Posts by Sarah Bee

Google App Engine comes under Hyperic scrutiny

Oy Rich!

Gavin works out of the US office. He uses US English. Or American, whichever you prefer.

Oy vey.

Lords call for variable VAT to cut landfill

re: Re WTF

Mr Phud

Well done. You may have a biscuit.

Re: And no, actually, the decorators are not in.

You, sir, are an idiot.

Anyway, you're just jealous because you can't blame your behaviour on your hormones, like *we* can. Not that we need ever trouble ourselves with that, because gentlemen like yourself are so willing to leap in and do it for us.

Still, women, eh? Chuh!

Re: WTF

A Mooncup, dear AC, is a small moulded piece of for chrissakes just use Google unless you're too damn squeamish you enormous ass.

And no, actually, the decorators are not in.

Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks?

Re: Denis Leary?

I like Leary, but there's a lot to suggest he did in fact steal stuff from Hicks. It's sad because his own stuff was good enough and he didn't need to do it. They used to be friends and they fell out over it.

Re: Bill Who??

Well, I've heard of him. Then again, I'm a reader.

Game sharer gets £16K fine

great stuff

When we finally destroy the planet all that will survive are rats, cockroaches and this argument. In fact, when the sirens go off I'm planning to hide in it.

Intel's Atom laptots 'are here'

Re: laptot = uttra portable sub notebook

Of course not. It's a typo. I'm just not going to fix it because that isn't what I do all day long when I'm not comment-wrangling.

Tsk.

Microsoft's Vista push probed by Fair Trade Commission

Re: McDonalds

I really want a Chicken McSandwich now. Damn you all.

Rude Tintin pulls out

Re: Irony Pills -Back Atcha

Fibber.

re: frogs/racism/female women

Have you all forgotten to take your irony pills this morning? Lord.

HP offers gov half-price printers

mmm

Hey, Jolyon, if a commenter comments as to the newsworthiness of a news that isn't really news according to the commenter, does it make a tree fall in the woods?

Gotta scoot, this one hand won't clap itself.

Gmail outage causes outrage

Re: "Gmail is known as Googlemail in the UK and Germany."

I believe it's officially called Googlemail after some legal unfortunateness. Mine's Gmail, though, as I registered my account before that happened.

Here you go, 2005.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4354954.stm

Aussies: Eat roos, save the planet

Re: glorious food

Hmm. Personally I think Westerners only eat dog so they can swan around at home shocking and antagonising people and feeling smug about their lofty lack of hypocrisy. Because obviously there's absolutely no difference between eating dog and eating cow, and if you balk at the idea of the former for any reason at all then you're some kind of weasly inferior being who Can't Handle Reality.

But I could be wrong.

But seriously, I can't believe it's 'delicious'. They're carnivores. They don't have natural predators. They're practically made of string. It's got to take some serious um, tenderising to make it edible.

Pirate Bay evades Italian blockade

almost there

By my calculation this will be resolved forever in another five posts. Then we can turn our attention to the matter of the Middle East, yeah?

today's the day

Call me crazy, but I have a good feeling that we could really settle the 'copyright infringement - theft or not?' issue today, once and for all. Come on team, I can smell victory!

Suprise at spelling snafu sanctions

Re: speak for yourself

Obviously loads and loads (and loads) I could say here BUT just for now, I shall admit to judging people if their spelling, punctuation and grammar are poor (and they're not Not From Round Ere or dyslexic). It's not a lack of intelligence it suggests to me (although it sets me up to find you a bit dim, and I need convincing you're not) so much as indolence. It's... slovenly. I judge you on it just as I'd judge you if you met me in public dressed in tracky pants with ketchup stains and saggy elastic.

Y'know, like, sack up.

Re: If you can't beat them, join them...

(effect)

CERN: LHC to fire first proton-smash ray next month

Re: Spelling checkers

Yes indeed, especially at publications who've seen fit to get rid of all their subs. I should start a scrapbook.

@ Ree

Boffin.

Man buys $1,000 worth of iPhone pixels by accident

Re: Another definition for iTwat

>>I am disappointed with the Register, for continuing to allow this to go on. I can't explain how much it winds me up.

Yeah, ain't we a stinker?

Re: @Michael Duke

I'm here. I just don't work 24 hours a day. A thousand apologies.

Anyway, where's the beef?

Kiwi cops hunt teenage serial burglar with head of Robbie Coltrane

Re: Nationalists

Good grief, the Australian 'mistake' was a JOKE. You know, a funny?

Another four hours of this. Just shoot me in the head now.

Crimeware grifters scamming naive phishers

Re: Did someone mention a 'backdoor'?

I am not letting through comments of this nature relating to Paris, because you are dirty little boys and I'd like a little decorum for a Friday.

So shush.

Cable broadband shines in Virgin Media Q2

Re: Oi! Where did this go?

Some little grey men with big eyes came in and told us to destroy all traces of it. We were scared. We did as we were bid. And then, we hid.

This happens surprisingly often around here.

Craigslist supervillain seeks henchmen

Re: Miss Bee

It's a constant problem for me.

Gordon Brown's secret life as network admin

"mines the one"

For the love of Dawkins would you use an apostrophe if you're going to trot out that old balls, especially mid-punctuation-discussion. I am of a mind to start doling out smitings.

Re: @Steve Williamson

Good grief. I shall have words with the Moderaminion for letting this one play out.

I did that apostrophe. So come and have a go.

American man too fat for execution

Re: You know...

Um, I think murder costs society in literal and figurative senses whatever it chooses to do to the murderers, Bryce.

And you say 'deterrent' as if that's proven, or even proveable. Which it ain't, unless I've missed something.

Re: Re-inventing the wheel..

Silence. It's impossible to filter out all the redundant ones. I have got other stuff to do, you know. Punishy stuff.

snurk

>>Sheila's never want to hurt a fly, (I am generalising I know but its not too far from the average female opinion), so I am not overly surprised by the reticence displayed by SB at a number of the comments made by us lot :)

Hey, now you come to mention it, every opinion I have *does* stem from the fact that I don't have a cock. The scales have fallen from my mascara'd eyes!

You've got some good points there, y'know, don't ruin it.

and (and then I'll butt out)

Lovely idea that the death penalty acts as a deterrent, but the worst crimes are often committed impulsively, and even the meticulously-planned ones don't really allow for that sort of thinking very often. "Hmm, I have a problem - urge to kill is rising, but if I go through with it, I might get executed. Tricky, tricky. What to do? Damn my rational mind."

Nah. Either it doesn't register, or they'll assume they can get away with it.

Also, I think if you're going to claim to be a civilised society, you've got to act like one, even if that means gritting your teeth and affording the minimum levels of dignity and care to scumfucks who don't deserve it. I think you sacrifice that kind of vengeful urge in order to continue to display your 'civilised' certificate. In many ways it'd be great to have the guy eaten by killer hogs a la Hannibal, but y'know, you just don't, do you?

Re: Quoth

Christ. So, what lots of you are saying is, this bloke caused untold suffering, and so deserves the same and more? Maybe he does, in the abstract, but I don't think it's ever our job to mete that out. I don't think it's our job to kill killers at all, but you can't possibly allow what is essentially torture. Kind of smacks of hypocrisy, no? It's not a very good way to send a message that society believes causing suffering to people is wrong.

It bothers me how people seem to develop this immense bloodlust whenever murder is mentioned, over and above the kind of repulsion any normal human being would feel. Doesn't that, like, make you look at yourself and go "woah, blimey"? Not even a bit? I mean, Really.

Besides, no one's suggested the Mr Creosote method yet. Shame on you.

Bill Gates exposed as closet Yorkshireman

Re: Robert Mugabe was a Yorkshireman too!

heh

HEH

Cash'n'Carrion: A lean, mean, fighting machine

Gurl sizes

On the way soon, never fear.

US woman celebrates cloning of 'precious Booger'

@ Liam

>>erm... i said "plus - oh great - more dangerous dogs on the planet... we all know your personality and character are defined by how you are raised... not by your genes necessarily"

Well, that's consistent.

Pit bulls aren't inherently dangerous as a breed. They're just rather more liable to be fucked with by idiots, in terms of breeding and training, and if they do bite you then you're going to know about more than with many other breeds. But this particular dog was a therapy dog - that's essentially a working dog, requiring a lot of training and testing and certification and all that. Pit bulls are often used as therapy dogs because, guess what, if you don't fuck them up they're very well suited to such a role.

Sigh.

MPs lambast BBFC over Batman

Re: Those blaming parents...

>>Seriously, do we want MORE kids taking a shine to knives, frankly I'm sick of reading about kids with knives as it is.

Well, I haven't actually seen it myself yet but from what I've read, you should be more worried about what impressionable youth is going to start doing with the contents of its collective pencil case.

I was pretty warped by the face-melty bit in Raiders, me.

Wünderbra! German policewomen take 'Action Brassiere'

Re: Not funny

>>And stop commenting on your own articles.

If I was going to I'd need a better reason than 'Norman Andrews says so'.

Re: Bad German, Bulletproof Sports Bras, Kink Prevention, etc.

Well, I guess I'm in good company then, Mike. (Please tell me 'fledermaus' is correct though, I shall be most upset.)

I was kind of being facetious about the kinky thing, though - as in, of course adding 'police' is going to make matters worse (or indeed better, depending on your preferences). I doubt they've addressed the issue themselves, I'm sure they're just getting on with it - that inference was all my doing. Because I am a bad person.

Meheh.

Re: SS

I'm sorry if that offended you, Tom. It was just a throwaway, self-consciously bad quip, of the kind I'm pretty sure satirical convention permits.

However, being the only vaguely Jewish member of staff at the Reg, I kind of take offence at your rather off-colour presumption that by accident of birth and membership of certain section of society I should be offended. Y'know?

I'm flattered that I can pass for 17 though. Yep, still got it.

Also, thanks for the sorting-out of that portmanteau - I do love German but am nicht so gut at it.

Thailand bans GTA after video game style murder

Re: religion next?

Um... I don't think GTA qualifies as a belief system, yet. Slightly hysterical comparison. People kill other people in the name of one god or another all the time but all that happens is Richard Dawkins adds another few cells to his ulcer.

Depp for Dark Knight follow-up

Re: The real question...

As with most 'conflict of interest' cases, I think it's actually a perfect segue of interests.

George Orwell joins blogging fray

Re: Just like Samuel Pepys.

Where does it say it's the first diary on the net, Dave?

Have... have I done bad?

BOFH: Server room secret panels

Re: @ Steve

Gone now. As if it had never been.

Sumerians cracked world's oldest joke

Re: Three blondes women are stuck on an island, and find a lamp.

A really smart man would never post that.

Tsk.

What's white and sticky and swings through the trees?

A meringue-utan.

Toyota unveils Segway rivals

Re: I see...

>>If you're gonna mock one group, it's gotta be open season all round (as it were).

Um, says who?

If you're that offended your last comment got rejected, well, here you go, I'll let the others put you straight as they see fit.

Best. Moderatrix. Ever.

Google: 'Even in the desert, privacy does not exist'

Re: @Sarah

Damn right. I'll be round your gaff with a camera and a hot poker.

Re: Those with nothing to hide...

By God, did you really just invoke that old bollocks f'real?

If you've got nothing to hide, tell us all what you earn and post up a link to a picture of yourself in the naked holding up the most embarrassing record you own.

You're not only posting anonymously there, but I can see you have a psuedonymous identity. Come on, what are you hiding? Oh my... you're... you're Bin Laden, aren't you? Guards! GUARDS!

Sigh.

Misheard song lyrics blamed on technology

Re: broken wings

Oh no, you've ruined that for me now. Please stay away from 'Boys of Summer', ta.

Snigger.