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Giant idol 'STRUCK DOWN by the Wrath of God' unearthed in Turkey

Tuesday 31st July 2012 22:08 GMT Jim Carter

Re: and now imagine the text read

I once knew a man with that kind of passion. Shame about his epic level hypocrisy, not to mention his following of a paleolithic belief system.

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Ever considered putting a rocket up someone's backside?

Tuesday 31st July 2012 11:09 GMT Jim Carter

Re: Tasteless Jokes

I can imagine the poor man being the butt of many jokes.

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IT support bod? Whatever you earn, it's not enough

Saturday 28th July 2012 00:06 GMT Jim Carter

Oh boy...

I work in 1st line, and the stories I could tell. Thankfully we've got to the point where most of the users know how to look up their IP address so I can remote in and see exactly what the problem is.

Luckily my users are mostly a nice bunch and a laugh to boot, especially when I ask the question "What on Earth have you done here?" which seems to get the biggest laugh of all.

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Is running IT for the Olympics the worst job in the world?

Monday 23rd July 2012 19:07 GMT Jim Carter

I've dealt with ATOS before

They were a byword for useless in the company I worked for. So this should be fun.

However, the very best of luck to all the techies involved.

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Watching Olympics at work? How to avoid a £1k telly-tax fine

Friday 20th July 2012 12:25 GMT Jim Carter

In the words of me, my family and friends...

Bugger the Olympics. It was bad enough with the country going nuts for the Jubilee. This is even more tiresome.

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Dell airdrops military-grade data-centre-in-a-crate

Friday 20th July 2012 12:12 GMT Jim Carter

Re: @ Jim Carter.

Nah mate, I was the IT guy for the festival. Well, I was until I was too drunk to see the keyboard.

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Tuesday 17th July 2012 21:40 GMT Jim Carter

Re: Nothing new here

Something like this would work brilliantly for music festivals. You could run all the financials through it, update the website whilst in the middle of a field, everything.

/Memories of smartphone, laptop and a small petrol genny...

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Oatmealer rubs Operation Bear Love cash in troll's face

Thursday 12th July 2012 21:22 GMT Jim Carter

Re: And all without the DMCA

Which scumbag, Orlowski?

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New UK network touts FREE* mobile broadband

Wednesday 4th July 2012 19:28 GMT Jim Carter

A nice idea, with one critical flaw

What's to stop someone from turning on the ads and buggering off to cook dinner, make a cup of tea or enjoy super happy private fun time?

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Amazon cloud knocked out by violent storms in Virginia

Saturday 30th June 2012 21:52 GMT Jim Carter

Have you heard the sound of a man eating his own head?

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Brutal web vice of the People's Republic crushes innovation, growth

Friday 22nd June 2012 20:46 GMT Jim Carter

In all seriousness

I'll bet our own governments are watching China with interest- to see if they can be copied.

/Tin foil deerstalker

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FunnyJunk lawyer doubles down on Oatmeal Operation Bear Love

Monday 18th June 2012 19:02 GMT Jim Carter

Oh dear...

What a carre-on...

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Now TalkTalk cuts Brits' access to The Pirate Bay

Monday 11th June 2012 12:21 GMT Jim Carter

Erm...

Are you for real?

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EU gives Google till July to offer fix for search dominance

Saturday 9th June 2012 08:53 GMT Jim Carter

Re: I'm curious.

Allegedly being the key word there I think. What proof do you have?

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Friday 8th June 2012 15:14 GMT Jim Carter

I'm curious.

What exactly are Google doing wrong, apart from actually being the best search engine at the moment?

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Climate scientists see 'tipping point' ahead

Friday 8th June 2012 11:46 GMT Jim Carter

I've said this before, but it bears repeating.

Bugger the climate change, we don't know enough to figure out what is going on there yet. Further research is needed.

However, what strikes me is, it makes sense to making our society more resource efficient, as we only have so much land, energy and resources to go around.

As with other things, we're living beyond our means, financially (so we're told) and ecologically as well, if you look at the damage over-fishing does to the sea, deforestation to the land, and the over-use of well, everything.

Anthropogenic climate change or not, things cannot continue as they are.

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Missed the Venus solar flyby? It's only 105 years to the next one

Wednesday 6th June 2012 14:49 GMT Jim Carter

A friend of mine got a brilliant picture using his own telescope

http://i.imgur.com/wIggI.jpg

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Olympic Wenlock plod cops condemnation from Amazon wags

Wednesday 30th May 2012 12:11 GMT Jim Carter

It ain't no "Penetrating Wagner's Ring"

But it's a pumping good start.

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Mars rover Opportunity spots WALL-E in crater ramble

Friday 25th May 2012 09:21 GMT Jim Carter

Re: But...

It wouldn't be a god-awful small affair...

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London Olympics 'not immune' to cyber attack

Thursday 3rd May 2012 11:55 GMT Jim Carter

Francis Maude?

Crack team?

My arse!

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ISPs torch UK.gov's smut-blocking master plan

Thursday 19th April 2012 14:04 GMT Jim Carter

"Think of the children"

Kinky bastards...

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iPad to reign unchallenged as KING of FONDLESLABS

Monday 16th April 2012 20:07 GMT Jim Carter

I hope you're trolling.

Because outside of BBC HYS, that has got to be the daftest thing I've read all day if not.

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Sweden: talk, text and drive? OK

Sunday 15th April 2012 10:10 GMT Jim Carter

Re: Different

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

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Mega-star HD 10180 could have more planets than the Sun

Tuesday 10th April 2012 18:25 GMT Jim Carter

Re: STOP WASTING MONEY

LOUD NOISES!!

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550,000-strong army of Mac zombies spreads across world

Friday 6th April 2012 12:12 GMT Jim Carter

Whilst the schadenfreude is indeed very delicious

It surely teaches anyone that security through obscurity is not a valid approach, as much as you want it to be.

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Cybercops traced Toulouse massacre suspect through IP address

Thursday 22nd March 2012 16:15 GMT Jim Carter

Re: Would be it bad taste of me to say...

Well it was hardly "Terrorists win", was it?

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Thursday 22nd March 2012 14:41 GMT Jim Carter

Re: Dead from the fall?

Either way, he had nothing Toulouse...

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Thursday 22nd March 2012 14:21 GMT Jim Carter

Would be it bad taste of me to say...

COUNTER-TERRORISTS WIN!!

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So, what IS the worst film ever made?

Monday 19th March 2012 16:22 GMT Jim Carter

How about

Ilse, She-Wolf of the SS?

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Lawyers of Mordor retreat from The Hobbit

Saturday 17th March 2012 21:09 GMT Jim Carter

Re: Check their website thehobbitpub.co.uk

They come in pints?

I certainly do...

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That steady diet of EastEnders is turning her into a shrew

Monday 12th March 2012 10:04 GMT Jim Carter

Ah, soaps

Low-cost TV delivered with minimum effort for the maximum profit. No wonder it's so profitable and popular with the advertisers.

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Weeing Frenchman sues Google over Street View photo

Friday 2nd March 2012 16:24 GMT Jim Carter

Clearly, he's taking the piss.

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Playboy, Virgin Galactic tout zero-grav nookie in spaaaaace!

Monday 27th February 2012 13:57 GMT Jim Carter

Brings a whole new meaning to...

"Open the POD bay doors HAL"

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OPERA grabs spanner, fixes kit, and slows down neutrinos

Wednesday 22nd February 2012 23:37 GMT Jim Carter

Re-seating the cable?

They might as well have turned it off and on again!

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Top Euro beaks to probe ACTA for rights breaches

Wednesday 22nd February 2012 23:32 GMT Jim Carter

Well how about that.

Europe doing something I agree with for once.

Blimey.

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GPS jamming rife, could PARALYSE Blighty, say usual suspects

Wednesday 22nd February 2012 19:31 GMT Jim Carter

Cockshott's spurting outburst, surely?

Yes, I'm already wearing the damn thing.

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Now Proview seeks ban on ALL iPads coming out of China

Tuesday 14th February 2012 23:18 GMT Jim Carter

There's only one way to find out...

FIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!

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Shakira attacked by sea lion who mistook BlackBerry for a 'fish'

Tuesday 14th February 2012 21:55 GMT Jim Carter

Perhaps she was after a kiss from a rose?

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Apple demands US ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus

Monday 13th February 2012 18:08 GMT Jim Carter

Not forgetting...

Voice search has been on my Android for the best part of two years now.

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Shark versus shark in Barrier Reef DEATH MATCH

Monday 13th February 2012 00:41 GMT Jim Carter

It's a shark eat shark world out there...

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Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for her

Saturday 11th February 2012 14:59 GMT Jim Carter

Think I'll just stick with a she wee.

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IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop

Friday 10th February 2012 23:29 GMT Jim Carter

I agree with the sentiment, if not the execution.

Personally, I'd have sold the thing on ebay, but hey, that's just me.

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Millions face Megaupload data deletion by Thursday

Monday 30th January 2012 19:46 GMT Jim Carter

Seems like egregious data tampering to me.

What if data pertaining to the defence is "accidentally" deleted?

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Ancient tulip-like stomach-onna-stick creatures found in Rockies

Saturday 21st January 2012 23:53 GMT Jim Carter

A mixture of both, really.

A combination of the catastrophic (cf. the KT Impact, Burgess Shale etc.) and the gradual, such as various Ice Ages, the slow deposition of ocean sediment, mountain building and so forth.

Although the film Ice Age is and remains a bloody catastrophe if you ask me.

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The TARDIS through the ages

Wednesday 30th November 2011 21:51 GMT Jim Carter

If it was an American woman

They'd need a very large parking space.

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Wednesday 30th November 2011 13:03 GMT Jim Carter

Massive, massive geek alert

IIRC later model TARDISes can actually look like people.

/Mine's the one with the sonic screwdriver in the pocket.

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Boffins whip up SELF-WIRING chip

Monday 17th October 2011 14:13 GMT Jim Carter

Probably a bit A Man from Mars-ish...

But this could be a significant step on the road to the artificial intelligence singularity, given that organic brains have the capability to re-wire themselves to form new congnitive connections.

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