Posts by Chemical

Fire fighters get grinding on London man’s trapped genitalia

Re: It's amazing.....

I think there is a 'lady' in the resort of Benidorm who does similar things with light bulbs, but she can illuminate hers. I am assuming that something proceeded the lamp to achieve this?

TalkTalk customers decide to StayStay after £3m in free upgrades

Re: providing free upgrades to customers.

Have an upvote for Quake II :-)

Lincolnshire council shuts down all IT after alleged 0-day breach

Re: 'When it's 2pm in London, it's 1975 in Lincoln'

Have an upvote, nearly choked on my brew laughing :-)

For just $400 you can have this Raspberry Pi – and mine bitcoin

Putting the bitcoin mining aside for the moment...

Will it play Crysis 3

Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark: Violin restrings its instrument

Re: +1

Me too, you could have at lease put a synth reference half way through to keep my interest... PANTS!

Cable thieves hang up on BT, cause MAJOR outage

We are dealing with the same idiots

They're stealing the earth bonding from sub station transformers.

New Bitcoin exchange launches in the UK

'Coinfloor added that its security policy complies with the ISO27001 data security standard'

The same standard the Ministry of Justice complies with, that's reassuring :-(

MoJ fined £140K for EMAILING privates of 1,000 inmates

Accredited Network?

Having spent x2 years going through our accreditation, how the hell did they get through any audit with a floppy drive enabled?

Vodafone goes titsup for BlackBerrys in mobile data outage

Its nice to find out what the fault was on the old El Reg, having spent most of the morning restarting every server we have trying to restore the service!