Posts by BenR

Vote now for the WORST movie EVER

Re: That was difficult...

I've (unfortunately) seen about a third of them, and about a third of the 13 that didn't make the final list too...

So difficult to choose - on what criteria? Based on damage to the original? Overwhelming awfulness? "So bad it's good"? "So bad, but fun to take the piss out of when you're drunk with your mates"? How do you pick just one from such a pile of sub-mediocrity?!

And you left out 'Reign of Fire', which should have been on the list for having the best premise in the entire world, but criminally failing to deliver on it.

'Fail' icon... because... well... read the list again!

Amazon boss finds Apollo 11 engines on seabed

Re: If you really have too much money ...

Blackadder: If you'd like to help yourself to a legacy- I mean a chair!

Lady Whiteadder: Chair!? You have chairs in your house!?

Blackadder: Oh yes.

Lady Whiteadder: [slaps him twice] Wicked child! Chairs are an invention of Satan! In our house, Nathaniel sits on a spike!

Blackadder: And yourself?

Lady Whiteadder: [with a malicious smile] I sit on Nathaniel. Two spikes would be an extravagance! I will suffer comfort this once; we shall just have to stick forks in our legs between courses!

James Cameron back from dive to world's deepest point

Re: Credit where credit is due

'Avatar' (or if you prefer 'Ferngully the Last of the Rainforest Mohicans... IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!', starring the Smurfs) was FROM A TECHNICAL POINT OF VIEW one of the greatest films made. The use of CGI was a step above anything we've seen before, and will be thought of in the same way as the tech in 'Abyss' or 'T2'.

Sadly, as we can probably guess from the derogatory name given above, the plot was awful! If it'd just been a tech-demo, that'd be fine. As a commercial film - no thanks.

ISS 'nauts take to the escape pods in Russian sat-prang debris peril

Self-Destruct Voice: Thank you for pressing the self-destruct button. This ship will self-destruct in exactly two minutes and forty-five seconds.

President Skroob: You've got to stop it. Is there any way to stop it?

Colonel Sandurz: I can't - it's irreversible.

President Skroob: Like my raincoat!

------------------------------------

Self-Destruct Voice: Ten... nine... eight... six...

President Skroob: Six? What happened to seven?

Self-Destruct Voice: Just kidding!

President Skroob, Colonel Sandurz, Dark Helmet: [They growl in annoyance]

Self-Destruct Voice: [Skroob, Sandurz, and Helmet are mouthing the numbers alone with the recording] Six... five... four... three... two... one...

[they close their eyes and grimace]

Self-Destruct Voice: Have a nice day.

President Skroob, Colonel Sandurz, Dark Helmet: [open their eyes] Thank you.

[They close them again]

HTC stimulates Sense with snap-happy One series

Re: Polycarbonate?

Thanks for the info- I wasn't discounting the phone entirely, I'd've had a play and a feel to see what it was like beforehand.

Your comment makes me feel a bit more secure about it though - I was just concerned after having played with the SGS and other 'premium' phones that feel flimsy due to all-plastic construction.

Polycarbonate?

Hmm. Been looking for a new phone to replace my Desire for a while now, and the Edge / Supreme / One X seemed to be that phone, but now I'm left wondering....

A polycarbonate body for the flagship phone, but a fancy-dan aluminium body for the mid-range? I've stuck with HTC over the likes of Motorola, Samsung and LG due to the build-quality and premium materials used. My Desire is, basically, bullet-proof, and has a pleasing heft to it. As opposed to both the original and current Samsung Galaxy, which both feel like they'd fly away with a swift breeze, and creak alarmingly when squeezed even lightly.

Maybe I'm wrong, and the One X will still feel solid as a rock when it's released, but it's left me a bit underwhelmed.

Asteroid could SMASH INTO EARTH in 2040

Re: Let's not get off track.

I believe that you, Sir, owe me a new keyboard.

Asus peddles three-in-one smartphone, tablet, netbook

Re: Re: Damn...

El Reg hjas singularly failed to mention it, but there is a stylus that comes (presumably) with the tablet accessory that doubles as a bluetooth-type headset for making calls while in tablet mode.

Seems like a clever idea.

Endgadget has info:

<url>http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/27/asus-padfone-formally-launched-4-3-inch-super-amoled-display-s/</url>

LOHAN's fantastical flying truss cleared for lift-off

Re: Triple Orb Configuration...

I saw that in 'Total Recall' years aqo!

Start the reactor!

Spacemen urge NASA to build nuke ship for Mars trip

@Symon 10:38

While what you say is generally true, I think that you probably reach the limits of diminishing returns utilising that and solely that.

The planet is already at a point where significant swathes of it do not have sufficient fresh water for the population as it currently stands - look at Australia. While you are right that innovation is often bred from this, there is only so much we can do, and the negative effects of these innovations are often not well understood and do not come to the forefront until significantly later.

You ask:

"Why hasn't the last century of geometric growth in population resulted in a 'Malthusian catastrophe'?"

I answer:

Possibly because at that time, the planet was underpopulated and, thanks largely to the Dark Ages, not as technically advanced as we potentially could have been. The last century brought massively increased population growth and invention to support that. We may well have now 'caught up' as it were.

Could it be we are now at the point of saturation?

NASA: Solar system may have alien origin

Well, you've got to tool up for the job haven't you?

Then there's the time spent reading the instructions that'll have been badly translated from Swedish, and won't have any words, just those stupid little pictures.

And you can never find screw type 'H' when you need them. And those little fiddly packs of PVA you get in ketchup sachets...

Once you've done one though and got it sorted, you can knock the rest out in no time....

Star Trek tractor beam to save Earth from asteroid Armageddon

This idea of whanging a spaceship at it...

... has someone been re-reading the Clarke classic 'Hammer of God' again?

If so, that's great. Develop big dirty great engines for spaceships. Easy.

The biggest problem, according to the book, will be stopping nutters from sabotaging the entire thing in the first place...

Played for, and got!

King of the cues, Prince of the planet potters!

Apple wins skirmish in HTC-Google patent war

Bravo!

Well said Sir.

Nothing wrong with owning whatever phone you want and are comfortable with - if you prefer iPhones and are happy with the restrictions placed upon you by that choice, so be it. The same applies to if you wish to own a 'Droid, or a Nokia, or a WinPhone.

Other than amusing arguments on the internet, the court battles don't give us anything of worth, and will eventually end up harming both the industry and our wallets, as there's only one group of people that ends up paying for it all...

Google's Siri-a-like to be named 'Majel' after Trek actress

... some other unneeded service that'll sip into your bundled data allowance.

Feds propose 50-state ban on mobile use while driving

I did do one...

... which is how I found out about the exact date that the Amendment was approved by Congress. And the various versions of the language that the Amendment went through before it was approved, especially the ones that, in my eyes, are much clearer about a well-armed militia composed of the people, rather than a well-armed people deciding to form a militia. I believe that, in America, the *INTENT* of the writers of the Constitution is something you hold quite dear. Given that they're all dead, the only way to get to that intent is by interpretation, and that is *MY* interpretation.

You'll also notice that throughout, I said I'm not an expert nor a constitutional scholar, and that, as above, I said everything was my own opinion. Just like I have done in THIS post.

And, again, to my eyes, looking at the First Amendment, yes it guarantees your right to free speech and thus you are free to talk about religion, politics, gives you freedom of the press etc. etc. It doesn't provide freedom to make libelous or slanderous claims however, as an example. It is not a catch-all bit of legislation enabling you to say anything you want, about anyone, to anyone, at any time, without fear of recrimination.

The use of 'free speech zones' is a backup to my thoughts on this - you're free to say what you want, but sometimes you might be asked to only do it in certain locations, or to not do it in others. The Supreme Court doesn't seem to have a problem with this, and to my eye, saying "don't use a phone while you're driving as it is very likely to cause a distraction, but feel free to use it elsewhere." is analogous to saying "you can say what you want about the President and his policies, and have as many signs as you want, but you've got to do it over there 300 yards away and not right in front of where he's walking."

Some will say "Yeah, but that's a safety issue to keep whack-jobs away so they can't stab him." They'd be right. But that's only the same as me saying I don't want people driving around on the roads while being distracted by talking on the phone. It's still a safety issue.

Anyway, I'm English, we do have this law, and while it's only intermittently enforced I'm still happier to have it rather than not. We also don't have a 'right to bear arms', which is probably why we have less gun murders annually in most of Europe combined that you do in the States.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir-crime-murders-with-firearms

Horses for courses I suppose.

More to the point:

My understanding, as a non-American, is that the Constitution (Second Amendment) guarantees a 'right to bear arms'. Hence any attempt to legislate against guns is seen as either a limitation on or an outright ban of something that is a Constitutional right. Hence, much shouty-shouty.

The fact that the ENTIRE sentence isn't quoted, which actually reads:

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

This speaks volumes. The first bit is the qualifier in my eyes, but then I'm not a Constitutional Scholar, nor, even, an American. The fact they refer to 'the People' rather than the 'rights of the individual' would also seem to be a clue, but again, IANACS.

Anyway, the point is that nowhere in the Constitution does it refer to the "right of the People to keep and bear mobile telephony devices while driving 3 tons of internal combustion vehicle at high speeds shall not be infringed."

What's even more amusing...

... is that this is a recommendation coming from a country that hasn't even managed to make wearing a seat belt mandatory in every state / locale ...

Yes, New Hampshire, I'm looking at you.

Boffin's bot spots red light jumpers before they kill

It used to be known simply as 'driving' in the UK, but sadly no longer.

Give Osborne a shovel: UK economy stuck in deep hole

"Better anything than that toupee!"

... in the immortal words of Arnold Judas Rimmer.

MPs: This plan for proper navy carriers and jets is crazy!

It is entirely possible that I may have been confusing the reasoning behind no exports of the F-22 here.

Although I suppose if the original post was right and I'm not just mixing them up, that the Aussies simply bought the less-capable 'for export' versions that wouldn't be suitable for our needs in some way?

I don't know really - I'm not a military man. I just vaguely recall reading it somewhere.

F/A-18 avionics packages

I could be wrong - and will thus stand to be politely corrected - but isn't one of the big stopping points about simply buying F/A-18 E/Fs from the Septics that while they will quite happily sell us the airframe and what-not, that the avionics are:

a) still classified, and thus wouldn't be sold to us; and

b) not 100% compatible with all the rest of our gear anyway.

This would therefore necessitate the development of our own avionics, presumably by BAe at eye-watering expense?

UK nuclear: Walking into darkness with eyes screwed shut

Mate - give it up.

It won't work. You're talking nonsense that is outside the laws of physics.

What on EARTH are you talking about?

<quote>

BTW I don't think PV's are that bad. The US with JPL as lead agency spent *lots* of money in the 70's to radically lower PV (Especially Silicon but various others as well) and I *strongly* doubt the payback period is now 14 years.

</quote>

The payback period might not be 14 years in terms of CapEx payback (ie to recoup your costs), but in terms of the embedded energy of the PV cell itself, it's somewhere around that area.

The figures can be obtained from the University of Bath Inventory of Carbon and Energy database. 14 years is the figure for the best quality of panel with some hand-wavium, fag-packet, licked-thumb guesstimates about conversion efficiency, uptime, and the available power from Sol hitting the planet on a sq.m. basis.

Anyway, the biggest problem is the ma-HOO-sive amount of space you need for a decent generation capacity. I completely agree with absolutely everything else you say though.

I said exactly the same thing.

I'm curious about this statement

What are the cleaner and cheaper alternatives? Seriously - I'm cautiously pro-nuclear, but I try to keep an open mind, but I can't see anything else that has the generation potential with such ease.

The options as I see them are thus:

Wind - expensive, not reliable, can't be used for baseload. Only works in certain conditions. Changes the weather downwind of the site, requires enormous amounts of space.

Solar - panels are a nightmare to manufacture, the energy budget in creating them is huge to the extend that 1m² of high-quality polycrystalline panels has a whole-life breakeven after 14 years, and require enormous amounts of space. Extensive maintenance requirements.

Geothermal - has potential, but widescale applications would require a lot of wells to be sunk, and deep, which would be expensive. There is also the concern about the amount of hot steam released into the atmosphere through cooling having climate effects surely? Would be ideal for baseload otherwise.

Tidal - has potential, but again expensive. Needs development to arrive at best solution. Long-term environmental effects from restraining free water flow around the world could be a problem (you're taking energy out of a system).

Hydro (pumped storage or otherwise) - Proven technology, and allows to come online at periods of high power. Not really a long-term solution without significant inflow into reservoir. High expenditure in terms of both budget for construction, and required land-take.

Nuclear - proven technology. High capital expenditure in both commissioning and decommissioning, but when you amortise cost per kWh over life then much more reasonable. Relatively low carbon power. Issue with long-term storage of waste, but correct infrastructure can 'burn' waste to reduce toxicity. Safety issues (ref Chernobyl et al), but number of directly-attributable deaths still probably much much less than from coal mining / oil drilling etc. Newer reactors much much safer than 30-year old ones in Japan.

Fossil fuels - proven technology. Well developed, but not as efficient. Creates massive amounts of CO2, and even worse when considering CO2e. Coal (both in mining and burning) release significant quantities of radiation into the atmosphere.

For my way of thinking, nuclear to provide a significant proportion of base load, with other 'sustainable' options providing back-up, with wind available but used to top-up pumped storage for high demand periods would be the best balance. Excess energy (ie overnight base load) could be used to crack hydrogen from seawater or create hydrocarbons for transport etc.

I fully expect to get heavily downvoted for this, so let the flaming commence. It just bothers me when people from ALL sides of the argument can't see that the only way we can realistically achieve what we have said we will is by significant efficiency improvements and a good, balanced mix of supply sources.

It's either that, or we all go back to the Dark Ages.

Bishop to bless road salt supplies for added winter safety

Yes.

They make nice cake, and the instances of death when they run out of it have greatly dissipated over the years...

</Izzard>

Hands on with the Motorola Razr

More importantly

The screen - OLED good. But how good? Some sort of qualitative comparison to the SAMOLED on the SGS2 would be handy.

And have Moto stuck with the God-forsaken PenTile matrix that saw service on the Atrix?

This just in: Brussels shatters CRT cartel

You forgot that other epic suggestion from both the Government and the energy company spokesperson:

"Put on a jumper."

Man charged in nude celebrity hacking case

I suspect a number probably worked out from looking at the maximum sentence for each charge perhaps? As in, he's actually being charged with 50 counts of breaking the same law, each of which carries a min/max sentence?

121 years from 50 victims = 29 months per individual charge (assuming each victim equates to one charge on the charge sheet)?

HTC brings Beats to bigger blower

I missed that...

...partly because I only scanned the review, and mainly because when I read the review of the same device on Engadget, it said there wasn't an SD slot, which is how I knew that there's only 12.8Gb free on the in-built.

Wonder if one tech-media outlet is assuming and the other isn't?

Fair point though. Fail icon, because it's entirely possible I did!

re: Looks good

You obviously don't share this view, but to my eyes this is a completely underwhelming release.

The only real 'headline' spec on this thing is the size of the screen. Yeah, it's big. Sadly, the resolution on it is poor - to the extent that the resolution on my almost 2-year old Desire matches it. A screen this big, you'd think they could have at the very least gone up to the same res as the Atrix and the Sensation.

The RAM allocation is poor, the CPU is last-gen tech that has been clocked up, and no SD card slot and only 16Gb on board with just over 12 available means it isn't really even much cop if people want to use it as an MP3/media player with phone capabilities.

I'm a big HTC fan - their build-quality is exceptional, and Sense is the best of the Android overlays. Sadly though, they appear to have somewhat lost their way a bit with their marketing strategy. Rather than making three/four devices for a platform spread across spec/price ranges, they now seem to be adopting a scatter-gun approach.

The worst thing is that they are now further segregating their product line into a US product, an EU product, and what the rest get (maybe they segregate Asia off as well, I don't know). They release devices in one region that aren't available in others and vice versa. The device from them I'm waiting for is the Vigor, but it looks like that might be a 4G LTE only device, meaning no EU release for it.

Samsung release gear with decent specs, but the build quality is poorer and their support is awful. Motorola have an even more segregated product line than HTC (to the extent that only the Defy, the Photon and the Atrix are available in the UK to the best of my knowledge). The rest are, really only bit-part players in the Android market.

A Samsung specc'd device, built by Motorola with HTC/Google-experience software is what I'm looking for, but I know it's nothing more than a pipe-dream.

As it stands, I'll probably wait until the nVidia Kal-El devices come to market and see whats about then - the Asus PadFone is looking likely if the handset isn't poor.

The iPhone 4S in depth: More than just a vestigial 'S'

And I have no doubt that the Apple patent is pending, and the trained attack-lawyers are already straining at their restraints...

Atheros better watch out! Imagine having the audacity to both invent and use something before Apple!

Ten... Androids to outshine the iPhone 4S

Almost, but not quite

I was almost agreeing with you, up until your preposterous 'mine is more expensive, thus both it and I are better than you and yours' last paragraph.

And, now I think, I'll counter your original point with - when I had an issue with my Desire, the network provider were unsurprisingly useless, but the HTC UK support and service people were the nicest, most useful bunch of tech-support people I have ever dealt with.

Samsung may try to block next iPhone in Europe too

Is it just me?

But I'm bored of this now.

Why don't they both just pack it in and behave like a set of grown-ups rather than spoiled petulant children?

Accept that noone in their right mind is going to confuse the two, put them both on the market, and let the best combination of hardware and software win.

Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray disc set

As a Brit...

... yes, correct, we do have occasional soccer (football!) hooligan issues.

You American wallahs are clearly better than us.

Not like you colonial fellas every have riots after the Superbowl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVII#Post-game_riots) or the laughably-named 'World' Series (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Riots-break-out-in-San-Francisco-after-Giants-wi?urn=mlb-281806) is it...?

Winter for webOS, winter for Droid, but springtime for iPad!

While you're correct that there is a similarity (rectangles with rounded corners), how much of this similarity is by design, and how much is that it is just the most efficient way to do it with the current technology? The older slabs shown were running an outdated OS that wasn't design for touch input, and thus *REQUIRED* buttons in order to function. Modern portable OSs, like both iOS and Droid, were designed from the outset for operation like this, and thus designed out the need. Droids use 3 or 4 buttons as a rule, iOS only uses one. Beneath the screen is the sensible place to put them, hence...

And you've already admitted that Apple didn't invent the form factor - all they've done is improve upon it at a time when the public was ready for it, being prompted by touchscreen smartphones for a few years.

Additionally, there is more the many of the Apple cases than "It simply looks like our product". Against Samsung, Apple do somewhat have a point in that while the resemblance is only passing, the device with one large prominent button in the middle beneath the screen does look very similar to the Galaxy S line. Now they *DO* have additional buttons to either side, but these are touch sensitive and only visible when they are available, meaning for the most part they can't be seen.

Also, the photos I've seen from the case have been very carefully chosen, and in some cases actually *DOCTORED* by Apple. The key one to my mind is the one showing the SGS2 with the app drawer open as compared to an iPhone4 on the home screen. Whatever your feelings and preferences, noone can really deny that there is more than a passing similarity - significantly aided by Apple blatantly Photoshopping the images to make the devices the same size in the submission to the courts, an act for which, by the way, they *SHOULD* have been nailed to the wall.

Personally, I think Apple took the wrong track. I think i'd've accepted it as a homage, and then gone to great lengths to point out that our OS and interface is *SO* brilliant and *SO* advanced that even our competitors are copying it. Plus, it's not like anyone with even a hint of brainpower is going to mistake the SGS2 / Tab 10 for an iPhone / iPad.

The fact that 'Samsung' is plastered liberally across the thing is likely to make even the stupidest of idiots think twice surely...

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HTC knocks out the Beats

More to the point - couldn't they have been a bit more generous with the RAM and the storage to make it a refresh worth getting excited about?

British warming to NUKES after Fukushima meltdown

There's a bigger problem

Which is that almost anything that gets proposed gets shot down for a variety of reasons.

Coal is too dirty.

Nuclear means we'll all glow in the dark.

Hydro means that birds will have to fly somewhere else.

Wind minces birds and causes localised climate change downwind.

Solar takes up too much space.

On and on it goes - every proposal being cut out by one special interest group or another for endless reason after stupid reason, resulting in nothing more than an absolute stalemate which leaves us with the status quo and no idea how to move forwards.

The truly depressing thing is that even if you were to ask a Green-ist what we should be doing, there isn't a consensus there either, and we'd be subjected to round after round of arguments extolling the virtues of one thing (wind) over another (solar).

The sad truth is that there is not, and will almost certainly never be, a single catch-all solution. We have to make the best of a bad job, and try to make things as efficient as possible to use as little resource as possible, while doing what we can to maintain the way of life that we are all accustomed to.

As with all things, a little from column A and a little from column B is likely to be the optimum solution. Mix'n'match and do what we can.

New Apple move against Galaxy Tab on Euro front

There is little/nothing that says "I'm a Samsung" about the G. Tab...

... except where it says 'Samsung', both on the bottom of the front, and in big f**kin' letters across the back?

... except it uses the Samsung TouchWiz interface?

... except it's called the Samsung Galaxy Tab, meaning it's a device in the Samsung 'Galaxy' line of Android devices, and is a tablet device?

Funnily enough

... this brings us back to the '2001' part of the story that was reported earlier today!

Sorry lads - not only did Kubrick and Clarke come up with the idea of tablet computing before you, they also came up with the blag rectangle that controls your actions at a genetic level through brain manipulation before you too!

Wait, what?

<QUOTE>Just heavy, slow flattened PCs that consumers weren't interested in.</QUOTE>

Yeah, because they were running Windows XP.

I doubt anyone here would really argue that Apple haven't done well to make the tablet form-factor as popular as it is. Well done lads.

<QUOTE>And yes, android was built from day one to use a touchscreen, because it's was built as a copy of iOS. </QUOTE>

So what you're saying is that Android, which was in development long before St. Jobs started Apple going on iOS, copied iOS in having some icons that you press with fingers on a touchscreen device?

And this despite the fact that on Android you get a widget-able homescreen, instead of just the icon-grid when you power on and unlock an iPhone? Aside from having (admittedly) a grid of icons when you open the app drawer on a 'droid handset, but frankly, how else are you going to do it, they bear no resemblance in appearance! And the icon grid has been around for quite some time. Most OSs use it in fact.

<QUOTE>even then, it wasn't designed for tablets and there are still iPad clones out there being released with non tablet versions of Android for unwary consumers to buy thinking they're getting a cheap iPad.</QUOTE>

I'm not sure what your point is here.

Is it that the operating system (Android) designed for a phone OS wasn't suitable for larger, higher resolution tablet screens that weren't out at the time? Then yes, you're right. I seem to recall iOS having a similar problem with apps not working properly on iPads as well... So it needed a software update - big deal. Google have ALWAYS said that pre-3.0 releases weren't for tablets.

And quite how it is the fault of Google that unscrupulous hardware manufacturers KIRFing iPads, I'm not sure.

It's clear you're an Apple fan, and fair enough. Each to their own. Personally, I like the Apple hardware, but that walled-garden puts me off - i'll install whatever I want on *MY* device thanks - as does the fact I'd be forced to use iTunes, which is a horrific piece of software.

But honestly, if you want to pick holes in Android, feel free - you're entitled to your opinion, and there's plenty of legitimate grievances with Android as an OS. But just making crap up makes you look like an idiot.

iPhone 5 less than a month away

RE: What more do you want a phone to do?

And sometimes, just sometimes, you can actually use them to have wireless, real-time voice communication with someone many hundreds of miles away!

What fresh wonder. I, for one, am glad I live in such an age of technological innovation etc. etc.

Curved light drives boffin one-upmanship

Think vectors

It'll accelerate in a slightly different direction than the one it was going in.

c is a constant. The direction in which it is moving at speed 'c' is not.

MPs slam 'unworkable' one-size-fits-all NHS care records' system

More to the point:

Penalty clauses.

How can there NOT be penalty clauses for failing to deliver a working system on-time?

I bet that, even if the systems were to be delivered, there's not a nitpicky, snagging maintenance-type period where the companies have to fix all the stuff that doesn't actually work because they never were able to test it properly on real systems.

That'll be an extra, you just watch.

Just who writes these contracts?

Parmo v poutine: The ultimate post-pub nosh deathmatch

Mmmm...

Nice.

Although my arteries just clogged *READING* your post...

Coulson arrested

Simpsons

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where they get Homer to pay for all his parking fines by convincing him he's won a boat in the police raffle...

News of the World TO CLOSE

Just checked out a few of these.

Looks like it's about 50/50 on either already registered, or locked/prohibited as mentioned above for the permutations I can think of.

ANONYMOUS: Behind the mask, inside the Hivemind

... yes ...

... the cake ...

Of course.