* Posts by Truth4u

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Motorist 'thought car had caught fire' as Adele track came on stereo

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Alert

When Adele comes on I open the driver door and bail.

The car with no driver speeding through the intersection is mine but it's your problem.

You! Pirate! Stop pirating, or we shall admonish you politely. Repeatedly, if necessary

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copyright infringement is the opposite of theft

its like that mythical money cloning machine. you just press copy and boom 2 copies exist. It saves billions of dollars for the consumer that get spent on food and rent. the money doesnt get destroyed it just goes to a better cause.

Chrome browser has been DRAINING PC batteries for YEARS

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Re: This is a Windows API problem

Interesting, what is the API and the boundaries for this tick value?

I want to try setting it to various values between 1ms and the max to see what happens to different applications and stability.

Listen: WORST EVER customer service call – Comcast is 'very embarrassed'

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Re: Just refuse to discuss it

record it then put your half through a voice changer and post it on every video sharing site under a fake name.

NASDAQ IT security spend: $1bn. Finding mystery malware on its servers: Priceless

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you could easily spend a billion dollars on AVG

And still not catch a single virus.

Microsoft swings axe at 18,000 bods in its largest ever round of layoffs

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If Microsoft buys your company

better start looking for a new job. And no they don''t care how many families lives they destroy to save half a percent on their annual report.

Seagate chances ARM with NAS boxes for the SOHO crowd

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"Marvel ARM 1.2GHz processor"

boring.

I just bought a 4-bay NAS with a 1.7 ARM for about £100 new on eBay. So what is that, better in every way? Is this a gouging or is it a gouging?

NASA: ALIENS and NEW EARTHS will be ours inside 20 years

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Windows

Re: Viruses, Bacteria, Fungus, yeasts and Food

"I agree viruses are likely not a worry."

Unless you run Windows

Say goodbye to the noughties: Yesterday’s hi-fi biz is BUSTED, bro

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Re: You'll have to speak up!

The deaf can already benefit from Cochlear implants whereby the signal from a microphone is amplified and sent to an electrode by a nerve in the Cochlear. It works.

Trouble is, microphones work very differently to the human ear, which is really quite an intricate organ. And so what you hear is recognisable but very different, music sounds crappier, but you can hear and understand speech, which is the point of these devices.

Sound engineers put a lot of effort into choosing and setting up microphones to record different material, with this hearing aid system, you are essentially condemned to compromise with a single small microphone. Maybe a direct injection of source material could work better, but then quality is all about inexact things like where you place the electrode, maybe more than one would be better? Or worse? Maybe you could do everything with one by modulating the signal somehow? Someone might be researching this, hopefully they are but it will take decades.

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multiroom

you can usually do this with 2 speakers by turning them louder

Adobe Flash: The most INSECURE program on a UK user's PC

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What IS Flash?

Seems to have tens of thousands of features I'm sure no one ever uses. Why do I need all that animation crap in there if I only care about video? And all the other weird shit it can do, but if it ever did, I would close the browser faster than you would drop a ball of molten lead.

The Windows 8 dilemma: Win 8 or wait for 9?

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Linux

Why would you ever need to turn a computer off???

That AMAZING Windows comeback: Wow – 0.5% growth in 2015

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folks cant wait to run windows

we need to make satya the next billionaire guys come on get your wallets out dont be shy get them out

Virgin Media goes titsup AGAIN. The cause? Yet MORE DNS strife

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thats just how it goes

step 1. geeks use their esoteric knowledge and love of technology to set up an ISP and run it reasonably well.

2. well run ISP gets subscribers.

3. more subscribers join until the ISP reaches critical mass.

4. ISP is bought by "media company" and all geeks are fired and replaced with more important salesmen.

5. without routine maintenance or network upgrades going on anymore, prices can be dropped and media company can boast the price drop as evidence they're "running things right dammit".

6. soon the network stops working.

7. media company can't understand why that would happen if you fired all the people that stop it happening. Obvious solution: blame customers for using the internet too much.

8. customers start leaving.

9. media company most now buy another good ISP to get their customer base back to where it was.

10. I hate media companies.

Facebook: Yes, we made you SAD on PURPOSE... for your own good

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yeah we're just going to select what posts you see mmkay

its for your own good mmmkay.

we're just going to delete the ones we don't think you should be seeing mmmkay.

dont worry about it theres no need for you to be aware of this mmmmmkay

Indie labels: 5 reasons why we're hauling YouTube before Euro antitrust watchdog

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Happy

video killed the radio star

What's it like using the LG G smartwatch and Android Wear? Let us tell YOU

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wearable cumputing

i want a 12-inch e-peen to wear over my peen.

Apple SOLDERS memory into new 'budget' iMac

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Yeah, it's just a weak chip. Probably equivalent to the dual 2.9Ghz AMD thats been running my folks machine for 5 years now. And that was a £50 part.

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wtf?

that is a really poor machine for £900, and I am an iMac user. I got the 2011 model which is at least slightly upgradeable (before they decided to remove the ROM drive, so I could remove it and add an SSD instead, for example - at the moment its broken cos I have an SD card stuck in there, bloody slot loader next to the SD card slot, Apple are a cruel evil company).

Crooks use Synology NAS boxen to mine Dogecoin, yells Dell

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What if you don't open port 5000, you are 100% safe right?

It's alright saying NAT can be broken but until you demonstrate it its just hot air.

Intel reveals its FrankenChip ARM killer: one FPGA and one Xeon IN ONE SOCKET

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Joke

They could put Intel and AMD x86 on the same chip.

People will happily run malware if paid ONE CENT – new study

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sweet

I'm gunna claim the 1cent for infecting other people.

Today's get-rich-quick scheme: Build your own bank

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Re: Slight snag.

huh any economist will tell you that but go ahead and thumb it down. keep popping those blue pills.

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Re: Slight snag.

Banks do not lend out deposits, that is a common misconception.

Private banks control the money supply and the issuance of new currency.

When you take out a £1,000 loan, the bank creates a corresponding £1,000 credit in your account, out of thin air, using a computer.

Therefore, private banks control the issuance of currency.

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Why not make a quasi-legal bank that charges fees but never pays interest?

Could call it LapYap...

Internet of Things fridges? Pfft. So how does my milk carton know when it's empty?

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In the UK we solved this problem a hundred years ago

by putting milk in see-through containers.

Seriously, if Americans were so smart, maybe they could just try that????

Virgin Media boss AND ex-Murdoch man: BSkyB broadband is 'lousy'

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Re: Sky is just dirty

oh and Sky cold called me relentlessly, not even sure where they got my mobile number from but I never answered. This was in addition to calling me on the land-line and I did speak to them, but its always a different guy who knows nothing about the last call. I see it as a form of harassment.

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Sky is just dirty

My friend and I were both Be subscribers, he went with Sky, I went with Zen.

We're both equally happy with the respective services, it is just the same BT service basically.

But I'm not supporting an openly amoral organisation so I get to be happy and smug. And I am within my rights to use my own decent networking equipment instead of junk.

Microsoft 'Catapults' geriatric Moore's Law from CERTAIN DEATH

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this will work great

until someone goofs up the layout of the FPGAs and they start pumping hundreds of gigs of garbage into the CPUs.

How practical is an electric car in London?

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Re: And yet...

Was at the engine room in the science museum recently. HUGE engines with tiny ratings. Probably use most of the power carrying their own weight. We've come a long way.

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nuclear vehicles

Could you put a small reactor in a vehicle the size of a hummer? I'm sure you could.

Then you get to be green and the biggest thing on the road.

Yes. Facebook will KNOW you've been browsing for smut

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Surprised they weren't doing it already tbh.

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Whatever he's high on it doesn't look fun. He seems to be having trouble showing naturalistic emotion.

Yet another reason to skip commercials: Microsoft ad TURNS ON your Xbox One

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LOL

way to troll your own customers. good work.

games consoles are not really relevant anymore. its an expensive kids toy and for sad adults who could better spend their time taking a walk instead.

I am NOT a PC repair man. I will NOT get your iPad working

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Before I move into a house

The neighbours will see men installing network cable and racks of equipment for about 3 days before I move in. Then I'll move in as a single guy my belongings are mostly computers and servers. When I'm done moving in, if any neighbours knock on the door asking for computer help I just say I don't know what a computer is and have never used one then close the door.

Revealed: GCHQ's beyond top secret Middle Eastern internet spy base

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Re: I'm not surprised about BT being in serious cahoots...

Well that doesn't sound very secure does it? Build a secure location and move the computers outside when people need to use them?

Myspace: Where are you going? We still have all your HUMILIATING PICS

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Not going to work

unless people suddenly start using all their old hotmail accounts again.

Rap chap tapped for $3 BEELLION: Apple buys Dr Dre's Beats

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Re: Now do it properly...

And Alan Sugar would want to cut down on the cost of wood in the Grado headphones by replacing it with chipboard and no doubt replace the ear cup with some kind of HIV-based material. Then Ratner would put out a press release announcing his intention to sell crap headphones. But only Apple and Dr Dre would actually rip you off on the price.

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Think Connectors

I bet they bought Beats so they can stick a 40 pin proprietary connector on the headphones and change it slightly every year, then people will have to buy the same headphones again and again if they want to stay cool!

It also means Apple can charge the same price and reduce the quality as they know they're going to discontinue the connector in 12 months, they can use plastic that will crack after 11 months of use. And the prices will never ever go down, only up.

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Re: Apple is no longer a product company

the mac pro looks like a decent computer if only it wasnt priced double compared to the same parts in an ATX case. But you're paying to get rid of that big noisy case I suppose. Paying far too much. But it is at least a product that they made. If it didnt cost 5x the cost of a regular computer people might even buy it.

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Sad day for capitalism

This is a slap in the face to the companies worth less than $3 billion who are doing more for society than Dr Dre.

Everyone from Cancer Research to Pepper Pig is losing out to a man whose 'job' involves making songs about a 'tough but colorful ghetto lifestyle' that seems to exist solely in his imagination. And he'll even sell you some plastic headphones so you can listen to him fuck up a perfectly good song by taking out the chorus, looping it for 5 minutes, and chatting shit over the top.

It's Google's no-wheel car. OMG... there aren't any BRAKES

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not fair

I passed my test when I was 19... never could afford to insure a car in London though, I've probably used my licence to buy alcohol more times than I'll ever need to use it in relation to driving, and now they want to take the driver away? By the time I can actually afford to own a car, I won't be allowed to drive it anyway. What was the point in those lessons, can I get a rebate?

And if Google drives my car, can they pay the insurance too?

No, I bet the insurance will go UP. You watch.

Privacy International probes GCHQ's mouse fetish

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Re: This is very puzzling

"P.S. The 'intact' and 'destroyed' keyboard components seem to be two different items."

All NSA procedures are disseminated as PowerPoint presentations and all PowerPoint presentations use random images from Google search.

CERN: Build terabit networks or the Higgs gets it!

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Re: Just come out and say it.

"I wonder how much analogue information could be buffered in a parsec or so of super-conducting cable looping around the site?"

Some.

eBay slammed for daft post-hack password swap advice

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password scoring software

just google your password, if you get results its not that secret is it.

Waterfront flats plan for IBM's UK HQ as housing market goes bananas

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COMRADE

Make Building Complex 9000 your home, for a better future, today!

EBay, you keep using the word 'SECURITY'. I do not think it means what you think it means

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"eBay has reset everyone's passwords as a precaution"

I just logged in with my original password and it didn't ask me to change it.

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