Posts by Goatan

Berkeley boffins crack brain wave code

Tin Hat time

Anyone else worried that this will lead to the scanning of brain frequencies to hear what people are thinking about?

ARM daddy simulates human brain with million-chip super

Lookalike

Am i going crazy or does Steve Furber look like John Lithgow (3rd rock from the sun dude)

Akira Blu-ray remastered disc set

This is incredible

They used around 270 shades of red for the movie and on the blu ray you can see them all. The image quality is mind blowingly incredible.

A must have for any fan of the movie.

PS3s overheat after firmware update

Update

Rockstar have since changed their tune

http://support.rockstargames.com/entries/20126677-what-to-do-if-you-are-crashing-or-freezing-in-l-a-noire

Vote now for the best sci-fi film never made

lensmen

Sure I saw a manga animation of this ages ago

Lloyds, First Direct websites hit by payday outages

Also...

Can't use your bank card to buy stuff, same error. ARRRGGGHHH!!!

Eric Schmidt 'eyes own TV show'

TV show . . .

Hi like the Prince Phillip of the tech world. I'd tune in just to see what foolishness he would spout next.

$1,000 reward offered for stolen cancer research laptop

Coverup??

Are they not just covering up for the fact they have done no work for years.

This sounds as flimsy an excuse as "the dog ate it"

Anyone dumb enough to not backup data THAT important I wouldn't trust to sweep a floor let alone look for a cure to cancer.

Councils show true grit in the face of ... FOI requests

Grit, what grit??

I have seen the Gritter out here in Newcastle plenty of times but its not been spreading. I think we have matched sunderland with a big fat £0 in spending on grit (not just the emergency spending) and plenty on Council members expenses.

Come the revolution they will be first against the wall, after the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

PARIS concocts commemorative cocktail

re: stratospheric parisian

Nice one Huey :D

DDoS attack, sex warrant won't stop Assange's leaky discharge

Best Palin putdown ever

"Sarah Palin meanwhile called for Assange to be "hunted down like bin Laden" - we're assuming she doesn't mean hunted unsuccessfully at the expense of tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars"

You owe me a new sandwhich and keyboard HAHAHAHA!

Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractals, dies at 85

Farewell Mandelbrot

The man was a genius and a legend.

I like the fractals in the winamp visulisation Milkdrop 2. Without Mandelbrot there would be nothing psychedelic to enjoy on computers.

Android rebellion: How to tame your stupid smartphone

android problems??

I have found my android hand set works fine. Though I have an unlocked handset.

Does anyone know if these issues can effect both network locked and unlocked handsets?

I'd be willing to be the code monkeys working for the mobile networks have caused the issues by adding unwanted crap onto the android platform

Apple coughs to iPhone 3G IOS 4 upgrade problems

Android

Makes me glad I opted for an anroid handset instead of an ifail, i mean iphone

El Reg marks Steve Jobs for termination

Blow it up. . .

Can el reg please make a commemerative high def blow up version of this pic for a poster? I'd buy that just to miff off John St. louis

2012 Olympic mascots cop a shoeing

Oh no

I looked at the logo and its image will be in my tempory files, will i got to jail for having extreme porn on my computer??

Ball lightning is all in the mind, say Austrian physicists

Then explain . . .

All the video evidence of Ball Lightning. The strikes magnetic effects can be captured and transmitted through Video recorders and display equipment.

You can't alter the evidence for something to fit a theory already disproven.

HTML5 unfit for web TV, says Hulu

Like iplayer??

Its like iplayer in a way but has more shows I wanna watch and can't cos I live in the uk

<\grumble>

Boobquake fails to destroy planet

re: Blimey

I say we take off and nuke the sight from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.

Bloke threatens BT with giant plywood cheque

Genius

That is fantastic work Dave.

Have a beer on me.

YouTube and Hulu dabble in for-pay vids

available to the US

Becasue the interent does not exist outside of America

Faster BT broadband on starting blocks for Olympics - maybe

TOO SLOW

We are playing catchup to the rest of the world to still be behind the rest of the world. America has 100 Mb broadband and Japan has plans to go into the Gb range (if they haven't already).

Why don't we simply put something awesome in place and make the rest of the world catch up to us?

That would be a structure I'd happily pay tax for. As it stands I have to simply state I'm not happy getting charged for outdated infostructure.

McKinnon lawyers file last gasp extradition appeal

@Or . . .

Almost all of the economics of the "mighty" USA relies on trading with foreign countires, such as Britain (afterall we speak the same language).

Unfortunately I don't think either country can survive without our relations. Though I'm sure the recession from parting ways might be less painful than the current one we are facing.

Music industry website debut turns into a mosh pit

He was a mongoloid!!

When Vevo comes along you must whip it.

Whip it good!

I've had a few already /excuse

LHC pulverises previous record: 2.36 TeV surprise collision!

LMC

Does anyone else feel the urge to build an over the top mosquito collider?? I think we could make something that would put the LHC to shame with a few McDonalds straws and a hair drier

LHC knocked out by ANOTHER power failure

No baguette visible this time

Thanks to El regs ingenius photographers its possible to see the real reason the power failed. If you look closely they have captured the responsible party on camera.

Thants right, its no black pipe but a ninja in disguise.

Who knows why these mysterious warriors want the LHC out of commision, maybe they know something we don't about the LHC. Maybe they were hired by an unknown evil doer who is trying to create their own doomsday machine.

One things for certain, with ninja's working to sabotage the LHC you can rest asured that their will be more problems to come.

Combat games disrespect war laws, report claims

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I think that we need to get Father Ted to sit them down and draw the picture detailing reality and fiction.

Yank objects to Reg cherry-popping headline

@how gullible

Deep breathe, its friday, relax a little.

Perhaps you should try decaf.

As for the commentard who winged about cherry popping, remember that children are like star systems. The more you tighten your grip, the more they slip through your fingers.

LHC dimensional apocalypse from midnight: Your thoughts

Don't panic ish

I enjoy the uncertainty of this rather crazy experiment. Who would have thought that a bunch of physics boffins would create an over the top theorical dooms day device all in the name of Higgs Boson.

I personally fail to understand how this experiment will magically link the quantum mechanics to Einstiens relativity. Someone still had to do the maths, unless they are trying to contact our foreign dimensional hyper evolved cousins long enough for them to pass through the secret science paper with the formula upon it.

Still whatever happens I'm grateful for the coverage and the nonesense spouted by the ever ignorant but always amuzing army of fuitcakes, pagans and erotic vampires.

Think I'll make sure I have a pint in hand and a towel on standby just to be safe.

Write haiku, win home server

oh no

A wasted day of

a plethora of haikus

i hate microsoft

The Beatles go digital, sort of

@hermes

Troll baiting can be dangerous.

Kanye West death prank used to sling scareware

So....

I guess this means he's still a gay fish

Magpies hold funerals for fallen feathered friends

@bad biology

I love to here his thoughts on the gay necro-duck too.

Aerial laser gunboat 'burns hole in fender' of moving car

Moving vehicle?

Is it me or is that car stationary (not a pencil you horrid trolls but static, not moving, currently using potential energy not kinetic)??

The background is static, how is that a sucessful test against a moving vehicle. Do they mean with the laser gunboat moving?

MoD pays quadruple in money + blood for Afghan helicopters

Soo bad

This is rediculas. When I take over this island and proclaim myself King I shall appoint you Lewis as the grand high general of the MoD so you can make the sensible decisions

Attack of the Killer Tits

Genius at work

comedo-tragic cleavage mishap

Xbox 360 'least reliable' console

more like 100% . . . .

Everyone I know who owns a 360 has experienced the RROD or disk read errors. Everyone has experienced my old fav the "please insert this disk into an xbox 360"

Reg bean counter in charity cycling towerathon

Good on ya

Nice work raising money for charity.

Got a pint right here for ya.

Fire at Google UK

missed the obvious

Someone clearly installed google voice on an iphone. Rather than allow voip calls it choose to incinerate itself and attempted to take google with it.

Huge 'vampyrus' bats being hunted to extinction

re: pedantophile warning

"medium of batshit"

I believe the zoological term is "guano"

Special thanks to Ace Ventura

Japan fine with cheap old mobile phones, ta very much

Smartphone

The "smartphones" over here are more than a little out of date when compared to what the Japanese would call a normal mobile phone. Its like trrying to compare Nintendo WII to a NES.

The service provided over there is total bitching and practically like something out of a sci fi book. Kinda wish our service providers would pull their fingers out and catch up to the technology.

Orbital skydives to follow inflatable heatshield success?

Human soup!

Surely the G force on the spinning (in the video at least) would liquidate any meatbag foolish enough to attemp this.

However once they solve this problem I'd like to know where you can go to sign up for this space swan dive experience.

Nissan ponders Pré-like cordless charging for e-cars

F Zero and wipeout

Who would have though that these games would have predicted the technology of the future?

All we need now is hover cars and a highly OTT speed limit. Say 2000 MPH??

Magno stimulation makes brain learn skills better - boffins

Note to self

Buy large magnet,

Tape to head,

Watch Bruce Lee movies,

Know kung fu.

UK DVD sales plunge...

Make movies worth buying

If Hollywood made movies worth buying there wouldn't really be this problem. I don't think there have been many good movies in the last decade. I could certainly count them one hand.

Toyota in 'real time brainwave driver control' success

Computer game applications?

I want the technology for playing wipeout, its the only way to have a reaction time quick enough to finish the zones mode using only the air brakes.

Also I think stephen hawkings might think his into becoming a black hole and implode the solar system.

People just not that into Blu-ray

Problem is not price

The true problem is not price but the titles available. I own a PS3 and would happily upgrade to blue ray for most of my DVD collection. The main issue is that there is not alot of GOOD movies available in blu-ray. You mostly get really turdy movies such as ultraviolet.

The best title so far has been Dark Knight, was filmed in IMAX and looks class in high def. I think its well worth upgrading. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't seen any good movies in high def.

Hulu's web TV coming to the UK

Can be accessed in UK already

HULU can already be accessed in the UK, just use proxies.

Fox terminates The Sarah Connor Chronicles

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Please don't leave me with Terninator salvation, its going to suck balls!!

Kanye West doesn't have a f***ing Twitter, OK?

Do you like fish sticks??

Do you like fish sticks in your mouth?

What are you, a Gay Fish??