Posts by It wasnt me

higher end handsets?

Sorry, that site looks shit on my HTC Touch Pro. It would look o.k on a pikey handset, but for anything with decent res just use the main site, its much nicer.

Oh good.

BT are haemorrhaging customers at 250,000 in 3 months. I dont suppose you can blame that on a recession. I've not met anyone yet who's saving pennies by cutting the broadband. So presumably customers are voting against their asshole tactics (phorm, that wireless shit) with their feet. Long may it continue.

BT - still at the top of my list of companies that I would just love to see go under. Virgin (as NTL) used to occupy the number 2 slot (number2 / NTL, how appropriate..), but now they look like they may break BT I wish them all the best.

BT / phom, FOAD.

Keeping up appearances

So the enemy have all these really nify IED type things, and now we want them too? Crikey, who'd have thought?

Done and dusted

Oh well thats ok then, Sting is here to save the day. Thank fuck for that, for a moment I thought we were going to have to rely on Bono QC or Saint Geldof to save the day. What is it with rock stars and political meddling?

On the other hand, he might still be fscked, as Marillion are weighing in. Hardly live aid is it?

@AC 05:33

"It *is* a Jesus phone"

Er - it cant walk on water now can it ?

Seems to me its more of a turd phone making a pilgrimmage to its birthplace.

@James 13:50 GMT

I can - Hazel Blears. More annoying, more useless and even more of a party line puppet.

@David Neil

Your back papyments wouldnt even make a small dent in your share of the national debt.

P.S. When you finally get get your independence, and I hope you do, please can you take back the one eyed moron?

Is this what the human race has come to?

We deserve our fate.

The human race really is a waste of oxygen.

This makes me feel bad.

Im going to console myself with the fact that they are probably American.

Leaders of the free world, trying to copyright farting.

@D

Wow, that brought a tear to my eye. You need to get this into wider circulation. You could really make a difference. You really are a ray of hope to us europeans, who just thought the americans liked spending money on lawyers to find out who owns a fart.

wtf?

"Apostrophe Protection Society" - do these people have nothing better to do

From the abolish the question mark society.

@luther blisset

Worry not, evolution is already having a go at that one. According to my brother in law, who is a surgeon specialising in male genitalia, there are well documented of men being born with 5 of them. Id look up the term, but "5 pe**ses" is not something I want to google at work.

@raving angry loony

new keyboard please

Good for NZ

NZ law is very different to here. In that common sense is allowed. We have to define every last possible avanue in micro detail in our legislation, as if we dont the lawyers will find a way out.

In NZ there is no compensation culture, and it has led to a much more practical legal system.

Common sense has a place there. To all kiwis: I would defend your legal system as long as you can. We followed the merkins, and its shit, expensive, ludicrous, orwellian and the only people who are better off are the lawyers and the political elite.

@Darling Petunia

Not just the USPS. Its happened in the UK, France and other euro entities.

The govenments have been selling off the profitable parts of mail delivery (parcels and large stuff) and the rest it cant sell. The arseholes have missed the entire point of a universal postal service, which the victorians did so well. The point is that the profitable parts sunsidize the not so profitable parts so that everyone gets the same service at the same price. Its not socialism, its just sensible. Competition is great in many markets, but it will NEVER EVER be more efficient to send 2 vans to every door instead of 1. Same goes for water and the bloody trains. Either re-nationalise, abolish or accept that subsidies are needed.

P.S. I am not a socialist.

@Steve Roper

Yep, Ill have some of whatever youre taking please.

Good old aussies

Wasnt it them that first popularised (or not) the old 'budgie smuggler' swimming shorts.

This is a step to far.

Check your yources

Its the same bunch of people who normally slate wikipedia now on here using it as a single source to validate the UK space industry. Can wiki morph into the oracle when required?

@DT Why waste taxpayers money creating jobs in a high tech industry when we can waste it paying people to have children and not work?You bloody lefty.

P.S. Just use linux, dont buy jesus phone etc. etc.

Great

Well done America. That is a fine example of a healthy democracy, when a leader acknowledges that gummint is there to serve the people.

If only.....

The problem in the UK is that none of the parties sees themselves as out servants. And none of them are accountable. No election is going to change that. Its really a case of democracy is dead. We get a vote, but all the parties stand for the same thing.

Sad really, but Im happy for the merkins for once.

Is the world full of muppets?

Its a good idea for god's sake.

Why so many gimps moaing that "kids will put batteries in the real toaster dontcha know. So irresponsible."?

How about the following: Dont keep it in the kitchen by the real toaster. If your kid is so thick, then put the real toaster out of reach, or just let darwinian evolution take its course.

Asshats.

All very impressive....

.... unless thats one of those mutant Asian ladybirds.

We need to be told.

I read this on the beeb......

...... adn thought there were a whole load of unanswered questions. Not to worry, I thought, ill wait till the reg covers the story properly.

Where is it then? Youve just listed the whole thing from beeb. Come on reg, do your jobs. What were they supposed to save it in? Why do they need more lessons to catch up? Why werent they just batch re-saved?

Is there even a story here?

You used to be better than this. Whats the point in the reg if its just reprinting uninformed trripe off the beeb, especially on a story that actually has an IT angle.

@Dennis

Presumably practicalities is the answer to your question. Most of the design work for Exomars is being done in Stevenage, and theres a lot of space expertise in Portsmouth and Uni of Surrey. Other than that, theres not a lot left in the U.K. So if you're going to build it in Cheshire, you might as well build it in say Paris or Frankfurt. Theres not a lot of room for sentimentality here, you need the emplyees, and I for one wont be moving to Manchester for any money.

Im up for Harwell though, if anyones reading !

Genius

I think for me "Excited about the price comparison space" is probably the clincher. If someone can get excited enough about that to invest money, they're an idiot.

Kelkoo (and other s(h)ites like it) are nothing more than a visual annoyance returned as part of google searches. Which Is why anything from it is filtered. If you removed Kelkoo and the rest of those sites from google searches the world would be a better place. Or at least only show theire results when they can determine Im shopping. Most of the time im looking for reviews or tech info and theyre like a yapping dog saying "buy from me !!!!". Good riddance, hope you go bust.

Tossers

Now obviously facebook is a load of tosh and the the internet (world?) would be a better place without it, but these a-holes look like they're suing becacuse facebook are using a database. Why do merkins like giving so much moolah to lawyers? Can I sue these morons cos they've copied my "evolving out of the pond" or "breathing oxygen" patent ?

@A J Stiles

Did the steam start venting form your ears before you reached the end of the article? Ill explain.

It said that USB drives were a necessity, what with networks and email being unavailable in theatre. To get rid of them would be an encumbrance.

Why not get rid of bullets as well, they keep killing people ?

@Sureo

"Considering the difficulty of maintenance, it might have been a good idea to design this Solar Alpha Rotary Joint to not need a periodic lube job."

They did. Their design failed. And since banter is no loger allowed here due to the bra-burners getting tetchy, ill get back on script: I expect it was designed by a man. More women in engineering please.

@ almost everyone

Errr... I think y'all got the wrong site. Why not nip over to hys and spEak You're Branes?

Mobe in car bad, yes. But keep it in perspective will you? The rant above is worse than the daily mail.

The real question is ....

Why is Cade Metz from San Francisco reporting on this ? Its a UK rag with a UK angle in the UK.

Surely the merkin journo's have got other stuff to cover this week?

Nothing against Cade, just seems a bit strange?

Hands up if youre a trainspotter.

Well done el reg.

It'll be in the daily mail tomorrow, and the next day the BBC will be suspended, clarkson will be flogged by middle england, and BT will come to a standstill under the weight of billions of furious nobodies seething with rage complaining to everyone. Yet none of them will have watched the program, as celebrity fatso lipo-reduction diaries (Series 3) was probably on the other side.

And the rest of us who thought it was funny will lose out.

Great.

@pete

Why........... ?

Why...........?

Is it the daily mail thats making you angry about light pollution? Did russel brand sleep with it?

Why be so negative?

I live in the middle of Southampton with a street light outside my house. Last years perseids were great, this shower has already been awesome. You can regularly see the ISS with the naked eye. Go outside on ANY clear night and youll see 10s of satellites, and more than likely the odd shoorting star.

No, theyre not going to build any telescopes here and I cant see quite as well as hubble, but its really great the night sky.

Heres an idea, go outside on the 5th (leave the daily mail inside) clear all angry thoughts, wipe the tears of persecution from your eyes and gaze at the night sky. If the streetlight makes you angry then perhaps its not for you.

But maybe leave the rest of us to enjoy it ? These articles help us to know when to look, and really arent a cause for moaning.

@AC 13:11

"And can anyone explain why this sort of space junk isn't propelled in the direction of The Sun"

You're new to this gravity and orbit thing arent you?

A sodding great rocket burns hundreds of tonnes of fuel and it just gets into low earth orbit.

Yet some dude on the the end of a robot arm is supposed to throw it into the sun?

Can someone explain why we dont launch satellites by throwing them really hard into the sky? If we did it at night then you can see space so it should work.

tl; dr

Title says it all

Errr

If I own it and I cant sell it then its worthless right? And clearly I do own it cos im spending $2k on acquiring it.

Now, theres another reason not to get a Motorola phone. As if the fact that theyre shit wasnt enough.

Ummm....

Surely there should be some biological controls on importing animal skins ?

Wow....

Have I stepped into the wrong room. Is this the carriage for grumpy old men ?

@david

The whole world cant club together to feed the poor or even stop filling the air with crap. Theyre hardly going to put millenia of conflict behind then to piss Icann off are they?

Are you a troll?

@dave

That there be sense youre talking !

Im not a londoner, but it seems to me Oyster is brilliant. Incrementally fixing the problems has to be far cheaper than implementing a new system every time some managment nutjob gets the painters in.

486 computer ?

Presumably this isnt the intel i486, launched in 1989?

I very mush doublt if that would have made it onto hubble (launched in a very different waqy just a year later in 1990).

Thats not the sort of development cycle or part heritage that NASA (or any other space agency) would normally fly with.

Err...

Is Dawkins involved in this ? Or that nutter from Reading with the RFID forearm?

Im confused

Instinct says we shouldnt bail out this mess. Self interest says we should. Its us who will suffer.

What I dont understand is why we cant bail out the markets, subject to some conditions.

1>. The people at the top of these companies need to be held accountable. They must walk away from the mess as penniless as their customers.

2>. The people at the top of these companies must never, ever work in a position of responsibility again. Im not sure Id even like them handling cash in McDonalds.

3>. Im not sure i'mm qualified to comment on short selling, but nake short selling seems mad. How can anyone be allowed to bet someone elses money selling something they dont have and cant borrow. Its worse than heroin junkies at the pawn shop.

4>. ALL bank deposits must be guaranteed. I dont care how you arrange it. IT IS NOT THE BANKS MONEY. By depositing in an account, YOU agree to LEND the bank YOUR MONEY at an agreed rate. THEY MUST guarantee to give it back.

5>. Fat cat bonusses. What a pile of crap. Hold them in covenant for an entire economic cycle. If they really perform they will still get their bonusses. If not, then get stuffed.

6>. Finally, the markets probably have enough regulation. As with the rest of the country though, its useless without enforcement.