* Posts by Jerome 0

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Google leaves censorship to China's experts

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The cost

"So, if Google decides to withdraw from China, what's the cost?"

About $310m apparently, and a nasty little dip in the share price.

Sony Ericsson Android phone caught on camera

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Unhappy

Nice hardware

Such a shame, it's a beautiful looking piece of hardware. How on earth did they manage to drag down a 1GHz processor so badly that the interface could grind along that slowly?

'Fizzy phone' tops wacky handset list

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Coat

Urine luck!

At least it might stop muggers wanting to take the piss.

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Coffee/keyboard

Mentos

From what I recall of YouTube videos, its primary use is causing Mentos to explode violently.

Google flaps free flag in white space database race

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It's a no-brainer

"Nine companies are bidding to run the US white space database, but only Google plans to give access away for free - which should ensure the race doesn't last long."

Why? Surely there's still eight companies to choose from?

Android and WinMo updates going head-to-head

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What?

Windows 7 has interactive wallpapers? Where?

Avatar renders this earthly life meaningless

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What about the game?

Is the game really so bad that "likeadream" thinks reading the field guide and editing the wiki is more likely to cure your Pandora blues?

Beeb reporter breaks Sonim's 'unbreakable' phone with fishtank

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Excellent stuff

The best part of the video is the way the journalist is so abjectly apologetic (so much for hard-hitting journalism) while Plaschke remains completely calm and collected about the whole incident. Sheer class.

Samsung Omnia II

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Megaphone

Rage

If the iPhone is Joe McElderry, does that make the Nexus One Rage Against the Machine?

Oz firm seeks talented IT developer

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Coat

Re: minds me

Because the people who write the legislation are all mingers?

Plastic Logic unveils executive e-book reader

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Guide

The U.S. price.

Controversy rages over robot vasectomy reversal in Florida

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Long term picture

Surely the main point here is not that this procedure is quicker or more expensive than its human counterpart, but rather that the robot is performing it in the first place. Presumably, by pursuing such lines of research, we will eventually end up with a robot that is cheap, fast and less prone to error than a human being.

French court says 'oui' on workplace smut

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Troll

Militant socialism FTW

Were it not for the militant socialism, you'd be tempted to take advantage of the effects of militant socialism?

Palm re-models Pre and Pixi phones

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Paris Hilton

Not the prettiest design

Is it just me, or are those things seriously ugly? I suppose that sort of thing is pretty subjective, I think the Touch HD2 is the nicest looking smartphone around at the moment (although not nice enough to put up with Windows Mobile for it).

You and what Android? The Google iPhone killer that isn't

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Boffin

Not rocket science, indeed

No, you go crying to whoever sold you the device, at least in this country.

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Certainly

It's being touted as "The Googlephone" because Google are calling it the Google phone. It's not rocket science.

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WTF?

The hype machine

Seems like a really nice phone, apart from the lack of multitouch, which cripples it somewhat. But it really is crazy how much hype Google managed to drum up with virtually no effort whatsoever. Apple and Google both seem to have this skill, albeit in very different ways. It will be interesting to see how long Google retains the ability, if all of their launches turn out to be so underwhelming.

Gumtree gives up on dating AND casual sex

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Pet scams?

How on earth are pet adverts used by 419 scammers?

Do they hook their marks in by offering suspiciously cheap pets, send out photos of the cute fluffy little bastards, and then it's all "send me $3000 dollars or the hamster gets it"?

Or is it more "my client is the cousin of the crown prince of Nigeria, and he has 500 gerbils that we need to transfer out of the country..."?

Toshiba unwraps Cell TV

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Joke

Simple

Because there's no point playing HD content into it, when SD content is upscaled to look just as good!

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Now that's magic

"render standard definition content in HD with some very smart pixel generation that yields an image virtually indistinguishable from genuine 1080p material, Toshiba claimed"

Remarkable. Hardly worth broadcasting HD at all then I guess. May as well just send a single pixel and let the Cell upscale it to digital cinema quality - that'll save on the old bandwidth.

UK prosecutors drop 'tiger' sex video case

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The other clip

What's in the second clip, a woman having an orgy with Snap, Crackle and Pop?

Nexus One web address used to punt smoky jazz

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Flame

Not using it?

"He doesn't seem to be using it for anything in particular"

Well if you will link to www.nexusone.com/blank.html, it's hardly surprising you get a blank page. Pop over to www.nexusone.com itself and it directs you to one of a selection of slightly crappy looking sites (apparently via a service called urlsplit), so it's obvious that the owner of the site is making good use of all the bonus traffic flowing his way.

Samsung N140

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FAIL

Same old, same old

Looks great, but they seem to have forgotten to add integrated 3G, or increased screen resolution, or a multitouch screen... in fact, it seems they haven't made any real improvements over the first generation of netbooks. Still, at least it's still at that magic £200 netbook price point. What's that - they want £315 for it? Pass.

The Googlephone - there's more where that came from

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WTF?

I must be missing something here

"we wouldn't be surprised if Google wooed the pair with a cut of its ad dollars."

Why? What does Google get in return for giving away it's revenue? Surely Google is doing these companies a favour by allowing them to join in the Googlestore fun?

"It is an expansion of the marketplace. But that expansion favors Google more than anyone else."

Well, obviously - it's Google doing the expanding, how would that favour anyone else?

Facebook offs social suicide service

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FAIL

Facebook fail

If you're friends with unwanted people, that's your problem, nobody's forcing you. Just unfriend (ugh, I can't believe I just used that word) them. If your friends are posting inane attention-seeking updates or hitting on your partner, that says more about your friends than it does about the site.

Facebook is a handy little way of keeping in touch with people you like but don't see on a regular basis. If you're finding it annoying, you're doing it wrong.

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Privacy

"To be fair of course, given Google and other caches, there is a danger that anything you put online will never truly die."

Except if your account is set to be viewable only by your friends (the sensible option, which used to be the default until the recent changes) in which case Google can't even see your data, let alone cache it.

Mr Bean ousts PM from Spain's official website

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Flame

Pictures or it didn't happen

No "separated at birth" style image? How disappointing.

http://totallylookslike.com/2008/09/28/jose-luis-rodriguez-zapatero-totally-looks-like-mr-bean/

Tories swallow Web 2.0, spit out £1m crowdsource prize

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Coat

Jeremy Hunt?

More of a Mike, I'd say.

Redkneck Vampire Attacks Trailer Park

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Alien

Honeymoon couple attacked by goldfish!

A quick random sampling from WWN brought to my attention a rather chilling article about one couple's close brush with death at the hands (fins?) of a horde of ravenous goldfish.

"In the light of the full moon, I glimpsed their soulless, little eyes rushing past me, felt their puckered lips sucking on my skin."

Classic.

Samsung's Galaxy stuck in history

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Hard Reg?

"Over at Hard Reg they've been looking at the latest DAB radio"

I do hope that's Reg Hardware, and not some kind of gay porn site.

English language falls to the Slashdot effect

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Redact?

Redact is a new word? I suppose its use to specifically mean the removal of sensitive information might be new. As far as I was aware, it simply meant the preparation of a document for publication.

"Snollygoster" is lovely, but it doesn't even begin to make up for "freemium" or "jeggings".

5-megapix 'iPhone 4' set for June?

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How generous

It's nice that Apple are finally stepping up to 5 megapixels, while the rest of the industry has been on 8 megapixels in their flagship products for a while now, but will the camera still be dreadful? After all, it's the lens and sensor quality that matter, not the megapixel count.

Legal highs now illegal

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Children

I agree - ban children immediately.

HP probes 'racist' webcams

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Paris Hilton

Confused

I wasn't aware you could get webcams with automatic zoom, but if they focus in on the user's face, doesn't that defeat the object of a webcam?

UK etailer calls self 'the last place you want to go'

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Damn straight

Honesty in advertising - I love it.

Googlephone specs uncovered?

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Completely different

A point release over other phones? It's a major release over the G1 (1.6 to 2.1), which is what we were actually talking about.

The looks are totally different. Larger screen, no physical keyboard to bulk it out, much more modern looking.

The hardware is completely different: much faster processor, higher resolution screen, better camera.

I'm not saying this will necessarily be the smartphone everyone's been waiting for, but to say it's nothing new over the G1 is just bizarre.

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WTF?

@ Campbeltonian

Er, how about the fact it's a completely different phone? Different OS version, different looks, different hardware, different features. You may as well ask, apart from the manufacturer and the link to Google, what is it about this phone that is not new?

Aliens more likely to live on moons than planets, say boffins

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Stop

Ultimate goal?

"We should certainly keep them in mind as we work toward the ultimate goal of finding alien life."

Who says that's the ultimate goal? Surely the ultimate goal must be to find extra-terrestrial life, then to find some way of exploiting it to create shareholder value.

Sony Vaio X

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Twice as pricey?

"it's not, say, twice as portable as netbooks such as the Dell Mini 10, despite costing well over twice as much"

Er, twice as much? Try over four times as much. Unless I missed the point where the Mini 10 got a price rise to £600?

2009's Top Netbooks

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3G modem?

Do any of these have integrated 3G though? Surely the majority of people use these things for surfing while mobile, and messing around with a dongle gets old fast.

Government outlines five year IT strategy

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Strategy?

Phew, at first I thought the headline was "government outlives five year IT strategy" - I thought we might have to put up with another five years of these clowns. Wait, David Cameron is the alternative? Oh shit.

Notts County Council sprays £82k on PC smut trawl

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FAIL

Councillors' porn stash

"We look forward to finding out what Nottinghamshire councillors keep on their PCs."

So would I, but all we're going to find out is what they've *still* got on their PCs despite having been given plenty of warning they're about to be scanned - unlike their less important colleagues, who received no such warning.

Sh*t the bed, it's Comment of the Week

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Boffin

Wichita Lineboffin

I am a boffin for the agency

And I drive the oscilloscope

Lookin' in the lab for another infeasible artificial intelligence related breakthrough

With my skills in advanced robotics

I could work for Cyberdyne

But the Wichita Lineboffin

Still evaluates the spline

I know I've tried extensive weather control

And it don't look like rain

But if I can focus this microwave weaponry

You won't ever stand the pain

And I need a shark with a frickin laser beam attached to its head more than want it

And I want it to be capable of hovering in mid-air for extended periods whilst still maintaining its stealth capabilities

But the Wichita Lineboffin

Still evaluates the spline

Eat frozen food and avoid line-caught fish, says eco study

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Boffin

Missing the point

Surely the point of food miles is simply to point out that we should be eating local produce - in this case, locally caught fish. Regardless of the relative merits of whisking fish half way around the world by air, or ferrying them around in bloody great freezer-ships, it can hardly be denied that eating a locally caught fresh fish is going to be the most efficient (and tasty) course of action.

Combat games disrespect war laws, report claims

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War?

If the purpose of games was to depict an ideal world, would it not be better to produce games where there was no warfare at all, lawful or otherwise? Something like Bunch of Flowers 4: Modern Floral Arrangements?

Vampires not good role models for Catholics, declares Vatican

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@ PT

LMFAO @ "boyfiend"!

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Deviance? Did I miss it?

"Deviant moral vacuum"? I can't argue with the vacuum part, but I've yet to see much evidence of the moral deviancy. I guess I'll just stick to The Hunger - I wonder if His Holiness has seen that one?

HTC HD2 Windows Mobile smartphone

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Coffee/keyboard

So close!

Damn, I'm crying into my keyboard right now. I had my wallet out until you mentioned the camera. I so wanted to love this phone, I would have shelled out £500 in a heartbeat. Looks like it's back to the K750i for me.

Google to pop Chrome OS cherry tomorrow?

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Heart

@ ReaderRFPC

Somehow, I get the feeling you've stumbled into the wrong website.

iPhone to become Blighty's favourite smartphone

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@ Matt 13

When someone finally brings out a smartphone with a decent: camera (with flash), music player (with standard headphone socket), screen and web browser, I will buy it. I don't care if everyone else buys one too, or if I'm the only customer.

It's an electronic device, not a fashion accessory. It needs to do stuff, and if it looks cool that's a bonus. If I wanted to be a poser I'd buy something pointless like a Rolex or a Porsche, not a phone.

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