* Posts by Khaptain

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French drug dealers regretfully announce 'temporary closure'

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Re: Allô ?

The following text has been shamelessly copied from the officiel website. It states the primary mission of the Academy.

La mission confiée à l’Académie est claire : « La principale fonction de l’Académie sera de travailler, avec tout le soin et toute la diligence possibles, à donner des règles certaines à notre langue et à la rendre pure, éloquente et capable de traiter les arts et les sciences. » (Article 24 des statuts.)

Cette mission doit se traduire par la rédaction de quatre ouvrages : un dictionnaire, une grammaire, une rhétorique et une poétique ; seul le Dictionnaire sera réalisé par l’Académie. Les autres points du programme seront remplis en dehors d’elle, par des ouvrages qui, à leur manière, feront autorité.

Badly translated by me as follows:

The mission entrusted to the Academy is clear : The principal function of the Academy will be to labour,

with care and with all possibile diligence, to provide the necassary rules for our language

in order keep it pure, eloquant and capable of handling the arts and sciences.

This mission should be interpreted by the editing of four works: a dictionnary, grammar, rhetoric and poetic licence; only the dictionnary shall be created by the Academy. The others will be fulfilled externally to the Acadamy, of which these works, in their own manner, will become authorative.

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Re: Allô ?

Phil, yes you are correct, I used the quotes in order to highlight the usage of the Anglisicms.

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Re: Sad Times For the Grenoblois

Agreed, it is difficult to imagine but there are definately "ghetto neighbourhoods" even in the French Alpes.

In the following link, even if don't understand French, you can see the housing scheme known as "La Villeneuve" which is proximity Echirolles, it has become a place of residence for those on a very low income even though intially it was designed for people from all social classes.

http://www.francetvinfo.fr/france/video-la-villeneuve-a-grenoble-radiographie-d-un-quartier-difficile_151117.html

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Re: Allô ?

Even though "revendeur" would be the correct literary translation, it would be more common to hear people actually use the word "dealer".

Example : Il achete un peu de "shit" chez son "dealer".

Les anglisicms are rife in France et meme s'il faut pas mixer words from different languages, des fois, it is difficult not to.

Facebook will LOSE 80% of its users by 2017 – epidemiological study

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Sounds about right

Facebook is really no different to Myspace, Yahoo, Compuserve etc they belong to group of non essential things that make up the Interwebs....

Ofcom says yes to sat broadband on PLANES (and trains and ships)

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500 people sharing 50Mb/s, mmmmmmmmmmm, as he deftly double clicks his favourite torrent client...which has a plethitude of HD Blue Ray rips queued up.

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New options available

In flight porn on a transat flight, just be carefull who is sitting next to you......

PS : Please ensure that Skype et al are filtered out of the traffic...... No talking during porn sessions if you please..

Plusnet is working on a network-level filter to block pirate sites

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Re: wait and see

Wake up man, didn't you now that Copyright Infringement and Terrorism are on the same level on the scale of terrible things to do.....

Well at least he RIAA, MPAA et al seem to think so

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Re: Court Orders.

I wonder if they will also block Google.....

If I want to find pirated stuff the first thing I do is a "Google" search as this is usually quite sufficient in order to find the "pirated" material.

Like many other I also use youtube for watching copyrighted films, ie Full Movies, will they also block youtube ( there are more any more images of Womens Breasts, oooooohhhhhh, on youtube, again they must be blocked for all this evil doing).

IBM's top brass forgo bonuses after drop in yearly profits

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$4 Million slithers down into the underworld

Oh well I guess I won't be getting that invitation to cruise on her NOT soon to be new yacht..... Saves me from having to buy the Champagne....

Strange I don't rememer my bonus as having been in the 7 digit region.....

Our robot overlords won't be evil cyborgs: Prepare for whisker-equipped ROBO-KITTIES

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Leather gloves required

If you tug on the said whisker, does a supersonic paw fly out and use it's razor sharp claws on the back of your hand in order to remind you never to pull it's whiskers ?

My cat just gives me a look that says that that is what is going to happen should I even think about doing something even remotely as silly.

Reading this headline? You and 9.47 million others

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Re: Smarm

Nope, they should be thanking us, otherwise their writings would be just relegated to the level of spacedust within the time continuum.

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Re: Will it blend?

I thought that the El Reg readership was mainly made up from spineless, gutless IT geeks..... Those intestines would not stretch very far.....

( Of course, I myself am not included in aformentioned stereotyping........)

Sony brings 4K shooting to the masses in weeks

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Unhappy

Giving a very high end DSLR to a monkey will not produce quality composition.

Giving a 4K video cam to a monkey will still not produce quality composition.

Giving a pencil to a monkey will definately not produce quality composition. ( Hypothetically they can write Shakespearean tradegies but that's only hypothetical).

I agree that there is a "very" limited niche market who could actually put these to good use but that is and will always remain a very niche market.

There is no real mass market appeal in these cams at all, they are just the next marketing gimmick.

Within the question Do I want "Available Internet Bandwidth or Higher quality cat Videos " ?, I know which I prefer because we all know how these cams will end up being used....when the price drops to proloteriat levels.

Our Milky Way galaxy is INSIDE OUT. Just as we suspected, mutter boffins

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Happy

Many dimensions

I always like to imagine the universe as a torus who's centre is very small and who's outside edges are very very distant. Things evolve/revolve along it's various axes permanently, thereby giving the universe a cyclic nature.

What's here today is gone tommorrow but back again the day after ( on a universal scale that is).

Ancient carving of 'first human-built holy place' = Primitive Vulture Central

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Re: Ted talks

"Picking at the rotting carcases left behind by IT"

it doesn't really have the same ring to it but it's probably quite reflective.

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Ted talks

Extract from one of the Ted Talks

"As natural garbage collectors, vultures are vital to our ecosystem -- so why all the bad press? Why are so many in danger of extinction? Raptor biologist Munir Virani says we need to pay more attention to these unique and misunderstood creatures, to change our perception and save the vultures. "

El Reg - Bad Press - never.........

Haribo gummy bears implicated in 'gastric exorcism'

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Re: coffee straw???

The idea of drinking "hot" coffee through a straw sounds absolutely painfull...

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: Drama queens

Definate thumbs up for the three wolves, I didn't know that Amazon allowed for comments like that, put a smile on my Monday morning blues face....

Must hold back temptation to buy three howling wolves tshirt.........

Indian minister's wife found dead after Twitter rampage

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Trollface

Proof at last

This must Shirley be considered as absolute, undeniable and Darwinian proof that social networking is bad for your health.

Beware, beware the Ides of march.

Yet another pricey Olympics' exec drafted in by UK.gov - this time for broadband spending

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Canned laughter

Any man that starts a new position with such a statement deserves nothing more than canned laughter rather than applause.

Canned statements = give me money and give me it now......( Then I will calmely fade into non existence)

Open source project gives cars the Ikea treatment

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Happy

Return to the 70s

That looks an awful lot like a moon buggy, I had a toy one as a kid. With the plans I can now build my own, who knows, today my back yard, tommorrow the moon.......

(Cmon a man has to dream as well you know)

Foot-loving cat burglar nicks THREE THOUSAND individual socks

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Alternative title

Purring panty purloining pussy pilleged peoples pedes protectors

Staffs Police face data protection probe over 'drink drivers named' Twitter campaign

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Windows

Is that like revenge porn for Alcoholics ?

Furtive ebook readers push Hitler's Mein Kampf up the charts

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Trollface

Re: re: Khaptain

@tony2heads

The Smart ones probably wrote it.

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It's normal that one would get funny looks -

By the very definition of "smart" ( intelligence, acumen), smart people don't need a bible.

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Holmes

The inside story

Mein Kampf is an insight into who the man was, whether he was a devil or an angel is irrelevant, it is, and should remain an important part of history. ( Those who ignore the past are more likely to repeat it)

The question that should arise is "WHY" an increasing amount of people become interested.

Also, I think it would be a worse thing if there was no longer any interest in this kind of literature.

Light, fast ... and pricey: Toshiba's Portégé Z30 – now THIS is an Ultrabook

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>1366 x 768

>Yes, here at Vulture Central we're very much aware that many of you will have decided not to read further than that last sentence

Yup, you got that right. Whats the point, YouTube at 144p

Coffee a memory enhancing drug, say boffins

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I go through phases of drinking gallons of the stuff per day and others where I drink almost none.

Result : my memory is still a shambles whether I drink coffee or not.

I wonder who the sponsor behind this message really was ?

Pre-Xmas phone numbers: Apple slips, Windows Phone grabs 1 in 10 new sales

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FAIL

Re: Credibility = none

@cambsuk

You do know what the concept of "product placement" means ?

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Windows

Credibility = none

MS's strongpoint was the desktop.

Nokia's strongpoint was the Cellphone.

The public at large, don't care about either anymore, so MS + Nokia have nothing really left to offer in this market. Neither of them offer any "streetcred" which is what people want/need ( Yes, it's pathetic but that is the result of endless years of adverstising).

MS + Nokia + Smartphone market = A drowning horse flailing about in a sea of modicum...

US Navy trials GIANT ROBOTIC SPYBIRD for coastal patrols

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Re: The UK should sign up now

Two songs come to mind, both by Bob Dylan

1 : Maggie's Farm

2 : Hard rains gonna fall.

Thought the toilet camera was weird? Try actual thumb flash drives from tech's supershow

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Re: Thumbs up!

Culbuter in French has several meaning.

The slang version, which is quite common, means to "have sex, f**k, etc". Quite appropropriate given the shape of the "toy".

Block The Pirate Bay? Arrr, me hearties, new P2P client could sink that plan

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Pint

Necessity

Mother of all invention.

A few of these for the TPB guys , they must be working their asses of at this moment in time----->>>>>>

Amazon, Hollywood, Samsung: PLEASE get excited about 4K telly

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It still won't entice me to buy a Television ( or a huge screen).

What's needed is quality films not quality screens.

4K should have been named 4C whereby C = consumerism. .....

Do people really feel "immersed" just because of the size of the screen ? Even at the cinema I don't get that impression.

Dell confirms Chromebook for Blighty

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Re: a token offering meant to be ugly?

@Andy

It is the Corei5 vesion with a 256Gb flash disk and I stand corrected for the price, according to XE.com it about 4 times the price ( taxe inclusive). It also includes the docking station...ooops forgot to mention that.

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Re: a token offering meant to be ugly?

I just received a XPS11 this morning, lovely little machine, the touch screen makes W8 usable BUT the price is nowhere near the £300, more like 5 times that price.

The machines in this article should not be confused with the XPS laptops which are in a different ballpark.

Pervy TOILET CAMERA disguised as 'flash drive' sparks BOMB SCARE on Boeing 767

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Re: More training needed?

This is exactly the state that the Governments want the people to be in - a constant state of fear....

The bible bashers did it for long enough and it seemed to work for them.

Snowden to warn Brits on Xmas telly: Your children will NEVER have privacy

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Definition required

Can someone please define privacy before getting involved in a debate.

Is it the right to remain anonymous whilst doing something legal.

Is it the right to remain anonymous whilst doing something illegal.

The NSA, GCHQ are doing what they have always done, it just seems that now most people actually hand them their details on a plate. You want Facebook et al to remain free, Ok no problem but there is a price to pay.

The internet does not force you to do anything that you don't want to do. If you want privacy; don't do anything in public. The internet is after all very much a public affair..

This is a debate that could go on for ever but at the end of the day each person is responsable for his own acts.

Android, Chromebooks storm channel as Windows PC sales go flat

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Re: I don't get it

Macbooks look great but they are expensive, most consumers don't understand RAM, SSD, GHz, Pixels etc all they understand is the end price. Either they can afford it or they can't. There really is not a lot more to understand.

The fanbois can argue until they are blue in the face about "intrinsic value" but they don't foot the bill for Joe Punter.

Macbooks don't offer anything of value to the average punter......Proof of the pudding lies in the fact that they will buy iPhones and Tablets ( Samsung or Apple), within which they will find all that they truly require, media consumption and facebook....

Torvalds: Linux devs may 'cry into our lonely beers' at Christmas

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Alien

Adjectives

It's not easy to find the correct adjectives to describe Linus without sounding rude.

It's the dream: Bill Gates chucks cash at WEE-IN-YOUR-PHONE project

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Facepalm

Nature Selfies

We might not yet get to know about the bears but now we will get to see the tribal people shitting in the desert/savana.

Cyanogen grabs $23m, will ship mod-installed N1 smartmobe on Xmas Eve

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Meh

Re: Embrace and extend?

CM is not a threat, why, because it relies on Google's code. CM does not write everything from scratch, they "extend" existing code.

If anything CM actually helps Google by showing what can be improved, modded to a better level or optimised.

CM is not perfect but it is good.

They only downside that I now see though is that they will no longer have to fight like hungry men in order to survive, I am worried that they will start behaving like round bellied managers. Only the future can tell.

Proposed California law demands anti-theft 'kill switch' in all smartphones

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Mushroom

Re: If this is going to be regulated...

Alternatively, use the Israeli method, a little bit of strategic C4 + remote detonation.... Garaunteed that the thief will never steal another anything....

First China banned Bitcoin. Now its crooks are using malware to steal traders' wallets

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Re: Serious Question

Mea culpa, I read the article too quickly. What I dont understand is how the malware gets there in the first place ( hence the bad presumption of clicking a link within an email - quite typically it's thru email )

In fact I just realised the article doesn't mention at all how the malware gets to its target.

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Serious Question

Who in this day and age still for those kinds of emails ? I have a slight suspicion that traders are generally not quite so dumb.

Macbook webcams CAN spy on you - and you simply CAN'T TELL

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Re: Nothing beats a physical shutter

For the Apple owners we could suggest some Tippex ( white-out)

Sky rapped over PREMATURE SEXY CONDOM ad

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9Pm deadline

At 9pm it is vital that your children are sent to their bedrooms. The TV programs at that hour are no longer appropriate, your children can find far better porn on the web on their PCs/Tablets/Phones etc..

James Bond's 'shaken not stirred': Down to trembling boozer's hands, claim boffins

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Re: Doctors?

Good news because then you can't be an alcoholic.

Facebook seeks WIDE EYES of sports fans to rival Twitter

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Admen

There will come a time when all software is free, in between the adverts and the subliminal messages you will actually manage to do something with the software although it won't actually have any relevance other than to display the next advert.

Or is that already Facebooks model.......