* Posts by Rob

1524 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Apr 2007

Nine-second delay sinks unfair dismissal claim

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Let's hope....

.... that he's found guilty and banned from practising law again. Seriously do we want numpties like this further expanding the legions of numpties we already have in the law system.

Fans beseige Shilpa Shetty's mobe

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FFS

I thought we all agreed the "m" word is on the banned list!

Congestion charge dodgers register Bentleys as minicabs

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RE: School run?!?!?!

They only have kids as it's a human right (apparently) so whether they care about them or not, they want to excercise they're rights. Hence why we have a bunch of uneducated CHAVS and a bunch of educated lazy rich twats that make me want to leave this country as that's the generation that's got to look after us when we're OAP's.

(feel free to cry in public, it's a sorry state of affairs, no one will blame you)

Scepticism over cyber-jihad rumours

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Virtual Martyrs

so what are you saying, they have to top themselves afterwards... I think there'd be a slight reduction in virgins for this act, cause it's not really full blown Martyrdom.

Student taser victim spared electric chair

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Forget what I said...

... everyone line up behind me (in front of David), I'll pass you the taser after I have finished....

Who's next?

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@David

And you seem to be a prime example of why the US is on a downward slide in terms of it's humanity.

I'm not disgreeing with you about the Nanny state part, but please use a better argument than a computer game. We're talking about a human, who's had excessive force used on him and your talking about a poxy computer game that most of us couldn't give a toss about.

Seriously where are your priorities, sounds like the sort of reasoning Bush would use to justify a war.

Satanic car key traps 12 motorists in car park of horror

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The uprising is building...

... in force, the cars have started to show their allegience.

(Icon for RoTM, please)

Oz Army eyes electric vibro vest to replace batteries

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Perpetual leccy with a sex toy....

... surely if a lady with a ladies cigar active somewhere on her persons has one of these vests would that not mean an eternal supply of leccy (as long as the chest... sorry I mean vest produces excess over what the vibrator needs).

<daydream>

Leccy farms made up of vibrating, groaning women (maybe with splash proof floor as well... and a bit of ventilation for good measure).

</daydream>

Macs seized by porn Trojan

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Jobs Horns

C'mon!!

People we've had 18 posts (at time of writing) and it's all still a bit polite, someone's already counted us in for a flame war where is it?

By now I was expecting to be making anologies about Mac users being americans and windows users brits and war on terror, we've been suffering from terror for ages, yada, yada, yada.

Blow the lot of you then, 'suppose I'll have to do some work instead :(

The secret to Web 2.0 success

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Too true...

... what other industry is there whereby giving it a new name helps create an artifical market of nothingness.

Web 2.0 = bollocks created by people who don't know how to earn money any other way than talking bollocks.

World's most gullible supermarket chain falls victim to online scam

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Sounds a bit like...

... the beancounters wanted a bonus and came up with this scam blaming it on "others" outside the organisation.

Prehaps the Beancounters have been reading BOFH?

Pentagon: Electromagnetic pulse bombs from 2012

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Coat

@Mark

"Half a dozen fried chav" was all you needed to say.

I'll buy 12.

Apple's Leopard rejects latest version of Java

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You were using badly setup PC...

"...Timing and audio stability Windows users can only dream of....

...Vista can't even play an mp3 without throttling the network traffic..."

A very badly setup PC. I use a combination of PC's and Macs for my work and I can safely say the Vista machine hasn't caused me any grief (neither has the Mac). Both are used for graphics, video editing, DVD production and soundtracks.

Even my Vista at home has no trouble playing MP3's with no impact on the network.

Prehaps if people actually knew what they were setting up and set it up right for their needs most of the back and forth bitching would stop. But then asking an average creative about machine settings is asking a bit much.

More gnashing of teeth after Microsoft update brings PCs to a standstill

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@Adam Starkey

Indeed a good point and your right that is what the poster said, which is why I quoted it.

I was obviously not clear enough about my point, which was, nowadays it's more of a surprise to find a company that's keen on turning a good profit balanced against good customer service etc.

Which in an ideal world should be the other way round, should we not be surprised when we come across a company that doesn't give a shit about it's customers and is only interested in profits.

I just find it funny that people still expect a lot nowadays from companies when it's already been evidenced that profit is more of a driver than anything else.

Hence the reason I added the remark about charities, as they seem to be the only people that work for the sole reason of providing a good service, which is as it should be.

As someone else mentioned, maybe in the origins of a company charter once, but alot of people seemed to have forgotton it a long time ago.

Your call (notice how I refrained from name calling, you numpty... DOH!)

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Word game for you

"Trusting a company that's only interested in profits is bad. They are becoming more and more arrogant towards customers, and couldn't care less about problems with their software or their ways."

Try and make a sentence with the following:

Planet, You, On, Do, Live, What

What company isn't interested in profits (please read carefully before some idiot pips in with a name of a charity and subsequently gets flamed for it).

How many $$$s does Apple make from an iPhone?

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Jobs Horns

Clarification please

What service are we talking about? The actual iPhone, as in you are only really renting the device from the Network provider and Apple or the cut Apple take from the Network who provides the service?

All in all though, seems like Apple have a good revenue model that's good for them and their partners but a complete rip-off for the consumers.....

....

....

(ok I thought about not saying it but couldn't resist) but then if your iFan being rip'd off is all part of the prestige of being an iOwner.

Whilst enacting Reg Club rule 8, may I also remind people of Reg Club rule 3, now let the fighting commence.

Blu-ray outsells HD DVD 2:1 in US

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All water under the bridge now...

... if what an earlier poster said about the porn industry switching to HD-DVD as a preffered choice then the desicion has been made and HD-DVD has already won in the long run (or at least stopped itself from being obliterated by Blu-ray market forces).

As mentioned by other posters, the average joe thinks that watching Sky One HD on their HD TV is really High Def, when in truth most of the content is upscaled SD content. Maybe with a sports event (especially football) you might have a chance of seeing proper HD content ( and even more likely if the BBC filmed it).

P.S. @Jakob, yeah they sort of did and I do need to care otherwise I wouldn't be very good at my job, you reactionary numpty.

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Still early days...

...so I think most of the sales figures aren't worth squat.

If anyone in the BD or HD-DVD industry is slightly worried by the low figures then it just goes to show how quite a lot of companies seem so out of touch with their consumers on a first try.

Still a long way to go, it ain't over till the fat vulture crows (c'mon HD-DVD, kick sony's arse).

MPs claim IT supply savings

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Black Helicopters

Bleedin' obvious

Like any contractor is gonna shaft this dept of the guv.

Their more ferocious than the MoD.

US law on age proof in explicit images is ruled unconstitutional

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Ironic

"Kennedy said that the Court understood that preventing the trade in images of child abuse was important but that was not a justification for any law the government chose to enact in the name of that prevention."

could easily read:

"Bush said that the Court understood that preventing terrorism was important but that was not a justification for any law the government chose to enact in the name of that prevention." - If only.

Paris Hilton heads for the cryogenic freezer

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"There are a lot of misconceptions about me"

Not sure what she means by that, only conceptions I have of her are a blonde with nice tits that's easy to get in bed and you can film it as well.

What more do you want from her?

/sick, gutter mind

Do you think once she's frozen they could maybe turn her into an attraction/ride (bearing in mind what I said previously and as long as they freeze her yesterday). Would be no different to the warm version as you don't expect a meanful conversation anyway.

/end sick, gutter mind

Manhunt 2 leaked by Sony Europe employee

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Black Helicopters

RE: Silly little bleedin' heart whiners.

Completely agree with your comments, unfortunately that's not the world we live in and no, 99.999% don't realise this, hence the need for the BBFC in the first place.

Majority of Joe Public nowadays don't give a monkeys what their kids are doing (hence we now have the term and social group we refer to as CHAVs).

We live in a society where ole Joe Public expects to be told everything they can and can't do and then they get all arsey when things like fuel prices go up. If you don't take an active interest in you surroundings I don't think your entitled to whine about them.

Meanwhile the rest of us who are awake and use our brains are penalised.

Becta reports Microsoft to OFT

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Too late

"Schools and colleges should only deploy Office 2007 when there is satisfactory interoperability with alternative products, it added."

MS has an offfer to students in the UK whereby they can pick up Office 2007 for £40, so even though the college doesn't have 2007 installed we've had to install the filter/convertor so the students can work with our 2003 suite.

Public tracks down Gordon Bennett

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Cock and Balls

when and maybe why as well?

Record labels to ditch CD singles for USB Flash drives

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I'm impressed

They have obviously gone the extra mile and cost and employed a consultant from the Ministry of Bloody Stupid Ideas rather than the Department of the Inanely Stupid Ideas.

Did MoD chopper buzz sunbathing au pair?

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IT Angle

Idiots

£250,000 to oggle at some foreign birds... cheaper to go to 'Dam on your R&R weekend surely ;)

Fire service may charge for shifting fat people

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What planet did you say you lived on?

"...although I was under the impression that the human race was evolving into a species which would help each other."

What planet are you living on, we're a dispicable society of animals that refuses to learn from it's mistakes.

"for these services we set a precedent that will end up with us being charged extra for all sorts of things."

Again, what planet, we are being charged for all sorts of things with stealth taxes that our government desperately tries to introduce at any point possible to make up for the fact that it's screwed the finances of this country up and doesn't get enough tax money. Hands up anyone under 40 who thinks they'll get a state pension (you at the back with your hand up, your a moron, here's your coat, and no you can order your own taxi).

China hijacks Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! traffic?

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No other reason

"..Bush meets the Dalai Lama later this month to award him with a presidential honour, he show show it off as publicly as possible.."

Well obviously, Bush is presenting an award to the Dalai Lama for the sole reason of pissing off the Chinese, he certainly isn't doing it for any other reason as Bush hasn't shown an interest/care in others unless they are within the US (and even those he doesn't give much of a shit about).

At least the Dalai isn't stupid and being the decent good soul that he is, he'll accept it withe grace even though he knows it's politically laced.

Couldn't get 2 people more further apart in terms of decency.

Greenpeace admits iPhone 'compliant' with Euro chemicals rules

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Oh dear, all parties seem guilty...

... it seems nobody followed the links to the report, as posters afterwards are still on a mindless rant. Somebody read the word battery in a comment, which has then been asumed by other posters as being part of the article, it is not.

I think the upshot of it is, that Apple have kept within the regulations but still aren't doing as well as other phone manufacturers, but then that's no surprise as Apple are children to the phone industry (clearly evident in the cell technology they have employed in the phone). So no wrong by Apple, but it appears they could do better.

Digital Switchover: town to lose BBC 2 tomorrow

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RE: What's All The Fuss?

I'm glad someone summed it up for the hard of reading and mentality challenged.

Also in addition to the HD arguement, there's hardly any true HD transmissions being made. Any of the HD nature channels might be close with content filmed on HD cameras and broadcast with a HD signal, sport really is hit and miss, some footie games are filmed in SD and then upscaled for HD, so not true HD. Anything else will be old SD content upscaled, just as if you'd bought a HD TV with an upscaler in which will be trying to convert any SD signal into HD quality.

So with that and freeview (which has already trialled HD digital signal in London, but lets walk before we can run, eh), you don't need to worry about upgrading your kit for at least 2yrs after the final switch over in 2012 and that's being optimistic.

So remember digital is crap at the moment because they have intentionally made it crap at the moment, all your current kit will still work and will continue to do so even after switch over. Your HD content, you'll never know if it's true HD unless you buy a Blu-ray or HD-DVD movie, that's what you get for being an early adopter cause that's where HD is for consumers at the moment, any sales person tells you anything different, then your obviously standing in a DSG Store (e.g. Dixons, Currys, etc).

AI egghead: Human-robot humping, marriage by 2050

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@Rafael

(I've changed the date for you)

In 2001 most of mankind will be rendered so stupid due to lack of common sense, sloppy education and media influence that they will be unable to distinguish between fact and fiction.

3,000 chickens paralyse central Scotland

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@Lester

We still haven't seen a public apology for the "m" word you used.

Apple prepares iPhone WebApp catalogue

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RE: What? Apple is trying CONTROL....

They are trying to control the revenue that 3rd party apps could generate. Look at the WM platform, loads of companies out there making healthy profits off useful apps for the Windows Mobile platform, with very little of that revenue going to MS exclusively.

I don't think Jobs wants to loose out on any money making schemes, look at how much he's charging for a non-3G pone in the first place.

Just think if the phone was 3G from the start and there was no restrictions on 3rd party apps or lock-ins to networks, this phone would have been the greatest development/product to the mobile phone industry since the introduction of colour screens or the mass adoption of SMS.

DA suppressed Alabama Baptist pastor autopsy

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Dangerous not to release the info

By keeping it under wraps, it puts the rest of the public in danger by not highlighting the the possible dangers of wearing half a ton of latex and various straps whilst trying to get some jollies.

Also highlights the danger of not having a partner around to remove said gear should you die, sort of along the lines of your Mum making sure you have clean underwear on in case you get run over.

Hey car thief! Gonna shut you down

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@Bad Beaver

"and wouldn't dozens of local US TV stations simply go out of business once there were no more hour-long car chases to broadcast?"

And in what way is that a bad thing?

Catholic dating sites exchange rings

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Good...

... keep all the dangerous religious nutters on the same site.

Terminator will be back in 2009

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Greed the sequel

... Just goes to show what happens when hollywedge folk get desperate for money, writers probably picked up the comic books one day and thought they could spin more money out of the franchise without doing any work. There's enough comic books in the series to hack together a storyline without actually thinking of anything, give me a day or so, I'm sure I could write a triliogy of Terminator films of the same quality.

Facebook 'friend request' lands UK man in jail

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@Heff

"I wonder how psychotic he was to get the restraining order in the first place?"

You never know, she could be the psychotic one, some strands of the female species are quite delusional at times.

O2 goes flat on data

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Reg bring them all to heel

Surely the Reg with it's journalistic powers should bring this sort of thing as a complaint to Trading Standards for misleading promotion (maybe even get Ofcom involved if you can find the right angle).

For the good of all your readers :)

Adopt this dog or we'll kill it

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@Graham

Well said, like that idea a lot, thinking fuel duty might drop and I might get state pension as well. So much TAX would be free'd up :)

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Do you reckon we could do the same...

... with Chavs. We could say adopt a Chav and teach it some respect and make sure it gets a job, otherwise we'll kill it. Would solve a lot of issues over here in the UK.

(what, I can't hear you, muman ights, your mumbling, sorry can't hear you)

BOFH: You think you know a guy...

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But it was ahead of it's time...

.... what are you doing with that wheely chair in here?

Google Maps rolls out the Mesopotamian nil-cubit

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I drink a lot of tea...

... so you lot better start, think of it as practice for when the Olympics comes to town, they reckon we'll have a power shortage.

Magazines go online in iTunes-esque move

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And so it begins...

... print on demand publishing is growing, this will snowball, although migration to this sort of distribution would kill the porn mag industry, surely (hence probably why they haven't pioneered this in the first place).

Vodafone UK loses roamers worldwide

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@Adrian

Obviously... I've been on Mars for the past few days and my vodafone worked fine.

eBay forum mysteriously leaks account details on 1,200 users

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I reckon it's still the user...

...and I would also point the finger at a keylogger and the possible reason they only pick on ebay out of all the other secure shopping/payment sites, is it's the easist to reconfigure once they have your email account password. Why bother with ripping off your bank, they will have to transfer that money to another traceable account. Why buy something through your online shopping accounts, majority prefer/will only send to the cardholders address, so why hijack someone's account only to have to enter other card details (presumably stolen), hence eBay is an easier target.

Those that have been compromised, get rid of McAfee or S***mantec, install AVG Free edition and do a scan, if that doesn't find it, run a rootkit revealer. Once you have a AV software install, let it do a full scan at least once every couple of weeks (at least, mine does a full scan every 2 weeks and a partial every friday while I'm eating my dinner).

Caves spotted on Mars

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RE: SIG

"who will repeatedly save the world at great personal cost and to the ongoing annoyance of his tailor."

And at great personal cost to the taxpayer as well, you employ Captain Scarlet to a job and he does get it done but usually ends up trashing more stuff the James Bond. Do you know how much those Armoured Rhino's Vehicles cost?

No more buys from Acer

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Well done Acer, keep an eye on this lot...

... they have been going from strength to strength lately. First laptops from Acer I had experience with were awful, but recently I have been buying a number of Vista grade laptops for people and generally speaking they are good.

If they keep and improve these standards and follow them through to the subsidiary brands they will be a major contender in the future.

Google sued for 'crimes against humanity'

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You gotta love these sort of people...

... including P.Saunders as well, without them life would be incredibly dull and at least we all feel sane knowing people in the land of the free are just that, completely free of any responsibilty to anyone including themselves.

Although on a darker note if it gets taken seriously it suddenly goes from being funny to v.scary, at that point I'd happily pay the US Gov. to install rader towers and walls across it's whole border for the good of the sane.

The UK office: hotbed of net smut addiction

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I somehow don't believe it...

... why bother at work when you can do at it home uninterrupted (err.. so to speak).

Also what interest has moneysupermarket.com got in finding out where we prefer to whack off, at home or work.

I can waste my time at work more productively, e.g, like reading the Reg and annoying all the stupid comment makers.