Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

Acer punts £199 Linux laptop

>You gotta pay for Windows!

<>Interesting twist on the Microsoft tax: if you want a decent size hdd, you gotta pay for Windows!</>

I don't think we are ready for direct comparisons yet. Once the industry has been sued comprehensively or a starter company can get one in that is direct competition to companies that have made us all pay, things could get interesting.

If one of these goeralongwiths puts out a machine with equal rites and the same price, M$ and ALL the computer sellers that only supplied M$ machines, can be sued successfully.

We'll just haveto wait for the Ubuntu or RedHat people to bring one out.

Now THAT would be interesting. Linux made, with a choice, at market prices.

The phrase "so we ain't going to" comes to mind. Pity the Register can't get it in print. I bet they must have heard it said "off the record" though.

UK cops arrest six alleged BitTorrent music uploaders

Wiped the evidence?

"A coordinated move by Dutch police also seized the invitation-only website's servers, which were later returned wiped."

Google waves Occam's Razor at web coders

I works for me

Pootty-moouuzeed heckers steel coomcest.net keys, goo foor a speen.

And we have a Comcast Icon too!

US protests to WTO over EU 'IT' tariffs

> Ye's WOT?

If you can't eat your cake what's the point of having it?

In fact if I were a huge US monopoly I would insist on eating my cake again and again. And I'd offer free updates to make sure the recipe is kept secret.

How much has Europe paid the US for dud operating systems to go with this modern tech?

UK electricity crisis over - for now

Ah! So that's how to do it.

<blockquote>Scottish politicians rushed through approvals for the station to be allowed to use gas if necessary in future, with one saying they were "lucky it wasn't cold".</blockquote>

Tory B Liar was all set to rush through a new Nuclear Power programme. Typically he hadn't thought it through.

They seem to have learned a thing or two since.

First kill all the thinkers. Then promote all the politicians?

<blockquote>One energy-market analyst, speaking to the Times, blamed lack of investment owing to years of uncertainty over government policy.</blockquote>

Isolate, compromise, threaten and abuse. Everyone has a weakness. so just kill all the experts adjust a meeting off ze Kommittee, pull a few plugs and you can do what you want; invade Iraq if you like.

Whose going to know the truth?

Besides a few dead Iraqis that is.

Mozilla guns for Guinness world record with Firefox 3.0

Oh if only there were alternatives.

<blockquote>Lets do something to give firefox some publicity... its a good browser. ill take part ... altho, not that many ppl have registered on the website...</blockquote>

Lt's js hp th cn spk.

I wonder what happened to all the real browsers that Linux used to have before this dork en machina.

World record for the freeware spyware?

Is that a joke?

God help us! Just when I was about to switch to Linux too.

Want a 1TB optical drive? Call/Recall me

> On a slight tangent...

What size do you want it to be?

One that is wider than most PC cases? I can't believe you would prefer it smaller?

Paypal glitch hits merchants with 12-day headache

Papal Glitch

[quote]Alan Hatch says he's prepared to work around the problem by removing handling cart fees from a site he maintains, but that will require a God-awful amount of work.[/quote]

This is nothing to do with the death of Constantine, the Life of Lucrezia Borgia or events in Tudor England is it?

Therefore it must be something to do with Kopernic and Galileo.

or Adolph Hitler.

I can see the work god is in for but what is the cart-handles thing about?

American auto dealer offers free handguns

If you make the possession of guns illegal...

Only the criminals will be robbed for them.

$500.oo for a weapon. That's got to be easier prey than half a dozen phones, watches or wallets.

Plus, you can still rob the mark of his phone, watch and wallet.

For truth about Europe, read The Reg

> There is a definite gap opening between America and Europe ...

And it's called the North Atlantic.

We send them your tired, our poor, our huddled masses and some underaged not-Talibanii and they send us bad weather and pictures of Darth Vadar's mam:

http://staging.michaelmoore.com/_images/splash/almostseetheblood.jpg

Naomi Campbell could face Heathrow charges

What the bloody hell has this got to do with anybody here?

Wouldn't it be better to concentrate on helping BA get their act together vis a vis the software or for that matter hardware they are failing to use on the actual luggage?

For class, I award el Reg ye Idyete ycon.

Teapot backdoor probed by German telescope boffins

Laser fair

I foresee an optical exhibition in the windows of tinfoil hatted conspiratards everywhere.

Quite looking forward to the shows on misty winter nights. Oh.. they will close the curtains...

Don't tell 'em.

First public Firefox 3 candidate shoots out the door

Maybe I am a bit slow... but

Why would anyone want to opt into a thing like that?

Outback hack suspect denied bail

NTIT

You don't sack a IT worker for serious breaches of security and not change the access controls do you?

Well if you don't work in Britain that is.

I'd say he's done them a favour, as the system needed cobbing a long time ago, by the sound of it. The cost of repairing a serious crappy set up shouldn't be mentioned in court except in his defence.

It wouldn't surprise me he'd only taken a stand and whistle blowing might well have been the reason he was sacked in the first place.

Always remember that when governments and politics are involved, the little guy is usually the goodie.

Activist coders aim to deafen Phorm with white noise

> Myqal

"in light of another Reg story today, "Government orders data retention by ISPs", I would still consider running AntiPhormLite or a similar obfuscation tool. Again it is all about the numbers. A few techies running such applications would be little more than an inconvenience to a government determined to goose step us towards a police/ surveillance state but it would make me feel a bit better!"

That's what I was thinking.

I dare say this is the start of a new approach to confounding the US Patriot Act and various other government regimes world wide. Binladen hand and shrimp.

Good-oh!

MySpace fraudster indicted in teen's suicide

The pity of it is

There is no protection for anyone on line and this case seems to sum up the whole internet ethos.

Whereas in real life, everyone in the neighbourhood would be aware of the mental defects in a woman like the accused, online there is no one watching out for people like that.

And there is no defending a child from such situations. If such torture were to be seen in real life, all hell would break loose with social workers, the police and health care workers getting involved.

This case has to be heard in a court. And no matter how unlikely it is a crank like that bitch will end up inside, the legal system must come up with cultural safeguards that were never deemed necessary in the thousands of years such behaviour was not so easy to instigate.

Personally I'd like to see a case number stamped on her forehead and have her released immediately. If they use an hot enough branding iron and let the wound fester for a bit, there shouldn't be too much of a problem with her trying to erase it.

Intel ordered to dish documents on deleted antitrust lawsuit e-mails

They should have used AOL

Every time Windows forces you to reload the software it saves the e-mails you have in your PC files onto another folder that sits on the desktop.

Then when you reload it again after the next outage, the files get overwritten and not only do all your emails go to total client sanctity but your favourite favourites join the happy hunting links too.

Why couldn't Intel come up with that idea? Or does it only work for AMD machines?

Where is the Intel icon?

Inside?

MySpace wins record $230m judgement against spammers

Rock bottom

"How much is a Gitmo cracked rock worth exactly?"

It isn't piece work. What you do is you keep going until you crack open a rock that is worth opening. Then you take the nugget and run.

Of course since Gitmo is a coaling station, Cuba might want to know WTF gave the USAnians mining rights.

Come to think of it, as a port of supply, they don't have concentration and torture camp rights there either, do they?

Botnet sics zombie soldiers on gimpy websites

W3C

If they are not coding to code they shouldn't be available to ISPs, it is as simple as that. Why have ISPs been so lax so long?

If they sorted out all the spam and all the botnets we could clear the decks for unrestricted file transfers from You Tube. Think of all the cats we could be watching.

SMS costs more than using Hubble Space Telescope

Boffing

The farts in the news media always use lowest common denominators.

Not because they want to get the message out to the lowest common denom but because it saves text time. You just plug in the needed catch phrase and the rest is done on computer.

Romanian and Turkish scientists turn circuit boards into oil

Oil? I see no oil.

Oh good, just what we need to clean our atmosphere. Phenol rich jet fuels.

AMD excises two senior execs, while promoting server chief

Sco, what happens to top execs?

When they reach their sell by date and have not been used by Microsoft for ulterior nefariousness or whatever, where do they go to die?

Is it a golden handshake and off to the Bahamas and life on a 50 foot houseboat in exile and penury till they get sick of champagne and caviare, or what?

Burma 'Gone with the Wind', suggests Telegraph

> when did we start calling hurricanes cyclones?

Probably in the 16th century. Maybe before but not before 1492 though.

Hurricane which is a Carrib word for Hurricane or rather Hurricane is the word Urican adopted by Europeans.

It was given an official description by Beaufort but it is based on the standard rule of thumb for sailers in his day so it was in use prior to the Board of Trade accepting his scale.

That cyclones were known to be circular (though east) winds, comes from the analysis of a ship's log that survived being caught in one in the 19th century. But any inhabitant of any country that has them would know from the damage, that they were circular in nature.

Mounties taser bed-ridden octagenarian

> Oxygen doesn't burn, you mounties!

Oxygen burns you oaf. It just doesn't oxidise -unless you count its reactions with Halogens and the Oxygen group.

You aught to watch more American TV programmes. Heart patients are always catching fire in those. It wouldn't surprise me if Hollywood executives sue the Mounties for loss of income.

Of course if the Red Menace had torched him, they'd have been there with contracts to buy the script.

Whaddya mean 'nother customer took it? He leave me d' gloves though, huh?

RIGHT!

That's OK....

It's OK, fergeddaboudit.

Never underestimate the plod.

Not that I am in favour of knife wielding nutters. But there seems to be a rather cavalier attitude on the part of cavaliers these days.

Or maybe it's just that stuff like this gets reported because it's new.

Or maybe stuff like this gets reported because there is little else to fling to the masses.

Never underestimate the ability of the media. I think there must be something about red that does it. Especially pillock box red.

Bournemouth floats UK's first 100Mbps sewer broadband network

Cheap customers

Bournemouth full of tightwads is it? It would explain this comment:

Its about time too... we're so far behind in internet technology.

There again, so would this:

Hope the prices are competitive, if not super-cheap as we're testing this stuff for them.

Assuming the preliminary figures of £30 million were cooked up by the PR men and that no long term damage to the sewers is involved. And that there are no snags (ha.. in a British sewer?) that is £340 per customer before profit.

And they want it for free?

White House admits non-existent email backups

Monkeying around.

Words fail me with the total incompetence of the regime. Does he really live in the chandeliers?

What an absolute total mind wipe.

I have met people who have been so far gone for so long on booze that their crania seem physically half empty. Their speech patterns are similar to his. The only thing different with him is his balance. And I think that that glazed daze he has is something to do with over-concentration on not falling over.

No wonder he is always on holiday. I had thought he was just being kept away from the Wit House as a safety measure. I couldn't see why he'd need all that time to recover from exhaustion.