Posts by Trokair 1

Google unfurls Dead Sea Scrolls

Well played good sir.

Domino's to serve pizzas on the Moon, apparently

Indeed

I have to say that I quite enjoy their new recipie. Terrible as the commercials are the product has actually improved.

PETA to launch .xxx smut site 'to help animals'

Morons

They can all jump off a bridge, we would be much better off without PETA. To quote Maddox "for every animal that you don't eat, I'm going to eat two."

Facial recognition tech proves Randi AND Mark are the same Zuck

RE: Anon

There is also the fact that the term "Randy" doesn't mean anything on this side of the pond, you twit.

Microsoft, Nokia, HTC fight Apple's 'App store' trademark

Indeed

You sir are correct.

EA reloads, aims at Activision, goes for headshot

Can't Wait

I played BF2 into the ground and was very dissapointed by what came after (BF2142, BC,BC2). It sounds like EA took a good hard look at BF2 and brought back some of the best things about that series.

Get out of the way, that is my jet :D

Animal lovers stamp on goldfish racing

Cheers

"The goldfish derby is no more, but the bar is now punting "$5 for 2 Fish Tacos every Tuesday!!" ®"

This is what I like to see. Crazy animal people won't let us race them? Then we'll EAT THEM instead.

People

Eating

Tasty

Animals

RadioShack gun giveaway: A clarification

Prepared

When the Zombie Apocalypse is in full swing and the only living left are in Montana you will know why.

1911 owner

Pope says gravity proves technology can't supplant God

Yes I can.

"we're all to stupid to understands Gods great plan

there we go, no one needs to argue any more as thats impossible to counter,"

God can't have a plan because he doesn't exist.

WINNING

Want to leave work early? Torch a filing cabinet

Incorrect

You sir are incorrect Mr. Larrington. I write this from my desk across the pond where BOFH is a valuable training tool that I use to teach our inexperienced IT professionals.

Copyright wally of the week

Uber-Fail

Your posting privileges have been revoked.

"To lots of people, the request that guy made of you wouldn't seem particularly weird." - Hey, I'm going to take your work, change a few things, then call it my own would seem weird to everyone but you apparently. Idiot.

"They would think that perhaps you wrote the article out of an intrinsic interest in its argument, not just because you're a writer and you need to get paid" - Except that he works for a *wait for it* News Rag and it his job writing that puts food on his table. You are a moron.

"to many people, the mere idea of asking wouldn't be so laughably absurd as you seem to assume it is." - To ask permission to reprint the article giving proper attribution is not an absurd action. To ask permission to actively plagiarize it is. Now go away and do-not-come-back.

"to many people, the mere idea of asking wouldn't be so laughably absurd as you seem to assume it is." - To ask permission to reprint the article giving proper attribution is not an absured action. To ask permission to activly plagerize it is. Now go away and do-not-come-back.

A Rumba with a Roomba

Eureka!

Thank you Verity for once again shinning a brilliant light upon my otherwise drab existence. I had at one time pondered the possibility of acquiring a robotic servant but alas was unable to secure said plastic and metal henchmen. Most fortuitously your article has materialized at a time where I have had a substantial (relatively) windfall that would allow me to bend one of these soulless minions to my will. I have since contacted a proper vendor capable of summoning said creation and have arranged for the transfer of power following the end of my daily 8 hours in purgatory. I look forward on unleashing the monstrosity upon the remnants of the floor covering in my lair this evening.

Indonesia flips over internet rock star smut clips

At least tell the truth

He's said it was a "race against time" to use children as an excuse to tighten govenment control over any medium capable of free speach that could possibly transmit anything outside of the approved governmental/religious message or views.

Autopsy on wacky Jacqui's ID astroturfing

Really?

The picture that comes to my mind is Mr. Peanut as a vulture with a cattle-prod instead of a cane.

Canadians form adulterers' privacy campaign

By the numbers

#1. She is an idiot for not buying a burner and stashing it somewhere for her extra-marital communications.

#2. She is an idiot for letting her husband read the bill when she knows what will be on it.

#3. She is an idiot for bringing this to court because the first judge to see this is going to laugh her out of court.

Sow the seeds/Roll the dice/Sleep in the bed etc. etc.

Apple not yet dominant enough for anti-trust action

Court case unnecessary

Simple economics will do. Already stated in the the article that iphone does not dominate the market on equipment numbers. How many developers want to continue to develop on a closed platform with 1/8 of the market vs. developing on a platform that is supported by the other 7/8s of the market? The iphone dominated when it had the first "popular" incarnation of apps and a market place but now that it is being replicated the iphone has lost its edge and its market share will follow.

Had Apple not locked the phone into specific networks and not locked down the development of apps I think they would have had a much larger piece of the market and would be much harder to compete with. Stanglehold control has damaged the product.

Philippines declare war on cyberlingo

Late to the party

This is no new language but a mutation of leet speak. That makes them at least 10 years late to the party. Look at the prior languages and know it is just a fad that will die out.

And shame on El Reg for not mentioning 1337 in the article. Then again, I can't say mad at you.... Want to go to lunch????

Badgers, just because.

GCHQ imposes Whitehall iPhone ban

In need of some research....

RIM does not do spam filtering. That is what a hardware email spam/antivirus firewall is for between your email server/cluster and the rest of the world. They also don't mutate or effect attachments in any way. The Blackberry itself is capable of reading certain file types such as .doc and .xls. RIM simply passes on the encrypted packet from the BES to the handheld were it is decrypted.

Next time 10 minutes of research before spouting a bunch of garbage please.

US Senator wants Internet seizure rights

And this is exactly why....

Career politicians are a horrible idea. We have senators that have been in there so long they were members of the KKK. All they know how to do is talk and that is why they lose touch with the way real people actually live. We need term limits so we can flush the politicians out every 8 years or so. Maybe then the US Congress would be less worried about securing more power for themselves and more worried about how to properly govern a country.

Keep the internet free and kick these idiots out of office.

Microsoft throws Office 2010 at shoppers

Give it up

Not too long now and MS will have to give up the ghost. They have been over-charging for their glorified word processor and its iterations for far too long. Google has forced their hand and now they have to give it away for free. I have refused for some years to pay the extortionist prices for the suite and I approve of it's death with trumpets blaring.

Sarko to walk tall in factory visit

Had to be said

Napoleon complex.

The one with the paintball gun in the pocket please.

New York Times bans 'tweet'

Rejected

Sorry Sarah, you know you can't get away that easily.

And as for the story, the only thing that traditional newspapers are still useful for is lining an area to catch the byproducts of a domesticated animal's digestive system. Anything that is that close to the political system of this country is already full of it anyway. I think I can safetly speak for the under 40 crowd when I say that they can stop using any words all together and we wouldn't care.

Internet 1 - England goalkeeper 0

Eh

Speaking for more than 90% of Americans, I am sorry that this happened. We don't really care about professional soccer over here at all and I think we should stop playing it so that countries that do care don't have to waste their time and have the potential for a mistake like this to make them look bad.

The world's ugliest dog is dead

A Title

Odds & Sods <nuff said

Fair Warning

To be fair, he did put the joke warning in the icon ma'am.

The North Face trips over The South Butt

Economic Stimulus

Just get big companies to serve letters to smaller ones = instant profit.

Yank slams El Reg 'zio-fruitcake' Playmobil 'crap'

I apologize

I apologize for my misguided countryman. Seems we have a disproportionately high number of crazy people in this country. To be fair it all started with Them That Came From Across The Pond With Buckles On Their Hats (see: Crazy Religious British People). Just went downhill from there I'm afraid.

Alabama judges take hard line on dildos

Generalizations make everyone feel better

This state is obviously representative of all state law.

And all Americans are religious idiots.

And all Americans own guns.

And all British people are missing 50% of their teeth.

And all British people have ears the size of single prop plane wings.

And they are all too busy eating biscuits and drinking tea or too stupid to notice their country erroding out from underneath of them.

McKinnon loses judicial review

Extradition...

Same as any other criminal that flees to a country with an extradition treaty. Commit a crime in a country, get sent there to be tried. There isn't any good reason why he shouldn't be boxed up and sent over.

Staten Island manhole swallows texting teen

For the record.....

This is not your "typcial American". As much as commentards enjoy being snide towards anything having to do with our country, please realize that you only ever hear of the stupid people in the papers over here. It is journalism for entertainment not information. That all Americans sue when there is the slightest mishap is as accurate as "All Brits are missing most of their teeth, have huge floppy ears, and speak a near unintelligable language that they refer to as Proper English".

Not much of a surprise I suppose seeing how you hate your own country as much as you hate ours (from a generalized standpoint via these same boards).

Yes the mother is an idiot, as is the teen. I hope if they do sue that the court throws out the case and orders them pay for the money wasted even considering this for trial.

Police headcams burst into flames

RE: assault and battery (groan)

Put him in a dry cell!"

"Even then you'd eventually have to charge him."

It's frivolous cases like this that drain taxpayer's money.

Boffins guess social security numbers via public data

Stop posting it then

I find it highly irresponsible to SPELL OUT HOW TO STEAL SOMEONE'S SSN. Next they will be publishing the correct method for producting homemade plastic explosives. Idiots.

Russians demand flying cars and telepathy

Voted for the cures

With all of the illness you can have these days I vote to cure them all. Immortality will only cause the planet to super over populate, Time Machines can't be trusted to anybody but Michael J Fox, Alternative Fuels are round the corner anyway, and I don't trust three quarters of the people driving on the ground let alone in the air.

Apple races developer to censor smut

On the one hand.....

Yes, our country (us) has it's fair share of "save the children" baby-sitter conformist lazy schmucks. On the other hand, so does the UK from what I gather.

Regardless, this is less about removing material and more about changing the nature of the app and thus violating the policy that the dev must agree to.

Web swoons as Jackson dies

A small showing of couth please.

Like him or not, please show a smidge of respect for the deceased.

Personally, he was too strange to like the man. His music however undeniably changed the world. He was a legend in his own time and now that legend is dead. RIP MJ

Apple sued for 30¢ $5m

Flow of events

If they contacted Apple, chances are they were told to stuff it. At which point (if the principle of the thing were important enough) your only recourse is through the legal system. 1/2 of $15 not being a whole lot, I'm sure the lawyers decided to try for the class action case and the associated "fees" therein.

Or maybe they are just a bunch of tossers going straight for the gold.

Either way Apple can settle this real quick with a $15 credit.

Please don't eat your horse, EU asks owners

Here here!

I would strangle your cat with my bare hands and make a handbag out of it. Stuff the EU.

Behind Microsoft's IE-free, Windows-for-Europe ploy

So don't sell it.

The majority of users want IE. They are familiar with it and don't see a reason to change. Removing IE looks like a fine compromise to me.

Personally, I'd do this though. Stop automatic updates and security patches to the EU for a year or 5. I don't like the monopoly anymore than anyone else howerver, including services in your OS is not manipulation, its added value. If you want something else you are free to install whatever you like. MS hasn't locked your computer out to different browsers/media players, its just that the competition doesn't have anything to offer that is worth switching to.