Posts by Paul

Beer set to hit four quid a pint

Noooooo!!!!!!!

IT in the UK is doomed!!

As for "higher aluminium, cereal and crude oil (prices)" worryes me a little. What the hell are they putting in there beer.

Google builds very own Ethernet switches

Please carry on...

with the fighting! I for one would love to see a reg hack get a FoTW!

Bumblebee boogie analysis in webserver boost

Re:Biomimetics in action

and the Fruit Bat ones write managment self help guides.

Promote your local synthetic biologist

@Marvin the Martian

Now go and write out a thousand times:

"I am not amanfromMars"

NZ bans Brit immigrant's overweight missus

Would make more sence.

If you were talking about, say, Spain, where the national sport is not Rugby. Most of the NZ rugby team must have a BMI of 40+. Just stupid. She may be overweight, but he probably was not, but still had to lose some weight.

UN mandates stability control in trucks - cars to follow

What a load of rubbish.

What a stupid thing. I can see why you want this stuff on a bus, but on cars? It just adds mass and therefor increases CO2... Yes, It will make you safer, but only if you are unsafe in the first place. Im sticking with my bike.

Museum archive turns up new dinosaur family

Thank you for the truth!

Well done! The BBC made it out to be "Student discovers new dino" As if some school kid has.

El Reg as normal gives us the truth, that a PhD student (probably a world expert in sauropod vertebrae, as that is what his PhD is in) has found a new dino. Still interesting, and well done to him, but not so over the top.

Thank you.

Monkey butlers a step nearer as boffins clone macaques

RE:armies of cloned monkeys?

What we need is explosive Poo flinging Monkeys, riding pigeons. The ultimate clone war combo.

Sober, reasoned analysis.

Why would I be reading El Reg if I wanted that?

Holy pancake appears on eBay

If they are that religous...

shouldnt they see it as a sign from God, not a way to make a fast buck?

Girls' school head condemns bubblewrapping of kids

All that keeped me from dieing at school playing in the woods...

was the fact that I was forever getting told off by my Mum. Not for hurting myself, but because I went through the knees of my trousers at lease once a month. Bring back those days!

My primary school accualy had a (Very small) wood in the playing fields. It is now closed off, through fear for the kids. No one ever died when I was there.

Animal rights activist hit with RIPA key decrypt demand

So,

Why is it wrong for the police (Or CPS) to ask for files which they beleave are related to terror, or any crime, to be readable? I dont get why you people are complaining about this. If she is not guilty then the police are wrong. Happens all the time. That is why we have trials. If they are right, then they need the evidence. Why should she be alowed to hide anything from a legitamet investigation?

How I wrote an iPhone application

A+ on Java Script...

F on HTML. WTF did you do? The page is a mess. Youve removed the %ages somehow! It may be somthing else, but I cant be botherd to surch your sorce code. It is hell to read.

Illegal immigrant finds work as spook for the FBI and CIA

@james & @ Anonymous Coward

So if its espionage she should be shot rather than hanged?

eBay glitch wipes out 11 year-old account without a trace

RE: Google Auctions?

That reply from Google reminds me of schools responses to acusations of Bullying "We don't have a problem. Nothing wrong here. Thats true because I say so" *Fingers in ears* "La la la la la I can't here you la la la la"

US man blasts stubborn wheelnut with shotgun

Shotgun?

I can (Sort of ) understand the logic of shooting the nut, but with a shotgun? Dose he not know how they work?

Woolworths flogs Disney Princess chair for £100m

hotel chain heiresses

Worryingly I can see Paris wanting one.

Lily Allen 'in talks' to become Doctor Who's assistant

"Lily is multi-talented"

Like Paris? :-)

Galileo slammed by UK politicians

We should have it!

Then perhaps my Tom Tom could accualy find a satalite from time to time.

(I know the problems with that statment. Its a joke!)

Dwarfs threaten Kepler and Newton

Arrgg, marmite.

Horibul stuff. Please dont tell me the universe is full of it.

Great War diary reveals original Captain Blackadder

Price

If you think its a rip off then dont buy it. Just shut up. The world dose not owe you free books. If you made a polite comment saying that you felt that they may have over priced it, then fine, otherwise, shut up. I do feal that It is overpriced and will therefor not be buying it, but I will be at the front of the que if it ever comes out in a book. Not because of the cost of an EBook, just that I wont spend more that a couple of pounds on one because I don't like reading from a screen, and dont like wasting money on somthing I know I probably wont read properly.

I realy hope someone dose pick it up and publish this book properly so that I can read it, whatever the price (I would expect to pay about £19.99 for the hardback, with explanitory maps, If there is anyone in publishing reading)

Home snoop CCTV more popular than Big Brother

I Couldent dissagree more...

'What I do outside my home should be my business and only my business. It might be the police's business, too, if I'm doing something wrong, but it is most absolutely and utterly not my neighbour’s business'

If you are doing somthing wrong in my nabourhood it absolutely is my business. Its an attitude like that which is causing allot of crime. People get away with petty crime because its not reported. It used to be the case that you would get a clip round the ear from your neighbour (As a kid) if they caught you up to no good, which instilled in you a sense of morality. Now if you complain to someone about there kid you get "Its not your business what he’s doing. Who do you think you are? The police?"

I think it is a brilliant idea. Hell Id pays a subscription fee to have that! As for the rubbish about privacy, did you not read the article? The feeds are degraded to make that a non-issue. I dont know how it works, but I think it would be good if there was an email address so that if you spotted any minor crime, where no one is at risk, you could note the time and camera number (Or somthing) and email the police so that they could have a look at the tape at a later time, rather that the hundreds of crimes that must be missed because there is a finite amount of people who can be sat watching CCTV for the police.

Ukrainian eBay scam turns Down Syndrome man into cash machine

What I dont get...

Is why EBay dosent seem to be coverd by the same laws as auction houses.

If they sell somthing stolen they are in the shit, the same if the goods are not deliverd after payment. How come EBay can wash its hands of these things?

Start-up rolls out meaty desktop cluster

Want!

I dont know If I can use one, I realy dont need one, but I want my boss to buy me one NOW! Imagin having one of those beside your desk, if only to anoy everyone in the office who thinks there laptop is the mutts.

The only failing I can see is that academics acroos the world will be the first to have them, sat in there offices. As anyone who has been in a computing or engineering dept at ani Uni will tell you, this is not exactly a clutter free space. I bet we see a few frying themself's because they have no ventalation under two feet of paper and books that will be stacked on them.

Mac OS X firewall blocks Skype and online gamers

Mac OSX is getting like Linex...

Except for price. "if you just change the port settings etc" No I wont! XP has never needed me to do this. I could if I needed to, but I dont. When Im at home, playing a game, I just want to put it in the drive, let it run and play the game. Not F about with ports etc. Face it Fanbois, Mac OSX has problems.

Mac OSX is getting like Linex...

Except for price. "if you just change the port settings etc" No I wont! XP has never needed me to do this. I could if I needed to, but I dont. When Im at home, playing a game, I just want to put it in the drive, let it run and play the game. Not F about with ports etc. Face it Fanbois, Mac OSX has problems.

Firm claims fake spy rock plane drop prize

Re: CSC and World Biometric ID project 'Worldbridge'

I want my post delivered like that! Much more fun that the postie coming to the door, and im sure he wouldn’t mind swapping his bike for a Hercules. That is a good point though, in, for example, Oz, where there is a flying postal service. Add a few of these to a drone, and outlying ranches could get post more often, and at allot less cost.

Also, I can bet "other government departments" are looking at this, not just for those "passport etc drops" but imagine the possibility of dropping a Mic/transmitter discised as a rock in to the gardens of an enemies governmental buildings, or in to the middle of a camp or barracks.

Pentagon: Our new robot army will be controlled by malware

Open Source software

Am I the only one that can see hundreds of open source developers wetting themselvs in anger over two things:

1) The idea that "there code", as they seem to see it, bught be used for death tech, probably without access.

2) The idea that open source code could ever have and malwere in it, because as we all know open sorce is 100% secure and to code open sorce you have to be chosen by the pure light of goodness, so are 100% honest.

If they do use any Open sorce, I can see the geeks outside the pentegon now, demanding access to all the code.

Harold and Kumar go to Comcastle

A better anolog:

I see it as being like paying Car tax. You pay to use the road, up to the speed limet. Do you then complaine that there is not enough road at rush hour, as you cant get to the spped limet because of to may cars? Some people do, but not most. As for speed reduction its like congestion charge (But not as unfair). An attempt to limet unfair usage.

And for those people who complain "why should high bandwith users get hert" Well, Its not. If you download video from the net, or play games, then no problem with most companys, but the probalme comes when using P2P. Its a bit like you pay your car tax, so should be able to park wherever you like, blocking roads etc, just for your convinence, so you dont have to walk as far to your front door or somthing. I am sure there are some people who use P2P legaly, but also I can bet that 99% dont. If it was just the odd Linex distro, then I am sure it would be fine, but its not. Its the millions of people using P2P for music and films, all day every day. And dont tell me "but they told me it was unlimited" You know full well that it there is a fair usage policy, and exactly what they mean. You must have known that when buying the line, if not you are either thick or lieing. Ive knowne it with every line Ive had.

Also, cant be botherd to check my spelling. Its late.

Congestion charge dodgers register Bentleys as minicabs

Minicab?

Whilst I agree with the Merc SL & Aston being unlikley Minicabs, I can see Mabachs and Bentlys being used by upmarket hotels and airlines for Heathrow transfers. There are lots of companys that use Bentlys (esp wedding to honeymoon ariport stuff). TfL need to stop moaning, plug the loophole, and get on with it, but not whilst taxing minicab ferms for being upmarket. That or do the right thing, and scrap the whole system.

Web 2.0 - carry on, don't lose your job

RE:George Marian

"While we've come a long way with programming languages, the type of thinking needed to be a good programmer hasn't changed substantially."

I agree. I have met a few people who have looked at a bit of code and said "I could do that it looks easy" But so few people can drop the human habit of making asumptions and jumps in logic. I think it will be a long time befor most people can get the head round how littraly computors "think". That and even though languages have got easyer, they are still not easy.

Cops expose cross-dressing Catholic school principal

@Rob

"where's the P/H angle?"

You have to ask?

Reg lexicographical Shock Army liberates mobe

Just one question...

Are you amanfromMar's brother? The one that did English rather than Philosiphy.

Student taser victim spared electric chair

Possible reason for what hes saying?

The University has come to him and said, we will let you back if you dont make a fuss, but if you do your out for the "criminal offence" you commited on our property? We dont care what the corts say, we dont need profe.

Woman admits fleecing shopping network of more than $412,000

Like in a shop...

If you go in to a shop, buy something by cheque and then cancle the cheque its fraud (And is done by people, which is why so few shops now take cheques)

Sun: MoD has Bond/Potter/Klingon cloaking device

optical radiation

Tut tut tut. MP's, the Mail and to genral population will campain against this. The use of the word radiation. School boy error.

Racist Reg ignores Nigerian helicopter pioneer

As Terry Pratchett put it

Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind.

(Mort)

Brussels arms bod: Don't buy Yankee deathware

I cant help feeling...

That as long as defence contracts are done on the basis of "We are all paying so should all have companys in on it" It wont work. I feel that we need to stop messing about with all this protectionism, but then the French will never do that (Look at the problems with Unibet).

Also, saying "the US make better stuff" is just silly. Yes, the Typhoon was designed to fight a war thas over, but by all accounts it is as good as the F22 Raptor (Including the only pilot who has flown both).

Oz barmaid fined for crushing beer cans between jubs

This is not good enough!

How many times do we have to go through this Lester? Photographs make all the diffrence on imporant storys like this. We need the infomation. Its just not good enough!

MoD slashes IT jobs

£50M

Isent that spare change to the MoD? About the 1/3 of the cost of 1 of the RAF's 240 Euro fighters. I dont want to even think of the cost compaird to a Tridant.

Dot, squiggle, plop

Sailors & Porn.

Who would get first dibs of dot-seman?

Hat, coat, door.

Leprechaun steals Gandalf's trousers, is offered starring role in The Hobbit

RE: Leprechaun Escalation...

Are you saying MS are using the same excuse?

American football power nabs phone numbers for 13,000 StubHubers

Braking the Law

Whilst I see why names of some failed bidders/Sellers should not be included, surely attempting to buy or sell is the same as buying or selling over the price. Espesaly the sellers, who presumably mostly couldent sell because there price was too silly.

Judge orders football website to name 'libellous' posters

Oh Shit....

Lets just hope MS, Apple, Redmond, Paris Hilton.... Etc Dont read El Reg. We'ed all be in the crap. However, the drinks bill for the work retreaving that infomation would probably be enough of a dissinsentive to stop them.

The first rule of Reg Club is...

Rule's

What about the cardinal rule for everyone here:

Reading the rules is akin to reading the instructions, so therefore somthing beneath us?

Restored Vulcan takes to the skies

Vulcan story...

I was once told that they close roads at the end of RAF runways when jets are scrambling because people have a habit of watching them and not the road. Apparently in the case of the Vulcan the engins would accualy blow the cars off the road.

Erratic fleshies sabotage, wreck innocent flying robot

Co-Pilot

Suerly they should treat the second seat like the Co-Pilot/Gunner/Navigator/Vometing TV presenter seat in a millitery Jet? Not 'oh we need to switch over controle' but they have all the controles to pilot the damb thing, but with the good sence to not touch them unless needed?

Teen accused of hacking emergency 911 system

Arrg....

"in California simply pointing a weapon that is classified as an assault weapon is a separate assault charge assault with an assault weapon."

That sentect gives me head ache.

WTC collapse voted 'most memorable TV moment'

The outside world...

Unless I'm missing somthing (I admit I havent looked at the paper this morning) the UK is not part of the USA, so therefor the Twin Towers and the Moon landing were news form "The outside world" as you put it.

Supremes ignore appeal from Microsoft and Best Buy in gangsta case

RE: obvious really

Na. After the bad press they were having, Apple have probably just entered the El Reg preference scheme. Give it a little while and we will be seeing articles titled "Apple make the greatest products ever - even kitchen appliances, which the dont make. They are that good." and "Job's elevated to level of Demi God, How could this travesty happen. He’s better than that."