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* Posts by Ron Hughes

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Ron Hughes

"But I didn't lie on purpose"  

In Labour flames whistleblowers in email smear brouhaha

The quote, from a discredited psychotherapist, on live television.

So why should anyone, ever, believe what he says?

Ron Hughes

The unmistakeable sound of.....  

In 16 teams to field 24 e-bikes in 'zero-emission' TT race

Each bike is equipped with a 500W amplifier & stereo speakers to replicate the pleasure provided by the superb 1960's 6-cylinder Honda 250.

Ron Hughes

Local Constabulary investigating............  

In Wacky Jacqui spanked by husband

Happy

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Rumour has it that the other embarrassing item claimed for, the 88p plug, was in fact not a bath plug, but a butt plug.

Ron Hughes

So, what's all the fuss about?  

In Emotional arguments do not make Street View illegal

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1. Simple solution

"By Eponymous Cowherd Posted Monday 23rd March 2009 13:37 GMT

If you see a GoogleMobile coming down your street, run outside and get your todger out."

And if you're a woman?

2. Brill cartoon in Daily Telegraph that sums it all up - CCTV operator complaining Google had photographed their equipment.

3. Interesting that Google get away with photographing Coppers, whereas mere members of the public now can't.

4. All those stupid kill-joys who complain, presumably never look at a photograph in the press or television news report that has 'other' members of the public whose faces are not obscured.

Ron Hughes

What a fiddle  

In Blu-ray Disc added to UK shopping basket

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Spot on JS @ 17:39

Next they'll add an Apple Mac

Seriously, just how many (or, more pertinently, how few) households have the BluDeath?

Ron Hughes

So, a true Mac Clone  

In Dell MacBook Air Adamo officially launched

"Slim and sexy, dahling, but mediocre inside?"

Bit like buying a Porsche with a Fiat engine inside.

Ron Hughes

Non-adjustable screen height  

In Apple 24in iMac (March 2009)

Use lateral thinking - raise or lower your seat ffs.

Ron Hughes

One law for us, one law for them  

In MPs vote to keep addresses private (theirs, not yours)

"Don't do as I do, do as I say" Bl@@dy troughers.

What about Discrimination Act & Equal Opportunities.

Ron Hughes

Troilism anyone?  

In UK censors revolt against 'pornalone' ordeal

And who watches the watchers?

Ron Hughes

"Dell introduces 10in netbook"  

In Dell introduces 10in netbook

Not if Psion gets its way!

Ron Hughes

Ballooning to "several times their normal size"  

In Nokia coughs to ballooning batteries

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Tomorrow's press release from Nokia will inform the world of its hasty patent for a new form of Viagra!

Ron Hughes

Price of Download Speed  

In Deception of 'up to' broadband speeds exposed

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I'm happy to pay say £10 pcm for "up to 8MB" speed

So long as they accept pro-rata £1.25 /MB delivered speed

The ISPs & the Regulator are too cosy with each other.

Ron Hughes

Superb Timing  

In Banks told to spend £1bn on new IT to prepare for failure

Just the day after Barclays annouces it's sacking 400 IT Staff.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7815759.stm

Ron Hughes

Objective achieved?  

In ASA indignates prematurely over billboard sex ads

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Have a slightly risque Ad

Wait for ASA to generate free publicity from column miles of "indignation"

Ron Hughes

iPhone Nano or iPhoney Nano  

In Apple wrongfoots iPhoneys

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If the "Counterfeiters" get their product out 1st, can't they slap Apple with a cease & desist for copying? And, claim $millions in damages!

Interesting.

Get out of that one Mr Jobs

Ron Hughes

Which will it be..............??  

In Windows for Warships™ reaches Royal Navy frigates

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Portholes or Arseholes?

Ron Hughes

Estimated cost  

In Private firm may run UK spy über-database

Is that "£12billion" a 'reasonable & realistic' estimate; or, an Olympic-type deliberate underestimate that will end up costing 4x as much - i.e. £1,000 per man woman & child of this already bankrupt nation?

Ron Hughes

Inactive Turbines  

In Windfarm lobby bows to ASA and cuts CO2 saving figures

Every 'farm' (i.e. bank of multiple turbines) I see, has at least 20% inoperative; sometimes up to 50% idle.

Drive along the A47 towards Gt Yarmouth and that farm on the coast to the north rarely has more than 50% operative - even on windy days.

What a waste of money.

Ron Hughes

IDs are a great idea.......  

In Auntie Beeb's amazing, evolving, ID card stories

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If they're so good, make it mandatory for every MP to have one. At their own cost. To "test-drive" the system for say 10 years before a general referendum asks the public for their opinion.

Jacqui should buy the first one. With her own money, and not on expenses.

Ron Hughes

The simple answer is...............  

In Mandelson's dept mulls UK internet power grab

The simple answer is..........."To remain free from Political Interference"

Ron Hughes

Photograph of Jesus walking on water  

In Dawkins' atheist ad campaign hits fundraising target

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Seems the ad campaign may be a waste of money.

Here's a photo of His son walking on water............

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2008/jesus-hydrofoil-p1.php

Ron Hughes

"sCUNThorpe"  

In Holy f**k, Microsoft covers up ‘undesired’ words

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Let them censor that!

Ron Hughes

H M Customs & Revenue next for the chop?  

In Home Office screws prison data bunglers

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Didn't H M C & R lose a little data recently?

Ron Hughes

"What's wrong with snooping on binmen?" - A J Stiles @ 14:12  

In Bury council carries can over spycam binmen

It's discrimination.

All Councillors & Council Employees should be under surveillance. All, or none.

Ron Hughes

Don't just whinge - complain to Ofcom's PayMaster.........  

In Ofcom considers termination charges

Complain about Ofcom having nothing better to do:-

Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration

Millbank Tower

Millbank

London

SW1P 4QP

Tel: 0845 015 4033 (enquiry line)

Fax: 020 7217 4000

Email: phso.enquiries@ombudsman.org.uk

Ron Hughes

Just when you thought Justice<>Common Sense  

In Dancing Baby v. Universal: Baby wins!

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Could anyone advise of cases that aren't "... a fact-intensive inquiry ..."?

Ron Hughes

Yet another DataBase to lose  

In 'Child protection' database slammed as plod data mine

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Ladbrokes have opened a Book, on when the 1st reported "Loss" will occur.

They've opened another one on when the 1st unreported "Loss" occured.

Ron Hughes

Chichester BC Human Resource Management Strategy  

In Council clamps down on 'man on the street'

Ironic that they have one.

http://www.chichester.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=4662

Ron Hughes

?Data Protection Act?  

In Copyright lawyers accuse 25,000 UK videogame filesharers

1. Shouldn't the Data Protection Act prevent disclosure of identity?

2. Nobody 'Forces' file-sharers to share files. Those that do so should expect to be clobbered.

3. Notice that the Legal eagles make 66% more than the game's Publisher.

Ron Hughes

From the sublime to the ridiculous  

In Did we say you can read that?

Go to Tesco, buy a bottle of Harpic & a bottle of Domestos.

Don't let anyone know that you've read their warnings not to mix the two.

Be sure to wear a gas-mask if you ignore the warnings.

That combination will kill more than just germs.

Ron Hughes

Employer's misleading references  

In Massive expansion planned for 'no-work' database

But don't Employers already have the opportunity to desribe their opinion of a worker?

Fear of legal action causes the majority to provide 'neutral' comments, when in fact some employees may be real sh1ts.

[OK, OK, some employers can be real sh1ts too, but it's easier for a disgruntled employee to walk, than it is for a disgruntled employee to give a worker the shove.]

"NRB" is succint, truthful and honest.

Ron Hughes

The Power of the Internet  

In Olympic Committee wins gold for foot shooting

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If they hadn't tried to ban it; you wouldn't have reported it; and, I & thousands others wouldn't have considered watching it.

Now that I have, I learn more about the Chinese atrocities towards the Tibetans.

Ron Hughes

Don't whinge here, Complain to OFCOM & your MP  

In More dodgy phone-ins cost BBC £400,000

Mail Bomb graham.howell@ofcom.org.uk & your MP asking why OFCOM should be allowed to steal £400k of OUR licence-payers money.

Ron Hughes

Just for more profit for BAA  

In Home Office to order fingerprinting of air passengers

The reason fingerprinting is necessary is because BAA wants to save costs & increase revenuse by "mixing" passengers in a common retail area.

Force the buggers to build separate areas, then fingerprinting is unnecessary.

Ron Hughes

Extra large = Extra Cost  

In Busts 4 Justice battles Bulgarian airbag tax

Seems like a golden opportunity for Durex to charge more for their "Extra-long condoms".

How many guy's ego would let them buy the cheaper 'normal' length ones?

Ron Hughes

It's not all bad - there's One Good Point....  

In Criminal record checks could hit over 14 million people

Seems that at every election & by-election Politicians revel in the photo-opportunity of picking up babies or having school kids sit on their lap.

Now, they'll get prosecuted for doing it without a CRB certificate, or, stop the sickening activity.

Either way, a Win-Win situation for Joe Public.

Ron Hughes

Idle Wind Turbines  

In Research: Wind power pricier, emits more CO2 than thought

Drive along the "Acle Straight" towards Gt Yarmouth on the A47.

To the north in view for much of the journey, is a clearly visible wind farm, with many turbines.

I don't drive on that road every day, but I've yet to see all turbines rotating simultaneously. Sometimes only about 50% rotate; sometimes fewer than 25%.

A disgraceful waste of capital equipment.

Ron Hughes

Mandatory CRB check for all adults in contact with children?  

In Dismissed deputy head launches legal fight

There are many instances of photographs published in the press & shown on TV of adults touching children they don't know & who are not related to them.

These adults are known as Politicians, and the events occur around Election Time.

Ministers frequently go into school classrooms for Photo Opportunities.

Presumably they've all had their CRB check? If not, why not?

Ron Hughes

Actual rate vs advertised price  

In Ofcom asks ISPs nicely to stop mis-selling broadband on speed

Is it really beyond the whit of OFCOM to insist that ISPs proportion their charge to their delivered speed?

Advertising......"Up to 8MBps for £10 pcm"

If punter gets only 4MBps average, he pays only £5pcm!

Ron Hughes

Offensive T-shirts  

In Heathrow T5 security tackles Transformers t-shirt threat

The MOD can't afford any more bullets, so all soldiers in Afghanistan are being issued with those T-shirts to scare the Taliban sh1tless.

Ron Hughes

Hidden usage tracking? @ Steven Raith  

In First public Firefox 3 candidate shoots out the door

"...............I don't care about data pharming [arf], provided I have the option to, quite clearly and expressly, opt out of it."

A scary logic.

Much safer, is for a user to have to positively 'opt in'.

Ron Hughes

MP's Expenses  

In High Court orders MPs to 'fess up on expenses

HMRC (of lost DataBase fame) should simply tax @ 40% all claims NOT supported with a receipt.

Ron Hughes

Guidance Algorithm  

In Apple will please missile makers by backing PA Semi's chip

Has to run on OSX; EULA forbids use on Windows or Linux!!

[Don't know what the penalty for contravention will be though. Any suggestions?]

Ron Hughes

B G vs Accenture  

In British Gas sues Accenture

Remember B G (& its pre-privatisation predecessors) have been sending bills to customers for 60 years. They know what they want & what they expect.

At one time BG had the largest non-governmental database in Europe. It worked, & it worked well.

My money's on the benevolent ex-Monopoly.

Ron Hughes

Judgement on Extreme Porn  

In Lords linger over extreme porn definition

If porn is that which is likely to "Deprave & Corrupt".......

And a Judge looks at the evidence..........

By definition, s/he's been depraved & corrupted.

But is a depraved & corrupted person fit to be a (fair) Judge?

Catch 69 anyone?

Ron Hughes

"Extreme Porn"  

In Lords linger over extreme porn definition

An MP's expense account?

Ron Hughes

Send them to H M Revenue & Customs  

In How to destroy 60 hard drives an hour

They'll lose 'em for free. Never to be seen again.

Ron Hughes

What's an "Impacted" customer?  

In Customers give Dell the finger over keyboard screw-up

Definition(s) of "Impacted"

adj.

Wedged together at the broken ends. Used of a fractured bone.

Placed in the alveolus in a manner prohibiting eruption into a normal position. Used of a tooth.

Wedged or packed in, so as to fill or block an organ or a passage: impacted feces.

What's wrong with the correct "Affected"?

Ron Hughes

Faster iMacs  

In Apple punts 'Penryn' iMacs

Whats the point (no pun intended) of having a faster iMac when it takes forever to scroll the Humble/Mighty Mouse Pointer from one side of their screen to the other?

Try it.

Even as its fastest, you physically have to move their Mouse about 4" / 100mm.

So much for Apple Ergonomics.

Ron Hughes

Secretgeek - the collective noun for a group of paid-for-lovelies?  

In F1 chief seeks French ban on orgy video

Secretgeek asks if anyone knows the collective noun for a group of paid-for-lovelies?

Until now there probably hasn't been one.

I'll start the ball rolling, with.... A "Mosley" of Mistresses.

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