* Posts by Mines a pint

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Txt tax would wipe out half UK deficit, claims union baron

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Paris Hilton

Mr Crow start here

I think Mr Crow could be on to something here, with his "squeeze the rich 'til the pips squeak"

May I suggest that Mr Crow starts with the London Tube drivers getting an average of £35,856 (http://www.mysalary.co.uk/average-salary/Tube_Driver_3207) They would seem to be rich to me and they always go on strike for more money.

He could then go on to normal train drivers getting an average of £35,036 (http://www.mysalary.co.uk/average-salary/Train_Driver_3139), also always going on strike for more money.

Whats that you say Bob Crow is the railway union boss ahh

Paris well she's rich and like a squeeze

Toyota Auris hybrid e-car

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WTF?

Diesel electric anyone?

Can someone please explain to me why the hydrocarbon burning engine is being used to directly drive the propulsion wheels?

Whilst I don’t have a PhD in this area, I though it was a well known fact that hydrocarbon burning engines have the highest efficiency when running at a specific constant rate, as electricity generators do. Electricity generators also use diesel rather than petrol as it’s more efficient.

My next question is: Why doesn’t a company, car or otherwise, pair an efficient diesel generator to an all electric drive car, maybe with a small battery for short journeys, and laugh at all the other MPG claims, or L/100km if you are not stuck in the dark ages, though it may be efficient enough to use KMPL.

Actually Top Gear have already done something like this, just needed to make sure the exhaust worked properly (season 14 episode 2 I googled it), ok and a lot of refinement, but if they can do it why can the professionals?

Ofcom to TalkTalk, Tiscali: Stop over-billing

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just happened to me

Just yesterday I got a call from Virgin for not paying my bill since August, broadband, phone, and TV. The young lady was most apologetic when she looked back through my file and found that they had received a letter from me on the 7th of August cancelling all services as I was moving over seas. Nothing had been done with the letter so as far as they were concerned I was still a customer and should still be paying. I’m looking forward to the next call in a couple of months, should be fun to see how long they can keep this up for.

For what its worth I've been told by several people who work for credit companies that they ignore anything on a credit history from any telecoms company for this exact reason.

Internet Explorer info leak festers for 2 years

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WTF?

same logic as microsoft

Most companies seem to apply the same logic as Microsoft when fixing bugs, if its not shown to be dangerous then they will fix it if they can be bothered, but if it give people an easy way of doing things it becomes a feature. Dangerous could be because it’s being exploited or because it’s been talked up and makes them look bad, becoming a feature could be because someone has said it looks cool or a lot of people use it.

It’s the same logic that generally pervades society, think smoking. It’s bad for you we all know that, but is not banned (fixed) because lots of people smoke and some think it looks cool, so smoking has become a feature of society, admittedly one that’s being slowly retired.

So Microsoft has a bug that they’ve know about for 600 days, but its not that dangerous so they haven’t fixed it. If it gets talked up it may become dangerous and be fixed now stop whining that the big nasty man didn’t immediately run around like a headless chicken when you sent him a letter

PARIS in 89,000 ft climax

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Pint

Somebody has to say it

I demand a playmobil reconstruction or it didnt happen.... oh wait hold on I see what you did there. In that case very good, carry on...

Schmidt: I 'misspoke' over Street View

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Stop

i'm Google street view like i care

Let me get this right. Google has taken a photograph of something outside (building, field, fence), from public land, at some point in the past, and made it available on the internet. Its a disgrace people should Google should not be allowed to take pictures in public places, no one should be allowed to take photos in a public place as we don’t know who they are working for and what they will do with the photos wont somebody think of the children ™

What’s that you say, the people who complain about Google Street View are the same as the ones who complain when the police tell them they can’t take photos in a public place, its ok for them to take photos of people and places and put them on the internet with out anyone’s permission. Next thing you know the pot will call the kettle black.

MS store staff in spontaneous electric boogie

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WFT

Not forced at all no never, all the employees just happen to know exactly all the same moves and all just happen to be in a place where they can co the dance, no element of coercion at all. Even in the US this must be a bit too much corporate bol***ks, or is even this tiny but of faith in the US population miss placed.

If I was in a shop trying to buy something and all the staff were dancing rather than serving customers I’d walk out and never go there again. Oh hold on the is the Microsoft shop where you can’t buy anything....

Now I get it Microsoft are not opening shops its actually a theatre studies project, sponsored by Microsoft and no one has realised yet. A bit like the “Dance Troup” in the Praise You video from Fat Boy Slim, funny Americans

Apple's move to kill Hackintosher suit denied

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people need to think

Apples OSX on Apple computers is a monopoly, true, but it is not a monopoly in the legal sense. In the same way Kellogg’s cornflakes in a Kellogg’s cornflake packet is a monopoly, but there is not legal case to make Kellogg’s sell its cornflakes to go into a Tesco own brand box.

In both cases you can put other things in the box (computer/packet), and you can put the contains (operating system/cornflakes) in a different box, (I'm ignoring that compatibility issues and EUA). if you want Kellogg’s cornflakes you have to buy it in a Kellogg’s box and pay what they are asking, same with Apples OSX.

Having said that Apple is selling OSX on its own, and then crying when people install it on computers that are not Apple, and saying it’s against the license. Back to my Kellogg’s analogy it’s like Kellogg’s selling just cornflakes then crying when Tesco put then in an own brand box and say look cheap Kellogg’s cornflakes as it’s not in the licence, despite the fact you can’t see the licence until you start to eat the cornflakes.

Oh I’ve called it Apple OSX as it does belong to Apple, a lot if it is open source I know, but not all of it. Anyway the real question is are EUA legal and why does only software have them? though films are trying to get them as well (DRM), music is beginning to give up.