Posts by Crisp

2,000km-wide Eye-of-Sauron MONSTER hurricane spotted on Saturn

Holiday on Saturn?

No thanks. Not with 300mph winds and storms that last decades.

Brits on benefits: 'Dole office site only works on PCs over 10 YEARS OLD'

That is a shockingly bad site

And completely what I've come to expect from the UK government when it comes to technology.

Continued lack of women in tech bemoaned by ex-techie lady MP

Re: ICT is not attractive to women

"Women in general prefer a work environment that includes a fair degree of social interaction"

Unfortunately my boss prefers a work environment that includes a fair amount of work which means less time for social interaction.

Re: Business people in Retail are quite likely to be women.

Yet we don't get politicians moaning about the lack of men in retail.

Funny that.

Crap computers in a crap box: Smart-meter blackouts risk to UK

Re: FFS

No sophisticated computer system is going to try and nail my wife!

Re: customer benefits

I guess the customers that are smart enough to hack their smart meters will get free electricity.

It's nice that the electric companies are giving something back after years of ruthless profiteering.

Google to Glass devs: 'Duh! Go ahead, hack your headset'

Re: I'm really not looking forward to being videoed and recorded everywhere I go

You already are.

Ordinary people have dashboard cams, Helmet cams, nanny cams in kindergartens, webcams watching you in the street, not to mention every Tom, Dick and Harry with a mobile phone out.

Fried-egg sarnies kick off Reg man's quid-a-day nosh challenge

Re: As I said before

I'm hoping that a proper nutritionist has checked Lester Haines diet plan for the week.

I'm no doctor, but I'm not sure that he'll be getting all the vitamins and minerals he needs from those meals.

You paid for bones from the butchers?

They usually give that away free if you say you're giving it to your dogs.

Canadian TV station wails: NFC bonking... it's not SAFE

No Chip and Pin in America?

Why not?

What work? Tablet owners prefer to slack off with their slabs

Re: not ready for any work

I used to regularly take notes with my iPad. That was until my boss wanted it back to beat his high score on some zombie game.

Now I have a load of handwritten notes I can't access.

UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now

Oh this will be fun :D

There's lots of things that can be rendered as photographs.

Move space junk with laser shots

What happens when a pigeon flies through the beam of a 10kW laser?

See Title.

DARPA looks for a guided bullet with DEAD reckoning navigation

Re: DARPA's research rarely produces tangible results

Yeah, like that ARPANet. Whatever happened to that pie in the sky project?

Announcement of 'churnalism detector' gets furiously churned

Journalist Caught In Writing Own Words Shocker!

Journalism needs more original content.

Mosaic turns 20: Let's fire up the old girl, show her the web today

Re: NOW I feel old...

I still get flashbacks when I hear the sound of a modem handshaking.

BadNews, fandroids: MILLIONS of Google Play downloads riddled with malware

A Linux based OS with malware?

Where's Eadon when you need him?

Hard luck lads, todger size DOES matter: Official

Re: Surely Pro. Randy Marsh has solved this for us?

That's TMI

ICO probes Home Office refusal to reveal Snooper's Charter details

Paedophiles, Terrorists

Two words that are practically guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of Daily Mail readers everywhere!

Web minister Maria Miller: UK WILL hit 2015 broadband target

Re: Maria Miller Has no experience in telephony or networking

Her background is in marketing and advertising.

So, well... you be the judge.

Maria Miller Has no experience in telephony or networking

And I have no confidence in her prediction.

DDOS strikes BitCoin exchange Mt.Gox

Is it really a DDOS?

Or just another surge in demand?

Google's Page drops the A-bomb: Google Glass runs Android

Re: It runs Android?

Who fucking let Gordon Fucking Ramsey in?

Re: Stop Press

Reports from the UK suggest that the Sun has been missing since last summer.

(2011, if I recall correctly)

The fast-growing energy source set to replace oil: Yes, it's coal

Coal Picture

I could swear that looks like wood or charcoal burning.

Malwarebytes declares Windows 'malicious', nukes 1,000s of PCs

Re: Scrum Development Process

If you're using a Scrum development framework, shouldn't you be designing unit tests as you go?

Re: Testing updates prior to release

Because testing doesn't add value from a management perspective. Testing either reveals problems with the software, which then have to be fixed, which costs more time. Or Testing shows that everything is ok, in which case you might as well have skipped it anyway because it was obviously a waste of time.

Testing gets labelled as non-productive time and sidelined.

Until something goes wrong. Then some poor developer gets a kicking for making a mistake and not correcting it. Which is difficult when there's no decent testing process.

Game designer spills beans on chubby-fancying chap with his stolen Mac

Re: Could be innocent

You aren't innocent if you're handling stolen goods.

Google Glass will SELF-DESTRUCT if flogged on eBay

Re: Bloody Advert!

I only block the badly designed intrusive ads.

I still read the product reviews.

Re: Bloody Advert!

Have you heard of AdBlock?

Re: DSA doesn't apply if you've opened the box

Yes it does. I've recently had to return a mobile phone handset to Virgin Media, and they said they'd be quite happy to accept the return even if the security seal on the box had been broken.

Re: so if I don't like it

They can take away a lot of your freedom in an EULA, but they can't touch your statutory rights.

Once I've bought it, it's mine.

This is like a car manufacturer putting sugar in the tank of anyone that dares to sell their car second hand.

It's vandalism.

Foxconn must pay Microsoft for EVERY Android thing it makes

Re: The biggest patent troll

They are very slowly digging their own graves.

Re: I think that's why NEXUS have no sd card slot

If I need my phone to use a FAT file system to operate with my Windows PC, then didn't I buy a license to use FAT when I bought my copy of Windows 7?

Re: …And we still have no idea what these patents are

You could be violating those patents right now!

I'll bet that there's not one bit of code written by Microsoft in there.

Microsoft are trying to get rich off the back of other peoples hard work, without lifting a finger to do any work themselves.

Boffins spin a solid state qubit in a nucleus

Re: quantum state or a Zen state?

There's no reason that it can't be both at the same time!

Re: Nicho

It's quantum.

So you can sit there in a state of both understanding it and not understanding it at the same time.

Antares aborted after launchpad mishap

Re: El Reg double entendre team

If that doesn't already exist, then it should!

Wallops Flight Facility

Is that anywhere near the Crash Bang test range?

Boffins build ant-sized battery, claim it's tough enough to start a car

Re: The problem with batteries ...

Well duh! When you design hardware, you design it with the limitations of the technology at hand.

If there were 6KWh batteries the size of a pinhead, you can bet that mobile phone manufacturers would add some feature that would drain that battery in minutes.

T-Mobile UK ordered into humiliating Full Monty strip

Advertise some unlimited internet even if it's not.

After all, everyone knows that customers will be much more loyal to your brand once they find out you've lied to their face.

Apple branded porno-peddling perverts by Chinese Pravda

I'm going to reserve judgement until I see some evidence.

Sexy Evidence.

Hardware hacker unifies 15 retro consoles in format frenzy

Re: Very good!

Sometimes there's no substitute for playing on original hardware.

TalkTalk ads banned by watchdog over 'misleading' YouView offer

Re: "standard industry practice"

It's almost as if there's no real consequences to outright lying to the public...

Gov.uk named THE BEST THING Britain has made all year

Obviously the Design Museum in London

Has never seen a decently designed website before.

Samsung: Posting of fake HTC hate was 'unfortunate'

Re: The recent incident was unfortunate

I was just thinking the exact same thing. Why is it that they always say something like that only when they get caught.

They then say "We will continue to reinforce education and training for our employees to prevent any future recurrence." like it was some rogue employee that did the deed, rather than an actual co-ordinated marketing strategy. Which I found odd because they admitted that they have suspended anonymous "marketing activities".

Eerie satnav boffinry claims it can predict THE FUTURE

When drivers don’t pay attention to the road for protracted periods of time, bad things happen.

No shit Sherlock!

Hands up who wants 3D finger-controlled fridges? That's the spirit

These patents are not designed to cultivate innovation

If anything, they seem specifically designed to prevent legitimate implementation.