Posts by Gianni Straniero
282 posts • joined Tuesday 13th November 2007 17:41 GMT
Clowns
Reading the comments here reminds me why I stopped reading The Register. You are a bunch of blinkered, bloody-minded, knee-jerk, off-with-their-heads man-boys, the lot of you.
Seriously, how is "they are handling stolen goods, therefore they deserve to be shamed, internationally" a nuanced, adult response to this story?
Feel free to downvote this comment into oblivion.
(without realising that the more of you do so, the better, frankly)
Posted in Hubble finds fifth moon orbiting Pluto
Re: You go to Pluto
"Shouldn't Pluto be @ the other side of the red circle?"
No. Since this is an Olympic year, you will forgive the athletic analogy. Think of Pluto as the hammer-thrower, and Charon as the hammer.
Got it?
Posted in DNS hijack hits The Register: All well
If only it were that simple
Quite a few ISPs seem to ignore TTLs that are set below their preferences. 1800 seconds (30 mins) seems to be a practical lower bound.
Posted in Sweden rolls out invisible infrared tank
Instead...
... just look for the vast cloud of dust the machine has kicked up
Mobile?
Doesn't look very "mobile optimised" to me. Try http://m.countdown.tfl.gov.uk/
P.S. Can't believe no-one else has used the "Stop" icon. I mean, if ever...
Early warning
If you want to see how much warning you would have got between the p- and s- waves in Tokyo, 376 kms from the epicentre of the 8.9 quake in March, look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU1bYspMyQw
It's not much, but it might save your life.
As with everything in earthquakes, the further you are from the epicentre the better, on the whole.
Signor-Lipps
Gould discusses the phenomenon that informs this work -- the Signor-Lipps effect -- in his essay "Dinosaurs in the haystack":
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_dinosaurs-haystack.html
OK, I'll bite
برقع
Re: Actually, the ignition source.....
I, er, floated that idea on these pages a while back. Went down like a lead balloon, so to speak
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/268166
Posted in Dam Busters dog dubbed 'Digger'
Barking up the wrong tree
They're remaking a film which celebrates a mission of questionable strategic significance that killed upwards of 1500 civilians, and we're still arguing about the dog's name?
Posted in Movie-goer punts 3D-to-2D cinema specs
Obligatory Amazon review
See here:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R37R1H6IZ656LF/
Look on the bright side
His estate need not fork out for a funeral.
Live feed
I am impressed that Verizon's network can support live streaming from a PVR. Would be nice to get that kind of HSUPA bandwidth in London.
Posted in Air cooled data centres are hot!
HVDC FTW
How much of that heat is generated by the AC > DC > AC > DC conversion typical in a UPS-backed data centre?
Re: Join the dots, buddy
"How many shoulder-launched SAMs do they use to take out the current range of helicopters"
I don't know. That's why I asked. Care to enlighten me?
Choppers
Our lack of helicopter lift is frequently cited as a contributing factor to our casualties in Afghanistan.
But if Our Brave Boys are in big, fat Chinooks, won't the Taliban switch from IEDs to shoulder-launched SAMs instead, as the Mujahideen did when they gave the Soviet Union a thrashing?
Or do they lack a Charlie Wilson-style benefactor to supply such kit?
Posted in Amazon buys Lovefilm
this reminds me
Just remembered something else. I gave a friend one of those vouchers that gives one £30 off a LoveFilm subscription.
He said: "What the hell is a Love Film? Is that some kind of porno?"
"No, no," said I. "It's love FILM, not LOVE film".
Funny how you can subvert a brand's meaning simply by changing the stress on each word.
Posted in Amazon buys Lovefilm
Improve members' experience across Europe
By, for example, settling their dispute with Universal?
Posted in Burglars snort dead dad's ashes
Plus ca change
Happened in the UK in 2000:
http://humorpix.com/pictures/Coked-up_thieves_snort_dead_dogs_ashes
And way back in 1934, in Bellingham, WA:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8RhkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FXsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4679,3744686
Posted in Angry Birds to catapult onto TV
Bindun
... by the Israeli TV show 'Eretz Nehederet'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMltvlqEM54
Don't shoot the messenger. I'm not promoting either side of the conflict.
Posted in Ace Reg reporter in career suicide shock
Good night, and good luck
Congratulations on your new role. I might take the occasional copy of the Torygraph now...
Posted in Italian bloke sneezes out .22 bullet
.22
The weapon of choice for camorristi, because, instead of exiting the head, the round rattles around inside the skull, turning the brains to sanguinaccio. Or so I have heard.
"Nostalgic recall"
Hmm. Getting a boner while remembering Mom's pumpkin pie is probably not something Freud would have classed as "nostalgia".
The reference to a "Pavlovian response" reminds me of something else. Certain newsagents have started giving away family-size Dairy Milk bars with newspapers. I now salivate every time I see a copy of The Daily Telegraph. Most inconvenient.
Playmonaut
I do so hope the fine chaps at Ferdowsi U have Playmobil worms and turtles at their disposal.
I, for one,
look forward to the forthcoming series "when Lewis met Louis".
Get set
"I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space"
Posted in Great white sharks menace Blighty
... wrong
> 1) Great whites had been seen basking in the Med
Great whites and basking sharks are different species, silly.
Posted in Great white sharks menace Blighty
FFS
Does anyone seriously find the shark-laser combo funny anymore?
Re: Stranger than fiction
Surreal:
Call 3113 Noises from empty property. It is believed property is being removed. Officers attend. Nobody seen. #gmp24
I stand corrected
Half a dozen
wait for it...
Cue dozens of trolls, none of whom comment on any other articles, complaining that Lewis has recommended US-made kit once again.
1.1-1.7 g
"Thus its surface gravity would be anywhere from 1.1 to 1.7 g ... quite feasible for humans to walk about in"
Speak for yourself, fitness freak. Most of your readership has enough trouble struggling to the vending machine in 1g conditions.
Mine's a Kaliber
My favourite Brewdog beer name is "Nanny State", which weighs in at a puny 1.1% ABV.
http://www.brewdog.com/blog-article.php?id=153
Dunno what it tastes like, though.
Re: Well
The Oven Pride controversy is by no means an isolated phenomenon. A huge number of TV adverts in the UK have the recurring stereotype of "idiot Dad", who fucks up the DIY, knocks over the telly, or puts red knickers in the wash with the whites. Cue pubescent daughter rolling her eyes skyward, and Mum shaking her head ruefully, yet indulgently. "Silly old Dad," they think.
Today, the 40-something white middle class male is the only demographic you can get away with belittling on TV. I feel for them, I really do, because as a group, 40-something white middle class men are among the least privileged members of our society.
Nandos
I thought the ad was in mildly poor taste, not because of any supposed sexism, but because it implies that anyone with an amusing Mediterranean accent is some kind of moustachioed lothario who does little else but grope women, or daydream about doing so. Same with that "Juan Sheet" bullshit advert for kitchen paper. But hey, it's probably just me, and I didn't run screaming to the ASA...
P.S. I love the "some of my best friends are women" comments in here. You're all so full of shit.
I am a humourless bastard...
"... the bookies had [the Netherlands] at considerably longer odds than Spain, Brazil, Argentina and England (you wot?)."
The odds offered for England were not just an expression of the probability of their victory, but a hedge against massive losses should they do the unthinkable and win.
Posted in iRobot Roomba 581 robot cleaner
And I thought my flat was a mess
Rope, bubble wrap, cement, and Lord only knows what crap appears in the photos of your office. You, Sir, live like a beast. I salute you.
Just you wait ...
... until they get a flying submarine.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727671.000
Ah...
Hadn't spotted that. And the "two fingered salute" didn't have a footnote when I read the article.
yeah, but no, but yeah
Not wanting to piss on your fireworks or anything, Lester, but the image flip-flopping might have more to do with the comments on Peston's blog than your excellent, timely coverage of this saga.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/06/bbc_removes_gold_plate_from_pe.html#P97766479
Posted in Meryl Streep to tackle Margaret Thatcher
Casting
Benicio del Toro as Pinochet? I reckon not. Philipe Noiret would have been a shoo-in for the role, had he not preceded the dictator to the grave by a fortnight or so. A nice irony too, given Noiret played Neruda in Il Postino.
Don't call me Shirley
"If they naturally interbreed and produce fertile offspring..."
Look up "Species problem" with your search engine of choice.
Also, this is good for biodiversity, no? We have mallards, we have Pacific black ducks, and now we have the unholy offspring of their matrimony.
Why, Lord, why?
I don't understand why there is a spike in traffic during games. Well, I do, but I don't get the point. Every idiot in the world saying "Wow! Spain 0 - 1 Switzerland!!!" seems completely pointless. Any of your "followers" who gives a shit will already know.
Posted in Hayabusa in fiery return to Earth
Not so epic as all that
At least the sample return capsule landed OK, unlike Genesis, which stacked itself into Terra Firma at terminal velocity:
http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/gm2/multimedia/videos/mpg/live_entry_impact.mpg
"Negative drogue, negative chute"
SPLAT
RE: facts...
Correct. Stingrays are not venomous, in the same way that crocodiles are not reptiles, and Steve Irwin is not dead.
Re: And man followed?
"Anthropologists have often wondered how man travelled between the various lands"
... but remain resolutely silent on how woman got there.
Re: Seriously
You are Mark Zuckerberg, and I claim my five pounds.
Posted in Cops back in on BT/Phorm case
"They perceived no criminal intent by the two firms"
actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, whether we like it or not.
