Posts by Ray Gratis

Apple: Samsung ripped off our phone patent! USPTO: What patent?

It wasn't just a theoretical design patent...

...because I found a picture of the prototype iPhone.

ICO fines anti nuisance call company for making nuisance calls

Re: In the US...

@ David Webb

Re TrueCall... I've had one of these for 18 months - brilliant.

Swordfish fatally stabs man after man stabs, fatally, swordfish

Re: Big Heart

No - the fish was just being nosey.

Internet Society of Australia changes name to Internet Australia

He's not the CEO...

He's a Very Naughty Boy.

Naked cyclists take a hard line on 'aroused' protest participant

Whining cyclists

At least they can't complain about the number of bike racks.

Lies, damn lies and election polls: Why GE2015 pundits fluffed the numbers so badly

Re: "shy tory"

"The phone rings"

Well, get a call-blocker like the rest of us!

Tight b*stard.

Smart meters are a ‘costly mistake’ that'll add BILLIONS to bills

Re: poor or very poor

The poor have pre-payment meters, so take them out of the equation!

Linksys's über-hackable WRT wireless router REBORN with 802.11ac

Stackable?

The original case was stackable, but this one looks similar yet weirdly non-stackable (OK - the side antennas wouldn't help). Paris icon for stackability reasons.

Total cost of THAT axed NHS IT fiasco to taxpayers: £10.1bn

Re: And

Your reference to Paris is in the worst possible taste.

+1

Serious Farce Office: 32K secret BAE probe files spaffed to WRONG bod

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SHORTLY BEFOR MY FATHERS MYSTERIOUS DEATH, HE RECEIVED APPROX 32,000 (THIRTY-TWO THOUSAND) ITEMS OF SENSITIVE EVIDENCE.

I NEED YOUR HELP TO DISPOSE OF THIS STUFF. PLEASE REPLY IN CONFIDENCE TO [e-mail]

YOUR OBEEDIANT SERVAN,

RASU

Brit horologist hammers out ‘first’ ATOMIC-POWERED watch

Re: Build 12 to patent it

I was unhappy when I looked at their patent-happy website. They have a patent which covers using the second hand to point to "other things". Sheesh.

Disney shutters Star Wars game unit with 200 layoffs

Re: the nerve

Hmmm.... actually, the either/or you mention can also be applied to politicians, anyone with an MBA, etc etc

The truth on the Navy carrier debacle? Industry got away with murder

Piston Broke

How big a boiler could be built for a BEEELLION pounds? There must be alternatives to a nuclear reactor for generating steam for catapults.

Re: Chocolate Teapot

The Argentinian foreign minister said yesterday that the Falklands would be under their control "within 20 years".

Trust the cloud with my PRECIOUS? You gotta be joking

Same manufacturing batch...

Wasn't there a whitepaper published by Google a few years ago about HD reliability? It also exposed the myth that HDs like to run cool, if I remember.

Re: Backup chaps, backup.

I was involved in large-scale DR exercises for years...

You might want to add to that wise "Any media stored in only one location is potentially no media at all" this one:

"Any backup that hasn't been recovery tested is potentially no backup at all".

You would / wouldn't be surprised (depending on your personal experience) at how many backups don't recover successfully when they are needed.

Vote now for the ultimate bacon sandwich

Re: Do You Know The Muffin Man

Slightly off-topic, but muffins are also good with burgers...

Back on topic, you can fry the muffin-halves first. Why faff around toasting?

Re: Speaking as a vegetarian

Begone, spy !!

I bet she does !

arrf, arrf.

New I-hate-my-neighbour stickers to protect Brits' packages

Re: And the other sticker

Just give unaddressed junk back to RM - in those red boxes.

NZ bloke gets eel stuck up jacksie

Probably a simple case of short-sightedness

Should've gone to Spec(ulum)-Savers.

Bitcoin exchange shuts after heist

Re: Correct me if I am wrong, please

@STEVEN RAITH

IT WOULD'VE BEEN MORE CONVINCING IN UPPERCASE.

Troll blockers take Microsoft SGI patents

"OIN was founded in 1995..."

Or maybe 2005

Ballmer's Yahoo! bullishness hides Bing brand play

Verb...

Bing oogling for years - what's the issue?

Rogue Atlantis knob removed by hand

A Truth Table for the programmers here

........................|.....Left-hand drive........|...............Right-hand drive............|

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Automatic........................1..................................................2

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Manual............................3..................................................4

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1: (Americans) Right hand free to masturbate

2: (Smart British) Left hand free to grope passenger

3: (Rest of world) Something for right hand to do (see 1)

4: (Dumb British) Working-class chip-on-shoulder

Paris loses her BlackBerry in Cannes hotel

"Paris has surely extended her circle"

Brilliant !!

It was the MacBook Air sub-notebook

Thin becomes sharp?

How thin does something have to be before it is considered sharp?

What a larf if these are confiscated at airport security!

Cisco teams with Haier for home network gear

RIP Linksys

So, this is the end of Linksys? Assimilated and replaced.

RIP