Posts by blackworx

With apologies for crashing this comment thread so late in the day...

James Martin seems to have provoked an unholy turdspurt of half-baked opinion from a great many idiot motorists and cyclists alike.

Simple fact is there are a lot of bad motorists and a lot of bad cyclists - with the latter instigating the greater percentage of truly idiotic behavour IME.

I am one of the "lycra clad spider man" brigade - have been since I was 12 - and it saddens me to see the way most inner-city cyclists behave. They have no idea the amount of animosity they generate with their total lack of skill, knowledge and consideration. They behave like children in a stunt park and lose their temper instantly with motorists (who may or may not be of the idiotic kind) over the slightest imagined transgression; then they go home and get on the internets and spout some ill-informed shite that just shows them up for the idiots they are.

This, as much as his being one of the "I own the road" wanker variety of motorist , is where James Martin's outburst came from.

To those cyclists who have been venting their spleen over this without even thinking: Ignore the arsehole motorists for one second, take a step back, look at your own behaviour and ask yourself "is there anything I can do to make this situation better?" before spouting your hypocritical vitriol.

And to arsehole "get out of my fucking way you twat" motorists: I sincerely hope you're wringing every last drop of joy out of driving your death wagon in 21st century Britain, I really do.

Inspired

But can we have a little bit of Demis Roussos?

@ Michael C

You clearly care a little too much about this.

The earlier commenter comparing Apple to Audi was spot on. Nice products, shame about the users.

@GadgetOCD

Well said

Uncle Sam

"These machines are not good at number crunching, but they are great at database searches - the kind that Uncle Sam likes to do."

Single scariest sentence I've read today.

@AC 09:38

Gee, d'you think?

@adnim, AC 15:05

If you were politicians and came away with that you'd have been torn to pieces by now, and the sad thing is that the majority of the people doing the tearing would agree wholeheartedly with you in private.

Common sense on the "paedo" issue = political suicide.

Murray Head

Now I've got One Night in Bangkok stuck on a loop. Not such a bad thing considering it was the Balamory theme tune beforehand.

Ministry

Now I've got Jesus Built My Hotrod stuck in my head. Nice.

Party pack

They forgot the skin bleach

Orphan Title, Property of Google

Google is overstepping the mark and I find myself thinking it's no bad thing thing that at least someone is briefing against them. MS may be a big bad competition-squashing monster, but it never had nearly as many tentacles as Google. Nor did it ever try so hard to make itself out to be so bloody nice all the time.

And what's with all the comments about the Reg being gratuitously anti-MS/pro-Google? Have any of you actually seen the amount of negative coverage Google is getting around here?! And every Google article has a comments page filled to the gunwales with pseudo-rabid Google apologists. WTFF?

@ Jake

"Probably the only worse example are the cyclists (gas/petrol powered & people powered) who pay lots of money for the "privilege" of advertising for the multinational, billion dollar provider of their conveyance of choice."

Cyclist here. Wut? Is this some particulary fanboi-ish brand you're talking about? Or have I just answered my own question? Are you talking about KTM?

@Freetard

And you walk around everywhere with your eyes closed.

Hardly surprising

Virgin seem to be overwhelmed by quite a lot these days. Three outages in as many months for me, and when it does work it's dead slow to stop. I pay for 20meg but only rarely see more than 4 and I'm not a heavy user.

Halifax

I use them and have worried about keyloggers, especially when I actually found one on my gf's laptop which I regularly use to do online banking. Needless to say a quick username and password change - from my own machine - was in order. The facility to change username as well as password is quite reassuring for me, but for Joe Bloggs who doesn't even know he has a keylogger that's admittedly no use.

I'd take issue with the report's other points about Halifax though. They *do* have visible security when you're setting up a transfer, but not when you're actually using a transfer you've previously set up, which seems reasonable to me. Plus when you're setting up an international transfer they use a callback system which is so uptight I ended up having my online service blocked three times for suspected fraud when trying to set up a simple wire transfer for $100.

nice, but...

could cope with the dinky screen and lack of 3G but what's with the manky fleshtones all over the case? looks like it hyperspaced here from 1978. where it used to be a microwave.

we need a fugly icon please el reg. i know we have paris but some people might, er, argue the toss.

Racist comments

Racism?! From 4chan?! Surely you jest.

@ Ed Blackshaw

That was Frankie Boyle, but regardless, it sums Mandelson up perfectly.

Shockeroonie

GASP! Students in "refusing to buy overpriced stuff" shocker!

@amanfromearth - ditto

You sound like Mary Whitehouse

Whoosh

This kind of stuff

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My head

Twatdangle

That is all

3.6L V6

Ok I know that's economical for "them", and especially for a monstrosity like that, but what's the betting they've still only barely managed to wring three figures of horsepower out of it?

If it wasn't so tragic I'd be laughing.

@Citizen Kaned

ZOMG SRSLY?! NEVER?! You must be the good luck charm of the internets.

Don't think I've ever sat in front of a browser which HASN'T been sunk by Flash at one time or another.

@ David W

You want one of these - featured on El Reg a few years back

Aye

A lot of the films in the top 100 are the sort of fluff I watch when there's no real sci-fi on. They're like what early DS9 is to late TNG -- one of them is sci-fi while the other is just a soap opera which happens to be set in space.

Agree re: Total Recall . That film doesn't have a wasted moment anywhere. Every single second contributes to the story; for that it is an all-time classic, never mind just a sci-fi classic.

I say again though: why no Hardware?? ...... This is what you want... This is what you get... This is what you want... This is what you get...

@ Sir Adam-All

Sherriff = judge (Scottish Court Service)

Wow

@ Joefish & AC 16:13

You're both the sort of talent Hollywood wants to eat. Brilliant.

And am I the only one who thinks

that photo of Jupiter looks like a jaundiced fat man's navel?

Alliteration Much?

#E.L. Wisty voice# ... Ah Lewis, always apt to address all with your absolute abundance of artful alliteration.

Either...

...it's too early on a Sunday morning or my brain isn't functioning, but I found this article practically unreadable. I understood it fine, but it felt like the whole thing had been written by smashing up some words and numbers with a rubber mallet.

False names

When it comes to working the "system" of getting a subscriber line you generally have to go through some sort of credit checking process. Obviously it's far from impossible to game that system, but it takes planning, is a lot of hassle, and generally requires you to either stick with one name for long enough to build up a record, and/or get your false name on the electoral roll; both of which basically mean you end up with what is to all intents and purposes a static identity - the very thing you're trying to avoid by using an assumed name in the first place. As other posters have said, any halfwit with enough of an incentive to find you could do so quite easily.

FFS

So many untrue assumptions, not least of which is that the iPhone is "revolutionary". Newsflash Apple: your little widget is not revolutionary; it just does established things with established hardware in a slightly flashier, more self-conscious way than the competition.

Pisshead journos

"The first bottles were cracked open at a special event at its Dufftown distillery on Monday. Funnily enough, news of the uncorking only made it into the press this morning, suggesting it really hit the mark with the hacks at the event."

Brilliant

Conroy

"If the trial shows it cannot be done without slowing the internet down, then we will not do it."

*SHOCKEROONIE!*

But surely the Safety of the Children (TM) is more important than the speeds of the interwebs?!

What a stupid twat.

@AC11:38

Bollocks.

Sony gets marked down because it's proprietary non-standard crap which should be flushed down the bog the first chance you get. Of all the Sony players I've heard - phones and dedicated media players - the sound quality is at best tolerable and at worst piss poor. Cowon deserve the credit for making such quality, usable, standards-conforming, decent-sounding gear and producing frequent, worthwhile firmware updates. There's a whole community around manufacturers like Cowon, iRiver, Archos etc. Anyone who owns a Sony is pretty much on their own and with good reason - nobody with half a brain is ever likely to buy one, much less come up with cool stuff for it.

PS: The word you are looking for is "disparate".

The Times

"The Times didn't have to point out what piss means - presumably Times readers know piss when they see it."

Brilliant - works on SO many levels!

VM

Last time I had a decent ISP was Pipex before they went hell for leather to fatten themselves up prior to the Tiscali buyout.

Currently with VM's 20MB and it is a pile of wank. I have the bad fortune to live in what their field engineers refer to as a "black" area (i.e. one populated by people who spend their entire time on Skype to their grannies in Poland and never pay their fucking bills) which means no investment in capacity and no FTTC. Plus, as previous posters have said, you get a decent speed (sometimes) until you actually decide to use it. Pish.

@Hugh Pym

"I think this guy has proved himself to be one of the few people worthy to be an MP."

Catch 22. Reminds me of the Billy Connolly quip:

"I think, roughly, the desire to be a politician, should ban you for life from ever being one. "