Posts by Anonymous John

Is that a Wi-Fi media server in your pocket?

Media downloads?

It's a good job that the mobile telcos aren't phasing out unlimited data.

Oh ,wait a moment......

Wireless mics get national frequency early

Radio astronomers?

Radio telescopes are receivers. Why did they have, or need, a particular frequency allocated to them?

Cybercrime police's budget slashed by 30%

Comments shoudn't need titles.

Exactly. UK victims lose an estimated £3.5 billion annually to scammers.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01/anti_fraud_action_day/

Who many people even noticed that day of action?

UK law enforcement does nothing constructive, unlike sites like 419Eater and Scamwarners. Not really a criticism when scammers are working anonymously out of West African Internet cafes.

Three intros second-gen MiFi

Re SIM locked?

Yes. I've just tried an O2 3G SIM in my E5, and it won't connect. It seems that the E585 has the same unobtainable battery too.

Brits turn to web for World Cup action

Freeview HD upgrades.

Not available in my neck of the woods. And I imagine that most footballs fans already have Sky. So not likely to go to DSG to be surveyed.

Home Office launches urgent review of illegal police stop'n'search

Re Hahahahahaaa!!

I certainly hadn't heard of any. I was just making the point that the stops were pointless as well as illegal.

Legal title.

But did they find any terrorists with these stops?

O2 to step back from unlimited mobile data deals

Sustainable data experience

Experience. Time to run for the hills when you see that word.

ToryDems stoke ID card 'bonfire'

Re keeping ID cards for foreign nationals

How does that work?

"Can I see your ID card please?"

"I'm not a foreign national."

"Fair enough. Move along."

Sarah Palin 'boob job' debate dominates US right - and left

Title

I like being kept abreast of the news.

Humanity evolved to cope with 30°C+ heat, says prof

Great!

Roll on global warming, then!

Plucky Finn attempts to drive length of Finland in small digger

Playmobil reconstruction

Or it isn't happening.

iPhone 4 splashes down on both sides of the pond

Re Run Fanboi, Run! #Run Fanboi, Run!

This sums it up perfectly.

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/out-of-date-iphone-users-forced-to-sit-at-back-of-bus-201006082795/

The World's best World Cup Calendar (maybe)

Re Are you sick of World Cup magazine pull-outs?

Well, I'm sick of the World Cup. And it hasn't even started yet.

New cycle helmets emit stench if they need replacement

Old technology

Socks have been made this way for centuries.

Thousands of 'sexsomniacs' suffering in silence, say profs

@ @Anonymous John

I'm half Welsh, not an Aussie.

Sleep shagging

Am I the only one who read that as "sheep"?

SpaceX Falcon 9 achieves orbit on maiden flight

Re SpaceX and NASA

Just about all the job losses will be due to retiring the Shuttles. Even if Constellation goes ahead, it will need a smaller workforce. Contractors, rather than NASA employees.

Privatising low Earth orbit activities was inevitable. The Ares I would only have had a limited role in supporting the ISS.

Is your office World Cup sweepstake legal?

Ridiculous!

Everywhere i've ever worked had a Grand National sweep. And a Christmas raffle. Does anyone buy cloakroom tickets for their eponymous purpose?

This would make almost everybody a criminal.

Vulture 1 GPS test: It did work, honest

Playmobil reconstruction

Or it didn't happen.

ID cards poster girl laments her £30

How much was she paid for the two MEN articles?

More than £30 I'm sure. Ans would the cost of the card be a business expenses?

If she bought one, that is. The one in the photo has someone else's photo, and "Specimen" on it.

compared the experience at the time to the birth of her daughter

"Push!"

<Pant. Pant>

"Push!"

<Pant. Pant>

"Push!"

<Scream>

"You're doing fine. It's coming. Push!"

<Scream>

"Congratulations! Here's your ID card."

Mobiles back in the frame as bee killers

Perhaps the bees didn't like the ringtones.

The controls either had dummy phones or no phones. A timer controlled noise-maker would have been better.

Bee #1 " Fuck me. It's that funny noise again!"

Bee #2 "I know. It went of this morning when I left the hive, and I forgot what I went out to get."

Bee #3 "If it doesn't stop soon, I'm going on strike."

Woman sues Google after highway knockdown

Re Dragged out by a team of oxen?

Usually just a pair. I imagine ye farmer had two to hand, already yoked.

Did this sort of thing happen before GPS?

Ye Olde Register.

"A Devon woman is suing Ordnance Survey after accusing its mapping service of encouraging her to walk through the Great Grimpen Mire. She is asking for two thousand guineas for the mental and emotional effects of having to be dragged out of the bog by a farmer with a team of oxen."

Audi dreams up App Store for user-designed cars

Stopped for drink driving?

We've got an app for that

Action day targets callous conmen

No they don't.

The "traditional" 419 scam does catch a few people who lose large amounts. The vast number of scam victims fall for romance scams, fake lotteries, Craigslist scams, etc. Scams that do not pretend to be illegal activities. In total, far more money is lost to these.

Postal email? Wozzat?

Intercepting bulk scam snail mail from abroad has been suggested before. But I thought Royal Mail claimed (correctly) that they had a legal obligation to deliver it.

"City of London Police works hard to highlight that this is not a victimless crime"

Excuse me? Who has ever suggested that? Not even the newspaper commentards who offer the opinion that anyone who falls for a scam somehow deserves to be cheated,

Coming soon: Live Vulture 1 GPS tracking test

Re Finnish APRS site aprs.fi

Almost an anagram of Paris. Effing paper aeroplane released into space?

Top-killing, crisp spam and cooling the Tube

But

If you can fill the hot water tank with pre-warmed water, it takes less energy to raise its temperature to 70 degrees, than it does to heat much colder water.

Beer because you can generate heat by sticking it in the fridge.

Shawn White

That looks like an advance fee fraud to me.

Found phone leads to paedophile ring

Fourteen phones?

Pay As You Go phones that store photos seem to start at about £30. It's an expensive way of storing images.

Regent Street blocked by iPad fanboi swarm

Re clap and cheer.

He's a fluffer!

ISS snapped transiting Sun

Recursion

You've posted a link to this page.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/20/article-1279952-09AC522B000005DC-766_306x423.jpg

Honda CR-Z sporty hybrid e-car

Want one!

How about an E Reg competition?

Teletext licence holder fined for killing service early

Does anyone still use it?

The TV I bought two years or so ago has a Teletext decoder, but the remote that came with it doesn't support it.

The manual is written in every known language (and a few unknown ones) and covers several models, so I don't know if this was intended.

Europe exposes new data share deal with US

Re Reciprocal Agreement?

Yes. In the sense that the Extradition Treaty is reciprocal, that is.

Atlantis bows out with Kennedy touchdown

Re A sad day for exploration

All three are on offer to various museums. No final decision on where they go yet.

Halting McKinnon extradition not in our power, says Clegg

Does the USA really want him?

I haven't read of them complaining about the delay. I don't expect they want to back down, but wouldn't be surprised if they want to see the back of the whole affair.

Even to the extent of accepting a plea bargain, and giving him a token slap on the wrist. If he hadn't been fighting extradition, he could well have been back home long since.

Google: Android fragmentation isn't fragmentation

@ @Anon John

It looks as if Froyo will be available for the Desire on 23 June. And it looks like a wothwhile upgrade.

Storing apps on the SD card for one.

I don't blame Google.

And I like my Desire. It would be nice to have the option of a much shorter period before I can upgrade it though.

Re "I think everybody wants this rapid iteration."

Not customers locked into 18/24 month contracts. What happened to 12 month ones?

I just hope I'll be able to upgrade my new HTC Desire to Froyo.

Man jailed for sex with donkey and horse

1999?

Had the police been looking for him for eleven years, or did it take that long for the donkey to make a complaint?

Google halts deletion of Street View Wi-Fi data

No

Because the Googlcar was on the public highway. If you have an open network, you have bigger problems than Google's brief interception on one occasion.

I see very few open networks nowadays, and I imagine that few people were actually accessing the Internet during the few seconds Google's car drove by.

Google mocks Jobs with Flash on Android

Froyo = frozen Yoghurt.

I imagine Android 2.3 will be Gooseberry something.

You heard it here first.

IBM hands out malware-stuffed USB at security conference

Fail!

Fail! Fail! Fail! Fail! Fail! Fail!Fail! Fail! Fail! Fail! Fail! Fail! Fail! Fail! Fail!Fail! Fail! Fail!

US boffins synthesize self-replicating bacteria

The Andromeda Breakthrough (A For Andromeda sequel)

I for one welcome our new nitrogen-fixing overlords.

'World's largest' airship inflated in colossal Alabama cowshed

World's largest airship

In the sense that the X37-B will be the World's largest Space Shuttle a year from now.

Google blames developers for lousy Android battery life

So?

In recent years, I've had a XDIIi, an XDA Orbit 2, and for the past week, an HTC Desire. All with similar battery life, but the Desire does so much more, and faster.

McKinnon family awaits final, final extradition decision

Why?

Why is the extradition treaty always described as one sided? It seems damn near impossible to extradite anyone from the UK. The system seems to allow appeals indefinitely in the hope of a favourable outcome. To any country, not just the US.

Would we be happy if a foreign country allowed extraditions to drag on ad infinitum? No.