Posts by earl grey

Wanna sell a phone in New York? Better have a receipt

"kill switch"

It's called a trigger.

Amateur image-wrangler reveals stitched snap of Saturn's splendour

it's easy to tell it's from above

If it was from down under, you'd have seen its arse.

Alarming tales: What goes on INSIDE Reg hack's hi-tech bedroom

Sex in one bed?

Why use just one (bed, that is...)

Two alarms for me...one next to bed; t'other in the bathroom set to go off 5 minutes later. Wife at other end of house. Sex? What's that?

Whodathunkit? Media barons slit own throats in flawed piracy crackdowns

how much extra?

So, how much extra for the wankers in the cinema?

Bonking boffins say bacon biters won't breed

Re: Fish as alternative to bacon...

post-pub ninja snack

er, sorry...read that as post-jub ninja snack

never mind

NHS preps spammy mailshots advertising 'BIGGEST medical data grab in HISTORY'

what could possibley go wrong?

Well, just about everything.

Video thrilled the radio star: Tracking the history of magnetic tape

thank you

great series; please continue.

Facebook RIPS away your veil of privacy, declares NO MORE HIDING

No FailBook for me, thank you

seriously, no. as the ad campaign said, "just say no".

BOFH: Welcome to Helldesk, ma'am, may I take your bags?

well played

Cheers

Atomic clocks come to your wrist

laser inside?

Not going to bother until i can get lasers for my firkkin' sharks, thank you!

Lighting bods blind designophiles with LED-powered lounge lamps

still waiting

for my 300W LED replacements....mogul base, of course.

Mini-Me, stop humping the 'L-A-S-E-R': New 3D tech can make a Mini-You

the more detail the better

I wouldn't want my mini-me to come out looking like Jabba.

Tracking the history of magnetic tape: A game of noughts and crosses

Stiction anyone?

Where's that pack of reflective markers when you need them? Who actually remembers how to roll out a crease in a tape?

Thanks....lots of memories stored there.

Unisys cranks Xeon mainframe oomph above legacy CMOS iron

thanks, nice article

As someone who grew up on Univac 49x and early 1100 series machines, it's nice to see where they are going and i always read your writeups about them. Cheers

Turnbull floats e-vote, compulsory ID

I have long recommended a "none of the above"

With the proviso that when "none" is the winning vote; all the clowns in that catergory are then prohibited for further polluting the ballot for at least 10 years. It would rid the elections of a majority of idiots in a few short years and the parties; should they hope to survive; would be forced to put forth some truly viable candidates who aren't some fringe nutcase bought by whatever big business or lobbyist group wants to contol them.

Enterprise storage: A history of paper, rust and flash silicon

interesting, yet....

The basic hollerith card was not the only one used in computing; nor was the teletype paper tape the only one used. you also have (as briefly noted) drum storage like Fastrand and FH432, etc. and really quitely stepped over the vast array of disk drives and the changes made (similar to the changes made in card sorters with tube and wire sensors for reading).

Too bad nothing about card punches, interpreters, collators, and etc.

I know this wasn't supposed to be a history book; so thanks!

Don't tell the D-G! BBC-funded study says Beeb is 'too right wing'

banking morons

who can possibly still think at this point that the people who created the financial crisis are actually knowledgeable and expert at what they're doing and not simply incompetent boobs not really qualified to give their opinion on a bacon sarnie on any given day?

Autogyro legend Ken Wallis hangs up wings at 97

+1

RIp and condolences to the family.

Here's to clear skies and slow breezes and a great flight.

Science fiction titan Frederik Pohl dies, aged 93

RIP

And condolences to the familty for their (and our) loss. Here's another...

Baffled boffins 'closer' to finding origins of extragalactic COSMIC RAYS

Re: data is a plural word

Please send new keyboard. thx

Behind the candelabra: Power cut sends Britain’s boxes back to the '70s

snails

take that old beer out of the back of your shed and pour some in a shallow tray and set in the garden. you will collect a surprising array of shelled and non-shelled slimy misbegots and can dispense with them right away.

Climate change even worse than you thought: It causes war and murder

Re: Simple

Here's one for you.

Please buy me a new keyboard now.

Highway from HELL: Volcano tears through 35km of crust in WEEKS

Thanks

Had not read this elsewhere; very interesting.

BOFH: Don't be afraid - we won't hurt your delicate, flimsy inkjet printer

BAH! newbies

Seen and used too many of the old chain, band, and solid drum printers to recall half the details. Any one of them could eat you up and spit you out. Four part paper? BAH! We used to have six part with the carbon insert and have to decollate the whole mess. Just try to keep each stack straight and then have the other forms you had to burst (including true "tabbed" cards). Next thing you know you'll be talking about sorting, end-printing, and interpreting cards.

kids.....

New Kiwi spook law allows domestic prying

Re: About time

anyone with a clue understands that the government needs to spend its time tending to normal affairs and not be spying on its citizens.

Royston cops' ANPR 'ring of steel' BREAKS LAW, snarls watchdog

Whingers invited

Hertfordshire Constabulary have invited all the whingers to drive through so they can gather your information and properly welcome you to their fair towne. You might be leaving with a few extra lumps and bumps, but they will gladly show you out.

Jackboot dangled over NSA's throat for US spy dragnet outrage

All the justification we need

Because we can....

Laser-wielding boffins develop ETERNAL MEMORY from quartz

need now, before government intervention

I need a good source to store my yottabytes of adult material. thank you.

Sir Maurice Wilkes centenary - 'Flash-Gordon' tech

I remember using one of those

We had a small round "reader" which could be used to read the bits on tape. You just slid the tape underneath and you could read everything. Wish I still had one around.

Cultivated dope-smoking Welshman barred from own shed

Re: I stopped reading at..

Oh, i thought you said Middle Earth....

Nevermind...

Anons: We milked Norks dry of missile secrets, now we'll spaff it online

More likely it's Sailor Moon

There there now....

Apple: If you find us guilty in ebook price-fix trial, EVERYONE suffers

Amazon cornered the market all right...

Amazon cornered the market by being first to market with a decent product and price and Apple didn't want to deal with that. They wanted a special kick to help them make tonnes of money and hurt Amazon. Apple didn't ever care about the book sellers themselves or the customers.

Remember, the book sellers themselves could have at any time come up with their own readers; their own online market; and their own online selling prices.

They did not.

Re: Apple haters out in force today

You have entirely missed the boat. This isn't at all about Apple Haters; it's about hating Apple and their price fixing crooked business dealing that cost consumers millions of dollars extra (for nothing gained).

I, for one, welcome our GIANT TITANIUM INSECT OVERLORDS

but do they still burn

when you put one under a magnifying glass out in the sun?

Microsoft touts business features of Windows 8.1

I find your lack of faith in Win8 disturbing

On the other hand, it proves you aren't a total dumbass.

Paying a TV tax makes you happy - BBC

race to the bottom looks like

I like a nice bottom from time to time.....

Supreme Court silence seals Thomas-Rasset's file sharing fate

I am NOT an RIAA shill

But you do understand, don't you, that the RIAA originally offered to let her settle for only $3,000 ?

Yes, that's right....only $3K (which she still didn't have; no argument there). And if she really had 1700 songs she had downloaded and was sharing; that's less than $2 apiece in "penalties" and she blew that off.

I don't work for the RIAA (or like them in any way), but she's been a jerk through this and so has Joel (he tried to throw his whole family under the bus as "the downloaders"). Sorry, no sympathy here.

Lenovo: Windows 8 is so good, everyone wants Windows 7

shove everything through one pigeonhole

Right idea, wrong hole. Lenovo, formerly IBM pc business, probably has a corporate memory of MS bending them over the barrel and giving it to them good (by which i mean, monopoly power rogering). I would expect that they MUST supply win8 with new machines in order to keep selling the preferred win7 to their customer base; or risk being cut off by MS again.

BOFH: My HELPDESK HELL - lies, phones lines and statistics

it's about time

i missed the "Kzzzerrrt"; was expecting the "Kzzzerrrt"; the boss needs the "Kzzzerrrt". let's get on with it.

Carrie Fisher dusts off THAT bikini for Star Wars VII

so she looks like Jabba now

Give it up. Whatever they do we don't have any control over at all.

And please, don't break my heart mentioning THE MODERATRIX. Sorely missed, that one is.

Oz Senator says Google Glass could 'end privacy as we know it'

Dear Mr. Creepy:

I hate to be the one to have to tell you, but people ARE animals and they do ANIMAL things with each other (vs being vegetables or minerals; although a number fit those categories once planted).

Google to offer 'same-day delivery' Amazon Prime killer - report

Seriously doubt Google can deliver

Even before Amazon prime was available, i had no complaints about their delivery schedule and when i got a wrong selection, they shipped the correct one same day and emailed me a prepaid RMA. Now that i leech off prime from one of the sprog, it's an even better deal. I do see room for Amazon to improve their merchandise line (yeah, there are plenty of things they don't list); but Google shopping....? WTF is Google shopping? Even with their search engine expertise, their "shopping" feature is a big zero. Either they will have to compete with Amazon on Amazon's home turf, or they will most likely fail.

Dalek designer Ray Cusick passes away aged 84

Thank you sir!

And RIP.

Condolences to the family.

E-taxes aren't really stuffing Uncle Sam's pockets enough

you're forgetting federal excise tax

which is mostly hidden now by the companies that have to collect it....but it's a holdover from long ago and still being collected on certain purchases to line the feds pocket whilst picking ours.

I'm not sure why the states think they would be better off taking money out of my pocket which i can spend on other things and handing it over to them so they can piss it away. I can do plenty of that, myself...thank you!

Official: America now a nation of broadband whingers

duopoly my hiney

In goodly parts of the US there is NO duopoly at all; you are lucky to have ONE provider of high speed (??) internet and if you aren't lucky, you have nothing. Furthermore, for those providers of "high speed", most provide the poor country cousin of actual high speed and at exorbitant pricing. wankers, one and all. The folks doing that "study" are bought and paid for by the incumbent network providers (who have one desire...excess profits for as little as possible for the "customer"). Bend over America; here it comes again.

Re: Pass the (data) potato

They call it comcrap country because the city tried to hold up verizon to giving them all kinds of "freebies" and verizon said, "no thanks" and refused to fibre up the city. hard to know which is the bigger douchbag there.

Seagate squeezes out 4TB desktop monster

I remember.....

You kids get off my lawn.....

And i never mount drives any more....

Too hard on the equipment.

I let the computer do it..

That kelp bit is all a wet dream, of course....

Under cap-and-trade, flying is greener than taking the bus

It's all about picking your pocket

And lining someone else;s pocket. the end.

'Broke' Estonian suspect pleads guilty to DNSChanger click fraud scam

five years for 14M

how about enough chokey time until it's all paid back from hard labour>

Unisys watches ClearPath mainframe sales climb

Good for them

Hope they can keep up the work. Good to see some competition out there.