* Posts by SuperTim

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Brit retailers tell Amazon and Google to pay their taxes

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Re: When the Euro officials wrote the laws

That street in belgium/luxembourg is amazing. One side is just petrol stations, but none on the other side (that was 25 years ago mind...

Google stealthily coalesces UK music cloud into being

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Pirate

Re: Good idea, poorly executed

Whhooooahhhh... Ben Rose!

The only 2 options for not using ALAC are Piracy or apathy? I don't think that washes somehow....

Compatibility, size, availability of purchase or even how long ago it was converted should all be factors.

I am sure there are plenty of people who get a crappy rip off a torrent and then upload it to play, but I have lots of crappy rips I did years ago myself which wouldn't benefit from now being converted to any lossless format. Even if they did, I wouldn't use ALAC (I am not sure if you knew this, but it isn't as widely supported as many other formats) and you appear to be cutting your nose off to spite your face if you are forcing yourself to pay an additional monthly fee rather than convert your tracks to suitable format.

'I'm a PIRATE' confessions spew from OED iPhone dictionary

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WTF?

I don't get it...

Why would anyone want to link a dictionary app to twitter?

El Reg mulls Forums icon portfolio shake-up

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Re: Male Chicken Icon

Yes, or the end of a bell...again for obvious reasons!

SUN to GO OUT COMPLETELY: Here's how to watch online

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Re: Pay

I was in Looe for the '99. Also cloudy, but I did see the shadow roll in off the sea, which was mightily impressive. The birds started to sing and light level change was proper spooky.

Judge: Your boss has no right to your emails held by a third party

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CFO

Does the CFO have no record of this debt?

Apple iPad 4 Wi-Fi only tablet review

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FAIL

Re: It is truly amazing...

Apple don't let me do all the things I want, and I am constantly finding out new things I cannot do. If you think it does everything you need it to then feel free to spend a fortune on a limited device.

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It is truly amazing...

for those who only want to do what apple let them...

ALIEN DETECTION was SUPPRESSED by the BBC - top boffin

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Joke

I think they were worried...

That they would just hear a faint echo that sounded like "How's about that then...How's about that then....Jangle Jangle Jewellery Jewellery" and they panicked.

Sky staffer plundered database to benefit naughty false firms

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FAIL

I get regular calls

Each time they call they state that I got my box from sky. I get my boxes second hand due to sky not being able to offer them for any reasonable cost.

Ironically, I may actually need a warranty, but I certainly aint getting from these ne'er do wells. I would rather buy a new box every 2 years than spend twice as much on warranty.

WD blames hard drive woes on dominant mobile gear, feeble PCs

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Re: .. or maybe the customers won't play? ** Plus one to that

It took me over a week of constant scouring of various sites to get a new one for £60 and I was lucky... I wanted a bigger one but £/TB was higher so 2TB it is for now.

iPhone 5 is the 'most difficult, scratchy device Foxconn has ever made'

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Re: Poor choice of materials?

Anodising does harden aluminium... but it is still soft relative to a number of other materials. It is a compromise of strength, weight, hardness and finish, but it's a jack of all trades and master of none. I think it looks nicer than plastic, but realisically they need to use titanium for a phone.

Apple Maps too good for Taiwanese military

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10 storey concrete radar!

Blurring it from apple maps will not stop it being really obvious and already all over t'interwebs...

Register SPB hacks mull chopping off feet

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Pirate

Re: Go ahead

Just expect an El Reg themed "Gimli Glider" when someone makes a bit of a cock-up with measurements! I am looking at you LOHAN!

Perth porkfest crowned ULTIMATE BACON SARNIE

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Angel

Re: Oh Noes Another Church ??

Sign me up!

Comestibles - Chapter 1: Verses 1 to 3

And lo, on the seventh day, God said "Consume ye not the unruminate cloven devil as when unprepared it is unclean, but save ye-selves by serving it sliced thinly and crisply smoked atop leavened sliced white bread product, and achieve one-ness with Me by slathering it with copious amounts of heavenly brown sauce"

And on that day, non-believers took to the streets with their Ketchup and Mayonnaise and with their bagels and other manner of unholy pretenders and they were struck down by the true believers!

And it came to pass that the land was separated by those chosen for their wisdom and the other of which we should not speak.

(Disclaimer)

All deities appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to other deities, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Happy

Re: #1 and #2 look divine

Thanks. I was going for divine.

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oooh...Second place...

So near yet so far. The winner certainly looks yummy though.

Vote now for the ultimate bacon sandwich

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Unhappy

Re: speaking as an American...

I am glad you found my recipe nummy , but am disappointed that you chose a non-tested sarnie with which to align yourself. :(

SuperTim

Re: WFT El Reg?!?

Actually...A toastie is formed by toasting a sandwich once constructed to brown it and cook the filling. The precision engineer is a sandwich made with toasted bread. It isn't a toastie as it was constructed after all parts were cooked. No cafe press was employed, no autocutting of the bread by hot plates. No a sandwich with toasted bread is not a "toastie".

PS...Vote for the Precision Engineer!

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Re: If I'd known cheese was allowed

I didn't think it was. Cheese is an ingredient, rather than a condiment. A bacon sarnie with cheese tends to be classed as either a bacon and cheese sarnie, or a bacon melt. If we were all allowed to make sarnies using bacon as an ingredient, my entry would have been substantially better than the already tasty one submitted.

If you see 'URGENT tax rebate download' in an inbox, kill it with fire

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Re: note to users

our IT department has an address we are supposed to send spam to. I suspect it is the digital equivalent of a waste paper basket. Still, our corporate spam filter appears to keep much of the crap out.

SuperTim

Was this an actual study?

or did they just open their email and count the same spams that everybody else gets?

I like getting the tax rebate emails to my spam email address (which has such an offensive name I would never ever give it to the government)

NASA releases stunning image of our universe's distant past

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Re: The Preantepenultimate Deep Field"...?

The HellaDeepField?

A load of Tosh: External hard drives the new 'personal clouds'

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I can see it.

It is a personal cloud because it isn't your main store (it is designed to back up your files) and it is accessible from anywhere. That does kind of match the definition of cloud storage to some. Sure it isn't itself robustly backed up or strung across several servers with guaranteed uptime, but you can put your stuff on it, and then get it from anywhere so that is cloudy enough. It also has the benefits of you knowing exactly where all your stuff actually is. So what if they use the catchy cloud word. Apple have a time machine, but nobody has suggested they are no Doc Brown...

I run a similar set up with my home server and it is handy, but this may be handier still.

Shove off Prince Harry, now Norway's teen royal in fresh photo uproar

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Re: I do love the newspapers in the UK

Exactly...it's what Piers Morgan, Kelvin Mckenzie et al all started and which has eagerly been taken up by a new breed of editor, pandering to the LCD's of this society (Lowest Common Denominators). If I had the opportunity to get those two in a room, then the newspapers may actually have some reporting to do!

We're raising generations of MUTANT KIDS, says Icelandic study

SuperTim

Careful with your evolution mumbo jumbo.

Certain folks still think that we all literally used to be monkeys and just grew up to be people...Though some of us are apparently closer relatives than others.

Survival of the fittest has long since gone. It is now survival of the 15 kid family on benefits....(Shakes his rolled up daily mail at the immigrants!)

Lawyers: We'll pillory porn pirates who don't pay up

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Re: Sounds familiar

This has an added twist of blackmail, and by that I mean libellous accusation of wrongdoing without a court finding you guilty, for financial gain. I suspect this law firm may "suddenly go bust" but one very similar suddenly spring up in the same office building.

Assange's fate to be revealed at high noon

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Maybe not the US,

But I am sure that Argentina are positively dancing on the spot for the UK to invade a south american embassy so that they can calmly sail a flotilla to Las Malvinas.

Personally, I don't think it is our problem and if JA wants to avoid justice in Sweden/US and does so legally, then I say it is his choice. He will be hamstrung from going anywhere for the rest of his life, but Ecuador sounds lovely...

Bill Gates, Harry Evans and the smearing of a computer legend

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Surely there is another conclusion.

Once could infer that either the code does not match, or the code checking software so heavily plugged does not work as well as suggested.

Raspberry Pi served with Ice Cream Sandwich

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Re: This is the reason why I bought my R-PI!

Force everyone to use the same OS? Why exactly should they do this? That sound's suspiciously apple-like. I am quite happy to have a choice of any number of free OS's (or non-free if they are good enough) on a device that I own.

Will I use ICS? Dunno yet.

US flags from the 1970s SEEN ON MOON

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Trollface

Re: @AC

or until some has a wifi network for them to snoop on.

O2 dropped the ball in Olympic cycle race Twitter fiasco

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Sure, at box hill

but what about everywhere else? that was only the circuit element. The timing was rubbish all over.

Beeb stuffs $21tn into Olympic-sized swimming pools

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Measurement confusion.

I understand using olympic sized pools for volume, but why use dollar bills for a UK currency measure. Are fivers not good enough? or quid coins? or big whisky bottles full of shrapnel?

IOC asks Olympic spectators to cut back TXTs and tweets

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FAIL

Coverage?

My sister lives on the cycling route and reported no issues at all. Sure she was texting, facebooking and uploading pictures of the cyclists. Her data stream seemed to work fine, and is presumably of such strength that the few KB of GPS data the cyclists were beaming back to the IOC were swamped.

I am guessing someone bought some cheap gear and it didn't work as expected.

Also, do they not have this problem in paris at the end of the TDF? they didn't seem to have it this year and I am pretty sure the French have modern phones!

What happens when Facebook follows MySpace?

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Re: Run your own server?

I do that. No bandwidth issues and accessible from wherever I want.

Also backed up in case it all goes wrong.

Raspberry Pi rolls out speed surge Raspbian OS

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FAIL

Re: Daft question

Sorry Bill Smith 1, I don't think you will get much sympathy on here.

The Pi is pretty obviously what it is. I have one, but didn't need to buy an SD card (cos I have loads knocking around), the OS is free (same as for normal computers if you choose linux and aren't forced to have windows by the shop), I had a keyboard (several actually), I had a mouse (again, several) and I have a couple of spare ports on my router too.

I was aware of what I needed, and even if I didn't have it, you can buy all that stuff at the same time.

Your analogy makes no sense, because it doesn't sound like you have a PC at all. You have a case and a processor. If you had a case, processor and motherboard then I may consider it, as I am looking to uprate my server. What processor are you selling?

Seriously though, The Raspberry Pi is a refreshing change to the establishment. It isn't a replacement for a full PC system but it is very handy for hobbyists and hopefully for kids (though I see more old-school coders using it).

Olympics security cockup down to software errors - report

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Flame

correct...bollocks!

They don't have a "rostering system" at all. They use a mishmash of very old software all virtualised under citrix and crappy old computers which should have been updated 5 years ago.

The wife was made redundant from being a scheduler for them 2 years ago (that will be 6 months after they got the contract) and I regularly had to help her with the burden of dealing with blowouts and overcosts because their systems are so poor. Blaming them now just seems like a rather pathetic attempt to save face.

My missus lost her job because the contract manager in charge of one of the biggest contracts just did not do enough to satisfy their needs, and lots of non-related workers paid the price (not that contract manager though!)

If I ever met the CEO, it would be from arms length (with a fist at the end of that arm)

'O2 customers could try switching their phones off and on again'

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FAIL

Re: Switching it off and on again...

Unfortunately BristolBachelor, it IS an answer. Due to the shoddy coding, construction or testing of modern stuff, they are all riddled with terrible bugs and inconsistencies. Your hopelessly romantic view of how things should be just does not happen in real life.

I agree stuff should be better, but it isn't and therefore needs to be reset sometimes. As for switching a mobile off and on again, It will often force the phone to reregister with the network, something that may take many days to do if you didn't reset.

Besides, some of the things you mention do actually fail sometimes too you know!

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Facepalm

Switching it off and on again...

There is a very good reason why this is such a laughing stock of a solution, and it is because almost nobody thinks to do it when it is needed. Having worked within the support fields for both IT and Mobile Telecoms, it still astounds me that normal rational sentient human has such trouble trying that first, rather than just ringing the helpline.

It really happens, and in the case of mobile phones, switching them off and on solves so many issues. It is the main reason why customer service tell people that the sim needs to be clean and to take it out and clean it. This forces the phone to be switched off and is not related to the cleanliness of the sim.

I am afraid that people will just not try the obvious first.

Being a skinny is much more unhealthy than being fat – new study

SuperTim

weight != health != Fitness

All of these measures are only pointers. You could be at your ideal weight, but be a heavy smoker and not do any exercise, and you will die early. You could be 9 stone overweight because you are a shot-putter, and not die early. You could be fat and still be able to run a mile, or you could be thin and fall over at 200 yards due to your congenital heart condition making you weak as a kitten. Eat a sensible diet, try and do some vigorous activity and don't smoke or drink a lot and you will probably have a good long life.

Live healthily and your body will find it's own equilibrium, which may not be the same as somebody else's.

Dimming the lights on smart(arse) TV

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sometimes not broken at all.

I had my tosh suddenly go into a frenzied switch off, then on then off again cycle a couple of years ago. Could see no reason for it and was very upset to find that it may be a power supply problem. Then I stumbled upon someone who thought it was due to an OTA firmware update of the DTV tuner (which I never ever used having an HD satellite setup). Lo and behold, No DTV all of a sudden. I left the telly on standby and several days later had noticed that it was now working on DTV, presumably after the new OTA settings were sent to fix the snafu. I then found that I could disable updates (which I did) and have had no problem ever since. No official explanation was forthcoming though.

Tech is too damn smart for most folks these days (and it appear also for India-based banking tech teams!)

Viviane Reding says imitate US and form FEDERAL EUROPE

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Joke

I want to be like America...

Yes please, America is like totally the best place in the world ever... Please can we be like them and their coolness?

I want to be able to own a gun, drive a big truck and supersize my deepfriedmeal(C). Also, I quite like the Idea of their politics being so truly democratic. Makes me all warm inside!

Or, let's not eh?

Breaking: Megaupload seizures illegal says NZ High Court

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on the contrary

destroying a case to be tried outside of america may be good for the americans. If Gary McKinnon had been tried in the UK, he wouldn't still be facing extradition. All the Yanks seem to need is a desire to try someone, and little evidence.

May 2012 was second warmest on record. The warmest? 2010

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Joke

May...Yes I recall...

I didn't have to wade through the drought that month!

Girl Geek Dinner lady: The IT Crowd is putting schoolgirls off tech

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or

one of the funniest comedies, after Father Ted (which presumably demonstrates the lack of honest and caring priests in Ireland)

SuperTim

Re: Calm down dear....

I always thought the IT crowd showed what happens when big business assumes that a "manager" only needs to know about "management" and not the actual stuff their department does. I have had managers (male and female) and none of them knew anything of what we did, and then just proceeded to micromanage how we did it...

no the IT crowd is not representative of IT, it is representative of big business in general. unlike Hollyoaks, which is representative of suburbs of British Roman cities!

Climate scientists see 'tipping point' ahead

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Re: You've got two choices...

Less people please. I hate people.

I would like to propose a heavy tax on people with more than 2 children. People who have more than 4 should be castrated/sterilised, and people who have 15 state-funded scrotebag oiks should be ground down into animal feed.

Too many people not giving a monkey about the world.

BBC uses lifted Iraq war photo to depict Syrian slaughter

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FAIL

or even..

Google goggles, which i have just pointed at the picture in the article and which then immediately brought up the correct image and associated links to getty.

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