Posts by Paul 4

Jobsian drones shackle gamer with 'lifetime' iPad ban

I think

The two downvotes were people being funny. I almost did it myself, but it is only funny the first time.

iBusiness plan

Make shiny boxes.

Tell people they are loosers if they don't have one, and loosers if they dissagree.

Go power mad and try to control everything

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Proffit!!!!!

Am I the only one that can see Jobs eventualy going a bit Howard Hughes?

In the UK

They don't have to sell somthing to you at the price shown, and can refuse to sell, but if they do not realise untill after the sale, too late.

However, if a company continualy, or intentionaly, advertises at the wrong price they will fall foul of advertising laws and trading standards will prosecute them.

Britain's bingers out-boozed by Irish

One pint an hour?

Um.. one UNIT. Ish. For some people.

Pinhead Mac Trojan sticks it to fanbois

Um Freetards would

Whilst ranting about how they hate iTunes and how it is all apples fault for chargin to much/forcing you to use iTunes or one of the many other poor arguments.

'Goodness, evilness makes you powerful' - like the Force

I think the point was

That giving the money away was good, but keeping it was a nutral act , so the good people were better at it.

Death row inmate claims allergy to lethal injection

You do know

Death row costs alot more... Stupid...

Tories put ID cards, Contactpoint on manifesto hit list

RE:ThomH

Still, the more people vote for the party they want the more weight there is behind some proper electorial reform.

Thousands wrongly labelled by CRB checks

With something like this

It should be 0%. It can to easerly ruin someones life.

Bloke threatens BT with giant plywood cheque

Probably because

They are legaly in the right and he's dicided to be childish.

'Virtual sit-in' tests line between DDoS and free speech

That's kind of the point?

I thought the point in civil disobedience was that you are doing something that is not illigal but in such a way as to cause a problem.

Apple's iPad - the device for execs who create nothing

well scripted macros?

A magic 8 ball with a few corperate BS phrases in it would replace half of them.

How Labour’s Web2.0rhea cockup helped the photographers

Google

First result. Not difficult to find:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_%28copyright_law%29

North Korea mobilizes Red Star Linux rollout

Nononononono

UK website. Very diffrent view of communism in the UK. Not the evil boggie man but a political movement that works on the basis of equality of all and all working for the improvement of all. Much like open source. Its all so seen as being fundamentaly flawed.

You put a $ sign in MS so you clearly see they are not comunist but trying to make money.

Im constantly amazied by how stupid people can be when they fell offended.

Normal Human Being™ reviews the iPad

An over priced gameboy?

Or PSP?

I thought

Apple "Just worked"...

UK competition authority probes Amazon

Abe

are part of Amazon now...

Irish civil rights group takes aim at iPad launch

American Irish

"American Irish speaking community, in both America and Ireland"

Isnt that just saying things like "oh to be sure to be sure" and talking about "The little people" rather than Gaelic? I do wish these yanks would drop that "I'm Oirish" thing. It just makes them, and us, look stupid.

Is there even a large Gaelic speeking community (Other that those who have learnt it later in life to show how Oirish they are)?

Fuck.

I forgot what day it is... I need coffee...

Nuclear synthi-jetfuel plants wanted for US Afghan bases

Ssshhhh!

Don't tell anyone, and then when its realy needed start with the profitering!

LHC particle-punisher in record 7 TeV hypercollisions

Celebration Lunch

Maybe they orderd a curry to celebrate and it was a bit iffy.

MSI tells 97,000 customers to 'Read The F***ing Manual'

Exaggeration

Ever heard of it?

Odd that

People don't read a 200 page document.

Biometric harvest network can handle just 700k a year

The DVLA

Have already said they don't want it, and they don't want anything to do with it. Basicly they want to be able to keep all thair data themselfs and not give it to any other department, unless they pay. On the plus side that dose meen that they tend to resist mission creep.

Apple director 'disgusted' by Jobsian health secrets

Sorry?

"Apple has no legal or moral obligation"

Oh yes it dose... It is not a Private company by the way, a private company is owned by someone, and a CEO of a company which has public stock has no right to act like this. He has built a cult around himself, and it is not going to end well.

It is not about selling stock, but about the obligationss a CEO has to the shareholders, which he is not fulfilling.

Segway + motorbike = futuristic dorkmobile

Humm...

For half the price (asuming it dosent cost any more than the segway) you could get a CG125 that will last longer, go faster, carry more and look alot less silly. Hell, you could get something realy good, like a 1 year old Monster or a two year old Blade.

Darling confirms telephone line tax

Petrol

"Tax on petrol is a tax on a legal drug, the biggest addicts make the most noise when the price goes up rather than wean themselves off by using less."

So what about those of us who have to drive to work? Its either that or a 2 hour bus trip each way for me. An no I don't own a big car. Like so many in this country I have to travel a long way for work (it is 1 hour on avrage for people living outside of the major citys) Its not a legal drug, but a nesesaty for me and many others. They keep taxing it not because they want people to use less but knowing that we have to keep driving.

I so wish people would stop using this stupid stupid argument.

MIT boffins on track of portable 60-watt seawater desalinator

Taste

Thats probably because your used to tap water, full of lime and other "bits".

US Navy plans self-building floating fortresses

Just the sort of thing for a Bond baddie

that is all

Heathrow security man cops perv scanner eyeful

I would guess

That with actions like that this is not a one off joke, but long running harassment that this person has just been able too do something about. Perhaps all brushed off as "just having a joke" befor, and only now the police have got involved is her manager interested? Or somthing like that. Therefor quight upsetting. Perhaps she, or the sun, are exagerating saying "traumertised", but I can see how she would not want to go back in to work. Bullying dose have very real consiquenses. Look up complex PSD for more infomation.

I would also guess that by "photo" she ment "non permanant image produced on the LCD viewing screen", a perfectly normal, if incorrect, way to discribe it.

Oops: Chief Climategate investigator failed to declare eco directorship

Forgot?

There is not forgot. Forgot is not an excuse. The other groups are not ones based on recruting poiticos to lobby.

Bill Gates goes (mini) nuclear

What are you talking about?

That more people having 4 bar heaters will be enough to heat up the world, or that we should have no more power genaration than we do? I realy don't get what your getting at... Why is it a bad thing to have new clean power?

Appart from anything else they will reduce the number of genorators, and increase the use of low carbon transport.

Police reject Tory plans for elected chiefs

Oh good lord

Please lest not get MORE like the US, where the police do stupid things because of stupid people. Want to protest in Surrey? Forget it. To many upset middle aged middle class politicaly powerfull people. Get your car stolen in Bath? Forget it. Antisocial kids is what won the ellection. etc etc.

UK.gov blames Israel for cloning passports in Dubai hit

Why?

Please do explain, because that makes no sense....

Council deforests beauty spot to combat dogging

Marmalade

With or without bits? Important people need to know!

Botnet pierces Microsoft Live through audio captchas

I'd say

It looks like Chinese pushed through the translation mangle at bablefish.

Russia to crack down on abuse of .ru addresses

Sounds like

You work for one of the few companys that dosen't work with China then. Most of us can't just block like that.

Pirate Party UK launches manifesto

And I don't

HAVE to be on any of them... oh, and the NHS dosen't have one.

Telegraph trips over the Large Hardon Collider

Too slow

Already been reported (see my post)

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/03/19/lhc_3_point_5_tev/

Victorinox offers hackers £100,000 challenge

Hummmkay

Ok thats step one, stop it wipeing itself, now how about the actual hacking it?

Or

Take some work with you. Sit there bashing out some code, tell the boss you were working from home, and tell them that is your hacking... Looks more realistic than solitare.

Steve Jobs and governator tout transplant reform

There is no menton of the law

So I think the asumption was that it was the same as the laws some people want in the UK

LHC boffins crank beams to 3.5 TeV redline

How the Telegraph put it...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skepchick/4445007033/

Loch Ness Stig blurred into oblivion

Shetland Islands

That'll be Shetland then NOT Shetland Islands...

'Racist' job ad sparks investigation

Doubt it

Since Indian is not a language. Hindi and English are the "offical" languages, and then hundreds of others accross the reagons.

BBC launches massively parallel Tweet-in

Quick

Someone set up a twat-o-tron twitter sending thingamy and see if we can brake the BBC in a web 2.0 arse gravy feedback loop.

El Reg insults 'millions of Irish Catholics'

Yep

Much to the amusement of allot of younger Irish catholics.

Giant flying pliers menace West Bromwich

Don't forget...

The gaffer tape.

Imperial

"in Imperial, if I am not mistaken"

Of course. God uses proper mesurments, non of this heathen metric. He also drinks ale and enjoys cricket. Its a fact!

*fade to the gental sound of Jerusalem*