* Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon

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That glass of water you just drank? It was OLDER than the SUN

Sir Runcible Spoon
Coat

Re: Someone tell Sainsbury's

"Yet they still put sell-by dates on bottled water."

That probably has more to do with the amount of time taken for toxins to leach into the water from the plastic bottle.

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Re: Panic!

"@ Colin Brett:

Collider, oh please! Each of your cells is around 0.3%:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroperoxyl"

We should be banning that shit as well..

"Hydroperoxyl is responsible for the destruction of ozone in the stratosphere"

BT claims almost-gigabit connections over COPPER WIRE

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Headmaster

Re: Copper wires?

It does, it sounds a lot less misleading now :P

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Re: BT have claimed lots of things.

I was tempted to downvote just for the re-use of the same reference for multiple comments, you could have grouped them :)

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Re: Copper wires?

"Most"

Citation required.

Four caged in UK after cyber-heist swipes €7m in EU carbon credits

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Would 'boxed' be more acceptable to you?

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Mushroom

Sir

"The only real heist is the one perpetrated against the-rest-of-us"

Including the allowance of purchasing voluntary carbon credits with private pension pot funds for a huge markup.

Not only that, but if you were unlucky enough to be conned into buying them (they're practically worthless - just try and sell them!) there are also boiler room scams out there ready to pounce on anyone who is desperate to sell them to try and claw back some of their money.

Doing some research on it I was amazed at the scale of the rip-offs and there are people out there who are close to retirement that lost *everything*.

They are seriously hazardous to your pension health and is a national scandal that rivals the banks playing roulette with poison risk bundles.

Dyslexic, dyspraxic? No probs, says GCHQ

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Re: Duh

It doesn't apply to everyone with mental disorders, but if it does it tends to be significant.

I work in a complex field, and there are things I can do without much thought that others have a struggle to do at all (I have severe ADHD-combined).

On the other hand, there are things I am really bad at.

Like now for instance. I have to create a complex design in a complex environment based on vague requirements within a very short time-scale. Most people would just 'knock something together' and blame the lack of requirements if it goes pear-shaped later.

I can't do that, I *have* to do the best job I can, I can't put my name to something that I don't think will work - and if I don't know enough yet to know whether it will or not, then I have to spend the time learning. This slows me down *a lot*. I have a hard time thinking of things to put into the design if it isn't based on hard information.

It causes a lot of stress.

The hardest thing is the train-track thought processes. Like someone has mentioned - it *is* possible to change them, but only with the proper motivation and context. At all other times changing your mind mid-stride is the equivalent of de-railing a freight train. It takes time for the wreck to stop before you can even think about picking up the pieces :(

Surprise: if you work from home you need the Internet

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Re: A couple of questions are raised in my mind...

"does the company have a minimum service standard that WFH employees have to have?"

I hope not, I'm struggling with a 3g service tethered to my phone at the moment!

Moon landing was real and WE CAN PROVE IT, says Nvidia

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Re: Return journey

Considering the logistics of asteroid mining, I don't think it would be too much additional overhead to ensure that the resulting hulks are left in a non-threatening orbit.

Bear in mind that the mined asteroids are probably already in a stable orbit (otherwise we might have trouble finding them).

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Re: Return journey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon

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Re: That last Daly comment is a joke, or what?

I think they rendered some stars in sky which were not visible under the projected lighting conditions.

They then changed the exposure on their render to the point where they became visible.

That's how I understood it anyway.

Oz carrier Tiger Air takes terror alerts to new heights

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Re: Targeted

"Proud to be British: Bloody Sunday.

I don't agree with a lot of what the IRA did, but I don't think the actions of our armed representatives on that particular day is anything to be proud of, do you?

1 thumb up & 8 thumbs down " <- as of 15:20

Well, it looks like there are at least 8 people who are proud that we (The British) shot civilians.

From the wiki:

"British paratroopers "lost control", fatally shooting fleeing civilians and those who tried to aid the civilians who had been shot by the British soldiers. The report stated that British soldiers had concocted lies in their attempt to hide their acts. Saville stated that the civilians had not been warned by the British soldiers that they intended to shoot. The report states, contrary to the previously established belief, that none of the soldiers fired in response to attacks by petrol bombers or stone throwers, and that the civilians were not posing any threat"

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Re: Targeted

"But be proud that throughout it all the British response was to ignore the cowards for what they are/were > spineless gits."

Proud to be British: Bloody Sunday.

I don't agree with a lot of what the IRA did, but I don't think the actions of our armed representatives on that particular day is anything to be proud of, do you?

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Re: Terrorism shmerrorism.

Hint: The current security theater has nothing to do with officials being scared of the terrorists.

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Sir

This is what you get for low level dissent these days is it?

How exactly was he being disruptive? Was he presenting his images/thoughts to fellow passengers like some kind of infomercial?

Joan Rivers promotes iPhone 6 from BEYOND THE GRAVE

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Mushroom

Sir

"She sadly passed away during a throat operation"

Sadly.

Right.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/joan-rivers-palestinians-deserve-to-be-dead-9656554.html

Reg readers respond: Yes, it's time for Comment of the Week

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Sir

Would you mind if I use this model on my company voicemail?

It's a lot better than forcing people to hang up by playing them jazz :)

Divinity Original Sin and Wasteland 2 reviews: Turn-based gaming's not dead yet!

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Sir

Please can someone make an up to date MEGATRAVELLER?

I want futuristic. A turn-based X3 where you can land on planets, build empires, kick arse and chew gum.

Oh, and I want it now, please :)

Your chance to win the world's only handheld ZX Spectrum

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Re: Can we be told ......

I would have entered had sign-up process not decided to try and squeeze some more PI info from me.

Getting to the BOTTOM of the great office seating debate

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Meh

Sir

One look at those exhibits and I was thinking I would rather spend a day at the Caravan show.

Jihadi terrorists DIDN'T encrypt their comms 'cos of Snowden leaks

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Joke

Sir

"These guys are seriously austere."

What, not even a short trip to 'Pimp my AK'? Poor buggerers.

Amazon REINTRODUCES Kindle swindle vulnerability

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Re: Mitigation

If you always download your books to your PC and then put them on the Kindle, you'll never have a problem - and no-one can take them away from you either.

Rejoice, Blighty! UK is the TOP of the WHOLE WORLD ... for PHISHING

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Re: Language

I reckon it's more likely due to non native English speakers having a better grasp of English grammar than native Brits do, so the obvious mistakes in spam emails are, well, obvious (to the non-natives).

The grammatically challenged chav-generation may well not notice the glaring mistakes that set the spam-bells off.

Starship Troopers beat Aliens, Robots AND Chuck Norris to WIN in a FIGHT

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Black Helicopters

Re: Bill, the galactic hero

Di'Griz ftw! (-> That's a top down view of a rat with 6 legs btw)

Let XKCD's Randall Munroe satisfy your curiosity in this excerpt from his book, What If

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Re: Share and Enjoy

I definitely think we should all adopt the metric foot, it just seems right somehow :)

Be your own Big Brother: Monitoring your manor, the easy way

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" Avoid using an extension lead if you can"

I read this in the instructions when I set mine up, so I decided to get them all talking in the first place whilst on an extension lead.

Hasn't missed a beat :)

'Duck face' selfie in SPAAAACE: Rosetta's snap with bird comet

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Joke

Sir

That's no moon!

Microsoft tells judge: Hold us in contempt of court, we're NOT giving user emails to US govt

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Re: A question and a kudo

"Economic interests fall to a far second when power is threatened."

Cart, horse etc.

Where did you think the power comes from these days? It certainly isn't from a mandate from 'we the people'. We just don't stop it (which is just as bad imo)

Heavy VPN users are probably pirates, says BBC

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Re: iPlayer from overseas - harder

If they are blocking IP's that are UK assigned, surely they are blocking the service for legitimate users in the UK who just might be protecting their privacy?

Very bad BBC.

Snowden shouldn't be extradited to US if he testifies about NSA spying, says Swiss gov

Sir Runcible Spoon
Joke

Perhaps they don't want the NSA to listen in?

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Re: Silicon Valley would lose its ability to sell to EU clients overnight

"and that has not lost Silicon Valley any sales yet."

Are you sure?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/business/fallout-from-snowden-hurting-bottom-line-of-tech-companies.html?_r=0

Alien Ninja Fembot Pirates vs the Jedi SAS Chuck Norris startroopers: RUMBLE

Sir Runcible Spoon

I reckon Ellen Ripley may well be Chuck Norris' equivalent of Kryptonite.

She even came back from the dead with acid in her blood ffs!

IT jargon is absolutely REAMED with sexual double-entendres

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Re: Once upon a time

Back in the days of routing storms, one loud voiced fellow was heard to say (addressing the entire support team and several other depts. in the open plan office)..

"They got HUGE flaps in the States".

How ya doin' Sam? ;)

Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: Easily done by mistake

"How big is your cache/gash?"

And she answered you!? What kind of helpline did she think she'd called?

'4chan may be just a sysadmin who knows his way around', claims so-called expert

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FAIL

Re: Copyright is not theft... but it's not legitimate

"So - to all those commenters trying to justify copying in the thread above - get over yourselves and accept that you just do it because it's easy and you don't want to pay what is being asked of you."

I'm not sure I read any posts in the thread above that tried to justify copying, but there were a lot that discussed the difference between copyright infringement and theft.

Here's something else for you to fail to parse..

"Reading is not thought, but comprehension requires you to think."

Sir Runcible Spoon
Coat

Re: 4chan is a sysadmin

4chan - is there a hackers name registry where I can see if this is taken already?

Oi, you don't work here, Mr Anything But incisive – get your grubby mitts off ou rreaders

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Re: Steven Rairh Hmm

"On a serious note (really) I wonder how many reader tech surveys are disguised hunts for targeted advertising."

Bzzzzzzzzzzzt - All of them!

Something smells PHISHY: It's the celeb nudie iCloud PERV trap...

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Paris Hilton

Re: Gossip Culture...

I read a news story yesterday about one of the 'celebrities' that was part of this 'fappening', some kind of gymnast who was underage when her boyfriend took the picture of her - so there were warnings that they were kiddie porn.

The bit I couldn't work out was that she also claims they were fake, which leaves several questions, mostly relating to

'if they are fake how do they know they were taken when underage' and

'if they're not then isn't the gymnast and her boyfriend in trouble?'

I saw the list of who was supposed to be part of this image dump, the only one I recognised was Kirsten Dunst and that put me off right there and then.

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Joke

Re: and in other news...

Really? I thought he shat in the woods. My bad.

The BNP can rip off your works for ‘parodies’ – but only if it's not racist

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Coat

Re: Someone still upset

Which one?

Scared of brute force password attacks? Just 'GIVE UP' says Microsoft

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Re: So basically, MS says ...

Or M$ are admitting they are clueless.

"For reversibly-encrypted codes that use a strong algorithms, crackers would need the relevant decryption key. Without it, they would have no effective means of offline attack even if the users' password was 123456, the duo wrote."

Ok, so technically accurate, but misleading. Even if I couldn't crack the password offline, there's no reason I couldn't just 'have a go' at entering 123456 as a password, which would obviously work.

Having a gnarly password doesn't just make it harder to crack, it makes it hard to guess, and if you re-use passwords from other sites, it only takes one of them to leak the password in a weak manner and all of your accounts are screwed.

Have M$ got a product launch relating to passwords coming up soon or something?

CNN 'tech analyst' on NAKED CELEBS: WHO IS this mystery '4chan' PERSON?

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Re: Discriminatory Pisswords

"FTFY."

Except if I had written it like that it wouldn't have looked like I had a lisp now would it?

Fix Fail. :)

Sir Runcible Spoon
Joke

Discriminatory Pisswords

"change the "s" to a pound sign, which looks like this: pa££word."

Are you taking the pith?

Sonos burns its Bridges: Our home-grown Wi-Fi mesh will do

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Pint

Re: Eh?

It was written for me personally apparently since my Bridge just blew up. Thanks El Reg.

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Perfect timing

After a power cut (and multiple on/offs) on Friday my Bridge was fried and I've resorted to extending my ethernet.

Now I don't need to replace it, nice :)

GCHQ protesters stick it to British spooks ... by drinking urine

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Re: WHEN I AM PRIME MINISTER...

"But then facts are never as emotional as fiction, now are they."

Oh that's right, because they haven't done anything illegal. However, they were still arrested for an unknown charge and face extradition back to the UK, leaving their sick child in a Spanish hospital and half a dozen others at a loose end.

The only reason I can see for this whole fiasco is to push the Rotherham 1400 scandal off the news lists so that someone very high up can bury it completely (until the next time the public gets reminded).

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Re: Yeah, but

I thought he lived in London behind that kerb edge underneath the postbox?

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Re: Scum

"Daily mail much?"

Just a low level El Reg troll. Just ignore, he's only trying to get more down votes than Eadon. (Good luck with that!)

Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: WHEN I AM PRIME MINISTER...

"It's these senior people who we need to get shot of."

Considering that you can now be subjected to an international man-hunt and arrested for trying to get medical treatment for your child, this comment could be construed as incitement to terrorism. Gotta be careful there old sport, remember 'they' aren't afraid of criminals, 'they' are afraid of YOU.

I'm Sparticus and so's my wife.