Posts by Brutus

QinetiQ lends PARIS a helping hand

Cool!

Nice to see that our very own war-boffins read the Reg.

Green Berets to get Judge Dredd computer smart-rifle

@TheRealRoland

Nope, the crisps will be at the other end - as soon as they develop the incendiary round!

It has chips in in!

'nuff said.

Nokia tops iPhone and BlackBerry (again)

Bollocks

So a 40% global market share is meaningless? And the fact that Nokia sells into markets that RIM and Apple don't makes this more so? I don't really understand how you can justify this.

BTW, Nokia don't 'give away' their phones on contract; the network providers buy them from Nokia and then amortise the cost across the life of the contract.

Voting chaos in not-fit-for-purpose electoral system

Hear, hear!

I've been trying to get this point across to my colleagues for weeks. They don't get it. But then I do work for a large bank, so democracy, honesty and integrity, aren't really words they've ever understood(or want to hear).

Sharing bank PINs leaves consumers at risk

@Bassey

Are you suggesting that the blind and visually imapired don't have faces?!

Megan Fox not world's sexiest woman: Official

Err

When dumb & talentless is combined with hot and loose!

Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac addresses

@Peter 39

Mate, I think you're being a little naive here.

Firstly, you are assuming that this is only to support geolocation; Google are well known for using any data that comes their way to improve their advertising service.

and secondly, the scanner is part of the googlemobile, so battery-life is not an issue. Thus, active scanning is easily achievable.

El Reg PARIS team fires up the GPS tracker

Jealous

How long have you been in the pub, you git :-)

have one for me, please, I have a long drive before I can have a beer.

Fedora 13 - Ubuntu's smart but less attractive cousin

@Adam

you work for RedHat, yes?

I had a title once

Erm, you don't have to have flashy, new features. You've said it yourself: you can turn them off. Ubuntu has the bling because it is in direct competition with Windows and OSX and needs to look as pretty. Fedora has a different target market.

If you really want to 'do REAL work', you can. FFS, you could even just use a terminal window or even do without windows managers altogether. And if you're so incensed by the lack of a standard theme, write one! :)

French city in pedestrian-powered streetlight plan

there's a problem

With the truck idea, you're basically taking energy from the truck to power the fans. The truck then has to burn more diesel to make up for it. On the other hand, many westerners could do with using more energy on a day-to-day basis, so the pavement is idea fine (all other things being equal - like ROI on the kit!)

Thousands wrongly labelled by CRB checks

@Paul 4

It _should_ be 0% but there is no such thing as a perfect sysem outside theoretical physics. 0.07% is bloody good for system that relies on human input and interpretation. Obviously, it's an absolute arse for anyone caught on the wrong side (and a godsend for anyone catching a false positive), but then, so is being run over by someone who is texting rather than paying attention to the road. Life isn't fair.

What’s new and improving about IT today?

Dammit!

There has to be a good joke about network _suppositories_, but I just can't work it out!

Normal Human Being™ reviews the iPad

because...

she's part of the ~6 billion people that DIDN'T buy one on Saturday :-)

DIMENSIONAL PORTAL INCURSION AT THE LHC!

Damn you, Lewis!

I was really hoping that the supersymmetry bit was true.

So, anyway, are we talking headcrabs here, or Cacodaemons?

Grenade, for obvious reasons.

Woman finds Romanian living in shed

shurely shome mishtake...

With a name like yours, i would have expected you to have come over with the shed builders. But then, I suppose the same could be levelled at me :-)

What have the romans ever done for us, etcetera ad nausea

Royal Navy starts work on new, pointless frigates

@Ken

Mostly it's because Lewis likes writing about it and we (mostly) like reading it. And then debating furiously whether he's anti-British industry, in love with american tech, or (my view) got an interesting view on how and where we should waste billions of pounds of taxpayers money in the pretence the BAe is a british institution in need of saving.

Is iFlorist the greatest website in the universe, ever?

Untrusting?

Perhaps, rather than questioning iFlorist, you should talk to TrustPilot. It does rather look like someone is trying to game the system.

Third of UK students would strip their way through college

...A...

And they'll be generating a large amount of traffic for the sites, too :-)

Pandora plus Endor: Multi hab-moon motherworld discovered

yeah but

your sample size is shit :-)

8 planets <<< 100,000,000,000 stars in galaxy

Bog off, spoilsport!

We like our wishful thinking. And we can counter your objections with more entirely unjustified (and scientifically dubious) wishful thinking: the gas giant's radiation and tidal forces actually act as a spur to mutations and darwinian evolution, so the inhabitants will be incredibly tough and most likely highly advanced and we'd do well to accede to their demands for a tribute of earth women and chocolate.

Virgin Media downed by thick Leeds 'copper' crooks

At a very simplistic level..

It's China's fault. They're stockpiling as much of the stuff as they can (or at least were until very recently) and pushing the prices up.

SanDisk flips out 32GB mobile phone card

Sure

But you'll struggle to find something that uses that form factor other than a phone. Frequently these things are supplied with a USB or SD adapter- I have an SD adapter for transferring music files to my N97.

Register.com argues it can't be sued for negligence

Gross negligence

Is letting the drunk guy pilot the plane. Ordinary negligence is not making him wear his seat belt.

Googlenet dwarfs all but two of world's ISPs

The answer is ...

It's already too late!

Manchester's on fire for ID cards, claims ID minister

Title

"But I already know who I am, and I have done for years" - lucky bugger! Two years of therapy and I'm still confused. Can I have an ID card please?

EU fails to shift unwanted perv scanners

I'll take them

£2.50 on a best offer - and I''ll give them good feedback.

I wonder what the scrap value for them is?

Intel ships super-svelte SSD

There is no such thing!

Cool geeks do not exist. Cool hardware, on the other hand, abounds :)

Nazi-doodlebug-powered father of all paintball guns patented

@thefutureboy

I'm saddened that someone with your nick should be so lacking in the understanding of simple pleasures like shooting your mates with water pistols and spud guns, especially in the pub.

Unless I've misinterpreted your nickname and like Merlin, you are living your life backwards and you are currently in the bitter, old codger phase ;-)

WD shipping consumer SSDs

You are so wrong

It works exactly the other way around. These devices will perform best as repositories of un- or seldom-changing data, e.g. OS and program files, hence the unlimited reads bit.. Swap files will kill them faster than just about anything else.

The three year warranty is more likely to reflect the idea that the devices will be replaced for capacity/performance reasons within that timeframe.

Music biz unites to save 6Music

I like 6Music

If only because it doesn't have that bloody moyles character on it. It's a far better station to use for the radio alarm-clock than the commercial offereings, not least because it frequently figures a real, live astro-physicist on the Friday show!

On a more general note, I thought one of the raisons d'etre of the Beeb was to provide programming that wouldn't be found on commercial stations (TV or radio), so I'm somewhat confused as to why they want to kill off 6music and Asian Music Network. OK, I'll agree that AMN is bloody expensive (as pointed out in earlier stories by Andrew), but it exists because the BBC was accused of not catering the asian population. You know, sometimes it seems that the BBC just can't win ;-)

Acer H5360 3D projector

Did you read the same review as me?

'nuff said

Lingerie model ran 'Charlie Angels' drug gang

You were right the first time...

'cos there's no mention of lesbians. Sorry. Ariel L was the recuiter and boyfriend of the busted bimbo. Erm, Bosley, if you will.

Apple strips top shelf, leaves corporate smut in place

Symbian saved by sex?

Obviously that's all the symbian foundation need to do now - provide a safe and lucrative home for all these displaced fap-apps.

Archaeologists nail Bosworth Field

I'm surprised..

that no-one has mentioned the rather fetching crop-circles in the upper right of the photo. Or am I the only one that can see them?

Err, OK, moving on <reaches for tinfoil hat>

Scots unleash world's strongest beer

You must be a lager drinker!

'nuff said :)

Linus Torvalds doesn't hate the Googlephone

Speling

Hmm, I could try to argue that I was lampooning the OP, but I doubt anyone would believe me, so I'll put it down to inability to type+lack of proof-reading.

I'll try harder in future.

I'm sorry, did you lose your point?

Or have you not grasped the 'reply to this post' button concept?

And, since I've been stirred to comment already, which bit of hypocritical do we need to explain to you? Personally, I'll settle for picking you up on the 'snap judgement' part'. How do you know that any of of the readers/commentards are unhygenic, passive/agressive or even part of a mob?

Personally, I am just agressive, deplore the mob mentality and shower every day before turning up to my own highly paid job.

Google's Android code deleted from Linux kernel

Not really a problem...

If people find stuff from android useful, they'll just borrow it. Open Source, you know :)

California school pulls 'oral sex' dictionary

@Lexicography

I'm seriously concerned for you. You appear to have just admitted to inciting a minor to participate in a serious sexual offence with you! I don't think there is any statute of limitations on this sort of thing (ask the Vatican for a more informed legal opinion on this). As you are no longer a minor (I am making an assumption here), I am worried that the black helicopters will track you down and incarcerate you. Probably somewhere rather unpleasant.

Teen attacks father in Fifa 2009 fight

My 'pet nazi hates' are...

people who can't spell and people who use the nazis as the ultimate emblem of repression in arguments.

:-)

Top Gear's Stig prowls Loch Ness

ODFO

This is not a fail. To be honest, Scott, I rather like the pretense that no-one knows. It's a bit like not knowing that Santa Claus is really your Dad (or Mum or whoever).

On the other hand, I also appreciate the fact that you haven't blurted out the name of the tame racing driver(s).

Only nukes can stop planetsmash asteroids, say US boffins

I wonder...

Perhaps we could ask the dinosaurs for their take on that?

NASA flying-car man designs electric VTOL podcraft

Not really a problem...

because in order to be a useful 'PAV' the thing would need massively smart autopiliot software which I'm sure could easily manage a tailfirst landing, particularly since we have > 50 years worth of sensor tech to assist.

Nokia switches direction and gives away maps

RE: There is more

Actually, it looks like there isn't more. Yet.

you can download maps 3.0 for the N97 (for example), but if you select N97 mini, you get the option of being sent a link to download the new free routing maps app.

Steve Wozniak, your time is up

oh, just put something clever here

"I'm not a fanboi by a long chalk (check my previous posts for evidence of that)."

Would that be when you're posting as Anonymous Coward, or when you're posting as Anonymous Coward? Because sometimes you seem to somewhat self-contradictory!

Survey outs Britain as nation of tech twits

... mostly

According to a BBC story I read the othe day T B-L invented the internet.

French top MOT failure league

The exceptions prove the rule

Like my Japanese 300ZX: 3 litre, twin turbo 2+2. Very sensible.