Tat bazaar?

Every article you write that mentions eBay calls it a "tat bazaar". The items I sell are in first class condition, not "tat".

Perhaps this is a "lazy hack news dump"?

I would expect...

I would expect this to be as unusable as the stupid unseaworthy barge Jobs designed, the good ship Venus.

The other one you forgot.

Nascom. The one you had to build from a kit. I started with a Nascom 1, put it in a big rack frame, and extended, and extended. Upgraded to a Nascom 2, extended some more. I'd go on, but nobody these days knows why a Pluto card was amazing...

Even an OND in Nautical Science is enough...

Even an OND in Nautical Science is enough for me to be able to see what is wrong with this. The bows with their vertical sides will offer almost no resistance to any pitching motion, so in any sort of choppy weather the silly thing is going to pitch like crazy. The deck has no sheer, so the bows are going to dig in when that pitching starts, resulting in tons of water on deck. The decks have no camber, so the water will not flow off as quickly as you might wish. It will probably still be there when the next wave arrives. There's about 10,000 horsepower of engines, so any attempt to do the 60 knots it's supposedly capable of will most likely cause a very good impression of a submarine.

Still, if you like things that look like that and are a billionaire who thinks alternative medicine will save you...

The main use of swearing...

... is to enable inadequate stand-up comedians to fill twenty minutes with five minutes' worth of material.

Savages.

I don't drink beer out of the bottle. Ι know how to operate a glass.

Not a frying pan

Any fule kno that is not a frying pan. They look like this http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?q=frying+pan

Whereas, the magnifying glass looks like this http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?q=magnifying+glass

Why should I get out more, when I have all this Lego to play with?

I hate wowsers.

If Dog had meant us to be naked, we would be born that way.

Trowbridge support was good.

This is a stupid move. Like several above, I have nothing but praise for the techies in Trowbridge, but am unable to understand a word the people on another continent say. "May I speak to your supervisor, please?" repeated until they gave in, proved to be the only way to get anything useful from them. The supervisor has a Wiltshire accent, and fixes things in seconds.

Another alternative...

Another alternative would have been the Securicor Datatrak unit, that worked off ground based radio signals. When I was one of the people working on it, there was some concern that this new-fangled GPS thing was much more accurate, and would corner the market. A quick Google search appears to show that they cleverly gave up that technology and adopted GPS instead.

The real reason bail was refused...

...according to some news site or other I carelessly forgot the name of,

"Gemma Lindfield, appearing for the Swedish authorities, successfully opposed bail being granted because there was a risk he would fail to surrender – and also for his own protection, she said. She outlined five reasons why there was a risk: his "nomadic" lifestyle, reports that he intended to seek asylum in Switzerland, access to money from donors, his network of international contacts and his Australian nationality."

All crimmoes, those Australians.

Now the beefening of virty cloud firewalls can begin

Copper-Conk Cassidy from Dangermouse, I believe...

ZX81

Differs from Jug Ears, as it won't talk to trees.

I prefer better English

"It is early days but..." says the editor.

Shurely (© Private Eye), she should say "These are early days..." or perhaps "This is an early day..."?

Another old one

What's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?

You only have to punch the rhythm into a drum machine once.

Tat?

Some of us sell high quality things on eBay. Stop calling it "tat", you lazy HACK.

Fortunate...

...that he could flash his camera at exactly the time the webcam took a picture.

Nothing to do with me...

I just want to point out that this Doctor Dark energy is nothing to do with my website at www.doctor-dark.co.uk so I get a gratuitous link plug...

Easy-ish.

I grabbed the page, cut out the Captcha picture, which says "Google acquires reCaptcha", saved it in OneNote, and asked OneNote to read the text from it.

"Goog2eAçqufrsreCAfTCRA" was what it saw. Took me about a minute. I would imagine most hacky types could do better easily.

Not very effective, is it?

Star Wars?

Just a rubbish remake of Kurosawa's excellent "Hidden Fortress". Quite good to watch when there's nothing else on, though...

Gosh, fascist dictatorships are nasty.

We must make sure we don't get one here. Oh, hang on...