* Posts by LPF

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Seagate, WD should put a gun to Brussels' head

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Hey chris ....

Well if the two US companies can't sell in the EU, how soon do you think it will take the far east competition to step into the breach?? where there's money theres a way!

Let me guess your american? ;)

Bloke drives with knees while manipulating two mobes

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Jesus crhist

Just ban him from driving period, what an a*se

Apple admits scareware problem, at last

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Again....

When Macs have a virus problem like windows then they will have a problem. But you will notice they dont! and considering the Uderlying UNIX system is run by most of the major financial organisations in the world , you would think the writers would target Unix vulns..

They dont target Macs with viruses becuase of the simply fact that unlike Windows is damned hard to propergate a Virus via UNIX systems , GET OVER IT PEOPLE!

Now social malware like this mac denfender relies on user stupidity and there is no software that can defend against that!

Zuckerberg: Give me your children

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yeah because..

Kids have not figured out that all they need to do is put in a fake birthdate.. yep deffo not worked that one out :S

NASA kills comms with deceased Mars rover

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Unhappy

RIP Spirit

:( Gone but not forgotten

£1.1bn Royal Navy warship finally armed, sort of

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@envmod

This would be the navy that got humliated by the Iranians? What he is pointing out is that the navy is being strung along and having billions extracted out of it for poorly performing equipment, but instead of critqueing that you would rather attack the messenger! :S

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@Peter Gathercole

The only problem with your post is that the Arleigh Burke class is cheaper, can be built abroad, is better equipped, of course BAE would have demanded some cut of the deal, and would have quintuppled the price >:(

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Nelson is spinning in his rum :(

This is what happens when you let a bunch of lawayers run the country, and bunch of bankers ruin the economy and BAE steal the money from the cold dead hands of under equipped british soldiers !

or the love of god, how they hell a destroyer in the missle age does not have ship to ship missle systems escapes me, ffs they could even slap a quad box of exocets on the sucker like we did with the old county class!

Our country is turning into a bad joke :'(

New PlayStation Network hack hijacks user accounts

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Somewhere in redmond..

The Xbox360 team is laughing their heads off!

Say what you want about microsoft, eveny they would be hard pushed to create this kind of cockup. When people are paying for your service and it is a major revenue generator , you actually put effort into building the system and making sure it is secure!

NHS IT dino-project NPfIT should be killed off - NAO

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@Norfolk 'n' Goode

As someone who worked on that project , I could not have come up with a better summation if I tried , take a bow son, take a bow!!!

Border Agency monitors migrant ITers with inadequate IT

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We have been complaining about this for years!!!..

But with the MP being sponsored by the big consultancies , they have aided and abetted in High Value work being outsourced out of the country all in an effort to drive down the wages of british workers!

Sun attempts to ID entire FA Cup Final crowd

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@Actually

Taking photos of someone in a public place is not illegal , so you fail on both counts, plus an extra FAIL at life, just because you tried to be a smart arse and got it worng lol

Bin Laden's porn stash: Too good to be true?

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Oh my god is this still going on..

Getover it people, the seals got him and nicked his pron stash lol

My god your aacting as if the saudies have never know or lusted after women , get a grip ! lol

Porn found in Osama bin Laden compound

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Gates Horns

This is hilarious...

We now have the Bil Laden supporters giving the US grief for telling everyone he had porn in hide out, and how its not nice to sully the reputation of the poor wee man. Yeah because its Osama Bin Laden what he ever do ? LMAO

The comutards of El Reg hav reached new levels !

Well personally I've heard on the grape vine that it was a mix of child porn involing little boys, and repeated animiations of goatsee ;)

Haumea: Mysterious radioactive rugby-ball world

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Pluto is a PLANET

Get over it , and no bunch of no marks voting after everyone else had gone home is going to change that! :D

CSC locked out of new NHS contracts

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@AC

Nope, they pphysically changed the HTTP spec, I had to resort to using Netmon to actually look at what they had done. They swapped the HTTP OK http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.2.1, with the word 'OK' this caused IIS to split it into 2 separate messages and send that to the test apps.

Believe , there was many a night I wished it had of been a bug in my code, I would have found the SOB a damn sight faster than the 6 months it took to track it down. Who the F*ck goes and changes the HTTP for no reason , escapes me , which is why it took me so long to twig what the idiots had done. Due to time pressures we just changed are system to ignore the second message, but in the end I decided that like getting stabbed in the leg and treating it by wearing red trousers!, so decided to hunt it down! lol

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As someone who hone worked on that project...

I can say from the start it was doomed... the iSoft software in particular was a humougous piece of execrement, programmed out in india as they were cheap. When we asked for bugfixes, they would return the soffware with dialog clours improved but none of the bugs actually fixed!!!

One of the problems that I had to deal with, was the way it was sending messages, for some reason it would always send the same message twice oh so it seemed, which when dealing with a system that would be expected to send millions during the day , and all of them having to be stored in a database for audit, a bit of a problem. After 6 months of trying virtually everything to solve this, finally tracked it down to idiot devs , putting the word 'OK' instead of the equiverlent Http success message, and using that for doing thier debugging and leaving it in the network code for handling SOAP messages!!!! Of course our software was confused by the fact they had broken the HTTP standard at network level, and was interpreting it as two diffent messages being sent to it !!!

Outsoucing got to love it! :S

US Navy produces smart, cheap 6kg fire+forget missile

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Good idea , they used it for smart bombs...

But the thing about war is then someone will think of a counter measure, be it better armour or , fast reacting lightweight, AI controlled AA that willl snuff out any helicopter that comes walzting in.

At the moment everyone in thew western military, is saying drones are the future and that all attacks will now be carried out either at medium level or by cruise misslies.

You can better your bottom dollar, right at this moment, people are working on systems to bring down drones, interfere with satelite control, or working on AA systems capable of tracking and taking down cruise missiles over a designated area.

Of course its easy to launch cruise missles against eniemies without a significant navy, but I will bet people are also working on long range , ship hunting misslies and costal diesal subs to again make people think carefully before coming in close to launch,

and then the other side will start work on how to counter that and so on.

Death tech , making a boring afternoon at work fun :D

Google infringes copyright by displaying and linking to news site content

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WTF?

Why have they not used Robots.txt

to stop their sites being indexed , or have I missed something ??

NASA restores Pluto to league of planets

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@hplasm

Word!! Balls to the IAU

Queen to get an iPad (the Queen, not a queen)

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That proves it..

One tablet to rule them all lol

Pippa Middleton in $5m grumble flick offer

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@luMan

How d you know ? " lacklustre, overpriced grumble business a bit of publicity!" Enquiring minds would like to know ;)

Government slashes consultancy spending

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@AC 14:57 GMT

What are you wittering on about? the consultants we are talking about are the 800 a day paper generators not some talk driod in bangalore, are you being delibrately stupid?

Apple breaks location-storing silence

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God you lot talk so much gibberish!

If someone wanted to follow you they would not steal your bloody phone, they would just follow you !

So , now that the info is out , which has made your tin foil boloocks look like the stupidity it is, you still can't leave i alone lol

No, iPhone location tracking isn't harmless and here's why

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Paris Hilton

Wowo all the bitters for the "Nothing to hide" Poster

You do know he posted it to wind up the tin foil hat brigaded dont you ?

As for this file,Unless the data is somehow transmitted back to apple, then they have to nick your phone to get where you have been anyway. I posit that anyone that intreated in you would have been following your ass anyway!!!

Paris becuase she can spot when The Reg is posting bollocks articles to get click responses FFS

The best sci-fi film never made: Also-rans take a bow

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ACE TRUCKING CO FTW :D

Seriously would be best movie ever, better yet series, you could stuff your firefly up your bum lol

Sony ships 50m PS3s

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@Carol Orlowski

You need to take a chill pill , your inner fan boy is coming out !

75M is 75 million end of story, Niitendo won this round period , deal with it !

TMe I'm a very happy xbox360 owner :D

RAF Eurofighters make devastating attack – on Parliament

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WTF?

Its articles like this that make me weep!

Billions upon billions wasted for no good reason whatsoever, except to fund the retirement plans of MOD mandarins and Military personelle , but dont worry , pretty soon some munchkin will come along , spouting how his brother /sister/father-in-law benefits from having this a job in the UK

While british servicemen die on the front lines due to equipment shortages and the pride of the nation is once more rubbed in the dirt to fund the lifestyles of the arms industry !

I would fill the rest of this with swear words but quite frankly I just want a drink! :(

Reviewers slam BlackBerry PlayBook software

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And another one bites the dust

Seriously Apple must be laughing there heads off, over a year and still no decent competitors!

RSA explains how attackers breached its systems

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Yet another Flash Attack..

Again why does Apple be critiqued for not allowing this P.O.S on its iPad and IPhone!

Libya fighting shows just how idiotic the Defence Review was

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@Tom Welsh

The IRA got most if not all it semtex from Libya and let us not for WPC Fletcher , WE OWE THEM BIGTIME!

Channel VAT loophole shrunk, not shut

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Sooo from what I can tell ... @min et all

The lefties such as Min want us to pay more VAT?

Osborne promises 'Budget for growth'

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Unhappy

This is what you get for voting Labour!

13 years and they left us an economy of a banana republic!

1 Trillion in debt, but come next election the usual benefit pondlife will vote them back in once the tories have fixed the economy to cock it up once again.. :(

Apple sues Amazon over 'App Store' name

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Quick fix

Call it the Amazon store?

of course if you want to horn in on the good will that apple have ceatedf then you will call yours the app store and hope no one notices ;)

Apple to sell 107m iPads in 2016

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@AC 2nd

Yet iPods still sell by the bucketload,showing that both you and the reg know jack!

Mobile Trojan mimics Android clean-up tool

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If this was iPhone

The Inq would would be making this front page stickied news, but becuase its about Android , you barely hear a whisper!

Apple frees iOS 4.3 two days before iPad 2 Arrival™

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@James Greenhalgh

Ummm have free acount and downloaded xcode 4 , did not pay anything , so ummm facts blah blah blah

Mole points to April iOS 5.0 outing

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@Silver and at Jez

In apples defence its not becuase somethings had to be disabled on the 3g simply becuase it was not powerful enough to run it, but better that the HTC HD2 , I got that and as far as Microsoft and HTC are concerned it not longer exists.

Google guilty of copyright wrong

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@turtle

What a complete and utter load of rubbish, if you dont want your stuff to appear on google , use robots.txt and it won't!

Eurofighter Typhoon: It's EVEN WORSE than we thought

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@AC

We would have got both the phantoms and apaches on time and on budget, but had to make changes to their engines to provide work for the vampires at BAE!

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@john smit

No dogfights since korea? you ever hear of the falklands war you nimrod!

Kinect connect rate outstrips Sony PS3 Move

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@Sony Fanbois Part 2

Of course this is wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_wars

But its Wii first by a mile every where , with the Xbox second and Ps3 bringing up the rear ;)

Worldwide sales figures

Wii – 84.64 million as of 31 December 2010[8]

Xbox 360 – 50 million as of 6 January 2011[30]

PlayStation 3 – 47.9 million as of 31 December 2010[31]

Japan sales figures

Wii – 11,450,000 as of 31 December 2010[8]

PlayStation 3 – 4,020,563 as of 17 May 2010[32]

Xbox 360 – 900,000 As of 20 February 2009[33]

Europe sales figures

NOTE: Figures include UK sales, which are listed below.

PlayStation 3 – 16 million as of 17 August 2010[34]

United Kingdom sales figures

Wii – 8.3 million as of 1 October 2010[35]

Xbox 360 – 3.9 million as of 13 January 2009[36]

PlayStation 3 - 3 million as of 25 January 2010[37]

United States sales figures

Wii – 30 million as of 10 August 2010[38]

Xbox 360 – 18.6 million as of 31 December 2009[39]

PlayStation 3 - nearly 12 million as of 14 April 2010[40]

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@Sony Fanbois

It sold more, becuase its a better piece of technology simples!

as for the PS3 having sold more units, last time I checked thats true in Japan, but still behind in USA and last time I checked the European sales were still if it kept selling at such and such a rate, but was still behind.

Kinect is not aimed at fat boys sitting in thier mothers basements lol

Kinect blesses rescue robot with 3D sight

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@AC

Spot the PS3 fanboi awh is someone hurting that everyone has to try hard to even remember the PS3 move exists lol

Virgin Media busts £1bn a quarter

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mmmmmmm

4Billion revenue, and still make a loss ?????? hollywood acounting?

Sex offenders will get a review – after 15 years

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FAIL

Again for the dimwits

THIS ONLY APPLIES TO P[EOPLE ON THE REGISTER FOR LIFE!!!

TO GET ON IT FOR LIFE, YOU NEED TO HAVE COMMMITED A SERIOUS SEXUAL OFFENCE!

NOT WHIZZING UP AGAINST A WALL!! christ!!

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@Captain Underpants

Stop talking rubbish!!!

The people put for life on a sex offenders registers, are not people caught taking a whizz up against a pub wall! YOU KNOW THAT so stop actingas if you have a room temperture IQ

English Defence League site pulled offline after defacement

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Hmmmmm

when the blow up a BUS I will have somthign against the EDL

America spared Top Gear Mexican quips

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The mexicans

Need to grow a pair!! they were taking the whizz out of the aussies and they were giving it back and no one went crying to their mummies over hurt feelings!

First reports on XM-25 Judge Dredd smartgun in A'Stan

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@Anonymous Coward Temporary respite #

Hey genius , ever tried hitting something from 1.5km with a machine gun ?? distance means increased probaility of missing, therefore anything that makes your enemy have to try and hit you from further away is good!

The reason you posted AC is that you are a moron, therefore leaving us unable to associate your future posts with stupidity automatically!

Paris, becuase even she is smarter than you!

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