Posts by tony2heads

Re: Ahah! Not so fast Mr Scientist

Yes indeed, I can think of several fools who "know" that climate change is a conspiracy.

@Oengus

but how will my wife play bridge online?

By the way:

has anyone thought of setting up a website selling TRUMPery TRUMPets from TRUMPington?

@AC

I have heard of people resurrecting old dumped computers with some versions of linux

Re: What to use?

https://github.com/Grive/grive

Re: layer 4...

Thankss for the tip

Re: CAPS LOCK

@smudge

Welcome Mr Apollo

Re: Please do this TfL. @MyffyW

If any taxi driver addressed me as 'darling' or 'princess' I would be out of the cab instantly, as his eyesight would have to be failing.

I have never heard ANYONE addressed as 'treacle'.

Re: Missing icon for "you should be sooo glad this is a text rather than audio medium"

Cue the Edwin Hawkins Singers in ecstatic chorus

Re: Becoming "standard practice"

I thought that it was 'Arnaud Amalric'

See wikipedia

Re: lack of stealth ?!

Hannah Reitsch

BTW my father-in-law was Telegraphist Air Gunner in Swordfishes. They were trying to avoid a German fighter which was MUCH faster, so the pilot took them down to street level in a Norwegian town where they could turn through side streets, but their pursuer could not as he would stall at that speed.

I have heard that the Swordfish's stall speed was about 50mph

Would love to hear from any Norwegians to confirm the tale.

Re: Military-industrial 101

Don't forget the Poles, who did the earliest work on cracking Enigma (before they were invaded)

Re: An Adobe Wannbe?

Crap movies have The Razzies

Why not have an award for appealingly buggy software?

I suggest that El Reg is the right place to host it; what do you think?

Suggested topics could include:

Most Insecure software

Phone producers with the most bloatware

Corporation with most leaks

Corporation with most spyware

Website with crappiest interface

Website with most offensive/in-your-face adware

Re: Old news

I have the opposite phenomenon; they seem to be driven by non-artificial stupidity.

Re: Hands up if you've got debts

There are loads of people in first world countries with negative wealth, like students with massive loans to repay, people stuck with negative-equity houses....

The truly poorest are usually the ones without enough income to get a loan.

Vista

We're going to die!

@AMBxx

Bile green would be best (to represent the anger of the user)

Re: Hrm...

zerg swarm

To quote Douglas Adams

"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."

Re: operational in all weather

This might work but the power dissipated to get through a blanket of fog would be enormous ( backscatter, absorption) particularly if aiming at something low to the ground.

Re: So. And now...

ALWAYS root.

Most firms don't care about your android device once they have your money, so the only way to keep it safe is to root.

@ Gene Cash

Then the system should be that the journo DOES NOT HOLD the key.

The encryption should be public-key with the decrypt key in head office.

Re: Fancy that

There are also workplaces that will not ALLOW mobile phones in, but have nor problem with watches.

Re: Meh...

Whether viruses are alive or not is still a moot point. See the Kahn Academy take on this.

Re: Fear of flying

I LIKE the takeoff and landing - they are the good bits.

What I hate is being stuck in a seat designed for anorexic hobbits; being unable to afford (or get the boss to pay for) business class, I am stuck in immediate danger of deep vein thrombosis.

Re: When we get to the stage where we have to label everything...

Don't you mean 'Cheese-eating surrender mammal'?

@Alan Brown

Lands clearance suggests that you have an alternative use for it (in the clearances in Scotland it was sheep).

What could one use Sunderland for? Wind farms?