Posts by countd

Survey scams exploit Winehouse's death, Oslo massacre

News angle?

I love you, El Reg, I really do, but this bullshit where you take a major news event that is inevitably picked up by s{c,p}ammers and parlay that in itself as being actual news is rather tiresome.

Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate G2 USB 3.0 Flash drive

Nick Hawkesmoor, eh?

Is this some sort of conspiracy theory inducing nom de plume or a real name? Hmmmm...

No Gingerbread snack for Desire owners, says HTC

obsolence [sic]

Gotta say that the comment about obsolescence sounds about right. Hell there's even people running Gingerbread on the original Wildfire (albeit sans Sense). Somewhat disappointing after their recent announcement that they would cease to lock their bootloaders.

LulzSec hacks US Senate

Nice trolling Mr Kaned!

Two thumbs up. Ya muppet.

Police ROBOT attacks and BURNS DOWN HOUSE

They should have sent in...

Tinribs*!

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinribs

Barnsley clamps down on foul-mouthed fu*king locals

Oh do kindly

Fuck off.

Kaspersky wants Interpol for the web

Agreed...

Why, just this morning I was looking at the AV options for Android, of which Kaspersky is one. Frankly with this sort of crap he can stick it where the sun don't shine.

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Rage guy and something for the fandroids?

We need to address the fandroid's chronic underrepresentation, particularly in the smartphone wars.

Rage guy? Well, he just makes me smile.

Mind mapping for IT pros

kdissert is deprecated

It's been replaced by semantic which is nice but feature incomplete and a little buggy. But when it's working it does great latex exports.

Newsnight tries banalysis 2.0 for Prime Ministerial debates

liveblogging the debates

First let’s hear the leader’s opening statements:

Captain Clegg: Hello! I’m different to the Labservatives

Mr Frown: Remember, I just destroyed the economy but the Conservatories are really, really scary

Mr Balloon: Bleep. Thank you for purchasing the Leader-bot 500. I am programmed in over six million forms of public relations.

Courtesy of here: http://millenniumelephant.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-3391-debate-night-we-rule.html

McKinnon's mum stands against Straw at general election

I thought...

That "Gorgeous" George Galloway was going to take on Straw. Just found out that the preening prick is going to contest Poplar and Limehouse instead - bah.