Posts by Jodo Kast

Google: The Satan Phone cometh

Missing features

What's with the missing features? DOH!

Dell: We went green too early

google CIO

It takes 2 seconds to google "CIO".

EA in Spore DRM climbdown

EA = Noobs

When will they get a clue?

Did the width move for you, darling?

Web Design Feedback

The new design: It's old school; try a fluid layout. You're not working with "print" media so get over your misconception that you have control. All you do is force visitors to turn off via browser controls, or override you.

Your CSS file has errors for too many browsers.

The main page: you have to scroll down quite a bit. Nothing was fixed. You have a finite area to work with, nobody will scroll if they don't want to.

Democratic rep fathered alleged Palin hacker

Good drama

Mr. Kernal should QQ more in the movie.

Memo to US Secret Service: Net proxy may pinpoint Palin email hackers

And that's why,...

they call them: "Anonymous Coward".

Look! Anonymous is fighting anonymous. Bizarre.

Microsoft dumps hilarious comedy duo

The Seinfeld Commercials

The Seinfeld commercials were great. The problem was, people were trying to "analyze" them, instead of enjoying the humor.

Blame the people; they just don't get comedy!

I'm sure Microsoft saw the ridiculous "analyses" that were getting posted, and decided .... "wow, they just don't get it, do they?"

Adobe yanks speech exposing critical 'clickjacking' vulns

Ya know...

I liked it better before everyone knew about this...

Cuz nothing beats watching Webcams when no one knows your watching... and listening.

Wall Street shudders under Lehman collapse

"the good that Lehman Bros. did in the industry"

Funniest comment I've heard in a long time! LOL

S'kiddies light-up LHC website

AFAIK, not sucked up...

If I understand particle physics correctly, if you were to recreate the big bang, it would not create a black hole.

Instead it would create a new universe... one that expands outward from the location of the big bang... with more power than gravity.

I say we're due for a new universe!

OMFG, what have you done?

Anyone know where the ol Register went to?

I'm considering canceling my free subscription...

No more wooden nickels for ya!

Berners-Lee backs web truthiness labelling scheme

Snopes is already on it

There's a website called Snopes that has been doing this for years.

I searched for Snopes in the comments and did not find anything.

Try it... you'll like it.

University offers one-day Jedi course

As someone who has never lost his youthful spirit

I can tell you that the latest trilogy is a perfect match to the original trilogy.

If you were born today and in 12 years watched all 6 movies, you wouldn't have any idea what the deal was.

The reason why people agree with the author about EP1-3? It is 100% based on their expectation that EP1-3 would be similar to EP4-6.

This is not the case at all; that's what war does to the galaxy. It stripped it down to nothing...

Google smears Chrome on 'sacred' home page

so you don't get the joke...

OK, you don't GET IT. It was a funny double-standard joke.

But then to go overboard in Google's defense. Classic!

Good eye!

They sure made a fuss over the Privacy link... since they have no problem with the Chrome link...

I hereby dub Google, "emo".

NASA chief blasts US space policy in leaked email

Government leaders are agents of Russia?

U.S. Leaders are anti-American.

Google restores Chrome's shine

No shine until out of beta

I don't recommend anyone download and run Beta software.

Unless they read El Reg!

Seriously, until the day that I do not find malware and viruses on my friends PCs, I will tell them to hold off on Beta software. It's only meant for techies and programmers who will understand the errors.

Customs raids tech trade show

What an embarrassment

Ever heard of letting the courts decide what is an infringement?

Instead we have these gestapo tactics.

History repeats itself over and over until we all vomit apparently.

Blu Christmas coming, format fans forecast

Boycott Blu-Ray over HD-DVD

The consumers chose HD-DVD.

Boycott Blu-Ray.

Feds cuff blogger for Guns N' Roses leak

Completely out of proportion to the crime

I'm not sure, but I would recommend focusing on the murderers, rapists and thieves.

These aren't thieves. They found files on the internet and provided links to them. This is completely out of proportion to the "crime".

Next thing we'll have people arrested for LOLCAT posts. Some of those photos are copyright material.

Facebook summarily denies undeniable user-menacing security hole

I thought so...

After checking around, this seems accurate.

Anatomy of a malware scam

Great article

I'm sharing this one.

Very informative!

Bush makes last-minute grab for civil liberties

The 1974 Privacy Act

Once we get a quality POTUS up in here, these new Anti-American laws will be dealt with.

For instance, the 1974 Privacy Act is specifically about issues like this.

Googlephone security team seeks bug hunters

For Free?

Aw shucks!

Too busy making money on the Apple App store.

Sorry.

A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP

Microsoft's plan doesn't work

Microsoft's plan doesn't work: Vista is fine for the average consumer, but not for business.

Business requirements should be more important to Microsoft. Sure they can ditch the market, but why?

Something is wrong in Redmond. Seriously, seriously wrong.

NASA to brief on manned spaceship 'concerns'

Russia can't be counted on

Keep the Space Shuttle flying until the Ares is done.

Seems logical to me... no wonder NASA can't figure it out. It's too simple.

'Malvertizement' epidemic visits house of Newsweek.com

Use a Hosts file

Use a hosts file to block this type of garbage.

You know you are blocking properly when Newsweek's CSS does not load.

Where did they find their web developers?

Microsoft's Vista push probed by Fair Trade Commission

Why Microsoft won't sell XP:

There is no DRM for XP. DRM is built into Vista.

That's the only reason.

It's the same reason why you could watch the Olympics via BBC, but if you are in America, you are blocked out.

There is no live coverage of the Olympics in the USA. NBC does not provide it, and they locked everyone else out.

Greed? Yep.

Pirated movie downloads offered as Zango sweetener

$3 mil to settle? No problem!

Nice deal

Microsoft starts stoking hype for Windows 7

XP Forever

XP Media Center 2005 is great. Vista Ultimate is horrible.

I'll reserve judgement, but Microsoft is clearly PWNED by the media companies.

You know, the ones who are too ignorant to start their own iTunes? The ones who know how to destroy services, not create them?

BT seals free Digital Vault

Bait and Switch!

You go.

Twitter falls silent in the UK

Thanks

I appreciate your responses.

Quite enlightening!

LOL good one

"Twitter is a service for bloggers who can't string a sentence together and who want to appeal to readers who can't focus beyond a headline."

Emo kids on the attack! Look out for their QQ cannons.

They do not have logic... only emotion.

Hasbro kills Colonel Mustard in the corporate office with the marketing ploy

And if you try to make a version of the old game...

they will sue your pants off!

You simply 'can't has the classics'.

Unless, as one poster put it, you want a moldy board from eBay.

Microsoft running on at least 220,000 servers

At least it's not 4.21 gigawatts

Kilowatts? Child's play!

Bumper Patch Tuesday plugs multiple Office flaws

@Roddy MacKenzie

If you are in the UK, yesterday is today in the United States.

So Patch Tuesday in the UK is actually Patch Wednesday.

Counting errors and time errors? Yikes! LOL

Patch Count for Up-to-date Users only

I see you're using Office 2003. That's an old version.

Are you using the Media Center version of XP? Patch count differs depending on what version you are using (Home, Pro, MCE, etc).

Windows XP crashes out of Olympics?

LOL

Is this a Microsoft PR stunt?

iPhone 3G isn't necessarily

Tizzy confirmed

Apple fans are rolling out the QQ cannons!

American ISP flashes phantom bandwidth cap

Lies and the lying liars that tell them

I LOL every time I hear a company contradicting themselves.

Reminds me of politicians

(title stolen from Al Franken)

1&1 botches Microsoft Exchange update

1&1 Customer Service is horrible

I suffered with them for a couple years.

They have the worst customer service/tech support I have ever seen.

They cram 1000+ website accounts on one server. Don't even think about creating any type of SQL web application; their systems are too slow.

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

Make your own high-priced, vaguely useful app

Because someone will eventually buy it.

These are called TRINKET APPS. They have a purpose: they redistribute wealth from folks who want trinkets to the people who want money.

Obviously if you want to spend $1000 for a trinket, you should be able to do that.

I'm a tad confused why Apple would remove this. People want trinkets. Just look at all the materialistic folks out there...

Craigslist supervillain seeks henchmen

Honestly people

through me a frickin bone here.

I've been frozen for 30 frickin years.

Rockstar confirms GTA IV PC edition

No one's blowing thousands

It's called you bought the wrong PC.

If you buy the right one to start with, no blowing required!

Apple's secret iPhone app blacklist

MS doesn't offer this service

MS doesn't offer a service like this. They want all developers to work hourly; they do not want developers to share in the profits.

Period.

Mac users urged to ditch Safari

Neither

The Atari ST ftw

It's not arrogance, it's User Ignorance

And dammit, the users do fight to remain ignorant.

Everything you need to know is at wikipedia (search for phishing).

Drizzle plans to wash away DBMS past

Comical Noobs

My favorite was "Given that prepared statements are touted as one of the best defences against SQL injection expect to see a lot of insecure webapps appearing on the horizon."

Oh I see, you pushed off security to your DBA and now you think you are secure.

Please... step away from the keyboard.

Sleazy doctors plead guilty to web drug racket

More people should stand up to this.

So you can't get your prescription because doctors are only interested in 'additional lab tests'? You see, that's how they make money. Test after test.

Don't want to pay $150+ for an emergency room visit, just to get your prescription that doctors wont give you?

These website are great; the US medical industry sucks.

As long as there is a market, this will continue. Thankfully!

Microsoft Mojave 'outs' secret Vista lovers

No one cares about your rig

Ben Lambert, you should not care if we hate Vista. That's what we call 'emo'.

We'll bash Vista because it's a dumb OS with dumb DRM.

Why do you care? A shareholder perhaps?