Posts by Steve Renouf

Nuke clock incapable of losing time chimes with boffins

Re: I want one....

"Sometimes the journey is more important than the destination itself."

Very insightful of you sir! I doff my cap! (Well, I would if I had one).

Microsoft 'yanked optical drive from Xbox 720'

Media woes!?!

Or they just might supply them on physical media too.

Unless the console has a massive HHD inside, where else are you going to store all those games? Oh, on the cards they were supplied with... Maybe...

Solar storm arrives, nobody notices

hmmm.....

So, couldn't be anything to do with the mystery Orange network outage then? Just saying...

Apple to Google Maps: ‘Get lost’

Re: To be fair

Well it's pretty crap for Jersey - I'd estimate that about 75% of the roads are missing!

LulzSec SMACKDOWN: Leader Sabu turned by feds last summer

hmmm...

Another contributor needs English lessons!

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/plead.html

Ford: kick your car to open the boot

Re: I'm reminded of an earlier Ford.

Ermmm..... Most of them!?! Unless you're in the USofA maybe

Re: Dubious Demonstration

Darn it! You beat me to it. I suspect the kids will have loads of fun with this while mum's trying to get the shopping into the boot too!

Watchdog hits out at malware racking up premium-rate charges

WHAT!?!

But, but.. what will Simon do then!?!

China clamps down on foreign telly on its channels

or even...

take a cue...

Googorola's desire for iPhone royalties will upset Apple cart

Reciprocal arrangements - remember that bit?

Perhaps the other players have reduced their payments, say, from 2.25% to 0.25% by virtue of having reciprocal licensing to the tune of 2% in their favour. And maybe Apple hasn't got anything to offer by the way of reciprocation but doesn't think they should pay the full whack!?!

New driver-snooping satnav could push down UK insurance premiums

Couldn't agree more

It's amazing how many drivers don't grasp the fact that your distance of vision needs to be greater than your stopping distance!

That's the exact attitude that's the problem

How does the "car's ability to corner with complete safety at a speed that would make a Smart car fall over" produce X-ray vision to enable you to see the child crossing the road just around the corner? For example.

Resellers: Microsoft price hike was 'demanded by Euro country bosses'

#Can someone tell me the reason for MS Windows?

Easy:

'cos we've always done it this way" There is no other reason. Unless, of course, the software that you need to run only runs on W. However, there are even ways round that now.

Android dominates first-time smartphone buyer biz

Who? What?

Angry you say? Birds? What birds?

Google and Facebook remove 'offensive' content from Indian sites

So, presumably

this only applies to google.co.in and all the other google TLDs are unaffected. In which case, all those affected "sub-normal" Indians that want to be offended will still be able to find all the offensive material they want to be offended by elsewhere

Scientists weave battery into clothing

Hmmm....

Remote control tasering anyone??

<futureworld>

Don't worry majesty, we have total control over the population since we started forcing them to all wear these clothes that allow us to remotely punish them for non-conformism!"

</futureworld>

Oh fuck! We're doomed!

Brit space agency sends up 1st satellite

Oooohhhh.... Look!

It's Doctor Who's T.A.R.D.I.S!

EFF helps MegaUpload users claw legit stuff back from Feds

??!!?>

What bellend puts their stuff on any cloud, losing direct access to and control of those files???!!

Reading Reding: Pouring water on DP draft bill

"regulatory straightjacket"

Indeed! Big Business has way too much power in Gubberment these days!

North Korea labels phone users war criminals

Hmmmmph

Obviously, it isn't his native language! Let's see you write something in his language AH

(Without wishing to stereotype, I'm guessing you're a 'Merkin...)

UK sight-loss charity sues BMI

Newspapers...

Do they all have Braille versions published every day too?

Yes! Yes!

Just YES!

Government launches hydrogen motoring task force

Wrong aspect

I wasn't referring to the "Orgone" aspect, I was referring to the H producing process (by electrolysis - which is a well-known process and which variations of the Joe's cell are doing today in any number of vehicle's that have been modified by their owners).

The point I was making is that the car manufacturers could easily incorporate this technology, if it wasn't for the power that the oil companies wield, rather than making customer's fill up a large storage tank by BUYING the H that *could be* produced by the car whilst driving!

Duh!

Or

The car could be generating it's own H H 0 - a la Joe's Cell technology

https://www.google.com/search?q=Joe%27s+Cell&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Samsung outsold Apple in world smartphone arena

Oh dear

Didn't know that Samsung have also being supplying a lot of the components for the i*****, so they're making profits off Apple as well?!?? Haw, haw

Google emails Virgin Media subscribers ... about privacy

Own none ISP email & domain

from, for instance, 1and1

http://order.1and1.co.uk/MailInstantMail;jsessionid=4D6795B5ACD31F4951DECC1EF976B87B.TCpfix140a?__lf=Order&linkOrigin=Instant&linkId=hd.nav.instantmail

WD's MyBook takes a Thunderbolt to the chest

10 Gbps huh?

I'm interested to see what interface this is going to use as well as which drives are physically capable of doing anything with data at that speed. The SATA 3 interface only has a theoretical maximum data throughput of 6Gbps!?! Also, the last time I looked, the fastest available drives could only manage a maximum data rate of around 157MB/s (approx. 1.2Gbps). 10Gbps? How? When? What interface? What drives?

Scientists shift electron orbits for atomic storage and quantum computing

Or, if you're running windoze...

just after you switch on! ;-)

Acer bids to raise prices after levelling inventory mountain

Except - the fatal flaw in their prediction...?

Oh dear! Nobody has any money to spend on these lovely shiny shinies, due to the financial melt-down and massive job losses!

Ooer...

Reding's 'right to be forgotten' bill polarises Euro biz world

I everyone is getting a bit pararnoid here...

The new law would have to include provisions for exclusion of data that a company IS LEGALLY BOUND TO KEEP (for 7 years currently). Such as when any financial transaction takes place, product registration, taxes, social security, etc., etc., so this will mostly affect all these marketing tracker twats, rather than legitimate business!

Google+ lets in nicknames, slams door on plebs' pseudonyms

Interestingly...

or not, as the case may be...

I've had my online nickname since the beginning of the public internet why the fuck should I have to change it just to suit them?

Campaign launched to teach consumers about ad-stalking

Opt-in only

What we need is for the browser to pop-up a "do you want to allow this cookie" dialogue and for the cookie to include information about it's purpose. The individual then has complete control over which cookies are allowed and which are not, in an informed manner. Rather than the clandestine method of setting cookies that exists at the moment!

Of course, for those running Firefox, they already have this with No-script/Adblock etc. to some extent.

US Supremes: GPS tracking requires warrant

OR

"The police obtained a court order for the use of such a device, but were a day late in installing it".

Translation: The police obtained a court order for the use of such a device, but installed it a (day/hour/week?) AFTER THE WARRANT EXPIRED.

There, fixed it for you.

SOPA is dead. Are you happy now?

Or do your own adaptation of it

Obviously if you use someone else's screenplay/script, you are infringing THEIR copyright - not the copyright of the original. If you create your own interpretation/adaptation of the original, you are then creating your own copyright of that new version.

isn't it Pippa?

why isn't there a mouse icon too?

The Register to publish other sites' blacked-out content in SOPA protest

Ha ha

That's another reason they need Wiki - they don't even know the language properly!

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android Tablet

Hmmmm.... Nice but...

Can you run a dev. web-server on it? And video editing software?

Until there is a device I can take with me and keep working, it won't be replacing my laptop any time soon. Nice as it is, it would only be a toy in my particular world.

Windows 8 hardware rules 'derail user-friendly Linux'

Maybe

he's trying to use a 20yr old version of linux!

A preview of SOPA: Web shut down before my eyes

It's what the US does...

Ride rough-shod over the rest of the world...

Women pick the family's mobile tech - and pay for it too

And only...

about ten years behind the far east!

Amazon blows $95m on Chinese warehouse

Shirley

it should be Yangtze - not Amazon!

just get my pathetic joke coat...

iPad SURVIVES FALL FROM SPACE

Terminal Velocity...

...is just that. Once you reach the height at which you (or some object) will be travelling at terminal velocity before you (the object) will hit the ground, it really doesn't matter how much higher you go - you are not going to hit the ground any harder, so it's really just a bit academic whether it was space or not!

Ad slingers - obeying EU snoop code is NOT GOOD ENOUGH

Not Really...

If I hit a site like that, I usually just move away and find a better site! (Possibly after investigating what the other script/cookie/site calls are).

Yes! Indeed!

I noted that their site doesn't actually work very well. They must have some js/cookies that were trying to get in place before letting the punter have the whole page. Duh!

Comet 'sold 94,000 pirate Windows CDs', claims Microsoft

Huh?

So how does that work on a blank HDD that has just been fitted to replace the one that bricked?!?

LCD cartel case claims seven more scalps

@JC 2

Indeed! They do absolutely nothing about the anti-competitive practices of the movie & music industries!

Ofcom grills pirates, loses report under fridge for two years

Yes!

And note also, it's the "greedy c**t record company reps." getting the money - not the creative artists!

ISP ordered to drop 'three strikes' rule against pirates

Hmmm...

#Tony: "Gimp mask not fanboi - cause someone's getting fucked!"

Yeah! The general public!

A simple HTML tag will crash 64-bit Windows 7

That was my exact same question!

Why would anyone want to use Safari, full stop!

X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirate caged

PAEDO!!!!!!!!!

That is all... ;-)