Nevermore?
Posts by Ralph B
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Ravens' secret sign code probed
Facebook IPO said to set value at $100bn
Second US Navy robot stealth bomber takes flight
Randy plods plundered police records just to get a date
@JohnMurray: Nonsense!
Of course you can apply for your own CRB check:
- http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Startinganewjob/DG_195811
@The other down-voters: My bad for daring to suggest that the Police might have more of a need to check the background of potential partners than the rest of us. Obviously I was wrong. I guess when everything is on Facebook such checks will be unnecessary anyhow.
Rock and a Hard Place
I imagine it is likely that a copper would also get sacked if their partner or housemate turned out to be a criminal. So, some method of them doing background checks would seem reasonable. I suppose they could ask their potential partners/housemates to apply for their own CRB checks, but it'd hardly be a great start to a trusting relationship, eh?
Online store offers secondhand MP3 marketplace
SHARKS tempted by BIKINI CLAD Thanksgiving BABES
Huge PDP-11 in a lorry: How I drove computers into schools
Larger Kindle Fire coming soon, say moles
I wonder if this will even get published... ?
Of course it'll get published. This is The Reg. Only directly criticising Orlowski will get your comment pulled here.
I too get a wee bit irritated by the constant rumour and speculation about shiny new toys. But we know why it's done: It's because people thinking about buying product X want to know if they should wait for product Y to come on the market, either because Y is better, or X will then drop in price.
Naturally it would be better still to just settle for X now, if it's good enough for your needs, or take a long hard look at your life style and realise that X, Y and even Z are irrelevant distractions of the consumer age and you'd be better off just reading a good book.
But that's not going to happen, is it?
Microsoft tempts Kinect developers with bacon
Robot ostrich spy outpaces world’s fastest sprinters
Unexpected Expectations
"computer simulations show no reason why is should not exceed expectations."
Regrettably, they cannot expect it to exceed expectations at the moment, they can only expect it to meet expectations. That's what expectations are. Later, of course, when it is all over, they may look back and realise that it did indeed exceed expectations. That'll be nice for them then. But not now. It's just too soon for that now.
Unless they have a time machine.
Swearing fine quashed as teens have heard it all before
Swearing *at* officers?
As far as I can see, he never even swore *at* the officers. He merely swore in their presence. Swearing *at* would have been something like "Fuck you, you racist fucking pigs!" rather than the mere colouring of his own language that is reported - i.e. "Fuck this man, I ain't been smoking nothing."; "Told you wouldn't find fuck all." and "No, I've already fucking told you."
Pakistan bans rude text messages
IBM reveals secrets of Watson’s Jeopardy triumph
@Ian Michael Gumby
Jeopardy's USP is the A&Q format: The contestants have to find a "question" that matches the "answer" given by the quizmaster i.e. "5,280" ==> "How many feet in a mile?" Note that the question here is correctly formed for the answer.
Now, "Its largest airport was named for a World War II hero; its second largest, for a World War II battle" =/=> "What is Chicago?" The question is NOT formed correctly for the answer. That is what Destroy All Monsters is "going on about".
When asked "What is Chicago?" no-one _could_ ever give that answer. To match the question's form that answer would have to be something like "A city whose largest airport was named for a World War II hero; whose second largest, for a World War II battle".
Visa's amazing answer to e-wallet domination: A new logo
Sony HMZ-T1 3D head mounted display
Nokia exec confirms 2012 Windows 8 tablet release
'Hands free' pissing contest games installed in boozer
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Lego movie greenlighted by Warner Bros
Mystery radioisotopes in Czech air are not from Fukushima
A Message to the Friends of Sellafield
While you're downvoting me here, maybe you should also making some "corrections" here:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Radiological_releases
It currently reads: "Between 1950 and 2000 there have been 21 serious incidents or accidents involving some off-site radiological releases that merited a rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale, one at level 5, five at level 4 and fifteen at level 3. Additionally during the 1950s and 1960s there were protracted periods of known, deliberate, discharges to the atmosphere of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particulates.[42] These frequent incidents, together with the large 2005 Thorp plant leak which was not detected for nine months, have led some to doubt the effectiveness of the managerial processes and safety culture on the site over the years."
Sony Walkman NWZ-A866
This Old Git
This old git misses having user-replaceable batteries. Preferably standard AAs. I know they might make the device a bit clunkier and heavy, a bit less chic, but surely I'm not the only one who sees the advantage of being able to just plug in new cells in the back-of-beyond and just carry on listening? Don't people go on long bus journeys now? Don't they go trekking in Nepal? I think they must, because you can still buy cameras with user-replaceable batteries, so why not digital audio players? WTF?
Electric car crash leads to battery blaze
Double Whammy
> And the fire broke out more than three weeks after the prang.
So, the scenario as I see it is: You've been made redundant; the bank forecloses on your mortgage; you're evicted; you start living in your car; someone crashes into your car; three weeks later your car catches fire.
Bad times indeed.
More advice here:
- http://www.wikihow.com/Live-in-Your-Car
Hitachi, LG admit fixing disc drive prices
Anonymous runs amock in Israel, Finland, Portugal
Re: Re: Odd
No, it can't be a browser thing, coz I've tried it in Opera, IE, Chrome and Firefox. I get the same set in each browser: none, thumb_up, thumb_down, stop, go, wtf, fail, happy, meh, unhappy, angel, devil, flame, mushroom, megaphone, trollface, facepalm, holmes, headmaster, paris_hilton, coat, joke, pint, coffee_keyboard, alert, black_helicopters, boffin, pirate, alien, terminator, big_brother, childcatcher, linux, gimp, windows, it_angle.
(Extracted that lot from the page source!)
No Guy Fawkes.
Compact Disc death foretold for 2012
Kids! You get back in front of that Xbox right now
Minnow Android slab maker BEATS Apple in court
BlackBerry nicks iPhone's UK smartphone crown
Native Gmail app coming to iPhone, iPad?
Two iPads put a hole through man's wallet stomach
Motorola to launch 8in Xoom 2 for Xmas
Top GCHQ spook warns of 'disturbing' levels of cyber-raids
Google+ opens up to enterprises and apps
Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes first commercial flight
Sony and Ericsson divorce
Nokia's Brave New World is (almost) Finn-free
Apple shouldn't bother with TV...
I know you're joking but ...
It really would be nice to have a remote control without 50+ tiny buttons on it. The current Apple TV remote has just a 5-way, a menu button and a play button. That's it. And it does everything you need and more.
The TV-equipment industry really missed out on their usability classes.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Android smartphone
Apple flat-screen TV rumor rises yet again
Yeah, right.
> 'It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices"
But only all your _Apple_ devices, I'll bet. The chances of it supporting the playback of media from SMB shares and DLNA/UPnP servers, etc. will be slim-to-none.
That's anyway my experience with the current AppleTV box. Thankfully I have a WD TV Live and a Popcorn Hour (on different TVs!) to do the useful stuff.