Posts by Will Godfrey

Apple's brilliant plan to fix iOS Maps: Get YOU to do it

Re: iOS 6 Maps - Cloud Based Satellite Imagery

keyboard please

French Skyper freed after accidentally hacking bank's phone system

News Flash

The bank of New Crappiton was not compromised today.

Reg readers serve up bacon sarnie amuse-bouche

Horror Story

These evil, corrupt examples are all so utterly wrong. None even remotely resemble a bacon sarnie. They are cremated pig plus some culinary abortion disguised by an (arguably) grass seed based covering.

A bacon sarnie consists of precisely two things. Lightly cooked, but well cured bacon, and white 'farmhouse' bread from stone-ground wheat.

OLYMPIC SECRETS to stay locked up for 15 YEARS

Re: NINE BILLION POUNDS

Buggritt! I was going to say that. I even had a patent on it too.

See you in court, and don't give me any of that prior art rubbish.

New benefits website at risk of hackers, no Plan B - ministers

Talk about lunatics and asylums...

I find it terrifying that someone (not) in control of this fast arriving train wreck can be so totally out of touch with reality.

All eggs in one basket.

Security as a bolt-on.

No fallback position.

I am reminded of the quote: "It may be that your entire purpose in life is to act as a warning to others."

Ballmer: Win8 'certainly surpasses' Win95 in importance

Ballmer says...

{yawn}

Flame espionage weapon linked to MORE mystery malware

What a horrible thing to happen to a sweet, innocent internet.

Reg hack uncovers perfect antidote to internet

So...

You used three sections of tubing.

Well, well, well.

Work for beer, Neil Gaiman's wife tells musicians

Amanda... Who?

Humanity facing GLOBAL BACON SHORTAGE

Re: White slime

To my great surprise, I recently discovered that Tesco's advertise 'no added water' on their bacon packs. Being a frontier type person I decided to try some. Guess what? No slime!

Re: Two words....

Good idea, and the people of Liverpool can select the pig food.

Actually, you can improve a cheese sandwich simply by removing the cheese.

Ultimate bacon sarnie scrap starts to sizzle

Re: Dogmatism

Oi! Leave the dogs along. They never did you any harm.

LOHAN straps on satellite comms capability

Pint Personally Proffered

This has a huge number of control and monitoring possibilities.

Day-long outage 'not a hack,' claims GoDaddy

Well, I've never been a custo^H^H^H^H^H victim of GoDaddy, but from all the complaints I've seen over the years, they must be the world's only ISP with a credibility rating in negative numbers.

While I'm not at all convinced that the Anon. claimant is telling the truth, I'm even less convinced that the outage was not the result of some form of crack.

Curiosity parks for a day, looks back in wonder

So, the thing lands, mooches around a little then vandalises the place with graffiti. Sounds just like a teenager to me!

Re: "The little rover that could"

Some people just have no soul!

Windows 7 passes XP, Mac OS X passes Vista

Re: Windows 98

At work, we run an instance of wine with the win98 configuration (it's not emulation) simply because some PLC software we still occasionally have to use never got developed any further.

Former Russian officer sentenced for part in Kaspersky kidnapping

But, but, but...

I thought he only got four and a half years. You're telling us it was twenty years and six months!!!

(41 / 2)

Asus CEO sounds netbook death knell

Re: Shame

Another 901-er here.

Mine lives in a padded cooler-type sandwich bag, which also has a nice little mesh pouch for a mouse and few bits and bobs.

Many's the time I've had it sitting on a lump of machinery - well, bouncing up and down usually - logging data, setting parameters etc.

TripAdvisor didn't defame hotel by putting it on 'top 10 dirtiest' list

It is all very well to talk about the 'reasonable person' but my experience is that such persons are a tiny minority and that huge swathes of the population will unquestioningly believe anything they read.

I know of good people who have been put out of business by crap online reviews.

Dodgy audio connections conceal more than just words

I can see exactly why they want this.

It's to be sure they have aggravated you sufficiently for having the temerity to actually complain about their appalling 'service'

Cambridge Uni publishes free Pi-OS baking course

Re: Eh?

Presumably as it's an um, instruction course, they want to keep the er, instructions clear and separate.

Here we go again: Critical flaw found in just-patched Java

In other news

Malware authors are considering a class action lawsuit against Oracle for anti-competitive practice.

Re: Java and Open/Libre Office

Libre Office is already doing that. As for Open Office... who knows?

China's net addiction staff told to stop the beatings

One of those 'Cure is worse than the disease' situations.

I only wrote that to delay having to switch my 'pooter off.

Robot rover Curiosity sets out on first long Mars trip

Hmmm

Is that diode-sign or dio-design?

(enquiring minds need to know)

Mystery virus attack blows Qatari gas giant RasGas offline

Why?

There seems to be a steady ramping up of these attacks. You'd think that, just maybe, organisations might look around and come to the conclusion that they should review their security.

They seem to be worse than ostriches.

UK: 'We're legally bound to arrest Mr Assange'

Re: Wow

I'm sure he intends to use the full farce of the law,

RIP Brian Wynne Oakley: Saviour of Bletchley Park

I didn't know who it was, but I did know that a civil servant had been instrumental in saving Bletchley Park.

R.I.P.

More of Kim Dotcom's booty released by court

Hmmm

Non US eh? I wonder if this is the beginning (or at least an indicator) of US tech isolation from the rest of the world.

Mars rover harangues empty landscape with loudhailer

Re: Uh-huh

Hmmm. Google says:

We must return to Earth now press ahead with extreme force! Provides me immediately to a phone connection with Doctor Kessler!

Office 2013 to offer one-off apps on demand

What could pssibly go wrong?

So people get used to the idea of not having the software permanently on their system, but have loads of documents, then need to make a presentation or something, only to find there is no network availability of any kind at the location.

Neil Armstrong dies aged 82

I had great respect for the man. He was a true engineer, a problem solver. We don't seem to have so many of them these days.

As for the idiots dissing the team, they are not even worth the effort of clicking the downvote button.

"What shall we do with the mean, sniping, shadows of men? Why, we shall do nothing; for they are as straw in the wind. Unremembered."

R.I.P. Neil. You'll be fondly remembered for a long, long time.

LOHAN sets clock ticking for explosive climax

Re: Cool, very cool indeed

Prolly someone with no initiative of their own so down votes just cos they can.

Don't bother with Big Data – listen to customers instead

Re: It's called Qualitative Research

"FWIW, I am not an anthropologist, but I am married to one"

I have no sympathy for self-inflicted suffering

Re: Expectations? What expectations?

"customer expectations have not been correctly set"

This line is priceless! It shows how totally out of touch even this guy is. Surely there must be some limit to their arrogance.

LOHAN turns up the heat on Vulture 2 motor

Insulation is the key. There are some fantastic materials around these days. In a well insulated, small size environment 2 watts is a lot of heat!

Processor pioneer Victor Poor dies of cancer at 79

Re: "ROM memory"

Always a good idea to have some redundancy where memory is concerned.

Fascinating history, and I never knew any of it!

Exposing China's vast underground economy

Re: Another pedant (pendant?)

Hey! wot about us pendents?

Have we been silenced? Are we now dependents?

Re: Real name policies

And of course this could never be abused could it. No chance anyone in the gubbermint might think "Hey, we can use this to keep tabs on political activists/opponents/{just anyone really}"

Ten phones for seniors

My mum told me to look out for the elderly so I did, but I don't think I found one, and I wouldn't know what to do with an elderly if I had found one. Now you tell me there are seniors as well. This is just getting too confusing. What's the difference between them, and does anyone know what you're supposed to do with them?

P.S.

Anyone know where I can get a nice phone I can carry about with me?

Bill Gates, Harry Evans and the smearing of a computer legend

Looks just like another leech trying to make money off the backs of *real* engineers.

RIP Harry Harrison: Stainless Steel Rat scurries no more

He was also a writer's writer. Some fantastic descriptive text, such that you could almost hear the characters saying their lines.

R.I.P.

Samsung to fight iPad with stylus, windows

For those of us with fingertips greater than 5mm in diameter a stylus makes a lot of sense.

'Kill switch' flaw found in top web weapon, victims sigh with relief

I seem to get through a lot of these lately!

Wannabe media barons outed in UK local telly bid list

I already have a first class local news service. She lives 4 doors up the road and doesn't miss a thing.

Don't get sued or cuffed on Twitter: Read these top 10 pitfalls

What is the tweeting you speak of?

Cars, lorries stalked via GPS to create live traffic super-map

Re: Alternatively...

Hey!

Great idea. You should patent it.

How about calling these things 'Shipping Containers'?