Posts by T J

BBC explains hour-long website outage

Its a website.....

Its a website, they go down. Get over it. Stop depending on them.

Tesla Motors sues BBC for defamation

Hi Tesla are you new here?

Hi Tesla, are you a new company?

What's that, you were famous back in 2008?

And then everyone stopped bothering to look at your products?

Awww thats a shame, did you do something really, really, mindbogglingly, pathetically, childishly dumb and suicidally stupid by any chance?

Is Samsung imitating Sony?

Yup, they're screwed

I'd have to rowry along with that I'm afraid.

Jon Bon Jovi accuses Steve Jobs of murdering music biz

There it goes......

There it goes.... my last tiny dregs of respect for JBJ. His music sucked anyway.

Look before you leap into desktop virtualisation

Btw it doesn't work

By the way - it doesn't work.

Citrix is a joke - sharing out the GUI from winblows apps, ooooooooh! X could only do that in about 1975.

Nah, stick with the power on the PC. Servers are for server stuff.

If you want users to be able to move sessions around you're going to have to think carefully about it, all the 'turnkey' solutions aren't solutions, they are expensive and dangerous barges.

Translation please?

Is any part of this article in English?

The public cloud ... why bother?

SaaS doesn't work.

SaaS doesn't work. It never did. Any questions?

Anti-religious campaigners smack down census Jedis

Jedi = No Religion here in Oz

I was reading that the Beaureu of Stats here in Oz - who are absolute little hitler a-holes by the way - treat 'Jedi' as 'No religion'.

Yes, their reckoning will come, and it will come HARD, and it wont be a Rain Of Frogs, it will be Budget Reviews.

I just keep putting 'Jedi', its a matter of slamming them over the head enough times.

Neighbourhood watchers in Reading get speedguns

It will create lifelong village feuds.

There will be murders resulting from this.

The Register and Australia-New Zealand

Nice one

I kinda do agree about the opt-out thing, I like to try and get global stuff, but the Reg seems to feed out a good mix via RSS so no complaints.

Speakn as one of those Aussies (who are nothing like the plastic cutouts in Home And Awry btw), I say Cheers.

Apple fanbois leak secrets of Mac OS X Lion

Secrets?

What? Like how it'll be better than Jaguar and all the other failcats but still shyte because of all the new features that break basics? HOW LONG was it that rsync didn't work Jobsy, was about 3 years I believe?

Electric cars not as 'green' as advertised

This is UTTERLY irrelevant.

The cars are a necessary part of the system. The real issue is the power generation, which is a separate problem.

Doctor Who co-star Nicholas Courtney dies at 81

What the Devil's going on Doctor......

....these chaps are popping off everywhere!

(Paraphrasing the Brig just as he stands up from a massive chaingun having dispatched several Ogrons and placing his stick back under his arm).

Good night and good luck Brigadier.

<SALUTES>

Heartily agree!

Heartily agree Sir! And maybe Patrick and William will drop in on them too.

European child abuse image law a step closer

Scary, scary

Yup, correctamundo. Now that gays and smokers don't provide enough leverage, the stalins must be thanking the gods for pedophiles and rapists. And when they all stop doing what they are doing (or get accepted in some philip k dicksian side universe??) who is the next Scapegoat-generator for Big Brother??

Can Oz compete in the outsourcing market?

STOP. OUTSOURCING.

How about we all just stop this idiotic Outsourcing craze and then it ceases to be an issue anymore. Honestly its run its course and should have disappeared 10 years ago.

Police hit delete on DNA profiles

Cant trust them

Nice in spirit (or in principle as Sir Humphrey Appleby would say). But they cannot be trusted. An independant body with the Power Of Godlike Destruction over the police needs to be created to see this through, midnight raids and all.

One footnote: I'm giving it till 2015 before DNA is no longer admissable as evidence anyway, ditto fingerprints. For details go do some searching on the latest genomic achievements, and with respect to DNA profiling look at 'junk DNA'.

Protection of Freedoms Bill is released

Britons!! Are you coming home??

Could it be, could it finally be - you UK'ers are finally starting to save yourselves from the orwellian nightmare you voted yourselves into over the last 20 or 30 years?????

Texting teenager plunges to his death

Gen YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.........!

So its true - Gen Y really ARE a generation of total and absolute MORONS. Gen Z better do better or we're all doomed, we in Gen X have already run for the hills!

Anonymous pwns security firm that probed its membership

Well, thats the end of that 'security' firm

Bye Bye HBGary, you will not survive this. That rumbling sound? Thats your customer base running over the hill to your competitors. Bye Bye. Good riddance.

UK.gov braces for Anonymous hacklash

Time Travel

This will require Plod to leave 1980 and visit the future, 2011? Wow, thats a STEEP learning curve ahead of them......

Assange relishes US banks 'squirming' over 'megaleak'

Commercial Entities are not Authorities

And never will be. Just wanted to make that distinction :)

Your call is not important to us

Skip

I ordered a skip (thats a huge bin the size of a whale that ex gir....er old rubbish goes in). I wasn't quite sure what size to get - wanted to save money but also not have something jovian land on the lawn. Thanks to a chat client built into the skip company's site - and it worked!! - I was able to ask a nice girl on the other end exactly what I needed given the amount of junk I had to throw.

Crematorium to heat council swimming pool

Nah, its dumb

Even though its efficient, I still think this is stupid.

Sometimes the 'right' thing isn't right enough to justify doing it.

Beeb say sorry for Stephen Fry A-bomb quip

Who?

Who is Julie Burchill and why would I care what she says?

Amazon buys Lovefilm

Wikileaks took care of that anyway

Wouldn't worry, due to their unacceptable behaviour re Wikileaks Amazon are going to go out of business once the lead time has been absorbed anyway. Poor LoveFilm.

Texter who fell in fountain threatens to sue

It will take care of itself

Don't worry she will fall down a manhole on the way to court.

Ubuntu - yes, Ubuntu - poised for mobile melee

"the coming extinction of the PC" ?

"the coming extinction of the PC" ? Is this like the one about "The thing that will replace Email!" ?

Sarko to use G8 presidency to promote net regulation

"How do you....."

"......just f***** off and leave the internet and people's privacy alone?"

Yorks cops bust Bradford guinea pig farm

'Thought' Police FAIL

Not much thinking there from the Thought Police.

Honestly, a 'suspicious hot spot'. Do they have no concept of what Jet-A1 fuel COSTS the taxpayer???

Police reject Labour MP's call for Bristol-wide DNA test

So, you too?

So, you in the UK also are stuck with two major pinstripe parties populated with .... I can't think of a good P word, I'll just say, utter morontards?

We here in Oz have this problem, we are slowly pumping the blue suits to the gutter but its taking a lonnnng time.... but then any evolutionary process does.

Blighty - PLEASE get rid of these idiots, PLEASE. And ring us when its safe to visit Britain again.

Best Regards

Austraya

'Methanotroph' bacteria feasted on blown BP rig's methane belch

Not have the capacity to influence credibility

"What the Deepwater Horizon incident has taught us is that releases of methane with similar characteristics will not have the capacity to influence climate," Kessler said.

WOW! Jumped to that conclusion so fast he made my head spin!

So there's an infinite supply of these bacteria they dont rely on any other factors maintained by the ocean status quo and they can DEFINITELY deal with any quantity of methyl chelates escaping from the sea floor. Riiiiiiiiiiiight......................

Apache server thumps Microsoft and Google

"COMPETITORRRRR" (Yeah??)

" ...the number of websites using Apache surged 37 per cent between December 2009 and December 2010, growing to 152 million sites.

Apache's closet competitor is still Microsoft's IIS, which hosts 57 million sites"

HOW is that even a "competitor" ???

Because its m$ so they "must be in the game" somehow??

In-flight fight for stubborn iPhone-loving teen

People are snitches

Why on EARTH did the other passengers dob him in?? What is the world coming too when an idiot teen, ENDANGERING A PLANE, can't get a thick ear???

Labour moots using speed cameras to reward law-abiding drivers

Please, please save yourselves for the rest of us!!

Please UK, please save yourselves!! We foreigners want to actually start visiting again one day after the telescreens and thoughtpols have been removed!!

Scientologist overlord declares victory over Anonymous

Yup, he opened his mouth and removed all doubt

Could this be a deliberate troll by the ChurchOfBadSF or are we going with the standard theory that they are too memestruck to have any brains at all?

Yes, popcorn required.

Mine's the one with the opera glasses.

Sacked health care BOFH jailed for revenge hack

If she wasn't angry before......

.....she will be now. Her next attack wont be one they can detect.

WikiLeaks' Assange to be indicted for spying 'soon'

He's Australian

So how about the bit where he's not an American citizen. I imagine thats a bit of a legal roadhump there.

Paul Allen's monster patent attack hit by judge dismissal

On track, like a train on fire

I guess its still on track after its been blown to smithereens and the wreckage is speeding on fire uncontrolled down the tracks and being diverted to a safe siding where it will be allowed to crash peacefully into a sandpile. So long as the bogies stay on the track.

Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle

WOOHOO NO MORE JAVA!!

Wow, Oracle is about to discover just how heavy a dead white elephant really is without its one single remaining life support frame removed!

Judges reject Operation Ore appeal

Wow, a Room 101 clause!

So the ruling nasties now have the thing they always wanted - a Room 101 clause. Now they can arrest anybody with a credit card. No evidence required, just add government lies.

Apple patents glasses-free, multi-viewer 3D

Not new, so stay tuned

This is an old, old idea, its just become possible with current tech. So - will be some interesting patent news down the track once Toshiba, Sony, LG etc get on the case. Stay tuned!

Turing papers could be saved after auction fail

NATIONALIZE THEM

NOW. Why the Hell is the public paying for them??

Killing the storage array controller

No Information, but intriguing

This article contains almost NO information and takes 3 pages to state a paragraphs worth of output. But Ok, its STILL interesting.

Google it: Ask.com gives up ghost on search market

Opaque namespaces

I hear ya Zolko, could not agree more, and @Charles Calthrop you too, the G company is just exploiting a failing in an already stupid technology. But the mob follows where the TV says to go.....hmm, which is interesting, considering TV is about to die.

But I digest. Ask was fine, all the stuff about it being slow an not comprehensive was just spin from G.

The great Aussie firewall is back - and this time it's personal

Well vote Greens then

Why vote for the other half of the Blue Party?

I mean seriously, what exactly is the difference between the ALP and Libs anymore, on any issue including this one? Thats right, come on, you can do it - NOTHING, that's right. NOTHING. Let me put it this way - The ALP has a right wing faction. I'll just repeat that in case the significance didn't sink in. THE ALP HAS A RIGHT WING FACTION. What the.....

Just vote Greens. Its easy, since they are the only party left now. Or if you MUST make some kind of (Tired, boring.....oh god it makes me sleep just THINKING of the counter arguments) counter argument, vote for one of the whacko Independants. Xenephon is probably the least whacky. Go for it.

Yes its a waste of money (tho thats not the issue)

Yes its a shocking waste of time and money.

Of course, like the slowdown issue, or the web-only issue, thats NOT the issue.

its a straight out human rights issue and the government should just rack off back to its little corner. Its got NOTHING to do with them. Nor does it have anything to do with the spooks, they will continue to ply their trade as they have always done by any means.

UK gov unleashes biometric IDs

Big Brother is incompetent

That's something I guess! Say when do you guys have elections again to get rid of these bozoids?

Ohio prof develops CCTV people-tracker 'ware

Academics should all be shot.

They're the ones with glasses ducking furtively in and out of the crowd, dumbly giving corporations and their puppet governments control over the masses.

Oh sorry wrong meeting....

I meant to say TOO MANY WAYS TO COUNT TO DEFEAT IT!!!

RIAA won't sue, but will throttle

They're running out of money!!

They're running out of money and copping too much counterflack.

They've also probably done more to accelerate the death of their represented record companies than any other single factor.

At LAST, its about time.