Posts by Mark

Ballmer disses Oracle's decision to buy Sun

Innovate!

Doesn't that mean copying Apple?

Brit nuke subs exposed on Google Earth

RAF Welford

The Sun has missed one.

RAF Welford, large munitions base - just of the M4.

Parcelforce website cold-shoulders Linux lovers

HTML Validator

Just ran their font page through http://validator.w3.org/check

264 Errors, 96 warning(s)

Now there's a group of web developers that can feel proud of themselves.

Microsoft releases first flaky iPhone app

Very un-Microsoft

The app is free!

Judge buries bogus malware-protection gang

Shoot Em

Got to agree with the poster who suggests shooting them.

Life's cheap, as a society we are quite happy to let perfectly innocent people starve to death in large numbers, so why the f*ck don't we shoot more of the useless time-wasting tw*ts who contribute nothing.

US Army in $50m video game upgrade

Professor Falken

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Rogue SF sysadmin coughs up passwords

Airline trip

I'm surprised Homeland Security didn't fly him off somewhere and have the sh*t beaten out of him.

Police seek two for C&W network robbery

Bright

Hmm, burgling premises at night wearing a white tee-shirt.

Enraged devil dog lover locks on to Reg photo team

Early alpha

This guy is obviously an early alpha release and needs considerable work before general release.

US government forces military secrets on Brit webmaster

The guy could have helped himself

Seems the admin at mildenhall.com could have helped himself with a more friendly and informative email. His message "[e-mail] is using an incorrect email address you must have supplied yourself. Get it fixed NOW!" is a bit terse.

If he had pointed out the likely correct domain, offered instructions on how to go about correcting their error and pointed out that the incorrectly addressed email was never going to reach the intended address he may have increased his quality time.

Still no excuse for the barage of abuse he got - more here http://web.archive.org/web/20070328175245/http://www.mildenhall.com/