And next month, if Russia still hasn't handed over Snowden/turned a blind eye to a US SEAL snatch squad, they'll be another 'accident'...
Posts by Steve I
365 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2012
3-2-1... BOOM: Russian rocket launches, explodes into TOXIC FIREBALL
Sony Xperia Tablet Z: Our new top Android ten-incher
Unix luminary among seven missing at sea
A simple SSL tweak could protect you from GCHQ/NSA snooping
Re: Was this news?
Great - another "Why is this news? (*sniff*) I've known this obscure technical fact for years. sure everyone knows it?"
I'm just waiting for the El Reg article on how the convert-to-decimal instruction on the IBM Mainframe oddly has the usual order of source and destination operands reversed. then I can say "Why is this news? *sniff*. Doesn't everyone know IBM Assembler?". If this happens, please feel free to reply "No they don't and f#ck off".
The future of cinema and TV: It’s game over for the hi-res hype
Home Office boffins slip out passport-scanning Android app
Nuke plants to rely on PDP-11 code UNTIL 2050!
Re: there are alternatives
"Wouldn't it be easier to make a hard/software PDP-11 emulator that was power plug and I/O plug compatible with the PDP-11? It would be a lot smaller for a start."
Brilliant idea. There must be a good use for the space saved, and if it wasn't 100% compatible, why - what's the worst that could happen?
EU signs off on eCall emergency-phone-in-every-car plan
Re: Only a few minor issues to work through
"Only a few minor issues to work through"
Damm - you're right! So many insurmountable problems, all of which happen to almost every car several times a day and would make the system unworkable. Why, to get around these you'd have to:
1. Do nothing .- how often does any car get exported?
2. Why would anyone clone the eCall system and how would that affect *your* eCall system phoning in your GPS location with an accident report?
3. No GPS signal? WTF are you - In a tunnel? Use last known position.
4. You've just had an accident - you had battery power a few seconds ago.
5. Not sure why which side of the road you drive on is relevant, but see 1.
Young blokes blinded by video-game addiction: THE FACTS
Google inflates BigQuery AaaS
Apple at WWDC: Sleek new iOS, death of the big cats, pint-sized Mac Pro
Tech giants' offshore cash-stashing is only ever a delaying tactic
Corporation tax seems silly.
After all, the money a company makes eventually gets distributed, either into dividends or salaries of the employees or by purchasing components etc. Each time it gets distributed, it get taxed.
What the governments want is for money to be taxed at every conceivable point - when a person ears it, when they spend it, (crafty one this, as tax ends up being paid twice in the same transaction - sales tax on the price of the item and corporation tax on the profit the company make by selling the item), and back to the beginning when the company pays their employee.
Author Iain (M) Banks falls to cancer at 59
It's a fiddle! Funnyman's Irish tax flashmob floods Apple flagship store
Corporation tax seems silly.
After all, the money a company makes eventually gets distributed, either into dividends or salaries of the employees or by purchasing components etc. Each time it gets distributed, it get taxed.
What the governments want is for money to be taxed at every conceivable point - when a person ears it, when they spend it, (crafty one this, as tax ends up being paid twice in the same transaction - sales tax on the price of the item and corporation tax on the profit the company make by selling the item), and back to the beginning when the company pays their employee.
Paul Allen buys lovingly restored vintage V-2 Nazi ballistic missile
Re: A question for rocket scientists on El Reg...
"Because making rockets is hard to do in any age, We understand the physics, but making the many components all work together properly so the rocket flies is hard."
This is why Rocket Science is easy (put fuel in a tube closed at one end and set light to it), but Rocket Technology is hard...
Yahoo! continues quest for youth with yet another acquisition
COLD FUSION is BACK with 'anomalous heat' claim
FLABBER-JASTED: It's 'jif', NOT '.gif', says man who should know
If you've bought DRM'd film files from Acetrax, here's the bad news
Our new 1.5TB lappie drive isn't thick, it's just the densest - HGST
Senators: You - Cook. Apple guy. Get in here and bring your tax books
Half of youngsters would swap PRIVACY for... cheaper insurance
What was the question?
It'd be interesting to see which one of these the question actually asked was:
1. Do you mind being tracked
2. Would you agree to be tracked for a small insurance premium saving
3. Would you agree to be tracked for a large insurance premium saving
4. Would you agree to be tracked if it meant you could get car insurance?
Boffins find world's oldest virgin water trapped in Earth's crust
Mobile tech destroys the case for the HS2 £multi-beellion train set
I thought the economic benefit of HS2...
...was all the fees and payments made to the various consultants, upper-ranking engineering-company-bosses, technicians etc who are friends of the people spending the(our) money and who will, in return, invite said spenders to dinner, golf, holidays etc?
Not to mention that the consultants, architects, engineers etc will save an hour a day on traveling, which they will put to good use by spending an extra hour at home, rather than in the office earning the fictitious money on which the whole cost/benefit thing is based?
They could at least be honest about it.
Harassed Oracle employee wins case, cops huge legal bill
I think the logic is..
...that because you've rejected their fair offer of compensation and then ensured that everyone has to incur yet more costs (which is YOUR choice), then these extra costs are your responsibility. And if they come to more than your compensation, then that's your lookout.
So your pint gets spilled and the offender offers to buy you 3 pints and pay to have your trousers cleaned (i.e. pay your costs). But no - you reject this and hire scientists and brewers etc to try to prove that your trousers are ruined and need replacing and force the offender to do the same. Eventually, when all is said and done, you only get awarded the cost of your pint but all the scientists etc need paying. The offender shouldn't pay as they offered to settle in the first place (and they weren't trying to weasle out of paying, as they offered more than you finally got), which would have avoided all this.
The brewers and scientists aren't to blame, either - you hired them.
Hardware hacker unifies 15 retro consoles in format frenzy
Entangled matter the next big thing in qubits
Logitech launches MEGA-PRICEY 15-in-1 remote
Re: Who are they kidding?
"A remote control for the price of a small TV."
Absolutely. So there you are, needing an advanced remote control, and you see this. "Ridiculous", you say,"I'm not paying that to control my £10,000 home cinema setup - not when I can spend the money on a small TV".
One small TV later....
"Bugger. I now need a remote control for my £10,110 home cinema setup which now has an extra, redundant, small TV and an extra remote control."
Roomba dust-bust bot bods one step closer to ROBOBUTLERS
BBC: Monster cargo ship delivers '863 million tins of baked beans'
iPad? Pah. Behold the EYEPAD, patented by Sony for the 'PS4'
Ask Google this impossible question, get web filth as a reward
Apple said to develop curved glass iWatch with Foxconn
Electric cars stall in USA, Australia
Re: utter bollocks
Ummm, are you thinking that the used batteries get thrown away - i.e. they're used once? I don't think they're using lots of Duracells, but big battery packs that get removed, swapped and then recharged at the swap station, to be swapped for the empty battery o fthe next car that comes in. The only overhead that this would have over a 'conventional' recharging station is the battery-swapping facility.
Or was this just a ill-informed rant at electric cars in general?