* Posts by michael

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Police drop BT-Phorm probe

michael

I am shocked

shocked

suprised

astonded

actuley i am not and that is what worries me the most

michael
Flame

going to get flames for this but

"How can the Police make a qualitative judgment that BT's intention was to "improve" their service? BT's intention was clearly to make more money, and to do so covertly. What's the Police's definition of "improve" in this case? Is it "to make more profitable" or what?"

if bt can suberdise the cost of a internet conenction by selling adds they the cost of the line can go down or at least stay the same and that "improves" the prodect

Dell bundles free fresh air with PC

michael

as said on the last dell sotry

amoung the non bugged options are

First Boot Device

Boot to Hard Drive [add £3.00]

Boot to USB [add £3.00]

Boot to Optical Device [add £3.00]

Boot to NIC [add £3.00]

Custom Partition - 50/50 Split [add £11.00]

Outlook Express Remove [£3.00]

Games Remove [£3.00]

Legacy Communications Remove (Chat, Dialer, Hyperterminal, Sound Recorder and Windows Messenger) [£3.00]

Dell Wallpaper Remove (black)

Disable Wireless Access [£3.00]

Disable Modem [£3.00]

Disable USB Ports [£3.00]

Has the war on terror scored a virtual victory?

michael

@google adds

wight loss and stuff is at least understandable but what the f is this one doing there?

"Soil Conditioner

CSG Farm soil fertiliser injection View our services online now!

www.csgwasteman.co.uk"

o hold on american load of........

Gov seeks UK nuclear competition for EDF

michael

@ratfox

"Didn't you know? Some people consider nuclear energy is a renewable energy. This is lifted from New York Times:"

in a sence it is you can make the same bit of fule uable again and again and with new reactor techs again and a nuclear reactor is at least zero carbon running

michael
Go

go go go

more reactors the better

What's the cost of global warming?

michael
Boffin

save mony?

" Well 1 litre of petrol is 2.32 kg co2, so if we reduce our co2 by 1 kg we also SAVE 56 pence.

So the cost is negative, we simply use less fossil fuel by efficiency means and save 56 pence per kilo of petrol used. Yes? So fixing our CO2 problem is double plus good, saves us money and helps the environment."

saves yuo money yes BUT if you sdo not spend it then the garage makes less and the oil companys make lass and they can not pay there pepol who can not spend it on what ever you sell (or whoever pays your saliery sells) and you have less mony so spend and eventuley noboady can spend anything cos we are all sitting on our economic hands

economics is not that simple

Google's 'Smart Grid' idea? Get the govt to pay for it

michael

RE<c

how about RE<n (where n is nuckare)

as coal runs out we will need large base load genrators and nuclar plants looks like coal ones and even take up the same space so just build a reactor where the boilor is

BT's secret Phorm trials: UK.gov responds

michael

vote for the blue ones?

I would but the chief blue one looks like a carbon coppy of the chief red one form 10 years ago he even shound the same I think I will be voading for the little pink ones I am taking every hour

michael

EU and Lords

"As one who's previously been Eurosceptic, I find the EU's line to be somewhat re-assuring, as is the interest taken by our non-democratic Lords...."

when we where fighting the Viloint crime reduction bill the only suport we could find against the goverment banning gunshaped objects was in the lords all mps on the red and blue sides where parots for the party line and the yellows just did not care

Dell offers XP option for £44k

michael

that is nothing

"that you're still buying vista, you just pay extra for a copy of XP as well."

that is nothing dell charge you to parttiion your hdd and charge the biso password before they ship it to you

EFF sues Dubya over warrantless surveillance

michael

hum

"Even those with nothing to hide are not idiot enough to give you access to their bank account, or to publish their home address and therefore invite every fucking weirdo to send them spam/abusive mail or worse. In fact, your belief that they ought to makes you the idiot."

the point is that that is precicley what the goverment will do with your detials and I can only hope it is by accedent

Noel Edmonds defies BBC's jackbooted enforcers

michael
IT Angle

IT?

"There is no IT angle to this story. What is it doing here? I am removing The Register from my bookmarks. Please cancel my subscription. I am also dissatisfied with today's weather. Please make the weather the way I like it. Goodbye.""

p.s can you fix the firewall at my office as well

pps on topic it might be that he payed for a year and it just has not run out and all he did was cancle the direct debit

ppps can we have a pix of the eepc girl on this sotry as well?

German cyberplods raid Pirate Party on Skype Trojan mole hunt

michael

in fact

"Im certainly not scared of terrorists. The amount of fatalities by terrorists must be smaller than the amount of fatalities of people falling down the stairs."

if fact is is less then the amount of pepol killed by there underware

Mario and Eee PC Girl bust Best Buy profits

michael

@Solomon Grundy

you do relise noboady read the article

ps can we get the other girl as well sort of a double hitter

Media standard backers attempt Apple-less solo run

michael

all ready standards

my mp3's play on every device I have seen why do we need another?

divx and xvid apear to be becoming the same for vids

(I think we need a silly standards icon)

Sainsbury's punts 'Innocent kids juices' for £2.99

michael

apostrophes bah

apostrophes who needs them they are just commas filled with heilam I say we get rid of the hole stinking lot of them

UK launches major road signage review

michael

new buzzwords

"help to cut congestion and emissions"

put thouse in your sugestion to the goverment and it will be aproved the words c02 footprint will be good as well

OMFG, what have you done?

michael
Coat

@Alan W. Rateliff, II

"But can someone explain to me why a 1920x1440 screen means a 1920x1440 browser window?"

so you can hide the porn

door this way in this new layout

Robot airliner anti-missile escorts proposed

michael
Black Helicopters

I for one

welcome the first wave of flying overlords

ID scheme plans 50,000 cards by April

michael

@AC

""last time I checked, it's surrounded by water apart from Northern Ireland and I don't see too many people wanting to break in there via Ireland ...""

in is in a burgler comming in throiught your bathroom is still in your house even if your tv is in the living room

OiNK BitTorrent admin faces fraud prosecution

michael
Flame

@Lee

""It is a well established legal premise that downloading for free deprives the record industry of revenue. Even the most abject Freetard accepts that this is a point of law and fact. By extension loss of revenue to record companies is loss of taxation revenue to the government so they will pursue this.""

I know a lot of freetards and most of them do not acept this point in fact most of there arguments revolve around the fact that a download <> a loss of sale most downloads are "for seeing of I might like it" or "I like it bout nowhere enought to pay the £20 they want for it" or "I want it but I can not get it anywhere else" or even "I own it but the orignal meida it damaged or wrong format or lost"

Yes, there was a viable liquid bomb plot

michael

re:so very stable

"That the boffins who 'replicated' what would have happened used a long mechanical arm to add the detonator in the explosions shown to the jury and the media. So a taxi ride to the airport and have you seen how they handle the stuff going through the scanners? HTMD your havin' a laugh."

the boffins who replicated it have good respect for there and others lifes suicide bombers do not

How to stop worrying and enjoy paying for incoming calls

michael

re:Wait for it...

when pay as you go was first out credit did expire but them 1 company made it unlimited and they all started I think it was organge I rember the advarts

michael

whail we are talking analogies

why not compare phone calls to letters where the person who puts the stanp pn pays for all the cost of devivery and each company who delivers it is payed so much per letter of each type they carry

I must go now I will come back when I get more analogies

michael

the skype argument if flawed

for sevral reasions

1 a lot of pepol do not pay by the bit if you have a unlimited contract or one with a absurdile hi limite then you are not paying any extra for reciving skype calls it is like sayign that we are all ready paying for reciving calls cos we pay a £per mounth for our phone contract

2 as the girlfriend in your story would say there is a diffrence between 0.06p (what I currentey pay per mb on my expencive bb contract and 5p (what even thje cheepest oprator is likley to charge me per call recived

3 if you say we pay for every bit we download (prapsh we do and we do not notice it) I wander how much I (more precicley my employer) is paying to view the anoying flash adverts on el reg? and maby I should kick up a fuss about it?

History shaped Google's Trojan Horse

michael
Joke

un impresed

crome dose not yet have the mide reader feature I just want to load up my web explorer and go strate to the coreect page I am thinking off till it has that feature I am not using it

Google's Austro-Hungarian ambitions laid bare

michael

@eric

"You're related to Samantha Bee from the Daily Show here in the States, aren't you. Or maybe she's your long-lost Canadian sister?"

sara is not related to anyboady she is a travler form another dimnson sent to save the world from the lizzardman army and there leagion of mechenes and she got a job at el reg cos it was good cover and alowed her to keep up to date on events with their top class reporting

Portsmouth punts naval boy-on-boy to innocent kiddies

michael
Coat

can not call them that now

cabin boy and seaman are out

they need to be cabin person and seaperson

mines the one with "pc" on the bacl

Europe's Tesla will be first with full performance

michael

not realy a sports car till

it has gone round the top gear test track in the hands of the stig

Mobile broadband: What's it for?

michael
Coat

what the inter net is for

PORN

*sings*

the inter net is for porn

the internet is for porn

*kick*

*crash*

ok ok I am going

Beeb to resurrect Reggie Perrin

michael
Coat

@Onionman

"Spend the money you were going to waste on a remake and make some original programming. It might fail, but equally, you might end up with something as good (or even better). Either way, you'd have tried something original rather than a tired rehash."

yer I have got this wander full Idar for a show you see there are these...

w8 what you doing...

why are you press ing that button...

at least let me get my coat....

***thud***

Council clamps down on 'man on the street'

michael

I know you where joking but

Manager

the man in words like manager comes from manunpiulate not form human or from man

of corse manunpiulate means to fiddle describing all managers perfuctley

yes now I am jokeing

(I know I can not spell it is after lunch on tuesday)

Intel CTO demos building blocks of shapeshifting robots

michael
Coat

ok that is it

arm the emp load the shot guns and head for the bunkers the war is on!!

Game sharer gets £16K fine

michael

@Was this covered?

2 things

1 I asked it but got no anser

2 your ratio would need to be 0.99 (a raitio of 1 is uploading as much as downloading so you will have uploaded 1 copy)

sorry but my pedent personality rules on thurs morning

michael
IT Angle

my 2 cents

are in fact 2 questions

1. how did they deturn the number of downloads was it pepol conected or amount downloaded e.g my torrent client is set to stop uploading at 1.2 x the download value (eg if the download is 100mb it will stop uploading at 120mb) but druing that time 100's of pepol will have got a part of it so will I get sued for £30 *1.2 or £30*200 ?

2. how are they cirtain the pepol who downloaded it did not have a ligmite right to do so e.g earler this mounth I needed to reformat a mecheen with xp but the cd that came with it was lost but the key was stuck on it do I torrented a new cd that was not illagele?

UK.gov to spend hundreds of millions on snooping silo

michael

umm

"Since I don't do anything illegal the downside potential is only that the government shifts the goalposts on what is illegal to include things that I do which doesn't seem likely in my lifetime in Britain or that I will decide to start doing illegal things."

in the last 5 years the goverment have tried to make 2 of the things I was doing perfctuley leagaly illagal

1. airsoft (look it up ok wiki)

2. exrteme porn (prob best you do not look it up on wiki)

(I would like to stress thouse 2 are not related!!!)

I can not w8 to see what other of my hobies they want to crimlise maby my scifi book colection or maby reading el reg will be come illegal

The robot at the border: UK bets big on face scanning

michael

millions of years

that is how long the human ability to reconise a face has had to be developed and tested and they expect this mecheen to work?

UK MoD tries to resell surplus Eurofighters to India, Japan

michael
Coat

the Reg defence desk

is that the one with the usb missile launcher on it?

ok ok I am going put the light gun down

NASA to brief on manned spaceship 'concerns'

michael

how meny lifes is it worth

this is a real question How meny lifes is the tech worth??

this is the reasion that it seames in war time we make more advaces that in war time the cost of life is reduced but it is allways somthing we should concider yes doing these things is risky but I think it should be done even if it is just for the sake of doing it after all you have to die of somthing to die in the attempt to make progress is the best epitaff I can think off

Did we say you can read that?

michael

@JohnG

*breaths deap and used his mental fire extinguisher*

how wrong can you be let me count the ways

""How about someone having copies of launch codes for Britain's nuclear weapons "for research"?""

codes and passwords are not books codes , paswords , PINs etcare allways imune for free speech arguments

"Or how about a manual describing how to make and use date rape drugs effectively? Someone involved in pharmacology might have a legitimate use for such information but it would probably depened on the context of their research."

having the knowlage on how to make it and uning it are 2 diffrent things I know how to make gunpowder should I be arested?

"I don't see why books should have some kind of immunity. If someone has a slide-hammer and a screwdriver whilst working in their garage, that's perfectly reasonable. On the other hand, if someone is found to be carrying the same tools in a car park at 2am, they will probably be arrested for "going equipped to steal"."

again tools and knolage are not the same things and you would have to be doing soming suspisions.

"If someone has a book providing instructions on how to make bombs from household materials, it doesnt seem unreasonable for them to explain the context." yes but the burdon of proof should be "prove I am going to blow somthing up" rather than "prove you are not going to blow somthing up"

"Given that Al Qaeda has used British citizens with origins in various Islamic countries to commit acts of terrorism in the UK and abroad, it would seem particularly stupid for someone of that demographic to be in possession of such material." I call racisum on that!! seriousley it is that sort of profiling that causes a lot of hatrated in the first place

Russian push into Georgia could knock Nasa off ISS

michael

bet they are kicking them selfs now

NASA BOFFIN "you know whe should replace these shuttles

BEEN COUNTER "that is costley and we can always out sorce it to the russins"

NASA BOFFIN "but that would leave us vunraible"

BEEN COUNTER "but it will save us lost of mony to bomb places"

UK.gov pushes £50,000 fine for online copyright infringement

michael

RE:So, no more dissertation plagiarism then!

"So, is HMG covered by this proposal ?"

now who is being neive the goverment never has to play by the rules everyboady else dose after they are the goverment they can do what ever they like

(just to avoid the flames that was scarcasm in that sentance)

michael

probley going to get flamed but

I do not see much wrong with this "except the silly name" as long as

1. for "commercial purposes" meanes selling it and the do not expand it to include "you downloaded it instead of buying it that is commercial you are nicked"

2. they keep the fines for online - realworld the same

Fake feet trip up Olympic opening coverage

michael

well we

are of to a fine start by my reconong we are due the first drugs scandle any time now!

Pirate Bay evades Italian blockade

michael

@edwin

"he owns a lot of companies that Pirate Bay users steal content from"

I suspect that the "owner" of the stuff TPB "steal" from is thouse nice pepol in L.A and the companys he ownes just rent it

American ISP flashes phantom bandwidth cap

michael
Boffin

it is not the caps

my isp caps me to 50gb per mounth

but they tell me in advance my contract is eve called Max SoHo 50 it is when it is advertied as unlimited*

*subject to fair** use polices

** fair use is not eccesivicley*** using your connection over a 30 day period

*** eccesivicley is defined ad not exciding a maxium**** limite of data in clumitive uploads and downloads

**** defined as we feel like it

each line getting smaller

Clone dog mistress denies she is 'sex in chains' McKinney

michael
Coat

after you with the

mind bleach pls

Lies, damned lies and government statistics

michael

real question

"" Drivers now fork out well in excess of £100m a year in speeding fines, and Mr Ruffley would like to know what the money is spent on.""

did we get an anser to the question that was asked not the one they would have liked to be asked? ie WTF are they spending £100m on?

Suprise at spelling snafu sanctions

michael

dyslexic of the world untie

"(Yes, I *know*. There will always be unfortunates who are unable on medical grounds to write English without mangling it. But no-one else has an excuse.)"

I do I have a note from my doctor excusing me form english classes and everything

seriousley I got so fed up of my maths teacher corecting my spelling and gramar if you can understand what I meen then stfu

(sorry but I got soo fed up of the imposibility that is spelling and gramar that I got expeled from a school over it)

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