Posts by Kieron McCann

@ Sarah Bee

Why is it more complicated than that? I have no issues with eating cat (no that's not a euphemism). If you can kill and eat a cow why not a cat, rat, raccoon, badger or goldfish? It seems pretty simple to me. Maybe that's why you have no basis to moderate this repeated discussion because the logic and morality is pretty binary.

Ask the Chinese and the French - they'll eat anything - and make handbags out of anything for that matter.

On the art front I think this does a brilliant job of holding a mirror up to the fashion industry, consumerism, exploitation of animals and inconsistent morals. It's quite brilliant.

I actually hope that she ate the cat after making the handbag out of respect.

@ AC 9:29

"They are thifes. Pure and simple. Please grow up, and stop reading the daliy fail."

one assumes that you read publications with larger typeface, judging by your spelling.

Compare and contrast with...

...this

http://www.travisruse.com/

An amazing award winning photo blog taken exclusively on the New York subway. Wouldn't get that here.

@ Stephen Gray

You know, initially your post came across as being quite helpful. But then you went and ruined it all by breaking in to a mini rant that not only abuses the poster you were responding to but also every Register reader?

Many of us are tech literate and fully understand the physics of DSL. It may surprise you to know that there are other network engineers who read El Reg who know just as much as you do big boy. So I wouldn't be so quick to hop on your intellectual high horse

Most tellingly however, you then go on to tell us that you work for TT and in doing so confirm many of our perceptions that your company is operated by a complete bunch of arse sucking c**ts. From big fat Charles all the way down to egotistical pricks such as you.

Amazing how the the opinions of those reading your post could go from positive to extremely negative in a few sentences isn't it?

You heard it from a Reg reader first

congratulations to Reg reader 'The BigYin' who predicted this here : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/id_cards_voluntaryish/comments/

So now there will be an easy way to link banking transactions, purchases, international travel and(if you have an integrated Oyster Card) your public transport travel habits in one easy database. Roll in biometric info and you have fingerprints and probably DNA. How can people not see this?

Oh oh oh....

...oh the irony!

the sweet, unctuous, delicious irony!

There are so many jokes I don't even know where to start!

hahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha!

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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahha!

etc..

In light of recent events...

I'd say this isn't the biggest crime to have been committed in the City of London. £200-odd million is chicken feed in comparison to the billions lost in 'legitimate' business, pension swindles and extravagant bonuses. They could do a lot worse than having the odd 'cyber criminal' fleecing them once in a while rather than their own employees.

Mine's the one with the taxpayer funded golden parachute on the back

Lovely!

Now if only the rest of the world would stick it to the recording industry.!

Who thinks of this shit?

I'd like to know because I would like to give them a firm kick in the trouser department.

What's next ID cards and CCTV required to purchase high fat foods - oh f*ck I've just given them another idea. Self administering trouser kick now!

Enemies

"Even to use such language so loosely plays in to the hands of our enemies."

If by 'Enemies' you mean the tax paying British public, then yes, it does. Somehow I get the feeling that we are now all enemies of the state.

Jesus Christ, just when I thought it could'nt get any worse than Jackboot Smith, they wheel out this fucking vacuous ingnorant turd. The government appears to be a bottomless cesspit of increasingly talentless authoritarian facists. I've scraped more intelligent things off the bottom of my shoe. It's almost as if they know that they're going to be flushed down the toilet next year and are out to implement a scorched earth policy on our rights and freedoms.

And I have zero expectations that the Tories will do anything to repeal any of the Stalinist legislation that has been implemented over the last 10 years.

Where's the queue for the riot?

We Love You Vova

Ok, so if we overlook the rather inelegant suppression of opposition parties and rubbing out of journalists for a moment, you can't honestly say that you would not like to have national leader like Putin.

Like it or not, he is the most savvy world leader today. He's transformed Russia and greatly improved the standard of living of it's citizens by bringing stability and a (gradually) increasing distribution of wealth. Most importantly, he is not intimidated by the US and rightly says that a world dominated by a single superpower is more dangerous than one with a careful balance of power. George Bush proved that point for all of us.

It's just unfortunate that he lacks the elegance to win elections without suppressing the opposition, but there again who are we to talk, ZaNuLabour have started that themselves in recent months.

El Reg - don't go eating any sushi offered to you by members of the Labour party

Re Vision Thing

Ahhh, that brings back some good memories - thanks for that.

I need more!

Well Done El Reg

You guys must have been waiting to kick of the new year with a good old fashioned vicious fanboy flame war. Only 16 days in to the year and mission accomplished!

This is going to be a good year!

PS: Any Linux fanboy who thinks that Linux is ever going to make it in the big time probably believes that the moon landing was faked, 911 was a CIA plot and Elvis is flipping burgers in Argentina

simple...

They were Schrodinger's Cows

It's no surprise really...

Don't get me wrong, I quite like Austalians (a rare thing for a New Zealander)

In recent years Australia has moved closer and closer to the US. They have a lot in common, they are both federalist states comprised of separate state governments, they are countries which were founded by integrating immigrant communities, they both took their nations by conquest at the expense of the indigenous population and they have both become increasingly xenophobic in their world outlook.

Combine that with a strong British heritage you also get a reluctance to speak out, general inertia about erosion of privacy and an otherwise docile electorate.

The result? An increasingly insular and paranoid nation that fancies itself as a regional superpower. Sound familiar?

The great Firewall of Australia is something that the US would most probably have implemented by now if the constitution allowed for it. Unfortunately for us, one implemented in Australia it will be used as a model by every other government.

@ Shay McLaughlin you know as well as I do that it's only a matter of time before the NZ government will want to follow in the footsteps of our bigger brother across the Tasman. Lacking the funds to build our own I wouldn't be surprised if we sign up to using the Aussie firewall. Another step closer to becoming a new state of Australia..

run "phorm' last gasp" ,8,1

10 IF "ship" = sinking THEN "rats" = leaving

20 GOTO 10

Fanboys - I dont get 'em

First they whinge that the Jesus phone doesn't win the smart phone category and then they whinge when it wins the music phone category.

They wont be happy until we build a giant shine and sacrifice 1000 virgins at the alter of the great Jobs.

Thankfully if this were to happen those virgins are likely to be Jesus Phone Fanboys because apparently they go to parties and discuss phones and never get laid.

@ Glen

Actually, although Japan might be geographically longer, the real issue is population density. Japan's population density is 337 per sq km, and Korea's is at 498. In contrast, the UK is at 246 per sq km.

Furthermore, if you bothered to look at your atlas properly, you might have seen some geographic features called mountains running down the centre of Japan, which forces the population in to some very densely packed conurbations. This means you get a hell of a lot more subscribers per metre of network in

Mine's the one with the much better value Tokubetsu Kyuko tickets in the pocket.

@ sleepy and Joe Cooper

Yes, the de-authorisation process is nice in theory, until your laptop dies or gets stolen. Then you cant de-authorise it. I am now down to three licences due to these two reasons. I'm also assuming that the ar*ehole who stole my lappy is still enjoying my rather eclectic (some may say crap) music collection.

It would be nice if apple allowed you to de-authorise a machine from any other machine - after all, they must store the details somewhere, why cant they show them to you? Oh yes, I know that there is the annual de-authorise everything option, but that is simply a pain in the balls.

@Captain Jamie

You were born with defective genes. Do us all a favour, eat a bag of nuts before you pass them on you whingeing little turd.

Jesus, where is Darwin when you need him?

Great article by the way - an American with common sense, someone clone him!

FAQui

What exaqui does whacky Jacqui have agaist the whacky backy?

She needs to check the faqui

Its useage has been dropping backy

She must be smoking cracky

And should be given the saqui

Mine's the brown maqui with the hashy stashy in the bacqui

I have had enough...

..of that fat screeching old fishwife! She should give up smoking crack because her levels of paranoia are getting out of hand. Does it not strike anyone as ridiculous that the only people in this country who are interested in protecting our civil liberties are a the unelected toffs in the house of lords?

something is seriously wrong with this country.

Modeled on commercial fraud detection systems?

So the idea is to model the system on today's successful fraud detection systems is it? Well my bank seems to phone me or cancel my debit and credit cards on a monthly basis. This it apparently due to such "suspicious" activities as:

Making an online purcase

Making an offline purchase

Using your card in another country (I regularly visit such lawless states as France)

Using your card at all.

The consequences of these false positives is that I am usually without the use of a credit or debit card for about a week. The consequences of this super snooping database is that the police kick in my front door and hold me without charge for 42 days while they ransack my house to try pin something on me.

This has gone too far

Oh yeah, how does it go...

...if you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide....

The reluctance of UK Gov to disclose their response smells fishier and fishier. I'm wagering £100 right here that the home office has stitched up a secret deal with BT to arrange a back door in to Phorm so that they can snoop on whoever they like. Any takers? Prove me wrong.

God I hate the new icons

just a camera for Photards

Woopdedooo - it's a point and shoot camera with interchangeable lenses. Serious photographers will still want to actually see what they are taking a photo of, not a digital rendition of what they are taking a photo of through a crappy LCD display.

One assumes that although the sensor size stays the same, the increased magnification from the smaller lense elements increases the risk of visible distortion?

Re: Air Stab?

Yeah, they're all a bunch of Air Soles

Can you tell me...

number of women sporting arse antlers goes up in proportion to the heaviness of the music played at a rock/metal concert?

The Connection To Your Home Is Not The Problem

It doesnt really matter how fast the connection to your home is, the throttling takes place in the exchange. BT only budgets for 128k of bandwidth per user - so when it's busy you get far more contention at the DSLAM than degradation on your line. Of course there are also some crappy lines out there...

@ Solomon Grundy

er, did that comment pass down a worm hole from the 80's? Russia is no longer a communist state, meaning that they are not 'commies'.

Today they are a nuclear armed capitalist state intent on using their military and economic strength to brow beat other states to their will and excercise increasing control over their own population to ensure no internal dissent....er, no sorry I just confused them with the USA

I'm so smug

Ah yes, I'm all smug and laughing because I installed Linux 6 months ago. It's brilliantly secure and now my PC makes an attractive piece of living room furniture, mainly because I can't get any decently entertaining software that ordinary home users want to use. That's okay though, because I prefer to keep the curtains drawn, smoke reefer and never bathe.

Losing their cool?

"FIPR is abusing its influence and promoting its own agenda by encouraging a frivolous debate about the legality of a legitimate e-commerce business. Internet users would be better served if FIPR focused on the benefits of the online technologies available today rather than undermine the online privacy debate and block technological progress. That would help people to make valid informed choices about the services they want to use"

BT refuse an interview with the Register.

To me it looks like they're getting backed in to a corner, the slimy PR veneer is starting to wear thin. This is good news, the dirtier it gets, the more it will expose Kent and BT as being the money grubbing privacy pimptards that they are.

Michael, the Scooby Doo reference is priceless

And about time too!

So basically what this is telling us is that the original statement by the ICO was written by a drone who didn't bother to ask any searching questions or to give a nanosecond of thought about what Phorm would mean. It looks like all of the pressure brought by El Reg and it's readers is finally bearing fruit!

Paris - because she's now reformed, just like the ICO

Gloating

Yep, SP 1 worked fine for me. My machine seems to be much more stable during gaming and also seems to be running a shade faster.

Where is Webster Phreaky when you need him?

I Won't be voting for Kate Hoey MP

Sent her a lengthy email explaining Phorm and my concerns over three weeks ago and have received no reply - nothing!

She won't be getting my vote.