Posts by Paul

US lag sues over prison crash diet

RE: am I the only one...

Nope....

Scotland Yard pokes crooks on Facebook

Talking of the Mail...

I think some people must work for them. So much complaining about how its a waste of time and money. You don't know how much this costs, how much use it is or anything.

It seems like a very good idea to me.

Brain-plug weapons could provide war crime immunity

RE: Dave

That sounds like a good plan...

There might even be a film in an idea like that. :-)

Ofcom taps water network for next generation broadband

RE:Weren't they going to use sewers?

Probably given up as to a danger to the capacity of our sewers.

There is enough shit traveling through them as it is.

Virgin Media mops up CEO's 'boll*cks' outburst

RE: Reg Readers are the exception

But they are going to go bust as it is...

I personaly think they should follow the example of water companys, and offer a per MB service and try to slowly phase out unlimited access.

BT's 'illegal' 2007 Phorm trial profiled tens of thousands

@ tony& AC

Wow... Slow down a second...

I dont agree with Phorm, but taking credit card info and abuse for spying on us? Thats a bit far, and VERY tabloid. Calm down, and stop trying to frightne people. As I said I dont want phorm, and am not happy about it, but I dont think they are going to start stealing my bank infomation.

Area 51 drug test victim crashes flying car

Realy...

"Patrinostro was booked into the county jail, and his bail set at $50,000. If convicted, he faces more than three years' jail. "

Thats if he is ever seen again after revealing his work...

US student planned to ice Chuck Norris

@ Matt

Yep. Spot on. As in ***k you lot. Why don't you just get somthing better to do than go on and on about the fact that I went to spell Queue, changed it to cue and messed up?

BTW, I expect it from the other posters, but someone who works for El Reg? Not a very nice way to treat a reader...Especially the Kew joke.

Que....

a list of Chuck Norris Jokes....

BBC vs ISPs: Bandwidth row escalates as Tiscali wades in

RE: By Kevin Gurney

You can do that. Do what I did, and work out how much you use, and then find a package that is not unlimited. I find my BT service is very good, always fast, and cheaper than most of the unlimited ones, as I do have a cap but don't use it all (very often). By fast I mean 8 Meg service normaly runs at 6.5-7 Meg. Not perfect, but close enough to me to not mind especaly as most of my use is 6pm-9pm.

Although I do not know what I am going to do now as I am leaving them, thanks to the Phorm crap, although that is a diffrent matter.

Plans to jail data thieves shelved

"in the public interest"

Oh. That old case. Perhaps some hacks first need to learn "of intresst to the public" is not the same as "in the public interest"...

/joke

Im sure El Reg has higher standards than that, or at least a few people ex Black Hats they know can get all the info they need without using some iffey company or getting caught

/joke

EU sets cellphone users loose in aircraft

Ideots...

All this talk of "people who cant be away from there phones". My Father, as a Doctor, can manage it, why cant they? The people you work for dont own your life. As far as I am concirned if im not on call or at work, the can F off.

As for getting on a plane to go on Holiday, im off to buy a Blackbird (Bike not spy Jet) and Ill race you to any city in western europe...Ill be the one sat in the bar with a beer and a smile on my face whilst your still strugling with passport drones.

Ban using mobiles while crossing street, says US legislator

Forget them...

First we need to work on Cyclists who don't have the first clue what is going on. Like 90% of them. Some are very good, but most are fools (at least where I live).

Then we work on the other problems.

@A J Stiles

No they dont. Read back and look for the post about the high way code.

Videogame retailers support Byron Review, says Byron

To be honest...

I thought that was the case now...

Oh well. It is a good idea, if nothing else, it gives shops the right to say "sorry, we cant sell this to you, its the law"

It also puts games on a par with films, rather than toys.

US teen cuffed for disposable camera 'Taser'

I wonder if they should arrest all A-Level Physics students..

because I (very painfully) remeber the lesson where we built our own capacitors. Two 1'x1' metal plates, and about 3000V across them. Now that COULD give a real shock.

'Bullying' Aussie high school stops fingerprinting kids

@AC

My School was twice that size and got along fine with pen and paper.

CIA demands UK halts interrogation tactics

I call it!

April Fool...

If only it were true.

Not very clever though, but better than the BBCs flying penguins.

BAA boots Vulture from T5 frequent flyer club

I want to rant about how its wrong...

but I cant help thinking they are probably right... :-)

Facebook security hole exposes Paris Hilton's . . . um, pics

Facebook

I dont know why people join it anyway. I set up an account a few weeks ago so that I could view a friends wedding photos. I set up an account under my name, but everything else was blank or a lie, and the email address was one of my throw away hotmail ones I use for signing up to anything I don't trust (like hotmail :-)). Oh, and I put one note on it for people to read, saying "I will not be using this account. Please don't try to contact me here as you will get no reply and will think Im being rude. Im not, I just think that my conversations are mine, and so are my Pics, not Facebooks".

Now Im getting every person I have ever met wanting to be my friend. Im glad to know (again) I was doing the right thing. Now If they would just Fuck off and stop filling my inbox with Junk.

Of laptops and US border searches

NDAs

I don't understand somthing...

Why do people seem to think that:

1) NDA's matter to Law enforcment?They don't. For a start most of them have a clause in them about only revealing the infomation to "autorised persons, including law enforcment agencys" and even if they did not, they should.

2) That UK C&E need "Reasonable cause" to stop people. I know the artical was about the US, but people seem to be applying it to the UK. The UK has no such laws. Law enforcment can stop anyone any time.

Woman accuses RIAA of killing dolphins

RE: I hate you Cade

"open plane office with 45 developpers"

I wouldent worry. Half of them will probably have come and looked on El Reg to see what you were looking at.

Ofcom says yes on more TV ads

Sorry...

"On the other hand, Ofcom must also take account of the contribution made by advertising revenue to paying for the choice of television services that viewers enjoy."

They think more adverts will help? Have they seen US or French TV? Its Crap. What we see of US TV in the UK is the pick of the best shows. It is like basing all your views of UK TV on what is shown in prime time on BBC 1 and ITV 1 (although admitedly you would just get Soaps, which would make our TV look crap)

So what's the easiest box to hack - Vista, Ubuntu or OS X?

I don't realy get the point...

...of arguing which is the most secure. Realy that is only a small part of why you chose an OS. Personaly I think the best OS, and probably one of the most popular (I have 3 computors running it) is the Bosch engine Managment system :-)

Brain training game aids kids' learning skills, study claims

Other excuses....

"However, it’s another weapon in your armoury of excuses if your boss catches you playing with a DS Lite during working hours... "

Now can we have one for posting on El Reg? The old "Its a high brow IT site" is wearing a bit thin, more so since he saw me reading BOFH last week. Although I have noticed he has stopped using the lift since then...

Exploding turnip threat menaces Indiana town

"or maybe that the X-ray didn't come out"

Or perhaps, as our local frendly bomb desposal expert has admited befor, the bomb desposal people had turned up to a few to many false alarms and wanted something exciting to happen.

Desktop Eee PC spied on web

Pics.

I was worying that we were just going to get boring pics from a trade show, but then at the bottem, BAM. Eee PC beach shot. Nice one.

BBC calls DRM cops on iPlayer download party

Adobe & Viewing

Surely if Linex users cannot view the Flash because of problems with Adobe not supporting Linex, then the problem is nothing to do with the BBC, and to do with the fact that Adobe, or Linex, not suporting what is considerd to be a standard net tool.

As for paying to view the programs, you dont. Your fee gives you the right to recive the BBC transmision...

Times pledges allegiance to Web 2.0

amanfromMars

Has excelled himself. That reply is absolutely acceptable English, relates to the story etc, and yet still makes no sense at all.

iPod Nano electrical discharge sparks new battery fear

But they said ...

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a billion to one... but still amanfromMars came...

Home Sec: British rings to be tightened against intrusion

RE: Britain bashing

I agree. I feal the people who are the problem are the ones who just complaine. If you dont like it stand up and be counted. Unlike many countrys we do still have some democracy in the UK. Your vote dose count, and if that is not enough for you, stand for election. Unlike many places (The US) you don't have to be a multi milionair in the UK just to fund an election. If you are right then people will vote for you and you can realy do somthing, if that is not the way it goes for you then deal with the fact that your view is not shared.

Posting on a slightly obscuer IT site is not the way to change things, even a letter to a national news paper wont work. Please, stand up and do somthing, or shut up.

Minister wants more mashups

The Hive Mind

Have got to the Gov.

As far as I can tell though, all this guy has done is, with appologies to Mitchel and Webb, writen 17 buzzwords on a page and filled in the bits in between. What he wants to do dosent seem to have anything at all to do with change or Wiki's.

Local councils dish out shoddy computer recycling advice

Why not do what I do...

And keep your hard drive. They arnt that big, means no-one can get your data and means that If I do need anything from them it is not lost for ever (Well, possibly the older ones, but they are that old the data is probably useless anyway). One day I may get round to properly distroying them, but for now I think this is much safer.

File-swapping Icelanders slapped on wrists

mmmmmmm.....

2.5TB of porn :-)

Scotland Yard careers website defaced

Looks like...

Some "l33t Noob scripd kiddies" by there spelling. They are probably about 12...

Solicitors fined under Data Protection Act

2 Hours?

"That whole amount would cover what, 1 - 2 hours of client chargeable time. Mr Bentley would loose more if he'd just decide to take it easy one afternoon and go to a pub..."

For a Lawer in London? Only if it was work for a friend...

UK rattles 'three strikes' filesharing sabre (again)

Ermmm...

"Under the system actually being pushed, copyright infringement would be identified by rights holders by joining a BitTorrent swarm, for example. They would then send a list of IP addresses to the ISPs who would send out two warning letters to their customers. Being detected filesharing illegally a third time would mean disconnection."

I may be being dumb but what will this mean for people whos ISPs use floating IP's?

Nanny agency hacker fined

You want an anolog...

Would any of you be on the nannys side if she had walked off with her door access card (If she had one) and they had forgotten to cancle it?

Its the same thing.

Top cop urges RIPA review in coded attack on snoop code

@The Mole

Urm, just to let you know, but British law dose not have the concept of "emotional trauma". There are problems with people claiming for things like triping over a broken paving slab when they should have been looking where they were going, but also if a hospital makes a cock up and it was there fault. Take the case of the woman recently given an epidural in the arm, leaving her family without her. If I was them I would want them to pay out, not for distress, but for the loss of earnings. The real financial cost.

RIAA chief calls for copyright filters on PCs

They are sounding more and more like...

the histeric Mum of a kid that has just been shot in a gangland shooting. "We should ban shotguns because my drug dealing kid was shot by someone with an AK" or "no mother should have to hear there drunk son die on the phone in a car accedent. We should ban cars"

You get my point...

Should the IT department be accountable for energy use?

Who owns the PC's?

I think that whoever owns the PC's should take responsibility. If you are in a company that treats PC's as office equipment and IT are a support team the the department should, but if you are in one of these places that IT think they own everything with a processor in it (down to the EMU of the bosses car) and wont let you even put ink in a printer without them then they should take responsibility for it all.

English language succumbs to Symbiotic Ephemeralization

Place the document..

in a secure container and transfer to the Strategy Boutique for safe disposal.

Scottish government drafts Cat Welfare Code

Mr Prattchet would agree..

"cats will always wrap themselves around your feet when you're descending a steep flight of stairs bearing a large amount of crockery on a tray".

Good old narrative imperative.

Nintendo patent profers wacky Wii add-ons

Cut down on the meds.

It seems that for many years someone at Nintendo has been on somthing to give us alot of very strange, but enjoyable games. Its seems however, that someone, somewhere, at Nintendo has been asked to come up with some new ideas for uses for the Wii remote and accidentaly taken a dobble dose of there meds.

HTC Magnum rumours rife following giant phone gag

Left hand.

I note the guys left hand, dispite the rest of him is quight animated, dosent move at all. Implies cables down his sleave.

Official: Linux buffs lay out more on marital aids than Mac users

So what your saing is...

Linex geeks are a bunch of wankers?

Now, is this one for a Joke, Flame or Coat Icon?

Intel Skulltrail high-end gaming system

Vista

"This may have been due in part to the Alpha nature of the BIOS. We know it’s Alpha because the POST screen displayed a warning message and while we had no problems with system stability it did take a fair while to boot in to Windows Vista."

Hahahahaha....

"did take a fair while to boot in to Windows Vista."

Lol.

Ill just say that again

"did take a fair while to boot in to Windows Vista."

That made my day... Even this hardcore mega fast PC (yes yes I know not a full PC) still takes "a fair while to boot in to Windows Vista."

Now Im off to clean up the coffe I just spat all over my computer.

Straw launches inquiry into Muslim MP bugging case

Interview.

"it is completely unacceptable for an interview conducted by an MP on a constituency matter - or on any other issue - to be recorded"

Dose this meen we never have to have MP's on TV again?

Veggies a 'perversion of nature': Official

W(here)TF...

are the Veggies. Normally you would have had at least a few flaming the comments, or are they all too humourless to read El Reg?

/Troll

US Navy to test fire electric hypercannon

"A long shot, in other words"

Coat, door, now...

Also, @ Pete

"Oh yes, what happens to all the loose metal on a ship when it fires it's rail gun, will there be more friendly casualties from flying spanners etc. than the enemy will suffer?" Most of the stuff on ships is not made of ferous materials. It tends to rust dontcya know. (I know some things are, but not spanners etc).

Sociologists: Studying engineering turns you into a terrorist

To be fair

Most people with a BEng spent half there early lifes blowing stuff up or pulling it appart, and the other half putting working out how to it back togeather. Or at least I did, but then I did fail to get a BEng and ended up with a BSc (My maths was not good enough).