Posts by Crisp

Management drag their heels on keeping tools up to date.

And then blame everyone but themselves years later when those tools fail.

Maxis Lied.

It's ok El Reg. I'll say it if you wont.

Sounds like a Patent Denial of Service Attack

With Google flooding the patent office with requests, it should prevent other patent trolls from being able to get a successful request through.

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards

It's had a reboot and the new version evoked a lot of nostalgia in me when I played it.

It's even got the age verification questions at the start!

After the General Election

I'm hoping to see record lows of Labour, Liberal and Tory MP's in office.

What goes on in the Facebook/Twitter hive mind?

I'm going to guess that a good 60% of it is about the weather at the moment.

It's not just the lies

It's the constant stream of spam they feed through my letterbox offering me new customer deals.

What's even worse is that I'm already a subscriber!

If they are anything like ATOS

None of the information they hold on me will be relevant or accurate.

If it's my fondleslab...

Then aren't those my germs? Ones that I'm already immune to or part of my normal skin flora and fauna?

Didn't they do that all the time during the McCarthy era?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the FBI were watching all sorts of elected officials at the time.

KOI-314c

Why do I get the feeling that exoplanet hunters will be carping on about this for some time?

It's a frigging prision.

Shouldn't be too difficult to erect some kind of cage around it.

Alicia Keys as creative director?

I can't imagine anything more demotivating for the poor sods at Blackberry that actually do the work.

Can you buy fish sticks with it?

How many fish sticks will a CoinYe buy you?

Couldn't he have waited until she went down the shops?

Seems a bit extreme just to get a bit of alone time!

There has got to be a way to get a probe out there (eventually)

I know it would take a while, but I'd love to take a gander at these worlds up close!

How do they know that they're arms and not legs?

See title.

Too be fair

A lot of those risks are the same with regular currency.

There's nothing that the EBA can do if someone nicks my leather wallet either.

Is Google expanding their searches to the real world?

Ok, Glass. Where did I leave my keys?

(Robot scurries off to retrieve them)

Reminds me of the whole .co.uk vs .com thing 15 years ago.

People would pay more for the .com name because they saw it as more prestigious.

I actually had a client ask me once which was better... And they refused to believe me when I told them there was functionally no difference.

We send probes to other bodies all the time.

Why can't we send one to Europa to basically melt its way through the ice, then fire a submarine probe down there?

Well what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

Do we have to actually ask businesses for their data or can we just take it?

"We're going to inject you will bull semen Mr Smith"

Are you absolutely sure you're a doctor?

We made more money than almost anybody on the PLANET

And yet he says that like it's a good thing.

Do the pipes go....

'nurieek', 'rotut', 'hernunger'?

Human Error

Human error is when you make an accidental mistake.

This wasn't human error, this was deliberate.

But the people on 4chan are always so nice!

They are some of the most kind and honest people I've seen on the internet.

Why The Register of all publications would try and besmirch the good name of this wholesome family friendly site is beyond me.

Even in the criminal underworld

The rich get all the perks.

"£91m in IT assets will be worthless five years from now"

Code that works is an asset. Code that doesn't work is a liability.

"code worth £91m would only be used until a "digital solution" is implemented."

Ah, no wonder the code doesn't work. It's an analogue code solution!

So what you're saying is...

If I'm going to Antarctica, I ought to pack a sweater?

City of London Police

I always thought that it was the job of the police to protect law and order. Not act as the private army of corporations.

I've redefined dog poop as steak.

But for some reason, it still tastes like shit.

You'd be surprised about what you can learn about a photo with Tineye

It's like the Google of images.

By Grabthar's hammer!

That's one hell of a headline! :)

CWJobs

I put my CV on there and all I got were calls from agencies. Endless calls from people asking me if I wanted a job requiring C# .net skills. (Yeah, but doing what?). Calls from people that couldn't tell the difference between Java and JavaScript.

What is the difference (if any) between the following:

1) Using LOIC during a coordinated attack.

2) Using LOIC by yourself.

3) Leaving a brick on F5.