Posts by The Beer Monster

Tainted ads punt scareware to surfers on LSE and Myvue sites

+1 for ebay

Three infections to deal with over the weekend.

All from ebay.

Vodafone's network knackered by thieves

There's possibly also a separate issue...

With RIM. I have a number of directors in Switzerland at present. Those with WinMo/Nokia phones are having no issues at all. Those with Crackberries are having intermittent problems sending mail and accessing t'internet and have been since Saturday morning.

Vodafone told me on Sunday morning that this was due to outage on RIM's side and that this is worldwide.

Any one wish to confirm/deny this?

Survey sets out to pin down nation's pr0n habits

Hands up

But wash them first

Westboro Baptist Church taunts Anonymous over supposed attack plan

Surely...

There's a Marlboro Baptist Church that must love fags...

Unprecedented domain seizure shutters 84,000 sites

Right to arm bears

Ok Boo Boo, pass me the ammo box, cunningly disguised as a pickernick basket...

Bank scorched by stupid Facebook policy

CBA?

I'd look that up on one of those acronym finders but quite frankly I can't be ar...

Oh, hang on.

Mexican woman gets litigious on Top Gear's ass

Saint Stephen of Fry

Is also in the do do.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12361873

Wehn

Also has had numerous field days on Fighting Talk

Jawohl. Send in ze texts! Acht, funf, null, funf, acht!

We'll be as bad a the US soon...

We're already there and have been for some time.

W3C tackles HTML5 confusion with, um, more confusion

To paraphrase an old gag about films...

You can't call it Web 5.

The Americans would wonder what happened to Web 3 and Web 4...

Becks offloads Posh Porsche on eBay

Not...

Lord Rooney of Cheshire then?

The SMS of DEATH - Can it crash your phone?

Well

That's exactly the way Joe Public deals with PCs/Printers/TVs/DVD players/Yadda Yadda...

The manufacturers know this and play to it.

Microsoft unveils 'do not track' option for IE9

Are you...

The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal? Or does your daughter think you are?

Wikileaks DDoSser 'Jester' in phantom cop raid tomfoolery

Don't start.

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(Charles Cooke, alt.sysadmin.recovery)

Olympians threaten ICANN with lawsuit

At least they're keeping their hands off

This...

http://londonist.com/2009/07/little_chef_keeps_olympic_breakfast.php

Windows 7 'I'm a PC' man quits Microsoft

Indeed...

If a woman walked up to me and said "Hi, I'm Keira Knightley" I'd be taking an interest.

If a woman walked up to me and said "Hi, I'm Barry Scott", I'd be taking the nearest exit.

US smartphones – Once you’ve had Android there’s no going back

Video

Try RockPlayer.

Oz journo pokes PARIS

@Peter Simpson 1

"while sipping some of their best brews."

Now there's your first problem ...

Hells Angels slap London dressmakers with trademark suit

Possibly

Your expectations of what would happen and what would actually happen are two separate things.

Anyone pretending to be a police officer/fireman/pilot/soldier/sailor/club member in the presence of police officers/firemen/pilots/soldiers/sailors/club members who gets caught out will get dealt with by the police officers/firemen/pilots/soldiers/sailors/club members.

That is not just the way it is, it's the way it has always been.

tell you what...

You try going to a military function wearing a uniform and badges that you haven't earned and see what happens.

re: Haha!

Oh, it's completely fictional, but it'd get you noticed!

@multipharious

Don't get one of these either...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SONS-OUTLAW-BIKER-PATCH-SET-ANARCHY-12-PCS-RED-/160394380939?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255840068b#ht_6991wt_1139

Oooo.

McQueen website message.

"Site is being updated"....

I suspect the infringing items have been removed.

Spot on

Trademarks are trademarks and should be protected. The fact that this one belongs to the HA is irrelevant.

I'm sure there'd be enough people screaming (no pun intended) if it was dealt with in a non-legal fashion.

Regards,

The Beer Monster

81 Supporter.

PARIS launch tomorrow come hell or high water

John Oates?

Bloody hell. He's obviously had some work done. Was Daryl Hall the one who took the photo?

Google Android chief smacks Steve Jobs with Linux speak

Cult?

A Harley goes potato, potato, potato...

's a fact.

But it said so in the manual

NTwhat?

Ummm.

URL and tags for this article say NTSF...

Google mounts attack on penis-pill pushers

A Q?

Never heard that. At all.

Kids round here deal in grams anyway, so it'd be a 7bag.

Twitter airport bomb joker loses second job

Well...

You'd probably get a post about your inability to spell hand grenade.

@Bif

There's some short bloke called Durin stood here, sharpening an axe and muttering your name under his breath

@Martin 49

They've obviously RTFM then.

Devil manifests in Hungarian bathroom

Laszlo said: "We need some help from God...

... or from the spirit world or we're going to seal up the room forever."

Really? God's a tiler?

He must be really brassed of that his son got involved with carpenters...

Cyber-jihadists deface home of teddy bears' picnic

Well...

Downvoted?

I'll have you know that the last time I said this on El Reg it got upvoted! TWICE!

Some people have no sense of humour. Or humor for the leftpondians.

I've said it before and I'll say it again,,,

Please God/Mohammed/Jehovah/Deity of choice (delete as appropriate)

save me from the

Muslims/Jews/Christians/Enemy of choice (delete as appropriate)

British Airways sorry for 'landing on water' nonsense

BA on the back...

Which one?

British Airways or "I ain't getting on no plane, fool!"

Hacked Axl Rose Twitter account spreads false tour news

Bad Self?

The lad's a wuss.

Regards,

The Beer Monster

Virgin Media to warn malware-infected customers

£6 a month is steep?

I've spent the best part of 30 hours this month sorting out various virus ridden PCs.

For this they get charged the price of a slab of beer a time (about £12-£18 a time, depending on supermarket offers) for which they think they've got a bargain.

Admittedly they're probably getting a better level of expertise and I've never had to go back to a PC yet, but £6 a month is probably the cheapest some people are going to get.

"which will hinder those who do take security seriously,..."

If you're clueful enough to take security seriously, then you shouldn't need to phone the helldesk unless someone with a JCB has dug through some cabling.

ASA: You can't say 'f**k'

Well...

That's my f**king new bas**rd approach to marketing f**cked right up the shi**er then.

Vodafone won't act on customers' HTC Desires

Oi! I got first dibs...

I dunno, coming on here, not reading stuff... ;)

Looks like they've listened...

From the Vodafone eForum...

Hi everyone

We’ve listened to feedback from customers on a number of points around the recent 360 Android 2.1 update and made some changes to the roll out plan.

The Android 2.2 update for Vodafone HTC Desire users will be based on the HTC open market version of the software and we will customise it to ensure our network settings are installed.

For customers who have downloaded the recent 360 update for Android 2.1, we can confirm that the Android 2.2 update will remove the 360 applications and will leave the homepage and bookmarks on your current settings.

Customers who want to access the 360 services will be able to do so once the Android 2.2 compatible version is available and, in the meantime, can now download apps like 360 People from the Android Marketplace.

We plan to make the 360 apps available in a separate update for the HTC Desire at a later date, giving customers the choice to download it.

We will let you know when the date for delivery of the Android 2.2 update is finalised, but, subject to testing, we expect this to be in 7-10 days time.

Thanks

Administrator

Vodafone eForum

Virgin cables up Pot Noodle place via power poles

Broadband in Crumlin?

So no digging up the roads?

There's tidy, isn't it?!

Mozilla prepares second Firefox 4 beta launch

Simple fix

View | Toolbars | Uncheck Tabs on Top

Zuckerberg: I'm 'quite sure' I own Facebook

I look forward to...

The ads on Facebook becoming more relevant for me.

"Cheap Firewood in <$YourLocation>, door to door delivery"

Winter's not that far away and my log burner needs feeding.

Cross-dresser shags mutt at historic castle

stretching things...

That's what the vet said.

IT Angle? Commentards

Stuff in the Bootnotes section isn't always about IT.

Quit yer bitchin'.

Is that OK, Ms Bee?

The Register comment guidelines 2010

Guidelines

Possibly sexist. We need scoutlines for balance.

Our Vulture 1 aircraft begins to take shape

Units

Aren't there any El Reg standard units to use?

Council wins motorbike charges case

Weaving?

I think you mean 'filtering', which is completely legal,

Kaspersky blocks BBC News over false phishing fears

@Customise this page

I see no such tab...