* Posts by Andrew Moore

1720 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Mar 2007

Word wonks insist GIFs are really JIFs

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Re: 30 something perma techie Brit here

Solder = Solder (not 'sodder', don't you see that L there?)

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"gay-peg"

Though that brings to mind something completely different.

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Re: One could always ask Doc Brown

I doubt Stephen Rae could have ruined V for Vendetta any more than it was already ruined.

Humans becoming steadily STUPIDER, says brainiac boffin

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Re: He's right but for the wrong reason

I've always said that we could easily have a mass cull of the stupid simply by having their satnavs work out when they are heading eastwards on Beachy Head and then issuing the direction "Turn Right Now"

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Re: electrolytes:

"Get your hands of my junk!"

Liberator: the untold story of the first British laptop part 1

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Re: Ah, geeks

CONFIRMED.

Walmart workers filmed playing iPad frisbee

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I loved...

...that theres is a place called Pikeyville in redneck country.

Groupon redundancy special offer tips, shares plunge

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Re: First of many

Blame Ticketbastard- they started it.

Apple is granted a patent on the rectangle. No, really

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Re: Well...

Don't forget the 'crustless peanut butter and jelly sandwich'- apparently patentable

Sock-wielding movie pirates go to prison

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Re: Couple of $$$?

I saw Skyfall on opening night and it cost me €18 for two of us.

Prior to that I took my youngest daughter to see Brave on a Saturday morning and it cost €7.50.

Verizon staff arrested for stealing customer's nude pics

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Re: People like this obviously never took "critical thinking 101".

Did you not notice that the people in question are septics?

Felix Baumgartner sadly turns out to be blinkered FOOL

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Re: I wonder how he feels

My thoughts precisely- I understand the suit alone cost $200,000. Wouldn't this money be better spent saving the planet?

Disney buys Lucasfilm, new Star Wars trilogy planned

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Re: New Star Wars trilogy planned - why?

You forgot "Howard The Duck" (the reason Lucas sold ILM/Pixar to Jobs)

Forstall ousted from Apple after refusing to apologise for Maps

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Re: Refund Time?

No- and believe me, I've tried.

US Copyright Office approves phone jailbreaking and video remixes

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"The Register concluded that the record did not support an extension of the exemption to 'tablet' devices,"

WTF El Reg, you are a news website not an arbiter of copyright cases...

Dr No, Thunderball, Casino Royale? Vote now for the best Bond film

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Re: I really want to like the Daniel Craig films

"Casino Royale (Daniel Craig) is an hour long poker game because the book is largely a poker game."

You might want to reread the book- it wasn't poker.

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Re: Do you expect me to talk?

"Do you expect me to go grey, Goldfinger?"

"No Mr Bond, I expect you to dye!"

Apple squeaks over revenue estimates, misses earnings target

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Re: I would say one thing...

That's the idea though- they make you pay for the full-whack RAM and HHD options up front rather than hope you will upgrade them in the future (in which case they hope you will just buy a new Macbook)

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Re: So analysts are wrong....

I'm guessing that they are still using goat entrails in order to make their predictions.

Remember, you can't spell Analyst without "anal"

No GPS in the iPad Mini Wi-Fi: People are right to criticise

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Re: Apple, buy it more than once

are you asking if the iPad mini runs iOS6???

US climate-change skeptics losing support

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Re: Science is not democracy

We are talking about a people whom a large amount of support the 'theory' of Creationism.

Why James Bond's Aston Martin Top Trumps the rest

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Agreed, bond needed something iconic, not 'it's popular right now'

Sacked British RIM staffers to get minimum legal payout

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Poutine...

...is a little more than just chips and gravy- You forgot the curds.

BOFH: Uninterruptible patsy supply

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Re: "Uninterruptible patsy supply"

how about 'an elaborate trooll'

Air China passenger arrested for in-flight phone abuse

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Heh...

"ignoring Du’s pleas that it was a big fuss over nothing"

Or "Much a-Du about nothing"...

Now pay attention, 007: James Bond's Q re-booted

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Re: Bad casting

a Felix Lighter can often be found in a car.

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I think you've just posted the ideal skillset required for any management chappy.

Anonymous turns on 'one man Julian Assange show' Wikileaks

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Oh welll...

...there's always OpenLeaks...

Inside the mind of a Bond supervillain: Psychotic, autistic - or neither?

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Dalton's Bond...

"Dalton's, particularly, tried to get closer to Fleming's idea of a darker, more conflicted man."

One of the reasons I've always favoured him over the other Bonds. Dalton played the character a lot closer to how Fleming wrote him. I think License To Kill is the best example of Bond as written, fiercely loyal, cold blooded and willing to go to any lengths to achieve his objective.

ICO tries to justify hefty NHS data breach fines

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Re: Public vs Private

or maybe private bodies are more careful when it comes to protecting customer data.

Bloomberg's bomb: How SEC shredded Facebook's pre-IPO claims

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Re: Caveat emptor only applies to a degree

But in this case, you could see that it was a Morris Minor, everybody in the industry said it was a Morris Minor. The only people that claimed it was a Porsche was the owner and a lot of 'financial analysts'. Now if you decide to go with the biased opinion rather than the informed one, then you shouldn't really be surprised when a Morris Minor ends up on your front doorstep.

Apple Maps too good for Taiwanese military

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Re: double bluff?

they will, it's called IOS6

Target Silicon Valley: Why A View to a Kill actually made sense

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Re: If he wanted to make some cash out of a faked natural disaster

>Bond of course would be unflappable as he seems to favour Sony tech.

Well originally Ericsson tech but Sony bought them out (remember the P800 and how amazing it was that the baddie was able to take a picture of Bond with it....)

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hmmmm....

The plot of View To A Kill was just a weak rehash of Goldfinger.

WoW cities wiped out by 'exploit'

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Re: So that what it does

"How do you kill that which has no life?"

Samsung claims Apple jury foreman LIED to get REVENGE

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Re: How did he end up being a candidate for the jury?

First thing that came to my mind too...

Oregon farmer devoured by own hogs

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Strange...

I'm pretty sure that was a short horror story by Clive Barker.

UK brings in small-claims court for intellectual property

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Expensive Lawyers???

Isn't that a tautology?

Rolling robot avatar trumps telecommuting

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Re: Sheldon

"Nice Remote Telepresence Unit"- Steve Wozniak

McFlurry McMisdemeanour costs Welsh lass McJob

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I'm surprised the co-worker didn't get sacked for coercion.

What I want to know, is how did the management find out that "too much" chocolate had been added?

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Re: McBastards

The correct term is 'MuckSlurry'

TalkTalk somehow retains most-complained-about-ISP title AGAIN

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"No publicity is bad publicity!"

So, if you published that you had genital herpes, do you believe that would get you more girlfriends?

Freetard-idol rock star Trent Reznor gives up, signs to major label

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Errr....

"One frequently overlooked aspect of the major label model is that successful artists subsidise the less successful"

I think that should read:

"One frequently overlooked aspect of the major label model is that successful artists subsidise the board and major investors"

RIM seeks to woo developers with REO Speedwagon cover

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Not Autotune...

just plain old dub.

Zuckerberg loses $8bn in Facebook IPO fiasco

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Re: He hasn't lost anything

The Sunday Times Rich List did something similar with TomTom- Over valued them one year and placed them in the rich list and then next year decided that their paper wealth actually wasn't worth that much

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Re: I'd like to know why the price is rising

yep- Dead Cat Bounce. Those that sold short are currently buying to cover their trades.

Who queues for an iPhone 5? Protesters, hipsters and the jobless

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Re: Waiting for

I kept thinking about Lou and Andy from Little Britian. I can see Andy (I mean Ali) coming out of the Apple store on Friday and chucking the iPhone5 in a bin, saying 'I don't like it.'

iPhone 5 has 'laser keyboard, holographic images'

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Reminds me of South Park

Cartman: "It does email and web browsing and s**ts in Kyle's mouth? This is the greatest thing ever invented."

HumanCentiPad.

Humanity facing GLOBAL BACON SHORTAGE

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Re: Worth paying more...

I think he's talking about Torrisons or Taitrose.