Posts by proto-robbie

Pubic louse falls victim to eager Brazilian strippers

Re: We need to save them crawlies!

Or Russell Brand, to combine a vast sanctuary with a shag-tastic transport mechanism.

Sir James Dyson slams gov's 'obsession' with Silicon Roundabout

But

Silicon Sall is the girl for me...

CSIRO mine safety tech becomes archaeological tool

Nice to see...

...that inertial navigation's still useful. I learned my trade in Ferranti's Inertial Systems Development lab in the '70s, working beside some of the smartest guys on the planet.

I could, if required, still write machine code for the hand-built 8 bit computer which controlled the systems (memory was hand-knitted magnetic core from Hong Kong, as I recall).

Patrick Moore: Lived with cats, accompanied Einstein on the piano

RIP Sir Patrick

Anyone of us in Britain looking skywards with an iota of familiarity of the stars has him to thank for it. A wonderful man, and what a sad loss to science broadcasting and astronomy in this country.

Yahoo! comes! out! guns! blazing! to! end! $2.7bn! Mexican! standoff!

I'd have tried...

...a different Yahoo spokesperson.

Archaeologists uncover 'Unicorn's lair'

Re: Here in California ...

Or here in Scotland - my father used to make them, and I believe has eight of differing provenance and vintage. The art has not passed down, alas.

Boffins BREAK BREAD's genetic code: Miracle of the loaves

Just leaves the butter and bacon side of things.

NASA admits hiding 'really good' news from Martian soil

Traffic wardens?

German city dumping OpenOffice for Microsoft

Odd that Freiburg means Freetown, nein?

Power to the people - if you can find a spare socket

I'd just like to point out...

...that if there's a smell of pee on a train "dahn sarf" it is not from a Glaswegian, since they're all busy micturating up here.

I suspect what you have encountered are in fact ex-pats.

Galapagos islands bombed with 22 tonnes of Blue Death Cornflakes

Sounds like a great idea.

Not.

You'd think we could stop ourselves after buggering the place up the first time, and not keep doing it.

World's LEGGIEST BLONDE is super-rare millipede living in SF

Shouldn't

This be in "bootnotes"?

Speech systems lawsuit sours Apple's day

So, let me get this right...

Hear some words,

Think about them,

Think some more,

Respond.

And you can patent this?

Apple's skinny new iMac line: Farewell, optical drives

Re: Good Riddance!

You never used a Sinclair ZX MicroDrive then? Newbie.

Why James Bond's Aston Martin Top Trumps the rest

Bond a gentleman? That's a strange word for a priapic mass murderer. Quite right about the Mustang though, strictly for the CIA.

Liquefied-air silos touted as enormo green 'leccy batteries

Re: Penny wise, pound foolish.

A world-wide grid would minimise the need for storage of any kind, and maximise the benefit from baseload generation. Unfortunately, it's a long way off the roadmap for governments and utilities, since it would require strategic thinking, and getting along with the neighbours.

TalkTalk somehow retains most-complained-about-ISP title AGAIN

I have to agree...

...although you do have to be persistent if you have a problem. I have first rate service now, after my line was fixed following a year of intermittent faults. It helps if you can log your downtime, which is when they started listening.

Brave copper single-handedly chases 'suspicious' Moon

Three wolves, one moon?

Polar sea ice could set another record this year

Re: What about thickness?

Nudge, nudge...

Curiosity rover blasts, grabs and fondles its first Martian rock

Re: *First* contact?

A handshake, in pollte introduction.

New guide: Bake your own Raspberry Pi Lego-crust cluster

Reconstruction in Lego, please...

arf arf

'Picture of Dorian Gray' borrowed in 1934 is finally returned

Re: Wilde v Fry

A Beetle to a Bentley, perhaps.

Re: The Stephen Fry of his time.

Seconded.

Voyager's 35th birthday gift: One-way INTERSTELLAR ticket

Re: They just don't

Well, I'm still working, if you can call this work.

Megaphone? Well I am a little bit on the deaf side these days.

'Nutjob' serves half-baked Raspberry PI scam

Should have...

...just given him the Raspberry.

So, just what is the ultimate bacon sarnie?

Get on a jet to Toronto...

... and to the St Lawrence Market to experience the peameal bacon sandwich. You will know then that you could never taste a better bacon buttie.

Mars rover will.i.am 'cast: A depressing day for space and technology

We Brits, of course, had Damien Hirst. Lost in space though.

Designer punked fanbois with asymmetric screw

Re: Recycling

Indeed - it was 74 years ago.

Hobbyist builds working assault rifle using 3D printer

Re: Bloody wonderful, dont idiots ever think first?

Yes, just let Apple patent this, and it'll disappear without trace.

Ever considered putting a rocket up someone's backside?

Sherlock, because...

Funny how "burn" and "bum" go together so well.

Postgres-on-steroids wields bare metal in Oracle, IBM skirmish

Wanted...

DBA, for EMEA transactions. Must speak PostgreSQL, Mandarin, Arabic and 16 European languages.

Where there's brass, silver and gold ... there's also muck

Doesn't anyone

grow roses these days?

50 years in SPAAAAACE: Telstar celebrates half-century since launch

I'm a...

Na, Na Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na man myself.

UK.gov to clear way for Britain's first SPACEPORT

Unfortunately,

David Willets doesn't suck in hot air at the front.

LOHAN fizzles forlornly in REHAB

Oh no boys,

You'll have to phone NASA.

Live long and prosper: Spaceflight 'slows ageing process'

This marks a change of scene for our correspondent ...

...from reporting on the worms at the RBS.

Europe's prang-phone-in-every-car to cost €5m per life saved

Re: Yey another way for beaurocrats to justify their meaningless existence!!!

@Mad Mike: It's there already, and it's called Fuel Duty.

'Ed must go' – pundits round on Ofcom chief after failed Beeb DG bid

So,

the Mail hates him, and Murdoch, and he's down on the Beeb. Can £380,000 be enough consolation for the poor chap? There's always drink.

/sigh

Disappearing space dust belt baffles boffins

Sunburp

So, that vast IT disaster you may have caused? Come in, sit down

Re: wow, who the hell . . . . .

rm -Rf /

Sozzled Americans nagged by talking urinal cake

I expect

... we'll see these in next year's Darwin Awards.

Do you work in IT at RBS? Or at the next place to get hit ...?

Re: That's a nice cheery punchline...

Well, if it's been my £100M, I trust you'll stand me one of the attached down the Papeete seafront.

RBS...

...putting the "R" into "outage".

That's a nice cheery punchline...

...just after I've banked a cheque.

Microsoft's offices gutted in Athens arson attack

The fire kept going out ...

... and had to be restarted several times.

Hotelier faces FTC data breach lawsuit

Major Fault, eh Basil?

'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

Re: Good work, El Reg

Indeed! The Reg is now the technical authority in this affair.

Microsoft's Surface plan means the world belongs to Android now

Re: dodgy statistics

No, you cannot have 4.02 job postings. Much cerebration leads me to assert that (if 302% is exact) that the fewest job postings there could have been is 50.

The minimum number of postings if 302% is not exact is left as an exercise for someone less burdened than I.

Rare AutoCAD worm lifted blueprints from Peru, sent them to China

As Father Ted pointed out ...

... "I didn't steal it - the money was just resting in my account"