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Israel taps teens to become 'interceptors' in cyberwarfare

Thursday 3rd January 2013 01:13 GMT Smokey Joe

Re: "It was not immediately clear, however...

"The sooner the oil runs out the better - so the USA looses interest in supporting this horrible terrorist state."

Nope. The sooner leaders of people the world over are dragged into the street and laughed at the better. Only then will throwaway "nuke 'em" remarks cease to enter the mind of the led.

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'Over half' of Android devices have unpatched holes

Friday 14th September 2012 03:04 GMT Smokey Joe

Only half?

ALL operating have unpatched holes. Always.

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The Beatles Yellow Submarine restored

Monday 25th June 2012 07:17 GMT Smokey Joe

Re: RE: the King Features Beatles cartoons

Correction: no laugh track. I feel dirty for checking...

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Monday 25th June 2012 07:12 GMT Smokey Joe

RE: the King Features Beatles cartoons

There's loads of examples on YouTube although you'd be better off forgetting that anybody told you about it. Terrible accents, dire laughter track and godawful everything else.

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Ofcom: The Office of Screwing Over Murdoch?

Tuesday 1st May 2012 09:19 GMT Smokey Joe

"Screwing Over Murdoch?"

If he gets a life sentence, that'll be screwing the bloke over.

Ten years would be justice but it's not going to happen.

Screwed over? Hardly.

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Google shows off Project Glass augmented reality specs

Thursday 5th April 2012 05:44 GMT Smokey Joe

Early adopters...

...you can always see 'em coming.

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Molesworth and the New Latin

Monday 27th February 2012 15:18 GMT Smokey Joe

Fantastic!

Grinned the whole way through that.

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Pirate Bay dropping torrents after magnetic attraction

Friday 13th January 2012 23:34 GMT Smokey Joe

It came to this...

...and it won't change anything.

And the biggest laugh is that they rely on expensive lawyers to save themselves money. lolwut?

Goodnight muzac industry. Goodnight.

[http://www.78rpm.co.uk/h64c.JPG]

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Apple patent stashes passwords in chargers

Monday 9th January 2012 20:11 GMT Smokey Joe

Bad...

...Idea

I wouldn't put it past 'em to sell it as a good 'un though. A lot of their bad ideas are interesting to watch...

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Ubuntu Linux shop reveals 'TV for human beings'

Monday 9th January 2012 20:11 GMT Smokey Joe

CD32

Sounds like a CD32 moment.

(excuse the limited appeal of that statement)

In the meantime, here's some vaporware from our sponsors.

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Official: File-sharing is a religion... in Sweden

Thursday 5th January 2012 22:57 GMT Smokey Joe

That awkward moment when you realised you just complained about distractions from your user experience on a site for the tech-literate?

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World's stealthiest rootkit pushes DNS hijacking trojan

Tuesday 15th November 2011 06:46 GMT Smokey Joe

Makes perfect sense though...

...often the best way to familiarise yourself with such tools is to run them on one's own machine first.

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Jobs was 'working on future product day before he died'

Thursday 20th October 2011 14:43 GMT Smokey Joe

We'll just have to wait and see what product Apple decide to associate his name with...

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iPhone 4S pre-orders obliterate sales records

Monday 10th October 2011 18:49 GMT Smokey Joe

lol and/or wut?

<<<

That is all.

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Spanish police cuff three Anonymous hack suspects

Friday 10th June 2011 21:58 GMT Smokey Joe

No Tor Heroes (anymore)

Tor exit nodes tend to be rejected by Anon IRC servers. Keeps the CP out y'see. A VPN would be great, but the majority of Anons have to rely on NickServ and HostServ and a gamble as to the trustworthiness of the ops.

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Hackers pwn PBS in revenge for WikiLeaks doco

Tuesday 31st May 2011 14:03 GMT Smokey Joe

Re: F**king anarchists, my arse!

It's almost as if you're confusing mob rule with anarchism...

That's what happens when you rely on the media for implied definitions rather than checking the political philosophy section of your local library.

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'Upgraded' Apple iMacs lock out hard drive replacement

Saturday 14th May 2011 23:28 GMT Smokey Joe

I see what you did there

Oh yes I do

:-)

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Fukushima reactor core battle continues

Tuesday 15th March 2011 09:57 GMT Smokey Joe

Not often..

..you get stuff wrong Lester.

Don't feel too bad about this one.

Much Respect!

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Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power: Build more reactors now!

Monday 14th March 2011 23:58 GMT Smokey Joe

In short..

..Just because the trees are growing upside down near Chernobyl, it doesn't mean the sky is falling down.

Stop worrying. Nukukar is great.

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Japanese earthquake sparks nuclear emergency

Friday 11th March 2011 21:30 GMT Smokey Joe

BOOM!

Is that what you want?

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Microsoft sends IE9 'do-not-track' tech to W3C

Friday 11th February 2011 10:07 GMT Smokey Joe

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"The open-source outfit is taking a bottoms-up approach "

I'll drink to that!

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Hubble squints at most distant galaxy

Friday 28th January 2011 00:59 GMT Smokey Joe

@Chris Miller

...or to put it another way: that part of the universe 13.2 billion light years away is now 13.2 billion years older, and somewhere in that galaxy might be a small planet with an orbiting telescope squinting an eye in this direction.

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Fanboi king hails Apple 'love affair with open web'

Friday 28th January 2011 00:58 GMT Smokey Joe

So...

>"Whatever else you think of Gruber, he is NOT responsible for policy at Apple,"

He is however "on message". Apple need to just GTFO and be done with it. Their fanbois are welcome to THAT garden.

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Aussies demand Poms cough up first 'Australia' map

Wednesday 26th January 2011 09:46 GMT Smokey Joe

"Sheesh, just because you hang onto the Ashes"

Ah. Now we're getting there...

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Vegas vid-poker hackjackpot bonanza duo face charges

Saturday 8th January 2011 22:33 GMT Smokey Joe

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"It's not my fault that their programming allowed a player to win at will,"

Yup.

The casinos need to be tapping on the shoulder of the manufacturer here.

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HTML5 web video flashes past Flash

Thursday 28th October 2010 09:47 GMT Smokey Joe

Answer?

Ask Mr Jobs. He thought he had the answer to this one...

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XP? Thanks for the memories

Monday 25th October 2010 09:41 GMT Smokey Joe

Can't wait!

All those improvements. Sounds good. Where do I update this pile of cra... Oh!

Sorry.

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Microsoft sings Happy Birthday to Windows 7

Monday 25th October 2010 09:41 GMT Smokey Joe

Bless XP

It was Vista that made me turn to Linux. The only reason this is posted via Vista is 'cos I booted me least favourite OS for a chuckle (and poker).

/me is waiting ages for a decent game of Hi/Lo Omaha atm.

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Google eyes search result preview window

Friday 8th October 2010 08:51 GMT Smokey Joe

The rise of the..

,,, robots,txt?

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Google pulls trigger on 'Instant' search engine

Wednesday 8th September 2010 19:01 GMT Smokey Joe

Dear Google

I'm done with ya.

Default search engine changed - check!

Bookmark removed - check!

Goodbye and have fun.

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Drummers: Looking for a throbbing BumChum?

Monday 6th September 2010 21:44 GMT Smokey Joe

That's

...Fabulous!

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Google tests 'streaming' search engine

Tuesday 24th August 2010 09:34 GMT Smokey Joe

True to form...

Nice one Google. I had a feeling there would be further "improvements" after the fine job you made of your image search.

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ISS cooling pump refuses to come quietly

Sunday 8th August 2010 08:11 GMT Smokey Joe

Why?

The vital organs containing ammonia and heat exchangers and pipework and moving parts probably work best outside?

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Apple iPhone app patent claim 'doesn't feel right'

Saturday 7th August 2010 00:00 GMT Smokey Joe

Stand and deliver!

"I just have to say, it doesn't feel right." is the gentlemanly way of saying "they're obviously robbing bastards, but can I face the court costs?".

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Dell blames staff for malware infection

Friday 23rd July 2010 15:11 GMT Smokey Joe

How?

"How can a virus infect a motherboard?"

Firmware.

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Steve Jobs denies Judas Phone antenna problems

Saturday 17th July 2010 09:48 GMT Smokey Joe

Nah

You're supposed to buy the iPhone5 in twelve months time. Your bumper will outlive this year's fashion statement.

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Dell cuddles Canonical for big Ubuntu fluffer love

Thursday 8th July 2010 08:33 GMT Smokey Joe

Dell sell Linux PCs?!!

Yes. Yes they do. Stop it!!!

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Apple's iPhone 4 denial: insulting or ignorant?

Sunday 4th July 2010 02:11 GMT Smokey Joe

Upvoted...

Upvoted because the Man Utd. analogy is a pretty damned good one :-)

(Man U. fans who live outside a 40 mile radius of Old Trafford need not apply...)

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Microsoft's past - the future to Android's iPhone victory

Sunday 4th July 2010 02:11 GMT Smokey Joe

Nice article

Let the other players argue over their share, Android users are becoming a silent uptake/majority because *ahem* it just works :-)

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Mucky private chat could be illegal soon

Tuesday 18th May 2010 22:34 GMT Smokey Joe

Really??!!

Your donkey must've really pissed your neighbour off, but I suppose all is not lost if he's still willing to settle down and start a family with you.

;o)

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Code-execution bug found in Apple Safari

Tuesday 11th May 2010 01:43 GMT Smokey Joe

Wha...?

"The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team" BooYaaahhh!

They really love this shit those yanks, don't they?

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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 shuns open video

Saturday 1st May 2010 03:56 GMT Smokey Joe

It's not what they say...

...it's what they DON'T say.

Yet more proof that Apple and Microsoft are scared of something...

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Mandybill: All the Commons drama

Thursday 8th April 2010 14:08 GMT Smokey Joe

To those downvoters...

Those who have just downvoted Andrew's post are really missing the point here. The "three strikes" thing IS GONE! The bill does away with any need for three strikes and is far wider reaching.

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