* Posts by Fluffykins

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Mobiles help UK malls track shoppers' every move

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some fun

Why not wander round with a bagful of old mobiles and a handful of PAYG SIM cards. Get into some tiny shop and see if security turn up looking for the crowd

First public Firefox 3 candidate shoots out the door

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@DZ Jay

I think THIS may be a bit suspect as well: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/19/firefox_data_snoop/

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Let Mozilla know how you feel:

Trot over to their feedback page at:

http://hendrix.mozilla.org/

Privacy? Forget it. Sell your brain and desires to the highest bidder

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Butterfly won't work.

No-one aggressively sells butterflies or lepidopterist kit.

Let's try something with guaranteed banal marketing:

house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies house Insurance policies car Insurance policies

and ducks.

Mine's the one with the large cover

'Crazy rasberry ants' target Texan tech

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This may settle it once and for all:

Do the ants prefer PCs, Macs or *nix boxes?

BOFH: The PFY's comeuppance

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The Bollard.

Oh, the bollard

Oh, the bollard

Oh, the bollard

>guffaw<

'Major' Flash Player beta released

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@Dan

Don't you dare.

See comment from Stu Reeves

MS whips lens cap off WorldWide Telescope

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@Simon Ward, @Ashley Pomeroy

Ah, yes, but I can do it without a CPU at all: have a complete black hole in my bottom.

Bournemouth floats UK's first 100Mbps sewer broadband network

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@Jon Pain

Freudian slip? I read the URL as

http://www.google.com/titsup/

OK

Coat

Going

>slam<

Hyundai and Kia's latest pitch to US drivers - Windows

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I'm sorry Dave

I can't let you do that.

Franco robbed Sir Cliff of Eurovision win

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@ Gordon Prya @Anonymous Coward

"Spain's part of the Eastern United States, .................."

Ah, of course. Two rich third world governments in one.

Nice day, isn't it?

Winehouse cans Bond theme project

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I'm not gonna record the next Bond theme either.

But I could be open to offers

Either way.

BOFH: The Boss gets Grandpa Simpson syndrome

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Computers? Bloody computers?

LUXURY

We used ter dream about even a thermionic valve analogue computer an' we wouldn't 'a minded if it were always turned OFF

We used t'ave t' use t'slide rules WI'OUT markings on, mind AND we 'ad t'get us own pencils AN' chop t'trees down ter do it.

An' we used ter 'ave ter drink COLD urine 'cos there were no tea in t' cubooard an' we didn't 'ave a kettle an' no water.

An' we used ter use BARBED WIRE instead o' a cattle prod 'cos electric 'adn't bin invented then.

You tell that ter the kids terday an' they just larf.

It in't fair, it in't

But we did 'ave FUN, din't we?

Paris 'ilton 'cos PHWARRRRR!!

NFC fails to find its killer app

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Anything people do now, for which they currently need a separate tool.

Oyster-card-in-a-phone

Self-service-check-out (Depends how secure the app is in a stolen phone)

Office security door fobs

Watchdog bares teeth at mobile premium rate scams

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@Wize

Being a cheapskate, I'm on Tesco Mobile (O2).

Very helpful the young lady was, too.

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Simple - so long as you're a simple user

I don't use any services that indulge in reverse SMS billing, so it's simply a matter of calling your provider and asking for incoming reverse bill SMS to be blocked.

Just done it.

Texas man tries to cash $360bn cheque

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<YAWN>

I've seen petrol pumps with bigger prices than that.

AMD to intro 45nm quad-core Phenom this quarter

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Be still, my pounding heart

Just quickly read the headline and mistook Phenom for Phorm.

Ooooooherrr Missus.

Natasha Henstridge braces for Impact

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Paris Hilton

@Feargal Reilly

You mean Paris would be the only place immune form tsunamis, megawotnots, flying TGV trains, and similar codswallop.

Paris, FFS

Lightning-zapgun maker gets more US gov cash

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I'm due at a sales conference

AND I WANT ONE!!!!!

BOFH: PFY's mum pays a visit

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Which reminds me

Did you hear about the bit of red tarmac that was forcibly detained in a mental institution?

Apparently he was thought to be a bit of a cycle-path

OK:

Coat,

Leaving.

Oz to get satnav cemetery for Down Under dead

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Will those wanting a cremation

be providing the barbie?

Korean astronaut recounts 'ballistic' Soyuz re-entry

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The Moon may be made of green cheese

But adrenaline is definitely brown.

BOFH: Licensing model

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Simon: Your invoice

Review of BOFH episode #14: £150

Display maintenance : £25 (Well, I did have to wipe the screen where I laughed out loud and spluttered coffee over it)

Display Interface adjustment £10.00 ( My glasses WERE too far down my nose)

HMI usage fees: £5.00 (Well, I DID use the mouse to get here)

So, I reckon you owe me about £180.

Plus VAT.

BT's secret Phorm trials open door to corporate eavesdropping

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Judicial review - How to apply

See

http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/1220.htm

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Release the hounds

For more detail see this site:

http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/1220.htm

Judicial review is the procedure by which you can seek to challenge the decision, action or failure to act of a public body such as a government department or a local authority or other body exercising a public law function. If you are challenging the decision of a court, the jurisdiction of judicial review extends only to decisions of inferior courts. It does not extend to decisions of the High Court or Court of Appeal. Judicial review must be used where you are seeking:

* a mandatory order (i.e. an order requiring the public body to do something and formerly known as an order of mandamus);

* a prohibiting order (i.e. an order preventing the public body from doing something and formerly known as an order of prohibition); or

* a quashing order (i.e. an order quashing the public body's decision and formerly known as an order of certiorari)

* a declaration

* HRA Damages

Claims will generally be heard by a single Judge sitting in open Court at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. They may be heard by a Divisional Court (a court of two judges) where the Court so directs.

A fee of £50.00 is payable when you lodge your application for permission to apply for Judicial Review. A further £180.00 is payable if you wish to pursue the claim after permission is granted (Civil Proceedings Fees Order 2004).

NB - If you are in receipt of certain types of benefits you may be entitled to exemption/remission of any fee due.

RM ties up IT school deal with Newham council

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Ooh Goody

They've not used the term "ICT"

Phone insurance firm reveals Sharia rules policy

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@ Ian

Police social clubs?

A380 passengers to enjoy 'military-style' urinals

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Military style....Does it have

A stiff upper lip?

Boffins build safer, more capacious lithium-ion battery

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@Andrew

Not silent, at least not whilst there's a dirty great rotor blade having to be whipped through the air.

Story withdrawn

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@Anonymous Coward

I looked as well.

I reckon the words "Barn Door" and "Hurricane" would appear in the same sentence.

O2 PR calls Reg readers 'techie nerds'

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Oh I nearly fell off my chair laughing

And it's got arms on it!

Come on O2, you're a bloody PHONE COMPANY. Do you think many people give a rat's ass about your view of the human race?

Apprentice contestant to offer Zeppelin trips above London

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@dav

That would cause, oh, millions of pounds worth of improvement.

Nokia confirms 'iPhone killer' handset in pipeline

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Does anyone know?

I can waggle my ears?

IBM smacks rivals with 5.0GHz Power6 beast

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Sooooooooooo

We struggled with the Stone Age,

Battered our way through the Bronze Age

Ground through the Iron Age,

Had a bit of fun with the Industrial Revolution

Entered the Space Age

Landed in the Garb Age

And are now having a second go with a renaissance of the Steam Age

Phorm admits 'over zealous' editing of Wikipedia article

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Wikiwanking

I think I just came up with a new word for what Phorm are Phiddling with.

Oh, and I want to change my signin name, but just for the phorm articles.

Ta

Phluphphykins.

Gates teases bankers with Windows 7 dates

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Is it just me

Or is there an uncomfortable similarity between pictures of Mr Gates and one Afred E Neuman?

http://www.iue.it/Personal/Researchers/malamud/Alfred%20E.%20Neuman%20milk.jpg

What, me worry?

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@ Dave Harper

I'm sorry Dave. I can't let you do that.

HSBC pops thousands of customer details in the post

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Fines - It's all relative.

£100 for the Bloke in the Street hurts a bit. £100 for HSBC is below noise.

£5000 for me is painful for the Bloke in the Street £ 5000 for HSBC is still below noise.

£1m for the Bloke in the Street is stupid. £1m for HSBC might hurt a little.

Make the hurt in proporation to the money available: Fine a % of the latest profit figure.

If the Bloke in the Street is on, say, £2k a month (24k a year) takehome pay, a £5k fine is about 20% of his net annual income and will HURT!

What's 20% of £20,000,000.

OOoh it's lots.

I

US teen cuffed for disposable camera 'Taser'

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Heh heh heh

www.electricstuff.co.uk

Enjoy

DHS ponders microwave raygun missile defences at airports

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WOW! Just think: If a "veering missile" ever hit Terminal 5

It would cause literally MILLIONS of punds worth of improvement.

BOFH: The London Underground vending machine conspiracy

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Ah, so you want toys.

Say please............

Pretty please.........

Go on............

Oh, all right............

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/destructotron.html

and

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/surge.html

and

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk

for the front door.

Naomi Campbell cuffed in Heathrow Terminal 5

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Whaddyamean "On Suspicion"

If an overhyped volatile and aggressive primadonna had a poke at you, you'd rapidly be beyond "suspecting" something was going on.

Like

"Screech" <THUDD>

"Ooo I suspect I've just been whacked on the head"

BT: 'We did not let anyone down over Phorm... it was not illegal'

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If it quacks like a lying, two timing eavesdropping duck

Lies like a lying, two timing eavesdropping duck

Two-times like a lying, two timing eavesdropping duck

Eavesdrops like a lying, two timing eavesdropping duck

Then sure as hell it IS a lying, two timing eavesdropping duck

Vodafone chief tells mobile users he knows where they live

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Could be a useful resource: Don't knock it completely

Just make a list of those companies who think so little about pi$$ing one off that they are prepared to advertise with this service, make a note and avoid them like the plague they are.

What's the marketingspeak term?

Oh yes: Brand Suicide.

BT and Phorm secretly tracked 18,000 customers in 2006

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What is the implication on commercial confidentiality?

There must be one or two folk out there who "work from home". OK, a lot will have VPN connections, but not all.

Can somone from the cognoscenti please have a guess as to what the security implicaitons for a company and it's intellectual property are if one's outworkers are having their traffic intercepted to and from, say, internet and their company's internet accssible intranet sites (honest guv, we aren't actually reading anyfink)

Just wondered.

Teacher's head explodes due to Wi-Fi, mobe radiation

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And what about the ozone produced by all that energy?

Check this out:

http://www.johnandchris.screaming.net/

Well?

IBM unveils nano-projector based VirtuaHuman with 1TB of memory

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Oh, VERY Good

The weird thing is, that's SOOOOOOOOO close to the truth.

Check this out:

http://www.johnandchris.screaming.net/

Well?

US allows visual inspections of nipple rings

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How big a pair of pliers would you need

To remove the head of a TSA "operative" from his ar$e?

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@myself

I really wish I hadn't said that.

I've this horrible mental image that won't go away.

I really don't think I'll be able to pick up a pair of Mole grips for a long time.

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