Posts by M H

No, thank you. I will not code for the Caliphate

เฮ้ย อะไรว่ะเนี่ย

...but nice to see a bit of Thai script in El Reg.

Oracle whips out Solaris 11 system lasher

what's your dictionary?

http://www.sparc.org/trademarksListing.html

That's a lot of capital Ps, As, Rs and Cs.

WD: Thai floods will force hard drive prices up

many other manufacturers too...

I'm in bangkok and perhaps hear more from the local press than's reported internationally. So far, Honda, Toshiba, Ford, WD, Seagate, Canon, Nikon and others have been affected. There are huge industrial estates in Ayuthaya and Pathom Thani (both just north of bangkok) that are under as much as 3 metres of water which prevously employed 100,000's of workers. Food prices will rise too as Thailand is one of the biggest rice exporters worldwide but 10% of the farmland nationwide is destroyed.

Mystery over bogus Facebook login data dump

@eddie

Idiot.

It's not uncommon to see swastikas in Asia, eg in school logos etc - I've seen them in several countries. The Thai word for hello (sawasdee สวัสดี) is derived from the same Sanskrit word (svasti) that the word swastika comes from.Perhaps you'd like to ban Thai people from saying hello, eh?

But since Asia *only* has a third of the world's population, let's use western history to censor them...

Life-size Lego assault rifle really works

how long before...

...airport security ban passengers from taking lego bricks on board?

Toshiba launches thinner spinner

if it's 12.5mm thick...

...why not just say so.

Writing "z-height" in a marketing description is management bullshit. I very much doubt Descartes ever used the term "z-height" (in French or any other language) when specifying the thickness of an object.

what tosser thought of that one...

"it has a 12.5mm z-height (thickness)"

z-height??? proper English, not management bull please...

Murdochs won't talk to MPs over phone-hacking scandal

well, if they don't go before the MPs for a grilling...

...then immigration officers should be given an extra large supply of rubber gloves to use for when the gruesome twosome try to exit the country.

Chinese teen flogs kidney to buy iPad

erm... where's the iPad???

Pre-op: "I wanted to buy an iPad 2 but could not afford it"

Post-op: returned home bearing "a laptop and an iPhone"

So, he didn't even buy the iPad???? Tosser.

Apple sues teenager for white iPhone conversion kits

wrong

Now, if I was CEO of a company that found an enterprising kid doing stuff like this I'd have phoned up the kid to ask if I could pop round for a cuppa and a chat. I'd take a corporate lawyer with me and whilst sipping aforementioned cuppa I'd offer to sponsor him through university, the lawyer would draw up an appropriate contract: a) stop selling this stuff, b) if you drop out, pay our $$ back, c) if you get really bad grades, pay our $$ back, d) after graduation must work for us for 3 years due to our investment in you.

Everyone's happy right? Kid gets education/job. Company will probably spend less on his education than lawyers fees. Parents don't spend mortgage repayments on lawyers. PR dept gets to have a wank, or whatever it is they do.

Kids that are willing to get off their arses and work hard are somewhat rare these days (IMHO). This kid should be shown a bit of respect, not threatened by the suits...

Bletchley Park completes epic Tunny machine

thank you for the link...

it's good to know the readers pick up from where El Reg falls asleep.. :)

Sony's Thai website pwned by phisher scoundrels

ทำไมตองมีชื่อเรื่อง???

ไม่เป็นไรนะ ใจเย็นๆ สบายๆ เป็นนิสัยคนไทย ;)

End of the tether: Google plays nice with carriers

Am I stupid too...

I agree... when my phone was updated to 2.3 it came with a WiFi Hotspot app and when connecting to my laptop via USB it asks if I want to tether via USB. 2.2 tethered via USB easily enough too. I've never tried with bluetooth - is that what they're trying to block?

Regardless... data is data. Telcos should not charge extra for "tethered data". Scum bags.

Confused of somewhere in Asia.

Oracle and life after Larry Ellison

well.. my choice would be...

Well, sometimes I think a successor should have a slightly different perspective... how about GNU/FSF's Richard Stallman taking on the job???? :-) wouldn't it be fun to see Oracle's DB (and other software) open sourced under GPL and watch every corporation in the world which uses them have to open source code for their internal & external apps... ;-)

I'm not really an "open-sourcer" and nor do I have particularly strong capitalist leanings... but it would be fun to watch, right? :)

Double-clicking patent takes on world

can I please file a patent for...

> a) the wheel

no, you may not because it was patented in 2001:

http://ipmenu.com/archive/AUI_2001100012.pdf

Netizens now Facebook more than they Google

Statistics & Grammar

I couldn't care less about the stats but "Facebook" and "Google" are proper nouns, not verbs.

HP to fire 9,000 due to 'productivity gains, automation'

don't forget...

...the lawyers' fees that HR will incur making sure there's no unfair dismissal claims.. I reckon you can halve that $111k...

Twitter bomb threat joke man faces possible jail sentence

Where did the sense of humour go?

Erm... South Yorkshire Police used to have a sense of humour.. the station next to the Robin Hood Airport is on a road called Letsby Avenue:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/feb/12/martinwainwright

What happened to them since then??

Europe clears Oracle Sun for take-off

why confused?

This is not just "two American companies". Each of them (Oracle & Sun as US companies) have ownership of companies in many other countries, eg. Oracle UK or Sun UK, Sun France, Oracle Australia etc. Each of those subsidiaries has to obey local laws - US laws have absolutely no jurisdiction outside of the US, it's based on where the subsidiary company is incorporated, not who owns it.

So each country's government is fully entitled to check the buy-out of the company in their jurisdiction is within the local laws there.

Monty looks to Russia, China to stop Oracle's Sun buyout

Withnail & I

Reminds me of that classic line from the above film: "Monty, you terrible c*nt!"

Sums it up perfectly: he sold his beloved database, so now he's no right to interfere...

...mine's the one with the lighter fluid in the pocket.