* Posts by TeeCee

9433 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2007

Pre-Pet Commodore micro up for grabs on eBay

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I have to ask.

Will it run CrysisPacman?

Only global poverty can save the planet, insists WWF - and the ESA!

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Thought for the day.

"Only global poverty can save the planet...."

The EU types have a right hardon for this green shit, don't they? This explains a lot of what's going on in the world right now.......

Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable

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Re: Australia STILL does not have DNSSEC !

Maybe they just can't tell what it is yet?

New Forum Wishlist - but read roadmap first

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Ok, not strictly "forum", but I'm not starting a new topic.

A commentard-to-commentard message capability. An opt-in system for registered commentards only, with the capability to wield the banhammer on individual commentards at the receiving end[1]. Basic forward to the target's email would do the trick[2], option to add local inbox/outbox/reply capability later if it proves popular and people want it.

[1] Something like: "You can't message ${commentard} as he's already decided you're not worth listening to. You may publicly grovel for forgiveness in the User Forums if you like."

[2] Manual reply process via the same PM process, unless the sender wishes to divulge a return email address of course.

BBC deletes Blue Peter from BBC One

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For the record.

If Janet Ellis is reading this, it was I driving the white 3-ton truck that shuddered to a halt in a cloud of tyre smoke next to your door when you pulled out of the car park next to the BBC Television Centre without looking. You dozy cow.

@Janet Ellis fans: You owe me one.

'Catastrophic' Avira antivirus update bricks Windows PCs

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Avira

So it's previously managed to delete itself.

Now it's managed to delete the O/S.

Next week: "AVIRA DELETES TEH INTERNETS!!!111!!!!"

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Re: Nice testing procedure

> And MS is supposed to have their "system protection", etc..

Yes, but you granted your A/V suite system level privilege when you installed it, precisely so it could clean up infected system files. That's what the UAC warning you got on installation was for.

ISTR that MS did want to restrict that level of access purely to the O/S itself, but the A/V vendors threatened legal action......

Creepy Ads

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Re: Creepy Ads - not us

I wonder if there's a loophole in that?

Say a user had a Google account and had elected to use persistant login. There would be a gCookie around for this. Now that would give 'em enough, when combined with the user's account info, to target ads very accurately without referring to any cookies bar their own and without collecting any additional data ..........

London's Oyster card website still down after 12-hour outage

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Re: Unexpected error

"The error message is the flames and the smoke."

Do you work for Sony?

Button batteries burn kids from inside

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Isn't this basic common sense?

"...65, 788......incidents..."

Oh, apparently not.

Foxconn chief: we're gearing up for Apple 'iTV'

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Re: To iTV or not iTV - That is the question

".....my big iMac......"

Ooo, interactive ersatz-meat-product-inna-bun. How novel!

SpaceX sets new blastoff date for Dragon: 19 May

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Re: You have got to admire these guys!

"......the Freedom Space Station....."

<GAG><RETCH><SPATTER>

LightSquared files for bankruptcy

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"....assets of $4.48 billion and debt of $2.29 billion...."

So presumably the Chapter 11 move is to enable their execs to stuff their trousers with X and do a runner, without having to subtract Y from it first.

SpaceX and Bigelow sign deal for inflatable space stations in orbit

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Famous last words:

"Game of darts anyone?"

ISP kills off country-ban dodge after just 48 hours

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Re: blah

Yup, spot on. The real fucktards in this area are MS with their "Live" services. You can set the language, but it has a habit of reverting to its geo-derived default at the drop of a hat.

Speaking as an expat, I'd like to find the person responsible for IP geolocation and remove his bollocks with a blowtorch.

Using a Lenovo All-In-One? Grab a fire extinguisher!

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Re: Okay so...

"...the reputation loss and potential law suits outweigh the cost of this recall."

Makes no odds that. Ford did something similar and found that the recall cost was higher. That did not go well for them when a court considering a compensation claim found that Ford had already decided it was cheaper to let their customers burn than fix their cars.......

Grab your L-plates, flying cars of sci-fi dreams have landed

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"And there endith the dream, of using drafting, to reduce fuel consumption."

That one ended for me when Mythbusters proved you had to be within a metre of the vehicle in front to show a measurable advantage........and that was with a car following a truck(!)

Anonymous takes the Kremlin offline in Putin protest

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"...we have the means to resist them."

Uh-oh. Somehow I'm getting that "diplomatically worded extradition request through channels" is not one of those means......

Billion-dollar high-tech ghost town to run itself without humans

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"..350 new direct jobs and around 3,500 indirect jobs....."

I can see a slight snag. Hiring staff in an uninhabited city will be an interesting trick, if they manage to pull it off......

Mozilla and Google blast IE-only Windows on ARM

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"...Chrome-maker Google has thrown its weight behind Mozilla."

Remind me again. How many browsers will run as the default on ChromeOS?

Wi-Fi warping wallpaper hardens homes to hackers

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OH NOES! MY DOR IS SEKKURITY RISK YES?

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....and they're not telling!

Microsoft digs Doppler to effect gesture detection

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Obvoious really.

They had to find some way of making the touchy, slidey, wavey Metro interface work on the desktop somehow. A touchscreen monitor and leaning across the desk isn't it.

They're still going to be disappointed when the Corp market refuses point blank to ditch millions of 4:3 screens in favour of doppler enabled, handwaft-detecting widescreen ones en masse though.

A USB waft sensor might do the trick if it were cheap enough, but there's still the pesky problem of the fact that it's as widescreen fixated as the office ribbon to consider.

Also: "...an inaudible tone between 18 and 22kHz...". The countdown to a class action lawsuit from those claiming it gives 'em a headache, if there's the chance of a quick buck in it, starts now.

Google's self-driving car snags first-ever license in Nevada

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Re: BetaDrive

Yup. In Belgium (where else?) yesterday, I was disturbed from my reverie in slow-moving traffic by a cacophony of horns to the rear. That would be a Belgian performing a "Belgian lane change" (indicate and go, look straight ahead throughout, ignore mirrors) into the half-a-car's-length gap between me and the extremely pissed off articulated truck behind.

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Higher speed limit? In Germany?

What are they planning to do, fit 'em with rockets?

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Re: See, this is what I like about Google

The Apple car is more pedestrian friendly, as it has rounded corners.

The MS car would have been ready years ago, but every time they got the software stable they decided to completely change it.

Chrome beats IE for a weekend

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Re: Chrome is cuckooware

".....it was the first browser to properly handle updates."

Hmm, not sure about that. My experience is it'll sit there, all out of date like, in perpetuity until you hit "help/about", at which point it'll update itself without asking.

A worst of both worlds approach in my book.

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Re: Chrome - the anti-drone?

Actually I think it does that if you hit it with any other browser, but only the IE users hit a "Download" button on reflex when presented with one.

Apple 'iTV' looks like Cinema Display, says Throat

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Re: This will be interesting

"...Im thinking more like $500...."

Let me guess. You don't work in marketing for Apple, do you?

2,000 dot-word bids rocket ICANN onto $350m cash pile

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Re: Should have applied for .dev

The correct answer here would be an RFC for reserved internal-use TLDs, as we already have for IP ranges.

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They need a TLD for this sort of thing.

Has .getrichquick gone yet?

WH Smiths tills insist shop sells The Queen's Knickers only

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Of course it's not a hack!

For the lulz you'd do this to Marks and Spencer.......

Dinosaur flatulence may have warmed Earth

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<Sauropod>

Sorry lads, I just dropped a right planet-warmer there.

</Sauropod>

iPad chargers can open beer bottles

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Re: But does it charge afterwards?

The Israelis rather cunningly built a bottle opener into the base of every ammo clip. This prevents grunts resorting to using the clips incorrectly when they've lost their seperate opener.

The problem's rife on the venerable AK47 and is possibly that weapon's only serious fault. The hasp at the front of the clip is perfect for opening beer bottles. Doing this means that the clip will likely fail to, er, clip into place when attempting to reload, leaving the idiot who did it staring at the clip now lying on the floor with a puzzled expression while everyone on the other side takes a free potshot.

This proves that drinking beer can kill you.

.eu is a Euro domain, for Euro people - top legal bod

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Re: I'm sure the US will regard this as a trading barrier

They can feel free. Nothing they do could be as obstructive as the barriers Europe currently has in place to getting anything made in Europe in the first place.

Have a look at the "why it's made in China" explanation for the Raspberry Pi.

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Priorities.

Anyone know how much in total this bit of "git orf moi laaand" cost? Presumably it went through a variety of registration / appeals processes, national courts and such before getting to the ECJ.

Nice to see that they have their priorities right, lengthily debating the nit-pickery of who gets to have ".eu" on a web address, while the EU itself picks up speed on its continuing journey to hell in a bucket.

I can't help feeling that the bloke who coordinated the movement of deckchairs on the Titanic had a more productive job.

Pirate island attracts more than 100 startup tenants

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Re: Rapture

I was thinking more a physical rendering of Sadville myself.

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Re: Seems a bit daft

"....around 1,000 live-in entrepreneurs......" and presumbly the odd visiting VC or several.

What would they need women for? They've got their right hands and an internet connection......

Evil plot to control souls via Wi-Fi thwarted

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Aplogise?

I'd have written back and suggested that anyone with that many loose screws ought to consider opening a hardware store.

MP blasts 'ineffective' games regulation

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Ah yes.

Many years ago, Private Eye printed a spotlight piece on Keith Vaz. The general gist was that he was a fairly ordinary, talentless, arse-licking, party machine toady, who'd sell his own grandmother for a favourable couple of column inches in the press.

I have not seen anything since to suggest that they may have been in any way incorrect in their assessment.

Ignore anything he says. Everyone else does.

US, Euro e-car makers back 'standard' AC/DC jack

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Re: Gender confusion?

So they're actually a Slug and Pocket then?

Now why have I just thought of the pub? Must be Friday.

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".....the design has to be formally approved by SAE members in a ballot."

It's designed by committee. Think of it as the electrical equivalent of a camel.

Greenland glaciers not set to cause disastrous sea level rises - study

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I give him a middling to right myself.

A shade on the optimistic side, as it looks like there are some significant long-term contamination effects locally, but a damned sight closer to how things turned out than the frenzied doommongering from pretty much every other source.

Microsoft ejects DVD playback from Windows 8

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Re: re: VLC

Check that you have libdvdcss (or libdvdcss2) installed as Fedora doesn't have it OOB, due to its "naughtiness". Without it, CSS encoded disks will fail.

London Olympics 'not immune' to cyber attack

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Re: will not be immune to cyber attack ...

Makes no odds. Any data obtained from hacking a cat will be corrupted by your observation of it. It's a known cat thing, caused by their inherently quantum nature.

Botnet army flicks 'off' switch at UK crime agency website

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Re: Lets hope

Well, when he gets there and we get to find out how that goes, then we can pass judgement on the fairness of it.

Everything to date on that subject has been nothing but speculative bullshit based on "worst case" scenarios.

Microsoft kills Windows Live brand

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That's nothing.

Try hitting the web service for more gadgets in Windows 7.

Rather than the comprehensive gadget gallery, you now get a brief selection of "more popular" ones, along with an explanation that says something like; "Fuck you, get Windows 8".

So, no gadgets in 8 + people find gadgets useful = pretend they don't exist.

Glider pilot 'swallowed camera memory' say plunge tragedy cops

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"....we are in the waiting stages right now."

An "Intelligent design" would have included the little hole that you shove a paperclip into for the emergency eject function........

Facebook unfriends 19-inch data center racks

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Re: Overfilling?

Oh come on!

When has there ever been a "Mine's bigger than yours" argument held in anything other than inches?