Posts by Hardcastle the ancient

Apple Store newspaper headlock may be slipping

Pricing

I'd pay a fiver a year for access to the reg, provided that the content became free after commenting was locked, so I could link to pages with usenet

HP murders webOS tablets, phones

downvotes?

I can't see anything to downvote here. This is how corporations carry on

Cisco warns over warranty discs of EVIL

WTF?

Someone downvoted this?

Someone actually thinks IT professionals should have Autorun ON?

I've noticed a lot of weird downvoting lately. What is going on?

Googlenet runs on '900,000 servers'

@sabroni

Yeah. I've noticed a lot of weird downvoting lately.

Carbon tax

> as though there's a big cash prize for whoever

> makes it run out the fastest.

Isn't that exactly what the stock market does?

E-petitions site: Death wish FAIL

@johnathanb

If there is a moderation process, then, how did the duplicates get approved?

Amateur Hour

I just tested it, and it is quite happy to accept a commercial postcode as a home address, and to send a validation email to a mailinator anonymous dropbox.

Stupid.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Have the PR people been here?

There seem to be a lot of unnecessary downvotes here to sceptical remarks. Someone sponsoring votes?

One-third of US consumers will buy an iPhone 5

So, Mr Vulture

Do you plan to interview PriceGrabber early next year & ask them what went wrong?

Ex-Microsoft bigwig Bob Muglia joins Juniper Networks

sinister

The most sinister bit is Juniper creating a role for him.

Chinese lecturer demands his students acquire iPads

I wonder

If the first lesson will be:

"you all bought one then? Why? No-one bothered to challenge a stupid idea just because it came from an Authority figure? Bad. You must think for yourselves. This valuable lesson has cost you 650 bucks"

Important to dress in suits

It is really important that we insist the w^H bankers wear suits.

That means when the lynching starts we will be able to spot them quickly.

Press-ups are OK now?

I do recall one lecturer getting the sack for doing pressups, but there was a teenaged student underneath him at the time...

Grenade-gasm autogun gets Raoul Moat Taser shells

"bullet with a torture device attached"

You say that like it is a bad thing.

Well, it might be bad if you were a bad guy, but hey...

Mobee Magic Charger

What is wrong with wire?

I thought we were supposed to be saving the planet? not stuffing more and more batteries in things?

Beeb to fund ad-mungous Local TV for local people

Anglia

I saw their solid silver knight on display in Norwich Castle.

Ye glods, its bad enough seeing my childhood toys in museums, but when it is things from the time I was bringing up my old kids it really does make me feel old!

Dixons store to sell Samsung 10in tablet early

All gone horribly wrong?

They had one in the Lincoln branch on Friday, didn't realise it was pre-release or I might have been slightly less disinterested.

it's still a "how much?" item to me. Even Dixons have 10 inch computers for less than that, and they have a keyboard and perhaps an optical drive slot.

Moonpig gobbled by PhotoBox

Don't care

But I do welcome your neologism "Emblobbed".

TSA officer accused of stealing from passenger luggage

...and...

...underclass

chain of crime

I do hope the jeweller only paid him $25 for the watch...

Not sure

I'm not sure the TSA searches outbound luggage.

all a lie

The morons will cheerfully rip off TSA locks too.

MacBook batteries susceptible to hack attacks

World gone mad

If the batteries have firmware and a password, I think we have gone past the point of no return. If you /must/ have a brain in a battery, why isn't it mask programmed? Just how smart does a battery need to be?

It seems like madness to me.

Philips BDP7600 Blu-ray player with Net TV

Oh look

no scart?

Microsoft surprises Street with double-digit growth

Extras

Office communicator works OK, up to the point where you try and transfer a file or open a whiteboard of some sort, and discover that your corporate busybodies have switched off everything useful.

I quite like communicator and netmeeting, although why there need to be two of them I can't imagine. They work well enough, a bit like IRC did in the early 1990s. You can certainly get stuff done with them.

Of course, killing communicator is an art in its own right, as it seems to think Outlook depends upon it even if you don't have outlook open. And outlook stinks like week-old fish anyway. But bugs are what we are used to from M$ and as long as you are happy to keep sending the crash reports you can achieve a fair bit with communicator and netmeeting.

The extras aren't bad, shame about the main lump.

export from word

You can only export from Word if you have Word.

Airport screener stuffs stolen iPad into (own) trousers

Well

I'd have fired them too. They were pretty uppity.

Stolen or lost?

I once flew through a US airport where the TSA could be seen over the balcony rail searching the luggage (Chicago? Newark? Some sort of hub). They seemed to upend each case over a steel table, rummage, then sweep everything back in the case and close it up. Small things rolled on the floor and were left there.

That might explain why I have lost things from my toolkit like a 9/16AF socket, or a roll of tinned copper wire, while the $800 crimp tool was still there.

They are still knuckle dragging morons in my book.

ESN

After all, it couldn't possibly mean Educationally Sub Normal, could it?

Beyonce bigs up girls in space

this is the 21st, right?

I thought we were past all this sexist rubbish. Sandy Magnus may happen to be female, but to me she is an astronaut, a very noble and brave thing to be.

That the only thing this silly little pea-brained singer can find to say about an astronaut is that she is a "girl" tells you a lot more about the silly little pea-brained singer than about Ms Magnus.

Ye glods, I thought we were in the future now!

Jabra Stone 2 Bluetooth headset

same title

Good rather than great, and gets 75% ?

Microsoft rolls out One Big Windows strategy

silicon life forms

I assume the windows are to let us see the trolls coming!

been trolled

I can only imagine that the downvote came from a microshft troll.

Gramatically people have either noticed or not noticed what you suggest (it is far-fetched but so amusing I may use it as his name in future). Neither option deserves a demerit, so I think you have been shilled.

yawn

There is an old Victorian hymn that goes "tell me the old,old story".

Heard it all before. Bollocks then, Bollocks now. Can't be true, platforms too different.

Just a fresh crop of baby-faced marketing droids being let up the garden path 'cos they all think the world was created yesterday.

Toshiba Regza 42RL853 42in LED TV

ooh look

The last SCART socket?

Samsung BD-D8900 Blu-ray player and DVR combo

general twattishness

I am loosing patience with manufacturers who build something sensible then strip out the best bits to save 38 cents.

It's just twattishness, and I don't buy things from twats. My last home entertainment purchase was from Humax, who are pretty generally non-twattish about things like this.

News of the World TO CLOSE

when it started to go downhill

My grandpop used to read it in the 1950s. He called 'the news of the screws' then, but he still bought the bloody thing. My grandma used to wear the coal-hole gloves to fetch it in, not just 'cos the newsprint rubbed off.

Murdoch bought it in 1969.

Samsung NS310 netbook

the apostrophe

I assumed the drink had taken effect.

Very pleased

I'm very pleased you tried it with Linux, and reported everything worked. Now that is proper journalism, not cut-and-paste press release handling.

Bit disappointed that you have to buy it with windows at all, but at least it is the toys-r-us version of W7, so the gatestax is a bit cheaper. Bad news for anyone who wants to use Winjows, as they have to buy it twice, but hey! that's M$ for you.

HP plan for faster, 64GB TouchPad leaks out

Oh, so they can read then?

I suspect they have read all the adverse reviews and remarks from commentards like me, who feel let down by the first doorstop.

BOFH: Drunken Time Lord

"So time flows faster when you're drinking"

Huzzah!

Umbrella-wielding Steve Ballmer gets cloudy with Office 365

Lets see if I've got this straight

So a monopoly position where everyone buys a copy of MSoffice is not yielding enough revenue? So now they want everyone to buy it twice?

Teenager tries to trade virginity for iPhone

Oh please!

This story is in bad enough taste.

But you go and post it in "Reg Hardware"!

well done.

Punters to spend $2.1 trillion on e-tat this year

Explanation

"it's not what goes into the pipe that makes the most money, it's controlling the plumbing."

That explains why what comes out of the pipe is indistinguishable from Sewage, then?

Travelodge still doesn't know who hacked it

"Travelodge still doesn't know who hacked it"

But they do know no credit card records were taken?

Hmm...

Alpha.gov.uk preps for beta, prays for funding

err

I thought we just junked one national ID it scheme? why are we doing another?

Violin tunes up for billion dollar flash gig

How annoying

I want to vote you up 'cos you describe a real sickness in the system, and I want to vote down the idea you describe. on average, then, null points

WTF are... connected appliances?

@Richard

I have had a BMS for 35 years. I married her. Far smarter and more reactive than any technology, and a lot more fun socially.

I also got two burglar alarms from the rescue kennels, and a pest control apparatus from Cat's protection.

Biology > Electronics.

BMW intros revamped Mini as sporty MG-alike

@Kaned

No, it's you.

"it hasn't been as hit as hard with the ugly stick as... the Countryman"

Should have gone to specsavers.