Posts by Ian Stephenson

British boffin named first ever 'doctor of texting'

@Michael Miller

Tl;dr?

ISPs vs BBC iPlayer: Missing the point?

Correct me if I'm wrong but...

don't the BBC already pay for their upstream (and downstream) bandwidth?

Or do they get a completely free ride piggybacking someone elses connection?

MoD to test 'Combat ID Server' from September

Good for the planks

It'll make "Fire mission -bombard OP" a doddle.

Satellite to offer 10Mbit broadband to entire UK

Latency

The latency will be horrendous- say about 500ms. So not much good for the gamers.

Ordinary surfing, email and torrenting will be fine though....

Hire your very own Fred the Shred

Thermite

For when you absolutely must destroy every mother****ing bit in the drive stack.

Accept no substitutes.

Mines the one with scorch marks.

It's US vs Europe as world e-car plug standard race nears end

Travel adaptor?

Should be fairly easy to make an adaptor to plug a Eu car into a US charger, maybe not quite so simple the other way round.

Regardless, The cable needs to be lockable at BOTH ends. So no passing chav can swipe your cable, or unplug your car when it's charging at an outdoor point.

Even just adding shackle points to both the plug and the socket will be adequate, decent padlocks are fairly cheap.

Govt powers up electric cars with £5k subsidy

Kerchinnnng!

Anyone want to bet that the price wont suddenly rise by £5,000?

No ?

What a bunch of cynics you lot are....

Fresh tech hiccup for V-22 tiltrotor fleet

Whatever happened to ...

... split pins through the nut and the bolt? Didn't this used to be fairly simple idiot proof technology that meant nuts were not overtightened and could not come loose. Easy to inspect and cheap to replace.

I would have used the boffin pic but this is not rocket science... merely aeronautical engineering.

Mines the one with the pliers and a bent screwdriver in the pocket.

BMW driver follows satnav to edge of cliff

Without due care and attention.

BMW on the edge of a cliff... hmmm that also counts as a twatdangle.

Stop sign.. well it's not rocket science is it?

London to get EV charging post network

Battery chemistry testing?

On a sealed unit? impressive.

Prof pooh-poohed in pig-v-whale hippo genealogy brouhaha

but but but...

Hippos can't be pigs, otherwise you'd get Hippobacon.

Mines the one with with the dolphin burger in the pocket.

Acer recalls potentially overheating Predators

not just the desktops...

The Acer Travelmate laptops seemed designed so your right kneecap fit nicely in the fan intake.

Not the sharpest crayons in the design world..

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Google Street View hits UK streets

indentifiable?

Is that identify with a hammer?

Mines the one with the hood up and dark glasses

Lexmark E260DN networked mono laser printer

Standard Lexmark pricing....

Available from Misco for £112.

Consumable replacement will set you back £117.

so use it and throw it away, same as their Inkjets.

Who reads The Register?

I read the Reg for ...

The BOFH.

Its been weeks.. I'm getting withdrawal!

IWF confirms Wayback Machine porn blacklisting

VirginMedia as at 22:03

working fine

City of Heroes fingered in MMO patent lawsuit

patently stupid

The B&W i,age looks suspiciously like the Blaxxun VRML chat interface...

As far as I remember that dates to about 1995.

patent troll is troll

Why the IWF was right to ban a Wikipedia page

wtf?

Wikipedia – an encyclopedia, run by a charitable organization, which has been repeatedly gauged as equivalent in quality to conventional encyclopedias

You've got to be fscking kidding right?

Vuzix iWear AV230 XL video glasses

When?

So when does the 1080p version get released?

Today is not Hadron Collider Day

Excellent... MuHAHAHAHAHA

Top form today Lewis.

Lets crank it up to eleven!

Mines the one with the unlicenced particle accelerator on the back.

Brit firm to demo serious flying robo-saucer in 2009

"And how much bang does 5Kg give you" - Redux

Video camera, gps, wireless data, laser designator....

About as much bang as any local squadron of typhoons/ artillery battery / apache choose to deliver really...

Science MPs horrified by UK bio-lab management

Bad idea...

“the Government should know the location, capacity and capability of all high containment laboratories in the UK”

Then they can put it on a couple of CDs, mail them to another office and lose them.

Best way I can think of for the paedo-terrorist-photographers to get hold of the information!

Then again its not info that would need to be put in the public domain.. I mean national identity database so maybe it is safe this time...

Navy sonar dolphin 'massacre' - the facts

@ Pete

"we've got to ask "what's it all for?" This kind of defence has not had a purpose for the last 60+ years.."

Falklands Islands 1982 ring a bell?

Jolly Roger for HMS Conqueror coming back up the Clyde!

Hummer glummer on high oil price bummer

$30 for 100 miles? My heart bleeds

My Ford Focus does 37mpg (supposedly).

At £1.12.9 per litre (here in the cheap norf!) thats £13.85 per 100 miles.

at an exchange rate of $1 = £0.51208 that means my normal family car costs $27.05 to cover the 100 miles.

Give it another week and it'll probably be over $30!

Tories would have to compensate ID vendors

Scorched earth politics

So it looks like NuLabour is practising scorched earth politics. They know they have already lost the next election so now it is all about burdening the next government with the backlash of their illconceived and downright improper policies.

There should be an investigation into these contracts and if any member of Labour financially benefits from these contracts it should be treated as a deliberate acceptance of a bribe and criminal charges should ensue.

NHS IT four years late and over budget

It was a triumph...

I think given the usual record for public sector IT projects this can be judged a huge success. Only £300 million over budget and only four years late.

HMRC will be looking green with envy.

I guess EDS had nothing to do with this one!

BT profits nothing to phone home about

CN21?

Stuff the services, we would be happy with unlimited (really unlimited not per a fair use policy) 20 to 100Mbps broadband!. Leave content to content providers and give us FTTH!

Sky One to resurrect Blake's 7?

Glynis Barber as Soolin...

Yum yum yum....

'Boil a frog' ID card rollout to continue until 2012

I can see it now...

Ah Mr. Bin Laden, yes your id card is valid being an illegal immigrant awaiting deportment... welcome to your new job at Heathrow....

Paris because not even she could be so stupid

Malaysian woman jailed for worshipping teapot

Article 18

So Malaysia doesn't feel the need to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html )

"Article 18:- Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."