Posts by cdilla

Man says he lost $500,000 in virtual currency heist

dyr

It's an increasing trend with El Reg comment mongers to type with wild and inaccurate abandon before doing even the most cursory of investigation in to the subject matter.

There are one or two, well, OK, just one, El Reg hack of which that criticism can be leveled too.

Pixmania users report scam-spam bombardment

amazon involved

I have started receiving the same kind of span/phishing emails on an email I only use with amazon.

I did buy something using my amazon account that was supplied by Pixmania.

Time for Pixmania to come clean and for amazon to close down their liason with them.

El Reg to launch space paper plane

Twatdanglider

I'd plump for Twatdanglider or just t'danglider (we'd all know what it meant).

US teen pleads guilty over Scientology DDoS attacks

A medal indeed

Any action against the insidious cult of scientology should be praised.

BOFH: Spontaneous Legal Combustion

Top wordsmithing

"perjurous casserole of untruths" - worthy of Stephen Fry indeed. A most entertaining BOFH.

NASA rejects democracy, names ISS node 'Tranquility'

common sense

At least common sense prevailed in that tossers like Colbert should be given short shrift.

Failed Nork rocket bits straddle Japan

hypocracy

It's disappointing to see Obama adopting the same old stance of telling other countries that they are not allowed to develop the same technology the americans and their friends have had for years and that the americans themselves have previously used to kill tens of thousands of civilians.

Hipocracy in the extreme.

National Safety Council seeks total* cell-phone driving ban

Good idea

The sooner it's implemented here the better. Many many investigations over the past few years have shown talking on the phone to increase the likelyhood of accidents. Do a search at New Scientist and you'll find many articles including...

"Hands-free cellphones carry car crash risk too"

"Hands-free phones not risk-free for drivers"

"Hands-free kits do not reduce crash risk"

"Cellphones worse than drink-driving"

Not policeable? I don't think that's an issue.

Car's fitted with handsfree should fail MOT's.

Any car with a live phone in it could automatically detected by roadside or mobile detectors and be subject to an automated fine system. (yeah so passengers can't use them either - so what).

Assholes in cars on phones are not the only killers on wheels, but they can be legislated against, identified and removed from the roads.