Posts by GougedEye

Stephen Hawking: 'Boring' Higgs Boson discovery cost me $100

Re: I did 1,000 hours work at University

Was it oxford and did you get a first class pass in physics?

;)

John McAfee blogs from Guatemalan jail, says coffee excellent

Bet he wishes he went to Ecuador instead.

Chinese student fails job interview because of iPhone

"Working at our company is tough. It calls for someone who can take the pain and suffering"

At that point, any prospective employer would have failed my interview process. Perhaps I'm an over-privileged fop who has never done a day’s graft in my life. Or a valuable, skilled asset who won't put up with this sort of crap.

Two scam apps stink up iTunes store, pulled thanks to Reg reader

Learn from Google Play?

What they need is some sort of trial system, where you can cancel the purchase within 15 minutes of download. I have made use of this multiple times on the google store.

BBC places news chief and her deputy beyond use in Savile row

Misdirection

How is it that a serious question of how JS managed to get away with some serious abuse for decades has been completely overshadowed by the media and politicians scramble to collect some scalps at the Beeb. I'm fascinated to see what sort of behavior this is going to drive at the BBC in future. Probably a complete aversion by editors to to be seen anywhere near even the most vaguely controversial topics. Celeb gossip and football scores will be pretty much it as far as journalism goes.

Murdoch & Co must be grinning from ear to ear as they put the boot in though.

Captain Kirk does a Crapp on the iPhone: 'Shatoetry' for 'Shatisms'

Android

or it didn't happen

So, just what is the ultimate bacon sarnie?

We know whats good for you

The best bacon butties are made in Cupertino. They don't actually have any bacon or sauce in them as these are considered bad for you, but they have very carefully cut and shaped bread made to a secret recipe which smells amazing.Oh and you'll get sued if you try make one yourself.

Few 'Likes' for Facebook from hedge-fund moneybags

Re: You have to love capitalism

Because they are sitting on a long term position and don't want to risk that jumping every time the price moves?

Supreme Court dismisses Assange bid to reopen extradition case

Re: Or in this case

"Meat Cannon" even.

Roman roads get the web maps treatment

Re: @ Neoc - Fascinating

Actually I thought that iPads were made by slaves?

Boy burned in Nintendo sensor substitution

Clearly the use of small candles should not be contemplated before a suitable Risk Assessment is conducted and of course, appropriate training.

New Turing petition calls for criminal pardon

@ AC

"Is Genius an excuse to be allowed to break the law with impunity?"

I think the whole point is not that AT should be allowed to break the law, but rather that the law was ridiculouse, petty, barbaric etc. AT highlights the extreme injustice of the law due to the great contribution he made in helping defeat the nasties. His thanks was to be treated in a way that would have been far more compatible with the beliefs of those nasties than our supposed "Free" democracy.

Globe slowly warming, insists 'Hansen's Bulldog'

Error 404 re-revisited

"Either the URL on the last line of your article, http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/4/044022 is incorrect or that page has been moved recently."

Works for me. Must be a conspiracy.

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iPhone banned in Steve Jobs' ancestral home

"The distinction between a 'government' and a 'regime' is we support the former, and oppose the latter. Nothing to do with their governmental structure, or respective levels of tolerance or repression."

Good enough for me.

Antarctic ice formed at CO2 levels much higher than today's

I don't need no steenking Title

"Of course the Antartic Ice sheet is not going to melt - no-one ever said it would."

Sorry mate, I beg to differ. We are constatntly being told that it's going to melt. Or that it won't. Or that it might. Or that some of it will. Or that it's going to get warmer, or colder. Thats the problem with the whole thing. Neither the Disciples and Denyers of Global Warming (Man made or not) have an even remotely consistent argument. There are as many theories as to what any given bit of data means as there are groups reading the data.

All I know, is that if you want to tax the crap out of me, stop me traveling anywhere and generally make my life miserable you need a far more coherent argument than anything I have seen so far.

Clandestine US 'space warplane' extends orbital mission

Death Star?

Like the colour scheme. very "Darth Vader / The Empire".

Drama as Thai frogmen struggle to save world PC market

Frogmen, recovering MACHINERY!!

"Frogmen, recovering MACHINERY!! Is our insatiable capitalist, consumerist lust for disks so heroin-addict-strong that we're rescuing factories and not people"

Well frogmen are kindof specialised in working UNDER water. Any people who have been hanging around under water for the last few months are probably a bit beyond helping now. And making hard drives is probably what helps a whole lot of live people in Thailand put food on the table so to speak. Might be worth a swim to fetch the machines that make it possible.

Would you let your car insurer snoop on you for a better deal?

I would never go for this. But then I drive like a Punk Rocker on PCP. Might make sense for the the more accelerationally challenged out there though.

Patent troll lawsuits may be on thin ice

title schmitle

“Each Best Western or Comfort Inn might try to argue that they each have to be sued individually,”

There are lots of arguments and defences available to this action. The point is, they are all going to cost the poor schmuck who dares turn to the law for help a lot of money. The western way of law has long since removed realistic access to the law for ordinary people.

In a system created by lawyers you can be damn sure that the lawyers always come out on top.

US Navy orders laser machine guns

Boys and their toys

Someone please tell the Yanks that they are broke. The last thing they need right now is a bunch of new barely functional, mission limited, extremely expensive toys for their overstaffed military to play with.

Met arrest alleged Lulz hacker

Yep, Right Guy

"Lots of suggestions on twitter that the arrested guy was just running their IRC channel, and wasn't a member of the actual group."

Isn't that like saying someone wasnt one of the bank robbers, he just drove their getaway car?

Besides, obviously tey are not going to admit it on twatter if he reall is one of theirs. It's like signing a confession.

I for one am sick of these idiots. It's not a game and it's about time this was brought home to them.

NASA hangs bunting for shuttle anniversary

Lets Hope

They don't go out with a bang!

George Lucas 'very happy' with 3D Phantom Menace

I don't need no stinking title

Lovely two of my favourite holywood things: Slapping 3D on every piece of rubbish in sight and George Lucas whoring out his legacy for a few more tens of millions of dollars.

Florida lag packs prison survival kit up jacksie

Pointy bits

"...one empty syringe with an eraser over the needle..."

Braver man than me. No needle is going up my jacksie under any imaginable circumstances. Eraser tipped or not.

Albuquerque shopper samples free man oysters

Triple Standards

Ih the victim had been maile, we would be making twice the jokes.

Robot naval stealth fighter takes to the air

Yank Programmers

Are Yank Programmers inherently any safer to allies than Yank Pilots?

Brazilian cult condemns USB

Religion is all right

as long as they don't try tell the rest of us how to live.

Oh wait a minute.....