* Posts by graham_

28 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Nov 2011

IT contractors raise alarm over HMRC mulling 'one-month' nudge onto payrolls

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Re: It was reported over the weekend

In the Daily Mail.

Amazon enrages authors as it switches to 'pay-per-page' model

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Re: [redacted] Amazon

er.. they pay the author on how many pages are read, readers just pay whatever they pay for Kindle Unlimited

Who needs hackers? 'Password1' opens a third of all biz doors

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You're password has expired, please change it

OK.. Password2

WinPhone's Halo hottie Cortana to hit desktop in next Windows – report

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Re: It looks like you're...

"It looks like you're searching for naughty pics, do you want to continue privately?"

It's a Doddle: Amazon inks train station parcel deal with Network Rail

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Coat

Re: Which stations are actually run by network rail?

Well I popped your question into the google and found they only run 19 stations, with 11 being in London.

Thankfully every train I've got out of Waterloo at rush hour has had plenty of room for extra luggage. Mines the coat on a seat with all my Christmas shopping under it.

Internet of Things fridges? Pfft. So how does my milk carton know when it's empty?

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Re: The internet of fridges

"when the said item has in fact been depleted, do we require now that the consumer replace the empty packaging back in the fridge"

That's what everyone in my house does, maybe smart fridges should start on tackling these bigger issues

Missiles-on-rooftops Brit spy Farr: UK gov can slurp your Facebook, Twitter ... What of it?

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5 years later..

"We really got the deficit down selling all that NHS and schools data, what else is available?"

Stephen Fry MADNESS: 'New domain names GENERATE NEW IP NUMBERS'

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Re: I should buy...

nice to see http://www.trashbat.co.ck/ still going

Lupita Nyong'o, Game of Thrones' Brienne join Star Wars cast

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Is there a wedding in Game of Thrones?

I shall look forward to watching the lovely couple enjoy their day!

Office website hacked: Passwords, addresses, phone numbers slurped

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Joke

Re: Hospital

There is (or was) a music label call Hospital. And they sold records

Spotify boasts 10 million paying subscribers ... Um, is that all?

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Re: Buying from the label?

(Sorry) actually it was (Dr) Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty who started The Orb. Weston came along a little later (after Little Fluffy Clouds).

Anyway the project looks awesome, hope it works out for him.

Dixons and Carphone Warehouse confirm £3.7bn merger

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Re: Boring Name

or Still Here

with the slogan: hopefully everyone shops on the high street

Hey, does your Smart TV have a mic? Enjoy your surveillance, bro

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Re: That's a no brainer...

or not for long

King's stocks are candy-crushed as its top toy suffers splurge slump

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Re: A one trick pony

Exactly! The IPO got me playing the game again, feels great upping the stats for daily playing non paying users

New .london domains touted tomorrow amid usual tech hypegasm

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or just fuck.off.london

fuck.off.london/yer/caant

Paypal makes man 1000x as rich as the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE

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Joke

this comment is not in the spirit of mocking American sports

M&S shoppers make quarter of a million NFC payments a WEEK

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Thumb Up

Re: I use NFC at M&S all the time

It is! Now if only they can make the printers faster, it'd be even better (for those of us who need receipts)

Surprised? Old Java exploit helped spread Red October spyware

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Thumb Up

Re: I wish

hahaha..I wish you was smart enough to read.

Virgin launches TV Anywhere streaming

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2 device limit though

Is that the same as Sky?

Even with just two of us in the house it would be nice to have on each phone and a laptop..

Ambulance satnav not to blame for asthma attack boy's death

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Re: It's very sad...

I think it was very reasonable to have some big what if questions after something so tragic, I'm not sure the mother was necessarily looking for someone to blame (I know a lot of people do and media angles tend to lean this way too) but who wouldn't ask these sorts of questions?

Glad to see a solid judgement from the coroner and seemingly fairly quickly too (although no dates on either article) so at least the family can get on and grieve without waiting for months/years for answers.

File sharing arrests move to Germany

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Alert

what

secret code is the tag: [edited]

???

Boy died after satnav fault delays ambulance

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Re: The Knowledge

Well, a fair few cabs I been in (especially ones in the early hours) had used Sat Nav, and that's in a black cab from Brixton to Kilburn.

I wouldn't expect ambulance drivers to know every area, even if they'd been doing the job for years. I guess merging hospitals to cover ever increasing areas doesn't help either, West Midlands Ambulance Service is the second largest service which, the NHS site says, serves a population of about 5.4 million who live in Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Coventry, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and the Birmingham and Black Country conurbation.

TicketWeb coughs to email database hack

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A, Well it showed up as Adobe Acrobat Reader in my email and only could see the proper details - From: Adobe Acrobat Reader (MAILINGS@TICKETWEB.CO.UK) - when opened.

B, Always surprises me what people will tell you if you just ask. "what's the password for that?" "oh just use my personal one, it's.."

Although both ended up in my junk mail anyway so didn't open either.

Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN, helps resist stress

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Pint

Sure

Depends on what you're drinking, been having a few American pale ales lately and they tend to be fairly strong (6-7%) as well as being a pleasant surprise to people who think American beers are all Bud or, horror of horrors, Bud Light.

Same goes for our beers, with bitters traditionally being a low 3.5% to porters at a nice winter warming 6-7%

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Pint

Also..

there's a few brewpubs/brewery restaurants appearing across London. Brew Wharf up near Borough Market and The Botanist in Kew

Sites knocked offline by OpenDNS freeze on Google

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Stop

All the more reason

to make sure the sites you build work without JavaScript and you add a check to see if CDN assets are properly loaded. It's not hard..

Siri gets Android rival as Cluzee goes live

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FAIL

you downloaded it?

Couldn't see any link on the site to download or link to the market, bit of a silly way to push your app.

Pete Townshend condemns Apple as 'digital vampire'

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Coat

but but

that would require reading.

I prefer random quotes so I can "get paid for work done as a clock"