Posts by Paul

Woman sues EA over 'secret' Spore DRM

Its just a game....

Untill this DRM screws up someones £5k gaming rig.

Also, My PC, I run what I want on it.

Superfluid leak downs LHC for months

No danger

Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web only because he didn't have anything to do. Now, thanks to Mr Berners-Lee, they will just spend the next few months doing what the rest of us do when we have nothing better to do at work. Looking in to the finer points of his invention, or as its otherwise know, wasting time on the net.

Acer raises UK prices

But...

isen't the pound still stronger than when these prices were set 2-3 years ago?

Hilton documentary reveals hidden side of Paris

No!

Just No! I'm setting up a face book web 2.0 mashup to campain to give us back our Paris!

Segway shock army to invade Department of Transport

RE: over my dead body

"God I hate cyclists on pavements"

Agreed. Like the fucker who jumped off the pavement in front of me this morning when I was doing about 30. Just because I only have 2 wheels dosen't mean I'm a cyclist!

Academic wants to 'free up' English spelling

Or perhaps...

both sides could take a deep breath and relax a little?

One thing though, some American spellings are closer to "old" English than ours are.

Hadron boffins: Our meddling will not destroy universe

@yeah, right

Grow up. Please.

Scottish beavers (and Cali cacti) get their chips

"though our more paranoid readers may be praying"

Please please don't encorage them. It is difficult enought for them as it is to roll a joint, keep the tinfoil hat in place and come up with reasons not to use Chrome without such direct proding.

Neo-Nazi forum hacked

@Jimbo

"Graham Dawson & AC - your claim that Antifa "are no better than the Nazis" is utter bollocks. How, exactly, is giving a few boneheads a good hiding equal to the systematic murder of ten million people ? You may as well say that a five-year-old boy who hits his little sister is just as bad as the Yorkshire Ripper."

Urm, these people didnt systematic murder anyone, they hold a view that it was right. I don't agree with that, but they are welcom to hold that view. I would argue that they are wrong, and try and convince them of that, but not through violence. How about we come round and give you a good hiding, as we don't agree with your view point? No? Dosent work that way? Odd...

45th Mersenne prime discovered (possibly)

RE: 1's and 0's ... my head hurts

The difference between 9.99999... and 10 dose matter some times, but not to most people. It is best not to think about it to much, and as for the race to 0K, there are important things about being at 0.00001K and 0K, for example, as you say at very low temperatures odd things happen, at 0 nothing should happen. Any particle moving has energy, so therefore cannot be at 0K.

and @Kanhef and adnim. You seem to be thinking of infinity as a definable number. It is a very difficult concept to get your head round I know (I can't) but one infinity cannot be bigger than another. Much like the concept of infinity -1, it just doesn’t work. The mistake you seem to be making is thinking rationally about infinity, when it is not a rational number.

People so often make this mistake of trying to rationalise irrational numbers. It caused me allot of headaches trying to work with root -1, but ultimately you just have to accept that what you are doing works but you will never know why.

People have written PhD's on the concept of infinity, or pi or root -1, and I am nowhere near that clever, but I hope that makes sence to you all.

PH, because you should take her lead, as I have, and not think to hard.

Government data protection standards are protected data

Why don't they...

Chuck them in storage (Disk drives are not that big. You could fit a few in the space of a lever arch file) then get them securly distroyed once the data is no longer needed? Why treat them any diffrently to other data?

Vodafone says termination rate clampdown would hit the poor

What rubbish.

If I make a call I know how much it costs and if I can afford it. If I start being charged to recive calls...

The poorer phone users will be worse off by not being able to budget. Its just stupid realy.

Philips pitches black with monster contrast LED backlight

@Peter Timon

The price is in Euros.

and Mark Aggleton. What? What is wrong with the word puppy, or wat that a joke?

Europe's Tesla will be first with full performance

@Solomon Grundy

"These things aren't much bigger than a smart fortwo and, other than the acceleration, perform about as well as a smart fortwo."

How the hell did you work that out? It out accelerates a smat fortwo and will out handle it (I don't know for sure, but it probably has a lot lower center of gravity and is probably better balanced) I asume what you are saying is that it will only reach the same top speed, which as long as it will do over the speed limit is a pointless and, frankly, stupid thing to say.

Password pants-off at Lloyds Bank

As this seems to have been telephone banking...

I asume that it was a "give us an easy to remember phrase" Job. Most Banks seem to have been doing this since realising how trivial it is to find somones mothers maiden name.

I can in this case see why there would be tight restrictions e.g. would you want to be a call center worker having to hear hundreds of people giving the oh so clever password "your a wanker" every day.

Coming soon: Facebook - The Movie!

Oh My Good God....

Kill Me Now....

British boffins perfect process to make any item '100% waterproof'

Im glad to see...

im not the only Biker to see this and think "ohh. Waterproof leathers. Dry Boots" and more importantly, no more being laught at by my wife. She seems to have the one and only pair of truly waterproof bike boots in the world.

Acorn alumni to toast tech pioneer's 30th anniversary

All good BOFH's have a job to do!

Brake out the duct tape and the cattle prod. Some of these people may need our help!

iPhone passwords not worth the paper they're written on

RE: Henry Williams

Meens that any embarising music is safe then :-) Noone will ever know your secret love of the spice girls.

Hackintosh maker bites back at Apple

RE:: Difficult call

AMG & Brabus Mercedes are something completely different. There are lots of companies that will change the engine in your car. It is a complex process, but can be done. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head is there are people selling Smart cars with 'busa engines and Lotus's with Honda engines (or they were until Lotus started doing it themselves).

The difference with AMG & Brabus is to do with the complexity of the German laws and the different Tax regulations to do with being classed as a car manufacturer or a tuner.

Also, changing the engine would not void your whole warranty, only the parts affected by the change. For example, if you change the engine you would not always be coverd for drive train problems, unless you can prove that a problem was due to a fault by the original manufacturer, but if, say, one of your doors fell off, you would be.

The other difference is a car maker is selling a whole car. Apple is clearly selling two products. Bundled, but still two distinct products. If they only sold the OS with the computer then fine, but they don't.

NASA to brief on manned spaceship 'concerns'

@More FUD

You clearly have no idea how touchey and stroppy they Russians are being, or how dangorous they are at the moment.

Google murders second Anonymous AdSense account

@Dr Patrick J R Harkin

And the "all religons sux anyways coz I read a book once that says im realy realy clever." debate.

Massive expansion planned for 'no-work' database

I can see it being like...

a 1930s film. Back to the days of being dismissed without references.

Joint Committee gets it (mainly) wrong on human rights

@The BigYin

"Or is that just the joint manifest of the Tory and Labour parties"

Na. They would never say anything as clearly as that. Give yourself a few days on Whale song, Joss sticks and dobble Expresso, re-write, add a few lies, and then come back.

German hackers poke hole in great firewall of China

@Why exactly

For two reasons.

1) You are beleaving the Chinese claim that the games is about sport and sport alown. Wether they like it or not people want to know about the rest of the country, which dose require access to "band" sights. China need to accept that if you host an international event it is not just that event, but the actions of your whole country that are under scruteny.

2) The Chinese government did say that there would be no restrictions when they were bidding for the games.

Rogue reporters kicked out of conference for network snooping

"educate the public"

Ye. My arse. They wanted to show off about how l33t they were. How much public notice dose Blackhat get? Outside the tec/security comunity, who know these dangers all to well, Im guessing non.

Sub £200 mini laptop launched

I realy dont get the point...

What is it for? It seems to well speced for just word processing and net browsing, but under speced for much else.

When one comes out that I can use to do a bit of word processing, a bit of web browsing and send a few emails, and costs less that £100 then I will have one, and I think many others will to.

BT slams bandwidth brakes on all subscribers

WTF?

I thought WoW had slowed down. I have the bottem package, so use less that 20Gig per month, and play WoW in the evening. How can they justify slowing it down? Im canceling my conection tonight.

Paris Hilton - the compromised candidate

I would say...

having carfully studied Miss PH, that I dont think she is stupid, just un-worldly. Much like Bush, but unlike Bush she seems to be, over all, a good person.

Skull and cross bones because... well just read the pic lable.

American man too fat for execution

RE: Neil

Again, you put words in my mouth. Saying prisons are not holiday cams dose not mean I feel they are harsh enough. I have stated my point clearly enough.

As for "Consider all those who have fought and died to allow us to have the rights we enjoy today. I think it's utterly disrespectful to believe these rights are somehow intrinsically ours by nature. Be thankful you have them and stop taking them for granted." HOW DARE YOU!

I am realy angry about that. You asume that because I beleave that rights should be afforded to all it means that I don't value them? Quight the oposite. Infact I think that by you feeling that they should be taken away, you have no respect for those who died for them. Perhaps there would be less violent crime if people respected other peoples rights and lifes. Problems come not when people have to many rights, but when they do not respect others. People are not killing because they have a right to live, but because they dont respect others right to live. You have it all arse about face.

@Neil

Ok... Please can you copy and past the part of my comment where I said anything about my views on harsher/longer sentencing for any crime? I mearly questions the usefullness of your source. But then you didnt realise that a right is a right.

Please don't put words in my mouth.

RE: Neil again....

"So, it's a good thing that offenders are punished and view their time inside as a 'holiday camp' is it? The very words of a young offender interviewed in England."

I asume you are talking about the same young offenders who see an ASBO as a mark of honour. Of course they are going to say they are like holiday camps. Its a mark of how "hard I is in't". Its an attitued of "I didnt let the filth get me down. They put me in there and it was well good. Not gona put me off. Im to hard. They dont know life on the street." They are not exactly going to say "I cryed for my mummy every night" are they?

RE: Neil

No. Rights are just that. Rights. Not privilege. It should never be possible to loose them or give them up in any way shape or form. You are born with them and have them through your whole life. Unfortunaly so many people seem to be unable to understand this and seem to feal people should loose them for any number of reasons.

Your argument about the Jungle is silly. Saying "go live outside of civilisation and see how it is not civilised" is just silly.

You people are animals if you think "this Man took a life. He should suffer". This is mob rule at its worsed. You truly do make me sick.

No man should have the right to take the life of another (disregarding the complex situation of eutinasia).

Google 'exploitation' protest takes to the streets

So...

A big company, with high pay, sets up in the area. House prices go up because people want to live there. So?

Home Office minister gets tough, then gets stuck

I say we club together

and buy this guy a Thesaurus.

UK comms intercepts up by half - and it isn't the council

You are all fools...

If you think this is a fair and balanced statment.

"Such records can nonetheless be a powerful tool for local government officials acting against rogue traders, fly tippers, those seeking to avoid council tax, parents trying to fraudulently gain places at popular schools and other criminals"

Most of the applications are relating to benefit fraud. But of course El-Reg is no longer interested in good reporting...

Morgan shows 'light & slippery' fuel-cell car concept

RE: One-sided equations

And on the same note, this dose get to me when people say "well you cant make the fule green at the moment". Yes, and you never will if noone trys.

As far as I can see there is no current way to make Petrol Green (Even Bio Deisel is not exactly good for the world), so I think hydrogen is a good way to go. Yes, at the moment it isent all that green, but this isent a case of no-one knows how to, just that the technology isent fully working yet.

Saying "the car isent green" is incorect. The fule production method isnt green. You cant say the same for Petrol.

US cyberspying fears hang over Beijing Olympics

Which border?

"copying the contents of laptop hard disks at border crossing"

Is that leaving the US or entering another country?

EU tells UK to deal with Phorm - or else

@C LARDER

Na. Thats one of the problems. I doute it will be aloud to be opt out only.

Congress accuses American Phorm of 'beating consumers'

Phorm to users:

All your Datas are belonging to us.

Attack of the Italian space pod parachute babes

G-Force

"I'd have thought that the G-forces would kill the agent before he/she got far enough into the atmosphere to be able to deploy a parachute though."

Not realy. They would be under 1 G of force (or less at that hight).

Judge sides with eBay in fake jewelry spat

I thought that

Under UK law at least, Auctioneers were responsible for ensuring that goods sold through thair auction houses were accurately described, which is why the likes of Sotheby’s have a staff of well paid experts on hand.

Japan to fund creation of 40W, 40in OLED TV

@Christian Berger

I think they are after bigger, not smaller.

File system killer Reiser rejected 3-year sentence

Am I the only one...

who is a little uneasy about someone giving up the right to appeal?

Street View spycar prowls Inverness

There is actualy...

As I said befor, an "expectation of privacy" on British streets. Google are braking this. El Reg are clearly publising baised on the "public interest" laws.

3 calls foul on T-Mobile price promise

@Paul Buxton

WTF did they do to you? I've been with 3 for the past 4 years, and never had a problem.

Google's spycar revs up UK privacy fears

UK privacy

Three problems.

1) There is only a right for you to take photos for personal use, not commercial.

2) There is one BIG problem they have. It is illegal to take photos of people near certain buildings. Places such as Drug Rehab, Hospitals or places of worship would all be a BIG no no, but I doute Google take these things in to account.

3) If I remember correctly there was a big legal spat between someone famous and a news paper a few years back about the paper taking pics of them going about there shopping. The paper lost.

Finally, on a separet note, I really hate Google saying "If you tell us we will take the photo down". Isn’t that a bit like a shop lifter saying "If you catch me I will give you the stuff back, so it’s all ok"?

Consider yourself Moderatrixed

@ All the bikers

I call you all out as fair weather wimps.

What kind of fool would use a Gixxer of a ZX6R to get to work every day, or to ride two up for any distance, or on a wet winter road?

Personaly I would go for a BMW F800 S/ST, but then they are about twice the price of the SV650.

The Moderatrix will see you now

If you were..

a potato, which type would you be?

Built-in browser expiry proposed to fight botnet menace

Fanboiz...

"Firefox users "typically updated" within three days"

Because they are frothing fanboiz poised for the latest update to crash the download servers?