Too big to run

I remember coming across the code in a computer magazine and laboriously typing it all in only to find 8K was insufficient memory to store it and execute it. Had to do some modifying to reduce the size so there was enough memory left to allow execution - Aahh the joyful teenage days in front of a monochrome display, tape drive & keyboard built in - all hooked into a primitive processor with less capacity or capability than today's digital watches...

Big Empty

With the great big empty that is most of the inland of this wonderful island, we should seriously be looking at launch capabilities surely?

Name of a Pub?

Perhaps they have found the oldest pub with a cute name, not an actual lair of unicorns?

Job Titles

When signing up I found it a little odd that the available choices for "Job Title" did not include Systems/Network Administrator... Surely there are a number of other BOFH's besides me, who read this fine site regularly?

Users get what they want?

Since when does this happen? In the spirit of true BOFH's everywhere users will continue to accept what they are given, and say thank-you-very-much for the pleasure.

Have they tried

So has Mountain View had a go at Booble.com <search engine for smut if you didn't know>

Hmm could it be

Sophisticated

Korean or

Yemeni

Naval

Enemy

Tracking

Being a pedant

It's not 'Southern Australia', tis South Australia. Yes I know we have "Western Australia" and the "Northern Territory" but the bit in the middle at the bottom is definitely just plain old South Australia.

Oh and in regard to the article I must agree with Stef4 - Let's have a real world test of these technologies - Major city, peak hour, foul weather etc etc ....

Who do you prefer

Given that fundamentalist Christians have a known propensity for telling everyone how to live and what to believe - I'd much rather have the neo-pagans running the show, at least they mind their own bloody business where my lifestyle choices are concerned.

Vote 1 - Australian Sex Party.

Politically Incorrect Solution

Ripley had the right idea: Take off and nuke 'em form orbit, just to be sure.

Happy Birthday(ish)

Amazing isn't it, just a few weeks in and the first Denial of Service via buffer overload occurs, no wonder we are still plagued by such things (-;

Finding El Reg

@ All those complaining about finding our beloved El Reg in the FF location bar: just make it your home page, as I have. Then it automagically loads when FF starts and is only ever a single click on the 'Home' icon to get back to it :-) Simple really.

And I must agree with other commenters - If you're surfing pr0n - then FFS!! clear your history/urls/cookies etc when you finish your session. Shhesh how hard is it.?

Luxury I say!

You should try living down under. We dream of speeds approaching the lower end of the US figures. And our beloved leaders want to filter the slow trickle we get - sheesh!

Herding Drugs

Maybe that was meant to be hoarding drugs...

El Reg Standard Units

That must surely be in reg std units - thus it is an impressive 6.5-7 Wales

He's just a very naughty boy

Just one little wedge and they get their foot in the door. Then they start to show what they really intended in the first place - About time this issue just died a natural death, Australian Adults DO NOT need censoring, and kids should be controlled by their parents not the gubberrmint.

PS. Stephen Conroy is NOT *the* senator *for* Victoria, he is (apart from being a total wanker) just a senator from Victoria.

Good Thing That!

Well it seems to me that Google has done something right. The first thing we did when MS introduced desktop search was to disable it on all machines AS IT IS A RESOURCE HOG!! If MS had a decent search utility that didn't require 100% CPU for extended periods to do it's job then maybe people would use it?

Alternately if L'users weren't as thick as two short planks and actually stored stuff in logical places then there would never need to be a 'search' function. But I know that's not going to happen, even IT people aren't always that sensible with their files.

Love It - Happy Birthday Darling

What a lovely old girl she is.

I remember spending hours writing COBOL programs by hand on paper! How many of these young whipper snapper script kiddies have ever bothered to hand write a program first? This is boring and time consuming I know, but it does allow one to do an old-school technique called 'desk checking' - A vital step in getting code to compile and run first time without bugs. (Yes it can be done, I've done it!!)

Long Live COBOL - I hope she is still around in another 50 years continuing to prove that the likes of Java, C++/C#, Perl, Python and all these other new fangled, fly-by-night, pseudo languages are just passing fads.

-- Now if you'll just pass me my walking frame and coat I'll be off.

Which Wallaby

So how did you manage to steal one of our players from the ARU*? And if this were a Sarth Efrican story would be giving away springboks?

I think is just a clever ploy to undermine our great Rugby team and give your own hapless team a chance of winning... (yeah, yeah I know you won a World Cup a few years back, but hey we have to let win sometimes).

*Australian Rugby Union - for those non-believers who don't know squat about the game they play in heaven.

@out of curiosity

The Aussie flag has the large white seven pointed star-of-federation under the Union Jack. Obviously the Kiwis don't have, nor would they want, this on their flag. This represents the original seven states and territories that constituted Australia (NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, NT & TAS. ) Why the ACT is missing no one knows or cares, but that's probably because it didn't exist at the time of federation.

Also the Stars of the southern cross (both flags have all five) on the Aussie flag are white, while the Kiwis have red stars with a white trim.

Missing the Point!

We antipodeans are happy here knowing you lot are a very loooong way away, well a day at least. We don't want you just ninety minutes of 'hurl-and-roll scare granny witless' flight away.

Rugby

All Blacks - Pah! Watch the Wallabies in full flight that'll get you better value for your 3D experience.

Then again even the All Blacks could beat the pommies.

Silly filters

There are some less obvious blockings by filters too, such as looking for the website for the local RSL Club in Pittwater, took the IT team ages to work out why the filter thought that particular site was unacceptable. We eventually realised that anything in Pittwater could not be looked up all because some TWAT decided to put in a filter.

At Last!

It's not like we haven't been waiting long enough for this! Sheesh, half the target audience weren't even born when the original came out.

PS. I'd forgotten how cool a light cycle is, now I WANT ONE all over again...

MILF

Has a nice ring to it, and the conotations can leave the mind a wandering...