Posts by Scott 53

North Wales Police outsourcing deal results in massive overspend

Re: Well this is disappointing

Reg readers are aware that kinetic energy= mv2/2. Welcome to the site.

Facebook and Twitter queen Taylor Swift: Facebook and Twitter are RUBBISH

Re: "elucidate for those too lazy to check"

Could someone explain tl;dr too please - it'll save me looking it up.

Typo in case-sensitive variable name cooked Google's cloud

Re: It's not about "proof reading"

proofreading

Microsoft Office 365, Azure portals offline for many users in Europe

Re: Office 365.25

"A year is 365.25 days, so this is acceptable downtime."

A tropical year is 365.242189 days. If it was 365.25 days we wouldn't need the rule that century years are only leap years if they are divisible by 400.

Mozilla: Five... Four... Three... Two... One... Thunderbirds are – gone

Mozilla is finally growing up

"At the same time, build, Firefox, and platform engineers continue to pay a tax to support Thunderbird."

Proper tech companies don't pay tax.

Reg reader achieves bronze badge, goes directly to jail

Re: Holy shit!

And yes it does, doesn't it?

FTFY

To be fair, you did warn everyone.

Your taxes at work: Three hours driving to turn on politician's PC

Re: Really - there wasn't a cleaner or anyone else in the building...

To be fair, engineers who can solve problems on how plate tectonics used to work on Mars are rather thin on the ground.

Was there also a spelling test?

Pause Patch Tuesday downloads, buggy code can kill Outlook

Re: Pause Patch Tuesday downloads, buggy code can kill Outlook

If you'd used Outlook to check your post before sending, it might have highlighted the difference between effect and affect for you.

Music lovers move to block Phil Collins' rebirth

...or maybe it won't

For the best analysis I've read, read "American Psycho". TLDR: Under Phil Collins, Genesis became much more satisfying but in a far more limited way.

It's all Me, Me, Me! in Doctor Who's The Woman Who Lived but what of Clara's fate?

Yin

Ying is from the Goons.

Wheels come off parents' plan to dub sprog 'Mini Cooper'

I went to school with a John Thomas. Sadly at the time I didn't realise how funny that was. I'm sure someone has pointed it out to him by now.

NASA preps test of broadband-from-spaaaaace project

Fnarr

Ladee probe? Is it just me?

Bookworms' Weston mecca: The Oxford institution with a Swindon secret

Re: Very interesting.

I think if I have a Kindle Fire and choose to deface it that should be my business.

Does it have an English dictionary?

I suggest you borrow it and look up "principle" and "principal".

Painfully insecure GDS spaffs £21,000 on online narcissism tool

SolidSquid - you're talking about measuring the reality. They are mostly interested in measuring the perception.

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

Dave! Dave!

Feeling sweary? Don't tell Google Docs

WTF

So I can try and call someone a fucker and end up being accused of being homophobic?

Cortana Android beta goes public

Re: The long night of the living dead

Yammer

Mozilla's ‘Great or Dead’ philosophy may save bloated blimp Firefox

Re: Effect/affect

Well if you want to take it to the next level, affect is a noun too - ask a psychiatrist. I still think most people are better off thinking that one is a noun and the other a verb, despite the obvious exceptions.

It's not effect, it's affect. One's a noun, the other's a verb. Can't believe I'm the first person on this one.

Post Office launches mobe service for aged greybeards

Aged greybeards

Are there any young greybeards around? Even Alistair Darling was dark from the forehead down.

LastPass got hacked: Change your master password NOW

...or maybe it won't

Thorne - you have other weaknesses

Don't panic. Stupid smart meters are still 50 years away

Sample set of two (three if you count my boss). Apparently I shouldn't attempt to make mobile calls from the cupboard under the stairs as it's the one dead spot in my house. Same goes for my manager's garage.

IN YOUR FACE, Linux and Apple fans! Oculus is Windows-only for now

Wrong title

Surely it should be "Not in your face"

NASA: We're gonna rip up an ASTEROID and make it ORBIT the MOON

It's very hard to get anything to orbit the Moon. Variations in the density of the Moon cause orbital perturbations which will ultimately cause the asteroid to crash into the Moon. Better than crashing into us, mind.

Your hard drives were riddled with NSA spyware for years

3 of the first 5 comments

"could of"

"effect"

"flack"

Sigh

Randall Munroe: The root nerd talks to The Register

...or maybe it won't

"...after all they miss letters off the end when saying maths."

No, they are missing letters from the middle of the word when they say maths.

French youth faces court for illegal drone flight

...or maybe it won't

"bi line" - fnarr.

How a Facebook post by blabbermouth daughter cost her parents $80,000

Re: Something doesn't add up here...

Gulliver's lawyer (who would of drafted the original clause)

I really hope the lawyer drafts better than you do

Boffins find ALIEN WORLD orbiting the Sun's LONG LOST TWIN

Re: Rigorous Logic vs. Methane Spirals from Uranus

Messiah...Messier. Coincidence?

Tech titan Bill Gates: Polio-free India one of the 'most impressive accomplishments' ever

Er, if he gave away all his money he would then be poor.

NHS carelessly slings out care.data plans to 26.5 million Brits

"Some critics have argued that medical records could end up in the wrong hands WHEN data mishaps and security blunders occur."

Fixed that for you.

South Carolina couple cop cuffing for shed shag

D'oh

It's called a DIY for a reason.

It's official: 'tweet' an English word – not just in the avian sense

Re: It's official!!!!

As we're reminiscing,I saw Sarah Bee in the letters page of Private Eye this week. Happy days...

NEW ITV Player app IS HERE ... for Samsung fandroids only. Ha ha

Broadchurch was really good. That's about it really

iPhone too heavy? Volkswagen brings out motorised ride-on dock

will you

have to return it to the dealer if your battery needs replacing?

Meet the stealthiest UK startup's app Swiftkey - and its psychic* keyboard

Latin audience?

I would have thought this would be concentrated in the Vatican rather than the US.

Faciam me tunica mea

40,000 sign petition to oust Rep. Paul 'pit of hell' Broun

Oops

When pointing out spelling mistakes, please proofread your own posts with extra care..

Lawyers of Mordor menace Hobbit boozer

Not just Southampton

I've stayed here a few times - nice place http://www.hobbithotel.co.uk/ Are they going to be next? Maybe they were hoping nobody would mention them - sorry!

US survey: 1 in 5 telecommuters work an hour or less a day

chore?

It certainly takes it out of you

Australia to issue passports for males, females and... X

Does that mean ...

As a Transgender Werewolf, wouldn't you just use a lamppost?

Judge kneecaps Oracle's $1.3bn triumph over SAP

Re: huh?

No, we're in England (well I am). That's how we spell the word.

Murdoch accused of operating illegal US air force

Not Strictly Accurate...

That's "Nineteen" and "its themes or characters". if you're going to use the pedant icon, you need to read your post several times before clicking 'Submit'.

Sergey Brin: Only 20% of Googlers still on Windows

Not necessarily

My son doesn't have one. Long story, but he'll always be the wild card when playing "innie or outie".

Nintendo blames puzzled public for 3DS sales shortfall

Not my fault, guv

This sounds just like Andrew Lansley saying that nurses didn't like the NHS cuts because they hadn't been explained properly. We're all too stupid to go out and buy new 3D TVs, too.

Portsmouth stretches the Olympic-sized swimming pool

Penne

Was that your two penne's worth?

ECJ gender ruling 'could throw insurance into turmoil'

Discrimination!

Charging younger people more for insurance? isn't that age discrimination and therefore illegal too? Let's all pay £2,000 a year and be done with it.

Google Chrome extension bars domains from search results

Illegal language

I see you can now post death threats with impunity. Good job you didn't threaten to damage an airport or you would be in trouble.

DEC: The best of systems, the worst of systems

Thank you, Sir or Madam

I've never heard anyone else ever mention SINTRAN. I used to work for Norsk in the late 90s writing reports on their call management system. The technical skills I learned there became obsolete quicker than any other skillset I have acquired before or since.

'Race against time' to find LOST TREES from the MOON

Worse than that

Wasn't even "on" the moon, just near it. Meh.