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Apple issues invitations to March 7 iPad roll-out

@dotslash

Obviously, yes!

I just creamed myself with excitement!

Paris for obvious reasons.

Kids should be making software, not just using it - Gove

@Myself

Do forgive me, I mean a 'large percentage' not 'large minority'. I should proof read a little better.

@John Wilson

Unfortunately I really do not underestimate a good proportion of teachers. The saying "Those that can do, those that can't teach" has never been truer than it is at the moment. I worked around teachers in schools for years, and a large minority will struggle with the most basics of programming, and that is for the 'specialist' IT teachers before we even start talking about the many non-specialist teaching IT and other subjects in schools today. The British education system is shocking.

Chrome beta promises super-fast URL loads

@NogginTheNog

I can always fit a packet of Nurofen in my trouser pocket.

Microsoft celebrates the death of IE6

That will be the fucked Alpha Channel support in PNG images..

I *hate* IE6. It would disappear quicker if MS allowed people running dodgy copies of XP to upgrade their versions of IE.

US spy drone hijacked with GPS spoof hack, report says

@captin scarlet

Can't miss this, you mean:

You're paranoid!

Google rejigs search bar (again)

You've got to win some kind of award for the prolific use of "fucking" in one sentence.

iPhone 4/4S 'self combusts' in airliner inferno

..the ground staff rob it before it gets anywhere near an aircraft!

Britain's Harrier jump-jets reprieved to fly and fight again

Never miss a chance to bash the RAF or anything none Royal Navy eh? It is becoming very tiresome, we are past the comical stage now.

Naked vegans target Prince Harry over meaty 12-incher

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Those girls would eat my sausage!

I am up for any form of them being cruel to me!

The Beeb is broken

especially compared with that horrid new Beta site!

Report: Popular CAPTCHAs easily defeated

Not shocked

It defeated Recaptcha - I can't fucking read those things 95% of the time.

Airbus brews Scandium smackdown for carbon Dreamliner

I am fed up of hearing people compare the 787 to the A380 - different aircraft for different markets, why cannot the media in general not grasp this? Not knocking EI Reg by the way here.

Of course point to point is the future, its a big no brainer. One of the reasons LCC make such a fortune and are largely very successful is they allow people to travel direct, using smaller aircraft, more frequently.

The A380 is suited to a hand full of very high density routes only, as mentioned in the article, London - NYC for example.

Virgin Media touts high-speed signups and TiVO

Cutting costs, boost profit

By stopping sending me (and everyone else) a load of shit junk mail. I just can't stop it coming through the mail.

It really really pisses me off after all that, that they charge me a 'Paper Bill Charge' every month! Wankers.

BSkyB earns more dosh out of fewer new punters

I'm still not adding on Sky Sports.

No to F1 on fucking Sky!

'Angry Bird in the Sky' spotted by astronomers

To be fair, Angry Birds is over rated shite. Just had to share that.

I concur with this statement:

"I pity anyone that can look and a stunning picture like that and still just be seeing Angry Birds.

Put it away, you'll go blind."

A beverage for you, sir.

Windows 8: First contact with Microsoft Touch

A lot of 'metro' sexuals out there like these tablet things to pose with while supping their fancy frapachino in Starbucks..

JP Morgan has a Playmobil moment

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Playmobile? Looks more like Lego to me.

Freeview to get fifth HD channel

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You watched C5 in the first place?

Windows 8 ribbon entangles Microsoft

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The Ribbon isn't THAT bad, lets be fair, once you get used to it. We are just so used to menus it makes it a little bit difficult to adapt.

I still struggle to find things in Office Ribbon despite having used Office 2007 + since release but I am not sure I would go back to the old menu system.

Mr Bean prangs £650k McLaren

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I am fed up of hearing the media refer to it as Formula 1 car.. just because it has F1 in it's name.

I have an F1 key in this keyboard, does that mean this notebook is a Lenovo Formula 1 Notebook?

Chinese lecturer demands his students acquire iPads

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"If you don't have an iPad.. then well, you don't have an iPad"

Seriously, this guy sounds like a wanker however.

Italian and Swiss cops cuff 15 Anonymous suspects

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These kids need to get out more.

Alleged LulzSec hacker still inside

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These kids need to get out more.. and get laid.

Got a website? Pay attention, Cookie Law will come

@windrose

While I would love to fully agree with you about the URL, how many times do you see things advertised on the TV or in the media some place as domain.com/product ?

Some things after the actual domain do need to be humanly readable, but mostly, yes I do agree with you.

Granted this is all going to becoming less relevant with this current fad of putting "Search for XYZ online" in ads these days.

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Since when was a Cookie a piece of software? It is a chuffing text file!

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It is a little bit crazy in some ways is this law. Not all cookies are malicious.

Granted some are bad and are used for profiling your web browsing habits etc etc, but then, just about every website you log in to uses cookies to establish a session. If you refuse to accept cookies, how the fuck will you establish a session in the stateless web?

Perhaps the law needs a little refining so it only applies to advertisers etc and not people needing to use cookies as an integral part of their web apps.

And just to add as good advice as ever - we should all be using secure cookies!

Mozilla eyes multi-threaded webpage rendering

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Do we really need to continue this speed related numbers pissing contest? Bored of the JavaScript engine speed contest? Lets move onto the actual DOM now.

The real bottle neck is the connection, not the page render speed. This numbers pissing contest is frankly becoming a fucking joke.

Mozilla pushes out final Firefox 5 test build

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Piss is free but I won't drink it.

The only thing I use FF for these days are the web dev tools I can't get in Chrome (yet).

Germans completely humourless: Official

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Germans not funny... Funnybot anyone? Enough said!

Both the Germans and Dutch are hilarious!

Modern Warfare 3 teaser trailer reveals terror on the tube

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I am sorry, but does that bloke seriously punch a flying car out the way?

El Reg iPhone app rated a flaccid 12+

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I agree, we need comments - comments are what makes the articles what they are.

Shame, nice app otherwise. Please add comments so I have no reason to use the mobile site.

Could someone fix the annoying issue with video's embedded in articles on the mobile site too - this causes the Jesus phone to break the page - or at least it does for me.

Down and dirty in a monster data centre

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I just have to say, Rackspace are the most impressive company I have ever worked with. They are one hell of a set up.

Mozilla to shift 12m surfers off 2-year-old Firefox 3.5

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Should use Windows then shouldn't you..

Facebook pulls plugs on Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile

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Really, who gives a fuck?

Really, why did I open this story?

Do I give a fuck? Nah.

MobileMe drove Steve Jobs to foul-mouthed fury

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It Just Works..

Short domain land-rush coming to .uk

Nah

Not if American Airlines have owt to do with it.

RTFA!

Microsoft reveals WinPhone 7 'Mango' details

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"To illustrate the importance of file download and alarms, he demoed a Quantas airlines "concept app" working with location details and clock to alert him on when it's time to check in for a flight and provide updates on flight status."

It is Qantas!

UK is 15th best place in the world to do IT

ICT..

I wish we could avoid this stupid abbreviation.. it is IT.

Only place I ever seem to see it refered to as ICT is in schools.

Google unleashes (another) Facebook knock-off

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... and Jenni doesn't need too.

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The one thing that fucks me off most about forums and their communities is the + fucking 1 replies.

Just what I want to see now when viewing web pages, along with all the Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, Digg, Slash dot buttons etc is a fucking +1 button.

It is unnecessary. Seriously, fuck off with this +1 nonsense.

(Awaiting some smart arse to +1 my post!)

Firefox fans get IE-happy AJAX testing tools

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Its becoming a little hard to hate IE, well IE9 at least - it is just not that bad!

Of course the real problem lays with older version of IE and that simply won't disappear!