Posts by b166er

Tim Berners-Lee: Coalition mustn't be 'lazy' on open data

Title? erm...yeh

The Register?! an Organ?!!!

You must be swollen with pride

NASA hands out second-hand shuttles

Frostbite

I've read both the Rogers Commision report and the CAIB report which are both fascinating in their own rights. They're obviously also extremely grim in parts.

Whether or not the tape was destroyed, in the interests of decency and respect for those who lost their lives (and the loved ones they left behind), don't you think it's reasonable that we don't have any more information?

Would you like to see footage of these guys realising what is upon them.

Are you one of the rubber-necked twits that causes further danger on the motorways by slowing down to have a good gawp?

It is the pinnacle of human endeavour to reach for the stars. Every time a crew boards a spaceship, they understand the hightened risk and in spite of that, they dare to go. Every shuttle flight includes some debris impact on take-off and yet still they go.

Hats off to them

BT reveals fibre-to-the-cabinet plans for 156 exchanges

Eh?

AndrueC, let me get this right. You draw the line at paying for rural people to get NextGenAccess, but it's just fine for them to subsidise your nice fast connection?

Tosser

Wind power: Even worse than you thought

Tit le

Why not just mandate ground source heat pumps on all new build?

And, as someone else pointed out, turbines in the water courses.

There are also large numbers of underground water courses to be exploited.

Had I a decent head where I live, I'd be installing a turbine in a moment.

Mind you, if I could get good head where I live, I wouldn't be muttering these infernal tootlings :D

Pre-release Windows 8 code hits PC makers

Fixing it

On the subject fo System Reset and your opinion that that's the 'Microsoft Way', how about the OEM's who think it's funny to add 'Just Enough RAM' and fully populate the slots with smaller sticks so your machine starts to crawl once you install 3 apps.

Plus, Microsoft have started selling PC's without all the OEM crap on in the first place 'cause they understand it's a problem.

Whenever I see a Windows PC at a crawl, it's usually got very little to do with Microsoft and more to do with TSR applications installed by Apple, Googe, Dell, HP, Toshiba etc.

Expand the system tray and you'll find plenty of evidence for a machine running slowly and most of it has nothing to do with Microsoft.

Agreed, they're copycats, but disagree slow Windows boxes are much to do with MS.

Berlusconi calls George Clooney to his defence

bitches

I read that as 'an attempt to get laid in Darfur'

Steve Jobs vindicated: Google Android is not open

Don't agree

with your opinion on this Cade.

It's just as likely that Google would rather keep the code hidden just now, to prevent it getting hacked onto phones and giving users a bad experience with Android.

At a time when Android has great traction against the other mobile software plaforms, it seems very sensible to make sure users have a good experience until they're ready to open the source code to allow for other hardware platforms.

They have to go to market now with a decent tablet based OS, in order to keep up with Apple. This it seems comes at the expense of not having time to prepare Honeycomb for smaller devices. That's a fair trade-off in order to stay shoulder to shoulder with Apple until they can nudge ahead and open the code.

A fiver says they open the code once they've blown Apple's tablet sales out of the water.

Vodafone takes orders for PlayStation phone

TAB ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope this takes off, purely so it proves the market and there are HTC etc copies so we get an open (ish) handheld gaming platform/phone.

Who cares about all the Sony dross, it's the hardware gaming controls I want.

Hamburg vice girls to be serviced by cable car

Hmmm

let me see, 18 minutes you say?

More cocaine found at Kennedy Space Center

NASA

Nasally Assisted Space Adventures

Direct action group defaces Vodafone in tax avoidance protest

alexh2o

So you're saying we should turn a blind eye?

A big 'well done' to Vodafone for operating a business in this country, making itself and its shareholders profit and at the same time, don't worry about that 'small' indiscretion.

Or to put it another way, we like the fact that you're making lots of money and are helping pay for our community, so we'll just forget about that 'little' matter of you screwing us over.

Your parents must be proud of you.

PS Vodafone contracts are pish anyway.

PlayStation Phone spied in China

Playstation App

Perhaps they're going to do GaaS (yes, yes), something like OnLive.

As ever though, there will be some capitalist twist with it being Sony, like 10p per minute played or something.

Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 - what's in it for you?

Yes but,

have they removed the restriction on Terminal Server (RDS).?

Can you publish RemoteApps from the DC?

Dell netbook-cum-tablet priced up

Tit el

Excellent!

From the Microsoft Signature site "Start using your PC right away

After installing Windows 7, we pre-loaded only the software you need and removed the trial versions and bloatware that you don't, so you don't have to spend hours setting up your PC—it's ready to run, right out of the box."

Bloatware indeed, ROFL.

Still, well played MS, perhaps OEM's will take a leaf out of their book.

Top Ten Arcade Classics

Tit le

Splatterhouse, Altered Beast, Track'n'Field, Pacland. Our local Pacland was mastered by one guy. When this happened, an on-board fuse blew which meant from then on Trip 1-1 started at a faster speed!

Always will remember being at the fair while they were packing up and just hearing a rather eerie 'Remember, the force will be with you, always' coming from the arcades every few minutes.

Ya-hoo!

US may disable all in-car mobile phones

Tit le

If they're prepared to go to all this trouble to stop people using their phones whilst driving (which I'm in favour of), then why the hell aren't they going to the effort of installing technology that prevents speeding in residential ares?

Security major strops over MS free scanner auto-downloads

Cry me a river

AV companies should have seen this coming and stopped 'infecting' OEM machines with their cycle-sapping bloatware.

I've been telling friends and relatives to go with MSE, and that's got nothing to do with Microsoft Update

AV software is shite these days anyway, I find SAS or MBAM and bleepingcomputer much more helpful and that's because most threats get past AV.

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BT network goes titsup up north

Yes but

to those who think I don't pay enough or don't have failover, I do.

This happened on Friday as well remember. Once is acceptable. But to repeat the incident?

Perhaps none of you have met enough Openreach engineers. Suckers

Eh?

I thought the internet was conceived to deal with exactly this kind of problem.

Maybe it's that the internet was, but BT wasn't. What a piss poor show.

Toshiba AC100 Android smartbook

10?

That's a bit harsh, surely. The hardware is great according to the author, so at least 50%, no?

LOST Vulture One PARIS spaceplane FOUND!!!

Tit le

So, only a small hole after re-entry, bravo!

Futuristic Judge Dredd smartguns issued to 101st Airborne

How long

before technology makes war irrelevant?

Screwpop Tool

Ah but...

does the bit-holder fit DVI/VGA/COM connector bolts?

Tesla Motors: Our cars don't burst into flame, but our emails do

AC @ 21:08

'As such, their reputations remain untarnished'

That's some of the funniest shit I've ever read dude

eBay Meg still chasing California's top job

Yes, that's all very well, Jake, but

I don't pay much attention to the political ramblings of one Roger Waters, but the album Animals (and to a somewhat lesser extent, The Wall, Pro's and Con's, etc) is fucking amazing. So what's your point?

The Register comment guidelines 2010

Gravedigging I know

but surely one aims to reign in ones pedantry :)

HABITABLE ALIEN WORLD discovered 20 light-years away!

Our secret's safe

How would they translate the Bebo gibberish into their own language anyway?

I always chuckle when I hear that we're broadcasting something into space. It's not like we've decoded their broadcasts yet, so how the fuck are they going to understand ours?

One of the fascinating aspects of meeting another race, would be how language had developed for them and how possible would it be to translate between the two.

No one needs Blu-ray, says Microsoft exec

Bandwidth aside

We should kill off any medium that involves spinning mechanical components ASAP

And Sony while we're at it

Vacuum-wielding thieves siphon €500,000 from store safes

IIRC

A bloke was lifted for doing similar in a UK store.

He had noticed that the tubes route passed over the toilet block and would lock himself in the disabled toilet and climb through the ceiling tiles to get access to the tube. Then he was somehow able to intercept the pods.

Google data center links shot down by 'bored' riflemen

Night of the living rednecks

So this is Oregon, tolerant Oregon.

Fusion splicers are, expensive (20k), heavy, and delicate. Still, nice work I guess.

Intel confirms HDCP copy-protection crack

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+1 title

-1 copy protection racket

Action gamers make better drivers, soldiers, surgeons

Ahh

the motorcycle argument. So flawed.

You know how it is on the roads, yet you choose to put yourselves in harms way.

Don't bitch at drivers, it's your choice.

Bitch at your local representative that the police aren't interested in nabbing people for driving without due care and attention.

Bascally, STFU unless you're going to do something about it.

( I've lost count of reports in the local paper, or seeing the road closed again, because of 40 something riders killing themselves on the roads round here, grow up you wankers)

Google Earth gets its very own website

Erm

It's not only for Nexus One and Droid, it's for all Android phones.

Oz school in homosexual kookaburra rumpus

Eyeronee

The word YOU'RE looking for is....you're, bell-end.

Which came first, the naming of the man Crusader, or the sexual persuasion?

Wikileaks founder blasts reopening of rape probe

Mike S

I'm guessing you're not a lawyer?

I'm not either, but I reckon Julian Assange needs to keep it buttoned right now and do as his lawyer suggests.

Presumably, someone would like to hamper his getting protection from the Swedish legal system.

He may be a little creepy, I imagine I would be in his situation. That doesn't make him a liar though.

I guess he'll be open about this situation when it becomes safe to do so.

I don't understand what any one person has against this guy. I can understand how a system of control can resent his actions, but surely, in the long run, exposing nefarious behaviour by civil servants is in the best interests of a modern democracy.

Feds crack phone clone scam that cost Sprint $15m

Why

didn't the network software detect this and ban calls from either handset?

Boffins explain greatest ever free kick

And

Golfers have known this for a very long time

Undead Commodore 64 comes back for Christmas

Exact replica

They should queeze some original hardware in there too and let there be a choice at power on.

Anyone remember Up'n'Down on the C64?

I thought the BBC Micro was great as well, it's what we had at school. Remember Dogfight? And Biorhythms lol!

And alt!-4

Citrix takes bare-metal hypervisor to PCs

Alt-Tab

So, does this let us switch between windows and linux desktops with ease?

Once-in-a-lifetime gag tops Fringe quip list

Not there?

Stewart Francis:

When I was born, God asked me: "Would you like a really long penis or a really long memory?" I forget my response.

Delicious.

Best Buy slaps 'God Squad' priest with cease-and-desist order

Mike Moyle

It's nowhere near similar to Pepsico selling their cola in Coca-Cola's bottles.

If glove is to hand, so sock is to...?

Father Strand is a man of the cloth and Best Buy are a retailer.

I would be like, oh, I dunno, an artist using something similar to the Coca-Cola ribbon device in a painting and titling it 'The Surreal Thing'

Wikileaks double dares Pentagon hawks

Checks and balances

Democracy in action. It's good to see.

BOFH: Lies and the lying liars who lie about them

Excellent

',but this works too'

Cheers muchly

Memory shortage could spike PC prices

I can feel

a new memory format coming on.

I always hoped we'd get the QIMM one day.

Private browsing modes in four biggest browsers often fail

Don't forget

if you're smut-despising other half is semi clued-up, to issue ipconfig /flushdns too.

Unpatched kernel-level vuln affects all Windows versions

Do you really think

that Microsoft don't sit down and have serious thinks? Or that they don't have plenty of software engineers who do nothing but review and fix code. Considering the cost of a Windows license in the Western hemisphere, compared to the average wage of a software engineer in, for example, India, I thnks that's highly likely.

It's fantastic that there are so many people out there who either genuinely want to fix exploitable code, or who want to bash Microsoft so much, that they find these weaknesses for us and Microsoft.

Vonage offers free 3G calls for iPhone, Droid Facebookers

Eh?

'which need that by-the-minute voice revenue'

Have to disagree with that. My mobile bill is exactly the same every month, so in effect, I'm just paying to send 1s and 0s back and forth. They don't make anything out of by-the-minute calls that they wouldn't be getting anyway.

ET voted fave family film fodder

WTF

is Shrek doing above BTTF? Girl vote I suppose.

If 'imaginations are fired' why are 8 of the films over 20 years old?

Dell outsourcer lifts US woman's saucy pix from PC

Dumbass

I don't like the cybe-cyber world

ROFLCOPTERS

Anyone else think she was enjoying it to begin with?

Android surges past iPhone in smartphone sales

ceebee

I got my Desire the day it launched, and in 'a few weeks', my telco will be giving me 2.2

What other phone have you ever had, where you could rely on updates?

In the past I 'upgraded' WinMo phones using ROMs from the telco and forums.

In other words, you'll most likely get one upgrade from the telco, then it's down to you, but you'll be due an upgrade by then anyway.