Posts by Florida1920

They died off because

they didn't have a place to buy overpriced sugar-coated crap advertised as food. Sugar, the greatest discovery ever made by humans!

Fun, but...

I'll pass on the sugar-coated wood shavings, but I'm jonesing for a fix of BOFH today.

Bursts of energetic electrons

It's telling us to stay off its lawn. We have been warned.

Enquiring minds want to know

How the system detected the car was undergoing an emissions test? Back pressure from the sensor hose on the tailpipe?

Just to be clear

If I don't glance at the ads in [enter names of magazines I read] I'm stealing? Or if I mute the sound or go do something else during TV ads. Someone needs a wakeup call.

Evolution

Back in the days of police RADAR, inexpensive 10-GHz Gunn-diode oscillators led to a fun hobby called Trolling for Taillights.

Iceberg approaching?

Then why are they rearranging the deck chairs?

What if

Being "disciplined" is why they signed up for A.M. in the first place?

So long

and thanks for all the great hardware.

OMFSM

we had no prior notice that the FCC considered the use of this standardized, 'available-out-of-the-box' technology to be a violation of its rules

What a dipstick.

Payback

El Reg is one of the few sites I'd consider paying for. But no way am I turning off ABP etc.

Bad boys

À la Tony Stark, expect a division to make sophisticated and efficient weapons systems. They don't have to adhere to that suffocating "Don't be evil" mantra anymore. Nukes+ Inc., anyone? Finally, the promise of Google Earth will be realized!

“It’s good to be back.“

Did they go away? I hadn't noticed.

Bad strategy

Here, would-be cons, let me set it up for you. Use two drones, or enable one to carry multiple packages. First, strew packages across one end of the yard, to get all the other cons chasing them and distract the screws (that's con talk for "guards"). Then, when everyone else is busy, move the drone across the yard and drop the intended package to the waiting, solo con. I'd also suggest hash brownies and nicotine lozenges instead of the smoke-able stuff. That way he has a chance to ingest some before the screws wise up and take him down. (You didn't seriously think you'd get the package into the building, did you? Sheesh, no wonder you got caught!)

Sometimes we have to put bureaucrats in their place

Too many government employees, elected or not, in all countries, think they are the ruling class. And too many citizens, whether from apathy or fear, allow that delusion to persist. In fact, we citizens are the rulers and they're only the hired help. That includes all elected officials as well as the heads of so-called "security" agencies. Too bad if some of them have to be smacked upside the head once in a while to remind them of their place.

A patriot,

Duncan is. Thanks for a lifetime of heroic investigation and reporting.

What if it tells a plane what altitude to climb to?

It's late 1999 all over again, but for real this time!

Arrr

Just make sure the priest doesn't take the colander with him.

This would have inhibited my early career

As a tech writer starting out in the 1970s, I always knew which s/w engineers to ask for help: The scruffiest-dressed ones with the most-unkempt hair. I knew they were good if they could get away with appearing like that, as it was clearly deliberate. Homeless people would have given them money.

HP should just keep snobbish customers away from those parts of the offices.

A smartphone app would be brilliant!

Then, when you're too drive to drunk, you can take a cab and command your car to follow you home.

Works for me!

“There is not much you can do at the moment, except refrain from using Internet Explorer.”

Overheard at Universal IT staff meeting

"There's a dinosaur in our backyard."