Posts by Scott 1

Crowd-pleasing study in capitalism conspiracy controversy

@metaspective

No, but please make sure you're actually criticizing capitalism and not the quasi-socialist mess that is the current U.S. (and majority of the world's) economic system.

Dyson spouts hot air

Comparable price?

On this side of the pond, the Dyson vacs are 2 to 3 times more expensive than their competition.

Obama drops Twitter bombs on debt-ceiling foes

Bipartisan

Bipartisan = "Do everything my way.". Note: if you hot in on the Republican plan, it would be a bipartisan effort.

1kW of sexy GPU love

Cooling solution

I wonder how many window unit air conditioners you'd need to dissipate that much heat. Super Wal-Mart always seems to have them on sale for about $100 each. That's Probably not the most energy efficient solution (nor is it likely practical)

On a more serious note, have you looked into geothermal? The ground up here has to be relatively cool year-round. As I understand it, geothermal is quite a bit more efficient than any hvac system.

Canada prostitution laws pulverised: politicians apoplectic

No, we will not judge, just mourn.

"The morally righteous are welcome to continue to abstain from these goods and services and judge those who partake."

No, we won't judge those who partake. We will just mourn how something that can thoroughly ruin a person's life and mindset (not to mention darken his/her soul) has somehow become more socially and legally acceptable. Those who would be judgmental represent a very small minority of the Christian population and are not acting in accordance with the teachings of the new testament of the Bible.

Scareware tries to trick marks into dropping defences

O RLY

/me smiles smugly as he surfs the internet on his Windows machine using Firefox with the noscript extension.

US law to neuter libel tourism

I was going to comment

But legal counsel recommended against it due to libel suit concerns.

Airline ejects passenger for being hungry

@ Anon. Coward

You have jumped to the conclusion that this patron was being a prick without any supporting evidence. IMO that means you are being both arrogant and ignorant yourself.

Let me propose another likely scenario: During boarding, when this presumably happened, the inside of an aircraft can be quite noisy. The patron may have indeed asked an attendant whether meals were being served. However, the attendant could have misheard him amid the chaos and clatter of people making their way to their seats, stowing their luggage, and negotiating for the aisle/window seats.

iPhone 4 preorder system exposes private user data

@Inachu

It was AT&T who made the blunder. Not that I mean to imply that Apple loves its customers, but that this particular incident shouldn't reflect badly on them.

EU says Google and Microhoo still violate data protection law

E.U. bureaucrat twats

I don't suppose the fact that people have the option to use another search provider has any bearing on this matter. After all, that wouldn't give the E.U. bureaucrat twats reason to stick their Marxist noses where they don't belong. I mean what good is a government if it doesn't try to impose its nonsense regulations on companies that are based and run in a foreign country.

Can the iSlate kill off Web 2.0?

Who is Tylr Drdn?

Methinks it be time for a fight club sequel. This time "Jack" should be a frustrated blogger/journalist with a penchant for buying into every new meme and fad gadget produced.

Fancy a lottery win? Smoke dried vulture brains

A rare find

Maybe this would explain why the vultures are such a rare find.

In related news, all staff members of The Register are hereby and forthwith required to take a one-way business trip to South Africa. Never you mind what for.

LHC pulverises previous record: 2.36 TeV surprise collision!

Welcome!

I, for one, welcome our most handsome pan-continuum overlords.

Facebook goes live with privacy revamp

Friends and Enemies

Why can't we designate some people as "Enemy" instead of "Friend" so we've got a group to offload the farmville messages and other automated crap messages onto?

Robot negotiator ends tense Colorado siege

Why go this far?

The original report was that the guy was holding hostages. When police found out that he wasn't holding any, why stay? What crime did he commit? Not wanting to leave the house or talk with officers?

Federal boffins: 'Giant invading snakes' will soon rule USA

The snakes better watch out...

...when they reach Louisiana. We Cajuns will put just about anything in our gumbo.

Malware torrent delivered over Google, Yahoo! ad services

Further support for ABP and NoScript.

I have to echo the above comments about the goodness of AdBlock Plus and NoScript. I've been running both for a couple of years, and I've yet to experience a "drive-by download" type infection. I wish our IT manager would make that setup mandatory for all web browsing here.

New IIS attacks (greatly) expand number of vulnerable servers

@Player16

This particular vuln is being actively exploited. Obviously the crooks already know about it. Keeping it under wraps now does no good anymore (especially if there's a work-around that admins need to know about -- time to check our IIS servers...).

Indictment scuttled alleged credit-card hacker’s plea

@ Anonymous

(At least here in the United States:) When you sign up for any services such as electric, banking, telephone, loans, property rental, etc. there is almost always a clause in the contract that your payment information or other financial details will be shared with credit reporting agencies. By signing the contract for these services, you are agreeing to allow your information to be released to the "big three" credit reporting agencies. Therefore, they have your information with your permission.

Linux patch sidesteps Microsoft's TomTom patent

Software patents

Yet another reason that software patents should go away. You can hardly do anything useful as a programmer without violating some yahoo's patent (or patent issued by yahoos).

Twitter profile hack pwns Mormons

The witnesses...

To the Anonymous Coward posting about the witnesses, it's nice how they didn't post the part about how all of the witnesses concerned later recanted confessing that they were part of another one of Joseph Smith's religious scams (he was rather fond of swindling people out of their money by performing fake spiritual services before he "saw" the golden plates).

Network giants reject 'buy American' Obama mandate

@RW

This is all probably very true (about environmental regulations). I've also heard that the companies who move operations offshore do so because their taxes are much lower. I work for a small engineering firm, and our experiences seem to validate this. My boss (one of the owners) told me that we were paying something like 60% of our gross revenue out in taxes.