Posts by AgeingBabyBoomer

Imagine his disappointment when he discovers that the Class A drugs turn out to have been nothing more than Imodium.

State broadcaster needs to be in as many homes as possible

The BBC is the state broadcaster and responsible for pro-state

programming and generally keeping the oiks passive and happy.

Money is not the issue, maximising the number of eyeballs is.

I cancelled my llcense and it was the most liberating thing I did.

I still watch stuff on iPlayer - very little - two hours a week maximum.

When you have to stop and think about the output you want to see, it

is amazing how little of it is actually desirable.

So basically a two grand space heater

...on which you can surf the net.

What about mobile phones?

Plenty of spare radiation floating around form those towers.

I'll wire up me tinfoil hat..

cui bono?

So did the 977 Reg readers get any recompense for their input into

what seems to be a honeypot for harvesting security bods details,

or do all the benefits flow solely to MCaffee?

Open platform, no lock in

Santa bought me a Kobo Mini at Xmas. I'm very pleased with it - simple interface, not locked onto a particular store, light and good build quality, excellent battery life. It will surf the net at a push.

being a dinosaur that doesn't own a smartphone (or moroniser, as I prefer to call them) then it is a much better deal than a tablet costing at least twice as much.

They are also easily hackable, the source is available if you really want to get into programming it, but being linux/busybox, there are many features waiting to be turned on for the interested user.

Executive summary: too much gubbermint regulation

is stifling growth from new technologies.

Which explains perfectly why Somalia is the most technologically

advanced nation on Earth.

Frogmarched into the cashless society

With a little help from 'free' enterprise. Clearly Boris must owe Barclays an awful lot for something.

Don't expect that these contactless transactions won't provide a source of future rents for our cash-strapped banks.

Mussolini would be proud.

Big effing yawn

Hate piss on your two minutes of hate, but the UK baby boom peak (1964) and the US baby boom peak (1956?)are not in the same time frame. Hateful crap written to create intergenerational conflict in the US just doesn't map across.

These are primarily the tactics of divide and rule designed to keep us fighting and distracted whilst the uber rich steal all the money.

Additionally, my parents chose the time and country of my birth, and politicians in power during my childhood determined the kind of society I grew up in - nobody asked me what I wanted.

And another thing, only 15% of folks went to uni in the 80's - you actually had to work hard and have some brains to make it there. These days 50% go, and it's basically an alternative to actually getting a proper job for a few years.

My generation suffered crippling inflation and interest rates as well as higher taxation rates than now - please explain what part of the ladder got pulled up behind me.

Plus ensuites, inside bogs, cell phones, self-contained university accommodation, multiple parent funded cars to taxi me from one party to the next - never happened in my day.

Perhaps the higher suicide rate might reflect the disappointment at the ingratitude of the pampered 20 and 30 somethings of today - selfish little shits.

Scan proof skids

http://www.rockyflatsgear.com/

At least somebody forresaw this...

Great idea

And twenty to thirty years later when said ship is beached in a third world country to be broken by hand by illiterates working for less than a dollar a day, there will be no problem at all tracking and controlling the spent nuclear fuels - none at all.

And who will pay for all this infrastructure?

One wonders...

Of course, if the Mandybill goes through, there will

be strong a incentive to hack the connection,

aggressively surf for pr0n, and get the meter disconnected.

Double result.

Font not the problem

Inkjet inks are mostly water, a little electrolyte and some dye or pigment, thus making it some of the most lucrative clooured water on the planet,

Added to which the printer makers have gone down the route of high-tech, expensive self-destructing cartridges in a wilful and wasteful attempt to garner profit over hardware sales.

I think legislation to make cartridges non-disposable and refillable, coupled with bulk availability of vendors ink would save a hell of a lot more cash and resources than any amount of tinkering with fonts.

Chances of it happening - close to zero.

Vive la corpocracie.

ABB

Hmmm, is it just me

that wonders why rural coppers need to be wandering around with riot shields.

What possible use could they have for them, apart from sledging?