Posts by northern monkey

Oh FFS

Why do google not check with a country first whether or not their privacy laws will allow streetview! It would save them a lot of money and driving around time. They deserve everything they get!

Aah, it's a shame...

...that this one missed out:

Adam Hills - "Watching the global financial crisis unfold is rather like watching my dad being molested by a clown. I know it's going to affect me, I am just not entirely sure how."

@Shane McCarrick

>You shouldn't need an MCP/MCSE to run your home computer.

I thought that's all you needed to be able to do to get MCSE certified :P

@Steve Swann

Idiot.

Malaysia is a fantastic country which I've been fortunate to visit 6 times. It is a minority of states in which the dictat of Islam is truly upheld (Terengganu, as I saw it, being the strictest) - if you pick your head out from your copy of the Daily Mail and actually go out and look at the world, starting with those which offend your ridiculous 'principles' so greatly, perhaps you'd take a different viewpoint.

As at least one person above pointed out she was surely aware of the law when she broke it. This is what angers me when Brits go abroad to countries like Dubai and break their laws but have the audacity to claim their behaviour was fine.

Oh my days!

It looks like something under the snow is getting the most enormous erection!

I am definitely owed a new keyboard, and my monitor isn't looking too happy either.

@RW

The zeroth law of TJ shops:

TJ Morris != T(J/K) Maxx

T(J/K) Maxx != TJ Hughes

therefore TJ Morris != T(J/K) Maxx

Though (un?)interestingly both TJ Hughes and TJ Morris are founded in liverpool.

oh lord...

...that's truly horrible! It looks like some sort of modern version of brum! I can see its eyes about to open!

And herpa!? Surely that would never sell well here - no-one wants to be reminded of that unfortunate one night stand whilst driving around in their shiny new car!

(And is that a vile shade of baby blue in the picture or is firefox messing up the colours in that image too? I though the macbook air was bright pink earlier)

@Steve Evans

Love it!

<personalView topic="NHS">

I'm epileptic and thanks to the NHS I've received free treatment my entire life, had many MRI scans that in the USA would be deemed too expensive, am prescribed drugs deemed most effective rather than drugs from the pharmaceutical company which gives the biggest back hander. The only drugs I've ever had to pay for were some antimalarials and frankly that's fair enough (though unfortunately due to a combination of drug interactions and the region I had to take malarone which is bloody expensive!). I'm starting a new job in october which comes with health insurance but whereever possible I'm sticking with the NHS as despite its inperfections, if I were on twitter, #(I)lovethenhs. [I might get my nose done and some pec implants on the insurance though :P ]

</personalView>

Looks very much like

Someone has an iphone and an iMac and has generated the video by overlaying graphics from the two (the aspect ratio of the notes app is exactly the same as it is on the iphone, which there doesn't seem to need to be necessary or optimal on the itablet).

Less sure about the casing, but perhaps a snap of an iphone rejigged? They'd have had to move the button, airbrushed out the speaker and recoloured the bevel but hardly beyond the means of a good photoshopper!

I'm just not convinced apple would go for such a small button on a large device!

This whole app store thing is ridiculous...

The developers pay to be developers, the users (sometimes) pay to use the apps; what business is it of Apple's whether said app gives the user seamless access to 'offensive conntent' or not? They're getting that through safari anyway.

Apple are going the very right way about making people hate them - while web 2.0 is allowing users to have what they want where they want it they seem to be bucking the trend by letting users have what Apple wants them to have, where they (probably don't) want it.

@As opposed to wanting hitmen to strike brutally

Oi oi oi!! Now say what you want about that sour faced prime minister of ours, but just you leave the pride of Merseyside alone! Otherwise I'll have a surprise surprise for you!

Rotund men + speedos...

...is the male equivalent of fat women wearing denim miniskirts and crop tops. It should be outlawed, so hooray Alton Towers for making a move in the right direction. Keep speedos for people whose belly gives them a chance of moving through the water at a decent speed!

Good to see they've done absolutely nothing..

..to fix them so far. Not even a takedown.

Oh wow...

..man writes cost function and minimises using some pre-existing algorithm.

That's what you get...

..if you ignore your cat's repeatedly 'requests' for feeding. Though the severity of the cat's actions suggests that he'd not fed it in quite a while, the worst I've heard in the past was a little bit of insurance fraud and some drug planting - for a cat to go so far as downloading 1000 images to frame their owner neglect of the highest degree.

Perhaps he deserved it!

Any word...

..from Thales on this? After all they're the ones who should know. Although perhaps they do know and are well aware that the system is far from perfect and are contracted to keep schtum about it. Perhaps the Government will admit it too, but I'm more confident that our porcine friends will fly during a rare lunar event where the face of the moon appears blue.

Bloody government, bloody ID cards.

Schrödinger's tweet

"All those Twitter addicts will be doing something more useful instead,"

But how will we ever now, if the twats don't tweet about it!?

Aah, badly translated Chinese...

...always fun to read. Although it's not quite fun enough to count as Chinglish.

Punish the child...

..because you can't find the paedos. Great strategy!

Too late!

The damage is done. They're not going to attract any new users and this debacle will serve as an excellent stick with which to beat IT budget managers in order to move to something less politically unstable.

If I were Davis I'd be distancing myself from this financially now - rather than falling rapidly over the edge to its death like it might've done it's going to slide slowly into the footnotes of distro history. Dignified or what.

@Richard 23

Is that even in the UK? They look more like american pylons, and the garish hotel sign is a bit suspect given that this place is supposed to be sleepy.

@Havin_it

Good lord are those still 'you can have it in any colour, as long as its cream' monstrostities then? And are you still using CRTs? Is your mobile a nokia 3210?

I'm having late 90s/early noughties flashbacks. Though at least snake was still the good version then.

@LPF

"christ there was a story of a tory councillor being outed by some Irish thugs a couple of months"

Outed, or ousted?? I don't recall any tories being outed recently, the days of closeted 'family' Tory MPs frequenting popular cruising spots 'unaware of its usage' seems to have past. Well, at least we'll have one thing to look forward to if they make it in at the next election.

< I simply went into the bushes looking for my coat, Sergeant.

Dufftown??

Have I accidentally stepped into the Simpsons? Was DuffMan present at the uncorking?

Note to self:

Do not take children to Terry Hershy Park.

This really is quite odd though - grindr only shows distances for fear that it could be used to target homophobic attacks, yet this happily serves up a local paedo - sorry, sex offender - map with pinpoints for each one!

If you press on the pinpoint does it provide you with their crime, or as someone pointed out will the poor 15 year olds exchanging texts from their bedrooms be lumped in with the jozef fritzls of this world?

@Michelle Knight

"140 characters forces brevity and tightens up the use of the English language in order to get the point across effectively"

Or, as happens away from cloud cuckoo land, limiting to 140 characters causes ppl 2 use sch ridic cntrcns of wrds as 2 mk a msg nrly unrdbl.

Is no-one else a bit worried...

...that a letting agency was following one of their tenants on twitter? That'd be reason enough for me not to let from them, if I was on twitter in the first place.

Unless she did '@Horizon', which would've been a little silly of her.

@Ty

Did you just come into this to be a troll?

Anyway, I'm a linux user and in no way do I 'pine' for mac os x, nor does my bank balance!

Oh that's nice of them...

...let's not wait and see what user feedback is on 3.7 - just tell us what we want. Bloody MS^Hozilla

Hmmm...

Do they get ordered randomly? Otherwise surely there's some sort of bias towards certain positions.

Plus the description for firefox really sucks - who wrote that!! Posing it as a question almost leads you say 'no, probably not - screw installing that'.

I also agree...

...and would like to further add that the only way I will be able to cope with the next election is if the Tory party are somehow eradicated in an 'accidental' Tory party conference incident.

The desire to punch David Cameron and George Osborn in their smug narrow grins is too much to handle!!

Bit steep...

...it would be nice to have some sort of intermediate option available. I'd stick to the free version anyway - I don't find the ads that intrusive - but the potential iPhone app is quite tempting (as is being able to use a native, albeit text-based, linux client rather than having wine using up resources). But for now £120/year is just a bit too much - as matt suggests a £60/month version is more to my liking.

@Anonymous Coward 9:43

You can't have it both ways matey - if you want jurisdiction over your own health service so you can have free prescriptions,separate NICE decisions etc then you have jurisdiction over your own swine flu prevention/treatment measures!

I used the site on friday as I'd had a cold for days and had a fever, headache and a sore throat, as Mike Richards pointed out, to that site that meant I had swine flu. After all the hype about this site (advised by doctors, etc) I would've expected that it somehow performed decent differential diagnosis. Most of the questions pertain to whether you're dying of meningitis or are in a high risk group - only one question isolates the swine flu symptoms, and another seems to be attempting differential diagnosis (do you have brown phlegm - cue forceably coughing up into a tissue to find out).

What people need to get are thermometers as the severity of the fever seems to be the crux of the whole thing, and unfortunately it's not something the website can ask you as I guess only those with young children have thermometers suitable for this around. But if what I've got is swine flu then it's really not that bad - a day in bed with ibuprofen and paracetamol on alternation, and a bit longer on the sofa watching boxed sets.

@Ian Sawyer 1

I feel sorry for the other Ian Sawyer who forced you to take Ian Sawyer 1 as he's probably getting sacked/beaten up/vomited on right now in a case of mistaken identity.

Please tell us where you are so we can correct the mistake.

God, not this fuss again...

When Liverpool changed their logo the unwashed masses had a right moan - getting out their student activist hats like they do for everything, claiming they wouldn't accept their degree certificates because they didn't sign up to this new logo. Tits.

However they did take the corporate branding a tad too far, with a many many paged document on using the logos ('give it room to breathe' was the phrase I remember the clearest).

@Justin Thomas

Some British people are amazed that our American cousins are unable to cope with homonyms that are easily identifiable by their context and so resort to pronouncing them in different and, in the eyes of the British, horrible ways.

Has anyone in the UK ever heard of an electronic device accidentally routing bits down the A1(M) because it got confused (this being el Reg I'm sure there's at least 3 people who have a story on this one), or a policeman putting up signs after a road accident diverting people to the nearest fibre optic cable instead of down the A194?

And yes, that's -re, not -er.