* Posts by Simon B

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Google recaptures $761 from Facebook nemesis

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back hander in court?

As usual big boys are favoured in court, back handers????

McAfee downplays service pack fail

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5 days to find out there was a problem?!!!

The software update was issued on 27 May and pulled on 2 June, after problems occurred.

You're telling me it took 5 days before it was apparent something wasn't right?? It SHOULD have been about 24 hours!

Spectral Spector Twitterer admits hoax

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Hoax gets my thumbs up :)

Well Mr not Phil, I liked your approach to it all. Life is too short for all the crap it throws at us and I'm glad some people still have a sense of humor!

UK2 brings support back to Blighty, culls execs

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Shakje: Are UK2 any good at hosting? Answer: YES!

Are UK2 any good at hosting? By Shakje:

I can confirm they are. I use them for work and have worked incredibly well for about 8 years or more. For that reason over 5 years ago I used them to host websites form myself and a club I am with. Again always reliable and rarely down.

Email support I used recently and was painless and the issues was sorted quickly. In the past I tried to call but got a rather blunt twat at the other end that I would have loved to just belt.

UK2 are expensive compared to others, but I don;t mind paying for the reliability, and ease of use of the whole package.

Non-beta Google betas may lose beta tags

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We’re going to figure out a way to fix that - Not fking difficult is it!

"We’re going to deal with that very soon. We’re going to figure out a way to fix that," said Google Docs product manager Jonathan Rochelle, according to IDG News Service.

Pay me a few thousand and I'll figure it out really efficiently for you. It's complicated mind you, you have to REMOVE the WORD "beta". There you go, I "figured out a way to fix that".

WTF do they get these idiots from? google is full of them!!!

Tory who claimed brother's tech gear on expenses quits

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Lock all the thieving bastards up

Lock all the thieving bastards up. Less talk more action FFS.

Clickfree Traveler SSD

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Use a memory stick - it's cheaper!

16G for £80 ?!!! WTF is wrong with a memory stick? I bought an 8G one for about a tenner! and it's just as portable. Just a pointless gimmic.

Microsoft's Google challenger is not a search engine

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Complexifying simplicity!

"The company in the 1990s based its work on simplifying complexity through the interface or through integration of software ..."

And now it Complexifies simplicity!

SATA Revision 3.0 released

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SATA3 - none of THEIR confusing names

SATA3 is a much better name. When I but a motherboard or HD I want to know what "revision" SATA and USB it has. USB's full speed, high speed & super speed meets bollox all to me, even now! USB, USB2 & USB3 however I completely understand. What speed? Who cares! all i'm bothered about is buying A USB2 as it's faster than USB, I don;t give a monkeys what the speed actually is, I can find that out if I really need it.

Any now SATA is going the same way, If someone says do you want SATA2gb or 4GB, I'll say is that SATA1 and 3?, 1&2?, 2&3? as THAT'S what i'm bothered about!

As for them saying SATA2 confuses people what bollox! SATA 2gb confuses us! we want to know what version/revision we are using. OK so we COULD say SATA revision 3, but like EVERYTHING it will get shortened to save type saying it or writing it, so it STILL will end up being SATA3 !!!! Try doing some real life real people research!

Little guy trampled in meaty WEEE overhaul

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DoBERR ?

Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform =

DOBERR.

I can think of a better name!

Microsoft bails out of European competition hearing

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wot no title?

"Windows 7 is expected to come with a button to switch off Internet Explorer"

So does XP, it's called deleting the shortcut from the desktop and anywhere I can see it in he start menu!

Police force eBay scammer to cough up ill-gotten gains

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Who's the thief here?

Sounds to me like the courts and police what locking up for theft, who do they think they are? politicians?!!!!!

Unsafe at any speed: Memcpy() banished in Redmond

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Error checking anybody? ffs how difficult is it!

"Its drawback comes when the source to be copied contains more bytes than its destination, creating overflows" Dumb ass who invented this language then, never heard of error checking? WTF can't C- - go "source file" meet "destination", is destination big enough? yes? carry on! no? sorry, can't do that. Not fucking brain surgery is it. Why is it simple things called error checking are never part of programming languages?

Beeb tech boss seeks to expand TV licence online

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They talk about fairness, how about those who DONT want BigBadCrap?

He rabbits on about not giving us a free ride, I agree, WTF should the BBC have a free ride? If I don't WANT to watch BBC's crap WTF should I be FORCED to pay for it? I watch sky, ITV, etc etc, I PAY for the channels I WANT, I PAY for the BBC SEPERATELY when I DONT WANT IT!

Fuck off BBC

Dell punts £199 10in netbook

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£279 with XP and a PROPER HD? same as most others then!

8G SSD is neither use nor ornament. If you'd rather have XP, you can select the next model up. It's priced at £279 and includes a 160GB HDD, making it cost pretty much the same as all other cheapy netbooks!

Nothing to see here.

Doro PhoneEasy 338gsm

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how much?!!!

£100 for a childs play phone?? For £30 I can get a half decent motorola pay as you go! For something so basic they should have priced it basic, and at a price obtainable by dear old gran too!

Court upholds 'hacking' charge against smut-surfing worker

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Hacking?! wtf?!!

Using the designated computer supplied during your designated work hours at your designated desk using your designated login username and password is hacking because .... ?? errr cus the dumb USA law says that if you are doing something other than work you 're hacking. I wonder how many millions of hackers there are in the hacker crime state of USA, hmmmm time to stop playing minesweeper I think!! ROFL ROFL ROFL

Gordon Ramsay breaches f**king broadcasting code

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Simple solution - if you don't like it, then don't fucking watch it!!!!

Simple solution - if you don't like it, then don't fucking watch it!!!! Moaning dick heads unite.

IBM files patent for shorter meetings

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IBM, you'll save LOTS of time by packing up and going home!

IBM, you'll save LOTS of time by packing up and going home! With stupid ideas like this it's time to call it a day and give up.

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And just in, Paris Hilton is running IBM ...

And just in, Paris Hilton is running IBM ...

Swedish chopper chief demands fireproof bras

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WTF causes such heat so close when u fly a plane? The control stick??!!

"You can not have anything close to the body that can be set alight when you are flying." WTF would generate such heat when you are supposed to be F L Y I N G ??? You're not supposed to be having a ciggie or cooking on your portable gas stove, get flying!!

Asda clamps down on killer teaspoons

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Beaten with an apple!

the lady shopper in question was told by an Asda assistant that she'd have to prove her age "because someone had murdered someone with a teaspoon, and therefore ID was now required".

And what happens when someone is beaten with an apple, or a ream of paper, or a box of washing powder .. they may as well class the whole shopping trip as 18+ only. Nobs!!!

Microsoft’s Silverlight 3 delivers decent alternative to Adobe

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Silverlight = re inventing the wheel?

Surely Silverlight is re inventing the wheel? Why is this news?

Apple bars 2.0 code from App Store

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and u know what the programmers will end up doing

"Millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers will move to iPhone OS 3.0 this summer"

And I'm sure millions of programmers will say fuck it! and go elsewhere

Tesco tills go titsup

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Vista downgrade overnight?

Did they downgrade to Vista????

Too much sunshine makes you commit suicide

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complete contradition. Do YOU have a suicide light bulb??

"A study of suicides in Greenland has found that suicide rates increase sharply in summer"

Survey contraction? There have been many surveys telling us that during dark winter months people get depressed; there's even a condition now medically recognised but the name fails me. And there are daylight treatments and daylight bulbs to perk us all up! (sucide bulbs??) Depression is a cause of suicide, and many suicide at xmas which again is DARK. So we have to live in semi light semi dark to be happy????

Exam bosses target faster cheat takedowns

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Try just keeping the questions more secure to start with!!!! pratts

Pratts, I've a much simpler way. PROTECT the exam sheets better ffs!!! I.E. don;t leave them on a train/bus/car/open drawer/posted on a notice board blah blah blah ...

Windows 7 promises better SSD-ing performance than Vista

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Good idea! shame they can't do the bleeding obvious things too!

Why is it they can THINK and come up with clever things all on there own, yet they can't do the "bleeding obvious" things, like not to hide file extensions!!!!

Win 7 RC fails to thwart well-known hacker risk

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How SLOW are m$ at learning?????!!!

Can't microsoft LEARN faster? or LISTEN more? This has been a problem for years ffs. Give Windoze to Paris to program!!

Skinn-Eee Asus out next week

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None user replacable battery? definitely a mac product!!

None user replacable battery? yep, definitely a mac product!!

Apple power brick sparks lawsuit

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apple = crap hardware & m$ = crap software?

Is it me or are apple getting as much bad press about hardware as micrsoft do about software?!!! So much for the apple name!

Microsoft: Don't rush to download Windows 7 RC

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Daft question - Can I not just change the clocks date???

So if I change my clock to the correct date but year 2000 I have 10 years of usage for free? coooooooooooool! Coat needed??

Apple drives iPhone app developers to the brink

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Apple carew nothing for customers and EVERYTHING for MONEY

Apple have no interest in ANY of its customers, only grabbing money from what I've seen over the last few years, they just don't care. I can now say that Microsoft are BETTER than them!!!!! -faints-

BOFH: Spontaneous Legal Combustion

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Where's episode 5??

Just checked the BOFH archive and confirmed that episode 5 of 2009 is missing!!!! Has the BOFH deleted it, shredded the only print out of it and wiped all archive records of it???

Will CA's stringent roadmap come back to haunt it?

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I like CA ... shocking !!

I like CA, maybe i'm a minority, buying software like CA AV is crap as can never buy in punds as it always reverts back to dollars while choosing my product! but the software is good and not bloatware like Norton. Arcserve not used in a millenia but even back then it was pretty good at what it did.

USAF slammed for pranging Predators on manual

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What's this button do? ...

DUUUUUUUH what's this button do? ..... CRASSSHHHHHHHH!!!

Pudsey Bear refused UK passport

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discimination - sue the discriminate bastards

That's discrimination. There are many humerous names, many by accident; i.e. Mr Charlie Brown, Mr Ty Neville Weener (TINY WEENER) etc. Sue them for discrimination. The name is legally accepted.

Web 0.2 archivists save Geocities from deletion

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love the article formatting :)

"In honor of the dearly departing web host, we'll continue in a more suitable format"

Loved it! Especially the "web ring" and the dated netscape info.

Most amusing and deff brought a smile :0

Swedish factory fined $3,000 for robot attack

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What an idiot!!

The dickhead should have made sure the machine was disconnected, what an idiot!!

Intel says new PCs will cost you nothing

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utter tosh!

"According to Crooke, the bulk of the savings in the PCs without VPro - Intel's remote-management and maintenance technology - come from reduced support costs and out-of-warranty repair costs of aging PCs."

Ummmm bull! ... a PC breaks down, it's 6 years old, needs a new cpu .. trash it gwt a new pc. Cost of support ... NIL as it didnl;t need any support for he last 6 years. Out of warranty repair costs? why? it's OLD! it's cheaper to replace than get out of waranty repairs, not brain surgery to figure that one out!

"he also cited an interesting figure from the study: that four-year-old PCs have a 53 per cent higher "security incident rate" than do new PCs, and that a three year-old PC has a 30 per cent higher rate."

More bull!!! My 6 year old pc runs the EXACT SAME o/s as a brand new pc (be it vista or xp) and therefore is no less secure! In fact it's more secure as it doen't have usb ports on the front!

Where DO they get this crap from??!!!

Carphone Warehouse resolves union site ambiguity

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CarPhone WareHouse can treat them like crap again now

CarPhone WareHouse are silencing the masses, they can now treat then all like crap as the employees have no backup anymore.

Homer Simpson 'nuclear waste spill' panic at nuke sub base!

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The usual Tabloid Bollox

As usual - Tabloid Media Bollox - That's why I DON'T read newspapers. I'm happy sticking to TheRegister online :)

Pink-slipped sysadmin admits to threatening ex-employer's network

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zzz enter a zzz title zzz u don't want zzzz here zzzzz

What a tit

Cameron: Give the UK's health records to Google

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Surely Google would just sell ALL your data?

Surely Google would just sell ALL your data? Then you can get viagra pill pusher spam becasue according to your sold medical records you DO need it!

Boffins dream up Sleeptalking PC standby-mode tech

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Good idea!

Simple but a good idea! Nice :)

Revealed: Mega City One's top e-car - according to Peugeot

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It has THREE wheels and ONE seat, it's a TRIKE! not a car ffs!

e-car my arse, it has 3 wheels and 1 seat, it's an e-trike!!!!!

Private ID scans leave fetish club-goers feeling exposed

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secure - honest - no really ... sound familiar?

My interpretion:

In the case of the SEOne set-up, a spokesman told us that:

only senior management can access it = Anyone higher than a bouncer can access it.

tinformation on the system is password-protected = Password is probably "password"!

Equipment is removed from the front door when the club is shut and locked in a secure place. = The janitors cupboard with the cheap lock on it.

'Miracle' bra saves Detroit woman from robber's bullet

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BRA-VO!

BRA-VO!

It's US vs Europe as world e-car plug standard race nears end

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USA different than the world again ... nothing new there!

USA HAS to be different as per usual, or have I got the wrong end of the plug .. BZZZTTTTTT!

Tree huggers will confuse shoppers, says Amazon

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Amazon get a life will you!!

Amazon, ffs grow up and get a life! Like anyone will get confused. Should Microsoft sue EVERYONE with websites starting MICRO?! Honestly Amazon, I thought you were better, stop acting like other big boy muppets, and find your brain again. All this does is show a petty pathetic side to Amazon, reallllllly good advertising that!!

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