* Posts by Colin 22

20 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Nov 2012

You've just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription

Colin 22

Re: Yet another bloody cloud device

Fritz!Box routers support WireGuard and the company has a good record of updating the OS on existing hardware

How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer

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Re: Ah.. the joy...

Not just Devon, Somerset too!

Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone

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Re: “Re-wilding”

Japan's tolerance for radiation level is so low, that is applied in the UK, large areas would be off-limits due to the natural radiation from the granite - Dartmoor, Bodmin moor and the Highlands for starters

Whoop! Robot/human high-fives all round! Oh, my fingers have disintegrated

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AI suggestions

My personal favourite was having just purchased a shed (Yes, I'm getting to the stage in life), was "here are other sheds you might like to buy. How many sheds does the AI think I need? (Correct answer is "one more")

Desperate Nominet chairman claims member vote to fire him would spark British government intervention

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IIRC, during that time Belgium had the best GDP growth figures in the whole EU. They did far better without a government than with one

Amazon spies on staff, fires them by text for not hitting secretive targets, workers 'feel forced to work through pain, injuries' – report

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Re: I'm glad...

IIRC, in the UK warehouse staff have to be paid for the time waiting for security checks - I think this was one the Mike Ashley'd Sports Direct lost

Struggling company pleads with landlords to slash rents as COVID-19 batters UK high street. The firm's name? Apple

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You are the landlord, via your pension

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Re: Mega corps such as Apple ...

In the UK most shopping centres are owned by pension funds, so not mega cops, but indirectly by you and I.

911, I wanna report a robbery. Hundreds of thousands of stars stolen from a cluster. I think it was the Milky Way

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Re: Light years not a measure of distance

you are a manfrommars and I claim my £5

I was screwed over by Cisco managers who enforced India's caste hierarchy on me in US HQ, claims engineer

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Re: How did they learn he was Dalit?

when I was told the story, the guy in question was Jewish, so an even more farcical follow up question - but that may just have been to make the joke better

As Uncle Sam flies spy drones over protest-packed cities, Homeland Security asks the public if that's a good idea

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Remember, "Yes Minister" is a documentary, not a comedy

Devon County Council techies: WE KNOW IT WASN'T YOU!

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Re: aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddddd that's why....

If you want to see the English language really take a beating - spelling mistakes and punctuation errors - read an OFSTEAD report, usually when complaining about the teaching of English.

Ex-TalkTalk chief grilled by MPs on suitability to chair NHS Improvement

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Re: I was at an event, recently, where it was mentioned...

Not hear-say, but given as evidence to a house of commons select committee!

Why Uber isn't the poster child for capitalism you wanted

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Re: Black cabs vs minicabs vs Uber...

There are two balanced articles on unherd.com; one pro-Uber, one against. Well worth a read. It is always good to read an opinion that you disagree with

Chrome 56 quietly added Bluetooth snitch API

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Re: aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddddd that's why....

Firefox can and have been able to for some time. However, the default behaviour is that this is switched off.

Bitcoin fixes a Greek problem – but not the Greek debt problem

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Re: QE

I have wondered if PPI is the nearest the UK will get to implimenting "Helecopter Money"

Hotel Wi-Fi not only hideously expensive – it's horribly insecure

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Re: There are precisely three WiFi networks ...

Happened to me, no pub related searches/directions. I my case it wss O2 in the UK when they first brought in filters

Another GDS cockup: Rural Payments Agency cans £154m IT system

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yes minister

I think the RPA and the land registry featured in a "Yes, Minister" episode from the first series. That was in the early 80s. So more proof "Yes' Minister" was a documentary rather than comedy.

First Irish boy band U2. Now Apple pushes ANOTHER thing into iPhones, iPods, iPads

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webOS had a similar fate...

And, at the risk of getting ridiculed, webOS, which is still a more pleasant interface than the current offerings

FOlA judges: Secret 28 who made the BBC Green will not be named

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names now available

the list of names published on Guido Faukes blog (www.order-order.com)