* Posts by ratfox

3721 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Sep 2007

'The LHC will implode the Moon or PUT OUT THE SUN'

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Joke

Good, good!

This should allow us to put an end to global warming!

Computer glitch prompts 50 raids on elderly couple's home

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Coat

Sounds good to me

Where do they live? Do they have money in their home?

Mine's the one with the Saturday night special in the pocket

Twitter bomb hoax man changes plea

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Black Helicopters

Pushing our luck, aren't we?

Better call your lawyer now, the choppers are closing in...

Battle lines drawn in Apple-Google warfare

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Coffee/keyboard

Merger?

You owe me a new keyboard!

'Crazy' man cuffed for plotting cyber extortion scheme

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Paris Hilton

Moron

Title says it all really. How could he think that he would get away with it?

Even Paris would not.

Microsoft's dual-screen booklet shows 'face' on web

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Jobs Halo

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery

It is a measure of the respect Apple commands, that there are me-too copies of its products being drafted even before the original is on sale. Even the Reg is writing about iPad killers before the iPad is actually successful...

Halo Steve, because whatever you think of Apple, it is impressive

Man of God backs Beverley porncoder

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Flame

Trying to knock down the competition

Obviously, the rag is worried that people might read his website rather than their stories...

Forget SETI, this is how you find aliens: Hefty prof speaks

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Title is "Victory Unintentional"

By Isaac Asimov

How FBI, police busted massive botnet

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Actually, it is a fair comment

Sure, there are over 200 countries in the world, but I would have guessed that a third of them did not have much computer infrastructure...

So more than 190 countries really means that the botnet infiltrated computers almost everywhere.

Authorities dismantle botnet with 13 million infected PCs

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I think the bigger point is

They got caught. Unless botnet creators operate from countries where law enforcement is lax, or where they have ties to the government, they still have a high chance of getting caught.

I count that as good news.

Apple kicks out quack app, keeps boobs/farts

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Coffee/keyboard

ROFL

Apple owes me a new keyboard, for allowing the pic on the left, but not that on the right

Parallels fondles Steve Jobs' bare metal

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Paris Hilton

Is this still a virtual machine??

How is it virtual? When it runs on a machine without OS, shouldn't it be called an OS?

What is next, a cloud storage service that you run on your local computer?

PH, because she is not virtual either.

Microsoft: Oracle will take us back to 1970s hell

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Ahhh, the 60s

When computers were real computers...

Seriously, Microsoft might be right about part of this. Probably, Oracle are hoping to get something like the vice-like grip Apple has on its customer base.

And say what you want about Microsoft, but PCs do offer more choice than Apple. (Mac user, don't flame)

Large Hadron Collider in multi-magnet quench hiccup

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Paris Hilton

Rube Goldberg was a beginner

When you think of the complexities involved just in quenching the system...

PH, because she is much simpler to figure out

Apple prepping 'Explicit' App Store?

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I can understand the developers

It is already hard when your business is scrapped in a day, but this really feels like Apple is just yanking their chain.

US school comes out fighting over webcam spy claim

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Paris Hilton

More details

1) it was a macbook, so no jokes about Windows security. The school had admin rights on the laptops, not the students.

2) The family lawyer says he was seen popping candies named Mike-N-Ike. The school evidently believed it was drugs.

3) I can't believe they thought they could get away with it.

Even PH wouldn't be this stupid...

Swiss prostitutes armed with defibrillators

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Paris Hilton

How sad to die on a co... concub...

cucumber sandwich...

SNIFF

(Am I really the first with a PH icon?)

Google typosquat cash pegged at $497m per year

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Is it significant?

Honestly, I wonder. Compared to all the cash that Google earns, how significant these typosquatters are?

This is not unlike accusing a store of not turning away dodgy-looking customers, even though they probably stole the money they are paying with...

Twitter 'airport bomb hoax twit' charged

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Dead Vulture

Why call it a bomb hoax?

Come on, Reg, this is not a hoax! A hoax is meant to be believed.

Do not feed the trollicemen!

Schmidt denies Google wants 'dumb pipe' carriers

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Paris Hilton

I want dumb pipes too!

I understand that Schmidt has to be political, but really, most of us want operators to be dumb pipes. And the operators have been fighting this since Hush-a-phone.

PH... pipes... dumb...

Apple bans iPhone hackers from App Store

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Jobs Horns

How petty can you get?

And if you try to talk to us, we will stick our fingers in our ears, and sing loudly LA-LA-LA CAN'T HEAR YOU...

I like Apple in general, but this is ridiculous.

Can $100m a year keep Google on the iPhone?

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Unhappy

Calculator please

"A two-one-hundredths per cent drop in revenue would hardly be noticed..."

Actually 100 millions is twenty hundredths per cent of 50 billions.

A two-one-hundredths per cent would be 10 millions.

I can only hope that my finances ever get to the point that such a

difference would be unnoticeable...

'Electronic fags' are useless - US prof's startling claim

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Coffee/keyboard

Electronic fags are useless? eButts don't work as advertised?

Took me a while, between the fags and butts...

Who cares? As long as people are happy puffing them.

US judges leave definition of obscenity to Amish, Kansas

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Paris Hilton

What if the web site is in the cloud?

What if I publish something on Google sites? Heck if I know where the server is based... And for all I know, the actual emplacement might change every couple of days!

PH is in the clouds, too...

Street View catches Finn with his pants down

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Cheap

In the US, the guy would ask for millions and millions of dollars...

Microscope-wielding boffins crack cordless phone crypto

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Sweet mother of Bejeesus

Some people actually reverse-engineer microchips... 0_o

For me 20 years seems good enough... Considering it still needs a fair bit of computational power even now, the attack would hardly have been practical until recently.

Google doppelgänger casts riddle over interwebs

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We should do riddles about this

How do you call a blog whose only purpose is to register the self-congratulation of its author (i.e. pretty much all of them)?

Answer: Ego Log

What do you call what is left of somebody amputated by a train?

Answer: Leg goo

What do you say to a witch from the Lancre coven, just after she escaped from a charging bull?

Answer: Olé, Ogg!

What do you call an object from the Microsoft Component Object Model containing an open source codec?

Answer: .ogg OLE

etc. etc. etc.

Sci-fi and fantasy authors wade into Amazon spat

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Stop

Price difference between e-books and real books

Newflash: Books also cost next to nothing to produce. Most of the price pays for the edition job, paying an artist for the cover, typesetting, etc. A $20 book costs 50 cents to print. Even with transportation costs, you barely get $2 of price for the physical object; the rest is for content.

And as Ryan said, e-books are not "free" to distribute either...

US gov's emptying of vast Texan helium-tank dome 'wrong'

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Coat

Cheap shot

That's the problem with Helium... If it was just oil, the US would just burn everything as fast as possible, but since Helium does not burn, they have to get rid of this non-renewable resource SOMEhow...

Mine's with Evil Merkins for dummies in the pocket...

Climategate witchhunt fingers scientist

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Big Brother

My God

21) What is your opinion on thought police?

Surely a Big Brother Icon is needed here if it ever was...

Wales Audit Office boss sacked amidst laptop smut claims

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FAIL

Since when is that a firing offense?

Seriously, you fire people if they are not doing their job.

Aussie censor balks at bijou boobs

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WTF?

They should also...

Make breast enlargement surgery mandatory for married women. There are quite a few wives which are encouraging pedophilia whenever they have sex with their husband.

Aussie man convicted for Simpsons smut

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FAIL

Even Disney did it

Donald's Vacation (Disney 1940)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mdVHEus0T8

3:00

Apple's iPad - fat iPhone without the phone

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Stop

Message from earth

This is not a computer. Repeat after me. NOT a computer.

Considering how previous tablets have been doing, this should be a good point. If you have something of that size, and without keyboard, you should not try to use it as a computer.

You do not open 10 different apps on that. It is meant for simple stuff. Watching videos, pictures,

sending e-mails, and surfing the web, one web page at a time. If you have these simple needs, the iPad is all you need, and it is probably easier to use than a netbook.

Of course, most readers of the Register want a computer, because they like to fiddle with things. Well, this product is not for you. There are thousands of products that are not meant to appeal to you. Deal with it.

Honestly, the only glaring option that is missing in my opinion is the camera for video calls. That will be for the next version, probably.

Steve Jobs uncloaks the 'iPad'

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FAIL

Oops

This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.

They sure didn't waste a minute...

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Paris Hilton

First to post a comment...

Yeah right.

They already have a commercial on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1BUH9eXy18

Prolific hacker releases PlayStation exploit

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Coat

In before...

Comments complaining that no, he did not REALLY hack it

Apple's Tablet won't save Big Dumb Media

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Orlowski allowing comments? I must post one!

I don't have anything to say, actually. But I'm sure the fanboys will.

SourceForge bars 5 nations from open source downloads

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WTF?

Curious

Not that I care particularly one way or another, but I wonder what made them act now...

I doubt anybody from the US government even thought of asking them to do that.

Once impenetrable PS3 cracked wide open

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Will Apple have learnt their lesson?

We will see after they make available the iSla^H^H^H^H thing that they are going to introduce in two days, whatever that is...

Congratulations to GeoHot for doing well so far, and keep at it! (I do wonder if he still remembers about the big blue room)

Mozilla buries heels on un-YouTube open video

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Agree with this one

Honestly, I cannot think it can be a good idea to have to pay for producing content. I believe the only people who disagree are big content producers, all too willing to place a barrier on the competition by the general population.

Not that Web 2.0 is all that it is cracked up to be, but I want to believe that it is best than coming back to pre-Internet era, with the flow of information controlled by a few.

Avatar kills Taiwanese man

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FAIL

My grandfather died in his armchair

So you won't get me sitting in one again, nossir!

NASA pegs Noughties as hottest decade on record

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Coat

0.2 degrees per decade?

I find the number rather underwhelming. At this speed, it will take a millenium until Canada become habitable...

The heavy one with a beaver hat, thanks

US gov Photoshops bin Laden wanted pic

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Paris Hilton

What about if...

He's also changed his name, gender, and became blonde?

After all Bin Laden is from rich family too, right?

Apple lawyer smacks Gawker with Mac tablet hint

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Happy

Apple yanking the chain

I can imagine Steve Jobs getting on the stage...

"As many of you have guessed, Apple has been working in secret on a brand new project...

Today, here it is... the very first electric car made by Apple, the iCar!!"

Half the audience collapses in shock, and then he says that no, there's no tablet this year either... And the other half of the audience collapses.

Avatar expands 3D TV interest

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Happy

Glasses price

3D TV costs 3'000? Sure.

3D glasses cost 30? Too much!

Wonderful how people's mind work...

Canada quashes Yes Men hoax with phishing claim

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WTF?

www.whitehouse.net

What I don't understand is that the White House web site has been parodied for years, and nobody ever seemed to care...

Google may exit China after 'highly targeted' attack

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WTF?

So Google will get out of China?

I'd be surprised if Google really left, but I'd be even more surprised if the government let them stay without censorship... I wonder what they are trying to achieve with their bold statement? It's not like leaving China will put them out of reach of hacking attempts...

Naked scans: Net cries nude-o-geddon

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FAIL

Do these people know about CT scans

And did anybody ever saw a porn made out of one?

Google 'open' memo betrays deep corporate delusion

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I do trust Google somehow

But whatever a marketeer like Rosenberg says, I will doubt by instinct.