* Posts by Martin-73

1692 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Oct 2013

Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts

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Re: Blending

the aol cd will be in the tin full of crumbs

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Re: Blending

same same, the young are called hoppers, and all locusts like 60w lightbulbs :)

Climate change means beer made from sewer water, says North Carolina brewery

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Re: Been done before

To me carlsberg tastes of wet cardboard

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Wouldn't put me off

However i'd be interested to hear if the treatment process has been modified in some way to reduce/eliminate excreted pharmaceuticals....

It's crazy but it's true: Apple rejected Bing for wrong answers about Annie Lennox

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Re: I wouldn’t be too sure about that

colleague is an idevice user and exclusively uses Waze

EU users can't update 3rd party iOS apps if abroad too long

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Re: I hope they get sued out of existance

The IRS are weirdos with no jurisdiction

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Apple turns out to be evil

Video whenever. I really want this company to just learn that their tactics are not acceptable

Apple may have made itself a target before the EU's Digital Markets Act comes into force

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Not a good week for evil is it?

Sorry, typo, i meant 'Apple', not evil, naturally

UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings

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Explain to me

when the AI (whichever one it is) did its medical training and became a General Practitioner)

no? I'll wait, till then, my GP's letters had better damned well be signed by her

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Re: Ah yes, Mr Hunt...

I still don't think that was accidental :)

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Finance minister?

You mean Chancellor of the Exchequer

Know your roots, el reg, resist the yankification

Cops visit school of 'wrong person's child,' mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail

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Re: Plus ça change

yeah the 'i know my rights' brigade need to learn 'they're rights, not you have to enforce them with your phalluses

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Re: Plus ça change

I was once detained because of a similar address and name to a suspect. Despite being a teenager and not 'in his late 50s'. The cop who what we'd now call 'dearrested*' me was scathing about the IQ of the constable making the detention

*wasn't called arresting back then, you were detained till officially told 'you are under arrest', this distinction is important to make for future travel plans

Please stop pouring the wrong radioactive water into the sea, Fukushima operator told

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Re: But it' s safe!

isn't the baltic an ocean tho?

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A lot of it is C-14 yes, but in the fly ash, heavier elements are concentrated, sometimes to a detectable degree. But it's all relatively harmless

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I have heard it told one can extract DHMO from children by destructive distillation

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Re: my first chemistry set

And yet you tried. It's funny because it's a defence mechanism by those 'john does' who are 'pro science' but sick of idiots. Signed, John Doe

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Mushroom

I remember reading about this in the 80s, at school. The fly ash from some forms of coal burning is so radioactive it would set off alarms at nuclear power stations. it was at this time I stopped listening to 'nuclear power==bad' stories. Things like this feckup don't help the rest of the public trust nuclear.

Icon: how most of the great unwashed see nuclear power, still :(

OpenAI tries to trademark 'GPT'. US patent office says nope

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Re: GPT?

Yep that is precisely what I came here to say

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

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Re: What a strange position to defend.

Yes, but don't call me Shirley! :)

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Facepalm

What a strange position to defend.

Even if they genuinely did believe the chatbot was not 'their agent' (due to some incapacity in the cerebellums of their legal team), choosing to fight a bereaved person is ...a bad move, shirley

European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal

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Re: Well good thing the UK had Brexit

Absolutely agreed, Be careful who you point it out ABOUT mind you, or you could have some ranty person in the media accusing you of all sorts

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Re: Well good thing the UK had Brexit

Unofficial channels are all that's available when the 'official channels' are shut down by a government that is, in itself, illegal

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Re: Well good thing the UK had Brexit

I believe home office recommendations in cases where local laws may be different, is to claim the passport stolen, and then get a new one that way

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Re: Well good thing the UK had Brexit

I was one of the upvotes, guessing the downvotes were from those who didn't see the icon :)

Flipper Zero takes to the big screen

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Re: Those money-grab prequels are out of control

the bugger pushed em

with flippers

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Re: Those money-grab prequels are out of control

yeah honestly that was my first wtf reaction to this headline. gaming console... 1977 called

The rise and fall of the standard user interface

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Re: Motif?

can confirm win 11 does this too

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Re: First time I have heard of the CUA for decades

Never understood why the chrome developers were incapable of developing a menu bar

Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission

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This too!

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Yet

another reason for not using a microshaft (yes i am reusing that 90sism, because it's appropriate) account, even if it's painful not to. I am really not sure if they are totally clueless or totally evil. Or... [need icon of the why not both girl]

Post Office threatened to sue Fujitsu over missing audit data

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Re: It a wonder why this happens

missing comma made it ambiguous but you got it, for clarification, 'it wasn't merely plausible, they absolutely KNEW, fujitsu engineers were screaming about it.

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The post office is or was govt owned at the time. UK govt is synonymous with incompetent wankers

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Re: It a wonder why this happens

yes but it's not plausible they KNEW

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The government and post office should be declared null and void and deported to Rwanda, but that is not really an option, the Rwandans have suffered enough

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Re: It a wonder why this happens

These people need to be charged with malicious prosecution. They KNEW the system was faulty, this is documented. Saying 'oh i didn't know' is called bloody perjury!

Home improvement marketers dial up trouble from regulator

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Re: smart meter

If i find live power at the input of a smart meter, and nothing on the output,, i will install a calibrated check meter, and ask the 'metering company' where to mail their malfunctioning POS

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Re: It's a start

Smart meter scammers are to be pitied though, they seem to think smart meters are an improvement, which shows low intelligence

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Bournemouth again

There seems to be a nest of scammers in that town, maybe just one who is prolific, but bournemouth seems to be the source of a hugely disproportionate number of phone scams. some piece of crap took my 90 year old mother for 165 quid for (get this) a device to prevent scam phonecalls... a device that turned up with RJ11 connectors, thus utterly unusable in the UK. Had to threaten to drive down there and break the door in to get a refund. (yes really).

I bet this turns out to be the same scamming bastage

Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump?

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that is not a bad idea, i usually end up tearing the keys off

Israel to plow $3.2B into $25B Intel fab project

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ah that makes sense

USA funds terrorist govt in middle east, terrorist govt feeds back money to US corporation. Happy new year, same as the old year

Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?

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Re: Just let us use Windows as an operating system

Ah yes, i spotted that too, i suspect the kissmoose season is upon is... merry whatever you do and do not celebrate to one and all

Superuser mostly helped IT, until a BSOD saw him invent a farcical fix

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Re: Management material

Holy bloody shit, that explains so much about ofsted... it sounds horribly similar to so much under this regime :( self regulation DOES NOT WORK, ONE BAD APPLE WILL RUIN IT ALL

Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?

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Re: This is why I prefer unrestricted offline-capabilities

have a christmas pint for mentioning GOG. Reasonably priced (VERY reasonably) and as you say, drm free, you own it*

*yes i know not legally but the law is an ass

Biden urged to do something about Europe 'unfairly' targeting American tech

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Nobody move

I dropped the world's smallest violin....

To BCC or not to BCC – that is the question data watchdog wants answered

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VERY common with NHS stuff

A lot of NHS community type stuff (such as a diabetes group I am signed up for on behalf of my mother) is now done on a voluntary or semi voluntary basis. About 2 or 3 times a year i get one where the lady running it has used CC instead of BCC, and she has to report herself each time. You may be inclined to blame the user, but she's an elderly volunteer. I blame the organization that hasn't provided her with foolproof tools to do the job.

Openreach hits halfway mark in quest to hook up 25M premises with fiber broadband

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Re: Copper

Yep there's literal TONS of lead sheathed paper insulated still in the ground, some actually still in use, despite OR's claims otherwise. (I believe the actual engineers over the hype)

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Re: Still looks awfully patchy

Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of us left :( I'm one of them... no plans for FTTP in our exchange area. We have Toob available, but I want to stick with A&A, so their FTTP is useless to me