Posts by ideapete

Careful with 'fibre speed record' hype: which record's been broken?

Mega BS in Fib-ur-land

http://www.ideapete.com/megaBS.html

London commuter hell will soon include 'one card to rule them all'

The Plastic card Smartphone

England invents a plastic card replacement for the smartphone . 2 steps forward 10 steps back

Freescale: Cloudy dumb sensors? Nope, not OUR smart Internet of Things

Rizonanza is born

http://www.ideapete.com/risonanza.html or the internet of things will not be !

Energy firms' security so POOR, insurers REFUSE to take their cash

SCADA then and now

1979 SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition)

2014 SCADA (supervisory control and destruction application)

HP 'clarifies' firmware/support contract rules

Re: Double-U Tee Eff?

Same here , Idiots that wants you to pay for their bad QA , I can see the EU beagles laughing from here, great rep HP

Someone's snatched my yummy Brit COTTAGE PIE – Viv Reding

Fagin Says

No EU worthless crap needed boys

Judge: Odds of bankrupt Lightsquared sorting itself out are 'zero'

Pirates Ahoy

From the FCC - GPS Manufacturers pirated ( used without permission ) the bandwidth allocated to Light Squared

Yes, Google can afford to lose $9bn in Motorola sale. But did it really?

Indeed thanks Tim , Or why Journalists ( and Bloggers ) are not Tax wizards ( pun ) and vice versa

Judge shoots down Oracle's Solaris support 'trafficking' claim

Sorry Larry , Fujitsu still do a much better job with Solaris , always have always will do http://www.sparcproductdirectory.com/artic-2002-jan-pb.html

Fujitsu to push 28 nanometer limits with Sparc64 X+

Fujitisu has always been light years ahead of Sparc

http://www.sparcproductdirectory.com/artic-2002-jan-pb.html even with Larry driving the boat

Space elevators, vacuum chutes: What next for big rocket tech?

why they killed Gerald Bull !

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/mushroom_32.png

The real space delivery competition > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP

The truth on the Navy carrier debacle? Industry got away with murder

Re: Chocolate Teapot

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/wtf_32.png Come on chaps the bloody model we built worked just fine , no one, including his Lordship, said it would work in the real world. That's what you get for using Argentinian subs ( my pun ) No wonder Hornblower took a powder with his teapot

Iran's Photoshop FAIL: 'New drone' actually Japanese university bird

Yup and the Onion says

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/pint_32.png Yup and the Onion says their Nuke stuff is Photoshop tooooo so there and if its the Onion its gotta be true not that Econermissed it stuff.

Desperate broadband minister in Brussels cash splash dash

No phone then ( :

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/pint_32.png

Gotta use the train

LinkedIn users buried in spam after database leak

Re: Peter Baston unmasked

Be at peace earthling and get back on your flat world supported on four elephants flying around the universe on the back of A'Tuin the giant star turtle

Pints under attack as Lord Howe demands metric-only UK

Yus I remeber

2 Liters to the Pint thats about right

Zuckerberg: Now share your organs with Facebook friends

Re: UK Legal validity

Wales --- they wont donate anything there you might get Moby Dick and then the jigs up --- great for export to the French in need.

So how much $$$$ then ?

Does also open up the conundrum that everyone in the organ business, except the donor ( and their loved ones left behind ) make a ton ( lots $$$$ 00000 ) of money under the guise of benevolence and feeling good.

Hanging's too good for 'em - so what do you suggest?

Microsoft Windows customer support rep

For life

NetBank unavailable to 'many customers'

So did the Gods on Olympus

They gave up too with a huge WTF is this #@*#@T

Motorola's bid to sink Windows, XBoxes sales snubbed

Stabel door pun

never close the thingi after Gates (Bil) has run off with your stuff

Publishers fork out $52m in Apple ebook pricing settlement

follow DoJ suit, but they're looking for cash !

For the November election campaign to keep their jobs

Fate of punters' Megaupload files to be thrashed out in court

MPA sues God

Because he is obviously in copyR infringement of their stuff, where they serve him could be fun especially if he is in a bad mood and has some of his files on MGU 2

Check Point in domain expiry snafu

Purfect

Checkpoint Firewall - Its not there

Mike Daisey’s Sydney video reveals more grey areas

Re: Entertainer not journalist

About 150lbs be the look of him

From Der Fuhrer

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

― Adolf Hitler

'When you disagreed with Steve Jobs, you lost'

Like nothing left over - Duh

Newton said that 20 per cent of the profits would go to the foundation, and anything left over after production and distribution costs would go to the organization's charitable works

No joke: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 debuts on April Fools' Day

Ya didnt need

An Oracle to figure that out , canot wait for the SQL

SOPA poked an angry bear and set it loose on the net

Incompletelyretilehensible

Quote - but I wouldn't favor a tax rate that's incomprehensible." ?

Welcome to America we have had one of those for years

Deutsche Telekom shatters data-transfer speed record

Wrong big G string

Typical telco exaggeration as in( Subtracting out the error-correction overhead, the total usable bandwidth was 400Gb/s ) we should all note that Gb/s is the abbreviation GigaBYTES per second and bits is done with a small g. Typical telcos trying to slip in a factor of 8 times more than reality just like with the ATT 4G Lite which is really 3G. We did a spoof of this stuff called MEGA BS in Telcoland = http://www.ideapete.com/megaBS.html

Aussie soldiers let rip on Facebook

PC polite OZ types in uniform: DUH

Polite PC members of the OZ army - totally ludicrous.

I say sir, with that towel on your head, would you mind terribly not sticking bombs on our stuff its terribly noisy and distracting.

Here's to you guys - there on us next time we meet

VMware mashes up Hadoop with Spring

Dr Suess does Code

Streaming Pigs coming outa the Hive with cascading Rhinos using Springs in their Hadoop and I dont want to know what the Elephants are doing , my mind is blown already, cannot wait for the book

Dr Suess does Code

Streaming Pigs coming outa the Hive with cascading Rhinos using Springs in their Hadoop , my mind is blown already, cannot wait for the book

Wireless breakthrough: one frequency, multiple signals

Re: It'll never catch on*

Nor the FCC who are busily killing Bandwidth developers like ---- Light Squared http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/03/02/lightsquared-battle-heats-up-as-politico-reveals-dod-e-mail/ and ------ Dish http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/03/dish-fcc-idUSL2E8E2EG520120303

Schmidt's $1.45bn Google stock sale compelled by adultery?

It went up did it ?

WOW $1.45B that's certainly put the price of Googling in perspective

Chinese cops bust culinary Apple trademark thieves

I wondered why ?

The telephone reception on our gas stove is so bad

Microsoft claims Google bypassed its browser privacy too

Re: Re: Re: Errr or this really @Gav

Choc tea pot - where can you get one of those ?

Does not compute

Ho Ho - Microserf and Security ??

Simply does not compute

Sun hacks cuffed after being DOBBED IN by News Corp

Outa Ruperts what ?

The Suns shines out of Rupert's posterior orifice - bet that hurts

UK gov rejects call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing

To quote the bard

On our foresighted caring Lord Sharkey " Were I like thee I'd throw away myself "

Sure Alan T would agree with that sentiment

US tweet deportation: Chilling behind-the-scenes photos

Perfectly ndersatndable chaps

I mean they might come over here and start a warm beer craze of something worse

An NT-powered Windows Phone? Not so fast...

It will come with a BIG red box ( 8'x3'x3')

About 8 ft tall with lots of REALLY old windows ( that work ) and an umbilical chord to Steve Balmers brain

Modeling-clay iPads foisted on unwary Canucks

I Can - Clay - Puck

4 Canucks everywhere

UK student faces extradition to US after piracy case ruling

Its our new US Policy

We get you to extradite your brightest and best then we give them jobs over here. Just another form of Talent selection and job creation

Intel caught faking CES ultrabook gaming demo

Laptop Whatzat

Some kinda Dance ?

Michael Dell: PC profits plunge not down to tablets

A Rising Tide

Lifts all sorts of BS

NASA halts 'naut flogging Apollo 13 notebook

Nasa is nuts

Work it out - yea right - stop the sale, kick the astro hero in the nuts then ask for a meeting - Totally pathetic duh

Microsoft celebrates the death of IE6

V V Oh

As the honcho MS said about IE6 and IE666

Veni - Vidi - Oh Shit

Jonathan Ive is knighted in New Year Honours list

He already did that

The fasting, purification and prayer and then the Jobs came back to the company and all was well , now look at our boy . Go SirJon

Inventor flames Reg, HP in memristor brouhaha

Yes indeed

Lets see her mamristers fall out