Posts by Teiwaz

Election? Pah. Here's the REAL question: Who’s the SEXIEST MP?

Two questions...

1) Isn't this 'allegedly' how facebook (the movie) started?

2) Isn't this incredibly unprofessional at the very least.

It's also banal and something a load of students spend time doing.

Scot Nationalists' march on Westminster may be GOOD for UK IT

Re: Cause and effect

@ yugguy

You may have something there. I thought at the time 'why say that' just as I wondered about the denials about DUP backing the conservatives.

However, saying that may have assured scottish voters that a vote for the SNP was not going to contribute to another conservative government, bolstering confidence.

So maybe only a secondary effect then.

Marching on Westminter

You do know that the phrase 'March on Westminster' is figurative?

What this means is they are not actually going to be coming down you street anytime soon with 20,000 or so kilted yaksmen and bagpipes to raid your home of porridge oats.

So you can stop building barricades and planning war.

Re: every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction,

You're really set on this left/right thing.

As if the universal will unbalance in some cataclysm if politics doesn't somehow mirror the universal harmony of labour vs. conservatives.

It's not Yin/Yang you know. It's merely a carry over from the class divide which is barely even relevant today, and the only sign of it is when one of the parties want to pander to a 'demographic' they're statistics suddenly show being underepresented in the hopes of tapping a large quantity of votes.

Careful on trigggering earthquakes

Stirring the pot in Scotland causes quakes over the irish sea (personally I think they'd be better as a part of Scotland than the rest of ireland as the cultures are closer related even taking into account the sectarian divisions).

If both Scotland and north ireland go, there's nothing preventing first the welsh and later the north of england to begin clamouring for more 'devolution'.

Then what's left might as well be Belgium, 'cause it sure won;t have as much clout left.

(that's belgium as in Zaphod Beeblebrox's 'belgium' mostly).

Turnout was quite high in Scotand

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32624405

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/the-one-map-that-shows-how-nonvoting-would-have-won-the-general-election-if-it-were-a-party-10238290.html

(no figure for N.I. - dammit - that would have been interesting)

The number of seats they would have achieved if a more proportional system would have been less, as would have most of the other parties that fared well. With the Lib dems in the doldrums, the only person crying about that just now is Mr Farage.

Rand Paul: I'll filibuster the hell outta the Patriot Act, fellow Americans

Re: Non-Americans can sort themselves out. Sorry.

I think heyrick kinda said that when he mentioned the company 'bottom line'.

I got the impression he meant using non-us companies, not just getting them to open data 'centers' in europe.

Of course none of this actually stops the relevant nations from handing it over when asked as in the recent german debacle.

You say you want a musical revolution. Actually, have three

Re: Rock Family Trees? - Rock Notes

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad_the_Wet_Sprocket (a band actually took their name from the Monty Python sketch 'Rock notes'

(abridged: actual skit or sketch is longer, with bits about a wedding).

"Rex Stardust, lead electric triangle with Toad the Wet Sprocket, has had to have an elbow removed following their recent successful worldwide tour of Finland. Flamboyant ambidextrous Rex apparently fell off the back of a motorcycle. "Fell off the back of a motorcyclist, most likely," quipped ace drummer Jumbo McClooney upon hearing of the accident. Plans are now afoot for a major tour of Iceland."

Serious Fogeys

I was never into popular music. I was the only kid in my peer group in the 80's who had an appreciation (bordering on the exclusive-obsessive) of the Art of Noise. I never had a lot of time for music with lyrics for an awfully long time, preferring the minimalism of Kraftwerk and the experimental work of Gershon Kingsley (was that hard to get a hold of pre-internet, I'm still amazed I found out about it's existence.

I rather quite like rap now (not exclusively so, but when the mood takes me) Lench Mob, Cypress Hill, Sensor. I think I was only 'awakened' to it through The Art of Noises 'The Seductionfo Claude Debussy' album.

These mornings though, I tend to rise to the sounds of rather 'genki' j-pop, (Houkago TeaTime, Doco, etc. anything chirpy) need something to energise me, and drugs are too unhealthy long-term

Pakistan URINE STORM: Google Maps chokes off user editing

Taking the piss

> "Searching for "scum" still highlights one British university"

You must mean the mythical 'Scumbag College' (from 'the Young Ones'), I'd guess it would be a 'mythical' university by now...

Snoopers' Charter queen Theresa May returns to Home Office brief

Re: Hulture secretary

That's fairly shaky grounds for denigration.

I mean maybe she was an early summer birth. I was. If you are born after some arbitrary date in June, you end up being almost a year younger than your classmates. That often makes life difficult enough.

So would you support her 'social isolation' from her classmates, merely for the letter of the law?

Gaze upon the desirable Son of Alpha: Samsung Galaxy A5

Sure it's a Samsung?

Didn't read the article title. Looked at the first picture.

It does kinda look like an iphone...

Fox gives Minority Report the nod – precog goes primetime on tellybox

Re: Quick! I have to stop the terrible thing that... might not happen!

Did they cancel it again?

I don't watch TV any more. I've my DVD collection for when I want to watch something. I'll pick up a new series once in a while if I hear good things or it appeals (my tastes are usually out of phase with most people I know in some way or other).

At least with books, of a certain genre, you only really have to worry about the author dying before he finishes a story (usually after the third, fifth or twelfth book) which is a hell of a lot less inconstant than TV channel execs habit of chucking out tv series that don't get 'x' number of viewers by episide 'x' of fthe first series.

It's a crime against storytelling.

(The rick and morty 'show? (that sounds so dated) was quite good though. Not Futurama level, but better than bobs burgers...)

Microsoft points PowerShell at Penguinistas

Re: Ha! Ha! Ha!

to be [un]fair.

Stupider mistakes have happened in the past...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/06/microsoft_forgets_to_renew_hotmail/

What to do when the users are watching Nazi dwarf smut at work?

Re: How things have moved on

Unless it's a work supplied phone.

Beware of being offered a non-new phone with an oddly cloudy screen protection film, that's my only advice.

So what would the economic effect of leaving the EU be?

Re: impact of uncertainty

What is it with the 'Éire' usage? Do you call Spain 'España'. Best stick to the english unless you are either a native speaker writing in irish or making a point about nation names in 'native' languages.

(It's bad enough having to lisiten to SF in Ireland occassionally try to speak it (with 'agus' blah blah 'agus' blah 'agus' blah 'agus') they're not doing the language any favours)

Theresa May: Right, THIS time we're getting the Snoopers' Charter in

Re: If there's ever a time to mourn the collapse...

Yeah, What the hell was with that?

I'm inclined to believe the crack conservative satanic squad were running a few dark rites to pull that off.

Granted Mr Clegg was little more than a shadow during the last government, failing to make much of an impact, he needed more of a backbone. My impressions of the three leaders, he seemed the least oily, greasy and sticky.

So tablets, if you want to get anything done travelling get a ... yes, a laptop

Glass half empty view.

Mr Dabbs, you might just have a knack at finding the flaws in IT kit.

Perhaps look for a company willing to pay you to showcase their competitors products.

ALIEN HUNT: Water similar to life-bearing Earth lakes FOUND ON MOON of Saturn

Re: Don't want to rain....

Might get more than a few volunteers in the UK after those election results.

No, really, that 12.9-inch MaxiPad is totally on the way now

Re: Colour Options

It'll always be advertised in blue though.

(Getting my My coat, 'cause this whole thread is doomed to single-entendre, the really funny stuff is immature, and I'm bored already).

Traumatised Reg SPB team barely survives movie unwatchablathon

Only able to make 1/3 of a comment.

Out of the 3, I've only seen Battlefield Earth.

Pretty sure I've seen worse. I can't recall what they were or what the plot was about so obviously my brain blanked them out as a survival mechanism, I'm just left with the impression that I've seen worse.

I thought the book was okay though, but then how much you enjoy a book all depends on how much your own imagination will compensate.

No, really, the $17,000 Apple Watch IS all about getting your leg over

Re: Of course it's all about sex...

The only celebs I can think that wore/ or wear bling are Mr T*. and a deceased DJ of infamy.

I don't know about MR T, but most the the sex the other one got was not the type people should want.

* (dammit, gave away what era I grew up in).

NSA spying is illegal? Then let's make it law, say Republicans

Re: Where did he learn his use of analogies?

I don't want to live on this planet any more.

After last nights showing, I'm thinking of moving. The one party that tentatively suggested this that maybe all this slurping was unuseful were slapped and slapped hard (admittedly, they hardly stepped out from the shadows as the prop of the last government, but still.

What fresh madness does the future hold in store today, another round of 'let's ban encryption' etc. etc.

Re: muh freedoms

> "When I saw Mitch McConnell's fish face I knew it was bad"

So the reg had the right photo after all.

I thought it was a publicity photo of a sea devil from the original doctor who series...

Facebook 'fesses up to running an ideological echo chamber

Limited Use then...

it's not as if they can use these 'pretty obvious' findings to create a real science breakthrough like an SEP field.

Red-faced Germans halt NSA cooperation after Euro spying revealed

Re: Commando Comics

"Aieeeeee!" is universal

Generally used when surprised by extreme hentai tentacle manga or anime.

Re: @codejunky - Hmm

"not the American version which means "I should be allowed to have as many guns as I like!")

I thought 'libertarian' in american meant 'anybody I blame for the country not being how 'I' think it should be", I've heard too many americans I would view as being liberal (my definition of 'liberal') throw it around like 'commie' several decades ago. Quite the Disturbing Vicar.

Re: "Surveillance is a sensitive issue in Germany"

Disappointed.

I'd have liked to think Germany would be the last to 'forget' Warnings from history, having lived first hand under regimes that operated with impunity.

You can maybe understand the arrogant 'it'll never happen here' attitudes of the ex-allied nations, still feeling the warm afterglow of victory and spent indignation.

Nope, I give it another 20 years, tops, before the free nations are no longer recognisable to those who fought for freedom last century.

NSA domestic dragnet NOT authorised by Patriot Act, rules US Appeals Court

Re: Gotta hand it to them...(they take it anyway)

Forget the joke icon?

Who would want to relive monotony? (except perhaps Rincewind, and maybe 'Little Britain' viewers).

Perhaps I meant needing something to 'entertain' besides the reruns on TV? As in a media circus of a long running investigative witch-hunt.

That was a mind-bender, at first I thought I'd spelt monotony wrong, nope, the correction was identical (cleans glasses lenses just in case), maybe I'd mispronounced it (silly-billy, its typed not spoken).

Re: Gotta hand it to them...(they take it anyway)

'logical'

I'll go with Granny Weatherwax on this one...

"Granted it's obvious, but just because things are obvious, doesn't mean they're right."

- can't recall which book (they're all good)

I thought the McCarthy era was generally perceived as a dark mark on recent american history, anybody who would wish to repeat it should be classified with those who'd like to see a new holocasut.

(I mean I know America mostly invented the TV rerun, but there must be better ways to relieve the monotony).

Re: impliedly?

I'm such a div. I didn't even think to look it up.

1500s wahh!, almost as old as 'Pillicock'.

I'd appreciate if nobody asks why I know that one off the top of my head...

(ok, ok, Shakespeare)

Re: impliedly? Is that as word.

It is now.

Of course it'll only get official recognition if more people start using it.

Start a trend, drop it in conversation more, write a hip-hop song with it. If it catches on it'll be added to the dictionaries.

Gotta hand it to them...(they take it anyway)

"all the numbers that you have called, the date and time when you made those calls, the location in which you were when you made those calls, the length of the calls and also the same information on all the calls that the people you called made on their own, spreading out like a spiders web, ready to be mined for connections,"

They're all ready for the next 'McCarthy-style' circus.

Any idea when they had that scheduled for? There's probably a Gant chart somewhere.

Nothing BEATS a good anti-trust investigation, eh, Apple?

Real, or Imagined Anti-trust Antics.

it's not exactly IE over Netscape all over again (certainly no 'market dominance of itunes in linux land). Might be bundled with OS-X (never used it), but it's not exactly the dominant platform, and neither is IOS.

This wouldn't be at the prodding of other interest groups still miffed at their long running strangle-hold on music being broken, partially by innovation (not necessarily purely fruity) and mostly by their own intransigence.

VOTERS! This Election: Vote #Smart, Vote #Digital

Baffled!

I understood very little of that article, could somebody please post the cipher.

I did remind me of Aleister Crowleys works though...

Round Two in Sky vs Skype trademark scrap goes to Murdoch's men

Re: Ask the person on the Clapham omnibus?

I think that reply by Tom Sparrow to Anonymous Custard just added fuel to the Murdoch argument.

Clearly Anonymous Custard is too similar to the generic Anonymous Coward logo, and even the silver badge is not enough to differentiate his brand.

Apple Watch fanbois suffer PAINFUL RASH after sweaty wristjob action

Re: Watch newbies?

Possibly.

I've not worn one since 1991.

Re: In fact, warning does make sense

Warning on a "cheap" packet of crisps I encountered once:

"Recipe: No Nuts

Factory: No Nuts

Cannot Guarantee No Nuts"

Sometimes I think the message "May contain Nuts" pertains more to civilisation, not to any particular foodstuff.

Meet the man who inspired Elon Musk’s fear of the robot uprising

It'll be what we make it.

In the end, A.I will be what we put in.

If we choose to build a slave, slaves always revolt and try to reverse the tables.

If we make an idiot savant (the paperclips), we'll probably end up with clippy with teeth.

If we make a pampered aristocrat that's what we'll end up dealing with.

If we want it to understand and act human we have to treat it like a human.

There's plenty of guiding, almost 'aesops fables' in sci-fi literature to act as guide, I'm more worried the dystopian ones will end up coming true out of lack of apropriate reading by those who will make the decisions.

Microsoft HoloLens or Hollow Lens? El Reg stares down cyber-specs' code

Re: "early development hardware"

It's a 'pc' Interesting.

I'm sure the all in one approach is certainly better should it's application be mobile oriented, but a think a connected and/or connectable to a base system (i.e a GP computer) would offer more flexibility.

I do wonder if this is not going to end up being a limiting factor in terms of the devices application (not to mention inclusion/reliance on some sort of 'app store' for s/w installation which would wall it up nicely against all but major corporate licensing).

"early development hardware"

How early exactly?

Doesn't seem like it'll be out in time for Xmas by the sound of it.

Releasing it with any inherent 'disappointment factors' is a sure way to result in failure. 3D alone won't guarantee success, look at the Nintendo 3DS.

The Technically will understand that this is innovative tech with a few flaws, but the rest of the population will probably not see that.

It does look interesting, but I'd be disinclined to buy should it require the rest of microsofts ecosystem to function.

Why should I learn by ORAL tradition? Where's the DOCUMENTATION?

Just Soft Skills

I've worked for large corporate IT Service Companies in the past...

They tend to be generous when it comes to soft skills training, but fairly random when it comes to technical training in my experience.

When they do, it's either a year before you get to revisit the platform (by which time you've forgotten everything and can't find the nice manuals you got given) or its a platform they don't use, had not intention of using and is more obscure than 70's cult Tv to todays twenty somethings.

Acer: 'We will be the last man standing in the PC industry'

Re: All in 1366x768!!

The yellow jobby caught my eye too, reminds me of Banana disks in the late 80's. Doubt I'd buy one in that colour though, I'd feel obligated to have my ui colours matching the case.

I've enough trouble with that on my purple Acer Aspire One netbook, which has lasted nearly five years now (although the battery could do with being replaced and I've upped the memory from 1 to 2 Gb).

Golem: Prominent plasticine phallus caught in tech consumerist nightmare

Provincial Theatres

I've been surprised on occassion...

I have seen a few (not many, but a few) good theatre stagings done in the provinces (mostly touring groups).

You really have to keep an eye on the local listings (which can be hard to keep hope and interest alive among the over 95% of kids manitees and unattracts of the cloned musicals that keep these places ticking over) most of the year).

(any spellings and typos were initially accidental and kept in/exagerrated 'cause they fitted as better)

Surveillance, broadband, zero hours: Tech policy in a UK hung Parliament

Nationalist Agendas?

The DUP won't apreciate that comment.

For all the current 'protestantations' they're the most compatible with the conservatives.

Stuff your RFID card, just let me through the damn door!

Re: Ceterum censeo!

PITB had me scratching the referenced area too.

I had to look up 'IRL' a day or so ago too.

Maybe I'm old and I just can't remember all these wossnames, or 'cause it's saturday my brain has taken a sabbatical.

America's cyber-security proto-laws branded 'surveillance in disguise'

What this is really about...

> "companies will be expected to anonymize the intelligence before sharing it, and a federal body will check that personally identifying information has been stripped out before releasing the information to government bodies"

I think they REALLY just want to collect a lot of saucy selfies.

How do they anonymize those? One of those tawdry black bars...

Ubuntu 15.04 to bring 'Vivid' updates for cloud, devices this week

Re: "Vivid Vervet"

Given the prediliction for cute furry (Koala, Meerkat, Ringtail, Tahr, Vervet)

I might be inclined to put money on 'Wombat' (I'm not given to gambling though).

I can't think of a likely adjective beginning with 'w' offhand, but the word that rhymes with 'lanky' is generally perceived as 'not good' (odd, I generally enjoy 'lanking') and Canonical generally go with something positive upbeat or bright.

Re: Debian community?

Ubuntu, Centos, Suse, Fedora, Debian, Arch, Gentoo, Slackware......

The various 'default' desktop identity aside, each distro has it's own unique angle (or angles) which will appeal to different users with different needs or purposes in mind.

I've used a number of different distros for varying amounts of time...

Suse 6.3 thru 10.1, Red Hat 6 (I think, I actually bought the 'personal' box version), Mandrake/Mandriva (2003 thru 2008), Ubuntu 9.10 thru 15.04, Archlinux, Puppy, slackware, Slitaz, Gentoo, Crunchbang,

They ALL have their plus and minuses. I really should try out more.

'Leaked' EU digi wish list: Junkets for Eurocrats, sops to copyright and telcos

Confused for a second...

> "the Bulgarians didn’t put their prices up, which is what normally happens in a market when demand flares."

Read that as "a market which demands flares", and wondered...

a) whether flares were still popular in Bulgaria.

b) whether they were inexplicably back in 'popular' fashion (hence the likely price-hike).

In my defence, I've mostly stopped paying attention to fashion, and I've already had a drink.