Posts by General A. Annoying

Yet another 'fuck-up merchant'...

gets to *resign*, no doubt with his lardy assed pension still totally intact.

Which is more than could be said for the rest of us if we cocked up for our employer so publicly.

Gits, the lot of em.

Cue...

the 'Decibel Pedants'!

No dolphins were harmed in the writing of this comment (although some possibly were in the production of today's tuna sarnies for lunch)!

Seems like common sense...

therefore will be ignored entirely by this, and any subsequent government for the foreseeable future.

A way out of the recession?

Become a patent troll!

Sarcasm Alert!!

"On you go BT."

At least I hope you're being sarcastic!

It took the useless fuckers almost a month to repair the damaged multicore to the pole serving our house after some dozy smegger cut it with a digger.

As someone posted on the earlier article, BT need to get their act together on the diversity and redundancy factors.

With some added redundancy for those responsible for not ensuring there was enough of both in the system.

Not so much a network as a few bits of damp string knotted together incoherantly

Twonks.

That has GOT to be...

the best April Fool's Joke ever, surely.

"The organisation, which gained full executive agency status on 1 April 2009"

Que?

Oh, 150 Que!

That'll be another 50p on the licence fee to cover that then.

Or does that come out of what they saved by not paying Wossy whilst he was off-air?

Yet another reason...

why wind farms are such a waste of time.

Let's forget about them and find something else.

How about Nuclear.

Static buildings, smaller footprints, low emissions, no shredded birds...

@ Cpt. Jamie

is that 'competent', 'competent judicial' or 'judicial'?

Not quite...

"but virtual console games can now be saved and loaded directly from the cards."

Just did the update this morning. You have to 'temporarily transfer' downloaded games from the SD card into the Wii system memory before you can play.

Or at least that's what the instructions contained in the update tell you.

At least they've gone some way to addressing the issue.

bit of a sweeping statement there

"if replacements are solving the problem then it's a manufacturing issue, not a design one"

Were you involved in the design?

No?

Then how do you *know* it's not a design issue?

He must be relieved...

of his driving licence and car keys with immediate effect.

What a complete ARSE.

@How bad is it in the UK?

REALLY fucking bad!

And getting rapidly worse.

As for "What does "taken offside" mean?"

DUH!

WTF do you think he meant?

The only connections with sport would involve either a baseball bat (or two, or three), or perhaps a starting pistol (or something *very* similar).

Use your imagination.

If they're 'obliged'

to offer sim free iphones in one EU country, shouldn't they be 'obliged' to offer them in all EU countries?

After all, I (naively) thought that was part of the EU's raison d'etre.

What the fuck is the difference?

Compulsory ID Card

or

Compulsory Passport

The real problem, as you say, is the database.

That, and the word "compulsory".

Devil's Advocate.

Look at it this way, if you're using Google's 'free' services (Gmail, picasa, search, maps, whatever) then they're using 'your' data to turn a profit. Which, if you think about it, is pretty fair.

They should, however, make this completely clear and transparent, and no data should be linked to any IP address for any longer than, say 14 days.

Time to come clean guys.

Phorm/BT on the other hand, are not going to be operating this model. The user will already be paying BT for their service. Phorm/BT are simply harvesting this info to make MORE money, with no discernible benefit to the users, as far as I can see ('Targeted' or 'more relevant' ads do not, IMO, constitute a "discernible benefit")

FTTC, replacement or suppliment?

"I was trolling along, on moonlight bay, dah de de de de de de dee,...."

Seriously though, is FTTC intended to replace the existing copper multicore from the exchange to "your nearest roadside cabinet" or is it going to be supplementary to it, thereby enabling ET, sorry BT, to proffer a two-tier service?

I have to agree with a great many of the posts here, it should be rolled out in more 'rural' areas first, with preference given to those areas with either no broadband, or piss-poor connections.

But that wouldn't be 'economically viable' I suppose.

Finally, my apologies to our Welsh reader. How could I possibly have missed "Taffs Well - Rhondda Cynon Taf"

"iechyd da"

Memo to Civil Servants.

Please revisit your job title.

YOU are OUR servants,

NOT the other fucking way round.

Please take the time to get that concept firmly embedded into your thick fucking heads.

Thank You for your time.

It'll be a LONG time...

before Ye Olde Incandescents are gone. People will stock up on them to use in light fittings that simply are not suitable for, or were never designed to be compatible with, CFLs.

Personally, we have 36% of the fixed lighting in our house still running on Ye Olde Bulbes, simply because the fittings are not suitable for CFLs (either too big to go inside the enclosed glass shade and still give enough light, or on a PIR that's not rated for CFL). the rest run on halogens. If that sort of percentage is repeated across europe, that's a shitload of lighting.

Excellent News.

It's high time the dinosaurs that are the record labels realised that their time is almost over.

Unless they embrace the changing media world, rather than attempt to strangle the life out of it, that is.

'Twit' doesn't quite cover it

You simply replace the alphabet's 3rd vowel with the 1st.

Hope they throw the book at the 'tw*t' for contempt.

Its only a stick...

if they actually use it.

Otherwise it'll just look like a decorative leg, being used to prop up a sad, toothless flea-bitten (watch)dog.

They body-swerved the Phorm/BT trials issue. can't see them having the balls to take on the mobile networks either.

At least...

Patti and Selma will be happy(er)!

Note to Hollywood.

For the love of <insert preferred deity / alien>, stop 'resurrecting' long dead TV shows. Try coming up with an ORIGINAL idea a little more often.

"kicked into the long grass"

We live in hope. Pity we cant kick her Wackness into 'the long grass' as well.

"Where do you go from Google?"

Into a more 'prestigious' job?

Of course, AOL must, one presumes, be bettering his 'package' to jump ship?

I could be wrong, of course.

It's only a matter of time...

before we're stuck on this ball of dirt surrounded by a shroud of our own junk.

Maybe it'll be an ideal way to solve "Global Warming".

Pah.

Dear Kent

Just this

Please F O A D, A S A P.

and take your company with you.