* Posts by Trigonoceps occipitalis

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Why so tax-shy, big tech firms? – Bank of England governor

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"I suspect handing over company money to the taxman (or anyone else for that matter) when it is not owed could likely be a breach of fiduciary duty."

Didn't Starbucks voluntarily had over some £10sM tax? Presumably the hope was that we would forget about the billions that had been double Dutch sandwiched or Luxembourg pork pied away and any small boycott forgotten, thus increasing shareholder value.

US military finds F-35 software is a buggy mess

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Re: Biplanes

And don't forget Taranto.

‘Whatever happened to Vladimir Putin?’ and other crap New Year prophesies

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Re: Y2k

Don't forget the "2000 is a leap year" problem. This was the only one that actually had a minor effect on a small portion of my IT estate.

The appointment booking program allowed bookings to be made for Feb 29 but on Feb 29 rolled over to Mar 1.

REGARD our TINY but POWERFUL LASER, suitable for very SMALL sharks

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Re: The Meme is dead....

Stickleback with a frikin' laser on its head!

UK's landmark mobile not-spot deal already falling apart

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Gimp

Re: I could never understand..

cf. Network Rail and the train operating companies, look how well that works out.

Sick of these new dot-words? Join the .club – it's the only one challenging .com

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Everyone remains confident that 2015 will be the year of new internet domains.

And Linux on the desktop.

New York side-eyes California's hack attack laws: I'll have what she's having

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Safe Harbour

Tick the attorney general's boxes and reveal what you like at no cost.

NSA: SO SORRY we backed that borked crypto even after you spotted the backdoor

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Cammeron Crypto Ban

Now I see. The commercial crypto systems are so borked that I am pleased that he has banned them. I can't place any reliance on them so can't now be caught out when banking, buying, investing, etc.

TERROR in SPACE: ISS 'NAUTS FLEE 'gas leak' to Russian module

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Re: You can't get to there from here

They'd have to do a bit of CGI. Like in films.

FTFY

Anonymous vows to avenge Charlie Hebdo massacre by blitzing jihadist sites

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Re: Intelligence

Triumph of hope over experience.

World's largest ship swallows 900 MEGATINS of baked beans

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I don't know.

I do know that if I laid all the worms in an acre of top soil in a straight line one would wriggle and spoil it all.

Get your special 'sound-optimising' storage here, hipsters

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Re: Where do I get one?

But if you have a really crap set up the noise will turn some of the 1 bits into 0 bit, and viky verky. The answer, of course, is not to improve the quality but make it really, really crap so that all the 1 bits are turned into 0 bits, and viky verky. Then just move left speaker to the right and right speaker to the left.

7.1 systems are more complicated and I can't go into that here.

I am available for audio consultancy work, weddings and Bar Mitzvahs.

Ford recalls SUVs … to fix the UI

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Re: Push-button gear change? Really?

Quite right. In the mid 80s the advice was to avoid red cars because they had an insurance loading. The theory was that the colour was aggressive and if you made a mistake or just took a chance the other drivers ceased to be mild mannered Clark Kents.

End well: this won't. European Copyright Society wants one EU law to rule 'em all

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"Worked terrifically for the British empire ... "

In many cases the natives were left to govern themselves within a fairly liberal moral/legal outline.

BONK for CASH in Brixton and help us EAT the RICH

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Re: I deal with it the same way...

"Scottish Banknotes are legal currency – i.e. they are approved by the UK Parliament. However, Scottish Bank notes are not Legal Tender, not even in Scotland."

See:

http://www.scotbanks.org.uk/legal_position.php

Ofcom snatches 700MHz off digital telly, hands it to mobile data providers

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Meh

Re: Twisted and skewed

OWLOM

Only Within London Orbital Motorway

Ofcom tackles complaint over Premier League footie TV rights

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Re: Other example.......

The competition in the British railway system is train companies competing for Government payments.

Rare Stegosaurus skeleton moves into plush London pad

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Re: " ... weighed as much as a 4x4 vehicle"

"How many fridges is that?"

Depends on the mass of the comet.

Pharmacist caught spying on friends' med records fined £1,000

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Re: We can breathe easy then

They will, of course, be really, really safe once the NHS records are digitised. This problem will go away as security systems are implemented by the NHS and by the carefully selected (show us the money) partners they share with.

Hey, you, PHONE-FACE! Kickstarter in-car mobe mount will EMBED your phone into your MUG

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Re: Quite Clever

Capt Cyborg, eat your heart out!

ZZZAP! Climate change means getting hit by lightning is likelier

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if global warming resumes

There-by hangs your problem.

VINYL is BACK and you can thank Sonos for that

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Re: Vinyl introduces a lot of failings

jelabarre,

but now we can go to pirate bay!

Its OK, all my tracks were written, recorded and produced by macaques.

UK PM Cameron says Internet must not 'be an ungoverned space'

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SCOTLAND

I think the actual problem is that Scottish matters do not get put to the House of Commons. UK matters do and Scottish MPs (even if over representing their electorate) properly get a vote. When English matters are put to the House of Commons Scottish MPs also get to vote on English laws when they have no mandate.

To paraphrase Lord Palmerston: Only the English understand the West Lothian Question.

Dark side of the DUNE: Probot snaps shadowy comet surface selfie

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INCREDIBLE SCIENCE

Thanks to the engineers who designed the Rosetta/Philae machine.

ITU thought bubble ponders mass mobe-tracking to kill fake IT

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Re: I find it fascinating...

I recall a case where a PHB declined to buy expensive NICs and insisted on the cheapest. These were Chinese copies of one of the market leaders. A jolly good job they had done too, fully functional and each one identical - even down to the MAC.

Who will save Europe's privacy from the NSA? Oh God ... it's Google

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Re: Don't Make Me Laugh

"just like the EU member nations will ignore fines the US where to issue"

Cough, UK Banks, cough.

TalkTalk's 'unbeatable signal strength' and 'fastest Wi-Fi tech' FIBS silenced by ad watchdog

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Re: Dear ISPs

Dear not Mr Spartacus,

You seem like a nice, credulous chap. My brother had £380 million in his Nigerian bank account ...

FALL of the MACHINES: How to KILL the Google KARATE BOT, by our expert

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Re: Every time...

And you will be able to fit 8 on the head of pin.

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Re: Weka point

Ha, the cleaner will do for it, he'll have to plug the vacuum cleaner in somewhere.

My HOUSE used to be a PUB: How to save the UK high street

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Re: With you on this

"Would you rather buy a mobile phone made by Apple or the Post Office?"

Wow, a real blast from the past - when was the GPO split?

Hacker Hammond's laptop protected by pet password

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Re: Password fail?

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

In this case it would appear to be one at a time, except the first.

Has Switzerland cracked the net neutrality riddle?

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Net neutrality is like the traditional definition of obscenity (likely to deprave and corrupt) - you only really know it when you see it. Good analysis though.

Boffin imagines Wi-Fi-defined no-shoot zones for wireless weapons

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Re: Yep, that will work...

Any one got the 3d printer files for a wifi board for my Liberator?

Police in U-turn as 'shop a gun-owner' hotline is scrapped

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Re: Tough.

See comment above.

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Re: This seems a bit more in line with the civilised world

You don't get the concept of the less deferential society do you?

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Because there is a perceived threat (weather that is a reasonable assumption or not) to gun ownership by removal of a firearms license if mere suspicions are reported, it is less likely that gun owners will report. If it was made clear by both words and deeds that a report to the police will not result in an over reaction perhaps the police will get better cooperation.

Elon Musk and ex-Google man mull flinging 700 internet satellites into orbit

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Re: isn't there enough shrapnel orbiting this ball?

"around earth at much higher velocity (yet in the exact same orbit?)"

Twice the speed - different velocity (direction is important).

ONE FIFTH of Win Server 2003 users to miss support cutoff date

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Re: For some small companies it is.........

Of course we do, it's that lady with the trolley who brings the tea and buns.

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Sample size is fine, just the confidence levels and standard deviations needed.

Yes! It's DRONE PORN. And we don't mean shiny pics of UAVs

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Re: Strange

Sorry, was that "stunt"?

New Euro digi chief says he WILL consider an EU-wide copyright law

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Re: “to consider all possible options”

As Walt might say, "To infinity and beyond!"

AT LAST! London gets BONKERS FLYING PRINTER TEST LAB

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von Neumann

I think he had something to say about this.

Forget 5G, UK.gov is making 2G fit for the 21st century!

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Re: I find this hilarious

Ah, but Skippy knows Liza Goddard - an old man can dream.

Apple's strap-on will set you back just '$5,000' – what a BARGAIN!

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Chisel, hammer - half each.

Simples.

Robot deputy blasts possibly explosive Mexican beans with CANNON in 'controlled explosion'

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Re: True story of another bomb scare

Two boys playing street soccer with a vaguely spherical, rust coloured object. Passing veteran recognises a Mills bomb. Confiscate said hand grenade and puts it in his car's glove box (Austin 1100 - tells you how long ago this was).

About a fortnight later the veteran delivers the Mills bomb to his local police station. It is then used as a paper weight for the desk sergeant's in-box for another 14 days until the EOD team are finally summoned.

The team leader decides that the ammunition is so unstable that it must be blown up in situ.

Lost his explosive license!

Antares apocalypse: Orbital points finger at turbopump FAIL

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Re: Ha! Called it!

The whole point of nuclear missile submarines is to enable a second strike. We, the USA and France had them. This was kind of the point of Mutually Assured Destruction. Yes, we would have been fucked, but so would the USSR.

Of course capability does not necessarily and certainly lead to intention. Bomber captains are a special breed.

Russia to ban iCloud.. to protect iPhone fiddlers' pics 'n' sh*t

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Re: 'right wing'?

ratox

Not sure there was much communism 50 years ago.

We're doing great, say dot-London chiefs ... Unfortunately, few agree

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Re: Golden Goosed

I can remember when BBC.com was a different place to BBC.com.

Happy daze.

Apple patents autographs. Checkmate, eBay

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Re: WTF?

Bitograph?

3D printed guns: This time it's for real! Oh, wait – no, still crap

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Re: But against the backdrop of your British readership...

... who live in a controlled mostly legally held gun-free society, how important is it then?

FTFY

Please don't spout rubbish.