* Posts by yakitoo

54 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jan 2010

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Labour: Free British broadband for country if we win general election

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Re: @JIm84

"the railways were utterly worn out after WW2 and needed massive replacement of equipment."

Which the the owners were unwilling or unable to do, so the public purse picked up the bill.

Shock: NASA denies secret child sex slave cannibal colony on Mars

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Re: An investigation is needed

Yes but do we have enough elastic bands?

Skype shuts down London office, hangs up on hundreds of devs

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The BSOD maybe?

NASA's mighty SLS to burn 1.215 Olympic-sized pools

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Is this...

using the special emissions test software?

How Microsoft will cram Windows 10 even harder down your PC's throat early next year

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Facepalm

Re: Evil

"Seems you need urgent upgrades your software anyway, so maybe Win 10 is a blessing in disguise."

Not if your system is governed by FDA rules.

Giant sea scorpion which prowled ancient oceans revealed

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Re: Hmm

Oh something warm and cuddly I expect.

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Hmm

I'm pretty sure that I was married to that once.

Oxford Uni unearths 800-year-old document to seize domain names

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Alien

Meanwhile

'......will presumably add them to the long list of domain names it holds and does nothing with.....'

Pan back to see porter pushing trolley full of domain names deep into a warehouse stacked with dusty boxes.................

Germany says no steamy ebooks until die Kinder have gone to bed

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Paris Hilton

Will be very interesting to see what their idea of steamy is.

Tax fraud fugitive nabbed after posting selfies

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Thank God....

..... that this ia all being documented in the Darwin Awards.

P0wning for the fjords: Malware turns drones into DEAD PARROT

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Should help reduce the cost of the next Xmas present list.

Professor's BEAGLE lost for 10 years FOUND ON MARS

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Position and shape presumably.

And the tyre tracks from the LGM first responder de-contamination vehicles.

Ladies and trolls: Should we make cyberbullying a crime? – Ireland

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The online world is, in effect, now a public place

If the act is a criminal one when done in a 'real world' public place then it should also be criminal when done online.

When algorithms ATTACK: Facebook sez soz for tacky 'Year in Review' FAIL

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Facepalm

Re: Actually

Interesting take in todays Telegraph (yes I know................)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11315319/Lying-on-Facebook-profiles-can-implant-false-memories-experts-warn.html

Oh, wow. US Secret Service wants a Twitter sarcasm-spotter

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Be even more fun when they try to upgrade it to irony level.

Forget the beach 'n' boardwalk, check out the Santa Cruz STEVE JOBS FOUNTAIN

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Re:images of Steve Jobs per square meter

This sounds like a suitable candidate for an El Reg unit of measurement.

ICO to focus only on 'serious, repeat' data-protection offenders

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Alert

What...

.... you mean you actually expect us to do something in return for our salaries?

The ZOD FILES: Climate documents from 2007 'must stay secret'

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Holmes

Not that long ago

that the UK weather forecast was technically an official secret and the ordnance survey maps had blank spaces on them where the military bases were - even the ones with public roads running along side them.

We Brits take our secrecy very seriously - especially when its in full public view.

Tor traffic torrent: It ain't the Syrians, it's the BOTS

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.... if you have a multi-million node botnet, it's silly to try to hide it behind the 4000-relay Tor network .............

Unless you are doing traffic handling analysis to assist with tracking of course.

Can't think who would possibly want to do that though.

New NSA tool exposed: XKeyscore sees 'nearly EVERYTHING you do online'

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....the 2008 vintage training manual ......

So this is 5+ year old information.

Lots of improvements in those 5 years no doubt.

Obama says US won't scramble jets or twist arms for Snowden

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Re: "Bad news; All the governments and most coporations are full of'em!"

That is not really fair on lizards.

Red supergiant Betelgeuse heads for SMACKDOWN with 'dust bar'

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Boffin

Re: Are they sure...

Or the finger print just overlapping the sprockets into the frame.

Kim Dotcom claims entrapment by US authorities

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Re: and in other news....

Still trying to decrypt the message attached to the pigeon in the fireplace.

iPhone senses you typing on table, bit of wood etc, turns vibes to text

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Holmes

In the current climate

I do hope that he has patented it.........................

Curiosity spins its wheels and shoots up the Martian landscape

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Coat

Re: Bradbury died last *year*?

Would that be Terra or Martian years?

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Facepalm

Re: 100 meters is less than a full brontosaurus?

I notice that we don't seem to have an El reg unit for time.

A serious oversight IMHO

Burglar steals $60,000 of computers from Steve Jobs' home

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Just a couple machines running Windows 7 and a Samsung Galaxy tab.

Designer punked fanbois with asymmetric screw

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"Swedish design house Day4 ........ Deciding to test peoples’ gullibility... "

I thought that was what IKEA was for.

UK.gov Open Data site fills up with spam

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Facepalm

Well

I suppose that any mail criticising the gumment will be considered as spam.

Insulin pump attack prompts call for federal probe

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WTF?

Does

make you wonder how it got through 510k in the first place

Galaxy Tab still legal in the Netherlands

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Thumb Up

but....

.... once CERN come up with the goods Cupertino can send a suitably modified version of Genesis back to sort that little glitch.

Is there anything to find on bin Laden's hard drive?

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access

was it fitted with a finger print reader by any chance?

Apple sues Samsung over Galaxy look-and-feel

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Jobs Horns

Just think of the maids

when its thrown by the Stretham Clothes Horse

Halifax cuts investment accounts off from the web until April 2012

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Taxing

.....lose all historical statements data on 18th April......

Should be fun explaining that to the tax man when he call and wants to see 7 years of records.

Volunteer biker gang foils Westminster CCTV car fleet

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Rather like

the way that it was parked on double lines.

Jobsian fondle-slab in SEXY FILTHGRAM CRACKDOWN

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WTF?

Don't even

think about getting one if you live anywhere near Scunthorpe.

Anti-piracy lawyers' email database leaked after hack

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Pirate

Oh dear,

how sad, what a pity, never mind.

Boffins baffled by mysterious Martian crater

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Alien

Looks

decidedly whale shaped to me.

UK.gov pledges licence fee 'rethink' over heavy catch-up use

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Go

Simple solution

require a log on using the licence number and the registered postcode.

Would remove the problem of not being able to view when outside the UK.

Won't happen though - far too simple

Government opens public spending database

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Pirate

So it seems

there is a legal use for BitTorrent after all.

UK.gov issues death warrant for ID cards

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Collectors items

might be worth a few quid in the future.

HMRC mails wrong private info to 50,000 taxpayers

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The letter, signed by Paul Gerrard

well that'll teach Him, I must do better signed 50000 times

OFT leaves online ad snoopers to regulate themselves

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FAIL

A couple

of useless organisations that obviously haven't noticed which way the wind is now blowing.

Should help the economy drive a bit.

Clegg promises liberties restoration

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Coat

Indeed, but

don't call me..............

sorry I'll just ...............

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Thumb Up

Cage rattling time

to show the world who the real slime balls are.

Swiss watch auctioned for £3.76m

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Badgers

The title..........................

Could have got it a lot cheaper on e-Bay

Wii Fit fall woman turns into nympho

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She

should get a good price for it on EBay with that functionality.

Wiseguys net $25m in ticket scalping racket

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Happy

...an alleged computer programmer....

got quite a few of those working here.

Orange overshares in bcc blunder

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FAIL

on reflection decided... no

wimps.

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