Posts by Anonymous John

@ Shut up and hit the button!

Even better. We might even wake up in a universe without Paris Hilton.

@ Punishment

"deserve to be brought back to the ground"

If they were at T5, they never left it.

Re Hybrids won't help

All that's being proposed is producing human stem cells from say human skin cells inserted into an animal egg..An egg with most of the animal DNA removed.

Not really a hybrid in my opinion. I think the scientists have shot themselves in the foot by using the word.

What happens if the Chinese get confused,

and build a Space Shuttle with a Quiet Electric submarine engine?

I read this as petscaling at first,

and wondered why El Reg was running a story about animal dentistry

Softscreens

They feature in the last three Arthur C Clarke novels and once unrolled, connect wirelessly to any nearby computer equipment.

I can't wait.

One is even scrunched up and put in someones pocket. I hope they're snot resistant.

The coat with the OLED screen on the back, please.

Re Why the nighttime launch?

This is actually the eighth flight since the Columbia disaster. And the second night launch since then. The cameras can photograph falling foam even at night. And the Shuttle is checked three times in orbit for tile damage.

There's also the growing evidence that the foam shedding problem has been largely sorted. The Shuttle is now a safer vehicle than it's ever been.

A daylight launch yesterday couldn't have been put into a suitable orbit to dock with the ISS.

By the time it gets through the stack on the M20,

it's half life will have expired.

Still not convinced, either way

I wonder if we'll ever know.

Coat please. No, not that one. I'm only three foot tall.

According to some sources, such as

http://www.oxfordmail.net/display.var.2093008.0.police_in_school_drugs_scare_blunder.php,

two children in Oxfordshire had actually been admitted to hospital. So it's a hoax that someone local had embellished for some reason.

A few years back Sussex plod passed on the hoax about a woman claiming that her car had broken down, knocking on doors and phoning her own £50pm minute premium rate phone line. Also with two imaginary local victims.

The U.S. Defense Department is even more confused

http://www.space.com/news/080220-ap-satellite-weather.html

'"We're now into the window," a senior defense official told a news conference minutes after the shuttle landed.

He said it will remain open until Feb. 29 or 30.'

Weren't online manuals supposed to replace dead tree versions?

They have. The version on the Department's intranet will have the full version.

Earthquake

A major earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit in the early hours of Wednesday 27th February 2008.

Epicentre: Market Rasen Lincolnshire. Victims were seen wandering around aimlessly

muttering "fackin ell" and "whatta cant" The earthquake decimated the area causing approximately £30.00 worth of damage.

Many locals were woken well before their Giro arrived. Local FM News reported that hundreds of residents were confused and bewildered still trying to come to terms with the fact that something interesting had happened in Market Rasen.

One resident - Tracy Sharon Smith, a 15-year-old mother of 5 said "It was such a shock, my little Chardonnay Mercedes came running into my bedroom crying. My youngest two, Tyler-Morgan and Megan-Storm slept through it ll. I was still shaking when I was watching Kilroy the next morning."

Apparently though, looting, muggings and car crime did carry on as normal.

Nothing to do with the missing disks.

It started much earlier.with identical wording to a US version.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/fraud-attempts.htm

Suspected?

"He suspected it might have been left by a customer at his New York city service station back in 1962,"

Not the sort of thing you forget, surely?

Eh?

http://www.space.com/news/080220-ap-satellite-weather.html

' "We're now into the window," a senior defense official told a news conference minutes after the shuttle landed.

He said it will remain open until Feb. 29 or 30 '

Re Do you think they might use OLED with computers?

Eventually, I expect. Far too expensive at present. It's hard to see them selling many OLED TVs at the present price.

@ Andrew Thomas

"Do you really think they'd have any chance of hitting that?"

I hope not. I for one, don't want us to piss off our new Galactic Overlord.

Re Precedent

Unauthorised access to a computer is certainly illegal. And this was a clearcut example. Did the employer want an ex-employee accessing thier email? Was she entitled to? Of course not.

People have already been convicted for unauthorised access to WiFi systems.

Revised?

These dates must have been on NASA's website for quite a while. I already had them in my PDA.

It's been rumoured for a few months that Atlantis won't be retired this year as planned. I think this is why the 2009 and 2010 manifest is still undecided.

Well since the Child Benefit database has been lost,

what's the point in securing this one?

The coat with the two CDs in the pocket, please.

"as a pilot through our Freeview digital TV service"

Well that excludes 25% of the population then.

Re hmm

You may well get off when the case comes to trial - several months later. Little consolation, I would have thought.

Your house has been searched, you've been questioned by the police, all your computer equipment has been talen away, you've appeared before the magistrates at least once, you've been on bail ever since, and featured in the local paper as a suspected paedo..

Re Waiting for Freesat

So am I, but my patience is rapidly running out.

Various sources say it will launch next month, which Freesat hasn't disputed. But there's no advertising, hardware reviews etc.

'We've been engaged for months'

Oh I see. It's a dowry..

I am one of the blue-eyed overlords

So I'm not related to Paris Hilton.

Couldn't even get it to work on IEthis week.

I missed episode two of Torchwood on TV.

The first time, iPlayer was down for routine maintenance. Then it reported problems playing it for two evenings in succession. Then it was no longer available.

So much for the "unmissible being unmissible"... .

20 years prison time?

Not long enough.