* Posts by Tigra 07

2373 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2010

Cold calling director struck off for ‘flagrant’ breach of duties

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Very curious that the company liabilities are pretty much exactly the amount this guy had spent on his two new houses and the grant...But, i'm sure that's just a coincidence...

Camels disqualified from Saudi beauty contest for Botox-enhanced pouts

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Sounds like the cheaters were given the hump

Electric cars to create new peak hour when they all need a charge

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Re: Phil

Or we could build massive Holland-style windmills on the roof and harness the wind energy...

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Solution seems simple...

We need to build our electric cars with giant sails made of photovoltaic cells. They can recharge as they cruise.

We need a separate fix for places with no sun. *cough * Scotland *cough *

Blockheads changing company names to surf crypto wave get a warning from the SEC

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Re: Terry

Darn, that's a good one. I'm ashamed that i missed it.

What do you suppose Dicks sells?

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Re: What's in a name?

Virgin Megastore sold pure, unused objects, so that technically works...

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Re: What's in a name?

No, but it would likely increase their share price (which is the point of the article).

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Trollface

What's in a name?

Boots doesn't sell boots.

Currys don't sell curry (or any food).

Poundland doesn't charge £1.

Blacks doesn't sell...Well...I've made my point...

Facebook open-sources object detection work: Watch out, Google CAPTCHA

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Re: AC

Yep. Went to an O2 shop for a Nano Sim 2 years back and the pushy staffer kept trying to sell me a tablet. I already own a Nexus 9 and told her this, only to be met with "Nexus 9? Let's see what price." Here, we have those at [[Insert price here]]."

I then had to tell her twice that i wasn't in the market to buy a tablet i already own at a higher price than i'd already paid for it direct from Google. Pushy salespeople are one thing but spare me from the thick ones.

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Re: AC

I owned 2 cases for my new phone before i got it. I planned ahead.

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Terminator

Re: Google / Amazon search results

"I'm Sorry Dave Jimmy but i can't let you do that."

UK competition watchdog: Fox's takeover of Sky 'not in public interest'

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Re: Duncan

"As a Linux user since 1996 I well remember the Haloween Documents. You should look them up sometime."

Funny, i really expected that to be related to the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy of theirs. It's not something i'd heard of before but it is something i expect from Microsoft of the 90s.

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Re: Fred

I have no beef with Bill Gates (Even as a Linux user). Bill Gates has done great things with his wealth and still does. Murdoch just hoards his cash for himself.

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A good decision

Murdoch belongs in a museum as a head in a jar. Next to Nixon, Blair and Zuckerberg...

NHS OKs offshoring patient data to cloud providers stateside

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So now the NSA has my dental and medical records and probably has more knowledge on me than my doctor?

America restarts dodgy spying program – just as classified surveillance abuse memo emerges

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Trump is for smaller Government and less regulation so i couldn't see this passing...However, it does prevent terrorism, so he'll probably do as his advisors want and pass it.

Apple: The exclusive sales channel for an, er, AI toothbrush

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A question...

What happens when icloud gets hacked and the Chinese/Russians/NSA have all your dental records?

Take a bow, TalkTalk, Post Office, Vodafone! You win most-whinged-about telcos award

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RE: 0laf

Tesco Mobile apparently

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RE: Wolfetone

Be careful. It says they closed the Indian call centre...It doesn't say the call centre is now in the UK.

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Well done Talk Talk. I look forward to your excuse next year. Try not to get hacked another 15 times between now and then.

Nervy nuke-armed nation fires missile with 5,000km range

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Mushroom

"nobody expects it to lob missiles at any of those locations, because it’s a stable and peaceful democracy that generally observes international laws"

Except, maybe towards Pakistan. After all they have been shooting each other's soldiers the last few weeks across the border. Don't expect either side to accept that.

Apple iPhone X: Two weeks in the life of an anxious user

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This seems like a very fair and reasonable review. You didn't claim anything was magic or revolutionary even once. No wonder apple doesn't like you.

Make Apple, er, America Great Again: iGiant to bring home profits, pay $38bn in repatriation tax

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Re: Insane Military buildup

Don't forget bribes need to be taken into account too

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Re: AC

Apple will want to use their own workforce for the wall - an army of Chinese children working day and night, with hazardous chemicals, for pennies.

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Re: 80 hours

Pay for the wall and slap an Apple logo on it

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Re: Shame they pay no tax elsewhere

Boris Johnson complained about this. He has American citizenship from birth but had to pay tax on the house he sold over here in Blighty to the US Gov.

Intellectual Property Office drops, er, patently cool cartoon to teach kids about trademarks

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Jimmy! What have i told you about drawing copyrighted shapes?! All rectangles must have sharp corners! Apple will sue us! You don't want to see your teacher in prison do you?!

VTech fondleslabs for kids 'still vulnerable' despite sanctions

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Pirate

So you updated your security policy but won't go into details Vtec? And the same issues are still happening? Go away, update your policy again then, and do it properly this time eh?

Let's hope they get a bigger fine this time.

YouTube turns off cash tap for automatic video nasties

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Dear Reg

You should have filed a copyright claim against that channel and had their videos removed or demonetised.

Destroying the city to save the robocar

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Re: AC

Why is Donald Trump pulling that man over the crossing?

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I see the problem as "how do we stop cars driving over everything?" Fields, pavements, pedestrians? If the law was enforced in the first place i believe we'd all be much happier.

Some drivers speed, some park anywhere, and some are so blatantly dangerous they shouldn't be on the road at all.

France to lend Brexit Britain sore souvenir of Norman yoke – the Bayeux Tapestry

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That's not an erection...THIS is an erection...

Erection? That sir is clearly a paintbrush! You can clearly see the thick...bobble...on the end...Oh dear, i think i need to sit down...

UK's Just Eat faces probe after woman tweets chat-up texts from 'delivery guy'

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Re: RLY!?!

"Stalking was romance 50 years ago"

Stalking women was called "being a pervert" 50 years ago...You know...Like it still is today.

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Re: I'm failing to see how this is Just Eat's fault

Hungry House do this too but you still don't expect to be harassed by the restaurant staff and have Just Eat ignore it (especially since they gave your details to the restaurant anyway)..

Appropirate reasons to contact the customer: 1: The driver can't find the address. 2: The chef dropped the pizza so the order will be late.

Inappropriate reasons to contact the customer: 1: "I really like you. When are you ordering again?" 2: "Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?"

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"This lacked empathy and does not reflect our policies or the way Just Eat would expect something like this to be dealt with"

Just a tip Just Eat: Step 1: Actually get a policy on this so your customers aren't being harassed. Step 2: Actually deal with the issue, rather than just offer a token £5 off the next order and slowly upping it when the customer isn't impressed.

I have no business with Just Eat, but Hungry House support staff are either so lazy, or thick as fuck that they can't even refund the correct amount when there's a cancelled order. Spoke to 3 different staff and they still refunded the wrong amount...

Google sinks cash into more submarine cables, plans more data centres

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Re: Duncan

Luckily, for now, all Google's Terminator AI can do is dig through your emails, tell you the weather, and beat you at board games.

Butt plugs, mock cocks, late pay and paranoia: The world of Waymo star Anthony Levandowski… by his kids' nanny

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RE: razorfishsl

Makes for a good way to blackmail your employer or destroy their public image if you find anything and they won't pay up...That's what i reckon she's doing.

Why else do we need to know he owns a dildo otherwise?

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Meh

A blue butt plug? The guy is a monster...

Seriously, if you're digging into stuff like this to get a reaction then it's clear your case needs to be sensational since you have no hard evidence. Are we expected to believe the guy is a menace to society because this woman alleges he owns sex toys?

Airbus to build plane that's even uglier than the A380

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RE: allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

"Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird - sexiest plane EVER."

Didn't the X-Men have one of those?

Microsoft wants to patent mind control

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RE: Agatum

Sir, you were clearly caught humming a copyrighted song earlier. Please submit to a brain scan so that we can determine who owns the copyright and fine you accordingly.

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Judging from that diagram they've patented thinking about boxes. Will apple now patent thinking about boxes with rounded corners?

Where are the thought police?

UK taxman has domain typo-squatter stripped of HMRC web addresses

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bankofscorland.co.uk > BankOrfScortland.co.uk

A novel idea to incorporate accents into web addresses.

Once had someone write a cheque out to me for "one handered pounds", which is exactly what his accent sounded like.

EU court to rule whether Facebook should seek and destroy hate speech

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Re: Simple Criteria

That was sarcasm by the way. Clearly someone couldn't tell

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Re: Simple Criteria

Don't you know that minorities can never be responsible for their actions? It's always the fault of society. Unless you're a white male, in which case everything in society is your fault. Some people just want to watch the (Western) world burn.

Sincerely

A minority

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But where does it stop...

I like to call my partner a homo occasionally and he calls me and some of the things i do gay (playfully obvs, we're gay).

I'm assuming Facebook would censor posts like this for hate speech?

Wait, what? The Linux Kernel Mailing List archives lived on ONE PC? One BROKEN PC?

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Re: Oh, come on now!

Exactly. IMDB was hosted by a teenager in his basement before it became big and was sold on for big bucks.

France may protect citizens' liberté with ban on foreigners buying local big data firms

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I made the argument last week that the EU was a protectionist gravy train and that it would become more protectionist in future and less competitive.

It took less than a week for a decent example.

Self-driving cars still do not exist even if we think they do

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Re: They kinda do and kinda don't

"OK Google. Take me to Tesco"

"I have found 50 Tesco stores in your location."

"OK Google. Drive me to the nearest Tesco."

"Setting route for Nigeria."