* Posts by ShaggyDoggy

697 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2008

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Gov cans 'national day' plans

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CTM

Isn't chicken tikka masala a UK invention (Glasgow?)

Police poison speed debate with fuzzy figures

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@AC 12:40 GMT

Only 3 ??

Get real there's 3 just on the A420 approach to Swindon.

All with covers on LOL

Bank of England prescribes 'boredom'

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The drivers

of the stock market are FEAR and GREED

and nothing else, please remember this

Microsoft sued in China for black screen of death

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@Brian Miller

Microsoft do not own your HDD

Ann Summers yanks chocolate willy spread

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Oh well

back to mars bars then

Ofcom confirms three Freeview HD channels 'by end of next year'

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Full HD rollout in the UK* by ....

... the 2012 London Olympics !!

Of course, that's the driver here.

* UK in this context means the densely populated areas and the S.East

US judge rejects lawsuit against God

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Serving papers

Since God is omniscient, surely all they need to do is lay the papers face up, prefeably in a church. A few minutes should do the trick. Believers will be satisfied that papers have been served. If they don't then surely their faith is not 'complete'.

Since by refusing the case on the grouds that papers could not be 'seen' by the plaintiff, the judge is therefore saying that he/she doesn't believe in God, and since they pledge an oath to God, Country, and the Law, needs to resign immediately ?

US Air Force outlines combat raygun safety

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Foil

Uniforms are now being made with a 'special' foil layer woven into the material.

Can't imagine why.

Das überdatabase: Inside Wacky Jacqui's motherbrain

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Encryption

Jacqui, how will the email reader handle encrypted text without the key ?

Jacqui Smith trails überdatabase plans

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Is she still there ?

I thought that "Wacky jacqui" had been ditched in favour of a robot.

Oh wait ....

GooTube snubs McCain's call for DMCA favoritism

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Get the lot orf !!

Does this mean that If I email in an obection to every single video on YouTube, that they will take the lot down, and then wait 10-14 days before even looking at whether my objections were valid. That is, if they still have a complany by then LOL

RIPA ruling closes encryption key loophole

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Encrypted = you've got something to hide ?

So how on earth did they know it was "useful to a terrorist" or not, if it was encrypted and they didn't have the key ?

Wait ... that's why all those lost MOD disks aren't encrypted .......

Democratic rep fathered alleged Palin hacker

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Should it be

"Tennesseean" ??

Noel Edmonds defies BBC's jackbooted enforcers

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Que

Noel Edmonds who he ?

Illuminati spook fails to disarm Soviet cow nuke

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How old ?

"25-year-old Richard Anthony Smith (pictured)"

Maybe that pic was taken when he was 14

Sainsbury's punts 'Innocent kids juices' for £2.99

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So it it now soon to be

Sainsburys

Today is not Hadron Collider Day

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Speed of 'lite'

No, when 2 cars crash each doing 50 mph the collision speed is 100 mph

When 2 proton beams crash each doing 99.999% speed of light the collision speed is, erm, 99.999% speed of light.

Gotta love Einstein

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@ Ac 11:10 am

I think they have pre-cooled spares that they can slot in

erm, I would have anyway ....

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Must have

"Around the end of the year..."

Has Santa been informed ?

The Higgs boson is the must-have present this Xmas

London stock market floored by computer glitch

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Fancy that

35 years in IT has taught me not to believe in coincidences

McKinnon a 'scapegoat for Pentagon insecurity'

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Not real

The internet isn't real ?

Does this mean also that Lara Croft isn't real ?

Get a grip !!

McKinnon supporters plan Home Office demo

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Could someone please

... tell me exactly which law McKinnon broke, and what the charge is. Thanks.

Microsoft bags European price comparison sites

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I hate those sites too

... because a lot of them are not "comparison" sites at all, they are just front-ends to pull in the punters to a specific finance house etc.

Trades Descriptions should be called in.

BBC fixes BT Home Hub auto-vomit bug

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thanks

Thanks for the recommendations, I may in fact go for Linksys.

And yes, iPlayer is bittorrent, it comes up with "7 sources active" or whatever which are the torrent feeds.

Which begs the question, will my ISP detect this torrent activity and report me to the BPI ....

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ok then

What's a good router to buy that doesn't cost too much ?

My (second) Home Hub packed in some time ago and I went back to using the Voyager. I can't be arsed going through BT's "unplug the master socket" routine that they put you through before admitting it just could have packed in, so easier just to buy a new and reliable router. Ta.

Blu Christmas coming, format fans forecast

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Bugger all this

I'm going back to VHS tapes.

It's better quality, and you can record your own.

Password pants-off at Lloyds Bank

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@ steogede (DPA)

Try MBNA for size ....

Caller: this is MBNA here what's the first line of your address

Me: (gives first line)

Caller: what's your password

Me: you're kidding me aren't you

........ etc etc etc as far as I know they still do that

Apple slapped for dodgy ads

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Those 2 complainants

........ are the only 2 people who have got the ruddy thing to work so far

boom boom

Million bank details sold on eBay

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Backup copy

Since the guy now legally owns the £35 hardware, surely he should take a backup copy of his property, for security reasons of course. Also if garphic data want it back, they would need to pay him the going rate for a NAS server. LOL

DARPA in Tom'n'Jerry robo-brain quest

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Iraqi

OK then PERSIAN cats

Grazing cattle display animal magnetism

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CERN

I'm hoping that the LHC willdimension jump us into a universe where beer makes you lose fat, curry produces muscle buildup, and smoking improves your lungs.

No snapping: Photographers get collars felt

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@ Wokstation

You havem't read UKPhotographersRights.pdf have you.

It is not illegal to take pictures of private property from a public place.

Think about it, simply every pic you take would be illegal wouldn't it !!

iTunes, and Sting, banned from China

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surprised ?

... yet another China bans something story .....

Winehouse jibe wins Fringe's funniest gag

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My version

I can't believe Amy Winehouse self-harms. What would be the point.

... now your version please

Hacker unearths young Chinese gymnast scam

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@ RRRoamer

hey did you used to write COMICS

Net shoppers bullied into being Verified by Visa

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MBNA = idiots

I used to have an MBNA card.

When rung up by them (and this happened many times) it went like this

(beyond belief but believe me this is verbatim)

MBNA: This is MBNA here what's your first line of address ?

Me: <tells them number and street>

MBNA: What's your password ?

Me: If someone rang you up out of the blue and asked you for your address then password, would you give it to them ?

MBNA: I need your password to continue this conversation

Me: You're not going to get it, please tell me this was recorded and then ask your supervisor to play it back.

MBNA: Are you not going to tell me the password then ?

Me: No

MBNA: I can only continue after you tell me your password. It's for your own security.

Cable broadband shines in Virgin Media Q2

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BPI

Of course if you actually use your 50Mbps for more than 2 minutes, you'll get a latter from the BPI "advising" you of the need to prevent online copyright 'theft' never mind that you were getting long programmes from BBC iPlayer

Kiwi cops hunt teenage serial burglar with head of Robbie Coltrane

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Not English

Coltrane is Scottish

Supercomputer to improve UK weather

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Peta Flop

How many mousebrains is it, we need to know.

US customs: Yes, we can seize your laptop, iPod

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Delete my iPod

If they delete my iPod files I want my money back from Apple.

because remember those downloads cost a lot more in the UK.

Also they are not allowed to copy them off otherwise I'm reporting

them to the RIAA as music pirates.

And how can you have "revealing information" and "something to hide"

at the same time. Oh wait ...

Toyota unveils Segway rivals

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3 mph ?

So a brisk walker will overtake these.

Not a good selling point.

Only 'unlawful threats' would invalidate McKinnon extradition

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.. oh and one last thing

Where's the original McKinnon article gone, together with all its comments ?

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Chinese whispers

And while we're at it, where's the China Olympic Internet Access article gone ?

Have you lot been getting 'unlawful threats' as well ?

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Can't wait

... until a US citizen is found hacking UK MOD computers, and the Uk asks for his extradition

Chinese to censor Olympic press net access

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"Not preventing reporting of the Games"

yeah ... until someone unfurls a Tibet flag on the podium

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Promises

'Free and open' was the promise they made before they were awarded the Games.

I have this feeling that bthis is only the beginning ..........

Dead author's estate snatches child's domain

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Paris Hilton

Ahh I see now

If you want one of these names, first you create a Ltd Company.

Then you get the domain name.

WIPO then HAS to find in your favour since there is a commercial entity behind it, same as McDonalds etc.

Wait ... sorry I assumed what works for big guys works for small guys, silly me

Paris, because she knows what works for big guys

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WIPO

Has WIPO ever decided in favour of the little-guy domain holder ?

Apple is Fisher-Price of sound quality, says Neil Young

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93dB

Yes CD has a 93dB dynamic range, so why are modern recording compressed so that the level hardly deviates by more than a dB ?

Wait ... it's so it sounds good on a iPod ... silly me.

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@ Pete

How do you do "over 100% modulation" ?

Once you get to 100% what happens next ?

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