Just this week
I got two mails, one traditional 419 email from a mr. Alien Smith and one claiming I had won a scholarship to the International Space University. Coincidence...?
Posts by JP Strauss
99 posts • joined Friday 2nd November 2007 05:42 GMT
Posted in BOFH: Drunken Time Lord
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Wut?
Posted in Spielberg flung Fox from Transformers 3
RE: any Michael Bay film in fact
LOTR was anything but dumb.
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I know you think you're clever, but using the pound sign (#) at the end of a URL simply means that you are pointing to a named anchor within the HTML page at the particular URL. It is an entirely different example to changing the actual URL.
Posted in Jackson's Hobbit movies back on track
RE: 80%
The movies were 2.5 hours long already. I think Jackson did the best book adaptation ever. Except maybe for Narnia.
Posted in Jackson's Hobbit movies back on track
Why not The Silmarillion
The Hobbit sounds like a reasonable idea to me. But The Silmarillion has so much more potential for epic battles and gorgeous scenery, which was what made the films successful in any case. The Hobbit is more a children's story and the only way I'd go see it is if they gave Tom Bombadil a lot of screen time. <NerdRant>
Gee
Look, if it was your country's prime minister making those statements, it's one thing, but if you are insulted by a group of guys who are PAID to be rude and off-colour, then you should probably just recognise it for what it is.
RE: Lyre Bird
Also read up on the New Zealand Kea. Smartest bird I've ever seen.
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Why would the teacher need to use her own VCR? Doesn't the school have the necessary equipment?
Some more irony, maybe
What I find slightly amusing is that Betamax got canned in favour of the lower quality VHS because the porn industry endorsed Betamax.
Posted in North Korean PDA hits shelves
Patnet lawyers?
I'd pay big money to watch patent lawyers try to persaude North Korea to allow their heads and bodies to catch the same flight home.
Posted in Apple in Brazilian iPad shocker
Why pick a fight with the South Koreans?
...When it would have been much more entertaining for everyone if they picked a fight with their Northern neighbours.
LOLWUT
You sir, are an ignoramus!
Also, I would LOVE to see what your definition of "significant percentage" is.
here's your stupid title
probably because those "scenes of humour" were supposed to be serious.
Posted in Aussie man convicted for Simpsons smut
Quick question
If The Simpsons has been running for around 20 years, and Bart was 10 years old and Lisa 11 at the start of series 1, wouldn't that make them both consenting adults by now, seeing as they are roughly 30 years of age?
Aside from that, I don't know what's worse: being sent to jail for something as stupid as Simpsons Porn, or knowing that there is someone so tight-arsed that they actually decided to turn someone over the police for lewd drawings of said cartoon characters.
I'm surprised no one in Oz has been sent to jail for possessing Hentai... which is curious.
Posted in Chinese stamp on Avatar
yeah
I also find it amusing, especially since the West is itself slowly turning into socialist police states.
Enjoyed most of it
then the natives went all gaya-f@g and I almost threw up. I swear I almost got up and left when they started dancing around the giant tree. Otherwise, I quite enjoyed it (must admit that it was my first 3D movie).
Open up a dimensional rift?
I just hope that whoever survives the resonance cascade will at least have a crowbar and an HEV-mach 1 suit handy, otherwise the inhabitants of Xen will enslave us all.
Posted in Facebook scoffs at hacktivist stunt
Playground antics
This is like finding an empty swing on the playground and claiming you have struck a blow for socialism.
Freudian slip
I read Tyne and Wear as "Wear and Tear".
Was it really about the miniskirt?
In my experience of university, such things usually come about because the lady is known to be of loose morals. The skirt was probably just the final straw?
never would have thought...
... that I'd live to see something this awesome come out of South Africa.
Posted in Windows 7 - The Reg reader review redux
"It;s what Vista should have been"
I'd throw one out there and say that it is what Longhorn should have been.
Posted in Top vendors flunk Vista anti-virus tests
VB100 standard?
I always thought the VB100 standard was a program longer than 100 lines written in VB that would compile.
And me?
I think I'll just wait for the free pirate copies to show up. ('tis a joke, gov'ner)
a title
I work in the multi-channel publishing business and I can tell you from first-hand experience that discrepancies that arise between MSOffice products and OO0, especially those in their XML-based files (.docx, .xlsx, etc) are usually because MSOffice is more fault tolerant than OOo. Whether this is good or bad is up for debate. Personally, I think that working around bugs you have introduced on the first place is EXTREMELY bad practice. A simple example would be MSWord disregarding its own Schema rules when you decide get creative with the layout. OOo Writer then has to try and make sense of something that is not defined in the .docx XSD, and therefore cannot address satisfactorily because it would mean having to deviate from the "standard" yourself.
Posted in Samsung smartphone keyboard takes wing
@AC 02:42 GMT
You DO know of course that PH is an A-cup?
Posted in Hollywood prepares to battle Asteroids
@Freecell: Trapped Ace of Frustration.
I can see Woody Allen directing this one.
Posted in Hollywood prepares to battle Asteroids
Yet they don't make the obvious ones...
...like Half Life, Crysis, Bioshock, Starcraft, etc.
Posted in Porsche bites back at e-car proponents
@adrian sietsma
Are you SURE you want to label the 914 as a sports car?
Posted in Porsche bites back at e-car proponents
@RFC822
Yes, and on the same note, the Church of $cientology is a recognized non-profit organization.
Posted in Microsoft bribes Oz to ditch Firefox
I think I found the $10000!!!!
I visited this one site and it said I was the 100 000 000th user and that I have won $10000!
Nice going
Good job on destroying this woman's life. I'm glad I wasn't granted residence in the US. I have finally realised that they are as far removed from reality as everyone has been saying.
A case could be made...
... for the supplied illustration that if if you selected option (4), you would also be correct, seeing as if you tug too hard on the highlighted appendage, your kidneys are pulled down into this area.
Posted in Boffins build basis for 9TB DVDs
9TB?
Imagine trying to rip a 9TB movie. to your harddrive.
haha
HTML kicks C++'s ass.
Posted in Firefox finds more pesky bugs
I'm getting sick of the MS/everyone else debate
Why don't we just all whip out our penises (penii?) and see who the real men are once and for all?
Posted in Lotus offers to end e-car silent running
I will be one of the first...
...to delve into the internals of this system and replace the WAV file with one containing expletives. The one with the organic hemp C-precompiler woven into the lining.
Pandas aren't all that intelligent...
... just last week I saw one investing a large sum of money in General Motors stock.
Posted in BSA hijacks Somali pirate hype
@Luis Ogando
"Does copying any type of media actually constitute violence?"
only if you use shoddy equipment.
@Dan Paul
[Just watch "Ironman" for an example of what defense contractors are all about.]
With such a firm grasp of reality, it is only natural that you would vote for Obama.
Posted in Sun lands Sparc-Xeon super on Cape Town
Who's going to supply the electricity then?
'nuf said.
Posted in Dominican lad suffers six-day stiffy
RE: IT angle
The man had a Stiffy. Old tech, but still. Shame if it was only 3.5"
Posted in Norway mobilizes against IE 6
@Richard Drysdall
"I don't expect that Internet Explorer Mobile has any significant market share, but unlike it's desktop equivalent, there's simply no upgrade path available."
Opera or Opera Mini are great browsers for mobile phones. So will Minimo be when it finally gets unleashed on the world.
"Unfair business practice"...
... is kinda like when the guy in the cubicle next to your's lets out a silent one just as you have a yawn.
Fire Icon because, well you'd have had to be in the army to appreciate this one.
It's their own fault
Microsoft's #1 problem IMHO is that their operating systems are too user friendly. This is certainly good for sales, but sucks when it comes to security. This is unfortunately necessary because your grandma hasn't the slightest idea what the difference between an OLEDB connection and a recycle bin is. So now they have to find increasingly more intricate ways of keeping script kiddies out of her email, while at the same time allowing her to delete her [win32] folder, if she wishes.
Maybe they should try to imitate Ubuntu a bit more in this regard: you get to do almost anything you want in the realm of casual users, but things you aren't supposed to touch is hidden behind a root password.
I just hope...
...that they don't serve asparagus or beetroot on the ISS. Although mix-a-drink should be compulsory.
Posted in Microsoft prods and probes Office 14
One feature request if I may
Please remove the friggin' ribbon thingy and give me back my main menu.
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