Re: Bars
prisons have them.
Splatter.
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Facebook phone app attempts to seize ALL YOUR MAIL
Ten... Androids for under 200 quid
Saturday 30th June 2012 14:03 GMT
HTC Wildfire S
Is a total POS - build quality, reception, overall useability is crap - bought two for my twins, went through five of them before giving up and replacing with the Samsung Stratosphere (solid slider phone).
Wife and I carry the Motorola Droid Razr (which is updating to ICS as I type this - happy days)
;)
Apple slapped with 75 lawsuits by staff of titsup French computer biz
Microsoft's Surface proves software is dead
Ten... pieces of tat for Apple fanboys
Can't watch Flash vids in Firefox? It's not just you
Average selling price of tablets drops 21% in three months
Friday 8th June 2012 21:23 GMT
Re: About time too
Sigh.... I have an Acer Iconia A500 ICS and I love the hell out of it. Bought it to replace my laptop and backpack I carry around every day.
But: I need serial ports, ethernet ports, keyboard, decent size monitor etc for my daily BS - no wireless, no workie, ya know? It's not a good replacement for a fulll-on computer yet.
Windows XP update fails in infinite .NET patch loop
Wednesday 23rd May 2012 01:43 GMT
HA!
I knew it!
Ran around today doing maintenance for various clients - even argued with one of my techs about it - told him it would be straightened out at some point since they seemed to install correctly.
It's the ones that repeatedly fail that concern me.
(to be fair or unfair, I did consider a conspiracy by MS to help phase out XP lol)
Off-the-shelf forensics tool slurps iPhone data via iCloud
Yahoo! chief! says! sorry! for! CV! snafu!
US gov boffins achieve speeds faster than light
Apple sued for every touchscreen device by Flatworld prof
Windows 3.1 rebooted: Microsoft's DOS destroyer turns 20
Friday 6th April 2012 11:34 GMT
Re: I had WfW3.11
You must have been loaded... Seriously, memory was EXPENSIVE! I still remember paying $200 for 8MB (on sale) for my Cyrix P133+ Win95 machine... My old IBM 286SX boat anchor Win3.1 machine was retired and I was thrilled as hell to see that video clip of the Hindenburg on my 1x cdrom on the new one.... ahhh 14.4 modems and lions and tiger and bears...
:)
Fans fly to forums to signal iPad 3 Wi-Fi woes
Lucy in 3.4 million-year-old cross-species cave tryst
Thursday 29th March 2012 11:40 GMT
Re: Wait for the creationists...
Your answer, courtesy of 'Friends'
PHOEBE: Go ahead and scoff. You know, there're a lot of things that I don't believe in, but that doesn't mean they're not true.
JOEY: Such as?
PHOEBE: Like crop circles, or the Bermuda triangle, or evolution?
ROSS: Whoa, whoa, whoa. What, you don't, uh, you don't believe in evolution?
PHOEBE: I don't know, it's just, you know...monkeys, Darwin, you know, it's a, it's a nice story, I just think it's a little too easy.
ROSS: Too easy? The process of every living thing on this planet evolving over millions of years from single-celled organisms, too easy?
PHOEBE: Yeah, I just don't buy it.
ROSS: Uh, excuse me. Evolution is not for you to buy, Phoebe. Evolution is scientific fact like the air we breathe, like gravity.
PHOEBE: Ok, don't get me started on gravity.
ROSS: You uh, you don't believe in gravity?
PHOEBE: Well, it's not so much that you know, like I don't believe in it, you know, it's just...I don't know, lately I get the feeling that I'm not so much being pulled down as I am being pushed.
ROSS: How can you not believe in evolution?
PHOEBE: Just don't. Look at this funky shirt!
ROSS: Pheebs, I have studied evolution my entire adult life. Ok, I can tell you, we have collected fossils from all over the world that actually show the evolution of different species, ok? You can literally see them evolving through time.
PHOEBE: Really? You can actually see it?
ROSS: You bet. In the U.S., China, Africa, all over.
PHOEBE: See, I didn't know that.
ROSS: Well, there you go.
PHOEBE: Huh. So now, the real question is, who put those fossils there, and why?
Apple products now found in half of all American dwellings
Climate-change scepticism must be 'treated', says enviro-sociologist
Friday 30th March 2012 11:05 GMT
Re: "What is his argument? An appeal to ignorance?"
I will talk about denial.
How can you come to a conclusion on ^anything^ without all the facts? You can have a general idea, theory, or best guess, but without a total understanding how something actually works, that's all it is, a guess.
We're still discovering how things work. Every day there are new facts to contemplate, whereas climate warming global change people deny any new evidence, claiming their 'science' is set in stone, not to be questioned in any way.
I say Bullshit.
Friday 30th March 2012 10:04 GMT 
Yep Yep
Those bastard peasants caused the Little Ice Age from the 16th through 19th centuries - right after the Global Warming they created, burning down the Middle East during the Crusades....
Said it before and I'll say it again: When their climate computer models can accurately predict weather that has ^already^ happened, I will believe what those same models predict for the future.
Humans are so damn arrogant... We don't know it all and won't for some time to come.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow." - Name the Quote.
Baffling barcode-on-steroids stickers plaster the Earth
Saturday 24th March 2012 11:41 GMT
Re: So do people actually scan these things?
Make big ones for telephone poles, walls, etc advertising new clubs, over priced 'cool' exclusive restaurants, civil unrest meetings, underground Jedi movements - tap into the younger, tech-as-way-of-life-and-would-die-if-off-grid segment of the population to make it a trend, eventually gets to older generations. Be a moneymaker if the marketing is worked out properly.
Big thoughts for a Saturday morning. Cheers!
GM puts the brake on Volt e-car output
Apple lands slide-to-unlock patent blow on Motorola
IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop
Google will swap you a box of crisps for your web privacy
Has Microsoft finally killed off Windows 8 Start button?
Scientists weave battery into clothing
Zuckerberg: Facebook rakes in cash... to make world a better place
Friday 3rd February 2012 20:15 GMT 
Well...
Wife has FB account, I do not. HTTPS, ad block, and no platforms running equals peace of mind for me - although she's started to call him Fuckerberg over the timeline thing.
Funny how he says Google+ (nope, not that either) being integrated in search & Android is an issue - have you seen any desktop/mobile OS that doesn't have FB either available or already installed 'as a service to our valued customers'? You have to root any/every mobile device to get rid of the damn thing seems like.
Brit pair deported from US for 'destroy America' tweet
Monday 30th January 2012 16:55 GMT
Kinda, maybe
Senator Rand Paul was detained in Nashville due to an anomaly during the body scan - it was later admitted by TSA that the machines themselves create 'random' patdowns via software.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/23/rand-paul-on-tsa-detainment-i-was-barked-at-do-not-leave-the-cubicle/
Dicketry is not required for TSA aggro.
Monday 30th January 2012 15:37 GMT
Hey Skippy....
I freaking LIVE here and won't fly if I can avoid it!
To top that off, TSA has VIPR teams on our highways, Fed offices, trains, etc.
I'm sitting here wondering why the hell I tweeted El Reg's story without READING THE FUCKING HEADLINE with 'destroy America' in it.
Yeah, it's like that. FUCK!
Newt Gingrich wants Moon to be 51st US state
Friday 27th January 2012 10:52 GMT 
Short-sighted Bastards
Newt has his issues but at least he has some kind of vision & goals, unlike the other three. Those shuttle airframes were certified for 100 flights each - biggest issue was the launch system.
I detest Obama for killing the shuttle, I feel he has stolen our kids future by this action - no goals, no vision= no future.
Ya'll laugh, but a moon base would be an excellent choice for exploiting anything the moon may have under the surface, as well as an excellent place to conduct the kind of experiments we cannot do on earth to expand our holdings in space. Anything made or mined on the moon would be relatively easy to retrieve due to being in Earth's gravity well - all downhill.
NCC-1701 baby! I want it. I'm with Professor Farnsworth - I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Kiwis collar Megaupload kingpin, Anonymous exacts revenge
SOPA is dead. Are you happy now?
Thursday 19th January 2012 20:11 GMT
I concur
You cannot talk to a US politician without cash in hand - they cannot hear you over the counting machines.
I'm with the Torches and Pitchforks crowd at this point - recently disillusioned by some things happening here in the US, things I thought were set in stone (like justice and honor) and at my age, a total shock.
I'm still trying to adjust.
Good post.
:|
Record numbers of readers flock to The Register
Thursday 19th January 2012 12:04 GMT 
You're Welcome!
That's about the same time I activated my Twitter account - there is quite a bit that gets reported here that doesn't ever make it to the US media (or what passes for one, anyway).
What's it been? Since 97? And I still have my El reg pin - Thanks to John Lettice! (kiss my butt Lester! lol)
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George Lucas: 'No more Star Wars'
OCZ refunds punter for dud drive shortly after El Reg steps in
German cops hacked in revenge for dad spying on daughter
Phone maker punts AA-powered blower
Duff Russian Mars probe spotted flying in reverse
Saturday 7th January 2012 06:33 GMT
Shirley,
I was sitting here pondering the same thing. Either a space limitation or a cost factor would be my best guess. Hopefully is was not a decision based on economics - would probably qualify for a black mark on somebody's record in good old Russia. oops.
Often wondered why every available surface doesn't have solar cells, maximum potential and could be useful for a minor barrier against space trash - the small kind that could penetrate internals. Again probably a weight limitation. A photoelectric fabric perhaps? Rambling now.
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