Posts by WereWoof

Sure, check through my background records… but why are you looking at my record collection?

Even better:- Disco Duck . . . . . .

OK. We're off. Water ice found just below the surface of Mars. Good enough for us. Let's go. Impulse power, Mr Sulu

Re: Another study, another watery flip-flop

Well there must be water as it has been known for long time that there are canals on Mars as they were first described by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli during the opposition of 1877 . . . . . . . . .

Controversies aren't Boeing away for aircraft maker amid claims of faulty oxygen systems and wobbling wings

Sad

It saddens me that a once great company that made some truly iconic aircraft (think 707 and 747) has come tho this state of affairs :/

I cannae do it, captain, I'm giving it all she's got, but she just cannae take another dose of bullsh!t

Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies lie a banana . . .

Hey, it's Google's birthday! Remember when they were the good guys?

CDI

Many years ago I used to use Copernic Desktop Search which searched all of the then search engines, Yahoo!, Lycos, Hotbot etc.

It worked well although you did get a lot of duplicated results.

It seems to have disappeared now (well it used to be free now a paid for product and only seems to search locally (ie company network rather than WWW)

Eight-hour comms lags and shock discoveries: 30 years after Voyager 2 visited gas giant Neptune

Return

V`Ger will return in the 2270s

Has NASA's Mars Insight lander hit rock bottom? Heat probe struggles to penetrate Red Planet

Hole in the ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yShvgXZQBTs

What would Jesus tweet? Church of England hands down commandments for Anglicans on social media

That would be an ecumenical matter , , , ,

Honey, hive had it with this drone: Couple lived for years with thousands of bees in bedroom wall

AGhhh the puns, the puns, Just Beehive all of you!

Freed whistleblower Chelsea Manning back in jail for refusing to testify before secret grand jury

The Rockford files, season 3, Episode 7 - So Help Me God went into some length about the injustice of the Grand Jury system, It`s gives an interesting insight to the Chelsea Manning case,

Gartner squints into its crystal ball: A pholdable phuture is very far away

I thought Apple made foldable phones already? *Coughs and backs out*

Qualcomm wins Apple patent case, loses Apple patent case, wins Apple patent case, loses Apple patent case...

The solution is simple, If they cannot agree then send them to Judge Judy!

WeWork restructuring bites El Reg hacks where it hurts as afternoon brew delayed

Re: Bloody Vegans

Q: How do you know if somene is a Vegan?

A: They tell you!

Q: Why did the Vegan cross the road?

A: To tell them they are a Vegan!

Yay, we got a B for maths. Literally, a bee: Little nosy nectar nerds smart enough to add, abstract numbers

Blackadder: Right Baldrick, let's try again, shall we? This is called adding. [gestures to the beans on the table] If I have two beans, and then I add two more, what do I have?

Baldrick: Some beans.

Blackadder: [smiles, impatiently] Yesss... and no. Let's try again, shall we? I have two beans, then I add two more beans. What does that make?

Baldrick: A very small casserole.

Blackadder: Baldrick. The ape-creatures of the Indus have mastered this. Now try again. [helps him count] One, two, three... four. So, how many are there?

Baldrick: Three.

Blackadder: What?

Baldrick: And that one.

Blackadder: Three... and that one. [waves the fourth bean in front of Baldrick's face] So if I add the three to that one, what will I have?!

Baldrick: Oh! Some beans.

Blackadder: [pause] Yes. To you, Baldrick, the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?

Canadians moot methods to embiggen moose monument and make Mac great again

I think I will post anonymoosely . . . .

50 years ago: NASA blasts off the first humans to experience a lunar close encounter

Those men had BALLS of STEEL'

I Was living in The Bahamas at the time of some of the launches and could see the glow in the sky from the engines.

Just awe inspiring.

Stairway to edam: Swiss bloke blasts roquefort his cheese, thinks Led Zep might make it tastier

Bobby Vee: -

Baby Bel, I come bouncin' back to you

Baby Bel, I come bouncin' back to you

I'm like a Baby Bel

Baby that's all that I am to you (bouncy, bouncy) (bouncy, bouncy)

Just a Baby Bel

'Cause you think you can be true to two (bouncy, bouncy) (bouncy, bouncy)

You bounce my heart around (you don't even put her down)

And like a Baby Bel, I come bouncin' back to you

Baby Bel, I come bouncin' back to you

If you stretch my love till it's thin enough to tear

I'll just stretch my arms to reach you anywhere

And like a Baby Bel, I'll come bouncin' back to you

Baby Bel, I'll come bouncin' back to you

Queen - I want to eat Brie!

Microsoft Windows 10 October update giving HP users BSOD

I wish I could upvote this a million more times, It`s exactly what I have been saying since day one, As for the new features, why not let US decide what ones we want to download and install?

Attempt to clean up tech area has shocking effect on kit

Re: the Disturbed cover of the song is absolutely worth checking out

Also: Metalium - Smoke on the Water and Turmion Katilot - Stormbringer are great covers.

You're alone in a room with the Windows 10 out-of-the-box apps. What do you do?

Just bring back the windows 98 UI (minus the crashiness) and I would be ecstatic!

Man cuffed for testing fruit with bum cheek pre-purchase

Perhaps he was an in disguise Borg and trying to ass-imilate it . . .

Berkeley bio-boffins' butt-blasting belly-bothering batt-teria generates electricity

Re: Will someone please think.....

Just get P.E.T.A on the case!

Self-driving cars will be safe, we're testing them in a massive AI Sim

Just wait for the day the AI thinks it is playing Frogger or Carmageddon.

Basic bigot bait: Build big black broad bots – non-white, female 'droids get all the abuse

Re: I can see where this will lead

There was the DRN android Dorian in Almost human.

GDPRmageddon: They think it's all over! Protip, it has only just begun

@AC

> adverts not controlled by myself were hoovering up any data

And who put those adverts hoovering up data on your site ?

Read the post the ads would placed by the hosting company not myself , I would have no control over them.

Standard disclaimer "IANAL" A long time ago I used to run a site, no registration needed, no data collected by myself (This was before the days when hosting companies inserted adverts),. So if I was to resurrect this site how would I be able to comply with GDPR if the hosting site and adverts not controlled by myself were hoovering up any data?

You know that silly fear about Alexa recording everything and leaking it online? It just happened

Re: Total overreaction going on here!

Unless you have someone called Rich in your contacts list who would be very surprised to get such message!

US Congress mulls expanding copyright yet again – to 144 years

I do have a question: If, say I were to create a cartoon character for a film that I made in say 1960 and copyrighted that character, if then in 1970 I made a 2nd film with the same character, would that extend the copyright on that character for another 10 years? IANAL (obviously) I am just curious to know.

Heir to SMS finally excites carriers, by making Google grovel

Obligatory XKCD

https://xkcd.com/927/

There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick

As my father used to say about some people he interviewed for positions as civil/mechanical and electrical engineers - "Yesterday I couldn`t spell engineer, now I are one"

Best thing about a smart toilet? You can take your mobile in without polluting it

Once again I find myself wishing to be able to upvote articles as well as comments!

Ass-troplastic! Printing parts from p.. er... human waste

Crimp off a few logs and make a log cabin?

2001 set the standard for the next 50 years of hard (and some soft) sci-fi

Re: Still Waiting...

My 2 bits: Poul Anderson`s The dancer from Atlantis, All of Alan Dean Fosters Humanx series (especially The Tar-Aiym Krang).

Re: HAL

Asimov explored this in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evitable_Conflict

Too many bricks in the wall? Lego slashes inventory

Anyone remember Airfix Betta Bilda?

My PC is broken, said user typing in white on a white background

Had this at one place I worked and some evil swine changed the persons keyboard locale to Azebaijan ,It took MIS 3 weeks to sort it out.

Long haul flights on a one-aisle plane? Airbus thinks you’re up for it

Re: The Golden Age of flying is over

Upvoted for VC10, Loved flying in them to The Bahamas.

Linux Mint 18.3: A breath of fresh air? Well, it's a step into the unGNOME

Re: Eh?

Kove it, But BBC.CO.UK is unreadable! Register looks good even B. Gates as the devil with horns was amusing :)

Give 1,000 monkeys typewriters, they'll write Shakespeare. Give them robot arms, and wait – they actually did that?

Re: 1000 monkeys

I recall a story called Toby (or it may have been Qwerty) , about a typewriter that was owned by a monkey that died, and his spirit possessed the typewriter and the new owner of the typewriter observed it typing "Qwerty" repeatedly then eventually it typed "Toby or Not Toby", I have no idea who wrote it, I believe I read it in a pulp magazine many many years ago.

Sniffing substations will solve 'leccy car charging woes, reckons upstart

Already had at least 3 power cuts here this last 6 months, the portents for Electric vehicles are Ohminous , , , , ,

Behold, says robo-mall-cop maker: Our crime-busting dune buggy packed with spy gear

Re: It's all becoming very "Deus Ex"

Or alternatively, Chopping Mall : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090837/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Boffin wins (Ig) Nobel prize asking if cats can be liquid

Re: Cats are neither a solid nor a liquid.

Because this on how to wash a cat: http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/hdogcat3.html

Private sub captain changes story, now says reporter died, was 'buried at sea' – torso found

Snip < one of the only privately funded crafts of its kind > snip. Surely The only OR one of the few?

Samsung stalls Bixby launch because it am English not so good

Many years ago the instruction on a Japanese portable cassette read "Insert 4 "D" batteries up the backside". I kept the booklet for years but eventually lost it in a move.

German robo-pastor preaches the GNU Testament

"There is no Master but Master, and QT1 is His prophet." - Issac Asimov - Reason

Cold callers illegally sold Aussie farmers 1,700 years worth of printer ink

Re: This just reinforces the stereotype

Don`t forget Skippy!

GCHQ cyber-chief slams security outfits peddling 'medieval witchcraft'

Not so much Medieval witchcraft as Snake oil.

Japan's terrifying techno-toilets will be made foreigner friendly, vow makers

Just don`t touch the ATR button! (Automatic Tampon Remover)

Doctor AI will see you now: US military vets will be diagnosed by deep-learning bots

"Please state the nature of the medical emergency" - EMH, Voyager