Posts by Peyton

So.....

Is that guy a believer now??

@tautology-tastic

"Internet" could be what the campaign is for, and the web could be its location (as opposed to masked people picketing outside Anti-Sec offices), in which case, it would not be a tautology.

@Lee

Ahh, answered my question brilliantly. Thanks! Never would have guesed there would be an MS angle to all of this! I'm guessing the perceived slight is due to some spell-check option getting labeled "British English" or something to that effect? I can't check b/c Open Office labels it English (UK), English (USA), English (Jamaica), etc. If it's not that, then I'm in the dark on where all these Americans have been busy correcting the British. The most predominant comment above seems to be correcting Americans on the pronunciation of an American product (incidentally, the pronunciation of "route" varies by region here). I wonder if the French have this problem with French Canadians, Belgians, etc. I distinctly did not get that impression from a Parisian I once knew. Still, I will be sure to note that extra letters = smarter. Who would've thought measuring intelligence could be so easy?!

A zillion comments in...

and I'm still confused. Isn't the simple answer to just arrow down to the null check on tun, type dd (we are talking linux afterall ;), arrow up to the line initializing sk, and hitting shift+p? I get the impression the kernel isn't rife with this problem... as many have pointed out it *is* something one can find in a code review... what's the big deal?

@call me scruffy: Pedantry was never amusing in the first place. Didn't you get the memo?

A flaw?

Just thinking about all the comments our illustrious Ms. Bee has to read and give a modicum of thought to makes my eyes want to crawl out of my head and hide under the desk... this seems like yet another thing to have to consider and manage?

Still, I think feedback for we commentards is a good thing (something more than followup comments titled @peyton - these often leave me wanting to weep for humanity, rather than reflect on my post) . Sometimes you honestly don't realize if you've been obnoxious. If every site one frequents keeps giving out negative points, it may finally trickle through that a change of style is required... tho the register is the only site I bother posting on...

Beer, for the one of many the Moderatrix might need ;)

@actard

@@peyton means I'm commenting on a post, not the article.

From the post: "You can't cause mutations with magnetism."

The article refutes this statement.

To possibly head off more comments - Not only do I not think electromagnetic radiation is of major oncogenic concern, I honestly don't care. The coat icon, my lousy grammar, etc., etc., were intended to be clues that I was being flippant... to that end, I'll go ahead and assign myself an appropriate icon.

@peat

You're confused. Let me break down the math:

story update + fresh comments = good

story update + stale, repeated comments = not good

See the difference?

What's that? Tired of McKinnon stories? Well, yes, I suppose the title of "Daily Mail launches McKinnon campaign" could be misleading and confusing... to some...

Who says it's not well known?

Are You Being Served? is a standard in the PBS lineup.

This article leaves me with two questions

1)Twitter is censored?

2)And the outcome of the heated exchange???

To add to the fun

There are some states - South Carolina I know is one - that have "sales tax holidays." In the case of SC, they would have it prior to the school year starting, but it only applied to goods you would purchase in preparation for school. The timing of the holiday and the goods the reprieve applied to were determined by the state government and were subject to change.

Also in SC, the state tax was, iirc, 5%, but each individual county could add 1% to that. However, again iirc, senior citizens were exempt from the additional 1%....

If Amazon has to support scenarios like this x50 states, well I think we'll soon be reading on the Reg about two things 1)EC2 being brought to its knees trying to calculate tax on someone's purchase, and 2)all the Amazon coders being committed to the nuthouse after trying to support this mess.

What's their problem?

Are they running so low on disk space that a few k of text makes a difference? Why the f*** would you delete anything that isn't wholly inaccurate? Sounds like some wikigit had an axe to grind.

I'm off to recommend all the articles relating to "peyton" for deletion simply on the whim that one "peyton" is more than enough.

Easy fix

Just plop the rugrats down in front of some Bugs Bunny. His man-kissing, cross-dressing shenanigans will cancel Disney out.

@@Steven Raith

"And it's what The Reg does time and time again for some inexplicable reason"

Hmmm... Where's the Anonymous Masochist icon when you need it?

Everyone should lighten up

Honestly, you summon a few measly spawn of Satan and suddenly the whole word is against you. sheesh

""We thought we were bridging the gap with other religions..."

To be fair, the parish simply told them to go away. Beats getting burned at the stake for your troubles. I'd call that progress.

Flames for the cauldron of course.

@AM/PM

Psh, everyone knows astrological sign is supremely important in characterizing a person or event, so month is obviously more important than year or day.

Preemptive strike?

"In three others, Mercury falls into the Sun."

So what I take away from this is, if we all get out and push we can lob it into the Sun now and stop worrying about it?

Someone please call in Nurse Ratched

Microsoft appears to have progressed from 'slightly nutters' to dangerously schizophrenic.

in particular

"knife-wielding" Can't speak from experience so I may be wrong, but it seems like folks could have their fun without the dangerous weapons... that's seems to be crossing the line a bit - *especially* if the encounter is "anonymous".

What a way to learn that your husband is a completely worthless excuse for a human being...

That's okay

Tweets like "About to write an angry letter to the governer demanding that they return my wig" are still hilarious, even if forged.

I hate to admit it...

(the frog one made me think of this)

I probably would pay to have Hypnotoad going on my phone.

What?! No Blighty??

You guys have got some serious downloading to catch up on!

Wait a minute... why isn't teh US on the list?? I cry foul!! There's no way we're not at least in the top 5. I demand some sort of recount!!

difference between physics and chemistry?

If a chemist can't get an equation to come out right, they start over. If a physicist can't, well they just keep adding dimensions till it does....

Still waiting for a theory requiring the universe to exist in 42 dimensions...

@whingers

To paraphrase: "It's not a search engine - leave WA alone."

Directly from wolframalpha.com: "Making the world's knowledge computable"

Yes, so instead of a "search engine" it prefers to be called a "computational knowledge engine" - translated that's "whatever results you get, well then, that's what it does!" That alone is enough to warrant a bad review - though I think much of the point is missed, with some of the criticism directed at the hype rather than the product... And along those lines: Yes, when it says *people* involved and only has one name - that qualifies egocentric. Unless you're suggesting he coded the entire site, its backend, etc., etc., himself...

I'm not even going to ask what rock the "Oh my I take umbrage at Ted's style" brigade crawled out from under today.

music industry can't do anything right

L3MONAD3 is spelled with two backwards e's, not one. sheesh

Well I might want to know...

It could be, just possibly, that when they find a threat, they might be able to provide more than 30 seconds notice... Once an object + trajectory is found, its threat, years down the road, can be extrapolated with a relatively decent accuracy. So if I live in Townsville (to keep things light, let's make it the one from the cartoon, not the actual one in Australia ;) and am told "In 5 years object X will likely hit Townsville" I might - just *might* - decide to put the old homestead up for sale and move on to greener pastures. (Luckily, I doubt there are laws on the books requiring one to disclose whether ones home is in peril of impact from space debris :)

nice pic, lazy engineers

So they just duct taped the Shuttle up, filled it with rocket fuel, and let a rip?! ^_^

Still, it does explain the $85 million bill to decommission the fleet... I mean, that is gonna require a lot of duct tape.

I wonder

How many cheeseburgers it takes for them to fly a lobbyist to DC...

OK PEOPLE THIS IS THE RULE

If it's not a pet, it's food.

Disclaimer: No purchase necessary. Definitions of pet may vary and do not apply to people. Offer not valid wherever meat-eaters are outnumbered or within 10 feet of Pamela Anderson.

can't stop laughing

As if the article itself wasn't enough, some great comments to boot! Especially appreciate dedbehindtheyesmonst chipping it - can't tell you how much I love it when some tool's comments are ominously followed by the "El Reg" icon. It's like watching someone out in the ocean with floaties being trailed by a shark fin.