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Anonymous Coward 15
Facepalm

Why does Confused.com

not have at the top of their page a big link to Compare the Meerkat?

Anonymous Coward 15

Or even less than that

if you used an Allwinner A10.

Anonymous Coward 15

Isn't that the wrong time of the year to launch?

New academic year has not long started, so it won't appear in the curriculum for another year. Halfway through the tax year, so this year's budget is already set and next year's is a long way away.

Anonymous Coward 15

And in other news, a politician was found to have attended parties where cannabis was smoked. But he didn't inhale, honest!

Anonymous Coward 15

Re: This means that there was no actual hacking of our server.

A boot in the jacksie?

Anonymous Coward 15

Not 5V tolerant

Expand using SPI and get your hands on a couple of MAX6957's then.

Anonymous Coward 15

Soldered-on flash

And a socketed BIOS. So only as brickable as, say, a Joggler.

Anonymous Coward 15
Linux

Free Beer

Just felt obliged to post this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Beer

Anonymous Coward 15

Re: Do se need a new error message?

It's traditionally printer ports that are on fire, or so I've read.

Anonymous Coward 15

Re: I was told at my university, in the mid 70's,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire

Anonymous Coward 15
Paris Hilton

As much as I hate it

I don't believe it will turn out to be as much of a turkey as this thread suggests. A finger doesn't produce milk, but that doesn't mean a baby won't suck on it as if it was a nipple.

Anonymous Coward 15

I use an app...

that backs up my SMS and call log into a GMail folder. Free from the Play Store, so not exactly your hardcore criminal stuff. If I create some of my own correctly formatted messages in that folder and restore them using this backup app, I think I can falsify the logs. Nice evidence you've got there.

Anonymous Coward 15

Have a firmware that logs everything

So that data access necessarily involves modifying the contents of the phone. Like a tamper-evident seal.

Anonymous Coward 15

If your phone is stolen

and subsequently recovered by police, could they also use this to inspect it to check it's yours and for evidence regarding the stealing- even if you are not suspected of any crime yourself?

Anonymous Coward 15
Flame

Re: Biggest pump and dump in history?

I'm reminded of an episode of the Simpsons.

"But I have 52 million shares! What's 52 million times zero?! And don't tell me it's zero!"

Anonymous Coward 15

Re: Finally

And the Falklands.

Anonymous Coward 15
Devil

Want to see some puppies?

They're over there in my windowless, unmarked van, yeah, that one with the rust and the handwritten number plate.

Anonymous Coward 15
Boffin

Rule 34!

Simples!

(Eye protection for obvious reasons.)

Anonymous Coward 15

Redirect them to a message that says they're infected

and don't allow them to do anything else until it's cleared.

Anonymous Coward 15
Facepalm

Testing

How does it work?

(Can we have a Kermit icon to signify a muppet?)

Anonymous Coward 15

Re: "90% reduction in the population"

Anyone here read Swift's "A Modest Proposal"?

Anonymous Coward 15
Joke

(Insert comment about the World Wrestling Federation here)

Anonymous Coward 15
IT Angle

Re: Pirates

Obviously piracy is bad (mmkay?) but the real facepalm here is voluntarily trumpeting your misdemeanours in a job interview!

Anonymous Coward 15
Joke

Stolen

If you hit me at 30, there's an 80% chance I'll live.

If you hit me at 40, there's an 80% chance I'll die.

Please, stop hitting me.

Anonymous Coward 15

Re: Solution?

No, make them all ring and ring with an automated message of "Turn off your phone you annoying w*nker!"

Anonymous Coward 15
Mushroom

Get out of here Stalker!

(The post is required, and must contain letters.)

Anonymous Coward 15
Facepalm

Let them collect their own bloody Darwin award.

Anonymous Coward 15
Devil

Re: Evidence is Evidence...

Thread necromancy! Yay!

Anonymous Coward 15

Channel 36 isn't just VCRs

A lot of old computers too.

Anonymous Coward 15
Trollface

Sarcasm?

Or just really bad, obvious trolling?

Anonymous Coward 15

Re: OS X

And the rainbow back in their logo. I liked that one better.

Anonymous Coward 15

I must try that New Coke everyone's talking about.

Anonymous Coward 15
Big Brother

Whether a warrant is required is largely immaterial

because the ISP will have to inspect and record the data first, so it still exists should a warrant be issued within 12 months.

Anonymous Coward 15
Trollface

Re: xps gone poopy

Sod emacs, JOE ftw.

Anonymous Coward 15

Re: Should have applied for .dev

None of those are really suitable.

.test, .example, .invalid - it's none of those things, we're talking about production use

.localhost - is for 127.0.0.1

And using globally-valid FQDNs may break things differently or reveal the structure of your internal network to outsiders. If it's for internal use only, what do you tell your registrar to delegate as the NS?

Anonymous Coward 15
Joke

When I were a lad...

t'best we 'ad were some paintings on t'wall of t'cave. And they were a lot less realistic in my day.

Anonymous Coward 15

Has all the required open-source code been released?

Anonymous Coward 15
Windows

Whatever is left of Digital Research

might have had something to say if this case was upheld.

(Can we have a "can of worms" icon?)

Anonymous Coward 15
Happy

Re: When I were a lad .....

And here we are again. There seem to be Yorkshiremen in every other thread at the moment.

Anonymous Coward 15
Joke

Luxury!

We had one abacus between us, and that had half the beads missing.

Anonymous Coward 15
Holmes

A-Level Biology, unit 1

Write 200 words on the topic of ursine defecation in arboreal environments.

Anonymous Coward 15

Lacist!

Anonymous Coward 15

Judaean People's Front

Or the People's Front of Judaea?

Anonymous Coward 15
Alert

Re: Actually, it is very possible to get too much

Anonymous cowards posting about their multi-day coke fuelled sex binge?

Itchy, itchy beard.

Anonymous Coward 15

They all come at once?

You sure they aren't faking?

Anonymous Coward 15

If you want a *real* three-finger salute in Linux

Try Alt+SysRq+B.

Anonymous Coward 15
FAIL

10 PRINT 'BOLLOCKS'

Your headline is wrong. You need double quotes for that.

Anonymous Coward 15
Devil

10 million yuan

Did anyone else see a Dr Evil/Austin Powers moment there?

Anonymous Coward 15

Restricted-length trials are the problem, not the solution

In eight years' time, that seven-and-a-half-year-old antivirus will offer as much protection as a condom with fecking holes in.

Anonymous Coward 15
Trollface

"Yeah, my mum always says that"

Or a better idea, make it tell "Your Mum" jokes.

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