Posts by Huns and Hoses

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

And hidden in the underwire version 2 can accommodate up to 42F of expansion mammary.

So you're telling us we just shipped 50000 of these with the quick release phrase set to Testing's "show us your tits"?

Damn awkward time to need a charge but it had run right down to 32A.

Sarah couldn't quite put her finger on it, but whenever Bob changed TV channel there was a definite sensation of lifting and separating.

Hacktivists congratulate Daily Show's Jon Stewart via Donald Trump's website

Re: Donald Trump

Hmm, hours later and its still there. Awstats will no doubt show that page performed mightily for the Trump website today.

Airbus to sue NSA, German spies accused of swiping tech secrets

My monster did it

Not me, cant blame me.

Scotland to get National ID system 'by the backdoor', campaigners mull challenge

Scratching my head

So ..

"Whilst the ICO are neither for nor against the creation of a national identity number per se, we do advocate against the creeping use of such unique identifiers to the extent that they could become the national identity number by default."

And the material difference to us would be?

Wraps come off UK super-snooper draft plans

Give em the data

Why dont the ISPs negotiate to stream the requested data - realtime - to gov.uk?

After all, theyre the ones who think collection and storage is easy.

Google field tests (yet another) Facebook rival

[dontpost] JFYI - typo in url

Looks bad on fb :-/

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2011/06/29/google_launches_anoher_social_networking_effort/

Facebook closes today ... NOT!

Surely not...

We must be way way beyond the stage when even our grandparents have an excuse for this.

Killer piranha stalk Folkestone pond

Well done!

Almost every report about piranhas includes the standard phrase "skeletonise a cow" somewhere, and yet you managed to avoid it.

Exam board deletes C and PHP from CompSci A-levels

Duh

Sure, why teach em something that might prove useful.

Just about any language can be used to teach programming fundamentals, but leaving out C (but keeping Delphi?) seems about as practical as teaching general driving skills with the use of a tractor.

Should we be looking forward to a generation of VB-wielding engineers?

Hi-tech cops lose their website

Hey

A professional outfit should act professionally.

If I forget to renew the lease on my office I'd expect to be turfed out when it expires. I've no sympathy. A lesson learnt about management, thats all. Move on.

Teen battles City of London cops over anti-Scientology placard

So.....

If I, hypothetically, were to hold up a sign in a public place saying Hitler sure was one evil MOFO then a Fuhrer fan club somewhere could successfully make a complaint under this same law?

I fully understand why laws like this should exist but this particular one is poorly worded, to say the least.

NASA invites you to travel to the Moon

Great marketing idea

Really. I mean, totally brilliant. Hauling stuff to the moon costs x per pound, right?

And you can pack an awful lot of names into an itty bitty rom chip thats probably already part of some other kit going there anyway.

Which, as previously pointed out, may or may not even be as real an event as your payment for same. I'd prefer someone carve the names on a moon rock or something, thereby creating a bit of home-like graffiti at least.

Upwards and onwards, brave pioneers of the unknown! Dont forget your towels...

'Rowdy' rectal extraction op vid hits YouTube

Bet this one's getting a wry smile

...from the idiot who posted footage of himself doing 200 on a bike and got his collar felt when the coppers used it to track him down.

Ballmer bitch slaps Vista

Vista just plain doesnt work

Case in point, I've just bought a new top-end laptop which came with Vista pre-installed. Even with 2.5gig of ram and a >2ghz processer it absolutely crawls. Sure it ooks nice and flash but the cool-looking new hourglass icon loses it's shine fast once you realise how much of it you're gonna see.

Long story short, I said **** this, formatted and put Windows "it just works" XP on. I try to ignore the gloating looks I'm getting from my Gentoo partition on the same machine.

UK.gov will force paedophiles to register email addresses

Sad sad sad

Clueless, hopeless and genuinely very sad.

How are they ever going to get a handle on ANY internet-related issues if they understand less about it than the average 10 year old? Which clearly is the case.

Oh I know! Shove another oh, say, few hundred million into our preferred suppliers' mouths, they'll sort the internet for us!

Blade Runner replicant checks into rehab

Wow shes 48

I'd still hit it.