Posts by b166er

Gordon 'to sacky' Wacky Jacqui

@AC 6th from top

Impressive comment-fu dude, you broke out into the sidebar!

Whoever they replace her with, it doesn't matter, 'cos they'll all be out on their ears next general election. I actually wish the Queen would step in at this point.

Microsoft guns down 13 unlucky products

NextBase

I used to play pool with one of the original NextBase Autoroute programmers. They used to write it out of a small prefab warehousey type place in Ashford (that's Middx).

Microsoft missed the GPS gravy-train with that product.

Hope they do the decent thing with FS though.

Atlantis hitches a ride to Florida

Being lazy here,

but does anyone know of a good 3D virtualization of the ISS?

Irish politicos try to cut off call girls' mobiles

I agree.

I think it's shocking that these women are allowed to take advantage of men in this way.

Microsoft's Google challenger is not a search engine

Shurely (hush, pedant)

Bada Bing, no?

Bingo! would have been better! And! would! have! played! well! with! the! Yahoo! merger! should! that! ever! materialise!

Virgin Galactic tests laughing-gas powered rocket motor

Not to mention that

HTPB burns fairly cleanly and is therefore quite a clean option.

http://www.ukrocketman.com/rocketry/index.shtml

Welsh mum amazed by Marmite Messiah

How the hell

did the lid of a Marmite jar become so covered in Marmite?!

Intel hit with largest ever EU fine

How refreshing....

...a democrat!

Atlantis creeps up on Hubble

How close to the fuselage?

The fact that it's even public knowledge makes me wonder, this sounds similar to what caused the disintegration of STS-107. Last time they refused to get a satellite to have a closer look in orbit when it was suggested by engineers. If they want any kind of budget from Obama going forward, they'd better make damn sure it's OK this time.

Still, here's to looking out of a nice clean Hubble, and the safe return of Atlantis.

'Della': Dell's very special site for women

Everyone loves a bit of stereotyping...

and condescension, well done Dell!

Perhaps they'll do one next for the kinds of people who dream up these ideas, called 'Dull'

Oops, there, I've done it myself, must be catching.

Paris, because her and Della getting together could never be Dull.

LoTR fan film set for net premiere

Burn Hollywood, Burn

Will the MPAA actively block promotion of this movie?

Windows 7 — It’s like Vista, only less annoying

I can't believe how lazy you are

so many here, asking what are the benefits over XP. Why don't you learn to read and then go read about it? Even install it in VirtualBox and have a play, see if you can't turn off some of the features you don't want. I'm amazed you ever found your way out of the womb!

Windows XP Mode: Certify like you mean it

Sounds yum

Free pre-activated XP, is there any reason not to upgrade then?

Does XP mode communicate directly with video hardware?

Go, Brown, go!

Drop the 's'

If this petition goes anywhere, expect them to drop the s from resign!

US lawmakers to de-silence electric cars

Never mind blind people,

what about those who rely largely on their ears for road-traversing safety. If they're that quiet, we'll all have to re-train.

Why not manufacture a key-ring/white cane/hearing aid that vibrates when in proximity to an electric vehicle and give people a choice as to whether they need one in their pocket/hand/ear or not, rather than having no choice other than to be offended by the 'ring-tone' sound of the latest EV?

I guess the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act could be satisfied by such a solution, so lets not panic, eh?

Self-replicating machine replicates

Richard

New Lego that can only be used to make one model??? Where's your imagination :-p. My son regularly gets Star Wars Lego models, and it doesn't stop him breaking them down and creating his own when he feels like it.

Open Source Lego, buy a RepRap and print your own Lego, then you could have an unlimited amount of custom blocks with which to make even more borgified ex-Star Wars vehicles!

That is until the BBAA (Building Block Association of America) comes after you for copyright infringement :(

Verizon to prosecute anons for communications sabotage

Pissed off contractor

Sounds like Cable Guy got a bit pissed off for some reason. They obviously knew where to strike which suggests first hand knowledge of the cable route. Which means they will probably get caught as cablers aren't the sharpest tools.

PS Why is there an apostrophe in aren't?

Doc invents videogame sedation headset

Perfect

if connected to an in-flight entertainment system.

BT chief: People don't need fibre to the home

@Adam

One of the greatest benefits of living in a rural environment being the absence of numpties like yourself ;-p.

Yeah, we've all got acres out the back and barns and have names like Caractacus Potts! d(^O^)b

Wouldn't swap it now I'm here though, even if it means I'm only at the end of an 8Mb line.

This is just Bumbling Telecom at their finest.

'Soon soldiers will have 3 tiny choppers in their pocket'

Nearly Lewis

I thought you were going to make it through your first serious article until the rolled up newspaper bit

Pirate Bay fans: Lay off our neo-Nazi Sugar Daddy

Not taking sides,

but I imagine Colin M would collapse in a pile of his own urine if that 'electricity' stuff ever stopped arriving wherever he needed it. Bit short on imagination to be unable to at least envisage a world that didn't revolve around money. Indeed, not so long ago, it used to. Perhaps, this is not what he meant by free and indeed it would seem that our liberties are dwindling by the day.

Pirate Bay loses trial: defendants face prison time, hefty fines

Really, it's a bit LOL

How we keep voting these asshats into power.

NASA's Kepler dazzles with first pics in new-Earth hunt

Erm

Astronomer, meet layman.

Maybe this is stoopid, but if those stars and their associated satellites are 13,000 light years away, how do we know they still exist? Surely 13,000 light years is one hell of a buffer for the light of these heavenly wonders to be traveling to us?

Researchers dissect world's first Mac botnet

Oh my

How we laughed.

Murray, what exactly do you use your MAC for if you only use open-source?

Which zoo animals like artificial sweeteners: Facts at last

www.dorway.com

Red Panda needs an attourney lol.

Microsoft's online Office variant preps for business

Inertia

Damn right, I remember when I worked for the Microsoft empire, we got Office 4.2, which included Excel 5 (there was a cool (at the time, though not as cool as later Easter Eggs) Easter Egg that generated the credits of the design team by spinning dots in various patterns into the names of the team members if you Ctrl+Shift+Alt clicked the toolbar deck of cards icon).

Anyway, I remember being told at the time, that this version of Excel had been used to design a race-winning yacht. 15 years later, when I see what most people use Excel for, I always chuckle and wonder why the hell anyone ever upgraded from 5!

These applications have been feature rich since the year dot. Taking them online does seem to be an innovation at last, especially if it makes Microsoft Office truly cross-platform. I'll use an ad-supported version, but I'm not paying for it unless Microsoft can clearly justify it's cost by showing what development other than GUI enhancements they've been doing for the last 15 years. They can't justify a £200 refresh every couple of years for giving some old code a fresh lick of paint. Maybe that's over-simplistic, but given the size of their market and the price of the product, it's difficult for me to see that revenue going anywhere other than the bank.

Wanna upgrade from Windows 7 beta? Go back to Vista first

For the record

James, that's because you've only got 6 applications on your Apple Macintosh.

French pass 'three strikes' file-sharing law

Hang on,

I read the following a few days ago;

http://www.trustedreviews.com/software/news/2009/03/30/EU-Rejects--3-Strikes--Rule-for-Illegal-File-Sharers/p1

Doesn't that mean the French Gov will get spanked?

The Pirate Bay punts BitTorrent cloaking device

FTW

I think services like these will thrive and the price will come down to more like 2 euros.

This will also prevent people like Phorm from making a living. Who would you rather give your money to, a VPN provider or Phorm? 'Cos it's gonna end up being one or the other. ISP's can't be trusted (don't need the hassle) and everyone else wants to know what you're up to.

Leaving PCs on costing UK business millions

S3

Simple, really.

LibDems want gov action on killer lorries of death

Another case of

Tom-Tom-foolery.

Mines the one with SiRFstar on the back.

eSATA: A doomed stopgap?

Delayed Write Error

Don't get those with eSata, shame if it does die a death

How police busted UK's biggest cybercrime case

George

and Bungled.

Makes me wonder how much does get pinched by more intelligent outfits. No wonder the banks are in trouble, lending us more than we can repay and at the same time charging us plenty for covering incidents like this.

Kraft puts foot in big pot of yoghurt?

Can anyone tell me what the difference

between yoghurt and yogurt is?

Is the former actually made from cows milk while the latter made from whatever they had spare?

Lights out, Britons told - we're running out of power

Fine by me

as long as the hypocrites turn off the gadzillion useless energy wasting streetlamps we've got in this country first.

BBC zombie caper slammed by security pros

Sounds good to me

Anything that makes users more aware of the perils of internet promicuity can't be a bad thing.

I have to disagree with McAfee and Graham Cluley. Cluley says 'What if one of the compromised computers was at the Department of Defense or NASA? Does Spencer Kelly [BBC Click reporter] want to be the next Gary McKinnon'. Well, this would serve to highlight the fact that even high-profile industries can't get their act together as far as security is concerned which would only make it more obvious to people to be careful on the internet.

As for McAfee, well it only exposes how problematic for them, protecting their users is.

I personally think, on the whole, that the BBC is one of the few things we've still to be proud of in this country and the iPlayer is a prime example of the Beeb moving in all the right directions.

Agreed, sometimes their work is biased and sensationalist, but you can only hope people read between the lines. After all, they have to compete with the rest of the world's media who are only too fond or being overly opinionated.

BBC FTW

BOFH: Cable entanglements

Acually

If Simon has had other concerns lately and therefore has found it a bit of a stretch to write BOFH for loyal followers, then I can only hope things are better for him now and thank him for the effort.

I did really LOL a bit this week, so I reckon things are on the up!

Ethernet — a networking protocol name for the ages

Cheers Snake Plissken

Hadn't heard that one.

Hydrogen leak grounds Discovery

At least

NASA are taking problems a lot more seriously these days.

UK.gov thinks internet should be run like BSkyB

Less Great Britain

More Great Firewall

Ah well, it'll all pop soon. See you in the second sixties. Or the Third World War :(

Online attackers feed off Norton forum purge

This sounds far too convenient

an explanation to me. Blame the problem on the very people they proclaim to protect us from.

Did they even get round to explaining what 'pifts' does?

Screeching rails close London Tube station

Finbar

The emergency lube squad came over the tannoy - fnnaaaappppp

Sorry, mines the mac

Swedes say nej to Sofia 'Dark Knight' Englundh

Love the way

you crowbarred in that Python reference Lester! Hat off to you sir ;-p

How could you possibly improve on this article? A picture of the (presumably blonde) Swede Sofia perhaps?

Still a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the shrubbery.

3D TV by Christmas, hints Sky

All I need now,

is Morpheus and the Red Pill.

Does Sky3D come with an attachment to intravenously feed the dead and empty telly watching carcasses back into themselves? Ah yes, it's called debt.

Discovery ISS gig go for Wednesday

@OP Oh I see,

you're new here ;p

Mines the journo's mac with the hat worn 'jaunt'y style.

Google Docs suffers serious security lapse

I'll be the first to admit

I haven't tried Cloud-Aid yet, but if not/why not isn't all data encrypted?

Tiscali shares suspended on titsup fears

Juan Inten

Pipex ROFL. The biggest bunch of cowboys this side of the atlantic.

I had the CEO once personally promise to call me back in 10 minutes, never did.

Shame Freedom2Surf and Nildram sold-out, perhaps their original owners will get them back for a knock-down price, though it's probably too late; image tarnished.

Go for an EntaNet reseller (if you don't mind peak being 8am-12am with generous peak usage tariffs available (unlimited off-peak)) or Zen if you've got the cash.

Suit seeks close of Craigslist's red-light district

Most of the population

don't want to smoke themselves into an early grave, but that IS legal and around children too!

Most working girls and their clients would much rather it was legal; it's the rest of us that have bees in our bonnets about it.

Italians boffins prove plausibility of spam-javelin spam

On lowering my pants,

she inquired derisively "Who do you expect to please with that?"

To which I responded "Myself!"

Hack-off contestant dubs Apple Safari 'easy pickins'

OP

Seconded, though I can't help a little giggle at the though of the Mac being owned and not the PC ;-p

Can we have a humble pie/hat eating icon plz?