coming out of the back

Icon: Countryside and peasants

Take the shame: Microsofties ADMIT to playing Internet Explorer name-change game

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Trollface

Re: RE: Internet Exploder

So you went from "Horsey" to "Birdy"?

Govt control? Hah! It's IMPOSSIBLE to have a successful command economy

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Thumb Up

Good article

I'd never heard of a 'command economy' before this. I would have guessed it was something to with Tiberium...

The internet just BROKE under its own weight – we explain how

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Happy

Re: The internet is full

Ha! I should have guessed it was a Dilbert thing.

I probably heard it as a non-excuse from a BOFH on a forum somewhere and didn't know the origin.

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WTF?

The internet is full

For years I've been glibly saying "the internet is full" as a reason for random outages, or why I can't field a call at a given moment.

It's drained the colour from my face to find out it actually happened.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner: Capital is top target for computer thieves, say police

WraithCadmus

Re: Lets get this straight

More serious suggestion is perhaps as there's more commuting by public transport in the capital people tend to buy nicer devices and have them out more often?

China to test recoverable moon orbiter

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WTF?

Re: Err... That does not fit my understanding of orbital mechanics

"Why are these rock samples covered in soup and blue string?"

Not a load of Tosh: 5TB 'surveillance drive' from Toshiba hits shelves

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Joke

Re: Internet and HDDs are made for porn

This seems to be for predictable workloads, and I would have thought that art films would be a more 'on-demand' endeavour.

Kickstarter hopefuls promise high-res aerial maps for the masses

WraithCadmus

Re: Black helicopter sourcing

That said a quick wikipedia does show that They don't have shotguns, then again They would say that, wouldn't They?

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Black Helicopters

Re: Black helicopter sourcing

"Pull!"

Thirteen Astonishing True Facts You Never Knew About SCREWS

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Re: What's the literal translation of the Arapaho?

@MyffyW

Don't tease me...

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Happy

What's the literal transaltion of the Arapaho?

I know that pliers was 'they bite', but what's the literal translation of their word for screw?

NASA Mars rover FINALLY equals 1973 Soviet benchmark

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Terminator

Choose your robotic resilience...

"Beware, I live!"

or

"I still function!"

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