Hope

If AOL can fall, Microsoft and Google can too. There's hope for us yet!

SneakerNET

SneakerNET is the newest form of peer to peer file sharing mixed with a liberal dash of social networking! With it, you can use our innovative new file sharing protocol (cattle class) to find a file you want, physically transport yourself to the location of the hoster, and burn a CD of the file straight from his copy! (Airline tickets will not be provided, you must purchase them yourself.)

Pricing

"The Valuestar W range is only available in Japan at the moment, where the 19in model retails for about ¥210,00 (£903/€1388/$1819) and the 22in model for ¥340,000 (£1464/€2168/$946)."

Either you typoed, or no one in the US will buy the 19 inch model, because the 22 inch is half price?

Re: Connexion

Fair enough, I should check dictionary.com before flaming next time. But my first point still stands!

Network breaches

I have a great tool for stopping my network from being breached. A fire axe just this side of the demarc point.

In other news, are we supposed to take them seriously when they don't know how to spell connection?

@S

Because any halfway decent hacker doesn't use his own machine to originate attacks, you'd be taking down innocents left and right. It's like gunning down a large group of protesters just because their leader (who's sitting at home watching TV) once threw a rock at you.

@The Invading Martian.

An Officer, a Gentleman and a man from mars walk into a bar. The bartender calls INS on the illegal alien, and the Officer and Gentleman wake up passed out in the gutter the next morning.

Ok, ok, so I can't tell a good joke...

Chris Purcell is a n00b!

I play the Google card to prove it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.theregister.co.uk+Chris+Purcell

Re: Adverts

Yes it is, and its adverts that pay for the bandwidth of the sites you view, if everyone used adblock, I wonder how much smaller the internet would be.

Finally! Someone else with sense. I don't block ads specifically because I realize that without ads, the sites I'm viewing (which I obviously WANT to view) wouldn't exist, since I'm too cheap to pay them to see the content. Hell, occasionally I even find something useful in the ads.

Graphic

Even when blown up, I still can't find the 32 nm part! If you look near the lower left corner though, you can see a slightly offcolor pixel where the unicorn's invisibility failed.

Anonymous

Nay, it is I, the true anonymous! So, which button do I click to go anonymous?

@ the author

You know, you're exhibiting a trait that will be selected against in journalism. Although the article was quite interesting, the comments are more interesting. You would have expended far less energy (and had more time at the pub) if you had just said "Evolution, debate." Watching fanatics debate (on both sides. Personally, I take a more apathetic stance. "It happened, who cares why? Where'd I leave that website I'm supposed to be designing...") is great Friday fun, thanks :).

iPhone comments

I agree with a few of the posters above. I just skip the iPhone articles themselves, and move straight into the comments. It's more fun than I used to have reading the flame wars in IRC channels.

re: Bacteria can't see...

And you're right, they can't hoover a room, but they can clean up oil spills. But is it cheating if they just do it because they're hungry?

missing episodes

See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/22/register_tariff/

I wonder if authors get discounted rates?

Jogging?

Go for a jog, it changes tracks with each step.

Trip while walking around the office, shuffle your carefully crafted playlist.

Thank you, but I already have enough trouble with my laptop (you know, the kind you turn upside down and shake to reboot).

Tinfoil hats

You know what'd be really evil? Just publish a study showing that tinfoil hats cause cancer. I'd love to see them scurrying for a new radio wave blocker. Or better yet, just say that alien mind reading rays PREVENT cancer.

Title

And... it cut off my comment. I was just saying i was using XP sp 1, it was ugly, but it worked. All the comment was in the text box, and i didn't click preview (idiot) just post. I guess I lied, it's ugly AND it DOESN'T work. $firefox++

Ugly

Ok, I tried it, Win XP

IT connection

Simple, all her "fans" are actually just a giant botnet she hired to make her look popular.

Re: John Bishop's comment

I'd like to nominate John's comment for the Best of Comments feature they've got now. In perpetuity. (John, that means forever.)

Ignorant brits!

I'm a yank and even *I* knew that Skynet 5 is just the next iteration of your current military communication system!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6645987.stm

But, still, I welcome our new overlords!

Re: Clive

Am I the only one who thought that Clive's comment was intended to be funny?

RE: Roy Etter

I figured it was an Elisa program myself...