Posts by Teknogrot

You''re assuming a small time limit here, right? Because if you're not, you may want to sit down... I have bad news for you.

You seem to think that we sprang into existence fully formed with regulation of the market in place.

Have you considered that you might be talking bollocks?

Re: Leaked leaks did not come from WikiLeaks

That's how they process new information, why would anyone else be different?

Re: All encryption is bad.....

And the award for linguistic prescriptivism in the name of pedantry with the aim of dodging the point goes to...

Re: 70's disturbing TV

In the Night Garden was genuinely disturbing the first time I randomly saw it on TV at some odd hour due to new digital TV schedules deciding that CBeebies needed to be on after midnight.

Re: The history of networking in a nutshell:

I think we can expand that to the history of tech in general.

There's at least a little irony in this position given how MS's own patching schedule reveals unpatched vulnerabilities in older but still supported versions of Windows.

Re: yewtreeing

Feature, not a bug.

Re: Ireland

It's criminal that Amazon employees have to take two buses to get to Dublin airport from the current HQ. Just criminal.

Re: What didn't come out of that summary....

You have to read the book to find out.

Re: @Dave

It doesn't count if the vomit is your own, after you ate Hersheys.

I think that John is trusting readers of El Reg to draw the logical conclusion from the statement based on our collective time exposed to PR bullshit.

Re: Don't "Google it"!

I was working for MS via a third party when Bing was just being rolled out and scuttlebutt was that while the engine was being developed and demonstrated internally the engineers kept saying "and then I google <thing>" over and over, until some exec stopped them and said "But it's not Google". No idea how true that is, but I really hope it happened like that.

In particular because at the time they were just literally Googling stuff and reformatting the results...

Re: 13 and leaving the country

That's the beauty of it. Now he's told us that he's leaving the country we're going to be searching for him in every country except the one he's in. That way we'll never find him and he can just go back to school in peace.

Genius when you think about it.

Re: One more sep

Judging by reports only the last of these is true.

Re: Indeed

Little known fact about the old crash test dummy toys is that they're based on real human anatomy. If you remove one limb or the head then the whole thing loses structural integrity and bits spring off madly in all directions.

Re: So much for that Russian collusion story...

Bear with me, because I get that this is a crazy thought, but bear with me

What if... they wiretappd the other end of the lines? LIke, not in Trump Tower, but somewhere close to the Russians they thought were suspiciously Russian looking?