Posts by TeeCee

Silly Baaaaastards.

That should say it all, but apparently a comment is required, in addition to a title.

"Security software provider IDScan"

So, their idea of suitable sekkuritty softwarez to protect ID data is Acrobat?

Ah, I love the warm feeling you get from seeing a really top-notch FAIL.

Re: Sounds like quite a gig

Sounds to me like the iPhone's going to be the smartest thing on stage over the entire evening.....

But!

Presumably if they *did* share the towers, they'd still have their own cell kit on the shared tower (unless someone's going to accept the loss in capacity). Since it's the kit that uses the 'leccy rather than the tall pole it's stuck on, the saving would be, er, bugger all.

But there'd be fewer unsightly masts, so they'd be *seen* to be doing something, which is the whole object of the exercise if you're a politician.

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There's an ad next to this article that says "Follow Reg Hardware on Twitter".

Et tu Brute?

Not Zimbabwe!

"....only 0.03 per cent of users voted...."

To be truly like Zimbabwe, they'd have sent armed thugs round to the houses of the other 99.07% to get 'em to vote and vote the right way.

@Andy ORourke

Damn. You beat me to it.

Re: Wonder how long...

Geotitties?

@Maxime Rainville

"And is that number significant enough to impose an extra regulation?"

Ah, the Elephant in the room. Specifically the one that applies to all road transport, not just electric cars.

Your assumption there is that somewhere there's an "acceptable level" of road deaths. However, ask anyone at the political sharp end of the road safety business and that level is zero. This is patently impossible to achieve as long as road vehicles are controlled by human beings. People make mistakes and such mistakes have a habit of killing people. Buses kill people, trucks kill people, cars kill people, motorcycles kill people and bicycles sometimes kill people. Hell, even other pedestrians can accidently kill people.

So the answer here is: yes, the number is significant enough, but only if you're a politician. This is why we live in a continuous drizzle of ever more draconian road safety legislation chasing ever smaller returns in safety at the expense of ever higher levels of expense and inconvenience to road users.

Too late.

It's gone beyond that.

More appropriate for today's world would be: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to fill his pockets with housebricks and jump off Westminster Bridge."

Mobile banking phone hacks.

Apparently the early models of the HTC Touch can intercept and change mobile banking transactions without needing a cloned SIM at all. You don't even have to be in the same country, let alone on the same cell tower.

There. Now all I need to do is wait a bit for Google to do its stuff, put mine on eBay and a nice, shiny new HTC Touch Pro 2 shall be mine for no additional expense, with enough change out of the deal to buy a new motorcycle......

It's a plan (sounds like it might be someone elses, but I'm not above plagiarism for profit).

And the conclusion I draw.

Wyse Technology should have invited amanfromMars as their guest speaker rather than John Suffolk.

He makes far more sense on the subject.

Sputnik.

Too true. Sputnik was a satellite, the R-7 (or SS-6 if you're NATO) that put it up was a missile.

But I got that from Wikipedia, so it's equally possible that the R-7 was actually a type of spiced sausage with a back catalogue of successful pop songs and a long career as a professional golfer behind it........

Here's a thing.

I see that nobody's patented taking off-the shelf PC parts, shoving them in a designer casing and charging ripoff prices for the result.

My retirement plan is to take out that very patent and sue the shit out of Apple for infringing it.

1$ per year salary?

So his recent appearance is nothing to do with any terminal illness or such, he's just starving then?

I think I'll buy some nice, cheap Apple stock and take Steve out to dinner a few times. I should make a killing when he returns to his old, cherubic, icon-esque self.

Really?

If the fact that it'll look good but be hideously expensive is a reason to doubt the existance of an Apple product then that Apple Store down the road here must be a figment of my imagination.....

Re: Bah!

No idea, but it's probably raisin' now that ROCs are on two-for-one offer.

Raisin? Current? No?

I'll be off then...........

Bloody marvellous!

"..... managers and directors have the most vital data on a biz, while executives...not so much."

So, what they're saying is that middle management have all sorts of important work-related things on their machines and the execs have all sorts of important golf-related things on their machines?

Quality, sheer quality. Worth every penny that Intel spent on it for that nugget of information alone.

OMFG!

".... lacks rudder authority."

I guess that that's a direct lift from some Yank source. It's the sort of bolloxspeak that they love.

I suppose it means: "Bugger all happens when you shove the rudder pedals."

How does that work?

"Oooh, recession, bummer. We need to stimulate the economy. Let's spend a shitload of cash on government IT change. We'll spend half of it on free lunches for our mates in the big consultancies and the other half will go directly toward providing jobs and services in, er, India......."

Time for a quick wikifiddle to get Alistair Darling's picture onto the article for "Fuckwit" methinks.

Re: Made up problem?

Depends whether you think the actual ATC command issued is "Racetrack, circle left" or "Racetrack, circle left, describing an arc of radius exactly 2.8 miles".

I know which my money's on.

Another get-rich-quick plan dies the death....

"Auto-Tune can fix anything short of cats fighting in a bag."

Bugger.

Anyone want to buy a good-quality burlap sack, half-a-dozen cats, a complete recording studio / mixing desk setup and a CD pressing plant?

Trademark?

"FRAM is specifically trademarked by Ramtron International."

Except in Iceland presumably, where it's a football team......

So.

You've handed that one a 90% rating. The OCZ Vertex comparison unit is either within spit of the performance or honking all over it in most of the benchmarks and all without any tedious poncing around with firmware updates too. A quick not-trying-very-hard search reveals that the 120Gb Vertex comes in at a similar price to that you've got quoted as "from" for the 80Gb Intel.

So, 110% for the Vertex would be fair then? I know where my money would be going.......

Very clever.

Now get it down to 50 quid a pop and on the shelves in Toys 'R Us in time for Christmas.

Yes, but.

"....a prompt backwards lunge saved the man from a painful volting....''

Did he land badly? i.e. was that a painful vaulting?

@Robinson

Such easy questions.

The answers are, in order:

1) Press the "deploy" button and, when that fails, poke it out with a straightened wire coat hanger.

2) Duct tape.

3) Duct tape.

Dear Mr. Livingstone.

A Ford isn't something that one is happy with*, it's something that one puts up with, when forced, for want of anything better.

A fine analogy in this case, it's just your presentation of it that stank.

*Except the '56 Thunderbird of course. But he isn't going to give us all one of those by way of recompense I'm sure.

@Hardcastle

"..... can anyone come up with an X animal?"

Er, Wolverine?

<drum sting>

Ithankyou. You've been a lovely audience.......

What a load of.....

'The Alliance, however, doesn't use the term "high-k/metal gate".....'

So, what does "HKMG" stand for then?

I'd prefer that we didn't use the term "The Alliance" and instead used "GOPW" (Group Of Pretentious Wankers).

Mink?

<--------- Obvious benefit here.

Revenue opportunity!

An umpteen kilowatt FEL laser installation for making tea? Now *that* I'd pay for.

C'mon Boeing. Give up on the ships and give us the almost-certainly-non-lethal laser teasmaid! (Ideally mounted on a resin replica Shark's head stand.)

Re: I want one

Just remember not to take your dog in the car with you then. Hunting foxes with dogs is a no-no. Although if you let the dog out of the car and it finds and chases a fox which you then rocket the f*** out of, you'll be fine.

Ain't badly thought out legislation wonderful?

Bing?

Is that supposed to be an onomatopoeic representation of the Windows "Critical Stop" sound? You know, the one that inevitably occurs at some point when using MS's online services, just before IE irrevocably shits itself and the GUI restarts.

Really?

"could eventually lead to the development of more acceptable sugar substitutes, potentially benefiting diabetics and other individuals on sugar-restricted diets."

Magic.

I'd like a large grant to conduct the "Pepsi taste challenge" with a wide variety of zoo animals on the grounds that it could lead to the production of a faster-than-light drive, a unified field theory, peace in the Middle East and a mechanism for avoiding the loss of small change down the back of the sofa.

I suppose I shouldn't mock. I'm sure that diabetic Lions are entitled to the best artificial sweetners that the human race can offer.....

Re: Awe com-on Gary

Sounds waay to much like hard work to me. I'd script the process so I could catch some z's while my computer turned his lights on and off for me.

I'd get my coat, but I can't see it as all the lights have just mysteriously turned off....

Just out of interest.

Anyone know what the carbon footprint is of burning a spammer at the stake? Do the numbers stack up to make this source of amusement a worthwhile exercise?

Wow!

A 64-bit Word Processor. How, er, useful.

Do you get the chocolate teapot free or is it an extra-cost option?