* Posts by hplasm

5613 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

US officials confirm Stuxnet was a joint US-Israeli op

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Unhappy

Re: OK...

Voldemort's a hacker? Who knew!

Seriously- can anyone sue for damages? These ones are real, not like McKinnons 'repair' bill...

Terror cops hunt laptop snatched from retired MI5 spookmistress

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Happy

Re: It's OK...

It is Ok- when the thieves open it, a jet of poison gas will shoot out of the screen.

Windows 8 Release Preview open for download

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Windows

Re: We can't afford the CPU, hard drive, video, etc upgrades MS thinks are necessary

Perhaps they pay them more, rather than wasting money on overspecced hardware to run overpriced bloatware?

Universe has more hydrogen than we thought

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Boffin

Re: Echidnas?

But what is the mass of a football pitch, in Kangaroos?

I need to multitask, but Windows 8's Metro won't let me

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Windows

Re: first concorde, now the UI (It is called Cargo -Cult)

"...The thing about Win8 and Metro is they are shaping up to be absolutely fantastic on mobile devices and tablets."

fan·tas·tic (fn-tstk) also fan·tas·ti·cal (-t-kl)

adj.

1. Quaint or strange in form, conception, or appearance.

2. Unrestrainedly fanciful; extravagant:

3. Bizarre, as in form or appearance; strange:

4. Based on or existing only in fantasy; unreal: fantastic ideas about her own superiority.

5. Wonderful or superb; remarkable:

1 out of 5 ain't bad...

Steve Jobs was top of the flops, says Apple's Tim Cook

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Gimp

Re: Foxconn-rebranding company.

Turd-polishing comapany is already taken by Microsoft.

Olympic Wenlock plod cops condemnation from Amazon wags

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Happy

Re: Is it just me....

Perhaps- but it does make the Police look like dicks...

HTC slips One X, Evo 4G past Apple US patent ban

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Facepalm

Re: "innovated"

Er...*whoosh*...

Assange loses appeal against extradition to Sweden

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Happy

Re: execute people on the Reg forums

Capital punishing- for TYPING in CAPS??

Study: The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate

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Angel

Re: Science == skepticism

Correct! Bozons are not real- unlike Bosons...

Bozos on the other hand are many, and like to think the sky is falling.

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Headmaster

That would be-

toe the line. Not tow.

Psht! "experts..."

Sheer weight of Brits' interest knackers new tax tool

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Thumb Up

Re: Be interesting if...

Within 6 months Whitehall and Co would be running Bring and Buy sales to raise money.

It might be nice to see Bake Sales for Bullets instead of Hospices though.

Microsoft invades Iraq, installs first distributor

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Windows

How evil!

So much for hearts and minds- that's just low.

Dole office to roll out digital benefits to north-west – 6 months early

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Childcatcher

Easier to claim-

Does it have a Win Metro interface, with tiles for the different types of benefit?

Press Red square for Housing Cash, Green square for Heating cash, etc.

Facebook needs Opera - to rescue it from dependence on Apple

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Meh

Re: Opera - top dog. AC@17:17

By the mindless.

Dell Windows 8 tablet, hybrid details leak

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Happy

Look carefully-

Part tablet, part laptop, part tea-trolley. Where are the castors though?

Virgin Media wipes out websites with routing blackhole

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Linux

Aha

That's where El Reg went.

All else seemed ok though.

Vatican in pact with Microsoft to initiate world's youths into Office

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Devil

Re: Thou shall be doomed

And those that do use it will be used to the experience..

Google warns against ISPs hard on web filth

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Happy

Re: then what do you expect

Er, The Mail ? No- The Sunday Sun!

Canary Islands host long-distance quantum teleportation

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Happy

Re: I'm impressed!

The cat? It's here and there...

Microsoft launches its own 'so.cl' network

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Happy

so.what

Watch as this makes Google+ look crowded.

Does Britain really need a space port?

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Thumb Up

Re:the same ip address?

Or the same IQ:?

Scotland considers dishing out more iPads to schoolkids

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FAIL

Re: What?

But I thought it was for "learning the basics of computing..."

hplasm
Meh

Re: Possibly not by the time they leave school.

Well perhaps a broom or spatula, then.

Senator probes NASA airfield deal for Google's jets

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Unhappy

Re: Or maybe

That probably doubles NASA's budget.

Nokia Lumia 900 WinPho 7 smartphone

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FAIL

Re: Who give's a **** about the number of cores?

"Actually these cheap knock-off trainers I'm wearing are technically better for your feet than the expensive ones,that's the main reason I wear them...And the sweatshop pays an extra 2c per week to the children that sew them up"

Excuses,excuses.

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Windows

In my informed and objective opinion-

You made a poor choice.

NASA found filming August's Mars landing in California desert

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Devil

Re: The "practice version"

has two lasers of it's own.And a talking bomb...

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Happy

Re: a little late for testing?

The chances of anything coming from Marx... are a million to one,said Engels.

Siri subtly shifts smartphone allegiance

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Happy

Re: Try this :

The one with weapons lock on you, Sir.

Samsung sheds light on low-cost WinPho blower

hplasm
Meh

ooh!

How quaint!

Redmond revamp: Bing gets social bling

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Devil

Re: BING IS THE BEST

This comment explains the rest of BDG's erm, output.

Cameron's F-35 U-turn: BAE Systems still calls the shots at No 10

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Pint

Re: BAE =

This is for you :)

<-----

Boffins crack on with ultimate roboass

hplasm
Happy

Re: whats the use?

My first thought was Robot Politician.

Apple's HTML5 bet against Android extermination

hplasm
Meh

Re: WTF is a Zune?

Brown, I think...

NASA spots the light of a ‘super-Earth’

hplasm
Happy

"super heated junk"

A "New iPad" story ?

Let’s send 3D printers TO THE MOON

hplasm
Unhappy

The most obvious and required project-

I'm sad to say, is the 'B-Ark'.

All else is easy after that.

Otherwise- a great idea.

'ACTA is dead,' says Europe's digital doyenne

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FAIL

Re: My 2 cents. ;)

No it's not; you stole that idea.

hplasm
Meh

Re: Andrew Orlowski?

no- AO has a brain.

Microsoft ejects DVD playback from Windows 8

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Happy

Re: Microsoft?

Wait...

hplasm
Trollface

I see that you didn't say

what the' best coders on the planet 'did use as their desktop.

Bet it's not windows.

hplasm
Devil

Hmm..

3. "We are sorry. DVD playback is not supported. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

hplasm
Devil

If you re correct-

Win 9 will ship on 37 floppies.

hplasm
Windows

Re: Really??

Sounds like they will have to get used to it.

hplasm
Windows

Re: Really??

Good practice for getting the best out of Win 9 then...

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Windows

Re: "rely on the many quality solutions on the market"

Indeed- it seems that Windows is starting to exhibit all of the traits that were once leveled at Linux- no DVD playback,need to use the command line all of the time (regedit anyone...)- by the MS faithful... What next?

Google took a bath on Android in 2010, judge reveals

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Meh

Re:That's why you, and I, are both here posting on this forum.

Rather than sitting on a giant yacht, planning Man's expansion out into the asteroids...

US, Euro e-car makers back 'standard' AC/DC jack

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Happy

Charles 9

Fails the Turing test.

Prepare Charles 10, increase Sarcasm detector thrshold 10%...

Star Trek's Wesley Crusher blasts Google+ landgrab

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Happy

Earl Grey-

Hot or not?

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Happy

Re: Wil who?

He has been a commentard here too- so watch it...