* Posts by Paul 4

378 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jun 2009

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Theatre draws veil over naked Anna Friel

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Happy

I smell...

an El Reg exclusive this Friday...

UK, France mull Photoshop fakery laws

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I don't beleave

That the problem is magazines that have these adds. I thing it is down to the celeb trash with "oh look, isent she fat" and "oh look how bad she looks in that dress" crap. Its that bullying that is the problem.

Facebook kills 'Kill Obama' poll

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It is not...

Free speech, or democratic process. It is some ideot that didn't think a poll is a death threat. I doubt the secret service will do much, but they have to check if it is some ideot having fun, or some loon who might just act on it claiming "its what the people want".

Oh, and Steve 26, c) All of the above?

Blind one-legged man wins arse-kicking contest

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Reid Malenfant

I agree. To much urge round here to rant about the police and give "stories" about how some friend of a friend was shot by the police because he looked at them funny.

Swedish military bras burst, melt during 'rigorous exercise'

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Unhappy

@Craig 28

Yes it is.

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Realy...

It frightens me how childish some people are.

These girls are forced in to the Army and then not given basic working kit. This makes the British Army look like they know what they are doing. How the hell bras catch on fire I don't know.

Perhaps a bulk order of sports bras is in order.

Secret teen hacker army ridiculed

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@Gulfie

No Im a hacker!

Panicky Plod apologises to Innocent Terror Techie

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FAIL

@Mark 57

On what basis would that be? See the reply from the Met about unlawful arrest. THEY WERE WRONG.

Do you realy think that shooting people because the police think they are a terrorist is ok, and that people should be thankfull the police didn't shoot them for no reason at all?

Ideot.

Bank sues Google for identity of Gmail user

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RE:nickrw

Even outlook dose that.

Some people are just stupid though. I get several people a month sending me credit card info by email. I keep telling them not too, but they still do. To lazy to get up and use the fax to send them.

Don't trust Tories on surveillance, say LibDems

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@straws, clutching of

Umm... I don't think thats quight the same, unless they plan on scraping CTax at the same time.

Texas Instruments aims lawyers at calculator hackers

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Strange

That people are still aloud to use these for exams. Your not alowed them in MEng exams, so anyone lower than that has no need.

Linus calls Linux 'bloated and huge'

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Pint

@Doug Glass

No, hell get flak because he's not realy in touch with reality and is spouting random lines from HYS about being PC and how him saying to people "you suck" is good, but people telling him he sucks is bad.

IBM Linux chief: Chasing desktop Windows a 'dead-end'

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Critical apps

The big problem for Linux is there are to many business critial apps that run on Windows. Companys don't want an OS, they want a computor that will run everything they use, and if you think that Office, outlook and IE are the only things that people want then you have never worked for a big company, or have never looked at how people are using there PCs.

AutoCAD is a case in point. It will not run on Linux. Companys won't change to something "like AutoCAD". They want AutoCAD. Its what everyone uses and it is a very complex program, so companys are NOT going to change.

Sony and BBC clash over PS3 problems

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RE:IANAL

No, just people who know there rights. This sort of thing SHOULD be knowen by all.

Also, I think, If it did go that far, any court would find that the same fault in 12500 PS3s would be enough to demonstrate an inherant fault.

eBay fights for right to sell luxury stuff in EU

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Its not online retail

Its eBay they don't like. You can get these goods at other places online (well most of them), but companys won't sell to people selling through eBay. They may say its about cheepening the brand, but what its realy about is not trusting companys with expensive stock that have no infrastructure.

Oh, and I suspect that people like LaeMi Qian have never been to buy something truly luxury, like expensive jewelery or a Rolex. I found they do know there stock and they will do anything to help you. There main customers are not just going to go down the road, but could easerly fly to Hong Kong or New York to find another shop.

IBM tries to patent teleconference sound effects

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Pointless

But as long as it is new and novel then it is up to IBM to waste money, not the PO to dicide what is a stupid idea. I imagin the three people who are named on this being in an office somewhere happy in the knolage that long in to old age they will be able to tell there grand children the story about "How I once managed to get one of the lages tech companys in the world to patant a phone that makes silly noises".

Nokia brings Braille to SMS

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@@@Ac

I think your missing the point.

The point is it alowes people to read text messages, not just hear them.

World's nastiest trojan fools AV software

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@Tony Paulazzo

1) Who says its MS only?

2) Your abou to get flamed for saying you need Outlook...

Italian Job sat nav driver cops £900 fine

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Due care.

He was on a public highway. He hit somthing because he was not looking. Lack of due car and attention. Simple.

Microsoft offers online tools for Swine Flu infected kids

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Frightning...

They are teaching kids that its ok that when your Dr says "get lots of bedrest and look after yourself" its ok that your boss says "sit in bed with a lap top".

YouTube Lad from Lagos stranded in London

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Facebook

Take a look at his facebook page. Apparently he was born on the 25/12. Makes me think there is some christmas link in. Don't know what though.

James Martin apologises for cyclist outrage

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Better Idea.

Hate people who brake the law, or ride/drive with no care for others, like the cyclist who pulled out on me when overtaking without looking to see I was overtaking him, or the car that was 2" behind me going up a steep hill because my little 125 won't go over 55 up that hill, or the bike that overtook me in to oncomeing traffic who must have been doing over 90 (I was doing 60 and it was like I was stood still).

Oh, and ideots like James Martin. Not so much for his comments, but because he is creepy. He was on "The Big Food Fight" the other day, and he was just slimy and horrible.

Brown says the 'C' word

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Joke

Silver lineing

"the ID card scheme thought to be high on the list"

And they say that recession is a bad thing.

Street View prowls Outer Hebrides

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@Bilgepipe

Your looking at the wrong car. It is the car behind the Ford in the pic

Home Office shifts feet as vetting database looms

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WTF?

RE:the problem is.

See Icon.

Brown apologises for 'appalling' treatment of Turing

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What should he do?

All this negativeity over it. What should have been done? Should the government have ignored it? Refused to appologise? I need to know what you people think, but im not sure I want to. Im guessing this is just bile from people who will lash out about anything.

Im glad its come, not sure about the knight hood because it seems a little pointless, and would rather see the time spent trying to get more funding.

British troops get nifty techno-gunsights

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Sillyfellow

I love it when people say stupid things like "chances of this comment actually being put up by the reg mods?" and then get posted.

Also, War is a nessasary evil. Some people cannot be talked too, and war happens when all else has failed. You seem to think we go to war for fun and people fight for the love of killing. That is a worrying view of others.

Oz government sites floored in firewall protests

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Anonymous

Anonymous are becoming a terror group. Worrying.

Twits twitter while driving

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I know you have to be a bit dumb to twitter

but whilst driving? Its bad enough people using the phone.

Website exposes sensitive details on military personnel

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Allan George Dyer

Ye. If you want to brake the law to find out that infomation. Ideot.

Italian Army gets medi-telemetry earrings

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JohnG & subflux

Probably a little late to worry about that to be honest.

'Exomoonologist': NASA can detect forest moon of Endor

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@h 6

UCL. Look it up before trying to be clever.

Xbox 360 'least reliable' console

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10%?

Even 10% is to much, never mind 23%. Thats not a falier rate, thats a recall situation with most products.

South Africa official calls for 'outright ban' on pornography

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Thumb Down

@Steve Evans

You realy have no idea do you... If you realy think they UK is that bad I sugest you take your next holiday in Southern Africa. Almost any city will do. Go for a walk out of the "nice" areas. Just don't take any cash with you, or your phone, or camara, or come to think of it, shoes or good clothes. Any of these could cause you to end up dead in a ditch (I'm not joking about this). If you servive don't bother with the police. It will cost your more in bribes than it is worth to get a crime report from them.

Bookie lays odds on next Microsoft head transplant

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@ Crazy Operations Guy

Because an Apple in an MS ad is funny, the rest are just keeping the picture looking like an ideal meeting, rather than the normal mess of cables, keys, scraps of paper, phones and empty coffee cups that litter any meeting room after about 5 minets.

FSF launches Windows 7 anti-upgrade letter campaign

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Im sure companys will switch to linux...

when suport forums provide an SLA...

Dispite what you think, fortune 500 managers are not dumb. They have reasons to stick with MS. I don't know what they are, but Im sure they are good ones.

CRB looks to ID cards to solve accuracy woes

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Why together

I would have thought something suposidly so important would have justified a separate system.

Huge 'vampyrus' bats being hunted to extinction

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FAIL

@Jo 5

That’s not pedantry, that’s being humourless.

Dan Brown is most unwanted author says Oxfam

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I suspect it is more to do with...

They type of people who buy Dan Brown books, and why. I get the feeling that they are not the sort that keep books for years and think a good book should be read again.

Palm rejected Jobs's 'no poaching' Applers offer

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@Andy Bright

Go back. Re-read. Then comment. The artical was about companys refusing to hire ANY staff, not just head hunting.

Feds uncover 'bust out' scam that cost banks $80m

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@Jamie 19

Basic rule of the credit checking, check where people live befor giving credit. As it is a criminal offence to register to vote at an address where you don't live the bank knows they can take you to the cleaners if they have this and it is wrong.

Labour party unveils Tweeter-in-chief

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FAIL

*sound of jaw hitting floor*

Garg.... Look up how our electorial system works then come back.

Pressure group aghast at Hillingdon ID card scheme

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FAIL

Paranoid...

It sounds like the council have realised that they currently hold two databases, one for library cards, one for the sports center, and have realised that can combine the two and pass on the savings in terms of cheap parking and busses. I don't get what is wrong with this. They are taking no more infomation and cutting costs. Or are you people going to walk in to your local library and start screaming when they want to know where you live?

Morrissey tells netdepressives to boycott his re-releases

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Given that this is Morrissey

It woulden't suprise me if he sold his rights to these songs for a big fat pile of money and now hes bitter that he is not making money off it.

US carriers are taking the beep

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You have reached the voicemail of <name> please leave a message

*beep*

Easy realy.

Collar the lot of us! The biometric delusion

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But what can they be used for?

I have seen 3 major reasos they say you could use an ID card

1) Crossing a border. Woop. Thats what a passport is for. Yes they want to stick biometrics in these, but if it was just in these people woul dhave less of a problem, but they still don't work. Personaly I refuse to fly now. Id rather overland unless I realy cant avoid flying.

2) Proving your ID for work. Again a pasport works well for this, and how is biometrics going to help with this? Are they giving every company in the country a card reader? I realy can't see how this will make any diffrence. Illigal workers will stil get the same work they do now.

3) So you dont have to carry several forms of ID with you. The only time I know of when you have to do this is for credit agrements, which require (Under the consumer credit act) 2 forms of ID, and somthing to prove your address (3 is best practice). One should be photo ID (Passport or driving licence is normal) and the other should be somthing that proves your address I.E. a bill. An ID card dose not prove this, just as a driving licence dose not, as they may not be up to date, but you can be sure someone is not paying for gas at a property they do not live at.

Please tell me what use they are.

World's first electric Chopper parks up

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Interesting

But I think they will have alot more luck building sports bikes (Much more open to new ideas) and comuter bikes if they up the range to 70-100 miles. I do 50 miles per day, and bet alot of other people do around that, and never use my bike for going any distance much further than that, so this would be ideal.

Bloke decapitates horse with chainsaw

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Um... no...

Genraly they use a teatherd bolt gun on cattle, and for the few times a knife is used (I.E. Halal) it is not just hacking the head off, they cut the blood vesals with one fast cut. A chainsaw is not the same. Think of the diffrence beween cutting your finger with a bread knife and a sharp kitchen knife (and then some as a chainsaw is very blunt, and butchers knifes much shar).

Oh, and animal slaughter normaly requires a licence, for good reason. Its not an easy job to do well.

Ofcom taps sailors for new fees

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@Da Weezil

Hell thats about the yearly buget of most cave/mountain rescue groups, who are in the same group of volenteer rescue groups.

Cave rescue, Mountain rescue and the RNLI should get this for free, and alot more thanks from the government. People call the emergancy services heros. They are just doing a job. These guys do what they do for free (and genraly put money in them selfs) they are heros, especaly as they spend most of there time rescuing numptys who go out in the north sea on a lilo or walking in the peaks in jeans and trainers with nothing more than a phone GPS to guide them.

Stephen Hawking both British and not dead

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NICE

Seems they are complaining about the fact that the NSH basis treament on clyincal need not welth of the person. In America, as far as I can tell, the health care insurence dose the same, but the Drs can go "meh not my fault".

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