Posts by James Boag

Chap rebuilds BBC Micro in JavaScript

Buy that man a Beer

Ah the good old days, Never had a disk drive but then back in the day a dual tape deck was standard in most "Hi-Fi"'s

LinkedIn killing CardMunch biz-card scanning app

are you comparing apples to apples

I was under the impression that business cards and scanning did not spam the shit out of you, your contacts, your grandma and all her contacts !

Tesco to tout its own smartphone – now THAT'S an unexpected item in the bagging area

re Can it be cleaned up?

Yes, Simply enter your club card number in the app below !

BSkyB broadband growth chopped in HALF

no sympathy

Look your giving money to Murdoch. Your are funding his evilness

as as for 02 Well come on guys who sponsored big brother.

I personally delete all emails from either domains automatically.

I want nothing to do with people so shallow that they will fund these

sort of organisations.

PS remember that paying tax directly funds Governments !

Behold! World's smallest 3D-printer pen Lix artists into shape – literally

Oh Great

I now going to have to squint in 3d to try an guess what the little one has created and attached to the cat,dog, or gold fish !

Customisation is BAD for the economy, say Oz productivity wonks

Re Stuart Longland

I only down voted you to prove i'm Different :)

Up to 500 GP practices to test plans to share patient data

What we really need is a new crime of Fuckwittery in public office, Punishable by complete eradication of you DNA from the Gene pool, That would cut down on all this crap !

Systems meltdown plunges US immigration courts into pen-and-paper stone age

super-solar flare

Did we not have them in the 70's ?

MIT boffins moot tsunami-proof floating nuke power plants

a yacht !

If he had studied the offshore platforms in any detail, He would be aware that each installation would have a 500m exclusion zone and a Yacht would under no circumstances be aloud within this zone.

Still plenty of work for the ROV crews inspecting the structure,

BOFH: Oh DO tell us what you think. *CLICK*

Well Done.

It's Not officially a Friday,

But due to the seasonal nature of this week it is.

Now what to do till home time.....

Look out, bankers! It's Lily Cole and her (Brit taxpayer-funded) WISH-PRINTING ATM

It's a Bloody Printer, Hack-a-thon my bloody arse !

Pakistan mulls cyber security bill to keep NSA at bay

re Lost all faith

At least once a day

Dropbox defends fantastically badly timed Condoleezza Rice appointment

What Idiot puts a war criminal on their board !

Gov cheerleader Sajid Javid gets nod from PM to park in Miller's spot

New face, but for how long ?

Appointed a bit to quickly to do proper due diligence on him, How long will he last before his expenses see him out ?

Nominet bins Optical Express' appeal against 'It ruined my life' website

But Branston Pickles Did ruin my Wife !

Hyper-V telling fibs about Linux guest VMs

Fud

Here in the North East of Scotland FUD is an insult.

Just putting that out their for you all !

BlackBerry sucker-punches TV star Ryan Seacrest in patent brawl

re As far as I'm concerned...

Is that the case why do i always has issues with the shift keys ( positioned in just the wrong place or too small or too large) !

Pop music, tech bubble... what could go wrong? Spotify said to be closer to IPO

Since I discovered Spotify

The paid version on my phone, Linux and windows devices i have given up on dodgy sources of media, so much so that im saving a fortune on not having to have the parrot shit cleaned of my jackets !

EE...K: Why can't I uninstall carrier's sticky 'Free Games' app?

Just goes to show just how good lockout is, Uninstall -> it reinstalls without being asked, Lockout security :: seems legit Put you feet up !

Operator proves bundled security software is shit with bundled malware !

NSA spies recorded an entire COUNTRY'S phone calls for a MONTH: Report

re Lionel Baden

Knowing the NSA it will be a WAV file lol

MPs urge UK.gov to use 1950s obscenity law to stifle online stiffies

MP's Members Interests Phnaaar Phnaaar

I take it this has been dug up (let em use a credit card to verify age)

due to some member or their family/old skool friend/ etc.

Buying a large amount of shares in "smut peddlers and Grumble flics Ltd." Other Porn merchants are available.

PAF! MPs go postal over postal location data sell-off by Coalition.gov

Am I now risking prosecution for writing a post code on a letter !

Have the new owners Copyrighted / trademarked / IP it !

Is it safe to write a post code ever again !

UK.gov to train up 11-year-old cyberwarriors

Re JimmyPage

The government is full of schemes and initiatives that are still going and show no sign of leaving

Expenses scams

Fuckwittery

to name but two !

BuzzGasm: 9 Incredible Things You Never Knew About PLIERS!

Please, Please

Can we have these informative series of articles in A3 laminated poster format !

Boffins build bendy screen using LEDs just THREE atoms thick

LED Wallpaper Yeah no more redecorating !

Plusnet shunts blame for dodgy DNS traffic onto customers' routers

Found this on a tp link router last night

Funny Bing was not effected ,

Google Facebook all asked my chromebook to update flash,

went to bing no issue at all,

couldnt find any usefull facts, although it did try to sell me a

tplink router !

Why can’t I walk past Maplin without buying stuff I don’t need?

Cured !

My name is James and im a crap-o-holic,

It's been 3 weeks since i was in a maplin store.

Now i just mainline sorry just order direct form China !

NHS England tells MPs: 'The state isn't doing dastardly things with GP medical records'

Man The lifeboats

You can always move to Scotland and vote yes, Problem solved !

Say WHAT? Qualcomm, MediaTek scrap over who has best 'marketing gimmick' octacore

Yeah

I want my Octo Whopper Come on Burger king !

Climate change will 'cause huge increase in murder, robbery and rape'

If my memory of 90's indie pop is anything to go by.

92 deg F is the temperature that city dwellers riot

Another U.S. state set to repeal rubber duck ban

Just Legal on a Tuesday, Well i suppose it's a start.

Top Brit docs wade into GP data grab row, demand 'urgent' NHS England talks

Good job well done !

What do you mean bad job, As far as i can see the Government scum have played a blinder with this one, No one know, no one redacts their info, Tories sell your data to their mates in the insurance biz Sorted.

Glad i live in Scotland :)

Samsung flings sueball at Dyson for 'intolerable' IP copycat claim

RE Hoover / Hoovers

Hoover is the command i give to my black labs when our child drops food on the floor !

Free space optics gets shiny new snake-oil paint job

Re Free space optics

Tell me about it,

I've still got a space on my shelve for my

"Free Nelson Mandela" !

Google will dodge EU MONSTER FINES by 'promoting' rival search services

I don't get it

Search Google for the black death, get a description

search Bing, Would you like to buy the black death.

It like if i made a car that ran off logs and did 3 miles to the tree, should ford dealers be forced to sell it ?

NSA: It's TRUE, we grab 200 MILLION of your text messages A DAY globally

Most useless Job ever !

"It is a longstanding policy that we do not comment on intelligence matters," a GCHQ spokesman told The Guardian"

Why do they have a Spokesman then, And why are we paying him !

Boffins hampered by the ampere hanker for a quantum answer

Hmmm

So not only am i being over charged by my power company but im being billed for electrons that may or may not even arrive at my house, Time to call trading standards me thinks !

ANYONE on Google+ can now email you, with or without your Gmail addy

re Winkypop

I've gone one better I've started my own anti social networking site, I'd send you a link but........

Facebook bots grope our 'privates', and every wronged user should get $10,000 – lawsuit claims

Re Big_D

You have no facebook account,

Ok we found one for the jury how many more do they need.

Vodafone dodges UK corporation tax bill - AGAIN

Hmmmm

And the bastards at the tax office are chasing me for £20 from 5 years ago (with no proof other than you owe us cough up), Perhaps i should change my name to vodaphone ?

Facebook seeks WIDE EYES of sports fans to rival Twitter

Do facebook run adds

Ive never seen an advert in ages on facebook.

I though that they had given up on that pish.

then i remembered i use add blocker plus !

Thai man reportedly dies clutching his scorched iPhone 4S

dogfooding

dogfooding means "using your own product"

Undercover BBC man exposes Amazon worker drone's daily 11-mile trek

hold on a minute

As a student, I would work at a frozen fruit factory, The machine went whirr clunk and the meat bags had an action to perform, Nothing new here, it what used to happen, perhaps amazon read one of the history books they sell and thought ......

Citizen Kano pitches easy-build Raspberry Pi for code-hungry kids

hmmm

Lets see he is related to Saul Klein of Index Ventures

"Klein is lucky enough to have a relative who is one of the biggest names in London's venture capital community. Saul Klein of Index Ventures"

and he's still begging for money to repackage a Pi, Still slightly cheaper than maplin !

SourceForge responds to GIMP grump with crowdsourcing caper

Re:

And Intel and AMD for the crap ware that comes with their prebuilt systems too please

Number-crunching quant cooks up gambling machine, promises untold RICHES

Re: Re: hhhmmmm

I think they mean Hand Egg !

TalkTalk to block nuisance calls with no help AT ALL from Huawei

Re: Will they block themselves

an OBI110 and the raspberry pi running astrix, My line ask the caller to press 1 to continue, 99% of crap never gets thru, and the 1% that does is logged making reporting easy :)

Coding: 'suitable for exceptionally dull weirdos'

hmmmmmm

Does this count as institutionalised trolling ?

Scared yet, web devs? Google smears malware warnings over PHP.net

Always a backup

Dear NSA, can i please have your backup copy of php.net The main one seems to be broken !

The DARK HEART of the Twitter IPO: FAKE USERS

You mean humans use twitter ?

What about Machine account, I have never really seen the point of Human to Human Twitter communications,

but as for machine to human, now that is useful, a couple of line of code and my door bell now tweets when it's rung, Once i add the camera to the pi, it will tweet an image of the button presser too.

When i was running large batches of data processing, the machine tweeted, Feed me when it had reached the end of it data..

very useful easy to implement and fits in your pocket !