* Posts by Reading Your E-mail

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iPhone 5 poised to trounce Android, devastate BlackBerry?

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Re: small sample

"400 people in Minnesota, New York, and California, and in China and Korea"

80 people per area?!?!? That must have taken 5 researchers a little over a lunch hour to do, wonder where the very briefly set up camp?

Not to mention peepz are supposedly ready to hand over cash for an iPride 5 without even having seen any kind of spec? Wow "owned" is the only word that comes to mind

Kindle Fire adds APIs for cloudy gaming features

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Re: Kindle Fire will arrive in the UK and Europe by "late fall,"

Meh, got bored of waiting and bought an Acer A500 instead. There's generating interest in a product and then there's just being lazy and taking potential customers for granted, oh well.

Microsoft silently kills silent, automatic Skype install via Updates

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FAIL

Whoops

Well if you auto approve updates and download all products then you got caught napping didn't you. Tsk tsk.

Facebook replaces non-Facebook mail addresses on Timeline

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Calling all lawyers

Isn't this illegal interception of e-mails? Didn't phorm do something like this and get crucified for it?

Samsung to probe Galaxy S III blaze claim

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Black Helicopters

Re: Assuming it was charging at the time

True, but it has bothered me for a while that you see chargers with higher and higher current outputs. If they shipped this with a beefy enough charger it is possible it could have burnt the tracks. Whatever caused it, it had to have been plugged into something at the time, either the charger or it was tethered.

And the worst film NEVER made is...

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Re: Hmmm

Hey now, nine deaths of the ninja with 'Lollipop' was superb next to the likes of "Sewage Baby" and "Killer Nun"

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Wrong way around

Surely the winner should have just got the one crap DVD, with the third place getting all ten, with fourth place getting all ten and being forced to watch them all back to back without recreating "that scene from scanners" :)

Crooks sell skint fanbois potatoes instead of iPhones

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Re: Indeed...

I bought a bag of potatoes but ended up with a bloody iPhone grrrr

AWS CISO needs permission to visit his data centres

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you said "penetration testers".....<snicker>

iCloud blows away 15 million users for 90 minutes

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Agreed, I'm not getting fired because some cloud jockey hit the wrong button. Our stuff stays on our servers where I know backups are done properly and I can restore stuff without having to submit flippin tickets.

Only global poverty can save the planet, insists WWF - and the ESA!

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WTF?

Re: We should all lead simple lives...

Problem there is most of the flock have no idea how to look after a pot plant, let alone a field full of plants that would keep them alive.

Let me guess did the tree huggers publish this on hemp using no steel or concrete or glass, little hard to distribute it by hand around the globe because they obviously don't use any fossil fuels and solar powered wooden planes are everywhere. Hypocrites!!

Amazon green-lights in-app purchasing for Android

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Mighty Eagle

Hardly surprising it hasn't proven successful when we still can't do it !!!! Only the Fruity crowd are eagle enabled, the rest of us outside of the US are stuck with no eagle and no way to get rid of the bloomin ads either.

Love the way so many companies bang on about being global, when they are as global as the world series of baseball :(

Lawyers of Mordor menace Hobbit boozer

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Re: I'm all for...

"It trades off selling a decent night out at an affordable price"

GAH propeller head alert, you don't try and sell warranties for cars on TV do you?

PARIS soars to Guinness World Record

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Ahhhh

So the guy who looks like Eddie Jordan is John Oates....cool

Revealed: Inside Apple-bothering Proview's crumbling factory

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Something funny here

Apart from the first image showing a Proview graphic you try and spot anything in the other images that identifies them as from the same site. The layout in images 2-8 doesn't seem to tie with that shown in image 1. I smell a rat, and it's not the one in pic 5 either ;)

HD bandwidth limits BBC Olympics 3D coverage

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Re: missing opportunity

Definitely, although it would be a bit dodgy being the camera-person getting the shot of the Javelin coming towards the viewer ;)

Microsoft raises 'state of the art' son of NTFS

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Erm Nope, Nope

Memphis = Win98

Cairo wasn't any finished windows version, part of it was WinFS, so Wibble was right, but not when he said Cairo was win2k.

Win2k 32bit didn't have a code name, the 64 bit version did = Janus. and win2k SP1 was Asteroid.

Can I have my badge now :)

Online Christmas orders from retailers go titsup

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Coffee/keyboard

Hmmm

Did they not send the gifts to IT, bet the problems were preceded by flaming Christmas puddings ;) The true story is covered by El Reg folks!!

2012 CES will be Microsoft’s last hurrah

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Facepalm

GuyS?!?!?!

How can you mention tech fails with Bill, without linking to the Win98 crash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzFUcDKC64E

Forshame!!!

Reg man the most-flamed recruiter in the UK?

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Facepalm

True, but if you scream the truth at people you tend to get the two fingered response. Tone down the venom and you may have got a very different general response.

Content: fine and accurate

Pitch: awful

his CV is in the bin ;)

Valve says credit card data taken

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Who cares, where the hell is HL2, Ep3 Gabe!!!!!! 6-8 months my ass

Were Lavasoft's buyers once on its hit list?

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"We decided to buy Lavasoft because of its core technology, its loyal user base and the belief that with the right investment – the company can once more rise to its true potential,"

Loyal user base - Not any more

True potential - Start charging through the nose for it

-> Uninstalled.....

BlackBerry BBM, email offline AGAIN

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Coat

Erm, actually I think you'll find it's the consumer side that has the problem, business customers are fine, my blackberry is behaving normally, no probs at all in the last 2 days.

....and now I will run before someone finds a new holster for my blackberry :)

Microsoft staff savage Ballmer at company confab

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Not quite, we are left with beancounters as CEO's as they where the ones who knew the most about the companies business when the innovating CEO's left.

There are a lot of CFO's who have now migrated to CEO's and can't figure out why the balance sheet doesn't look better (hint: there is no column for customer loyalty or satisfaction).

Apple loses bid to trademark 'multi-touch'

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Joke

As Steve would say

"Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal.

Steve

Sent from my iPhone"

Maybe "Mul-T-Touch"?? except I just got prior art :D

Samsung shifts 10 millionth Galaxy SII

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Joke

Got mine!!

So that's one

TalkTalk still the most whinged about telco

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Whoopsy

Oh Crap, I'm on Talktalk and 3UK

Stephen on Steve: The most important man on Earth

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Joke

agreed

...but don't call me shirley

Chess crown stripped in plagiarism furore

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Oops Busted

I guess you could say "Checkmate"

....ok i'm going :P

Twitter vs Beeb in superinjunction nark shindy

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Joke

Seriously

An article referencing a "Tony Wang" and no "Wang Cares" jokes?!?!?!

Ofcom awards fastest 3G mobe-data crown to O2

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Unhappy

Seconded

Yep, Whilst two cups and string outperform O2, playing pictionary to transmit your data blows orange into the weeds, if it even plays at all.

Contract up soon thank $diety$ then back to 3 with a Galaxy S2 to boot :)

Gadgets give granny disease to kids

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Megaphone

Good idea

Whilst you're at it also add a warning to video games for the following:

Not bang your head against the wall

Not to try to swallow the game packaging

Not to try to blow your head off with the light gun

Not punch yourself in the head

Not to try to stuff ferrets down you trousers whilst playing the game

and anything else that sounds completely frickin obvious......

</walks away wondering when people will start using common sense again rather than needing someone else to tell them when to stop dribbling>

Microsoft fails to turn punters on to WinPho 7

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WTF?

Surprised!!!

I was up for a winpho7 phone until Miccy buddied up with Nokia and world+dog saw that this meant any other hardware manufacturer was going to get 2nd rate treatment (read: crap).

If they are going to be half assed then why should they not expect sales to be similar.

Sun attempts to ID entire FA Cup Final crowd

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Ohhh that would be awesome if they had stuck him in there somewhere :)

Star Wars: From dream sci-fi bride to perfect Blu-ray wife

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You didn't miss much

I got the page in plain text before the redirect kicked in, it said there were 9 or 10 discs in the collection, the first 6 are easy to figure out, then you had making ofs the originals with interviews, then assorted junk include parodies (but not family guy) and other stuff, bit of an anti climax really.

Praying for meltdown: The media and the nukes

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WTF?

Point proven perfectly

"Reactor melted"

Yep, but so what, if the whole plant had melted then we would have a problem, but the reactor melting means it's buggered for use again, not that the whole world is going to expire in a burst of gamma rays

...and nothing has been despoiled for generations, just cause they wrap your chips in it doesn't mean it's credible.

Fukushima update: No chance cooling fuel can breach vessels

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Just goes to prove Lewis

You can lead a Horse to water but you can't make it drink.

For a world that prizes knowledge it's a sad state of affairs when someone who actually knows something gets shot down by people that don't have a clue what they are actually talking about.

I guess that's why gossip mags enjoy such good circulation.

Legally binding e-documents: Germany pushes secure email option

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FAIL

LOL

...and of course it's completely impossible to spoof a from field in an e-mail.

Health experts flip over McD's burger-flip toy

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Recycling

That's a recycled version of A-La-Carte kitchen isn't it. You want recycling, there it is :D

iPhone 'Death Grip' effect is real, plastic cases don't help

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To quote Snatch

"Yeah Dad, you told us"

His next project is finding a catholic in the Vatican.

Storm brews over Chinese synchronised goldfish

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Well

It does all smell a bit fishy to me....

Apple denies reported plan to deep-six CFO Oppenheimer

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Translation

"Peter is not leaving Apple,"

He's going to be fired instead!

"We are not conducting a CFO search"

We know who we want and where they are.

"He loves the company and is extremely happy in his role"

Until he reads this then that will probably change.

Windows 7 really was some girl's idea, rules ASA

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I smell a lawsuit

Brought by the people in the ads. "Miccysoft said it was my idea, so I'm gonna sue them for IP theft"

Steve Jobs chucks Apple server biz from pram

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To coin a phrase

Change your servers. Not that big of a deal.

Steve

Sent from my jesusPhone

Flakey scales brand Commonwealth boxers bunch of blobs

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you know what they say

pay peanuts......

Good clowns battle evil at the 'Carnival of Screams'

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Organisation

If they don't plan it properly they'll look like a right bunch of clowns.

I'll bet they won't hire a bus to get them all there either, after all we all know you can get an infinite number of clowns into a mini ;)

Now it really is coat gathering time.

EU sues UK.gov over Phorm trials

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WOOT!!!

Bout time someone stuck the boot into BT, they seem to think they are able to get away with anything because they are a "british" company, and the gov aren't helping by letting them get away with it.

Although it is annoying the hell out of me that I am siding with brussels....

Orange mobile data chucks punters

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Nothing to see here...

That sounds like everything is normal at Orange towers. I've had those symptoms ever since I moved to Orange. Surfing the net with Orange is a complete pig!!

Pacific islands growing not shrinking, says old study

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Re: What?

I do love the old CO2 is a pollutant, I'm sure plants would say O2 is a pollutant.

IT'S THEM OR US PPL!!!!