Posts by elderlybloke

No increase in droughts since 1950, say boffins

Re Bald Eagles

akicif,

Quote "PS: Lewis has a degree in Engineering so I am not convinced he is really as stupid or denialist as some would have us believe."

It was about Lewis and his intelligence-You have gone off on a tanget .

Taliban official's email blunder leaks 400+ contacts

Re: The Taliban are doomed.

Dear AC,

Well it is good that the Muslim faith has the same high ideals as the Christian one.

They could well be better at it than the Christians are (like G.Bush).

May goodness and mercy be with you for all of your days.

TTFN

One in four don't clean their stinky old browsers - especially Firefoxers

Re: Meaningful statistics?

About Firefox tells me I have got 16.0.2 and am on the release update channel.

My updates happen in silence and painlessly . On an Apple imac!

Submarine cable outage hits Kiwi internet

Nothing will happen

until as it will when only one link or way exists, serious/tolal failure happens.

Then as usual tolal panic will happen and politicians and other "experts" will blame everyone else for the disaster.

The real experts will not become involved in recovery until the bungling Beurocrats escalate the problem to extreme.

A notable case - The Russian Submarine KURST.

Coffee next on climate chopping-block

Re: @Eddy Ito (No 'coffee' shortage as long as we have Soy Beans)

JaitcH,

Strange that you don't know Saigon is and has been for decades- Ho Chi Minh City.

Sellafield's nuclear waste measured in El Reg units

Re: Rename all things nuclear

Dear John ,

A quote from wikipaedia

"See also: Magnetic resonance imaging

The application of nuclear magnetic resonance best known to the general public is magnetic resonance imaging for medical diagnosis and magnetic resonance microscopy in research settings, however, it is also widely used in chemical studies,"

It seems NMR=MRI or MRI=NMR

Kim Dotcom's new Mega site barred by Gabon

Lots of us Love Kim

Down here in NZ , our Politicians were shown up be licking the arse of the Americans when they raided Dotcom's home.

The FBI were among the gun toting (assault rifles) coppers ,SIS ,SAS etc. etc.

The affair which the Courts have ruled as illegal ,has shown how our Politicians were pawns of America.

This armed raid was to arrest an alleged criminal whose alleged crime was operating a File Share Website.

The whole thing is a P.R. disaster for the Politicians,and has given much joy to us citizens who know what they are like.

It is know he has had convictions for relatively minor crimes and he has done his time for those.

He is a smart cookie and he will have learned to be even more law abiding than Bankers and Financiers.

WAR HERO PIGEON carrying SECRET WWII CODE found in chimney

you can't be too carefull

Loose lips and all that.

It was only 67 years aga,I can still remember it(almost) well.

Quarter of Eastern cell towers BLOWN down BY SANDY - FCC

Burying the lines is expensive

Radelix

The cost of underground is usually about seven times that of overhead .

Education Secretary Gove: Tim Berners-Lee 'created the INTERNET'

Re: Heresy!

Dear foo_bar_baz,

My beloved wife once asked me if she could play her games if though the Box wasn't there.

(Box was away on R&R)

Fukushima operator feared shutdown if risks revealed

I will try to be Rational

The Mag 9 quake and massive plate movement in 2011 was well beyond the magniutude any ,repeat any Seismologist considered at all probable in Japan.

It is obvious from many of the comments that knowledge of Seismology is almost non existant.

The Japanese have extensive experience of earthquakes andTsunamis and had built many barriers to protect their coastal areas .

They were to protect to the extent that the risks evaluated , and from what I know were considered elsewhere to be very prepared for such an event

It is foolish and ignorant to propose that a country should prepare for adisasters that are extremely unlikely to occur.

It would go broke and the people would starve.

However, I expect you will continue to rant about something you are totally ignorant.

HP's PC boss caught napping by Lenovo raid

Re: hope Lenovo don't turn into HP

When Hewlett and Packard founders ofHP were running the firm, it was an example of how a business should be run.

It produced good products (a little high in price usually but reliable) and it treated the employees like human beings and not disposable garbage to be tossed out without any caring

Makes me nostalgic about 1974 when I purchased an HP45 calculator designed for Surveyers.

.

Ballmer aims chair at Apple after Windows package miss

Re: Re Article.....

Dear Peter,

Alas he does sound bitter but I can understand it as he may have had unhappy eperiences using Windows

Judge goes postal on Kim Dotcom extradition appeal

The Monster Dotcom

is a dangerous international criminal because-wait for it- He had a File Sharing Website!

My God that is as bad as it gets.

According to the Americans.

John Key accused of Dotcom ‘brain fade’

Re: This whole government suffers from Alzheimers.

I am NOT sick to the back teeth about Mr.Dotcom.

I get a lot of entertainment out of it all-especially Mr. Keys screwing round and round trying to convince us he had nothing to do with the illegal armed raid on Dotcom's house.

I doubt that Dotcom is anymore of a criminal than a well known Mr Bob Jones.

Mr. Jones admitted a few years ago (after checking on Statute of Limitations) that he had begun his financial empire building by means of getting money for the sale of a Building BEFORE he owned it.

That is certainly illegal and he deserves be Mr. rather than Sir Bob.

NZ bloke gets eel stuck up jacksie

It couldn't happen to me

I am , and always have been a Tight Arse.

NZ spooks acted unlawfully in Megaupload wiretap

Re: Oh dear...

Dear Alan,

I live in NZ,and I am not aware of our local law enforcement persons doing whatever the hell they want.

Could you provide an example or two for me , to improve my knowledge of this naughtyness.

Thank you for your time on this matter.

Unconsenting Facebookers exposed by Beacon denied payouts

The Law is for the Benefit of

LAWYERS.

Fuck the offended,ripped off,robbed,injured,mangled ,disfigured,left broke and/or broken.

God Bless America.

PS. Thank God I don't live there.

Key evidence in Assange case dissolves

Re: @Acx

I find this all most interesting as I have not been an active participant in this process for some time now.

I must keep reading ,there is much technical information being revealed

NZ beaks give climate skeptics the bird

I am in NZ too

Hello Mike,

This "massive shift" where I live is now wet(very wet) and cold(well pretty cool) .

It used to be hot/quite warm and with drought type summers.

Have you , lived on the East Coast of the North Island?

Microsoft to comply with Brussels over browser choice gaffe

Re: I still don't get why this only appies to MS

Dear Barry,

I am using an IMac with Firefox browser and Thunderbird email.

They work just as well as when I am on an Ubuntu OS computer.

Am I alone in this?

Was Russia Today hacked - or did it just forget to renew rt.com?

Re: Everything with a pinch of salt

Scott Broukell,

I use RT more often than BBC , and definitely more often than any American News sites.

I find things on RT that are carefully ignored by BBC and American sites, like Bahrain.

As Bahrain is has an American Naval Base as part of their encirclement of Iran , it is not surprising that the Yanks ignore human rights viloations there.

The different perspective gives me a truer picture of what goes on in the World.

China could penetrate US with new huge missile

Re: stuartnz

Matt, the SR-71 has been retired for years.

The military donated one to NASA for some form of high altitude science-I forget the details.

Satellites became a more effective method of spying than the SR-71.

Magnificent aircraft though.

Assange granted asylum by Ecuador after US refused to rule out charges

Re: "Now if only New Zealand would show us another example, bla bla,

The Frogs are bigger,stronger and they have THE BOMB.

So when they threatened our PM Mr Lange he found he couldn't refuse.

I am not so fond of the Frogs as I was in earlier years.

But still more than I am of America

Climate change blamed for rise of life-draining horrors*

One Day

The News will say "Warming of the Planet is going to be better for xxxxx, and computer simulations show that we will all benefit from this , and will enjoy everlasting happness".

It may be some time yet but I think it must happen-these warming is all bad-bad-bad stories are no longer interesting news..

London Fire Brigade: This time we'll send the NEAREST fire truck

Re: Its not like a taxi service.

Lee_M

I was about to reply to Wupspups,but you have confirmed what I was sure would be the case.

Carry on with the Good Word you do for those of us in need.

Amount of CO2 being sucked away by Earth 'has doubled in 50 years'

Re: Prejudiced wankers

Dear Mr. Anonymous

Re- They do not mention, at the same time we produce at least 100 times more CO2 since the 60s.

Could you refer me to the site where this information can be found.

Skydiving daredevil Baumgartner leaps from 96,000ft

He got training

from the man who did the first,and so far, the highest/greatest distance away jump.

I have seen a photo of this Johnny Come Lately with the original Space Jumper

Much would have been learned from the Pioneer.

The Pioneer did it as part of the testing programme for Apollo Moon Landing affair the Yanks had to show those Commies who was the smartest and best etc.

Skype: Nearly half of adults don't install software updates

Re: Still on Skype 2.8

Greetings mrfill,

I will now consider Skype ,have thought about it previously but when Microsoft got hold off it, I muttered "Get Stuffed".

Iranian nuke plants rocked in midnight 'heavy metal blast'

Re: David Webb

Matt Bryant,

Is your intelligence gathering as reliable as that of President George Bush prior to the invasion of Iraq,that he used to justify that aggression?

Linux is free to and for everyone!

David Webb,

There are no restrictions on who uses it,alters it, improves it or does anything else to -except that they are expected to make those improvements etc. available to all other uses.

Freedom is what it's all about.

Like what Americans used to have before Homeland Department of Security (I think that is the name of the spying on Americans by Americans for Politicians Department.

Peace be with you.

Why British TV drama is crap – and why this matters to tech firms

I was mystified

when I read this article.

In my opinion (and of my beloved Wife) it is American TV programs of any sort that are Crap.

Most English/British TV is very good.

Even down here in New Zealand the English TV is preferred to American.

BIG BOOBS banished from Linux kernel

Well Fuck me Rigid

How can anyone with even half a Brain get upset by a string of numbers and letters.

The lunatics are now running the Fucking place.

Good night.

Yes, yes, the Olympics are near. But what'll happen to its IT afterwards?

Way down south

in New Zealand I have no interest in the Olympics .

If it was genuine sport I might be but these Games are now just Big Business.

Someone is making big Bucks out of theme while you poor bloody Taxpayers have been given another burden to bear.

Actually I think it was Adolf Hitler in 1936 who started the rot from the Olympics being a sporting event.

Expert: EU Microsoft competition fine could reach $7bn

Re: More importantly,

Posted Thursday 19th July 2012 10:04 GMT

Anonymous Coward

Dear AC,

I have an Apple imac and I didn't like Safari, so I installed Firefox.

Installed Thunderbird for my email .

Both Open Source and both work well,and I am most happy

Well, I am even more happy because I have another computer with Ubuntu OS on it.

Judge: Apple must run ads saying Samsung DIDN'T copy the iPad

Re: Ian

Dear Mr Anonymous Coward,

Us over 50 persons (mainly) have brains that work quite well.

Even better than a lot of young ones. Not so much or so many "substances" inhaled,injected or swallowed by the mature ones.

Home Office doc 'not qualified' to assess McKinnon suicide risk

When I was young

I don't remember this complaint existing.

Like many other things that are now common place , I am glad I was born before they were discovered.

Nearly 2 MILLION US Facebook users quit social network

Re: @localgeek "You're Welcome, Mr. Zuckerberg". I congratulate you and...............

Arctic Fox,

I am in complete agreement with your decision.

Can't think of a greater time wasting occupation than spending time on Facebook.

Study: Climate was hotter in Roman, medieval times than now

Re: vineyards and ice fairs

Stuart21551,

Maybe someone with access to a good computer and who is competent in Fluid Mecanics could do some simulations.

The information would settle the argument about the freezing of the river.

It was a long time ago that I did anything in that field. When it was called Hydraulics.

Panasonic chief says no to low-cost OLED TVs

The Wife

Is content looking at a 7 year old 32" CRT TV and does not want a new LCD.

I have a 26" LCD to watch in the bedroom, and this second TV is wonderful because my choice of programs is different from hers.

N13L5- My TV is a Samsung -and I love it.

Breaking: Megaupload seizures illegal says NZ High Court

Re: Extradition

Dear Heathroi,

Our beloved Prime Minister Piggy Muldoon pardoned Thomas.

Re: BAU for the US then?

I am sure that our NZ coppers will now know what those devious yanks are really like now, and wont be so obliging in future.

The trouble is that they are now tarred with the same brush as the FBI etc. who don't give a shit about proper legal ways or the law at all.

It has been revealed that the FBI actively encourage their men (or persons) to not be concerned about how to get evidence.

This plus the law Obama has approved that allows for indefinite detention without charge or trial shows that the "Land of the Free" should used only in the past tense.

At least the Winter weather so far is not too chilly.

Peace be with all you Poms.

Microsoft's offices gutted in Athens arson attack

Re: Austerity? The only solution is to get drunk and set fire to things!

From what I have read/heard about/viewed , the Bankers/Financiers/Bureaucrats have managed to get the Greeks by the Balls. So their Hearts and Minds will be following.

There is an ex-Wall Street Broker on a TV station " Russia Today" (and on RT.com) who predicted all this shambles in Europe months ago , when it seemed like fantasy , but it has all become true with the Bankers etc, getting obscenely wealthy as the citizens poverty stricken.

Microsoft's Surface proves software is dead

Re: Apple is more closed than Microsoft ever dreamed of being

Re- Steve Jobs is a genius.

AnonCoward 22 Jne 2012,

is should be replaced with was, unless the Messiah has risen again.

Peace be with you.

Asteroid zips past Earth

We had a close call in 1974

There were videos and still shots on Astronomy magazine of an object that went over USA in daylight and was apparently only about 20 miles up.

The glow of the object and the trail were very bright even though it was in broad daylight.

Estimates of the mass varied but it was probably between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Tons (or Tonnes).

The bang would have been very impressive the path had been 20miles (or 21 miles) closer to Earth.

Linus Torvalds drops F-bomb on NVIDIA

Re: @AC

Posted Monday 18th June 2012 09:35 GMT

Anonymous Coward

Dear AC,

You !@#$% bugger, it is not sweared at , it is sworn at.

Get it right or you will be @$%!*&ed with the rough end of a Pineapple.

May 2012 was second warmest on record. The warmest? 2010

Re: I agree with town crier

fixit_f,

China certainly doesn't do things the way we do in the West, but now the people are much better fed etc. than in the not to distant past.

Famine with millions of dead and the Cultural Revolution have been replaced by what seems to be Capitalism,and it is working well

Will soon be a bigger economy than America.

I am well of the subject of this thread but it's all good fun

Torvalds splits 2012 Millennium Technology Prize with gene scientist

Bill of Microsoft

will be having a tantrum about Linux /Linus being rewarded like this.

Bill had to buy his way into being thought of as being good for the planet.

Study fingers humans for ocean heat rise

Re: Mature enough?

Curly4,

Anyone who has an interest in Astronomy knows that the sun grows hotter as it ages.

It is about 25% hotter that an the 4.5 Billion years ago era.

The Sun will in the distant future evolve into a Red Giant and eventually become a White Dwarf.

We will have become extinct or have evolved into someting unrecognisable by the time the temperature rises up enough to cause the annihilation of all life on planet .

Police cuff hundreds in £7.3 MILLION phone scam

Re: Good to hear about «high-level police corruption» in China, Phil

mheniday,

Why are you all bitter and twisted about the Police.

I understand your language because I occasionally watch "The Bill".