* Posts by Forget It

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Email is so last century

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FB sends plenty of email out to tell you someone you don't know has posted an image etc.

I call it spam but it's just keeping email's head above water apparently.

'UK DNA database by stealth' proposed in £100m NHS project

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Black Helicopters

I wonder how useful this database might be to our enemy in the next world war?

His Holiness Benedict XVI to tweet to his Catholic flock

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Angel

Hope he texts just in Latin - and make it a Lingua Franca for the Christendom again!

Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae. Et in Iesum Christum, Filium eius unicum, Dominum nostrum, qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine, passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad infernos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis, ascendit ad caelos, sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis, inde venturus est iudicare vivos et mortuos. Credo in Spiritum Sanctum, sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam, sanctorum communionem, remissionem peccatorum, carnis resurrectionem, vitam aeternam. Amen.

D'mmit too many characters!

Automatic Facebook couple pages: Nauseating sign of desperation

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FAIL

Even the word Menage à trois begins with the word MEN !

Sinofsky OFFSKI: Is Windows 9 now codenamed 'Defenestrate'?

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I wish him the best of health.

Coz it could be that.

Supersymmetry takes an arrow to the knee

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Meh

L H C

Symmetry axes:

L - about 45 deg

H - about the vertical

C about the horizontal

super, great ...

KDE 'annoys the hell of' Linus Torvalds

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Joke

Re: Why doesn't he make his own GUI if he finds them all so rubbish?

could call it UI-Git Lost

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Linux

Re: Bad spin. Only one aspect annoyed the hell out of him

Linux Mint also has the MATE UI which probably does what Linus wants.

Quantum computer boffin 'had to sit down' on getting Nobel Prize call

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Joke

obvious we need a benchmark for Quantum Computing now.

That horrendous iPhone empurplement - you're holding it wrong

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FAIL

If you are going to get lost going there - how are you going to take a photo of it anyhow?

Assange chums must cough up £93,500 bail over embassy lurk

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Gimp

Why do you think he is writing a book?

A bestseller would mean he'll be able to payback debts.

Inside the real-world Double-O section of Her Majesty's Secret Service

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Coffee/keyboard

My name is BOND

Baslidon Bond - I've got my silver letter opening and I know how to use it.

US said to designate Assange 'enemy' of the state

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Alert

Does this make the Ecuadorian Embassy in London a target for drones?

Google to axe IE 8 support, cuts off Windows XP lifeline

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Headmaster

Firefox, Crome, Opera - they run on XP don't they?

Want a Windows 8 Start Button? Open source to the rescue!

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Re: Well

They didn't do anything to disable Classic Shell in Win7 - so why start in Win8?

Now I'm waiting for the other essential fix how to get Quick-Launch back and working well.

That was a showstopper for me for awhile on WIn7.

Anonymous takes down UK government websites in Assange attack

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Coffee/keyboard

Why don't Anonymous all dress up as fake Assange's and mill around the front door of the Ecuador Embassy.

Like Iraqi's did for Sadam.

Like Zemblans did for King Karl in Nabokov's Pale Fire

Can YOU crack the Gauss uber-virus encryption?

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Headmaster

El Reg encrypted thus:

"The general concuss among security experts is that Gauss"

that I decrypted thus:

"The general consensus among security experts is that Gauss"

Licensed to kill: Amazon revamps Cloud Player to take on iTunes

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IT Angle

Isn't cloud player available in the USA and Canada only - if so why is this news to us Brits?

iPhone 5 to be skinniest Apple yet SHOCK

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Boffin

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,

Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff

As dreams are made on

Is the Higgs boson an imposter?

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Facepalm

Boson to Boojum?

Higgs Boojum?

In the midst of the word he was trying to say,

In the midst of his laughter and glee,

He had softly and suddenly vanished away -- -

For the Boson was a Boojum, you see.

Google plants rainbow flag in anti-gay countries

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Coffee/keyboard

Think global

Act local

but think!

'Apple is corrupting App Store downloads', warn angry devs

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Joke

One bad apple

One bad apple ruins the whole barrel.

(single point of weakness/Achilles heel, etc)

[no icon for pun]

Half the team at the heart of the RBS disaster WERE in India

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Alert

A couple of typos Anna

1) This created the backlog [that] has taken so long to clear.

2( because he [had] been loyal to the company for years

Windows Metro Maoist cadres reach desktop, pound it flat

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Who needs gradients.

It nice to have the raised button effect though - MS shouldn't kill that - especially for the top-right of the window.

Office 365 in moving pictures

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IT Angle

Biting the hand that feed IT - not!

Apple silences mute kids' speech app in patent blowup

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Bring back RLS passport or not - this exactly the kind of scenario that he forecast...

Ten... freeware gems for new PCs

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Holmes

Cobain Backup 10 isn't going out of beta to paid anytime soon

Crocodoc tries to take bite out of Adobe dominance

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Go

Do Crocs eat foxes too?

FoxIt PDF reader is now up to scratch replacing Adobe Bloat Reader - at least on Windows

Gaia scientist Lovelock: 'I was wrong and alarmist on climate'

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Happy

Gaia pls

As long as the profits he made on those books with dodgy dust-jacket get ploughed back into Earth's good causes - who cares ... the Earth will have healed herself.

Apple sued for every touchscreen device by Flatworld prof

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Bite the Apple and see what happens.

Been there done that?

Sergey Brin REALLY ADMIRES Apple, Facebook

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FAIL

great, super

the bill gates adjective GREAT - as in great software etc - has crept into Brin's

vocabulary - clearly a sign of ideas vacuum in there.

Speaking in Tech: Forget G-Drive hype, try Dropbox-for-Big-Biz

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This stuff is dire - the number of swear words per bit of useful info is far to high.

Bring back Mary-Jo Foley and Gavin Clarke

Life on Mars found – in 1976

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The first book in this recently Reg-hyped trilogy has lots of life on Mars

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/04/04/cs_lewis_perelandra_trilogy_out_as_ebook/

I'm particularly fond of the Sorns and the more cuddly Hross

Publisher hails CS Lewis 'space trilogy' e-book debut

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Meh

Dante

Peralandra is based a bit on Dante Inferno/Purgatory when he climbs a mountain under the attck of the unman. The have been good reading of it on BBC Radio 4 extra in recent years

Tweet dreams: Goldilocks, porridge AND the money dance

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Coffee/keyboard

the first day of April could have something to do with this "article"

100 EARTH-LIKE PLANETS orbit stars WITHIN 30 LIGHT-YEARS!

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Facepalm

RegHack reported

"By their calculations, there are tens of billions of such worlds in our galaxy, suggesting that even if life is very rare it is bound to have arisen elsewhere."

The opposite conclusion could be drawn from that statement:, for intelligent life, anyway:

Since there was so much opportunity for it to arise and it still hasn't made itself evident anywhere but on this planet then it is probably very very rare.

More evidence that neutrinos are NOT faster than light

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FAIL

No effect + No tunnel either

The beauty of the original news last year was that it revealed the profound ignorance of the Italian minister / Berlusconi-lassGelmini - who after expressing initial surprise added that she was v.proud that Italian research had constructed the necessary tunnel from CERN all the way to to Gran Sasso in Italy!

Crap PINs give wallet thieves 1-in-11 jackpot shot

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FAIL

5 digit PINS - abroard

Beware of 5 digit PINS:

Italian banks - give you one and don't let you change it.

But as far as I've seen 1 or 2 digits are purposely repeated to make the PIN

easier to remember - which obvious defeats part of the purpose.

Beware also in some countries the only ATM you can find require a fixed

length PIN to be entered either 4 and not 5 or 5 and not 4.

So you can be denied access to cash abroad just by having the wrong length PIN!

Hackers may be able to 'outwit' online banking security devices

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Windows

As a Firefox user on Win7 with a dozen addin - each which warn caution during installation - I am worried if they might constitute the Man In the Browser.

The Register Comments Guidelines

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IT Angle

Guideline #5 says: No spam, no links to porn – don't pimp your own website, blog or business. If you're linking to something that may be seen as naughty, help your fellow commenters by adding a NSFW note.

But as far as I can see there is no way to link to any website - no html - or am i missing something?

Node.js sees Windows compatibility as key to success

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IT Angle

But why?

But why doesn't it work on Windows now?

Does Windows insist on Blockin I/O?

HUD's up! Ubuntu creates menu-free GUI

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Joke

Still not clear to me what's going on beneath the HUD.

Big Data in Context

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Angel

toothpaste tube graphics - urgh!

A simple HTML tag will crash 64-bit Windows 7

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Flame

Clearly an Apple plot.

UK.gov to require you to opt out of data-sharing plan with drug firms

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Devil

Harry Lyme upon that Ferris Wheel in post-war Vienna comes to mind.

Penguin e-books back in libraries – but no new titles

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Linux

Penguins back

Ubuntu tells dumped CouchDB: It's not you, it's me

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Angel

Out CouchDB in PotatoDB ?

Google machine-guns unpopular social products

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Coffee/keyboard

The Knol -> Stephen Fry

Knol no more? then ->

Stephen Fry Does the Knowledge

Stephen Fry's metaphorical taxi journey to discover what knowledge really means

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013spvh#blq-content

Hubble snaps mystery green death nebula in NGC 1846

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Boffin

Green explained?

See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_color-magnitude_diagram

there's a green valley between the blue cloud and red sequence.

Go figure.

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