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1968 posts • joined Monday 8th October 2007 13:35 GMT

Anonymous John

It reads as if the energy is free.

It comes from the food eaten by the walker. The tiles can only work by making it slightly harder to walk by requiring it to generate electricity too.

And El Reg made a similar mistake yesterday in the article on Tablet accessories in saying you could charge one free from a car's cigarette lighter. Not unless the petrol/diesel was free.

Anonymous John

£25 for a stylus?

I saw one priced at £7.50 in Waterstones this morning. And even that was more than I was prepared to pay for a strip of conductive silicone rubber in a tub.

Anonymous John

Re: Annoying

Not even El Reg? It's the only compliant site I've seen.

Anonymous John
Happy

Re: It's been grabbed

And at night too.

Anonymous John

Re: No.

Only joking. I have a good feeling about this mission.

Anonymous John
Unhappy

No.

SpaceX using metric, and the ISS using Imperial. What could possibly go wrong?

Anonymous John

Well, someone did.

"The fact that this information was sent to the wrong recipient for three months without anyone noticing makes this case all the more worrying.”

"That person eventually told Blighty's health service that they had been receiving the lists and had shredded them."

Anonymous John

Just a shame the Three Wifi thingy is £40.

I didn't begrudge the cost. I have a 15GB for £15.99 contract. Which meant I could buy the cheaper WiFi only Kindle and Tablet. And when I upgraded my O2 phone last month, I went for a tariff with a token 500MB that cost half of the old one.

Anonymous John

Re: Pretty Dumb

Môr Hafren has three vowels. So there.

Anonymous John

Re "At present the filtering systems are too blunt an instrument "

They always will be.

Anonymous John
Unhappy

Re: The 'mercans seem to be doing OK with feet, inches and funny sizes gallons.

Not with a certain Mars probe some years ago.

Anonymous John

No rectal insertions?

Anonymous John

Think of it as evolution in action.

Anonymous John

Titanic II

The ship is salvaged and refitted at Pearl Harbour ready for its second maiden voyage.

Anonymous John

Can't find any on Ebay yet.

Anonymous John

"with the party suffering heavy loses in local elections"

It's the economy, stupid. Not Internet censorship or gay marriage.

Anonymous John

Re: Wow, anonymous really have stepped up their game.

You don't really think that is any protection, do you?

Anonymous John
Meh

BYOD party

I briefly though that "D" stood for drugs.

Anonymous John
Unhappy

Another sigh.

I'll be 83 when it arrives. If I'm still here to see it.

Anonymous John

Mine is fine and is my fourth HTC phone. The first had a stuck pixel and was replaced without any fuss. That was the only problem.

Anonymous John
Unhappy

Re: Sex life

You beat me to it. You don't expect to find all those words in the same sentence.

Anonymous John

If the ice cream comes in rectangular tubs with rounded corners, they're in trouble.

Anonymous John
Happy

No it didn't.

It flew into Stansted Airport in 1983 though. Great photo op.

Anonymous John

And another Nascom'er

Nascom 1 and Nascom 2, long banished to the loft though.

Anonymous John

"Registered on: 13-Nov-1996

Renewal date: 13-Nov-2012

Last updated: 28-Jul-2011|"

So it's not that, then.

Anonymous John

Look up Sudbury Basin, and you'll find that Canada has been mining a meteor/asteroid for a long time.

Assuming that metal can be refined in space, mining asteroids is more environmentally friendly. I hope it succeeds. If the private sector doesn't kick start it in the next 10 years, I think manned space-flight is dead in the water.

Anonymous John

If they were meant to deter thieves, they wouldn't be white.

Anonymous John
Unhappy

Is it just me?

Or is email not the best medium to use when sacking anyone?

Anonymous John

Re: Nasty!

Brainfart on my part. It takes 10 minutes to charge your phone up to 1/3. Doubtless much less if you have a smartphone. Whatever, I won't be using it.

Anonymous John
Happy

Re: micro SIM

I upgraded from a Desire to an One X on Monday and O2 gave me a micro SIM, and the switchover took about 30 minutes.

I have a Three Mi/fi with a Micro SD card, and something I read somewhere suggested the One X should be able to see it, but I haven't got it to work yet.

It's a great phone though. The GPS even works indoors, which wasn't the case with the Desire.

Anonymous John

My local shopping centre has a coin operated machine with a shedload of cables that will recharge mobes in 5 minutes. I hate to think how much heat that must generate.

Anonymous John
Meh

"mystifying climate scientists who had thought the planet's "third pole" to be melting."

FTFY

"mystifying climate scientists who had wanted the planet's "third pole" to be melting."

Anonymous John
Unhappy

I for one, welcome our new rabid skunk overlo... Er, no I don't.

Anonymous John

Statistically, some recipients will have an illegal porn stash.

Anonymous John

Farewell, snow-filled pictures

Welcome, pixelated digital pictures.

Anonymous John

Scottish independence.

Salmond could get a fair few votes by announcing he wouldn't allow it. Are their any Scottish ISPs? It would tempt me to emigrate.

Anonymous John

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

A poem will get them,

To cut CO2.

Anonymous John

For this to work, the spooks have to know which ISP I use, yes? How?

Even without encryption, etc, all a terrorist needs is an unregistered Pay As You Go phone to be anonymous.

Anonymous John

In a town or city, agreed.

But as he was a cycling enthusiast, I expect her rode in the country often. Follow him in a 4x4 and wait for a chance to hit him with no witnesses.

As I said, I don't think it an assassination, but don't see a staged hit and run impossible to arrange.

Anonymous John

I'm an atheist.

Can I use a phrase from "The God Delusion"?

Anonymous John

Dark Arts?

Spooks is fiction, and unrealistic fiction. Williams was a keen cyclist. If anyone wanted him dead (which I don't believe for a minute), why not a hit and run "accident"?

Anonymous John

Controversial?

What else are they, but victims?

Scam emails where the scammer claims to be a small business having difficulty getting payments from foreign customers are common, and in need of local agents who will bank money and send it on via Western Union less a small commission. Something that too many people see as plausible. They aren't greedy, just in need of employment, especially in the present economic climate.

Anonymous John
Unhappy

Two months to goín my part of East Sussex

And since the Heathfield transmitter doesn't yet transmit digital south, I get the impression that nobody knows what's going to happen. The booklet I got refers ominously to possible interference. From France probably.

Anonymous John

I said "some of". As they are committed to landing when using it as cooling, there's no possible risk in using reserves of air. And they'd likely be wearing space-suits for the descent.

Anonymous John

Well if it's ever used for a manned vehicle, you can use some of the air the crew have been breathing.

Anonymous John

Re: Yes but...

Also the 1.2% that can pronounce "Alba". I'm sure a much higher percentage knows the name by sight.

Anonymous John
Meh

83?

A bit old to be an Appletard, isn't she?

Anonymous John

Re: Yes but...

AA hasn't been taken, and Alba is Gaelic for "Scotland".

Alba gu bràth!

Anonymous John

They can't call it that!

The Snowman is on the Moon as any fule know. Apollo 12 mission.

Anonymous John
Joke

"No, no, first I'll go home, relax and then I'll take it out"

Yes, but what about the iPad?