Posts by gazthejourno

IBM needs to sell its stuttering storage biz lines

Re: Re: Where's the Paris Hilton angle?

Indeedie. Take the headline and subhead together - Ginni Rometti is IBM's CEO.

How flash storage raced from glory to despair in 2013

Official reply

From the article author, Chris Mellor:

"Think you're confusing current Skera skyHawk all-flash array with coming skyEagle product which has up to 500TB in its1U case - http://www.skyera.com/products/skyeagle/overview/

Repeated here - http://www.skyera.com/products/skyeagle/tech-specs/

Your squirty insecticides make bumblebees SHRINK, warn boffins

Re: C/o Titling Department

Well, bugger. Wish I'd thought of that now :(

Almost everyone read the Verizon v FCC net neutrality verdict WRONG

Re: How come...

That's a rather good idea. Will ping this to our tech team, cheers.

Various ideas are floating around Vulture Central at the moment to do with pagination - this sounds like an option we might take a look at.

How to kill trolls and influence Apple people: A patent solution

Re: Re: A couple more suggestions

Under UK copyright law, the person commissioning(i.e. paying for) the photo owns the copyright - the specific example most of the textbooks give is your one of family portraits.

We're not talking, so PAH: Violin Memory's big dogs blank sacked CEO

Re: Re: Something's fishy here

The system's a bit temperamental. Sometimes we're officially recognised, sometimes not. Happens to me too.

Antarctic ice shelf melt 'lowest ever recorded, global warming is not eroding it'

Re: *cough*

Tell us, do you know the difference between Australia and Antarctica?

Gay hero super-boffin Turing 'may have been murdered by MI5'

mod hat on

I note you post anonymously when using this language. Sitting here at El Reg HQ, I can see who you are - and also know about your other account which you use when we filter out your bizarre ramblings from this one, anon or not. Kindly cease and desist from splattering the site in profanities.

What is the difference between a drone, a model and a light plane?

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Thanks to all who pointed out what the aircraft actually are in the pics - have updated the image captions accordingly.

signed

one of Vulture Central's backroom gremlins

US Department of Justice details Kim Dotcom evidence

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Hot-headed accusation made, response in similar tone made. Leave it here immediately, gentlemen, or I shall break out El Reg's patent ton of bricks.

Ubuntu desktop is so 2013... All hail 2014 Ubuntu mobile

Point of order - very few journalists working anywhere actually write their own headlines, subheads or captions. That's the preserve of the ancient and noble order known as sub-editors.

British Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing receives Royal pardon

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"Commentards, at the target to your front, BURSTS - RAPID - RAPID..."

It's true, the START MENU is coming BACK to Windows 8, hiss sources

MOD NOTE

Stop spam-reporting Trevor just because you disagree with him. Prolific offenders will find themselves on the naughty step.

Re: Re: I had to Google how to find the Control Panel...

Use your middle finger, duh.

(yeah, it's a slow afternoon)

N64 analogue frequency

N64 analogue frequency

Just hooked up my old N64 to my digital tellybox. For the benefit of anyone else trying to tune it in, the 64 "broadcasts" on 591MHz.

Problem is, the sound is just white noise. I've done the time-honoured thing of pulling and blowing on all the cables and that hasn't fixed it. Last time I used this RF cable a year ago it worked fine, and it's been stored coiled - not knotted.

Any ideas?

Calling Doctor Caroline Langensiepen of Nottingham Trent uni

Come to the pub and enjoy a beverage with us. If you can't work out where and when Vulture Central enjoy a bevvy, odds are you're possibly not suited to El Reg for a variety of reasons.

Brit inventors' GRAVITY POWERED LIGHT ships out after just 1 year

Re: Reinvented cuckoo clock

It almost definitely is, but without knowing for sure it's a bit presumptuous for us to say so.

NSA collects up to FIVE BILLION mobile phone locations daily

Re: Re: Guilt by Coincidence

Tis true. Cressida Dick is now a Commander (deputy chief constable equivalent) in the Met. She was in charge of de Menezes' manslaughter.

I still find it incredible that no armed policeman has ever been brought to trial after killing someone on duty.

Two million TERRIBLE PASSWORDS stolen by malware attackers

Re: What is the solution?

There's a sideways thought - reset your password every single time you use a service, and use one of those password-generating sites to come up with a dictionary-proof password each time.

Bit cumbersome, mind.

UK.gov to warn tweeting twits, celebs 'n' pals on court case comments

For make glorious Revolutionary courts, comrade!

Hello! Still here! Surface 2! Way better than iPad! says slightly desperate Microsoft

Re: Re: reason d'etre ...

Trevor's behaviour on the site led us to ban him...

... oh, wait a sec. Awkward.

Prime Minister David Cameron in Twitter gaffe

In fairness to Jasper I have to cough to pointing him to the Pornhub story, which I encountered while pulling the strings behind @TheRegister - which, by the way, is the best thing going on Twitter and you should all follow it.

Why a plain packaging U-turn from UK.gov could cost £3bn a year

I've only let this comment through the net to point out that we're reporting the study. Readers are smart enough to find for themselves who commissioned the study - as you've just done. So congrats, have a cigar.

Hello Warsaw: Greenland ice loss will be OK 'even under extreme scenarios'

Re: Re: Commentards

If we're playing commentard rank poker, I'll stick with my little red vulture. ;-)

Google Earth SHOCK: ZERO point ZERO ZERO SIX of world forests disappear each year

Re: Don't understand

Tends to help if you don't insult El Reg when commenting. You're a guest in our house, remember - we reserve the right to hoik you out if you upset us.

Exit stage left: Two more Insight big cheeses clear their desks

Re: Are you guys rush fans?

Aye. I am anyway, dunno about the rest of Vulture Central. 2112 is one of the best concept albums (well, as far as you can really call it that) of all time imho.

'F-CK YOU GOOGLE+' ukelele missy scoops BIG WAD of $$ - for Google

Re: You can still be anonymous

Last time I tried to register a new Gmail account for exactly that purpose, a month or two ago, it demanded a mobile number. So I didn't bother - and the comment went unposted.

Anonymity? Yeah right.

If your bosses tell you you're 'in it together', don't ever believe them

Re: Re: Self-Censorship

As others have said in this thread, it's because corporate firewalls tend to throw their toys out of the pram if we swear too much.

Alleged Peeping Tom claims First Amendment right to upskirt

mod hat on

Play nicely. Hugs and kisses, El Mod.

Or else.

Wanted: IT world domination. Can Spiceworks succeed?

Re: Re: This article reads like an ad.

He gets so many backhanders he goes undercover and dodges vendors' PRs to find out what's actually going on... see here.

Feedly gets Greedly: Users suddenly HAVE TO create a Google+ account

Re: Just switch to NewsBlur

Normally we squash these types of comments, but as you admit it's a shameless plug I'll let it through ... this once. If you do want lots of links to your site, do click here and read on. Ta.

While the BBC drools over Twitter, look what UK's up to: Hospital superbug breakthrough

Re: Re: Ooooh Shiny shiny

Try looking at Google News UK edition. Then the US edition. Compare and contrast how many BBC stories you find on each.

Hint - they're not chasing UK audiences.

How Google paved the way for NSA's intercepts - just as The Register predicted 9 years ago

Que?

Oh no, not another tinfoil-hat-wearing loon. Crawl back to the Guardian comments, please, and stop wasting my time.

Re: Dear Mr Censor,

We're clearing them with the NSA's Reg-sniffing snoopers first. You might be a terrorist posting on the Reg, and then we'd have to disappear you.

(ok, actually it's a busy day and we haven't got around to approving lots of comments. Be patient!)

"shit tons"

I do that after eating bad curries. Have you tried suppositories?

Google Street View goes INSIDE a Royal Navy submarine

Re: I've toured the USS Drum

I would absolutely love to have a poke around U-995. The only surviving WW2 vintage Type VIIC U-boat, of the class that fought the Battle of the Atlantic for the bulk of the war.

Note to self, must remind our scribe to make this into a picture feature next time round!

Google in PRODUCT RECALL for its Glass spy-goggles

Not over here, chap. Where'd you find it twice?

Swedish teen's sex video fine slashed: Unwilling co-star girlfriend furious

Re: Re: @ James Micallef

No newspaper is bidding for them. It's a perfect example of a political strawman in action, getting positive headlines for the poor put-upon woman struggling against her youthful, indiscreet past as misogynists pile into her.

Consider this - if there really was a paper or agency bidding for child porn images, they'd have been named long before now. That they haven't tells you all you need to know.

MPs to review laws on UK spy-snoopery after GCHQ Tempora leaks

and to add to my last, you seem to have a real fixation with Jews, Israel and America. Nuff said.

*mod hat on*

The reason most of your comments get rejected is because they're simply far too long. Please see the Register Comments Guidelines for more info, paying particular attention to section 8. As soon as we publish anything a commentard says, we become legally liable for it - and we do not have any fulltime mods to devote to this.

Keep it short and to the point or we'll can it because we don't have the time to wade through reams of comment copy, no matter how insightful. Sorry.

Snowden's email provider gave crypto keys to FBI – on paper printouts

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Less of the personal abuse, or I shall push a large pile of bricks upon you all from a great height.

mod hat on

and yes, I have deleted/rejected posts from here. Carry on.

Scottish leader splurged £20k appealing disclosure of EU membership legal bungle

Indeed, why would we highlight those things when our ever-trusty commentards will do it for us? ;-)

Leveson: My Whingers' Charter™ is PERFECT, you impudent MPs

"that German bloke"

Erich Honecker?

Electronic Frontier Foundation bails from Global Network Initiative

Re: Mistake in headline.

But EVERYONE knows there's an infinite number of frontiers on the internet!

(good spot, but please use the corrections link to tell us next time!)

Brit inventor Dyson challenges EU ruling on his hoover's energy efficiency ratings

Re: Re: Hoovers???

I had a cat called Hoover once. She used to completely clear her food bowl, just like a hoover would have - hence the name.

Dutch oven overcooked in World Solar Challenge

Re: Re: @Richard Wharram RE: "vapor-driven vessel of low-countries origin"

link is SFW - it's a set of Dutch Christmas carol lyrics.

British support for fracking largely unmoved by knowledge of downsides

Re: Re: "None to both"

What, suicide?

Yo, mall rats: Facebook and Cisco in Wi-Fi hookup to track your retail, social life

To "coin" name for something is well-established English usage. Not sure they've conjugated it correctly here, mind. Their words, not El Reg's.

Former Microsoftie in AUTOMATIC BEER MAKER funding plea

Re: Re: Real men drink real ale

Boots don't (as far as I know) but Wilkinson's do.

Signed, a happy Vulture. Hic!