Posts by transientcylon

That guy...

Needs to do another line, it would totally help calm him down!

Huh?

"Save a whale or something"??? What a twit.

Maybe...

He used to work for the SEC?

Vote with your wallet...

I stopped buying consoles a few years ago because once they became internet connected I saw this coming... I refuse to buy any product with such draconian DRM. I refuse to buy a perfectly good product that was split into 3 products for the benefit of the publisher's pockets (Starcraft 2). I also recently canceled my WoW account because Blizzard is just getting greedy with the combination of micro-payment items AND a subscription fee. Cheers to the folks who cracked this proving yet again DRM has a 100% failure rate.

You can...

Throw me in the iron maiden anytime!

Tell them about MySpace...

That's what I do. Explain to these youngsters how their old, forgotten about MySpace account has had its contents packaged and sold to random 3rd parties already. I love the jaw dropping look I get when I explain even if they delete it, it's already too late because these companies cache everything. I don't have a Facebook, LinkedIn, or other type of garbage and life's been humming along just fine.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/191716/myspace_selling_user_data.html?tk=rss_news

Icon for you Fuckerberg...

I'm not a number!

I'm a free man!

...Apologies to Mr. McGoohan

Say it with me kids!

Mega-lo-mania!

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/megalomania

Danger Mouse

Indeed a blast form the past (20 or so years... ouch). When did cartoons all turn into b-grade anime? I miss REAL cartoons. Mine would be the one with the ACME anvil in it.

In other news...

Hollywood officially announced today they had run out of original ideas.

Chalk one up for the crazies...

...like me who disable the embedded webcam and fingerprint scanner when they are issued their new work laptop.

Ban the G4 video instead...

That entire station is so painful to watch, I don't understand how it's still on the air? It's like the crappy IT version of MTV. It wants to be hip, but you just feel hopelessly uncomfortable watching it.

The last one?

A baseball? Thanks El Reg, now I'm going to be pondering the logistics of that all day... HOW?!

What an idiot...

This coming from the guy that removed his photos after the privacy change settings. What Mr. Web 2.0 fails to realize is there will always be at least a portion of the market like myself that stick to their curmudgeonly old ways, don't use facebook and enjoy every bit of their privacy. Epic fail.

Refreshing...

To know if I cross the pond on vacation I wont be arrested for taking pictures. At 7'1" (apologies for laziness with the lack of a metric conversion) the police would surely haul me away in a heartbeat. Clearly I'm working for some shady organization.

WTF?!

I was promised world eating black holes! Where are my world eating black holes?!

I vaugely...

remember seeing this in some really bad Die Hard movie somewhere... oh well, it escapes me.

Anchorman was when it went downhill

His style of humor can only be endured for so long. I hated Anchorman, nothing but a bunch of overpaid celebrities acting like idiots with hardly any plot or good jokes. I'd rather watch a Godzilla movie in all honesty.

Huh?

And I'm sure some lawyer is already readying the class action lawsuit for sufferers of the newly discovered OOHand Syndrome... what a beast!

I for one...

Welcome our new nuclear monkey overlords? /shrug

I do find it funny what an unrealistic view of the world PETA has, their intentions are noble and all but they tend to be a bit absurd at times. They should really be protesting nature, there are certain species of monkeys that resort to cannibalism in times of a food shortage. It's even been documented, so let's stop all this monkey on monkey violence first then we can talk about NASA.

Industrial Terminals

I used to work for a company that serviced DEC terminals. I pulled one apart in an auto shop and it looked like it hadn't been opened for years (this was about 1998 and most of these units were well over 10 years old and developed a lovely yellow hue as a result). The entire PCB was covered in a thick layer of what looked like soot. That one still stands out in my mind, it was the dirtiest machine I ever had to service. You literally could not see a single inch of the green PCB exposed, it was completely covered top to bottom. The kicker was the company still expected us to dress in shirt and tie which was unavoidably covered with this muck at the end of every day. Never made sense to me...

Hunt Texans?

As an American I'm all for an open season on Texans, most of us don't like them anyway. They are so boorish, loud and obnoxious they would be a breeze to track.

Really?

Echoing other comments, do they really think this will stop the people that illegally download? Someone is always out there working on a work around. This is why DRM always fails miserably. They still haven't learned that lesson have they? Even governments can't compete with a world of bored teenagers with nothing better to do.

12345?

That's the same combination on my luggage!

@ Andy Neale

No, you're thinking of our other nifty death weapon, the airborne chemical laser. In order to reflect these you'd need a suitable piece of metal:

http://www.howeverythingworks.org/page1.php?QNum=1579

@Jake 8:24

Check your dictionary sir:

1 : an encompassing political or societal entity formed by uniting smaller or more localized entities

b : a union of organizations

Given that this is likely a group of businesses promoting tourism I don't see your point?

Form over function

It may not break the speed limit but here's how we do it in Milwaukee:

http://staff.onmilwaukee.com/articles/cookcustoms.html?a=article_image&image=3

You have to scroll through the images but the owner of a local custom chopper store decided to motorize this old love-seat. The lamp on the back is fully functional and lights up. It's quite a sight to see this thing cruising from bar to bar on the weekend.