Posts by Term

Am I missing something....

If they have to string new cable for the HFT would it not be just as easy to string fiber?

Easy Peasy

"El Reg would suggest that if you haven't already, this is a good excuse to adopt a unique password for every site."

Because remembering 50+ passwords, all with upper/lower case, numbers and symbols and not based on dictionary words is EASY!

WTF

No honour amongst thieves! Who would have thought it.

Tech Support stories go back a long way...

My Granddad was a TV technician when they were still a new technology.

Just before the coronation of EQ2 in '52 he had a lot of support calls. One call was from a person who had an intermittent problem with their TV, my Granddad said they would need to bring it in so he could do a soak test on it. They declined saying it was going to be too expensive. A couple of weeks later he gets a call from them to say that the TV was now green, so he decided to pop around and have a look. He found the TV had mould on it, it turned out they had decided to soak test it themselves in the bath.

Vulture South or Vulture Wastland

We've had the same 5 Top Stories now for what seems like ages, all bland Australian ones. Surly there are other news from around the world that could class as a top story or are we only going to get Australian top stories from now o

I originally started reading The Register for its humour and no bullshit style, there are lots of Oz bland PR fluff publications around, we don't need another one.

El Reg - its not like there is a lot of Spanish speaking people in the UK as well.

Double Standard?

American porn stars have to use condoms to stop STDs including HIV but foreign aid to 3rd world countries can't be used to promote condom use to stop the spread of HIV.

War on drugs....

Mass murder OK.

Drug dealing morally reprehensible.

Now, if only...

the content, like Doctor Who, was in HD then even less people would use P2P.

The Stainless Steel Rat...

...will never tarnish! RIP.

I'm confused...

I thought the Reg was anti-climate change, this seems to support it? An editorial error perhaps?

STA Travel...

... in the clear then? They didn't do anything wrong, it was Google fault?

Okaaaay, but I'd like to see the reasoning behind it.

Why can't the FBI do this?

Surely the FBI can display a message telling people that their machine is infected and it'll stop working soon?

I don't use Android Firefox on my phone...

Not because it doesn't support H.264 but because it doesn't support Flash.

I know, Flash is going the way of the Dodo but at this very moment in time it is still used extensively on the web, and not just for ads mind you.

So until Firefox supports Flash or the web converts to HTML5, I won't be using it.

Wardrivers delight?

Unless the Data Centre is in a Faraday Cage wouldn't wireless hacking be a problem?

Just a thought...

Sydney time isn't GMT

"...has shifted from being 23 hours behind to three hours ahead of GMT."

Three hours ahead of GMT (GMT+3) would surly put Samoa somewhere in the Middle East?

Three hours ahead of Sydney time would leave the country where it is in the Pacific.

As the Reg says, it's not the GST

A few months ago I bought a box set of the first four seasons of Doctor Who as a Christmas present for someone. Here in Australia the best price was at JB HiFi at about $287. In the end I bought it from Amazon UK for $64 with free shipping.

There is no way that adding 10% GST on to it would have changed my mind in purchasing from amazon UK!

I've also bought the BluRay Boxset of the complete Harry Potter films for $49 (free shipping again), in JB HiFi it's for sale for $139 + postage. Oh, I also got the BluRay edition of the extended Lord of the Rings trilogy but I've forgotten how much I didn't spend buying that here :-).

Prices and exchange rates have changed since these purchases but there is no way that a 10% GST explains the price difference. Just look at that Doctor Who boxed set S1-4, $287 vs $64, I mean WTF! Someone, somewhere is gouging...

Term.

Get Out of Jail Free

"The firm agreed surrender the ill-gotten gains to settle FTC (Federal Trade Commission) charges..."

So the $8 Million was a sort of 'Get Out of Jail Free' card was it?

No charges, no chance of a conviction...

666 or 616?

According to the oldest copy of the book of Revelations (~1700 yo) the number of the beast is 616. So the poor chap was already damned to eternal hell 50 days previously!

Humble Pie

I'm now waiting for the Reg to eat it's humble pie.

Come on, man-up and start eating!

But, but, but...

You're trying to use logic here, with the iPhone fanboi, it has nothing to do with logic!

As you've already said, it's a fashion statement and as with all things fashion related it's got nothing to do with logic.

"The SEC said Rosenberg willfully violated anti-fraud provisions of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940"

No conviction or jail time then?

I wonder if his bonus(es) for those years cover the fine? Probably.

iQuit

I'm supprised that 'iQuit' wasn't in the sub heading... Is the Reg loosing it?

Subscribe? No...

I'll wait for the Bit Torrent / Usenet version...