Posts by Alan Stewart

Wi-Fi not working? It's time to consult the lovely people on those fine Linux forums

Could you put it in the case the other way round?

When you play the game of Big Spendy Thrones, nobody wins – your crap chair just goes missing

Re: Our old boss

There is no such thing as 'too much' Roald Dahl!

Nah, it won't install: The return of the ad-blocker-blocker

a question to ponder

This discussion does make me wonder, why don't The Avengers put some adverts on the side of The Incredible Hulk? He is after all a massive Banner!

Are you able to read this headline? Then you're not Julian Assange. His broadband is unplugged

The Count of Monte Cristo

Up, up and a-weigh! Boeing flies cargo drone with 225kg payload

Other uses

It might be a bit chilly, but 225kg is quite easily a person. Who needs a taxi?

Corn-based diet turns French hamsters into baby eating cannibals

Re: Eek!

Sounds like a ROUS to me!

Devonians try to drive Dartmoor whisky plan onto rocks

Re: Slàinte mhath

Close, but Tobermory isn't an island, it is a town on the Isle of Mull.

HAWKING ALERT: Leave planet Earth, find a new home. Stupid humans

Re: LOOSE != LOSE

Maybe he was afraid it might get loost!

Don't panic, US Navy has only deployed a ROBOT SHARK (but where are the lasers?)

Re: From the air or from the water

Would that be to get into secretive organisations - as a mole?

HTC phone STOPS BULLET, saves Florida gas station clerk's life

What a shame

I so hoped it would be a HTC Hero, just because of the name!

Naughty Flash Player BURIED ALIVE in OS X Mavericks Safari sandbox

Re: Ummm, this isn't new...

Hang on! Someone just admitted they were wrong on the internet - isn't that supposed to herald the coming apocalypse or something?

US states: Google making ad money on illegal YouTube vids

A cunning plan

Maybe this is Google's way of fighting back against these peddlers of illegal wares.

Presumably every eyeball on the advert costs the advertiser money, so Google is taking that money away from the bad guys!