Posts by Sureo

NASDAQ offers $40m to Facebook IPOcalypse investors

$40m apology

Glad I'm not the programmer responsible for that bug. Docking his/her pay at say $50K/year (assuming they make that much) would take 800 years to pay off.

Techies beg world to join the 1% on IPv6 launch day

What happened to IPv5 anyway? Things seem too rushed....

Earth bathed in high-energy radiation from colossal mystery blast

775

775 was the year the earth was scanned by the Borg and found not worth assimilating.

HP boffins create net-zero energy data center

"Farmers make hay when the sun shines..."

I would be nice if it ran off another renewable .... hay.

Microsoft forbids class actions in new Windows licence

Re: The last thing we, the people, should do...

Yes the best course with such repulsive license terms is to decline to buy/use the product.

Space Station crew enter the Dragon

New car smell

After a few weeks in the ISS anything new smells good.

Windows XP update fails in infinite .NET patch loop

Happy days

Microsoft knows how much we techies enjoy doing Windows Updates, so they've arranged to have it run continuously.

Review: Raspberry Pi

Re: Memory

Speaking of 640K, perhaps DOS can be ported to it.

SpaceX Dragon chokes at the last second

Re: To put it in Lübke English

Skunks too, it wouldn't do to get too excited.

Why GM slammed the brakes on its $10m Facebook ads

Re: Not quite on topic

May be something to do with the fact that they have 800 million active users.

(coat 'cause I'm not one of them.)

Red faces abound as boffins build gamma ray lens

Homeland Security

Homeland Security would think its a good idea to use gamma rays to scan airline passengers.

US doc finally fingers elusive G-spot

Maybe....

we should get Google on the job. If anyone can find the G-spot it should be them.

Ten... Bedroom Gadget Treats

I would add to the Lightsleeper gadget a few sheep roaming back and forth.

Terrafugia flies first prototype: Flying cars 'within a year'

Re: Where to start?

Looks like a good application for that self-healing plastic:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/27/self_healing_plastic/

Raspberry Pi supplier coughs to ship date delay glitch

Vaporware

A big thumbs down for getting me all excited .... then poof!

Report: Nokia, Apple battle over ultra-tiny nano-SIMs

Re: Why a tiny SIM?

Why to implant in your brain of course. Isn't that handy?

That MYSTERY Duqu Trojan language: Plain old C

Re: Is it just me or

Plain old C. My first love and still my favorite.

Lego space shuttle hits 114,000ft

Re: Moving.

Actually it appeared to be flying backwards most of the time. Not much lift there.

China aims its most powerful rocket ever AT THE MOON

Re: Beware America

I think the Chinese will find the same thing that the Americans did on the moon - rocks. Since NASA lost most of theirs, someone has to go back and get some more.

Child abuse suspect won't be forced to decrypt hard drive

Simple

They should just ask the NSA to decrypt the drives for them. It should take them .... oh say 5 minutes? If they can spare the computer time from their other pressing matters.

Apple fanbois forced to go on the pull by Motorola patent

Re: Re: Weirdos

"...attempting to hold onto it with lawyers rather than innovation..."

How can they innovate when everything possible has been patented?

Private Manning keeps mum at Wikileaks plea hearing

"life in prison" vs "150 years in jail" - what to choose... what to choose....

Esc = get me outa here!

Eric Schmidt to cash in $1.45bn Google shares

Re: buy a peaceful country elsewhere

Yes he should be able to afford Greece.

Feds to carmakers: 'Rein in high-tech dashboards'

Re: Simple solution

Lets try horse pulled carriages, at least there will be a brain paying attention at the front.

NASA plans manned Deep Space Moon outpost

I suggest to let the Chinese do it ..... they have all our money anyway.

Heathrow facial recognition tech stalled by borders fiasco

"charges of misfeasance in public office"

Really? You can do that in the UK?

Laser boffins blast bits onto hard drive at 200Gb/sec

@ rocketman

My hard drives die quite regularly, thank you.

Chinese admirer fancies WD's 3.5-inch hardness - insider

want SSD

Price of SSDs are coming down. Quite frankly I wish I never have to use another conventional hard drive again.

Busted Phobos-Grunt in harmless splashdown

@Karkov

Actually I believe that this is their way of disposing of toxic waste.

Apple Beijing store egged in botched iPhone 4S launch

"black marketeers or scalpers"

Or capitalists?

Microsoft celebrates the death of IE6

Does anyone else remember the Windows SDK that would only install via browser (IE6)? After upgrading to a newer version of IE, it is flagged as malware and won't install. That's progress the Microsoft way.

No BEAST fix from Microsoft in December patch batch

I'm busy....

...updating my machines from dawn to dusk. Not that I'm complaining....

SSDs choked by crummy disk interfaces

Someone needs to develop an entirely new storage interface (maybe they're already working on it) thereby making all existing computers obsolete.

Going shopping.

HP douses firebomb printer hack threat

Reminds me....

Reminds me of an old joke about IBM mainframe printers, a proposed instruction HCF or Halt and Catch Fire. Nice to see HP has implemented it.

Facebook, FTC settle over privacy ‘deception’

And if they keep doing it, then what? Is the FTC going to SHOUT VERY LOUD at them?

1,000 Chinese workers strike at Apple and IBM supplier

Not likely...

"China Labour Watch calls upon Apple, IBM and the other clients of this factory to assume responsibility ..."

Apple, IBM etc moved manufacturing to China so they could avoid that responsibility. I doubt much is going to change now.

Microsoft to offer dual upgrade path for Windows 8

Someone please remind me why I need to upgrade Win7 to Win8? Thanks.

Dud Mars probe's explosion will spare Earth's cities

"Only 30 per cent of Soviet-Russian launches to Mars were successful..."

I think the Russians should move directly to manned missions to Mars. Its obvious they can't build automated systems, and need a human to press the buttons. Any volunteers?

Russian probe engines crap out on way to Mars

I'm just glad I'm not the computer programmer on that project.

Open-sourcers suggest Linux secure boot block workarounds

"...allow secure boot to be easily disabled and enabled through a firmware configuration interface..."

Yes otherwise I'm not buying the motherboard/system/whatever.

Collapsing cranes and cantankerous cars

Today its overcast with occasional showers in southern Ontario. I wonder how far these cars would go over here?

NASA 'nauts wrap last spacewalk of shuttle era

The bargain basement

I hear NASA has a used, well-traveled ammonia pump for sale.

MS to WinXP diehards: Just under 3 more years' support

@Eric Wilner

What you describe is typical when the wrong USB driver is installed for your OS. Try something like FTDI with up to date drivers for WIN7 32/64 bit instead of that cheap no-name stuff you get at the store/internet. I have 4 USB/serial adapters on my Win7/64bit system that run different applications with not a hiccup in years.

ISS crew man the lifeboat

space junk?

Mightn't that be the tool kit lost not long ago? It would share the ISS orbit for a long time.

600 tonne asteroid in low pass above Falkland Islands - TONIGHT

copper?

If its copper its worth a fortune someone should go get it.

MS lines up bumper Patch Tuesday

"minimize disruption..."

I guess that means a reboot is required?

The New C++: Lay down your guns, knives, and clubs

C++0x ?

I would have thought something simpler and more obvious: C+++

Intel invests in 'personal robot' future

Looks good but...

I sure hope that they come out with a model that doesn't look like a cartoon character.

Pirate-bothering ACS:Law lawyer goes bankrupt

"This will be automatically discharged in one year."

Then he'll be off on his next clever enterprise the leeching asshole. Where's the asshole icon anyway?

Queen to get an iPad (the Queen, not a queen)

Queen gets an iPad?

Well if anyone can afford it, she can.