* Posts by mark11727

20 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2007

New Android plan: Gurn at your phone to unlock it

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Retina scanning...

... unless of course your phone was "borrowed" by Simon Phoenix.

Facebook: Your boss asks for your password, we'll sue him! Maybe

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Re: I still think this is a stupidity/trustworthiness test

"I'm sorry, but the standing rule in any place I've ever worked was that login credentials were NEVER to be shared. I hope you'll understand if I continue that policy here."

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Re: I still think this is a stupidity/trustworthiness test

Reminds me of the old story about how Thomas Edison would go to lunch with a prospective employee, and then NOT hire them if they salted their meal BEFORE tasting it (something about not wanting to have people who pre-judge situations before getting all their facts, or whatever).

Fake doc cuffed in concrete arse shocker

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WTF?

The real question...

... how exactly does the poor victim get all that stuff back OUT of her body? Ouch.

Hypersonic missile successfully hits Ronald Reagan

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Mushroom

For whatever it's worth...

The "Fat Man" bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki was a "mere" 21 kilotons.

"Little Boy" was even smaller at 13 and 18 kilotons, and completely flattened Hiroshima.

That's a lotta tanks.

Apple was OK to fire man for private Facebook comments

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Big Brother

I'd like to know what was in his original FB posting...

I'm curious where Apple's threshold is for criticism falls. Somewhere between "...still having problems with the iPhone batteries, dammit."

and "Apple products lick the salty sweat off ancient crinkley donkey balls!"

Just curious.

Innovatio targets Wi-Fi users with patent suits

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Pint

Enough

So Innovatio is suing mostly large companies (hotels, etc)... what's to stop them from couner-suing as a class-action, and hit these bastards back so hard that SCO's ghost would hurt?

End of an era: Atlantis hits the tarmac

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Thumb Up

42...?

There's that number again.

Magnificent Moon mountain sunrise caught on camera

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Thumb Up

Hah!

Got me to look. Good one.

Facebook: 'We should've been more clear' on face-scanning tech

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Big Brother

What would happen...

...if we all just replaced our profile pictures with Zuckerberg's Time Man of the Year cover?

Brits 'a bunch of yellow bastards', says irate Yank

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Coat

Ah Jeez...

Just when I was getting through a week with El Reg commenters NOT pissing all over teh Murkans, and the DOOFUS MISTER KELLY USA goes and spoils it again for everyone.

Let the Yank-bashing begin.

Again.

Mine' s the one with the Glock

Be the first millionaire on your block to go Tiltrotor

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Black Helicopters

Cool, yes

...but not a cool as an autogyro.

Cuba lifts ban on computer sales

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Paris Hilton

So the revolution wasn't televised, then...?

Paris, just because...

US judge arranges summary execution of Wikileaks.org

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Black Helicopters

Or you can try this (it worked yesterday...)

http://88.80.13.160/

Suicidal moose descends on Alaska

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Pirate

With apologies to Groucho...

Hello, I moost be going.

I cannot stay,

I came to say

I moost be going.

I'm glad I came

but just the same

I moost be going.

NASA to beam Beatles song into deep space

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Alien

@mondegreening

The two opposing leaders, resplendent in their black jewelled battle shorts, were meeting for the last time, when, a dreadful silence fell, and, at that very moment, the words, "chai guru deva, omm" drifted across the conference table. Unfortunately, in their native tongue, this was the most appalling insult imaginable, so the two opposing battle fleets decided to settle their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our galaxy, now positively identified as the source of the offending remark. For thousands of years the mighty starships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the planet Earth - where, due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

Dallas man accidentally shoots self in head

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Pirate

@ Robert Moore

Well, Bob --- looks like you got us Yanks to take the flame-bait, eh?

Translate my website... bitch

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Coat

I've heard of this book...

"My hovercraft is full of eels."

Bobby Fischer checkmated at 64

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Coat

"random chess?"

Is that like Calvinball?

Gene Simmons blames college kids for ruining music biz

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Pirate

Does this mean...

... that Mr. Simmons won't be making "Runaway II?"