* Posts by Frankee Llonnygog

1433 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2012

Tim Cook stands firmly behind pro-LGBT, anti-discrimination law

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Re: The Yanks are catching up!

Maybe we can discriminate against sociopaths?

Facebook fans fuel faggots firestorm

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Faggotts?

I eat brains...

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=261732978

Have you reinstalled Windows yet? No, I just want to PRINT THIS DAMN PAGE

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Printers are smarter than we give them credit for

They are masters at concealing their true feelings. That's why their display panels never read, "Fuck off and die, human".

Japanese boffins make a splash with bath-based touchscreen

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This will bring marvellous extra realism

next time I re-enact the battle of Jutland

Forrester to Facebook: you're SHALLOW and a BAD FRIEND

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I imagine the right products sell well to Facebook users

13 litre drums of generic cola, adult nappies, 8kg buckets of fried chicken, banoffee and chicken tikka pizza... that kind of thing.

iPad Air not very hot: Apple fanbois SHUN London fondleslab launch

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Re I'd missed your Apple bullshit for the last week

Maybe El Reg has passed PEAK STUPID

FREEZE, GLASSHOLE! California cops bust Google Glass driver

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Re: Glass-wearers involved in accidents

That's true in criminal law - in civil law it's different, e.g. in a negligence suit the plaintiff aims to show that the defendant's negligence caused the plaintiff's injury. If a Glass-wearing driver runs you over, it will be difficult for them to show they weren't negligent

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Glass-wearers involved in accidents

I imagine they'll be hard put to prove in court that they were paying attention to the road and not distracted by their glasses. If that's true, wearing them while driving will be as good as an admission of liability.

'Tablet' no longer means 'iPad': Apple share PLUMMETS below 30%

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Re: Peak Apple

Mount Everest has also peaked, but I don't see many signs of it being broken up for crazy paving just yet

Mavericks Mail's spam-spewing 'flaw' was scripted by red-faced user

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Does FastMail only have this one Mac-using customer?

If not, the problem being confined to one user account might have suggested it isn't a generic Apple issue.

Anyway, well done the 'journalists' who disseminated this story without checking it - the truth would have attracted far fewer page views.

Apple under CEO Angela Ahrendts? Hmm ... (beard stroke)

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The first word of this article is 'Analysis'

The remainder, isn't.

Nothing to sniff at: Dell Ultrabooks REEK OF CAT PEE, scream users

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Re: we don't test for smell

1 cat pee

2 pole cat

3 jaguar

4 panther

5 tiger

6 leopard

7 snow leopard

8 lion

9 mountain lion

10 mavericks

Email-sniffing Linkedin Intro NOT security threat, insists biz network

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Re: Yeah, but no.

@ Gordon 10

If you're so worried about confidentiality, why reveal your name and age in your sig?

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Re: Whaaa'

Could be useful for harvesting linked in details from unsubscribe requests following a spamshot

GOV.UK swells organ donor signups by 10,000 a month

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Re: James Darling doesn't actually work for GDS.

The article quotes someone praising GOV.UK, so what's wrong in responding with a well deserved slating of same? I'm quite happy to call it a pile of crap no matter how many ACs may or may not be employed to make twiddles to it

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Wow

They make a lot of fuss for a department who've only managed to deliver a re-skinned website.

Universal Credit and the Digital Identity Initiative - years late and millions over budget.

Actual savings vs those claimed - no evidence.

New online transactions delivered vs claiming credit for those that predate their involvement (eg DVLA) - nothing yet.

Self-aggrandising PR - lots!

Shy, bashful HUMPBACK DOLPHINS expose themselves to boffins

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Wow

"A research team made up of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the American Museum of Natural History and other groups set out to figure out the number of distinct types of humpback dolphins using physical features and genetic data."

Dolphins using genetic data? Them's some clever dolphins

Want to go to billionaire Sun kingpin's beach? Hope you're a strong swimmer

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Thumb Up

Just wait till the masked avenger hears about this!

The millionaire's sightless eyes seemed to stare at the arras whose surface had been slashed - with a Z! Zorro, the flashing blade, defender of the weak, had righted another injustice.

Samsung is officially the WORLD'S BIGGEST smartphone maker

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Who makes the other 38%?

Same people that make the 62% Foxtronn, etc...

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Re: Sheeple

Generic phone-ist comment:

YOU use different phone to me, therefore YOU must be a gullible idiot who's easily conned into buying overpriced crap just for the label.

I use a Samsung/Apple/HTC/STC rotary dial phone (delete as appropriate) and therefore exude a subtle and stylish musk that makes women swoon and world leaders hang on my every word.

Anonymity is the enemy of privacy, says RSA grand fromage

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Re: From the official NSA handbaook

The only true secret is the one that everybody knows ... grasshopper.

Apple 'happy ending': BULGING iPhone WAD - but can it ever be enough?

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Re: @WhoaWhoa

Really? So every single customer who buys other than the cheapest item, is a mug? That's certainly opened my eyes. Thanks for the life lesson. No more single malt & brie lifestyle for me. Not even Kraft cheese and Bud. Every single thing I buy will be Walmart generic from now on. Take that, you fancy-pants premium-product-pushing conmen!

Fleet of driverless pods to take over Milton Keynes town centre

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Not on the sodding pavements!

Please.

Hard-as-woodpecker-lips MOUSE GOBBLES live scorpion, LAUGHS off stings to face

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Re: So ... God is a mouse?

1 thumbs down for "So ... God is a mouse?". I didn't know cats had thumbs

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Re: How friggin awesome is evolution!

So ... God is a mouse?

Want to keep the users happy? Don't call them users for a start

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Users...

A pet peeve of mine - if you're supporting or developing customer-facing applications, you really need to get into the habit of calling the users (and thinking of them as) customers - ie the people that pay our wages.

TECH WAR: Brummies say firms 'lose out' in London's Tech City

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Cambridge?

Cambridge just has old fashioned companies like ARM - all they have done is design the chip that powers just about desirable mobile device.

Silicon Roundabout is converging social media with the monetisation of crowd-sourced dynamic content in a democratised ...

Sorry - temporarily lost the will to live.

Apple CEO Tim Cook v Microsoft's Ballmer: Seconds out, round two!

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Re: Please Tim kepp going............

Oh yes - because handing a monopoly to Samsung would truly make the world a better place

Apple's Hacker Princess really needs to stay away from Idaho cops

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In Idaho...

If I call myself chairman, I'm legally obliged to let people sit on me

If I call myself Colonel, people are permitted to tell me I sound like a nut

If call myself Bill Gates, people can walk through me, but I can charge them a fee

If my name is Jobs, people can do me

Fearless slayer of lawsuit-lovin' patent trolls steps forward from shadows

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Intellectual Ventures

Great name for a company that neither ventures anything nor is intellectual. An annex to the legislation should force a rename - Cloddish Plodders for example

You like iPads, you like things called 'Air'. You will LOVE this puppy

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Re: Did you just???

Yes, the Apple-customised ARM processor is made in a Samsung fab which Apple will switch production to and from whenever it suits them technically or commercially. What's your point?

New MacBook Pro: What's actually new, here?

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Re: still no touch on the pros and air?

Trackpad still there last time I checked

It's the '90s all over again: Apple repeats mistakes as low-cost tablets pile up

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My meta-analysis of analysts' predictions predicts ...

... they're wrong.

They need to spend more time looking over Apple's fundamentals and less time looking up their own fundaments.

HP CEO Whitman: We've built the PC that GOD wants

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Re: Futility

6 of the last 10 Governors were Republican

Baldness fix from foreskin follicles

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Re: Let me get this straight...

Ugh - now I can't think of mousetraps without wincing

LG's 'Chromestation' trademark grab sparks Google tie-up speculation

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Trademarks still available ...

Chrome-magnon, Chromo-sapiens, and, probably the most likely to be used, Chrome Alone

Microsoft pulls Win 8.1 RT code which upgraded Surface 'slabs into BRICKS

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Re: The defnition of bricked is unrecoverable

Not bricked - just tiled.

Volvo: Need a new car battery? Replace the doors and roof

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Maybe what's needed is

Some kind of liquid battery or energy source. It could be stored in a container under the car bodywork. Energy could be extracted by releasing heat and kinetic energy via oxidation. When the energy source is exhausted, the container could be topped up with more liquid from a hose connected to a pump at the charging station.

I wonder if there's any prior art for this?

Alarming tales: What goes on INSIDE Reg hack's hi-tech bedroom

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Mildly NSFW

This alarm is intended to wake women via intimately applied vibrations: http://sabotagetimes.com/camouflage/the-orgasm-alarm-clock/

I feel sure Trevor is ingenious enough to find a way for it to bring men upright at the crack of dawn

A $17.3bn fine, you say? Samsung begs for five-year patent war truce

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Re: If you're relying on the government to support you in your old age...

Ayn Rand collected social security benefits from 1974 to her death in March 1982. Her husband was also on welfare from December 1974 to his death in November 1979.

If you're looking for an inspirational writer, you might want to find one who's not a lying hypocrite

Send dosh (insecurely) via email, Jack Dorsey's Square tells punters

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Re: Completely unnecessary in the UK.

It's aimed at the US market where they still use what they call 'checks'

Behold, the MONSTER-CLAWED critter and its terrifying SPIDER BRAIN

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The most important question

Did it taste good?

And, how does the answer bear on the subsidiary question of why marine creepy-crawlies taste so good, and land-based nasties so bad?

Don't keep me in suspense boffins - the IPO of my land-lobster farm project depends on your answers.

Apple slams brakes on orders of (not so cheap) plasticky iPhone 5C

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Tim Cook, From Apple's fiscal Q1 2013 Earnings Call

I know there has been lots of rumors about order cuts and so forth and so let me just take a moment to make a comment on these. I don't want to comment on any particular rumor because I would spend my life doing that but I would suggest it's good to question the accuracy of any kind of rumor about build plans and also stress that even if a particular data point were factual it would be impossible to accurately interpret the data point as to what it meant for our overall business because the supply chain is very complex and we obviously have multiple sources for things, yields might vary, supply performance can vary. The beginning inventory positions can vary, I mean there is just an inordinate long list of things that would make any single data point not a great proxy for what's going on.

Apple's Steve Jobs was a SEX-crazed World War II fighter pilot, says ex

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Re: The other flaw...

Not to mention that Cleopatra had a lot of hands

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Re: any clues on who registered that one

I'm guessing it was Lemmy

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Re: Why would you need porn

It sometimes comes in handy

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"Always thought that Jobs batted for the other side"

San Jose Giants?

Mac fans: You don't need Windows to get ripped off in tech support scams

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"Your computer has a virus"

Oh no! The missiles might launch themselves!

Snowden's pal Greenwald QUITS Guardian to launch hush-hush news rival

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Re: reported ... sooner than he was ready to announce it

The NSA sent out a press release

Oracle says open source has no place in military apps

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People's Liberation Army says ...

Imperialist Yankee Running Dog software has no place in military apps