Posts by Don S.

NYC granny shoots mugger with .357 Magnum

But ...

"But according to the Comentards on El Reg she should have killed him! What if it was you who kicked her vicious little dog?"

According to PETA, reason enough.

Bush Obama sides with RIAA in P2P fight

Justice

The value of a down loadable electronic version of a song is the rough equivalent to that of a candy bar.

The usual punishment for nicking a candy bar is to be forced to apologize to the store owner and make restitution.

Therefore, Tannenbaum should apologize to the RIAA and give them their 7 bucks.

Microsoft claims Firefox- and Chrome-whopping IE8 speeds

What they mean is

"Finally, Microsoft said it measured page load times using "visual cues" or a combination of visual cues and the ability to interact with a page to determine if a page had completely loaded."

Translation from Microspeak - "Please ignore the Done with errors on the status bar."

Apple 24in iMac (March 2009)

@ BR AC

Because:

"Blue-ray is a bag of hurt."

-- S. Jobs

UK IT should 'fire men first', says Kate Craig-Wood

Follow the example

So ... To follow 'her' example, if men want to keep their jobs, they need to lose their johnson??

Vatican vetos 'dot god' domain

@Leave well enough alone - AC

How could they be opening a Pandora's Box when according to you it doesn't exist?

Mine's the one with a copy of the Iliad in the pocket.

Psion countersues Intel in not-netbook spat

A little bit of history repeating

Does anyone know if IBM ever defended it's "Personal Computer" brand name so vigorously?

Reg Reader poll on notebook quality: results are in

Perception isn't reality.

It would be interesting to have the poll re-run based on actual experience instead of perception and see how the 2 marry up.

Jobs to skip Apple shareholders meeting

@AC

Couldn't agree more. What part of "step down from day-to-day duties " do people not understand???

Goat hangs self in Canadian zoo

It's Simons's fault

The goat got severly depressed having to wait over a month for a BOFH episode.

It has happened before. Take note of this statement from Simon's Wikipedia entry:

"His goat died 2-Nov-08."

Has the war on terror scored a virtual victory?

All is fair etc etc

This is a declared war between El Queda and the US, not some difference of opinion over political ideology.

The Propaganda battle ans Psyops are almost as important as the guns and bullets battles.

Apple slapped for dodgy ads

@James Bassett

Java Script <> Java.

Surely this is the fault of the web site programmers who are too lazy or too incapable to provide proper "No Flash" alternatives to their sites.

I really think it is time we criminalized us of the phrase "This site requires ... "

Indian gov: Let us into BlackBerry or we'll shut you down

Really?

Sounds like a RIM job to me.

Coat please.

Amazon to take MP3 downloads international

@Richard Porter

It's a marketing dig. ITunes DRM songs won't play on WMP and vice versa. Buy the DRM free songs from Amazon and they'll play on either or any player.

Competition is this market is good. If anyone thinks that Apple is just going to throw in the towel is kidding themselves.

Clash of the compacts: Eee vs Air

Just a question

Does this mean we are replacing Reg math with EEE math?

Canuck record labels accuse tunesmiths of smoking opium

@heystoopid

"For swift boot justice I would ship these wowsers off to a place called Bagram Air Base Kabul , Afghanistan for life without parole , or alternatively put them in permanent exile in the twin islands of the continuous fog bank in the South Pacific to reside with the existing white brain challenge residents for giving birth to what is a truly dumb and very stupid idea !"

Actually, since they are Canadian they would go to Kandahar, but I take your point.

It's not about a fair way to distribute music

This is a typical scheme of the pseudo-communist Canadian arts community to get a steady paycheque for mediocre musicians, whether they sell there music or not.

Never use an internet translator to hire a gorilla

CSI Farmyard

I'm surprised no one has as yet made the connection between the cow over the cliff and dung sniffing.

Perhaps, said bovine was pushed over by some Columbians trying to "horn" in on the market.

Testers give iPhone virtual keyboard the thumbs down

@ (one of) Anonymous Coward

'uninformative peice of '

Typed on your iPhone I presume.

Official: P2P music not harming Canada

Ironic ...

... this coming a week after the Canadian Copyright Board slapped a 1.5 to 3 cent tariff on legal (e.g. Itunes) downloads.

Yes I said legal.

Mandriva bigwig (nearly) accuses Ballmer of b-word

@Bloody_yank

"thus allowing M$ to offer China or these fine Nigerian folks a OS + Office for $3 or less. In effect we're all underwriting this activity everytime we buy a M$ product."

If it were softwood instead of software, your Congress would be screaming bloody blue murder about dumping.

Where is the WTO?

Facebook sued for mis-sending dirty texts

Oxymoron?

How can something be Obscure AND Graphic at the same time?

Asus to offer Eee PCs pre-loaded with Windows

It's only fair.

If M$ can build a stripped down version of Windows for Eee PC's that actually works, then they can build one for regular PC's that doesn't suck the life out of them.