* Posts by Simon

23 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Aug 2007

Met 'studies Chinese bugging tactics' for 2012 games

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Lazy chatterbox terrorists beware!

Terrorists: If you can't handle the thought of taking anything but a cab to your target, and simply cannot keep your mouth shut, you may be in trouble.

As for the rest of you: Could you lean a little closer to the overhead light and repeat the location of that "leather & lace" party again, please?

Jacqui's secret plan to 'Master the Internet'

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Wow.

Anyone else feel like they are being backed into a corner?

Looking at this makes my mind wander over to personal encryption. Not that I'm doing anything wrong, but if I noticed someone watching me through my bedroom window I would be inclined to buy blinds.

Police want new remote hard drive search powers

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Alert

Luddites

The UK .gov is pushing for a nation of Neo-Luddites, aren't they?

C'mon, admit it. Nothing else would make sense.

Public rejects Time Warner metered-bandwidth tests

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Every drop of blood..

Greedy interweb bastard wants to squeeze you for more $$$ - Film at 11

'Sunshade' global-cooling plan would ruin solar power

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Stop

Waiting for the big "oops"

Here we are trying to think of ways to clean up our atmosphere and this brainwave figures we ought to muck it up even more?

Seems it would be a terribly difficult fix if they miscalculated.

Israelis develop 'safe' plutonium: good for power, bad for weapons

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What? No Altruists in the crowd?

Hrmmm, nobody expecting Israel to give this secret away to the world for free and provide peace and energy security for all? Everlasting happiness & all that?

...thought not.

Lords say surveillance society erodes foundations of UK

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Soon...

Soon you'll have Tazer equipped CCTV so they can punish you for your indiscretions remotely.

! Zap !

You! Pick up that litter you just dropped! We saw that!

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Paris Hilton

Poor thing

There, there. Of course you're a spoilt airhead sweetie.

You look dizzy, go have a lay down and let the adults handle this.

/Paris, because she and Paris would get along just fine if they ever met.

'Interfering' BT Vision attracts campaigner glares

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Woah.

That's one hell of an oversight! I didn't expect to see that amount of bandwidth obliterated by that signal, but there it is. Makes one wonder how many other systems are being disrupted by this and they haven't clued into the source of the problem.

Cops taser JCB thief in 'slowest police chase ever'

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@ Keith Williams

Thanks Keith.

We'd commonly refer to those as a "Bobcat" in my neck of the woods. (Canada)

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Paris Hilton

JCB?

WTF is a JCB?

/Paris, because she doesn't know either.

'First algae-fuelled airliner flight' takes off tomorrow

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Flame

Scum-burning 737 to debut in Texas

Heh. They could always stop off in Washington to refuel.

Attack of the quarter-ton, 'fridge-sized' killer jellyfish

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Boffin

Well...

After all, we're the ones who have modified our climate to make it more cozy for the jellyfish, so it's our own fault. Now we need peanut-butter fish to go with them.

(Real estate) developer sues Apple over Jesus Phone browser

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Oh nose....

Not another dogshit RAMBUS wannabee.

Police vet live music, DJs for 'terror risk'

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Joke

Watch out.. that guitar might be loaded..

They've just handed Billy Bragg a decade's worth of incentive to write new stuff.

3,400 votes vanish from Florida election

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Typo.

$5.5m optical-scam machines

There. Fixed that for you.

US customs: Yes, we can seize your laptop, iPod

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remember when...

Americans used to make fun of "Papers please" and all those jokes about communist border guards?

Hrmmmm....

T-Mobile not alone in spinning price hikes

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It can all be explained with WoW speak

Client is affected by TMobile's pick pocket skill.

Client is affected by TMobile's Gouge effect.

Client is stunned

TMobile stealths

Germany, Spain and Belgium get free mobile calls

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That's what we need.....

More advertising in our lives.

BT and Siemens slammed over prisoner call rates

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Captive audience?

Yes, this is what they call "taking advantage".

The war on photographers - you're all al Qaeda suspects now

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Just like in North Korea!

Comrade Stalin would approve of these measures.

BioShockers delivered from DRM hell

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No sale

To develop a game everyone is interested in and then fall flat on their collective asses with DRM stupidity - what a shame.

Better stuff the corks back in the champange bottles boys, I'm not buying.

If I was a shareholder, I'd be pissed.

EC accuses Rambus of 'patent ambush'

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Shocking !

Rambus ? Say it isn't so !

Pass the smelling salts dear, I feel another fainting spell coming on.