* Posts by Fungus Bob

1347 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2014

How Project Centennial brings potentially millions of desktop apps to the Windows 10 Store

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Re: why the registry not a good idea

Because it get f#&ked up so easily.

French MPs say Oui to Le Charteur des Snoopeurs

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Re: Heads on spikes

Heads on spikes is the feedback mechanism by which the rich and powerful find out they've gone to far.

Too much Appley WRISTJOBBERY could be BAD for your HealthKit

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Re: I smell a monopoly.

Nope, that was me - I ate more fruit and drank more water after having lunch at Taco Bell. Damn, its an Apple story, no Windows to open...

http://files.sharenator.com/demotivational_posters_taco_bell-s492x438-158164.jpg

Relax, it's just Ubuntu 15.04. AARGH! IT'S FULL OF SYSTEMD!!!

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Mushroom

Re: systemd? Do not want.

BSD and Slackware are for children, I'm sticking with Novell DOS 7. Personal Netware is not for wimps!

Macroviruses are BACK and are the future of malware, says Microsoft

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Re: "Nearly"?

Kirk: How many?

Spock: Precisely 501,239.67, Captain

Burger me! Microsoft's chainsaw rampage through sacred cow herd

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No, that was me, went to Taco Bell for lunch.

Guess I should open the Windows...

SUPERVOLCANIC MAGMA reservoir BUBBLING under Yellowstone Park

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Holmes

Re: How many Olympic Swimming Pools?

A Shitload.

Fukushima nuke plant owner told to upgrade from Windows XP

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Windows

seeing as XP doesn't have built in planetary control

Actually, it does. Planetary Control has been built into all versions of Windows since Win 98SE. Its never been enabled as Microsoft hasn't figured out how to monetize it yet.

SEX: Naughty female stegosauruses offered it on a PLATE

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Devil

What does that say about physicists and DARK Humor?

Hmmm...

Something's missing in our universe: Boffins look into the SUPERVOID

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Re: I tried staring into an abyss once

"Ah! Broadcast television."

Its sad how far TV has fallen. Back in the Golden Era of Television it was regarded highly enough to be considered a vast wasteland!

Top US Democrats cry death to Comcast-Time Warner hyper-gobble

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Re: Poor Politics

"It seems TWC or Comcast have not paid "Campaign Contributions" to enough of the ruling class."

More like 'This is what happens when you piss off 110% of your customers'. Karma's a Bitch.

Google guru: Android doesn't have malware, it has Potentially Harmful Applications™ instead

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Those aren't hemorrhoids!

They're piles!

Google pulls plug on YouTube for older iPads, iPhones, smart TVs

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"THIS is why all this connected, internet TV stuff is NOT the future."

Right. The future is harmonicas. They are cordless and never need recharging.

Help! We need to pick a platform for our desert adventure

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Squid

Definitely look at Squid for caching and http filtering. With a combination of block list and exception list you can make a web filtration system that gets up on its hind legs and walks. Once in another lifetime I had Squid blocking ads and porn for the company network, except for the owner's PC - just blocked ads for him (no way I was gonna tell the guy that signs my paychecks that he can't get his jollies).

Daddy Dyson keeps it in the family and hoovers up son’s energy biz

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Coat

Re: The emperor's new hoover

" I fucking love it."

As long as you don't love fucking it.....

Mine's the one with "Oversexed Rugsuckers from Mars" in the pocket.

US govt bans Intel from selling chips to China's supercomputer boffins

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FAIL

Re: I wonder...

"How much did the US owe China nowadays again?"

More than it would be worth to collect as the act of collecting would destroy China's biggest market. Not saying China won't ever try, but it'll be fun to watch the footgun competition between the US and China...

Because the server room is certainly no place for pets

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Re: Tape and VM? - LMFTFY

"This is a pointless article with baseless scaremongering"

How else are they gonna prop up sagging sales?

Microsoft's top legal eagle: US cannot ignore foreign privacy laws

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If MS loses how long before all these US companies end up getting bought out by their Irish subsidiaries and become Irish companies? On paper, anyway...

Amazon listens to MORE of your private stuff

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Re: Um....who uses these things?

"WHO is buying them? Has any one SEEN these things in action?"

I saw a Zune once. Does that count?

ISIS: You bomb us, we’ll interrupt your TV transmissions

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Re: CyberCaliphate, CyberSecurity, etc

And for the AC who likes American TV less than French TV, CSI Cyber...

Dot-com intimidation forces Indiana to undo hated anti-gay law

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Devil

Re: It's called freedom, folks

"are you saying that you think Gays require different pizza from other people?"

Of course they do - the difference between straight pizza and gay pizza is that the gay pizza looks !!!FABULOUS!!!

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Re: Shh..

"Hush now and don't bring the bible into this. It's not like Christian's actually read that anyway."

Yeah, no fair bringing the original source documents in! Especially considering that they say very little about homosexuality and say A Lot against greed and lack of charity to the disenfranchised (widows and orphans).

Light the torches! NSA's BFF Senator Feinstein calls for e-book burning

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Re: Only time I've ever written to my MP

"The concept that all knowledge is dangerous is the premise of the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis"

Nope, not *all* knowledge. Humans were only to avoid eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Nuclear waste spill: How a pro-organic push sparked $240m blunder

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Re: Why not organic kitty litter?

"This means that decaf is actually a WASTE product!"

Certainly tastes like it...

Pure CEO dons cheerleader outfit, harangues world, dog

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Pure CEO dons cheerleader outfit

Pics or it didn't happen

Europe could be drowned in 'worthless pop culture' thanks to EU copyright plans

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Mushroom

Re: "People speak different languages, the group reminded Kommissar Ansip"

"Oh hang on... That's pretty much the definition of English!"

They'll probably insist on making it the form of English we speak on the left side of the Atlantic so as not to show favoritism.

Icon: how the Brits and Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys will react.

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Coat

Re: "Partially worthless"

"That's even worse than totally unique !"

Bahboh, remember, you're unique, just like everybody else...

Surface Pro 3 update has so much new stuff for sysadmins, we can't fit it all in one headline

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"It's uncanny how many times the word "excrement" appears in the comments of an article about microsoft."

Well, shit...

AT&T, Verizon and telco pals file lawsuit to KILL net neutrality FOREVER

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Re: The GOP has started already

"I'm a fairly out of the box thinker"

It would be a sexual metaphor but the only people being screwed are the citizens

Tax fraud fugitive nabbed after posting selfies

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Devil

Re: Thank God....

So stay at the shallow end!

NYPD cop in court for allegedly hacking into the FBI

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Unhappy

Re: My, my ...

If he had a country full of oil, our Fearless Leaders would admire his Entrepreneurial Spirit.

‘Digital by default’ agricultural payments halted: Farmers start smirking

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Trollface

"can someone cleverer than myself let me in on the joke?"

No, because the joke is that you're not in on the joke.

Nesting falcons interrupt £200m Vodafone 4G mast upgrades

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"Daily Mail getting hold of the story and predicting huge mutant falcons"

Nah, ever'body knows ya gotta feed 'em steroids like Tiffany did in Mega Python vs Gatoroid.

Now, that wuz sience.

Internet Explorer LIVES ON, cackle sneaky Microsoft engineers

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Re: the pederasty

Good grief, Gray Ham, STOP THINKING OF THE CHILDREN!!!!

NORK internet outage was payback for Sony hack – US politician

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Holmes

Re: Sounds to me like he's talking out of his ar*e.

Well, he *is* a politician...

Bounty! hunter! discovers! holes! in! Yahoo! Stores! security!

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Re: trolling the pic

"Patrick Stewart?"

No effin' way! The Man With No Name would chew him up and spit him out like limp Space Jerky.

Systemax CEO closes 31 retail stores in US as losses widen

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Thumb Up

A Technology Store less relevant than Radio Shack!

see title

'Roly poly' soft, wobbly robot BANGS EXPLOSIVELY, leaps 0.5m in air

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Devil

Re: FARTBOT!!!!

"The quality of commentators has really gone uphill. :("

Ya happy now?

China reveals 'Internet Plus' plan to modernise and go cloudy

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Go

Re: Why do I suspect the result will be Internet Minus?

Not if they give it a catchy theme song!

Boffins find Earth's earliest Homo in Ethiopian hilltop

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Re: Why do creationists...

@Eddy Ito #2

I will have to concede your second point. As for points 1 and 3, the AC only asserted that *something* is "out there". That "something" (if it exists) could be very different than anything anyone has ever called "god".

Point 4. The AC was pointing out that science, useful as it is for expanding human knowledge, has limits. Therefore, something that scientifically would be considered hearsay or anecdote, might be quite acceptable as proof in other fields of endeavor - the scientific method is not terribly useful in the field of history as history does not lend itself to experimentation, for example. It is also not nearly as useful as elbow pads and helmets in the field of roller derby, but that _is_ a different subject...

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Re: Why do creationists...

@Eddy Ito

A few problems with your argument:

1. You do not produce any evidence either. Naughty, naughty.

2. AC's entire post seemed to be more about a different way of thinking about all the scientific discoveries we have made over the years than about any particular bits of "evidence". AC may be right, or wrong, or completely looney but you may have to consider that you might have misread the whole thing.

3. As AC made no mention of any specific deity, pointing this out does not weaken AC's argument or strengthen yours. It's almost as though you're reading something into AC's post.

4. Your parting shot about hearsay and anecdote actually is congruent with AC's final paragraph regarding the limitations of science.

I suppose I'll get downvoted but I was not impressed with the low caliber of your argument.

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Re: Transitional

I think that would be a dummy package in the debian repositories...

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Re: FFS!

Don't need to be a fundie to ask that - monkeys fling crap, we fling more evolved crap so why's there still monkeys?

Hey, El Reg, how 'bout a flying crap icon?

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Coat

Re: When do we find fossils of Homo Limpus?

We should start looking in Greece - that's where Home-Olympus is...

Apple: We could expose our WHOPPING 12 INCH iPad - but it's not real

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Re: Mouth, Meet Meal

"In the US, it means the entire period between T̶h̶a̶n̶k̶s̶g̶i̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ Labor Day and New Year day."

There, FTFY

Storm in a K-Cup: My SHAME over the eco-monster I created, says coffee pod inventor

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Re: What's the reason for it..?

This thing allows Evolutionary Mistakes to "make" themselves coffee instead of dying off like they're supposed to.

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Trollface

Re: He's right.

"Who the fuck drinks only ONE cup of coffee anyway?"

Last I checked, humans only have one mouth apiece so _everybody_ drinks one cup... at a time

Google Chrome suffers brain freeze on Android Ice Cream Sandwich

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FAIL

"building new experiences"

To: All GlobalCorps

Subject: U talk stoopit

Please stop the marketing drivel, if I want new experiences I'll take a sex vacation in Thailand instead of buying a new gizzywickus.

Sincerely,

F. Bob

First peek at the next Ubuntu 15.04 nester line-up

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Re: Nope

@Andy Prough

Mint is Ubuntu with the baked-in stupid removed.

Nokia blasts Ericsson out of water, demos 600Mbps data speeds

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Re: What about the backhall

Scotch tape...