Posts by Glenturret Single Malt

It's 2016 and idiots still use '123456' as their password

Re: Nothing wrong with insecure passwords

Horse sauasge would be even more memorable.

Bloke sues dad who shot down his drone – and why it may decide who owns the skies

Re: More Drone Hysteria

Is gimble = gimbal?

Brit cuffed for Kyrgyz 'horse penis' sausage quip

Re: No big deal

As a Scot, I am trying hard to decide whether that remark was meant as a joke or is simply gratuitously offensive.

Re: No big deal

Amidst all this talk of grammar, it should be "....WHO takes offence...." not "whom".

Aroused Lycra-clad cyclist prompts Manchester cop dragnet

I suppose

that in the right light and from a suitable angle, his bicycle pump could have looked a bit like an erection. Not sure why he would have it stuffed down his pants, though.

The Infamous Eight: 2015's memes, themes and big pieces

Breach not breech.

No, Kim Kardashian's plump posterior's pixels did not break the App Store – just this El Reg man's mind

Photoshop?

Windows for Warships? Not on our new aircraft carriers, says MoD

Windows for warships?

I thought they were called portholes.

'Powerful blast' at Glasgow City Council data centre prompts IT meltdown

Re: If the amount of kit in your data centre changes significantly

Whoops!

3x3x3 = 27 by my reckoning.

Man faces 37 years for sarcastic post insulting royal dog

Re: Could it be...

Bit difficult to become king as the dog is female.

Windows Phone won't ever succeed, says IDC

Re: Why do people pay these people

AC is talking about the PC World article, not the Reg article.

German ex-pat jailed for smearing own pat all over Cork apartment

ex-pat = ex-patriot (commonly used spelling error for the following);

expat = expatriate (which is what I think is intended here).

Spanish town trumpets 'Clitoris Festival' thanks to Google snafu

Re: Galician to Spanish?

You jist watch yer lip, Jimmy.

Windows 10 is an antique (and you might be too) says Google man

Re: Awful

I have frequently used apps (like Kodi) on the taskbar. One click and it is open.

FATTIES have most SUCCESS with opposite SEX! Have some pies and SCORE

Re: That is one angle

Just what I was thinking. As I read it, the people surveyed were all in a relationship at the time and no account was taken of any changes since that relationship was formed.

Google literally dangles its new dongle in front of gasping TV audiences

Re: hmnn

"The device itself feels a bit heavier in my palm as a result, but it's still just 39.1g or 0.086 lbs. Given the superior antenna, I'm okay with that - it won't weigh down my television mount."

From a review I read online.

Robber loses heist case after 'evil twin' defence, gets 60 years

Re: Not my idea of fun

Yet another who appears to be misled by the verb "hoist" in the phrase "hoist with one's own petard". A petard is (according to Chambers Dictionary) a case containing explosive used for example for blowing in doors.

Police Scotland fingered for breaching RIPA code 'multiple' times

Helmets etc.

Scottish police don't wear helmets like those in the photograph. Isn't that a Gay Pride march anyway?

SAP CEO McDermott loses AN EYE, almost his life in horror plunge

Re: One wonders ...

Most of us have an empty plastic container for water by the bedside?

Viper sinks fangs into unwary Indian farmer's todger

Caption competition

Is that the same snake last seen reclining on the keyboard of a laptop?

Don't bother buying computers for schools, says OECD report

Most of us may indeed use a narrow set of knowledge in our daily activities but everyone has their own different narrow set. When a teacher is confronted with, say, 30 pupils in a class, that teacher has no idea what specific knowledge each pupil is going to need in the future. Most of the pupils will have no idea what they plan to do in later life and part of the work of teachers is to present a range, some of which may attract the interest and enthusiasm of just one individual. The entire class therefore has to be taught a broad range of ideas. I am also sufficiently old-fashioned enough (and retired!) to think that the ability to learn facts is a skill that can be learned and that pupils may actually be assisted by being made to learn something that has little use in future. In my case, French vocabulary.

Ex-HP top aide in the clink for racking up $1m on company credit cards

They've got the wrong person!

That's a man behind bars in the photograph.

So unfair! Teachers know what’s happening on students' fondleslabs

Re: "Just a thought"

but are actually reading email

Or playing Candy Crush.

Feeling a physical present: Ten summer games and gadgets

Re: Ten summer Games when summer's 2/3 over?

Why not look on the bright side? If it's winter where you are at present then it won't be long till summer comes.

Apple goes to crapple in stock plunge kerfaffle: $113bn wiped off in days

Re: Apple goes to crapple in stock plunge kerfaffle: $113bn wiped off in days

The problem for a company in that situation is then to keep on producing the next new fashionable item.

Email apparently from Home Office warns of emails apparently from Home Office

Re: Aiiee!

All India Industrial Engineering Entrance Exam, surely.

Or, onomatopoiea.

John McAfee: Ashley Madison hack may ‘destabilise society’

Re: Hyperbole

I don't think the final syllable is pronounced -lee. It is more like -ley or -lay.

The last bit is like the Spanish word ole!

Apple Watch is such a flop it's the world's top-selling wearable

Re: Who actually wears a watch anymore? And why?

Amorous Cowherder.

You have clearly never been in the centre of Perth (Scotland).

Lawyer brands client 'small penis asshole' before challenging him to a DUEL

**********

Why is asshole given in full in the headline but bowdlerised to a**hole in the article?

The Great Barrier Relief – Inside London's heavy metal and concrete defence act

Re: How does the barrier defend against heavy rains?

The last Goon Show I listened to, they were bringing water from Brazil in brown paper bags.

I'm not sure if the Thames Barrier could act as a defence against such madness.

We tried using Windows 10 for real work and ... oh, the horror

Re: Settings, Settings Everywhere

"having some of the settings in the settings app, others in the control panel has been p*ssing me off since Windows 8."

I agree that it is an annoying feature of W10. There is no Settings app in my currently fully up to date W8.1 (apart from right click on the Windows symbol which gives shortcuts to some of the things that are in Control Panel anyway). So I don't understand how you can have been p*ssed off.

Re: Sounds a bit rough, but that's not what bothers me.

"as in Windows 8.1 - where tiles can't be moved around by drag and drop"

???

I have just left this fascinating document for a moment to confirm that I created my own categories of tiles and moved the tiles into each one by dragging and dropping and that I can still move them around. Yes, confirmed.

Giant male member spontaneously ejaculates over Norway

Re: insidious ejaculation

viruses

Whoops, sorry, didn't read far enough.

The wonderful madness of metrics: Different things to different folk

Transit vans

Interestingly, the use of a "fully loaded transit van" as a yardstick (metric?) for measuring the porosity of legal agreements fits nicely with the theme of the article. Is that a transit van stuffed to the roof inside but looking from the outside no different from an empty transit van? Or is it like the sort of thing that you find in e.g. Asian countries, piled high on the roof with luggage and with people clinging to every possible handhold on the outside and with a profile that is about twice the size of an empty van?

Finally! It's the year of Linux on the desktop... nope

Mandrake

There was Mandrake the Magician in comics when I was a lad. Was he copyrighted by Marvel or some such?

New Windows 10 Build 10122 aims to fix file association hijacking

Control Panel

Right click on Microsoft symbol and there it is.

Windows 10 hands on: Build 10074 is for the brave - but it's pretty snazzy

Re: Freeze-up problems

Wow! Seems to be fixed.

Freeze-up problems

I have W10 installed on an old Sony Viao laptop (about 5-6 years old) and I cannot use the Synaptic touchpad because as soon as I do whole thing freezes up. This is exactly the same as the previous build. The only solution found so far is to uninstall the touch pad and use a USB mouse instead.

Loose lips slip when Windows 10 ships: 'End of July' says AMD CEO

You are incredulous, it is incredible.

Swedish city demands £40,000 to repair teenage hacking spree

Re: How do you say...

The point is that "pour encourager les autres" isn't about encouraging or discouraging at all. The verb is being used ironically. The phrase is often associated with another much-argued word, decimate. If the occupying Romans had to put down a local uprising, then they might kill a tenth of the subdued male population "pour encourager les autres".

'Just a kid' Zuck's word is his bond ... but NOT in his backyard, lawsuit claims

Re: Markie Sugar town Cannot be Trusted

What connection do this and the next few comments have with the article?

The Revenue achieved RECORD numbers of e-tax returns ... by NOT shifting to GOV.UK

Re: Design...

The BBC, The Guardian and The Scotsman have all recently created considerably more unhappiness than The Register.

IT knowledge is as important as Maths, says UK.gov

"the committee doubted whether teachers currently have the ability to deliver relevant digital skills."

There are many schools currently where some teachers do not have the ability to deliver adequate mathematical and scientific skills.

Russian revolution: YotaPhone 2 double-screen JANUS MOBE

Re: Wht's the point really ?

Wrong.

"Its" is an exception to the rule about the possessive having an apostrophe.

"It's" means "It is".

SWINGBELLIES! Take heed! Drinking WINE is good for your LIVER

Re: 2lewd

Is that a female body shown in the photograph at the head of the article?

Lugging an HPC cluster to the plane as carry-on luggage? DON'T

Language problem

Language problem? Singapore?

They do speak English pretty well there in my experience.

Maybe the language problem is behind the microphone.

Landlines: The tech that just won't die

Re: BT bashing

Could someone please explain the reason for hostility towards Direct Debit. I have been using it for many years and have never had a problem with BT, energy companies, TV licensing or insurance premiums. The advantage of being able to organise regular payments from my bank account at a time that suits me vastly outweighs the chore of having to make every payment individually. I do still get a monthly paper bank statement and that coupled with online checks provides sufficient reassurance.

Re: Call filtering

I used to have a 1571 reply message set up saying "If your number is not clearly shown, I will not be answering and you have now wasted the cost of a call. If your call really is important, please leave a voice message." Unfortunately, I had to abandon that when they started charging for 1571.

Alabama tops US teacher-pupil sex league

Re: Inanimate objects?

It says in the article that "the victim (the postbox?????) rang the police."

Pull up the Windows 10 duvet and pretend Win8 and Vista were BAD DREAMS

Painful?

What exactly is painful about switching between desktop mode and the other one? It involves touching one key on the keyboard - something I have now just done over 100 times without rolling on the floor in agony.