* Posts by Stretch

559 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Aug 2007

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Windows 10 feedback: 'Microsoft, please do a deal with Google to use its browser'

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Wait...

How fast is a fart in a frying pan?

Apple KILLS SUPER MARIO. And Zelda. And Sonic

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Re: What did people expect?

"You can't submit code..."

This is true of a lot of FOSS unless you are accepted as a contributor

EE TV: Network snubs 'Auntie's antique' for mobe-happy set-top box

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So wait...

...there's no content, and they want £10 a month? And you get a crappy white-labelled PVR that won't be as good as your new TVs inbuilt?

"We didn't want to be constrained by TV thinking, we are mobile people." I read this as, "We did no market research and are totally clueless. And if you have a problem we won't be able to fix it".

Woman says narco-cops used her PICS to snare drug lords on Facebook

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She should sue her parents for calling her Sondra.

What do teenagers love doing? That's right: Staying up all night ... debugging

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Github is absolutely the worst thing to happen to humanity in its entire history by a fair margin.

Women! Worried you won't get that Job in IT? Mention how hot you are

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Spanners

Love how all this has focused mostly on spanners.

Adobe spies on readers: 'EVERY page you turn, EVERY book you own' leaked back to base

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Someone just ddos it

Adobe spies on reading habits over unencrypted web because your 'privacy is important'

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Pff magnetised needle and a steady hand

Countless Belkin routers go TITSUP in massive mystery meltdown

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This is true, but I am yet to find a company of which it is not true.

iPhone 6: The final straw for Android makers eaten alive by the data parasite?

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Re: Uneducated toss.

My new shiny Z3 is in my hand. It is awesome. It kicks the Shix into next week.

We're not Mr Brightside: Asda Car Insurance broker hacked

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re: A non e-mouse

Zero Days? Shellshock? Social Engineering? Any of the above.

I'd ask "Compliant with what, exactly?".

TBH their response should be contrasted with recent mass-theft of CC data from major retailers, where they lost it, didn't know they lost it, and then didn't admit they lost it when they found out.

Microsoft's nightmare DEEPENS: Windows 8 market share falling fast

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I'm not sure why they bother

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Hence all the Linux flavours.

Hey Brit taxpayers. You just spent £4m on Central London ‘innovation playground’

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a lot of consultants made a lot of money of this

Windows 10: One for the suits, right Microsoft? Or so one THOUGHT

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" the puzzle is why it has taken Windows so long to catch up"

Yeah. Gotta say I have wanted this for years and years and years. When I'm working I have a whole load of programs making up the "state" of a project, if you will. Arranging these on separate desktops has always been something I have thought would make context switching easier.

If programs on "hidden" desktops could be set to suspend that would be handy.

A feature I'd love to have is a Windows 10 tablet as a screen of my Windows 10 PC. I'm sure they can do this for games too if Valve manages it. Perhaps this is already mentioned and I missed it.

Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld and some Apple bloke attend glitzy iPhone 6 Paris launch

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Whatever you may think of the phones, those people are total scumbags. Conning people into believing in "fashion" and parting millions of fools from their money on a daily basis.

So they deserve each other.

US Attorney Gen latest to roast Apple, Google mobe encryption

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oh fuck off you lying sack of shit

TEEN RAMPAGE: Kids in iPhone 6 'Will it bend' YouTube 'prank'

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Re: Great work

buses can't be jumped under

Oracle will 'kill MySQL' and steal its users? Ha ha, haha, ha. Seriously, we won't – Oracle exec

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"This was a very mysterious concept to us."

You have a self-awareness problem then. Coz we could all see what you were going to do. And you did. Hence all the forks.

BENDY iPhone 6, you say? Pah, warp claims are bent out of shape: Consumer Reports

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What about...

...raising it to, say, body temperature before the test? Or hotter as my phone at least gets bloody warm when Ingressing.

I'm wondering what heat would do to this. Bet these were all icy cold.

and hat tip to Somtimes_Right, posted as I did.

US stakes out 'net battleground ahead of ITU meeting

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@AC

/facepalm

'Could we please not have naked developers running around the office BEFORE 10pm?'

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Building apps and javascript doesn't count tbh.

Also, i like "what is there to do in berlin: leave"

Oracle plans German DCs to soothe NSA-ruffled nerves

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Re: All well and good

Indeed. And they won't be stopping at US companies. If you do any business in the US you'll be subject to the same.

Stanford Uni: Google cash leaves us entirely impartial and unbiased

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Re: Fake Steve

did he Fake die? Can we hold a Fake seance?

Sun of a beach! Java biz founder loses battle to keep his shore private

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what an asshat!

Great way to make yourself popular locally.

Oh he has to pay for some upkeep out of his BILLION DOLLAR FORTUNE. Oh deary, deary me. Poor rich guy.

What I don't understand, is that they knew where he lived, and didn't sort the problem quickly and quietly by drowning the fucker on his own precious beach.

Cut-off North Sea island: Oh crap, ferry's been and gone. Need milk. SUMMON THE DRONE

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Swim.

Bruges Booze tubes to pump LOVELY BEER underneath city

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Starting new party...

EU Independence Party. We will start by hacking off a chunk of Kent, call it part of the EU, allowing people Human Rights and all the things the toryscum want rid of, separate from this racist, xenophobic, warmongering, foul, awful, overpriced shithole we call the "UK".

There will be beer.

Bad boy builds beastly Bash bug botnet, boxen battered

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that's some nice subediting

Let it go, Steve: Ballmer bans iPads from his LA Clippers b-ball team

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Re: Many posters in this thread seem to think that all MS OS's crash frequently - they do not.

"I have never seen a single Linux kernel panic (equivalent of a bluescreen) on a stock kernel (a kernel from the repositories), in over 15 years"

You should try turning them on. Helps. I have yet to see a linux kernel panic for over 15 minutes, but many, many, many before. Including in Production. At Christmas. At Midnight.

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Good Man! Completely agree! Ofc, using ipad as the generic term for tablet is a crime against humanity

While you queued for an iPhone 6, Apple's Cook sold shares worth $35m

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insider trading MUCH?

EE buys 58 Phones 4u stores for £2.5m after picking over carcass

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Re: Smash and grab

Was for me. You need to learn how to manipulate desperate sales assistants,

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Re: Smash and grab

the point was the better customer service, independent advise, exclusive deals and prices and ACTUALLY HAVING COMPETITION.

You forget, Steve, that EE's interests != Your interests. And if you say this is good for them then it is certainly not good for any of us.

Apple: SO sorry for the iOS 8.0.1 UPDATE BUNGLE HORROR

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This has all brought me total and blissful joy.

Emma Watson urges UN to back feminism – trolls threaten to leak her 'nude selfies'

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This has been orchestrated by a sock puppeting advertising agency. Nothing to do with 4chan at all, just using their name.

MOST iPhone strokers SPURN iOS 8: iOS 7 'un-updatening' in 5...4...

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"faithful"

...is so the right word. They remind me of every other religious nutjob.

Swiss cops BAN MASKS at meeting of rebellious United Nations IP staff

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how come everything in Switzerland is so corrupt?

Ab phab: Apple is Britain's coolest brand YET AGAIN

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i assume this is only cool for those who can be influenced by "key influencers", or "fucktards", not for the rest of us.

Anyway, please join me in a campaign of hate directed against that idiot CoolBrands company.

Germany strikes again over Amazon warehouse pay

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WTF are all these comments about

Nazism? Football? Xenophobia? Crumbs when did the dailymail readership turn up.

Anyway, I agree with Amazon here really but not because of any of their arguments. I'm a supporter of trade unions but I don't believe in these collective pay agreements. They are just backwards and de-motivating. The union should act on the behalf of each individual and use collective action to support individuals in the face of any bullying or unfair actions from the company.

Apple iPhone 6: Looking good, slim. AW... your battery died

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Re: How much?@AC

lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol

your phone "holds its value"? my god. this is actually the most stupid comment on here ever.

Oi, London thief. We KNOW what you're doing - our PRECRIME system warned us

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Interestingly if anyone was to make use of this information it would instantly become wrong.

JINGS! Microsoft Bing called Scots indyref RIGHT!

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Re: Is Scotland too small to survive on its own?

Hmm but...

New Zealand is a lovely place, with glorious weather, fantastic environments and great people.

And Scotland is a shithole.

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surely if they win 51% of the vote and just scrape it, then they only get 51% of Scotland? Seems fair to me.

Top Gear Tigers and Bingo Boilers: Farewell then, Phones4U

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yeah, blurred coz arseholes are arseholes regardless of market research.

Microsoft's rumoured $2.5bn Minecraft gobble expected on Monday

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@ Anonymous Coward

Oh you uninformed AC.

Phones 4u website DIES as wounded mobe retailer struggles to stay above water

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they don't own shit.

Oh noes, fanbois! iPhone 6 Plus shipments 'DELAYED' in the UK

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Re: Did you eat the whopper?

Absolutely. This is ENTIRELY artificial.

If you bought one, please, kill yourself for the good of mankind.

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Re: £699

"nontechnical person" you see, you've found my strongest insult.

Hacker publishes tech support phone scammer slammer

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If you tell the scammer you are going to exploit him when he tries to connect then it would not be a crime. I doubt many of them have any idea what they are doing or how, and would answer "yes, ok" to anything you say

iPhone 6: Advanced features? Pah! Nexus 4 had most of them in 2012

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Attention Macscum

Question: Did you not see The Fappening?

Question: Do you really want to use Apple Pay?

If the answers are yes you seriously need to reconsider your continued existence.

Order an iPhone 6 from midnight PT – if Apple's web store holds up better than its livestream

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macscum are not people

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