Posts by earl grey

Google's Quickoffice taken behind shed ... 'Oh, what's the gun for?'

Pew Pew Pew

There. Took care of Old Yaller and the Yearling.

Cambridge's tiny superconducting magnet breaks strength record

Re: Brittle

but nearly as exciting!

MIT and CERN's secure webmail plan stumped by PayPal freeze

almost signed up for pay-scam

I looked into those wankers a long time ago (pre eBay days) and they wanted more of my life history than my local bank gets; including orifice sizes and organ measurements. I'm used to getting my sandpaper without; so i exited their site and never looked back.

Amazon offers Blighty's publishing industry 'assisted suicide'

Re: On the one hand

IIRC, IBM suggested something like this before iTunes was a gleam in someone's eye. The music industry back then was no smarter than they are now. Turned up their noses as walked (ran) the other way. Book publishers should NOT have entered into the iMonopoly and they wouldn't be in the current sad state. They gave up whatever high ground they had when they slipped into the gutter with Apple holding their heads under.

Foxconn CEO: 'Suicides weren't our fault'

Has anyone pointed out that there is a subtle but important difference between someone committing suicide in the privacy of their own home and someone being thrown out a window at work?

T, FTFY

Retiring Reg hack explains how bass playing = tech reporting

and many thanks

May you long enjoy your reitrement back to the world of music.

Aereo has to pay TV show creators? Yes. This isn't rocket science

Clearly Aereo failed to bend over

Or failed to bend over their customers like the normal cable and broadcasters do. Now they'll be out of this business, but i hope they find a new way to waggle the fingers at the industry insiders.

Google pries open YOUR mailbox, invites developer partners

GMAIL - it kicks your junk to the kerb

Thanks, but no thanks. The government takes care of that for me.

US Supremes just blew Aereo out of the water

The SCROTUMS got this ALL wrong

Apparently they didn't understand the separate antenna and etc. for each and every customer and the oligarchy of big entertainment somehow managed to buy more influence.

US Supreme Court: Duh, obviously cops need a warrant to search mobes

Re: Don't carry IT around

OMG, you just ended this comment session for everyone. The only thing you forgot was Hitler.

Re: Whereas in Blighty...

Does the Maximum Fun Chamber have Maximum Fun Bags?

REVEALED: Google's proposed indie music-killing contract terms

i would put my indie stuff on porntube first

Considering there IS a group working for the indies, i would expect them to get their act together and put up indietube.com ® and go to town with it.

EXPOSED: Massive mobile malware network used by cops globally

all your data are belong to us

Seriously, all of it.

Including the stuff we secretly loaded onto your phone you had no idea about.

France frostily foists flat fizz fear on ICANN's .wine plans

wines du terroir ??/

I think you mean wines du terrior.

Traffic lights, fridges and how they've all got it in for us

Oh Hell No

I don't want anything inside, outside, or near my home "connected" except for my personal computer through the firewall; and it's hardwired. It's bad enough the government can (and will) snoop at will via any means possible (serious stop drinking reminder to those who think otherwise); and the griefers out there will find a way to bollox up your home and devices there if there is any access to the controlling device. I'll just keep my manual cookstove, furnace, leccy, fridge...thanks very much.

DON’T add me to your social network, I have NO IDEA who you are

Watered down?

Please tell me you take your medicine neat and don't use ice or water pollutants....

US spanks phone-jamming vendor with $34.9 MEEELLION fine

Re: "quis custodiet ipsos custodes"

Well played. Have an upvote,

Toyota catches up to William Gibson with LED hood

I'm just going to wait for my automorphing vehicle

so that i can simply tell it what i want it to look like, color, description, and etcetera, and it does it. then the plate changes to some local politician so i can speed. Did I say that?

Re: Knight Rider

By your command...

AT&T: 'twas conniving contractors who nicked your info

I have never understood

Why local utilities think they have any right to ask for SSN when that information has nothing whatsoever to do with providing simple services and you're not talking about large contracts. In many states they are specifically prohibited from demanding such prior to providing services or as a condition of providing services.

A pox on their houses.

Waiting for the prosecution to start

Oh wait, then we would have to REALLY own up to somebody fouling up.

'Hashtag' added to the OED – but # isn't a hash, pound, nor number sign

French or Klingon or Gibberish

That's purely redundant.

I reject out of hand calling # an octothorpe as pulling a nonsense name from one's arse may be entertaining, but certainly not a valid naming convention.

Han Solo headed for lengthy stay in bacta tank after Bay Door Control cockup

so he needs a walker now?

hope that rumour doesn't get legs...

BOFH: On the contrary, we LOVE rebranding here at the IT dept

Needed that

Thanks. Have one.

Déjà spew: US would accept higher bills for less CO₂ by two-to-one

just bend me over now; skip the lube

raise taxes (for whatever proclaimed reason)

piss away money (as usual)

pollution change = 0%

CO2 change = 0%

money out of my pocket = guaranteed to be twice whatever the wankers in step 1 are talking about

Massive news in the micro-world: a hexaquark particle

Make 'em walk the PLANCK

Well done boffins; make the experiment easily repeatable. The more the better and maybe someone will find another new "something". I like your fire.

Silent, spacious and... well, insipid: Citroën's electric C-Zero car

145/65 front, 175/55 rear

Seriously? Two different sizes tyres? What genius thought of that?

What size is the spare? Is there even room for a spare?

Or, worse, are these run-flat? Expensive and ride like bricks.

TrueCrypt hooked to life support in Switzerland: 'It must not die' say pair

Cthulhucrypt

Solves lots of problems all at once.

CERT Oz report: 76 orgs popped in targeted attacks

a drop (25 percent) in security spend

i' sure this ddn't affect paye at the upper levels o managment.

TOADOCALYPSE NOW: Madagascar faces down amphibious assault

sounds funny, but isn't a joke

In the US, they have numerous invasive species that are causing problems (and not just south-o-border ones)...

chestnut blight

emerald ash borer

dutch elm disease

asian carp

large snakes in everglades

kudzu

blackbird

english sparrow

starling

zebra mussel

lost track of how many more

100% driverless Wonka-wagon toy cars? Oh Google, you're having a laugh

Re: yes. but.

It's the only sure-fire population control. the warmies are all for it!

Re: Drivel

All mine. My cruise control is at the end of my leg.

What can The Simpsons teach us about stats algorithms? Glad you asked...

Re: More, MORE!

Well played, Number Six.

Poll: Climate change now more divisive than abortion, gun control

is a "warmist" the opposite of a "douchebag"?

the real question that nobody has an answer to yet it: just what do we do about it?

Amazon turns screws on French publisher: Don't feel sorry for Hachette, it's just 'negotiation'

whingers

Why don't they sell all their fabulous product through their monopoly buddy Apple? I bet they would even cut them a special deal. Meantime, they should open their own shop on their web site (assumes they're actually smart enough to have one) and sell everything they have. No sympathy for them for their prior crooked dealing and now they're paying the piper.

You know all those resources we're about to run out of? No, we aren't

OMG, the sky is falling

The oil will stay in the ground in california because it's a NIMBY state. they use more oil, gas, and electricity than any other state, but don't want anybody drilling in their precious reserves. well, let me give them a big boo hoo. Peak oil nuts are proven wrong, so wring your hands elsewhere.

Re: Ahem.

I'm sorry, but your "discuss the controversy" sounds just like the creationists. they have no argument; they have no knowledge; they have no fact. The "lack" of scarcity is not a question of divergent opinions among the "experts"; the knowledgeable sources were never sourced for the original article.

The only thing i've run out of is gold-pressed latinum; everything else we're good on for a long, long time. good article.

US negotiators in Singapore to unblock TPP negotiations

what's that old song lyric?

Let's call the whole thing off.....

Latest IE flaw being actively exploited

Re: don't get the shakes

More to the point. If you know your 083 sorter you know where the valves (tubes) are located and you know how many brushes it uses for sorting and how to change them.

Comcast exec says wired broadband customers should pay-as-they-go

comcast always rates as the worst

Hold up any mergers or changes until

(1) they get out of the review basement

(2) they divest themselves of content

(3) they schedule upgrades to their network

(4) they drop the idea of limits

(5) they guarantee to open internet

Hey, does your Smart TV have a mic? Enjoy your surveillance, bro

Re: Which is why…

Which is why I will never EVER connect a washing machine/fridge/microwave/over to a network; they'll just automatically connect themselves via wifi as soon as they get power and charge up their battery backup; just like your leccy meter.

'A proper British BOFFIN': Famous Martian prof Pillinger dies aged 70

RIP

And condolences to friends and family.

eBay cops $3bn tax bill after moving its profits back onshore

Re: Explains a lot.

Hahahahaha! I take it you've never actually dealt with a scamming seller!

Had the misfortune to purchase a camera and lenses from someone who claimed they were "clean"'; they were not. Seller claimed the lens diaphrams were clean and not oily; another lie. I had to send the whole lot back at my expense and then make sure I didn't post negative against the shyster so they didn't ruin my rep.

Pot, meet kettle.

Boffins build billion-synapse, three-watt 'brain'

Re: A million neurons?

You mean a million morons?

RIP net neutrality? FCC mulls FAST LANES for info superhighway

@Trevor, et al

The carriers and ISPs don't care what you think and what you want.

They don't have to.

Take your grumpy cat attitude and go elsewhere.

Oh, that's right, there is NO COMPETITION.

Here's your can of lube. Best to use it all.

US Supreme Court supremo rakes Aereo lawman in oral arguments

Help me Obi Wan

Help me understand why the supremes have gone over to the dark side....

BOFH: Oh DO tell us what you think. *CLICK*

Re: Well Done.

You mean, Now what to do till beer time....

USA opposes 'Schengen cloud' Eurocentric routing plan

Re: even more exclusion?

Trying to figure out if that's a big or little deal...??

Why won't you DIE? IBM's S/360 and its legacy at 50

Speaking of remembering

Who recalls LCS and how it was made?

How about the earlier 7080 and 7090 systems that could be programmed from the console?

The valves in the 083....where were they located?

You could actually read the data from a 7 track tape directly off tape with a viewer.

Card register anyone?

Crashed NORKS drones discovered by South Korea

Re: Auntie Bee has pictures of the drone

I miss the sweet Moderatrix.