Posts by Marvin the Martian

What part of "script kiddie" you don't understand?

Whaddayamean smart?

No, no.

This one has fertilizer status, a better class you know.

Gambling.

Not allowed for a lot of religions, and those of a mathematical disposition (it's a martingale here).

Talk darfur to me, honey.

How does he show off mates if they go "wha? I saw him once in a meeting."?

The mate he actually tried to show off was Qaddafi: he claimed Ms. Ruby was Muammar's niece... That didn't end very well. (The presumption is that he later phoned Obama to say Muammar was his nephew and please don't bomb.)

Except if your house burns down.

Then you (or your pwd-knowing relatives) can still play your music. Or do you keep the 4GB stick in the shed at all times?

/ahrg, mind distracted by fiery incident. Sorry.

Or alternatively,

Instate a more effective, peanut-based incentive scheme?

Measurements

RWAAAH! This clearly violates standard El Reg measurements standards. OK, blame NASA all you want but how hard can it be for the vulture photoshopper to plonk in a handful of linguine?!

I'm horrified, shocked into silence.

An why would we give a monkey's about Penn State?

Or what schools they are in whatever sort of rivalry with? Sheesh.

"clay tablets"??

They're not really "ribbon based", eh?

Rolf harris?

More precisely, an evil cross of (zombie) Bob Ross & Rolf Harris?

Maybe they became sensible?

In similar disputes about garden boundaries etc, 20years effective occupation without anybody's counter-efforts at legal redress tend to be the norm; after that you're rightful owner. So a bit late, nice try, try the invading shtick again.

Title? "Dr." or "Mrs." to you.

Eh... "Apple" is a big corp, this is one minion making a stupid decision; as fast as a marketing person is approached, it's "obviously this gotta go". So the "keep" decision isn't really an "apple" decision, more a $10/h vetter's blooper.

So it's a bit stupid to say that "apple keep this for revenue maximization" --- actually, removing it maximizes as keeping it pisses off more people, with more disposable income. So they do maximize (no wonder their stock sells so high, eh?), as they should, coincidentally doing the right thing here, which is nice.

"Motivated by pure greed" could be their slogan

I don't know what other motive the judge would be looking for? "Desire for income redistribution", "a pet hobby in tax legistlation"?

sell internet connected printers?

I dunno. They licence all kind of hardware, maybe they licence it with an addy?

What's that?

The Charlie Sheen School of Expressing Love?

Ach no!

The crush of the rural Devon commute! When all 12 inhabitants + their ponies are on the move, it's bedlam.

Let us consider this

For 0.0001sec: NO.

Why would Microsoft give away one of the few advantages it has to tempt people into its xbox ecosystem? The pittance it makes per controller? It would make more money licencing exclusive titles into non-exclusivity, but then it would die even faster.

It's not a genuine question...

... when the answer is already spelled out in the (brief) article. That or GFE (Google Foryourinformation Exists -- no swearing, onest).

Vauxhall?

Ow yes, that's what Opels are rebadged as in the UK.

"logic between CP and frigid leaves to be desired"

You're thinking of the 80s, man, when the UK tories were riddled with rampant deviancy --- MPs erotically strangling themselves was the least of it. There was indeed no link then.

Ah... I drink to them 80s.

Disappointment

It's already flooding with disappointment now. It looks like any other FPS from the video?

This is like being told, INDEED santa exists but he's an employee of Coca-Cola and a convicted rapist. But he exists. It was much better to just dream of a mythical figure you know didn't exist.

Not that much trickery needed

Given that 80% of spam is written at the Lagos School for e-Business, and probably all cut, pasted, and mutated from one original "Hi I've inherited a squazillion of dollars, do you want for a fee to have a fraction of that?" writer. So strictly speaking, correctly identifying the original hand behind all that is not that hard.

Note that the algorithm is not such that it determines the person, it is such that it determines whether 2 mails probably come from the same person; so it relies on the author kindly identifying him/herself in one of them.

Is that an honest price?

Was Talbot actually going to pay 50k to his lawyer if he'd lost his case? Wasn't he going to pay, say, 3-4000? Because then it looks like a big fraud to me.

I have no idea; with a lawyer at 1000/hour, I can't imagine there's 50h work in it. So all in all, I'd ask for an itemized bill and feel the loser is entitled to that.

"Wolverine's claws which aren't a sword"

How are they not swords? Because they pierce, like a floret?

Eh... yes?

Remember mad cow disease (or kuru in papua new guinea) and scrapie etc? Ebola/Marburg and probably HIV from eating monkeys?

There's plenty good reasons to eat parts of unrelated animals (or plants) and avoid what's similar; it's not all just bla-bla-ethics-bla you know.

Just go look at a rainy cycling country

If you'd just look at e.g. Holland, Flanders or the north of Germany, you'd see millions of dynamos used for decades. And swiftly switched to battery-powered LED lights.

Dynamos work, they don't damage tyres at all, etc; but they produce very notable drag and are used to power inefficient old lamps instead of LEDs). At inconvenient times they loosen and sag down the wheel (just when you left your leatherman in the office etc ), and old ones in cold rain may lose grip to the tyre and stop working (just when you needed light most).

Name releases

And release the names of the checkout bunny, and the shelf stacker, as this team of filth purveyors triggered this fiasco!

A slot machine, and Fear & Loathing?

Of course it's the bleeding 70s, dude.

"Back to her own planet"?

THAT would be "Planet Government"? No thanks!

You've heard of numbers, right?

There's a good billion chinese and ad another half of connected SE asian countries.

There's about 60 million brits.

So expect in general 25 asian reports per brit; that's all things being equal. So no, you don't have data to conclude a trend; you cannot do sample size Exp[n]<=1 and hope for the best.

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I would guess your basic idea is right, though: it's hard to see it happen here. The 24h cybercafe culture does actually make the difference (remember cybercafes?). Maybe if there were 24h bingo parlors you'd have the same in the UK.

To do the same here, you need to either live on your own (so have shown a certain measure of maturity/self-reliance) or live with your parents (who presumably will interfere somewhere before death): there is no possibility like in the cafes to be the anonymous "guy in the back who's been here since before my shift started," to the staff.

You have just launched a great idea!

The ACME Concrete Guitar Company Ltd. Not as portable, but almost resonance-free.

Thanks for saving the article

The article seriously lacks in the official editorial stance, i.e., pervasive anti-EU vitriol. You sir keep up the good work!

"Schlag"= "cream"

"Schlagobers" is "whipped cream on top", e.g. with coffee, waffles, icecream.

So cream/fat in the sense of richness/cash, for backhander/bakshish? The "slapping" (in the face) is the "whipping" (of cream).

"Watson does it better than the two best humans ever to play the game."

No, it doesn't. Wake me when Watson wins from a human champ *with internet access* --- because that is essentially what the system has...

The Stoker-clue for example you just get as top google results if you type in parts of the query, so the only thing Watson has to do is figure out "what is an author?" etc.

The achievement is obvious, and the real-world applicability too --- but how many strategic decisions would you let it make? Evaluate proposals, yes; but similarly, would you let an accountant devise a business? No. Indeed, "now go away middle management, or I'll replace you with a very short shell script" (for a query to Watson).