* Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon

5770 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2007

PETA riled by Mario's raccoon skin suit

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Good point.

No-one has ever complained about my Dianese leathers, apart from the smell.

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I'm sure you're right, but I didn't say anything. I just wrote down what I thought I was thinking - a bit like describing the objective content of thoughts. Cue the bass.

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I'm glad the Reg keeps telling us what PETA means, I still look at the letters and think of people eating tasty animals.

LHC results may solve riddle of how universe can exist

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@Ammaross - it's a nice theory. Experimental evidence?

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Do we *know* that matter anti-matter collision results in a bang?

It could all just go phut for all we know, especially if it's damp.

TCP/IP daddy Cerf: 'Don't rewrite the internet for security'

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"Obviously you couldn't be arsed looking beyond the OP"

Yup, totally missed that. 1 upvote coming your way :)

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OP:"the source of your paycheck"

Retard AC:"It's YOU'RE not YOUR"

hmm, "the source of you are paycheck"

do you know, that sounds about right, my mistake. Of course, now all you base are belong to us.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition

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PLEASE please please will someone do this with Ocarina?

I know it's Nintendo, but still.

US anti-hacking law turns computer users into criminals

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"And at some point our US counterparts got a visit from some law enforcement guys. Wondering what was going on considering the "increasing amount of encrypted data".

Time for a decent ISP to start offering this up as an ADSL packaged service methinks.

Zen, are you listening?

(This is where someone posts a link to make me look a right twonk(y).)

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El Reg might be British, but if I submitted a false mobile number to some site that resides in the U.S. of Internet then I can be deported and killed?

Shit.

World's stealthiest rootkit pushes DNS hijacking trojan

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Quick, everyone install Wireshark and filter for dns.

Oh, and don't forget to check the checksum :)

NASA: 2012 solar flares could DEVASTATE CITIES!

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OMFG - Old Mother Fucking Gimp,

at least that what the preacher told me it meant.

Production electric motorcycle breaks 100 mile range

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"Have you noticed the funny wires coming out of everybody's ears lately?"

Which is precisely why I bought a bike you could *feel* coming down the road :D

Lemmings

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I remember we started a 5 man paintball squad back in the 90's called the lemmings.

We would get everyone there to walk out to site in single file whistling the theme tune :D

Goldeneye 007: Reloaded

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I still have the original on a US N64, and it's the music that's really lacking.

There's just no atmosphere in this game, and to have Bond played by that bricky Craig whatsisname is just adding insult to injury.

It's effin hard to pick out enemies at a distance, but they have no problem seeing you of course, even when you're tucked in behind a bloody great rock.

Stealth is there, but once compromised it becomes a duck-shoot. Where do they get all those henchmen from?

I'm playing it on pussy level at the moment, $deity knows what it will be like on 00.

I bought it on impulse due to nostalgia - but if that's your thing you might want to give it a miss.

Americans' right to hang fake balls on trucks left dangling

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Does anyone know the law in the Uk?

I have a pair of silver bollocks from a while back that I think would look just dandy hanging off my Victory cruiser :D

Assange brings down British justice system

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"and it is to Sweden he must be eventually extradited to face those charges. I'd personally think a man so clean to air other people's dirty laundry would delight and welcome the opportunity to clear his name in open court"

I think I see where the misconception is here.

He hasn't been charged, the InterPol warrant says he is wanted for questioning.

No mention of court yet either.

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What's the difference between a site being taken down through sheer volume of connections, and a DDoS?

Clue: it's a trick questions

Nintendo pwns notion Wii was only for casual gaming

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My main objection to the Wii for serious games is the motion controller.

Sure, you can stick a Gamecube pad on there, but a M$/Sony controller it is not.

I mean, I abandoned a Zelda game because of the control mechanism, something I thought would have been phsychologically impossible.

US Navy in new electromagnetic railgun milestone

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So why did I see an exhaust plume coming out of the back of that projectile?

Grand Theft Auto V trailer drives onto interweb

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Nice visuals, I wish they'd re-do Vice City with this engine.

And I saw a motorbike in that trailer, I thought they were taking them out?

IT pros not lacking for employment, but may need to move

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Whilst Software Programmers are IT professionals, IT professionals != Software Programmers.

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I can agree with you about recruiters, or even clients, not really knowing what they're asking for.

Last year I saw a position that only required two main qualifications: CCNA & CISSP

Talk about asking for a CSE and a Degree.

Privacy warning as cops lean on domain registrars

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If we look at this from a 'how did the internet get going' point of view, it would be possible for someone to set up their own root servers and run whatever tld's they want to. They could forward requests on to the main root servers for regularly registered domains, but hold their own data regarding registration of other domains.

Now, I don't believe it would be that easy, most people don't even know what DNS is and what it does, but for people who do know, it is a possible way round the obstacle - which is, after all, what the internet does best.

Machine translation cracks 18th century occult cipher

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I thought it was A.A

or was it .A. ?

or perhaps ... ?

I don't know, but it's a secret.

Insulin pump hack delivers fatal dosage over the air

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"If someone wants to kill me, there are far easier ways than this."

If I had a device in my body that was capable of killing me, I wouldn't be worried about hackers either.

I'd be more worried about a software bug in the system.

BioWare Baldur's Gate

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Was that the one with Clive Owen as the protagonist who had lost his memory?

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It was Sim City going up in smoke that did it for me, if you know what I mean.

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"Tents moments"

Very good :)

Father-of-three attacked teen after Call of Duty jibes

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Wow, so you really like to take a beating then? It takes all sorts, I suppose if it's a good looking gal then it's ok.

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"what it's like to get a b______ from a Polish lingerie model while driving a Maserati at 150MPH on the Nurburgring."

Well?

Survey: Future IT guys will 'crowd-source' to fix stuff

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and in other news..."The 'Cloud" isn't all it's cracked up to be in the shiny magazines that get given to pointy haired bosses.

Anonymous shuts down hidden child abuse hub

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Well, that might be how it works with the FBI (with quite a large remit and bank balance) but here in good old Blighty we have two red-eyed chaps on psych-alert doing it all for the whole country.

Crap alchemist jailed for poo-into-gold experiment

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Surely everyone knows you need to start with Antimony, not excrement.

Asus names Eee Slider release date

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Shiny.

Looks good, what kind of battery life can we expect?

Next-gen Xbox set for 2013 release

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Does anyone know if any of those video glasses can handle a 3-d input? 'm getting bored of sitting in one place playing XBOX - I want to be able to play in the back garden whilst getting a sun-tan!

Printable transistors usher in 'internet of things'

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Along with this technology I hope someone bright can come up with a way of destroying these infernal things, like a suicide booth for tracking things.

You go out and buy loads of shit like a good consumer, are blissfully unaware your every movement is being tracked. But hey, what's that? Step right in, kkkkkkkzzzzzzap. All your printed tracking devices are belong to dead.

Grazio, I can walk my way down the street blissfully unaware I'm being tracked by 73 camera's all linked to a centralised database with facial recognition.

I'm now flagged as a subversive, and they came for me in the dead of night.

Where's my tin-foil hat!? Where's my medication!! MATRON!!!!

OMG! Berners-Lee has an iPhone

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Considering how long the PGP Outlook plug-in has been available, I'm surprised that M$ haven't gone and released a version of Outlook with it built in.

Unless I've missed something.

All hail Sir Tim :D

World+Dog goes bonkers for iPhone 4S

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re:former binman: He might be retired you know.

Let's not make this about the binman, try and keep your focus on ridiculing the huge numbers of sheep instead. Perhaps they should all be given a complimentary bottle of apple sauce with their iPhone 4s?

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

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So you're into retro then?

An ode to rent-a-nerds and cable monkeys

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"tought"

*ahem*

Pick the right tools for your Office 2010 migration

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I've started using the 2010 office products recently and it's a real pain in the arse re-learning where everything is. Don't get me wrong, there are some nice touches in there as well.

However, a word (sorry) to M$ - This is absolutely the last time I change to a product of yours if you muck around with the UI again. I'm sick and tired of having to re-learn what I already know how to do.

Dark Souls

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Sounds like completing this is the equivalent of gaining Elite on the old beeb (without cheating)

Oh, and "Don't look at the mantlepiece when stoking the fire"

yuck.

Boffins fear killer gamma death blasts from space

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I did, but he/she/it couldn't really make up it's mind.

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"and if such an event happened inside the Milky Way, the results could be devastating"

It's already happened, the memo just hasn't arrived yet that's all.

Biker gang plunders Covent Garden Apple Store

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Shit shit shit shit shit..quick, post before anyone else notices...

It was of course, Pulp Fiction...not Die Hard.

But it WAS Bruce Willis at least :D

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Obligatory Die Hard Quote Alert!

"Who's motorcycle is it?

It's not a motorcycle baby, it's a chopper.

Who's chopper is it?

Zed's.

Who's Zed?

Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead."

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Sorry, I thought you said

"Had all their patents died or something?"

My bad.

It would also be nice to see Mr Plod equally diligent when pursuing burglars of domestic properties as well, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Android Marketplace blocked by Great Firewall of China

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If one's man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and vice versa, does that mean China believes the Dalai Llama to be a terrorist?

US rocketeer thunders to 121,000ft

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That footage is so good I'm actually feeling sick.

+121000 to the Rocketeer