* Posts by Great Bu

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'Facebook, Twitter, Google: Ad companies masquerading as tech ones'

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Re: Strange...

Does the bear pope shit in the vatican woods ?

Cameron: Get those saucy websites off Blighty's public Wi-Fi

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Re: I must live a sheltered life

Harry Potter 8 should be interesting....

"As Harry made his way to platform 9 3/4 he noticed Hagrid was huddled in a corner......"

Yelling at mobes while driving just as bad as texting

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Still attacking the problem from the wrong end....

We need to stop trying to remove all distractions form cars and start removing people from cars who can't demonstrate the ability to drive safely despite all the available distractions being present.

DDOS strikes BitCoin exchange Mt.Gox

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Re: news

Were you not paying attention ? It's a layer 7 attack ! LAYER 7 !!

That's, like, 7 times worse than a regular layer 1 attack ! *

*I'm not sure I fully understand the ins and outs of this........

Nokia: OK, Q1 has been weak, but there's 'underlying' profit

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eadon ! Eadon ! EADON !!

Has anyone seen Eadon ?

Seriously, I'm getting a bit worried now, is it time to start sending out search parties ?

Hardware hacker unifies 15 retro consoles in format frenzy

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Re: 3,500 hours?

It was just whatever he could do to get away from his wife's knick knack explosion around his TV........

Flexible flywheel offers cheap energy storage

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Re: 15KWh?

What are the efficiency losses for a battery system, though (I have no idea) ?

Would the flywheel provide better performance in terms of the conversion loss for the power going into / out of storage ?

Half of US smartphone owners have no idea which mobe to buy next

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Platform Lock In....

.....is only really relevant if you have paid money for apps from the store.

I suspect that at least half of users (like me) only ever use free apps which can be downloaded again for free from whatever other app store a new 'phone supports, so you are not really affected by any kind of lock in. I suspect this even applies for people who have cheaply paid for apps (I would not be particularly bothered about spending a few quid re-downloading a good app again for a different OS every couple of years). It's just not a big enough cash loss to be a major factor in choosing a new 'phone.

Now that most of the major OS's support most of the 'essential' apps that most people want, the platform difference is just not a relevant factor any more (who cares if one app store has 2,000,000 apps and the other only has 10,000 as long as both have the 10 or so you actually want ?)

Maggie Thatcher: The Iron Lady who saved us from drab Post Office mobes

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Without Thacher

Just think, if Thatcher had never existed we would all be millionaires.

Admittedly that would be because we would have had 25% inflation for the last 30 years though......

Japanese boffins READ YOUR DREAMS with MRI

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Basic things...

"At present, the system is apparently limited to detecting only very basic classes of objects which the dreamers visualise – “building”, “food”, “car”, "porn with donkeys" etc......"

BSkyB punters drown in MASSIVE MYSTERY Yahoo! mail! migration!

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Re: migrating or copying emails?

As in my other post above - the e-mails that are being re-downloaded are not ones where the user has set the POP client to leave them on the server after download - they are ones that have been supposedly downloaded and deleted but which were actually moved to an 'All Mail' folder instead of deleting them and which have then been re-downloaded after the transfer to yahoo (but ironically are not visible at all on the yahoo web client interface).

This 'All Mail' folder in google mail is not specifically hidden but is not at all obvious unless you go looking for it on the web access interface for the google mail client (so people who always access via a POP client will never even suspect it exists, whether they have set the client to delete from the server on download or not).

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Re: RTFM

Not actually the case. I use Sky e-mail via POP (why ? because their IMAP service sucked arse also but that's for another day) and had the e-mails set to be left if they were checked by one of the mobile devices (phones etc) but deleted when my main PC downloaded them.

Google, however, decided that what I meant by 'delete' was actually 'move to another folder called 'All Mail' which you can only actually find by searching through sub-menus and contains every e-mail you ever received or sent from this account and then keep them for slightly longer than the human race is expected to exist'.

It is this normally unseen folder that is being re-downloaded when the changeover happens - so the normal user checking their google account online would see an empty inbox just before the transfer then get everything ever (including, amusingly, shit that google had filtered out as spam without even letting your POP client see it at all) downloading to their POP client but still not visible on the new Yahoo account online.

So overall, a really well executed plan......

'Pong' ported to 29-storey skyscraper 'screen'

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When will architects realise.......

......that modern buildings need to be designed with a minimum of 1600x1200 resolution to enjoy proper giant gaming ?

'Proactive Wellness' rebranded as 'Infosight' by Nimble

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Re: Steroids

http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Stew-Roids

Buff Stewie, that's why.

Microsoft begins automatic Windows 7 SP1 rollout

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Re: its proper tedius...

*Teadeearse.

Holly(oaks) talking head is FUTURE of face messaging, claims prof

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"The team is now looking for guinea pigs to test the system"

I'm not sure that many guinea pigs have 'phones......

My chinchilla Jeff might be interested, though. I'll ask him when I get home (although he does have a record of attempting to consume consumer electronics).

Bottomless, unsatisfied Xbox widow cuffed after boyf flees nookie

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Re: I Vote

Fugly ? No, I would say a bit further down the scale, possibly 'Swamp Donkey' or even 'Horse Worryingly Ugly'.....

Don't buy a Google car: They might stop it while you're driving

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Evilism

Once again I am astonished and dissapointed at the rampant level of Evilism displayed on ElReg's comments.

Us evil people are still people too, you know ! All this anti-evil rhetoric is enough to make me want to retreat into my volcano lair*.......

*and plan your untimely demise.**

**as usual.

Boeing outlines fix for 787 batteries

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'losing batter power'

....with terrible consequences for the on-board fish 'n' chips shop......

IT chiefs choose Choose-YOD over full fat BYOD for now

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Re: CYOD over BYOD

Exactly, it's like a company car scheme. The employee gets a widget / car they would not otherwise be able to afford and the company still essentially spends the same as they would have anyway on widgetry / transport.

So financially for the company it's no different but for the employee it's an attactive bonus to continued loyalty to the company (i.e. if you leave the job, your phone / car goes too).

US national vulnerability database hacked

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Are you claiming there has been some sort of whitewash ?

Groupon deal spam slapped by Australian regulator

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"just what Groupon Australia will do with your email address"

Does it say "sell it to every fucker in the world ever" ?

Applications to run more white-space Local TV stations invited

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OK, this is our last chance.

We must now all unite in our dream of bringing back topless darts.

Ancient revellers came to party... and build Stonehenge - boffins

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Elephant in the room....

The fact that there were 50,000 bone fragments from 63 bodies suggests to me that there is a very obvious conclusion that seems to have been missed:

Stonehenge was where prehistoric britons used to go to explode.

Obvious really.

How UK gov's 'growth' measures are ALREADY killing the web

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Re: Indeed

I've never understood the point of Bristol either.

'We the People' seek to double NASA budget – at least

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Re: Money to burn

If we are basing how much government investment sould go into an industry on it's contribution to technology then how about :

High speed internet - porn industry.

Good video compression - porn industry.

3D video - porn industry.

Mass storage - porn industry.

World's 'smallest' mobe unveiled in Japan

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Re: It's been a long time...

I thought 'a la mode' meant 'with a blob of ice cream'.....

Congratulations, copyright infringers: You are the five per cent

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Re: The customer defines value

Absolutely. The truth is that in the modern world, an album or movie is simply not worth £10-20 a pop. The market needs to adjust to this reality and come to terms with it. Being a sucessful rock star or movie producer does not mean you should automatically be a millionaire (although as with most other similar industries, being an unsucessful one does mean you should be dirt poor).

Yes, more freetards go down the free / illegal route because it's consequence free but I suspect that it would be significanlty reduced by having a service that only costs ~£10 a month and gave you access to everything you wanted.

It needs to be easy, convenient and cheap otherwise the legal paid model will never outcompete the illegal one.

Samsung's next smartphone to scroll by watching your eyes

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That's not how I read.....

It might be just me, but when I read something off the screen (whether it be 'phone or monitor) I tend to keep my eyes pretty much on the center of the screen and scroll the text past them as I read, my eyes only tend to go to the bottom of the page when it has reached the bottom of it's scroll range, so I'm not sure how this would work out.....

Welsh bureaucrats busted for getting political on Twitter, Facebook

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That's why....

....I save all my really controversial views for ElReg comments......

Tito's Mars mission to use HUMAN WASTE as radiation shield

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Solar Flare !

"Captain ! NASA reports a large solar flare heading our way."

"Quickly, break out the bran flakes, we need to shore up the shielding..."

Storage glitch sends Curiosity into safe mode

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Re: Only one man can save it now!

Gordon's Alive ?

SpaceX Dragon eventually snared by ISS

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Station Commander......

...Kevin Ford commented "Thank Christ for that ! I've been touching cloth since last Thursday but we ran out of space bog roll....."

Now even MORE 'interns' make iPhones - Chinese labour watchdog

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Re: Lessons for us to learn...

Universities teach Geology as a BA now ?

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Lessons for us to learn...

I think a 3 month stint working in a sweat shop factory would be of great benefit for most of our degree candidates - as an employer at least you would know that they had gained 3 months of worthwhile experience during their 3 year BA course.....

Air-to-ground rocket men flog top-secret mobe-crypto to Brad in accounts

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Re: James Bond..

James Bond would use whatever 'phone the sponsors of the latest mission are touting, surely ?

World+Dog don't care about climate change, never have done

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NORCs

Fnarr.

Review: Britain's 4G smartphones

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Not until the competition is out......

Let's face it, anyone taking on a 4G contract (especially over 24 months) before the other carriers launch their 4G services is kerayzee. The comedy 500Mb cap on a £31 pm contract will be gone as soon as EE have any actual competition and anyone stuck on one of those contracts will surely be kicking their early adopting selves.

The handset costs will also fall exponentially as the actual addition of 4G ability to an existing design is a fairly trivial and low cost process so plenty of 4G handsets will be available subsidised on £20-25 pm contracts too.

British, Belgian boffins battle buffering bandwidth bogeyman

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Re: Kitten Porn

...or porn for kittens, involving kittens.

Hmmm...I'm sensing a market gap here.

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Some percentages*

Gamers - 1%

Vid-oip users - 1%

Kitten Fanciers - 4%

Porn Fanciers - 93.9%

Kitten Porn Fanciers - 0.1%**

*I just made up

**A small but vocal minority.

Review finds Wikipedia UK board needs major leadership overhaul

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Re: Chapters?

Also Space Marines (TM).....

Higgs hunt halts as CERN prepares LHC upgrades

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..single fault in an electrical connection between two adjacent magnets..

"Some gaffer tape fell off".

Kiwi Coroner says Coca-Cola helped kill woman

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Boffin

Re: Diabetes

Kind of correctish....

Type I diabetes is caused by a failure to produce insulin in the pancreas (as you desribe). This is usually diagnosed early in life (at puberty or thereabouts) as this is when the pancreas starts to be more stressed and gives up the ghost.

Type II diabetes is caused by (still not that well understood) failures in the insulin receptors on other cells of the body (notably fat, muscle and liver cells) so whilst the pancreas is still producing plenty of insulin, the body is not reacting to it appropriately (later on you can get insulin production falling off but this is more often than not caused by the individuals' natural pancreatic insulin production being suppressed by the treatment insulin they are taking to supplement their natural production as a consequence of their diabetes).

Both types are exacerbated by poor diet and high wapness but neither are caused by them.

The refinedness or lack thereof of sugar intake is somewhat irrelevant other than refined sugar can usually be consumed in greater quantities than other types as it is more concentrated and quickly absorbed into the blood (e.g. you only have to drink a liter of coke to get the same sugar as 4 apples and the apple sugar is absorbed over 1-2 hours instead of the coke sugar's 15-30 minutes) - the height of the peak blood sugar level attained after eating is what causes all the problems arising from diabetes.

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Boffin

Re: Diabetes

She probably avoided diabetes by not having a genetic tendency to developing diabetes.

Diabetes is not a disease that you catch from a high sugar intake or from being a fat fuck.

It is a disease that you are genetically pre-disposed to develop but (in the case of type II diabetes) has varying severity. The level of severity is adversely affected by your sugar intake and level of wappitude so it is perfectly possible for two otherwise identical individuals (with a genetic tendency* to type II diabetes) to have different levels of compromise from the condition - one with a 'healthy' diet and active lifestyle may never notice the condition whereas one with a coke 'n' couch** lifestyle may well be crippled by diabetic side effects from an early age.

However, a person with none of the genetic predisposition to diabetes can chod down on as much sweet sweet sugar as they like and never develop diabetes.

* I say genetic tendency because it is a multi-factorial inheritance aetiology so you also get variation in severity from person to person depending on which out of the various factors they have in their genome.

**Choice of champions.

Ask Google this impossible question, get web filth as a reward

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Re: There's porn? On the interwebs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbfCy1r0v4c

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Re: Either that, or,

Surely it's just the equivalent of the (already self aware, let's face it) google servers saying:

"That thing you serached for does not exist, but this is what pretty much everybody else is looking at on the internet at the moment so I presume you will want to see it too...."

Spotted: Android 4.2.2 update for Google Nexus devices

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Mine's still 7.5.....

...on my Lumia 710.

Although I may not have read the article properly.......

Vertu-alised Android revealed at an all-too-real €7,900

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Re: <probably mistaken pedant>

Nm is the unit for torque and it's being used to describe how stiff the case is to flexion i.e. they twist it with a force of 500Nm and the corner moves less than 1mm.

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Re: $10,600 = 53 x $200

Surely they would be better spending $1000 ona shotgun and shooting the horse.

Also make some money back flogging the carcass* to Tesco.

*Insert flogging dead horse pun here

Love in the time of the internet: A personal memoir

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Happy

So...

....who's up for a good hard shag ?

( I'll even bring my own goose fat )

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