Re: Axe the axe!
If anything should be axed it's the cliched illustrations when there's a story related to obesity.
Please, I want to read the articles on obesity, but I have to avert my gaze at the same time.
Posts by Dr Scrum Master
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IBM to cut '118k jobs worldwide' – report claims
Stop viewing Facebook at work says Facebook at work on Facebook at Work
It's hacker jihad: Islamist skiddies square up to Anonymous
Preserve the concinnity of English, caterwauls American university
Router creds admin/admin? Lizard Squad thanks you
El Reg's Giant Mobile Industry Roundup of 2014
Friday 2nd January 2015 09:13 GMT 
Sir Ive
I've become accustomed to incorrect use of titles over the years with Americans treating Prime Minister as a title and their peculiar habit of treating Ambassador as a title, but thus far I’d only found Singaporeans misusing “Sir” (although in the Philippines it’s used as a polite honorific for all men).
Google+ to offer 'infinite' gender identity options
El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.
Friday 12th December 2014 04:28 GMT 
When?
If I refreshed a page at some unknown time in the past it's quite useless for me to know that an article was posted n hours before that point. Tell me an absolute date and time, not some relative duration relative to an unknown point in time.
(And a big thumbs up to the, err, big thumbs down from most (all?) comments.)
Apple lawyers fight to silence dead Steve Jobs: 'No right' to hear him from beyond the grave
Thursday 11th December 2014 04:50 GMT
Re: Not strange to me...
@Khapitan you're missing the the biggest conspiracy ever: the bumblebee hoax.
Scientists proved that bumblebees could not fly, but the Illuminati kept showing people pictures of bumblebees in flight, even releasing fake bumblebees that looked like they could fly, and now the whole world is convinced that bumblebees can actually fly.
systemd row ends with Debian getting forked
Monday 1st December 2014 04:34 GMT
The “No” camp complainedsystemd is not well-aligned with Unix philosophies, reflects the rise of a “do-ocracy” whereby effort trumps quality and steers Debian in the direction of the desktop. That the “do-ocrats” largely come from the ranks of Gnome developers, rather than
Didn't the author's effort trump quality in this paragraph?
...oh, I see what you did there.
Go festive this year with Christmas carols, baby Jesus and CLITORAL STIMULATORS
The Imitation Game: Bringing Alan Turing's classified life to light
Martha Lane Fox: Yeuch! The Internet is made by men?!?
Thursday 16th October 2014 06:33 GMT
Re: Utopian drivel
""A more pressing concern is that not voting is a valid choice. I didn't have any acceptable choices for MP at the last general election, so I didn't cast a vote for any of the candidates."
I don't see that as a valid reason for objecting to compulsory voting (although there are other valid reasons) since a ballot can be spoiled, thus venting your spleen or alternatively, part of a change to compulsory voting would be add a "None of the above" choice on the ballot which is counted, totalled and announced as part of the results."
And if we have compulsory voting with voting machines or voting over the Internet, then is there scope for spoiling one's "ballot paper"?
Thursday 16th October 2014 06:33 GMT
Re: Utopian drivel
> >A more pressing concern is that not voting is a valid choice. I didn't have any acceptable choices for MP at the last general election, so I didn't cast a vote for any of the candidates.
> Yeah, but then a consequence of compulsory voting might be that there would then be a candidate you could vote for.
Does such a miraculous materialisation of an acceptable candidate happen in places where compulsory voting is already practiced?
How does this make any difference to a system where a small party clique gets to decide on a party's candidate and if it's a safe seat then that handful of people has effectively dictated who will be the MP for that constituency? Or even worse, the local party clique doesn't even get a look-in when (Labour) head office imposes a candidate on the constituency.
Scientists skeptical of Lockheed Martin's truck-sized fusion reactor breakthrough boast
Special iPhone trousers will ease Apple into the fashion world
Thursday 2nd October 2014 05:17 GMT 
Why keep it in your pocket?
Alternatively, ladies can also carry their iPhone like a handbag.
Man's future in space ... Barack Obama: Mars. Narendra Modi: Mars. Vladimir Putin: Er, Moon
SpaceX breaks ground on first commercial spaceport in Texas
Show us your Five-Eyes SECRETS says Privacy International
SAP chaps cook up Glass Glass style apps for ...WHERE are you off to with that FORKLIFT?
BONEHEAD FANBOIS encamp outside Apple Stores
CNN 'tech analyst' on NAKED CELEBS: WHO IS this mystery '4chan' PERSON?
IBM: OK, Watson, you've won Jeopardy. Now, CURE CANCER
Monday 1st September 2014 05:41 GMT
Re: "..research paper is published nearly every 30 seconds.."
What gets me is that at a public University, taxpayers pay the author salaries for the papers produced. Then if John Q. wants one of these papers he paid for, he must pay again. And the cost is not for printing, etc.
I also helped pay for dozens of tanks, missiles, etc but does the government let me play with any of those toys? Does it hell!
Google's 'Captain Moonshot': I will BOMB you with DELIVERIES
Get ready: The top-bracket young coders of the 2020s will be mostly girls
Kate Bush: Don't make me HAVE CONTACT with your iPHONE
Cops baffled by riddle of CHICKEN who crossed ROAD
Take the shame: Microsofties ADMIT to playing Internet Explorer name-change game
Tim Cook on pale, male Apple: 'As CEO, I'm NOT satisfied'
Wednesday 13th August 2014 15:22 GMT
Re: let me guess...
>I doubt that it will shake off the white male image of the tech sector but you could start with what we do here.
Go to India or China and the white image certainly does not apply.
In Singapore there is under-representation of Chinese in a population that is 80% racially Chinese...
Microsoft: Just what the world needs – a $25 Nokia dumbphone
Brit kids match 45-year-old fogies' tech skill level by the age of 6
New iGasm: Apple to unveil not one but TWO iPhone 6 models on 9 Sept
Researcher sat on critical IE bugs for THREE YEARS
White? Male? You work in tech? Let us guess ... Twitter? We KNEW it!
Cave pits, ideal for human bases, FOUND ON MOON
Monday 21st July 2014 12:48 GMT
Re: One Giant Leap... Downward?
"Well, if these subterranean voids are common (these are only holes down into them), then growing crops is a matter of lighting the voids, adding viable soil and growing the crops, and keeping them watered."
Hmm, subterranean voids... cold environment.... darkness... that can mean only one thing: emmental
(Holmes, Watson, elemental.... I'll change the icon to the one of me getting my coat.)
German NSA probe chief mulls spy-busting typewriters
Google went behind our backs and really hurt us, squeal upset porn kingpins
What's your game, Google? Giant collared by UK civil lib minister on 'right to be forgotten'
Google starts selling Glass to Brits – for £1,000 a pop
Oh, wow. US Secret Service wants a Twitter sarcasm-spotter
Pirate Party runs aground in European Parliamentary elections
Congress guts law to restrict NSA spying, civil liberty groups appalled
FCC headman Wheeler calls for an 'open internet' – but what the %$#@! does he mean?
MIT boffins moot tsunami-proof floating nuke power plants
Thursday 17th April 2014 10:36 GMT 
2 for 1
Some time ago, when the news was full of stories about international summits turning each venue into a fortress and the host city becoming a battleground for various protesters and riot police, I mused that all future international summits should be held at sea, possibly aboard some purpose-built vessel. This SS International Summit could sail the seven seas to whichever regional grouping was holding its regular photo-opportunity and banquet. Residents of cities would be freed from the disruption caused by international summits, policing bills would be cut, etc. There is even a precedent set by Churchill and Roosevelt aboard HMS Prince of Wales.
Of course, this would require cooperation amongst various nations to agree who should build and operate the SS International Summit, but if we already have floating structures (which also have a plentiful power supply) then nobody has to complain.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
