Posts by Doug Southworth

Moron

Well, even if he did have a CCW permit, he won't now. Brandishing a weapon unless it is being used for self defense when there are no other options is a Class D Felony. Bye-bye permit, which is as it should be. You don't have to tell a police officer that you are carrying in most states however, at least you don't where I live.

*sigh* The anti-gun trolls will be all over this one...

Wow

"US scientific propaganda"

As opposed to what, the perfectly unbiased science of the UK?

Good to see nationalism is still alive and well in all parts of the globe.

International Date Line

Is it April first on the other side? I could never get the feel of how that thing works...

I keep laughing when I read the title...

I mean, we let OJ off the hook for murdering his wife, so now we have to blame him for global warming?

Screen size

"Dell has...replace (sic) the 1024 x 600 display with a 1024 x 576 model"

Seriously? How much could that really have saved? Why don't they just make the screen 1024x8 so I can read one line of text at a time. That ought to save some dough...

Enough already. Give me a real screen!

@ amanfromMars

That one made even less sense than normal. Nicely done.

@ AC 13:15

Nicely done. Beers all around!

@Miami Mike

Wow. Really?

I'm glad you don't speak for most of us Americans, though it's bad enough you spoke at all.

If you didn't read Andy Brights post above, go back and read it again, and again, and again until it starts to sink in on you.

My family came to the Americas from England sometime in the early/mid-1700's. One of King Georges governors married a Southworth daughter. My family owned the first stagecoach stop on the coast to coast road in Michigan. We were some of the first pioneers to move West. I could go on and on, but the point is that my family has been here as long as just about anyone's, and I am big a patriot as you will find.

I am ashamed that anyone in this country thinks that torture is OK. I'm ashamed that my government instigated it, condoned it, and then covered it up. These people, no matter what their beliefs or what they have done, are human beings. They do deserve to be brought to justice IF they have done something wrong, but no one deserves to be locked away from public view and have their genitals mutilated.

You, sir, are an idiot. If yours is truly the prevailing thought in this country, maybe it's time to go back to England.

Orcs and Dorks

God save us all...

@ So what's the argument here?

No. I believe the argument is the the media shouldn't get their hands on information they don't understand, and then blow said information completely out of proportion for the sole purpose of frightening the public at large. The purpose of frightening the public? Why, to sell more newspapers, magazines, and any other media you can think of, of course!

@ Sarah Bee

Ignore him? Come on....we need flame fodder!!!

@ 45 minutes a month?

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that you don't have 113 million users either...or datacenters on other continents for that matter. Things happen. Stuff goes down. Besides, Google isn't saying that they are going to use their 45 minutes of down time every month, just that they are allowed it.

Seems that everyone likes to see the giant stumble, but no one would want his job on a day to day basis.

@ Alan Roberts

"they didn't know where they came from or how earth was created (we now know this is because the sun formed from a disk of gas and rubble and the leftovers clumped together to form earth and the other planets in the solar system)"

Ummm...don't you mean "we think" instead of "we know". If you read your sentence aloud, it sounds just about as crazy as saying God made it. That's my beef with both sides of the argument, neither one answers the question. Saying that everything that we see happened by random chances takes just as much faith as saying God created it. And don't start with "But science has proven it!!!" It hasn't. That's why we call these things THEORIES instead of FACTS. Maybe some day we will have all the answers, but we don't right now. BOTH sides need to back off with the childish name calling. It is getting us nowhere, and being a bigot isn't any better than being a racist.

Eh, who cares

If I die during the fire drill, I'll just respawn and try it again.

Mine's the one with the instant health restoring med kit in the pocket.

Neato

I'm sure that this guy, upon seeing his Mii mug posted all over town, won't go home and change it. This seems totally foolproof.

Maybe this isn't a Mii, and the police in the area just have a really bad sketch artist...

I'm pretty sure

...that Google is already tracking all of us. They're just being forthright about it now.

I can't be drunk Officer!

My phone says I'm sober! See? Seeeeee????

I'm waiting for the first court case siting this app as a defense.

That's great...

Evidently, your life and mine are only worth 21 months of this twats life. Good to know.

This kind of story completely pisses me off. I can guarantee you if it had been my wife killed in this accident, I'd be looking to pay off an insider in the prison system to take care of a certain someone.

Maybe this is what happened to Bin Laden

'cause the US government sure as hell can't find him.

Please...

The only thing missing from that crack job of reporting was the tag line "Call now, and we will instantly double your order!"

Terrible.

Hopefully...

The economic mess will finally kill Symantec off.

@ Dick Emery

Yes, one can find 2x1TB drives cheaper, but then I would nee a RAID card that could handle 7 drives in order to build my 6TB RAID 5 array...

@ christopher

"Help!

I want a 1000 monkeys to crank out shakespear's greatest work.

Any idea how long this will take?"

I dunno, but this article, 1 monkey, 10 minutes...

How many times has this same subject been covered already? Yeesh.

Proud day for Russia

I doubt even the developing countries Mr. Putin referenced want Dell computers. My hats off to him for putting Dell-Boy in his place.

Egad

That watchful eyes if just about the creepiest thing I have seen in a while.

Ooops...gotta run. It's time for morning exercise in front of the telescreen.

To quote Jeremy Clarkson

"It is uglier than a war wound"

Re: Tanuki

'If you're looking to sell significant numbers of these cars, please - ditch the gawky and eye-challenging styling. Rather, think "mid-range executive" design - use something like a 5-series BMW or a Lexus GS as the inspiration.'

+1, couldn`t agree more.

Interesting choice of food

They must taste good when properly prepared...but I don't think I'll be the one to find out...

Paris, 'cause she knows all about bad nuts.

@ David Evans

"Maybe you shouldn't get your information about the cars Europeans drive (or their socio-economic status) from Hollywood."

I don't actually believe that most Europeans work on donkey farms or drive 600CC, 38bhp, 20 year old Peugeots, much the same way I assume you don't think that most Americans do nothing for tripple the money of anyone else in the world while driving a 6 ton SUV with 2 engines. My comment got the desired effect though.

"In addition, maybe you should also stand any US-made car from the "big three" alongside a European car (of ANY size) from the same manufacturer, (so on and so forth)?"

While I don't disagree that there are many fine cars made in other parts of the world, I think it is foolish to say that ANY European car is superior to ANY American car. I'm not going to get into a huge debate about specific models, but you can see my point.

My earlier comments were written in haste, and in anger, but the main point was that I get a more than a little tired about the "stupid, lazy, fat, worthless Americans and their crap cars." It seems that you don't like it when the tables are turned, as well you shouldn't. I will never say that America always gets it right, but we don't always get it wrong, either.

Thank you

As someone who is a Network Admin in the public school system, I spend most of my time working with teachers. I agree with you 100%. And thanks, by the way, for writing an article with a few explicatives sprinkled in for effect. It sounded much more well thought out than the usual 5 naughty word per sentence rant, which always makes me think of a 10 year old who has just learned a new word...

Whoops

"a poorly-worded FAQ, which has since been amended, has been misinterpreted"

Hate it when that happens. I'm sure it was a simple slip up, and not the work of a disgruntled employee with an axe to grind about his employers questionable data storage and sale policies.

I'm equally as sure that said employee still has a job...and kneecaps...and thumbs.

The goat was forced to live in Canada

Is anyone really surprised?

If Chinese satellites

...are like any of the other Chinese crap I own, they should only be in orbit for about 2 months until the 80,000KW peak (53 W actual) solar panals die and the paper thin plastic shell cracks wide open from an impact with a space pebble. At least replacements should only be about $14.99 each.

The only real trajedy

...is that he didn't actually kill himself. What a moron.

Sums it all up nicely

"an increasingly desperate research team at Sony with a technology no one wants"

Sounds like pretty much anything Sony makes anymore, and I am guessing that if this shit ever does hit the fan (consumer market), it will cost an arm, a leg, and both testicles...

Paris, 'cause she isn't cheap either...

@ Robert Long

AAAAHAHAHAHHAHAH

Seriously, I think that...

*sniker*

...you might have a good...

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

...point!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*cough* *cough*

Oh, wait, you seriously are stupid enough to believe what you just wrote. I thought you were joking.

For the love...

What is it with you anti-Microsoft people??? Every platform has serious pitfalls, Apple and Linux are no exceptions. I happen to use Linux as much as Windows, and both have their strong points. Get over it, as far as computing goes, NO ONE is right...if it works for you, that's all that matters.

Mine's the one with the multi-boot hard drive in the pocket...

@ hikaricore

So you are saying this sort of thing should be allowed and protected under free speech? Grow up.

Great article

This is where El Reg is at its best (for me at least), summary articles of all the gobbledy-gook that has taken place over the year and where it is headed. Thanks for the snap-shot of 2008 and the look at where things are headed for 2009.