* Posts by edge_e

393 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Aug 2007

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Moshi Monsters pushed onto pint-sized kiddies' mobes

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Stop

A big thanks to

All the parents out there who have bought their under 10 a mobile phone for making my life a little bit harder.

down vote away!

New smart meter tells Brits exactly what they already know

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Big Brother

But the government, along with industry, thinks differently.

I not sure the government or industry cares what the customers think. It's being rolled out for their benefit, not ours, and they damn well know.

The rest is just marketing spin to make you think you want it. This prevents the uproar that would otherwise be created by the fact that we've got to pay for something the majority of us really don't need.

Biz law reform: Bad news for lawyers, good news for hippies

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WTF?

Re: No, no, no, no

Could you please explain to us why a person who's been dead for 69 years still needs food on their table?

Leaked Twitter accounts 'mostly banned spammers'

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FAIL

How long until we see an email saying

Check to see if your twitter account is one of the 55000 hacked

click this link and type in your username and password

Cameron hardens stance on UK web filth block

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When I were a lad...

They totally failed to keep adult material out of hedges surrounding playgrounds, how can they realistically expect to keep it off of the internet?

Why embossed credit cards are here to stay

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Facepalm

Re: A lack of proof reading?

Fair, I've never actually noticed that link before

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Headmaster

A lack of proof reading?

“The genius of our system is global interoperability,” said David Masters, MasterCard's Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Affairs, who points out that merchants in developing nations may lack reliable access – or sometimes any access - to online transaction processing facilities.

Google KNEW Street View cars were slurping Wi-Fi

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FAIL

Re: WTF?

That's not the same. If you put a sign up in your garden, i might read it if i walked past.

Still don't trust google though!

Sugar content now to be measured in Cadbury Creme Eggs

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Alcoholic Creme Egg Smoothy

I'm sure that existed though a quick search didn't find it.

Does anyone else recall seeing it?

Vote now for the WORST movie EVER

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Re: The Phantom Menace Haters

I to looked for independence day

UK government says no to turbo e-bike

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Re: Bar room lawyers assemble!

It would then be subject to type approval (or what ever they ended up calling the law to stop people building "unsafe" chops and would require tax, MOT and insurance to be allowed on the road.

Vendors smack Thunderbolt punters with massive pricing markup

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FAIL

confused

Since when did 5 x 2=1 ?

"WD quotes speeds of up to 1Gbit/s, twice USB 3.0's 5Gbit/s"

UK.gov holds summit to stop satnav-driven smash-ups

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FAIL

64 comments and

not one of you, not even Dr Mouse, have taken issue with the amount of damage caused to DRIVERS

"Last month, Confused.com said that satnavs had caused more than £203m worth of damage to drivers"

Is it possible to put a monetary value on damage to something that was clearly faulty anyway?

Node.js Native breakthrough: cloudy C++ on steroids

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WTF?

Re: To follow myself up

Am I missing something? When you say fibonacci sequence to 40, do you mean finding the 40th term? If so your doing something seriously wrong to get such ludicrous times.

New Trojan routes your bank's calls to CROOKS

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Boffin

@Tarquin

"and surely most people would smell a rat if the bank started asking for landline account numbers"

You seem to be forgetting that nothing is infinite except human stupidity

'You will download your sneakers within 20 years. Yarr'

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Pirate

You will download your TRAINERS within 20 years

And Nike will still expect you to pay £100 a pair despite having reduced the labour, material, distribution and retailer costs to 0 (ok the distribution costs won't be quite 0 but damn close).

A new ass. of America will be born,(Trainer Wholesalers Against Theft ) lobbying against the piracy of shoes.

Planet-hunting Kepler hits EXOPLANET JACKPOT

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FAIL

@measurer

you may want to look at that again, he converted Km to m first

'Hannibal' leaks '100,000 Facebook logins'

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Facepalm

A lesson in irony

Apparently we learn from history so as not to make the same mistakes as our ancestors whilst religion teaches us how we should be nice to each other.

Mint Linux freshens up web searches

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You don't need to install mint

just add it to iceweasel/firefox here

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duck-duck-go-ssl/

Eleven - if you will - rocktastic music movies

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FAIL

How on earth can you mention rock without lemmy?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1236472/

Earth escapes obliteration by comet

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Joke

Comet Elenin

Maybe Dexys Midnight runners can fix it

Call routing scam costs telcos $150m a year

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scam? or business model

Sounds to me like it's now scams are us that are terminating the call in in the receiving country so they're entitled to the termination fee.

It does go to show that these fees are not only extortionate, they're completely unnecessary.

Poll: Porn-watching, net-savvy kids are a myth

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white dog turds died when BSE meant you couldn't buy bones from the butcher anymore.

Brits registering .uk domains mostly get first choice

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Megaphone

@moz

The problem isn't the price of domains and I'd be really p***ed off if your suggestion was followed.

The problem is that people buy domains off of the squatters for loads of money. If the 4% stopped doing this, squatters would disappear really quickly. Same goes for touts!

Average sozzled Brit sinks 5,800 pints during life

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Pint

It should be noted that the guidlines are made up

from here

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/20/mp_booze_science_probe/

The Sheffield study admitted that "four out of five cohort studies showed statistically significant reduction of all causes of mortality between 15 per cent and 25 per cent for moderate drinking". And "moderate" was around three pints of beer a day for men, or two glasses of wine for women, per day.

Lossless music goes High Street

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Flame

not entirely sure what you're trying to say but your closing comment is wrong

A CD has already lost information from what was originally played because of sampling and quantization levels but if you take that as the starting point

FLAC will compress the data on that CD to a smaller size in such a way that the original 0's and 1's contained on that cd are reproduced exactly. You can repeat the decode, re-encode cycle a thousand times and still end up with exactly what you started with. A lossy format like mp3 tries to decide what data is irrelevant in the original and throws it away. It does a reasonably good job of this and what you get when you decode will sound to your ears the same as the original(well that's the intent). If you looked at the 1's and 0's after decoding, you will see differences, even at higher bit rates. If you put an mp3 through a thousand decode/recode cycles you might not even be able to recognise what is left.

To sum up, lossless formats are exactly what they say, without loss! there is no removal of information what so ever.

US senators draw a bead on Bitcoin

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sounds like a

pyramid scheme to me

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Coat

Almost...

where's t'IT angle?

So, what's the best sci-fi film never made?

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Foundation gets my vote too

title said it all

Wi-Fi security befuddles clueless home users

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Flame

Re: Not surprising...

Even assuming that people actually learnt something in the weekend course you propose, all you do is raise the bar slightly. This may stop some random passer by from using your network to find out what time the next bus is but it won't stop anyone with truly nefarious intentions and now , in their eyes, its the governments fault they've been hacked because they did everything they'd been told in class.

I'm not saying that education isn't a good thing, it clearly is. You're not going to teach people, who don't want to learn, all about internet security in a weekend though.

Further to this, sooner or later, the majority of people will secure there network anyway either because they've been hacked or they know somebody who has.

It'll make bugger all difference though. Everyone has locks on their doors these days but people still get burgled.

As for your anti virus suggestion, do you work for McAfee ?

Steve Jobs bends iPad price reality

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Troll

Look at all the bite marks

Rik, I hope this was written because you were bored and you wanted to watch the waters froth.

Google brings 2-factor authentication to Gmail

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FAIL

I wonder

How many people will have their gmail password saved on the phone that receives the sms?

UK.gov may abolish edited electoral roll

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Big Brother

You're all missing the point

Anyone want to bet that option 3 is the outcome of this?

For those who haven't read it , it's the one that says "lets get rid of this edited register that's not worth very much and start selling the full one again."

So help to keep our data private and actually respond to the consultation!

UK cops eye shotgun cartridge Taser

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Big Brother

less lethal than ??

I don't really object to these They are quite likely less lethal than bullets. the problem is they won't be used as an alternative to bullets. Just like normal tasers, they'll be used instead of physical restraint. I assure you they are not less lethal than a pair of handcuffs

Dell accidentally sells 140,000 monitors for $15 a pop

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WTF?

And the legal position on this is?

In the UK, Dell wouldn't be legally obliged to honour this. Are Taiwanese consumers better protected than us?

Swoopo - eBay's (more) evil twin

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old news

The BBC covered the rise of penny auctions 2 weeks ago. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7793054.stm

They weren't quite as cynical though, I had to fill in all the evil bits myself

Coventry fans blue over 'hackable' cashless payment system

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Stop

This needs to be sent to Coventry

I just can't see why any criminal is going to bother cloning a card that's only valid inside Coventry city's stadium. Because of the enclosed nature of a football ground you're going to get caught if you use after the owner reports strange transactions.

Paris Hilton - the compromised candidate

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54 comments

And nobody's mentioned how confused the American electorate will be on polling day when they can't find the Paris box !

UK Wii Fit pre-orders cause shortage

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Clearly people should get out more

Or watch more youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYBmAVuBns

Firefox update puts lid on Jar bug

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Black Helicopters

Tin foil hat time!

Maybe microsoft used one of their many patches to implant code that causes firefox to crash so that every windows user will go back to using IE.

Led Zeppelin reunion opens with Communication Breakdown

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Also @b166er

you could also try noscript

Deceased Malayan hit with $218 trillion mobile bill

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Dead cert

The cost of calling from beyond the grave is obviously a bit more than Verizon's standard roaming charges.

Phone companies are clearly no threat to mediums yet!

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