Posts by ashdav

Boffins: There's a ninth planet out there – now we just need to find it

Re: If Pluto is taken.

The coffee shop/restaurant to which you refer is called Milliways.

Try to keep up.

Apple backs down from barring widow her dead husband's passwords

"low and behold"

@AC I agree with your comment wholeheartedly but to which post do you refer?

Unless the miscreant has edited their post in the mean time.

Curse them.

Mozilla tells Persona single sign-on to singularly sign off

Re: Sign in using facebook

@AC

tl:dr

Do you know what paragraphs are?

The sloth is coming! Quick, get MD5 out of our internet protocols

Is This News?

Sorry El Reg.

I prefer news instead of adverts.......

Microsoft in 2015: Mobile disasters, Windows 10 and heads in the clouds

Re: My 5 WIndows 10 machines (of all form-factors) ......

@Paul Crawford

It's Xmas and I'm feeling unusually generous.

My 5 WIndows 10 machines (of all form-factors) ......

@J J Carter

1 day ago you posted this:

"Woof!

That explains why Sheppie, my border collie, started barking and pawing at the computer as soon as I installed Windows 10, he just knew something was terribly wrong."

Make your mind up.

FCC gives small ISPs a pass on open internet rules

Does anyone proof read these articles?

"Local broadband carriers let off regualtion"

Your browser history, IP addresses, online purchases etc all up for grabs without a warrant

"Land Of the Free"

I don't think so.

(not just in this instance but generally).

Telegram Messenger delivers candygrams to stalkers

Re: A simple solution...

You are either amanfromMars or you've been to the pub.

Either way I claim my £5.

Microsoft quietly slips out patched patch for Outlook – in camouflage

Why after all these years....

Eventual death by a thousand cuts.

Doesn't any one test this stuff.

GCHQ director blasts free market, says UK must be 'sovereign cryptographic nation'

Re: Paging David Cameron

Upvoted you for the last sentence.

Microsoft's big Tuesday reveal: New mobiles and slabs? Win 10 shock?

I thought Windows was always about enterprise/business/people that had no where else to go....

Why are they putting so much emphasis on Xbox ?

I get it. That's what they play all day at Redmond not what the rest of the world does.

This will not end well.

Zuck, Gates and Bono in ludicrous internet access for world+dog by 2020 bid

Zuckerberg and Bono

Icons of our time.

And I mean that with a MASSIVE dose of irony (or truth, depends on your point of view)

Giant Facebook SOLAR LASER DRONE to FEED interwebs into YOUR FACE

This will not end well

Title says it all

Record-breaking $502m in sales, BIG LOSSES – OF COURSE IT'S TWITTER

Who else, who else could turn half a billion dollars into nothing

Facebook

"But investors seemed pleased with the results, and Twitter's share price climbed by more than 5 per cent on the news and continued upward in after-hours trading."

This has nothing to do with the viability of Twitter but has everything to do with the money grabbing "markets" that we are all told to embrace.

Goodbye Vulcan: Blighty's nuclear bomber retires for the last time

Re: Why is it painted green UNDERNEATH?

Pale blue paint is expensive

Re: A "Pocket" Bomber

Yes but you can't do aerobatics in a B52 like you can in a Vulcan.

Just ask Bud Holland. (oh, you can't)

Space station cabbage: To boldly grow where no veg has grown before

To boldly grow where no veg has gone before

Kudos for the headline.

Excellent

Innocent Spaniards roasted by experimental napalm mead

Where does one get this from

All well and good but it's just a tease until we try it for ourselves.

Mail order link please.

In memoriam: Christopher Lee, Hammer's Count Dracula

RIP Mr Lee

Although he did resent being constantly referred to as The Prince Of Darkness/Dracula he was a very good actor. I for one shall miss him.

Check out The Wicker Man 1973

RIP Mr Lee.

Hubble spots Pluto's moons are a chaotic mess of tumbling rock

Anyone else think that Nix looks like a potato ?

My first impression anyway.

Gwyneth Paltrow flubs $29 food stamp dare, swallows pride instead

Re: Right! (@Big John)

Wait till you get to 50 and you won't feel so sanctimonious. Prick

(and you can't spell)

Self preservation is AWS security's biggest worry, says gros fromage

Gros Fromage ?

Gros fromage means fat cheese.

Grand fromage would be better surely

(unless I've missed something)

RELICS of the Earth's long lost TWIN planet FOUND ON MOON

Re: Bah!

Fundamental flaw in your post "some 3 trillion years ago".

The universe didn't exist then.

Looking at your post history (going back to 2008) do you have a life?

Streak life: Oz woman flashes boobs at Google Street View car

Political correctness

PC bollocks - you offend everyone (apparently)

Real life - it's a laugh and you move on (next)

By the way, I am a grown up and I do not require anyone to tell me what to think.

Tits are for children (literally)

Virgin Media goes TITSUP, RUINS Tuesday evening

@Vimes

It's engineering,shit happens.

Grow up and get over your sense of entitlement.

You have a silver only because of the number of posts you've made.

Any relevance is mute.

(How old are you?)

Blockhead fugitive Snapchats himself into police custody

Dumb Criminals

Reminds me of a clip shown on Americas Dumbest Criminals.

Suspect is being interviewed by the police re. a burglary.

Officer " We know you were there. We found your prints all over the place".

Suspect " You couldn't have".

Officer "Why?"

Suspect "Because I was wearing gloves".

You couldn't make it up.

BBC websites GO TITSUP – Auntie blames 'internal system failure'

Radio Feeds

I just wish they would sort out the radio feeds (all of them) so they don't cut off after 30-60 secs.

They never used to so obviously they've been "IMPROVED".

'Roly poly' soft, wobbly robot BANGS EXPLOSIVELY, leaps 0.5m in air

Re: Cat Scarer

Wait a little longer and we shall have:

"Sharks with frikkiin' lasers!"

It will come. Oh yes, it will come.

Re: Where

Here you go Youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6-6ycIaSDs

Skip forward to 3:35.

Terrahawks

Anyone else think of them?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085099/

Pi(e) Day of the Century is upon us! Time to celebrate 3/14/15 in style, surely?

Re: Every year, the same B*ll*x

Ha Ha. 31st April. Good one.

Twitter probes terror threat: Medieval murder mob ISIS allegedly puts co-founder in crosshairs

Edit

It would have read better if :

"It is not clear whether the Arabic-language post was made by individuals within ISIS, their warped supporters, or a lone nutcase."

Had been replaced by:

"It is not clear whether the Arabic-language post was made by individuals within ISIS, their warped supporters, or some other nutcase."

There are so many these days, of all persuasions.

RIP Leonard Nimoy: He lived long and prospered

Boldly Gone

RIP

Post-pub nosh neckfiller: El Reg eggs Benedict

Muffins

Easier to buy the muffins and warm them under the grill after cutting them in half.

Adds a bit of crispness too.

I'll bet most people end up with spicy scrambled eggs when they try to make the sauce.or it splits.

If it does, add a few drops of water and whisk.

Looks wonderful but I've got to make do with roast chicken today.

Boffins baffled by the glowing 'plumes' of MARS

Re: Speaking of Mars...

Lots happening on the 20th Mar.

Decent solar eclipse visible from UK

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/uk/belfast

Enter your town to see what it will look like.

Google, Amazon 'n' pals fork out for AdBlock Plus 'unblock' – report

Re: Begun the Ad Wars have

@TheVogon

You're using IE(insert version of choice)?

Seriously?

What is this Charm Bar of which you speak?

I have real computers and none of them have magic "Charm Bars"

I smell shill.

#VultureTRENDING: YESS! It's Pantsr, the Sharing Economy super app that delivers on the BOTTOM line

2 months early methinks.

Post-pub nosh neckfiller: Chickpea stew à la Bureau des Projets Spéciaux

Re: Garlic optional?

It's not "le garlic".

It's "ail".

Have one on me.

Re: Tres enticing

Non. creme salade.

Re: Après bière?

So what's not to like?

MYSTERY RADIO SIGNAL picked up from BEYOND our GALAXY

Re: AstroPulse= a 2010 Parks project ??

I think roger is related to amanfrommars

Boffins - the most annoying word ever. Why the hell is the Reg so in love with it?

If you need to ask that question, I think you're on the wrong website.

Firefox 35 stamps out critical bugs

Re: Have they enabled look like Firefox yet?

Palemoon is what you are looking for..

http://www.palemoon.org/

SpaceX drone hovership ROCKET LANDER BURN: Musk to try again

Boldly going etc....

Give them some slack.

No-one has tried this before.

Kudos to Elon et al.

Lizard Squad gang moves from PlayStation, Xbox Live attacks to Tor

Lizard Squad...

And their point is...?

No better than any yob in any high street.

Judge kills Facebook's bid to dismiss private message sniffing case

The end of Facebook is coming.

You read it here first (err recently)

Solar-powered bra maker suffers 20,000 TITSUPs all at once

Where's Moss when you need him?

Title says it all.

Dark matter-hunting boffins spot EXCITING signal in X-ray spectrum

Re: Old, debunked.

@Bahboh

Links please (or it did not happen)

El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

Re: Fucking shit

Quick, Modern, Fresher.

Hmm... So that will be..

Quick - flatter (no graphics to render)

Modern - (following the sheep)

Fresher - (it looks like a fucking phone)

Also looks like a wall of text. Why do you need consultants to to tell you this is WRONG?