* Posts by Anonymous John

2374 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Oct 2007

Sex offenders will get a review – after 15 years

Anonymous John

Re: Re: Why...

Will nobody think of the bicycles?

Acer taps out yet more tablets

Anonymous John
Unhappy

but the W500 will retail for £449 - or £529 with a bundled keyboard accessory.

If or when I buy a tablet, it will have to cost less than a laptop.

Kournikova worm marks 10th anniversary

Anonymous John

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday dear Anna

Happy Birthday to you

'Race against time' to find LOST TREES from the MOON

Anonymous John
Welcome

I for one

Welcome our forty year old Lunar arboreal overlords.

EC parades common phone charger

Anonymous John

But I like Medions,

I bought a P6624 from Sainsburys a few weeks ago. No crapware to have to remove. And its charger also fits my Netbook,

Anonymous John
Unhappy

Easier said than done.

I spent Christmas away with family and left my Medion netbook charger at home. None of the other five or six laptop charger there would fit. All 19.2v, but different plugs.

Alabama sex shop owner swaps 'Guns for Toys'

Anonymous John

"all guns that were used in a crime will be handed over to authorities"

How does she know that a gun was used for crime?

Doner kebab saves bloke's life

Anonymous John
Joke

Six and a half pints of blood?

So he needed a blood doner kebab as well.

Texting teenager plunges to his death

Anonymous John

Yep.

That was me.

'Tree Octopus' proves journos no smarter than 13-year-old Americans

Anonymous John

Is this enough letters and/or digits?

Think of all the spaghetti it could harvest.

Big stink over Malawi farting ban

Anonymous John
Flame

How

did El Reg anticipate the need for a "lit fart" icon?

PSP playing boy plunges onto railway

Anonymous John

Things come in threes.

First the woman who fell into a fountain. Now this kid. Who's going to be third?

Bradley Manning 'is British' – campaigners urge UK.gov to act

Anonymous John

14th amendment

If he was born in the US, he's an US citizen.

Mexico demands apology for Top Gear outrage

Anonymous John

Sitcom.

usually known as Last Of The Summer Petrol.

Boots punts over-the-counter paternity test

Anonymous John

So it seems.

And for an eye-watering £29.99

Openistas question UK.gov's £300k crime-mapping website

Anonymous John

Same here.

No doughnut shops near me either..

Gatwick Airport security swoops on 3-inch rifle

Anonymous John

Sigh.

Forty years ago, I could fly to the US with a camera tripod in a plastic bag, without it being checked.

The present is a foreign country, they do things differently here.

Middlesbrough cabbie relieves lad of iPhone

Anonymous John

Moral of the story: carry two mobiles.

Top of the range smartphone for use/willy-waving. Cheapo PAYG one to give muggers or to give as security to taxi-drivers.

Chaps tolerant of girl-on-girl cheating by other halves

Anonymous John

Trick-cyclist?

Slang term for psychiatrist M'Lud.

Mid-Atlantic Ocean temperatures peaked in 1998

Anonymous John

Another nail in the coffin of MMGW.

I don't doubt we are responsible for rising CO2, but that's only one minor factor in the always changing climate.

iTunes gifting scam plunges Reg reader into the red

Anonymous John

Peter reckons it's more likely the hacker guessed his password

password?

123456?

abcdef?

Couple crash into church, curse satnav

Anonymous John

Presumably

Not an Act of God.

Crematorium to heat council swimming pool

Anonymous John
Flame

Hmm.

I can see a lot of outraged ghosts haunting the swimming pool.

EU halts carbon trading after 'concerted' hack attacks

Anonymous John

Subject: Call for Urgent

Sir,

I am attorney to late Mr. James L.Dukes who died at camberwell East London on the 11th December, but since his death, nobody has come forward to put a claim to his carbon credits Valued at Thirty million US dollars ($30,000,000.00) He did not disclose any next of kin as was required, hence the bank mandated me to present his Next Of Kin. That is why I need immediate assistance from you to expedite the transfer of the inheritance fund to your account.

Man killed by own cock

Anonymous John

Re Sarah and the killer cock

i think Sarah's channelling Lester today.

FAA to pilots: Expect 'unreliable or unavailable' GPS signals

Anonymous John

Re My tupence worth

Let's hope the plane with the jammer isn't navigating with GPS.

Texter who fell in fountain threatens to sue

Anonymous John

About to fall into a fountain?

We've got an app for that.

Brazilian cult condemns USB

Anonymous John

USB 2.0 sockets are blue.

So problem solved.

Shocked mum muzzles foul-mouthed toy mutt

Anonymous John

Kids shouldnt be exposed to words like that.

""Mummy, what does the clap mean? And why did you give it to Daddy?"

>Slap>

""Whaaah!"

BBC iPlayer in 'hugely popular at Xmas' shock

Anonymous John

Well, I'm shocked.

I didn't realise there was anything worth watching over Christmas.

Prisoners cannibalise mice for mobile power

Anonymous John

Re so

I expect they remove the battery, and connect the wires directly to it. The contacts are much larger than the ones in the phone's charging socket.

Volvo demos automobile auto-pilot tech

Anonymous John

Confused.

"aimed at drivers who do not wear seatbelts or talk on their mobile phones while driving."

I thought you weren't supposed to use mobile phones while driving.

Anonymous John

Hmm.

Link the satnav to the auto-pilot, and no need for a driver. Instant reduction in road fatalities.

Harder to read = easier to recall

Anonymous John

Really?

I never have any trouble remembering what I've just read. It's about time Facebook sorted out their connectivity problem.

Man nabbed nude pics from women's email accounts

Anonymous John

But

Anyone who knows you're an El Reg commentard can work out the first two.

There's nothing wrong with the standard questions as long as you supply an incorrect answer.

Thunderstorms found to squirt antimatter into space

Anonymous John

Well, yes.

But they didn't invent the axle, did they? Wheels aren't much use without an axle.

Anonymous John
Thumb Up

Great!

All we need now is warp drive,

Palin's email snooper sent to prison

Anonymous John

"Suggested" and "indicated"

According to the BBC report. I don't know about the US, but a UK judge has no say in which type of prison is selected. A federal prison seems excessive to me though.

Bletchley Park to rebuild pioneering EDSAC computer

Anonymous John

No mercury?

If it's good enough for Curly Flickering Lights, it's good enough for a compter.

PC market limps into 2011

Anonymous John

Another Errmm

AC's post was about the article, not your comment

(Posted on an Acer laptop used daily for the past four years.)

Archeologists toast world's oldest wine press

Anonymous John

Nope

"And i bet there wine tasted much better then your swill above"

Modern grapes (and other fruit) are the results of millennia of selective breeding. Six thousand years ago, I doubt there was any great understanding of wine making. The juice was exposed to the air in the hope it would ferment. And not turn into vinegar.

Anonymous John

Or

A speakeasy.

Space boffins save BT's satellite station for Mars missions

Anonymous John

Another Old Anorak replies

I know. Amazon has it on CD and MP3 though.

Anonymous John
Coat

makes you think doesn't it?

Fifty years ago it needed a dish that size to get 20 minutes worth of grainy black and white TV from Telstar. Compare that with satellite TV dishes now.

Whah whah whah. Whah whah whah whah whah whah.

Mine's the one with The Tornados CD in the pocket.

Police reject Labour MP's call for Bristol-wide DNA test

Anonymous John

And if they have one

It either matches Chris Jefferies or it doesn't. Yet he hasn't been detained again or formally cleared.

Nazis 'became obsessed' with piss-taking Finnish dog

Anonymous John

Godwin's law.

So no more comments please.

Runaway hydroponic fungus attacks real-world Starship Voyager

Anonymous John

Re Bootnote

Is there a female equivalent designed to make the wearer look flat-chested?

Google sneak peeks Android for fondleslabs

Anonymous John

Holographic title.

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope

Ion readies book scanner for e-book buffs

Anonymous John

DIY

http://diybookscanner.org/forum/

Courtney Love in court over 'Boudoir Queen' Twitter bitchfight

Anonymous John

AAMOI

How many Sarah Bees are there?