Posts by Secretgeek

This isn't relevant but...

...frankly that never usually stops anyone. I just wanted to say:

'Chad Hurley'?

'Chad'? 'Hurley'?

Could it be a more comedy American name?

I'm getting it...

@AC16:24

I tried explaining something like that to a couple of Jehovah's witnesses once (i was bored), I threw in the 'Religion is something we need to grow out of.' as well. They left confused. I know they were confused as they didn't leave a copy of the Watchtower.

As an aside, how many of these spasers can you fit on the head of a sea monkey?

@ Neil 6

You know, traditionally, Friday afternoon is a time that a lot of people find a sense of humour under their chair from the Friday Feeling Fairy.

Stick your head down there and take a look, you'll never know what you might find.

Astounding!

The appear to be on the verge of something that reflects electromagnetic energy even light! (If they can the it right)

That'd be a mirror then would it?

Has anyone got their number? I better tell them I've got half a dozen of these things in various shapes and sizes around my house. My wife even has a protable one in her purse!

I want one.

Nope, that's it really.

"Offers of suitable kit and supplies are, of course, more than welcome."

There's a piece of A4 in the post.

Lateral thinking?

Of course another use for that Offender Locator app would be to find all your sex pest buddies when you get out of jail.

How very convenient for your friendly neighbourhood rapist.

'Paedos Reunited'?

Flashbacks.

I used SPSS when I was studying Psychology.

2 way Analysis of Variance?

The horror, the horror.

@ Time to go home...

You assume too much. But then that seems to be the problem with pretty much all of your arguments on this subject.

P.S. Oh and just so you know the use of capitals like that is generally considered a bit shouty (not to mention the multiple !'s)

P.P.S. Why am I even bothering to reply? Your comments seem, to me at least, to be so much trolling wrapped up in pretentiousness Damn it, now I've wasted another 30 seconds of my life typing this.

And this is why..

...I've ignored all their 'Oh why aren't you using our online banking?' whining emails for the past year.

I don't really trust them with my normal details let alone online ones.

Bad Barclays! Go to your room!

"...but that is not our mission."

Maybe not your mission but has anyone asked EATR?

Warning.

It was obviously just a warning shot across our interplanetary bows.

Run for the hills under which there is a reinforced concrete bunker with a years worth of food!

Hmm do I go for Aliens icon or just get my coat?

Oversight - Lack of.

I'm sure we're all agreed CP is a bad thing and that restricting access to CP is a good thing.

However, what makes this operation, whichever country it is, a VERY bad thing is the way in which the system is massively open to abuse and indeed appears to encourage a kind of 'as wide as we can get away with' philosophy to censorship.

Nobody with any sense trusts the people that make these decisions, nobody with an ounce of critical analysis ability is going to trust that the people making these decisions won't be following their own narrow-minded, sexually repressed, conservative (deliberate small 'c') agenda and nobody trusts the people making these decisions not to expand their censorship regime to anything else at all that they deem inappropriate. It's already happening and it's only going to get worse.

How long before 'opposing political views' are on the list? Oh, hang on...

P.S. I've depressed myself with this post.

P.P.S. How long before we have to go back to disseminating controversial informatrion by print? At least that way when they kick your door in you'll have given them the trouble of having to move the printing presses themselves (though they'd probably charge you for it).

@James 55

I second that.

And add I'm quite looking forward to the host of nodes stretching from here to Mars enabling effective comms with our new colony. (Ok maybe optimistic but the parts are coming together)

Sometimes, just sometimes you get the small feeling that the future really is just around the corner.

Phorm share price update.

From a share price of 480 to 280 in the space of a day!

Har har de har har har de har de har.... ad infinitum

Don't slate the conspiracy nuts.

The world would be a duller place if they all went 'Oh, look at that, we did walk on the Moon. Wow, I appear to have wasted a siginificant portion of my life. I suppose I ought to get on and get a hobby that's a bit less mental.'

Every loon we lose, is one less person to make us smile (or to laugh at depending on how cruel you're feeling).

Is there anyone out there in the Reg comment wasteland that used to believe the conspiracy theory but now doesn't?

It takes a lot of power...

...to run those Stargates, and it looks like they must have found another one.

Sorry, the icon should probably say 'Bad Joke Alert'.

Hmm.

An unmanned drone that falls anywhere is probably broken I think you'll find.

The man's an idiot quite blatantly.

Victorian values?

I've said it before but why is it deemed perfectly fine to portray murder and violence but some kind of heinous evil to portray kinky sex between two consenting adults?

Is it only me that finds that a deeply unhealthy attitude?

So let's encourage people to be desensitised to violence and to be massively uptight about sexual expression. My feeling is, though INE, is that this isn't just storing up problems for the future but actively encouraging them!

Hello money, meet some ageing rope.

If all it takes to get $30M from DARPA is some arrows pointing at a 'Mr Funnel Head' smiley face I'm going to get my 3 year old nephew to knock a few ideas together!

Outtakes & blooper reel.

This would be the one with the other 3 takes of Neil Armstrong coming down the steps and fluffing his lines? Or maybe the take in which, amusingly, a studio light fell over into shot just as the flag was being planted? Or maybe the one in which some tech cad had placed a large Clanger doll in the background?

I love DARPA.

They don't just want the moon on a stick they want the Sun on a pin head carved by lasers. Gotta love the dreamers. Even if they are dreaming about the next armageddon.

@Michael Nielsen

Australia isn't the only country with that kind of schizophrenia towards sex and violence. Just take a look at the greatest split-personality suffering country of all - America. You can watch someone being dismembered limb by limb much easier than you can see two people having consensual sex.

Anyone but me think that's slightly unhealthy?

As for mainstream TV, Family Guy put it best.

'They will clean up all your talking in a menace such as this

They will make you take a tinkle when you want to take a p*ss

And they'll make you call fellatio a trouser-friendly kiss

It's the plain situation!

There's no negiotiation!

With the fellows at the freakin FCC!'

Burn 'em all.

What's more interesting...

...is the blatant racial(racist) stereotyping in kids movies. Be it a bug, a lion, or (as i watched recently) a happy tapping penguin. Taking the penguin as an example the lead was blatantly 'caucasian' in mannerisms, accent etc and protrayed in penguin chick colouring i.e. a white face, throughout the movie despite the timeline for the movie being so long that a real penguin would have long shed their fluff and developed into the usual black faced penguin. His love interest and most of the other 'good' penguins of his type (stereotyped 'Mexican' penguins aside) had the adult colouring and were protrayed as stereotypically 'black' in their accent and mannerisms.

Again, Simba taken alone would be probably be classed as 'white' by an observer shown only his performance. A white African (excluding white South Africans obviously)? Come on Disney, Pixar etc etc is it really that dangerous to have a 'black' character as the lead?

Ccan someone name one animated movie character that is black and has the lead role?

You could of course go into the underlying messages used by most of mainstream cinema i.e. black characters when not the lead usually being the tech expert or mechanic also frequently being disabled in some way, but this is particularly concerning because it's being fed to the most impressionable. (Won't somebody think of the children?!)

Fluidity.

I quite like the thought of random wobbliness to my photos it would add a surrealist touch to my world.

The only thing I want.

Is for a return to the original ethos of plug-and-play (and-unplug) and not what we have at the moment of plug-and-play then arse-about-stopping-the-device-waiting-a-bit-for-Windows-to-do-it's-thing-and-tell-you-it's-stopped-and-THEN-unplug.

It's not a lot to ask is it?

What's been missed...

....off the spec is the requirement to have the system mounted on a surveillance cockroach with full audio and video feed.

Mines the one being held by the fifth element.

@ scheming

"...your mind may be taking that time to address more important questions in your life, such as advancing your career or personal relationships."

What? My mind is a woman?

Regarding the crew photo.

I'm not entirely convinced all this technological hoo-ha to reach Hubble is even necessary, I mean look at that photo, you could reach it with a decent step ladder surely?

Alright, alright, I'm getting it.

I got as far as....

...'All Your Base Pairs Are Belong To Us.'

And I figured nothing else in these comments is going to beat that. Thanks MnM

Question.

Do they have any ads that aren't 'Premium'?

Is any service they deliver not 'Quality'?

Or 'Essential'?

A flood of shit presented as a bath of gold.

Well...

..I was planning on adding something constructive, possibly witty to this ongoing 'debate' (slaughter may be a more accurate word).

Instead I'd just like to say hurrah to all those that responded to the goading (intentional or not) of Phorm and it's stooges in an empassioned, reasoned, well thought out and logical manner (MInionZero I'm looking at you for one). It's easy for us, me included, to descend into 'frothing at the mouth incoherent white faced' rage at what Phorm is trying to accomplish and there's a need for folks such as yourselves to retain some semblance of sanity amidst the lunacy that emerges from both sides of this argument.

As for the frothing at the mouth anti-phormites, the ones that can't manage more than a sentence without resorting to all caps, numerous expletives, spelling mistakes and multiple exclamation marks.

We love you too.

In fact, the only people that around here that really won't be feeling the love are THE BUNCH OF LOWER THAN A SNAKES BALLS, BLACK HEARTED CUNTS THAT ARE PHORM!

I mean really, if a measure of a man is the friends he keeps then the fact that this seemingly morally vacant, soulless, worm of a man has joined with Phorm says it all.

Arrr, I be a privacy pirate too!

@ amanfromMars

'Or is politics different and you don't have to abide by your promises at all, but just be prepared to make up ideas on an ad hoc daily basis with your friends and lobbying advisors?'

The answer quite clearly is 'Yes', unfortunately.

FSM, that's depressing.

...'through the back door.'

Snigger.

I'm so childish.