* Posts by hplasm

5610 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

Ho ho ho! Apple's Samsung ban bid pushed back to Christmas

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Gimp

Re: Meh.. Will be overturned LONG before then.

"rabidly partisan"

How fitting a choice of words...

BT wins ad watchdog ruling against BSkyB's 'instant movie' claim

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Devil

Re: @Matt_payne666

"and deduces that they must have a fast internet connection." - even after finding out it's BT Infinitlyslow...

Neil Armstrong dies aged 82

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Pint

Re: The heroes of our youth...

And one from me,

Thanks Neil,from all mankind, and Mr Gorsky in particular.

Here's to Armstrong Base, Mars,

China could penetrate US with new huge missile

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Coat

Re: Just in time for a Mormon President

Aren't all religions just a bunch of cults?

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Thumb Up

And so it begins...

My bluetooth headset is translating everything into Mandarin.

Reagan slams webmail providers for liberal bias

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Linux

Re:what's yours, genius?

Yes, actually. Thanks for asking.

Councils launch eight spying ops on Brits A DAY using RIPA

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Big Brother

Re: Idiots like this stuff

"Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment...”

Microsoft's new retro-flavoured logo channels Channel 4

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Happy

Re: Austerity

Agreed.

But let's hope it does.

Ice core shows Antarctic Peninsula warming is nothing unusual

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Meh

Re: Agenda?

Surely an alternative viewpoint, to be valid, should look at the facts? There are lots of screwball sites out ther if you just want 'Alternative' viewpoints to things- qv Moon Hoax, JFK, 911 etc.

Lawyers: We'll pillory porn pirates who don't pay up

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FAIL

Really?

Why so many not-dead lawyers then?

New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD

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Mushroom

Nuclear Power

Don't kill people. Accountants kill people.

*Works for other industries too.Your mortality rate may vary.

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Happy

Re: Nom

Stop eating that Thorium then!

NASA: WE'VE FOUND Four-toed NON-HUMAN FOOTPRINTS

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Unhappy

Re: Batman

Batman used to exist, but has been extinct for millions of years...

Disney sitcom says open source is insecure

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Happy

Re: Biggest laff since Jurassic Park

That would be Terminator 2. Spent ages looking for the Cash Machine Ripoff plugin for a Portfolio...

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Coat

Re: open souse...

Thought there was something fishy about it...

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Devil

Re: exactly those people

Not yet, but after a few years of these shows then their brains will be softened enough for those purchasing jobs.

Windows 8: Download it, then speak YOUR brains

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Devil

Re: Win8 no longer honours hosts file?

No Surprise! HOSTS is quite a standard file, and everyone knows how MS feels about standards.

Beck's open-source challenge to freetards: play it yourself!

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Devil

Re: Home 3D printing is killing vinyl?

It's true!

http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-printing-records-for-a-Fisher-Price-toy-record-/

The problem with wireless: all those effin' wires

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Meh

Re: Excellent.

Tough crowd today...

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Happy

Re: one device at a time?

You don't expect commetards to actually Read The Fsking Article?

You must be new here...

Nokia CEO: No shift from Windows Phone

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Happy

Re:..the pond I want to be in...

Careful- there are probably Turtles in there...

'$199' Surface tablets: So crazy it might work, or just crazy?

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Happy

Re: No fan of Windows 8 etc. but...

"Still have the 360 I bought on launch day..."

BNIB.

First, Google goggles - now the world gets self-censoring specs

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Joke

Re: The small gaps

If thine eye offends thee, my face is up here...

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Happy

"...but my religion demands that I not -"

"...be able to see that woman."

Microsoft: It was never 'Metro,' it was always 'Modern UI'

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Coat

Re: What does UI stand for ?

It was supposed to br ' MODEM UI'- it just took longer than usual to get to Beta...

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Happy

Paul Calf-

http://www.dontmakemethink.co.uk/paul/

Strangely apt url- MS marketing should have grabbed it first...

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Happy

Re: Is El Reg the new Slashdot?

No. Perhaps Slashdot 3, Metro Slashdot, or Modern Slashdot... 'New' anything is sooo old...

SHOCK: Poll shows Americans think TSA is highly effective

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Facepalm

Aha-

"There's not yet a shortage of loonies as recent events have shown."

As 'recent events' include this survey, I agree.

Microsoft: It's not Metro, it's Windows 8

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Windows

Re: "you spend all day rebooting ?"

It is Windows...

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Happy

Re: Sod that!

So do Apple...

Radio hams unite to fight off new powerline comms standard

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Thumb Up

Re: By the end of the day

Couldn't have said it better.

Valve: Games run FASTER on Linux than Windows

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Windows

Re: Steam Linux?

If you were steam, you would blow away. Far away...

Might shut you up for a while.

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Windows

Re:Good luck getting Linux users to pay

But they have more disposable income, having not had to waste money on Windows!

Anonymous hunts down Voldemort for hacking hungry kids' charity

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Happy

Re: This could be interesting to watch

You realise that you just "published" that "fact"?

Expect Black Helis!

<aManfromMars

or the award winning scorn of Matt Bryant... for confirming that you have a basement, so you probably live in it like everyone else that is not him,f or he lives on his own feet, like some sort of recursive athlete...

/aManfromMars?

Pasadena to party hardy as Martian landing looms

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FAIL

Re: The point of going to Mars?

You are forgetting the triple breasted women- unavailable elsewhere, outside of Eroticon 6, as I understand it.

Microsoft dumps Metro from Windows 8

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Windows

Re: it's irrelevant

Windows Saddo.

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Holmes

Re: ExMetro

Sooner or later =ExCrete

Followed up by ExCrement =SP1.

You know it would happen...

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Devil

Metro, by any other name

Will smell and sound the same...

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Happy

Well-

Abomin8.

Judge rejects Apple's calls for Samsung censure

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Happy

Re: Yeah, RIGHT!!!!!

They didn't learn much, did they?

Experts stroke beards over LOHAN's vacuity

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Pint

Re: At this point..

There you go....

Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Bauernfrühstück v bacon sarnie

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Happy

Re: IT angle time....

You're going to need a bigger pan...

Analyst says Surface could hurt Ultrabook, Windows 8 tablets

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Windows

Re: Eh?

Windows Phone doesn't have a few years.

Beak explodes at Samsung's evidence leak in Apple patent spat

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Gimp

bile spewing fandroids

A bit hard on Apple fans there...

Forget 'climate convert' Muller: Here's the real warming blockbuster

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Facepalm

Are you

the Messiah?

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

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Coat

Re: ... the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down ...

And a damning testament to the state of maths teaching in Mesopotamian schools...

Microsoft: Gmail rival Outlook.com will 'look good on your iPad' 

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FAIL

Re: It really is competition for gmail...

Unlike Gmail, then which works fine in Opera.

Olympic athletes compete in RAYGUN SHOOTING for the first time

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Happy

Re: You could have your eye out with that!

Wool?

or Antimatter...

hmmm...

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Thumb Up

Re: A better explanation for the modern Pentathlon

"Just because the Lady loves...shiny Apples!"