Posts by Evil Auditor

El Reg posse prepares for quid-a-day nosh challenge

Re roadkill

Maybe, if you didn't kill it deliberately.

Ye Bug List

Re: Comments' time indication

Usenet, not anymore. Now I'm content with El Reg commentarding. Why even this? Don't know really, maybe for a bit of distraction during work hours.

Re: Comments' time indication

"ElReg's system of "voting" means absolutely nothing in the great scheme of things"

Quite right. Then again, in the great scheme of things neither our comments mean much more...

Re: Comments' time indication

jake, thanks for testing. Now my comments say again "in the last few minutes", too. Don't know what was wrong. Anyway, I still think we should go back to a proper timestamp.

(jake, do you have a personal fan down-voting you?;-)

Comments' time indication

Now it shows immediately upon posting a comment An hour ago. Is it just me?

Teen student texter busts 20-second tongue-twisty SMS barrier

Obviously autocomplete

What was he really trying to type?

Vladimir Putin says internet is a 'CIA project'

Re: I always thought he was a bit crazy

And Gerhard Schröder named Putin a flawless democrat ("lupenreiner demokrat").

@I ain't Spartacus

...and under Bismarck it still was a state governed by the rule of law.

Unfortunately, I doubt that Putin is detached from reality. Reality is, he can do whatever he wants. All he has to "fear" are some rather weak sanctions from EU/USA.

Lost artworks by Andy Warhol found on 80s-era FLOPPY DISKS

Warhol's production line

Matt Wrbican: "...who had spent about 50 years developing a specific hand-to-eye coordination now suddenly grappling with the bizarre new sensation of a mouse..."

Quite a lot of Warhols were produced by assistants who worked according to his instructions. While using a mouse surely was new to him, not using his hand-to-eye coordination wasn't. Nor do I believe that it was frustrating, well, maybe not being able to physically sign? Then again, what do I know about Warhol.

Zuck talks up mobile shift as Facebook money mill rolls on

Re can't say I'm particularly delighted by their profiling of me

Lamont Cranston, yes, yes... But are they right?!

Someone else missed out on the lower case f in the title?

Erm, just me then...

'Maybe I'll go to Hell, but I think it's a good thing' says plastic Liberator gunsmith Cody Wilson

Re: Re more guns, lower crime rate (THIS IS TRUE IN SOME LOCATIONS)

@Dan Paul

You may be right, in some locations. When you cite Chicago and Detroit, what are the gun laws in Illinois and Michigan respectively? And in the rest of the USoA? There probably isn't much to stop someone bringing guns into those cities. I reckon that the gun laws in the two named cities are not effectively implemented. The situation would be quite different when considering an area that has effective border controls. While there still will be criminals who try and also succeed in owning guns it will be much more difficult for them, too.

Curbing gun crime is not done with creating a law to ban guns. That's just a starting point and there are quite a few other measures needed.

Re more guns, lower crime rate

While I think this is rubbish, it all depends on what it relates. In an anarchistic society envisioned by libertarian nutcases it may indeed be true that more guns lead to lower crime rates. Insofar Wilson seems quite consistent.

Och aye! It's the Loch Ness Monster – but only Apple fanbois can see it

We believe in Nessie, too

says the Inverness Tourist Board.

Boffins brew graphene in kitchen blender

Re: Dangerous Stuff

You'll be fine once you cash in on the space elevator.

Sorry London, Europe's top tech city is Munich

Tier one, tier two, etc

And this is relevant, how?

Audio fans, prepare yourself for the Second Coming ... of Blu-ray

The good thing about CDs

was and still is, I can buy any audio CD (at least, Red Book standard) and play them on a 15 or 20 year old CD player without any trouble at all and don't need to f****** update the f****** player every time I buy a new f****** disc.

/rant

Re: Finally

Lost all faith, stop laughing, t'is very serious matter! You know, after painting the rims of your CDs DVDs Blu-rays black with the most exquisite black marker on the planet to reduce whatever the fuck it reduces you shirley need those cables to reproduce The Sound.

Innovation creates instability, you say? BLASPHEMY, you SCUM

Re: German guy who told me that he is a very impotent manager

To be fair, the English pronounciation is not the easiest or most logical. Then again, I'm still wondering how to pronounce "Phuket" ;-)

Re: Good article

I thought there was still quite some innovation going on: find ways to retrieve EU money.

My all-time favourite was a German* guy who told me that he is a very impotent manager in his company. I was dazzled by his blunt honesty. Until I realised that the word he was after was in fact important.

*Maybe he was Austrian or Swiss, I don't remember.

European Court of Justice rips up Data Retention Directive

Re: At Last ! ... and the wine

For instance it's illegal to make desert wine in the the UK.

It should be illegal to make wine in the UK at all.

Thank you, European Court of Justice.

At least there's a body which puts some sense into eurocrats and such.

Indonesia considers smartphone tax to spur local mobe-makers

Supporting domestically made handsets?

The Indonesian government is planning to levy a 20 per cent tax on all imported mobile phones, in a bid to foster the local black market.

Here, fixed that for you.

Honeybee boffin stings own wedding tackle... for science

Re: I've got my own research project

Simon Harris,

Using not his own I'd consider cheating.

Re: I've got my own research project

I ain't Spartacus, do you already have children or are you after a Darwin Award?

He doesn't think his data is particularly useful...

...but he killed 75 bees for that. Where's the someone think of the bees icon?

SPARC and Solaris will live until at least 2019

They are still around?

I have a soft spot for SPARC & Solaris. Solaris was my favourite OS, both for its architecture and GUI, and out of nostalgia I cannot get rid of my old SPARCstation. But seriously, I thought they were long gone.

Mechanical monster macropod LEAPS out of the lab

Re German humour

Maybe I was wrong, I just discovered the robo's blinking anus.

April 1

Don't worry, the roboroo's for real. Zis was done by ze Germanz, we don't do humour.

Dark SITH LORD 'Darth Vader' joins battle to rule, er, Ukraine

Re: El Reg toeing the line?

Chris G

It's probably not too unfair to call Ukraine at least partly a failed state. But I wouldn't blindly believe Russian propaganda, such as neo-nazi government or that the Russian population is threatened. It's not even difficult to debunk Russia's disgustingly hypocritical attitude. To a great degree Putin centralised power in the Kremlin, taking it away from the regions, from minorities. And now, according to Russia, Ukraine should do the opposite, giving more autonomy to the (Russian) regions.

I'm not surprised that a vast majority on Crimea voted for Russia, in an illegal referendum by the way. As you said, most of them are Russians (they were settled there during early USSR time). But also quite a few face harder times (e.g. check unemployment rate), or believe that it became harder, compared to being under Soviet Union. This is true for the whole Ukraine but especially those with Russian ancestry regard going back to Russia as a solution.

I do believe that any population should generally have a say in their destiny. If it happens, it usually is a rather lengthy process. What happened with Crimea, however, is annexation orchestrated by Putin/Kremlin.

That's it, we're all really OLD: Google's Gmail is 10 ALREADY

Re: You won't miss it till it's gone.

I remember moving from Lotus Notes to Exchange/Outlook. I never liked LN's GUI (in fact, I think it's crap) but after the change I felt like being bombed back to Stone Age. This happened about ten years ago and, still on the MS stuff, I didn't experience much of an improvement since then.

Re: No, thanks.

IDoNotThinkSo,

Absolutely, and I'd never use my real email address again. What did I know back then. And in the end, whatever is behind Google Groups, it's still branded Google.

No, thanks.

This is quite a bit off-topic though. Years and years ago I was using yahoo groups (not e-mail) for quite some time. Young and foolish as I was I used my usual e-mail address but all was fine, no problem at all. Until I subscribed to a google newsgroup. And from that very moment spam started to flood in endlessly. I don't know exactly how the culprits retrieved my address but I'm pretty sure it was via this google group and it sustainably damaged my confidence in all things google. No gmail for me, I prefer paying for my own mail server.

Boeing, Cupertino to 'explore weaponisation of Apple technologies'

Indeed! And much better than the 3d printed BT Tower. Oh, hang on, maybe the BT Tower isn't a joke after all... ;-)

BT Tower to be replaced by 3D printed BT Tower

Re too obvious

Not quite sure what to think of it... Then again, the Grauniad isn't better either: independent Scots will drive on the right.

Today my employer, however, is informing about the annual result. That's what I call a decent hoax!

Selfies are over: Welcome to the age of 'Sleeveface'

@David W.

Q.E.D.

Re: Nice.

jake, last time I checked, and it's been quite a while since, the little-/big-endian thing mainly mattered for putting data into memory. At that time online forums where not very wide-spread (they did exist though) and it is absolutely possible that simply no one thought about how data could be put into the high levels of a commentards' section.

Although, from the maths I did before IT I believe that when writing down a binary number the msb would still go far left.

Re: Nice.

Don't care about an initial 0. I was questioning the arrangement of the two nibbles.

And I'm still wondering about the meaning of EOF in this context.

Re: Nice.

jake, shouldn't that be 01101010₂ or am I missing something?

Dell tells customers: 'Opt out' if you don't want a channel service

Re: Bit of a change

Because when they did the maths they didn't factor in customer service? Just a guess...

Artists install Monty Python silly walk signs in Norwegian town

Re: Surely Finland should have done this first

A poor second to Belgium...

I never quite understood what all those tourists were doing there.

Beware what you wish for!

I can see this thing catching on... and another silly imbecile meme is started with hoi polloi taking selfies doing this in front of [insert landmark] and pestering the interwebs with it.

Original iPhone dev team was 'shockingly small' - Apple engineer

RE ...very few have both.

What d'you mean? Project lead is female or blind?

SCNR

@A Non e-mouse

I couldn't agree more. What we practice here is, however, a continuous demonstration that doing it the other way doesn't work: largish, rather undefined team which is pestered with daily business, a deadline set somewhere in eternity, lots of interference but much less support by senior management and a project, erm, they didn't think of a project sponsor really.

Well, I shot dead their first and even much larger attempt because it was going far off track. The second attempt wasn't that bad but management changed and so did the project scope. And this now is what a frustrated project team came up with. I'm sure it will be a huge success! /sarcasm

NASA: Vote now to put flashy lights on future spacesuits

Re asking the Russians...

Yes, they could. But would probably miss the target.

Couldn't they have asked HR Giger to come up with something suitable?

Forget sledgehammers – crooks can CRACK ATMs with a TEXT

Re: XP I guess

Hello Eadon! Didn't know you were back.

No Notch niche: Minecraft man in rift with Oculus after Facebook gobble

Re: Integrity

I beg to differ. Integrity as being consistency of action etc, Zuck does have it as well. Still, I think, it all boils down to how can he get the gals laid.

TU nevertheless.

Re: There is nothing "social" ...

EOF = end of fail? ;-)

Seriously, jake, I understand your resentment towards virtual contacts as I much prefer contact in real-life. But even El Reg's commentards' section is in a way social: we are interacting with each other. I don't think we need a new definition of social.

Middle England's allotments become metric battlefield

Re: Things change.

You may. And you did very well.