Posts by Tom_

Yank objects to Reg cherry-popping headline

Fair point, though

It is a stupid headline.

US data firm blows s**t out of server

losers

What a bunch of dicks.

Play.com leaves Modern Warfare 2 buyers empty handed

Not all bad

They got mine to me on launch day for 30 quid. :)

Spanish Army builds ant-colony AI conquistador algorithm

A*

So is this any better than using A*?

Dell details 'world's thinnest' laptop

Weird measurement...

"It measures just 9.7mm at its thinnest part "

My NC10 measures about 0.5mm at its thinnest part, which is the little slide out cover for the SD card slot.

Scientists flee Home Office after adviser sacking

When politicians think they know better

It really is time to get rid of them if they think they know better than the advisors who have studied the issues.

They are showing they've reached the stage where their policy decisions are not based on the subject matter, so must be based on their own desires. That can only be good for them and not for the rest of us.

Sky Player hits Xbox 360

too expensive

If they let you pay per view or maybe pay for individual channels by the day or week, this might be worth it.

Guardian loses half a million CVs

I'm angry about this.

I applied for a couple of jobs through their website around four years ago. Later, I closed my account. This weekend I got the email advising me to clear up their mess at my own expense.

They shouldn't even have had any of my details on file.

Does anyone know how I can extract from them the details that they did actually lose? I don't want to go to the effort and expense of dealing with this mess if they haven't actually lost any important data of mine.

Where's the law in all this? If they have caused half a million people stress and expense through their own failings, shouldn't there be some kind of gigantic fine for that?

Atheists smite online God poll

Nicely biased there

Does God exist?

Yes

No

Probably

Although I voted 'No', I'd still consider it fairer if they included a Probably Not option.

Toshiba launches first domestic fuel-cell charger

Baffled

Why would I want this?

Beeb gets grief for Humpty Dumpty rewrite

Woah

""This is the traditional version of the Hansel and Gretel fairy story, showing an image of the witch being put in the oven. Concerned Grown-ups may like to preview the story first.""

Woah, spoiler alert!

'Stop NASA bombing the Moon!'

Stop it

I'd like to see how they propose to actually stop the LCROSS mission at this stage, even with NASA's full compliance. Even if we had a Saturn 5 prepped and on the launch pad and the ability to fire it into LCROSS before it collides with the Moon, it'd still get there about three days too late.

Some people.

US to export riot-roasting raygun

Silent Guardian

Instead of Silent Guardian, they should have called it Remote Person Broiler.

Botnet buries commands in image files

Another partial success

It seems a bit strange to do this without hiding the data in actual images.

Britons warned of plague of the 'supercats'

Great advice

Because any five year old who can't run at 50mph is asking for trouble anyway and probably not worth keeping.

Secret US spontaneous human combustion beam tested

The Filthy Truth

"without leaving any solid evidence of US military presence"

That's the only reason that these weapons are really worth developing and it's a nasty, immoral reason.

Boffins render full HD million-point animated hologram

@Tony Smitth

But if you move your head, different elements of the object would need to be occluded.

Powered robot suits make debut on Tokyo streets

what does the video actually demonstrate?

It looks a bit like plastic things strapped to peoples' legs. They don't really show what having a set of these things does.

Tyre firm sketches rubber SUV concept

heavy

Make the doors out of thick enough rubber for them to be usefully strong and this thing will went a sh***ing f***load.

Mars rover stalks mystery space alien object

No crater

@Stuart Van Onselen

@Steen Hive

There's an 800m diameter crater (Victoria Crate) just out of shot (seriously). It's possible that 'Block Island' is a fragment of the meteroite that created Victoria Crater, flung off on impact and landing where it now sits. If that's what did happen, it would have landed with much less energy than an object coming directly from space. It could have created a much smaller dent that's been erased by erosion and filling in over the estimated 3 to 4 billion years since it arrived.

Cameron condemns Tweeters as tw*ts

Just demonstrating his ignorance

Like any other form of communication, twitter's usefulness is entirely down to how you use it. He might as well have said email users are twats.

O2 data network falls over again

twitter related?

Is there any chance this is linked to O2 allowing twitter SMS delivery starting... yesterday?

Truck drivers! Don't go texting now

How many trucks

I wonder how many more than 100 trucks were monitored in this research. It seems unlikely that you'd get many accidents from 100, so your conclusions on the increased risks would be pretty iffy.

Smut page ransomware Trojan ransacks browsers

Differing service for different browsers

How come Opera users get a 'ruder' picture? How is that fair?

Wheels come off O2's data network

refund?

How long does it have to be broken before we start getting refunds on our unlimited data plans?

Olympics bosses probe mobile tracking tech

£238 (Yes, that's my title of choice.)

They could spend that on a train ticket to Failville when someone breaks into the olympics site and only turns their phone on after they've taken a few hostages.