Posts by Stevie

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I have super wide feet too, and my choices for footwear in England circa 1983 were Clark's schoolkid's shoes (nar, they dun maykum in widfs for adults doo they?) or bespoke shoes by Church - who *did* maykum in widfs but charged me deep in't purse fer privilege - 'and made, see?

Then I came to New York and discovered the joy of off-the-peg adult shoes sold not only in widths like the fabled "E", but there were "EE" and even "EEE" too if you knew who to ask. And that was just about anyone in a shoestore with a badge on.

I had a girlfriend then who complained that at 4'11' she was faced with shopping in Italy or France or being told she had to wear kid's clothes. I remember thinking it was sad she'd given me my marching orders because if she'd come with me to NY she could walk into any clothing store and be treated like an adult human being. There were well-dressed petite ladies walking about *everywhere* (though none of them would give me the time of day on account of my clunky bespoke UK clodhoppers).

Which was the reason I decided that although I didn't think I would be staying in New York forever (wrong) I knew bloody well that I wasn't going back to the UK where everything about the retail and service industries is too much trouble and the customer is always wrong. Douglas Adams was making a fortune writing thinly disguised books about the phenomenon, but I was done with the whole miserable affair.

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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes barreling down the freeway.

Tannenbaum.

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You forgot Bill Maher, who Mr T sued for suggesting in a comedy bit that Trump (at the time loudly heading up the "Birther" nonsense) had an orang-utan for a father. This contention was backed up with comparison pictures.

Personally I don't know why Trump Wants All that Trouble.

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Europe could lead the world here by declaring that a copyright challenge not only had to be deemed worthwhile and non injurious to the originator, it had to be voted "not crap" by a 2/3 majority of a random sample of people stopped in the street and forced to listen to it.

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Since we cannot say for certain that this object ever cleared its own orbit of debris whenit was in its original solar system, we can never call it a planet.

Were some so-called astronomers not awake during the Pluto renaming debacle?

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Yeah, that "comic relief" nuke law was why I couldn't have one of those neat tritium keyrings sent over from the Blightside.

Stand back, copper, or everyone gets dimly illuminated.

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Let us speak again of how the FBI will only use the iPhone Can-Opener of Justice in "Real Cases", on how one has nothing to fear if one has done nothing wrong, and on how "Reiser is Innocent".

Here's an idea: What if the request to keep the data had to be done periodically (as I'm sure it really does) but each time the name and badge number of the officer making the request along with the reason and the approving superior officer's name and badge number be recorded in the same data chunk as the details being saved "for later"?

That way, you could - for example - ask questions like "who is trying to game the system and who is colluding with them?"

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The board cost me close to $45 when all factors were costed in. More than $10 added for the official (inadequately ventilated less'n you leave panels off) case, ten bucks for a decent power supply and cabling for it. And whatever micro SD card they plugged in, say another $10 but probably more.

So not really such a mark-up when judged by build-it-retail metrics. And getting the O/S in and all the bits playing nicely was a tad more intense and time consuming than with previous Pi models (I have model Bs going back to the first one and speak from actual hands-on experience) and that don't come free if someone else is doing it for you.

And if you still think it's usurious DON'T BUY IT.

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I wouldn't mind the pinit,arsebook,pop-ups and Google Analytics content if it would load and render in the background AFTER the worthwhile content has appeared.

As for best practices, has anyone at El Reg so much as looked at the eye-blinding ads that load into the banneron the Register App?

Talk about pot and kettle conversations.

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And the peachy printer kickstarter promised a $100 3D printer driven from the soundcard of a computer but actually built a big house for one of the "developers".

Anything said by a kickstarter developer for a tech project is most properly labelled "outright lie" in the absence of an actual case contradicting that.

See also: unfeasible personal mini drone with on-board camera and unicorn tracker.

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@ShadySid crashed speed trap + peelers in pursuit. tweet us a DL tootsweet TVM #schtum.

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So we can safely assume those reports of pandemic levels of lycanthropy, vampirism and The Andromeda Strain are discredited?

What if, hypothetically, word of some of the results of blood tests people had sent to Theranos had leaked out and, for example, vigilante-like groups of concerned citizens had conducted sweeping purges of the reportedly-infected as a medical precaution in the interests of the larger population lest a cordon-sanitaire be thrown around the town by the army?

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No, it's ok. See, the FBI knows these superhackers in Israel ...

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I love people who get bent out of shape over imaginary Skiffy threats from "Frankenfood".

I had the distinct pleasure of having to listen to one friend holding forth while slathering ketchup all over his yeastburger.

"You been eating ketchup long?" I asked 'innocently'

"Of course. Since I was a kid."

"Grown a third eye yet?" I asked, sweetly.

"No. What are you getting at?"

"Me neither. I'm surprised really because Heinz has been shining hard gamma rays through every bottle of ketchup they produce since the 1950s in order to kill any mould spores in the goo. With the amount of ketchup I gulp down every montgh I expected to get awesome X-Man powers years ago." I said, glumly. "I guess it was an unrealistic expectation based on unscientific thinking ..."

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But why was the article headed by a photograph of a third stage guild navigator?

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The perfect peripheral for Windows Rat Out Edition 10.

Now, where can I git me some o' them thar Sony CDs that come with a rootkit installed?

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"Nobody is going after the small guy".

In what alternate universe? Small guy prosecutions happen all the time over the entire spectrum of the law.

Quick question: UK prisons; room to spare or overcrowded like everyone else's?

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Blast! My Gibson is haxxored again!

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"Tectonic?" Another verbal offering to the goddess Hyperbole.

If I've told that man once I've told him a million times not to exaggerate.

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"According to a study by by software firm CAST, the UK is particularly vulnerable to banking outages due to the large amounts of legacy code supporting banking applications"

Translation: Lame-ass CS graduates can't do easy-as-chips Cobol for toffee.

Ya-boo-sux 8oP

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Couldn't have happened in England.

They don't use feet. Everything's in metres.

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Here's a radical thought: Try finding out what skills the UK businesses need in their IT people and try teaching that.

Better still: Work out what's likely to be hot in five years and teach *that*.

The universities could do worse than getting in people from actual industry to teach courses. Academics can have the strangest ideas on what IT looks like in the real world.

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"The good burghers of Middle England" should stop whining to the Daily Mail and do something about the national disgrace that is the county of Midsomer.

18 seasons so far and no sign of the blood bath that is Rural Middle England abating.

Clean your own house, you silly burghers!

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Yesyesyes, penis in a spanner, right.

But as usual, The Register abrogates even the merest shred of journalistic rigor and fumbles the realquestion: metric or AF?