Posts by Someone Else
458 posts • joined Wednesday 9th December 2009 19:03 GMT
Good Luck, mates!
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Go, Go, Go, GO!!
Re: Arizona laws requiring immigrants to carry documents at all times
The same one that downvoted you, I wot...
Re: Arizona laws requiring immigrants to carry documents at all times
Is that true.
Short answer: Yes...kinda.
Longer answer: Yes, the xenophobic (to put it mildly) Governess of AZ, pandering to an even more xenophobic, racist base, decided to score a few points w/ said base by creating a "Papers, please" law that stated that anyone looking too "immigrant" could be stopped by authorities at any time for no reason other than looking too immigrant (read: Hispanic), and be made to show proof of citizenship or the right to be in the country legally. This law was largely (but not completely) shot down by the US Supreme Court; the only remaining part of the law still to be decided was whether the law would tend to single out a specific group (read again: Hispanics) for undue scrutiny vis-a-vis other immigrant groups (read: Caucasian immigrants, like Irish, Germans, Hungarians, Brits, Aussies, etc.). So, people can still be pulled over and make to produce their papers, please, but the chilling effect of the SCOTUS scrutiny makes it unlikely that the law will be widely implemented; because if it is, and someone can come up with a reasonable set of statistics that Hispanics are being singled out more often the other immigrant groups (and there are groups gearing up to do just that), SCOTUS will kill the last remnant of the law still left standing. And that xenophobic, racist base I mentioned earlier would rather have the law there even if unenforceable (sorta like the old "blue laws"), than have it summarily ruled unconstitutional.
Re: Unit of data
I'll give it a whirl. Based on the BBC's assertion that this was roughly the cost of downloading 15,000 music tracks, I propose the KiloBoogie, (kBg) or the overall cost of downloading 1000 70's disco tracks. So this poor blighter would have incurred 15 kBg (with all the associated brain damage that doing such a thing could inflict).
"Sophisticated"....
"A digital forensics investigation by TerraCom has revealed that the news service used sophisticated computer techniques and non-public information to view and download the personal information of applicants,"
For these TerraCom yutzes, I guess a Google search constitutes a "sophisticated computer technique".
Re: Hard G, Mr Wilhite (what sort of name is that anyway?)
They must work for the Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
And if yer from Wisconsin,
...it's "Cheese Is Christ".
Could it be that...
...after all these years of poking fun, that Emmet "Doc" Brown was right?
Tumblr's DOOMED (more so than they think...)
On this side of the pond, where no corporate entity ever met a lawsuit they didn't like, we may now be submitted to the spectacle of Tumblr being sued by a peanut-butter company.
Oh, comma, great...
Now we can all have the wonderful experience of being walked through that same useless call center script at 14-gazillion megaflops. I can't hardly not wait!
There's this church in Kansas...
[...] it has told punters that the same-sex marriage was a bug
Now, where have I head that before...?
(Damn...lost my medallion again. This having to work is really cutting into my forum posting time!)
Re: Same difference
I live in a country with terrible radio stations [...].
You live near Chicago, then?
It's clear...
Those two judges are positioning themselves for a Supreme Court nomination, when/if the Republicans ever get control of the White House again
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Re: So, I can lose my medallion (as I apparently have)?
Maybe, on the "My Posts" page, you could also list the number of posts in the "last 12 months".
Posted in Badges for Commentards
So, I can lose my medallion (as I apparently have)?
Wow...that seems a bit draconian.
So what constitutes the "Last 12 months"? Is it 12 months from the current day, the current month, or the current year? If I happen to just get back int he Reg beancounters' good graces, will it re-appear later in a given day?
Re: Let's take Business Categories for $400
Bingo!
To quote the old joke...
"You gonna die!"
Re: Geopolitical toddler
Actually, in spite of all appearances to the contrary, it is likely Nomnomnom can spell 'potato'
@Kristian: Re: Poor results?
That would be 'soccer', yes?
(/me ducks and head for cover where I can count up the downvotes...)
@Sparticus: Re: Maybe HTC could focus on
Or, in this case, you can lead a horse's ass to water, but you can't make him think.
There. Fixed it for you.
I need new glasses
I read the title as "Yelling at mopes while driving just as bad as texting." Which may be true, but for different reasons.
More bullshit from the Scheissmeisters
[...]because the tech bosses say there just aren't enough STEM-qualified Americans to fill the tech sector's roles.
Should read:
[...]because the tech bosses say there just aren't enough STEM-qualified Americans to fill the tech sector's roles at the third-world wages the "tech bosses" are willing to pay.
There, fixed it for you.
Re: Maybe not so bad...maybe?
My guess is that they want to use this registration as a stepping stone for legally harassing any manufacturer who dares to use the word 'mini' in their products.
Kotex is in trouble, then....
Engaging BS filter....
Consider the following:
Forrester principal analyst John Brand says you need to do so because "Our relationship with technology is evolving rapidly - largely as a result of the technology becoming much smarter with a greater focus on location and context to create compelling user experiences."XP can't deliver those experiences, he says, and "organisations now need to act swiftly to ensure they can implement a platform for enterprise computing able to support their business and users’ needs well into the coming decade.
Now engaging the BS filter, we get:
Blah, blah, blah, blah...fap, fap, fap...Gad, I do hope my MSFT futures position pays off after this piece is published...blah blah, blah...ssssssssssssssssssssssss....
Re: richard.cartledge@snc.ac.uk
Especially considering that Navajo is a non-written language.
Re: "it's judicial bullying and overreach"
That pretty much sums up America in the eyes of much of America, as well.
Love it, love it, LOVE IT!!
An attorney identifying himself as Ernest K Malley, who spoke to The Register on condition of anonymity, [...]
If only other reputable agents of the press would write lines like this.
@ Anon Coward -- 28th March 2013 18:11Re: Are you sure it's Photoshop?
Post of the week!
<-- Here...Have one on me
I'm gobsmacked (which is really hard for someone on this side of the pond)
Lemme get this straight:
- A judge
- in Texas
- hearing a patent case
- based on US patent law
- used his head, and
- did the right thing
???
Wow! Just plain wow!
I definitely need a beer!
Posted in Windows Phone 8 support to end in 2014
Marketdroid drivel
It's also notifying the world of its intentions with admirably ample amounts of time to prepare for the upgrade.
...whether you want to, or not.
There fixed it for ya....
"Older that Nitrogen..."
Hadn't heard that one before. /me likes...can I use it?
Re: Do no evil (tm)
...unless we can get away with it.
There, fixed that for ya.
Love it, love it, LOVE IT!!
Meanwhile, the hard disk rumbles ominously under the strain of fat, juicy .NET components dropping ploppily into vast expanses of RAM, like ambiguously sauced and -sourced meat products being poured into the strata of a low-budget, lasagne-style ping meal.
Note that's the way to start a Tuesday! Nicely done!
Posted in Amazon yanks SimCity download from store
Who cares if the fix the damn servers?
That you have to have an internet connection to play the damn game in the fist place takes it off my "to have" list permanently.
Epic Fail, EA (and why am I not surprised?)
Oooooh
It's deja vu all over again.
Re: Do I understand this?
he admitted that he had not "done any analysis"
He's also a Republican. There's a tautology in there somewhere.
Re: Wrong, but not ridiculous?
The Right Hon. Representative may be wrong [...]
Love it!
Re: Shaking head....
Disown him?!? Hell, they'll run him for Senate next, then for Vice President...er, wait....
@ 'chap and Measurer -- Re: GPIB?!?! AHHHHHHHH!!!!
Ah, yes GPIB...My first truly embedded work was to implement a GPIB transponder using...wait for it...an Intel 8748 (second only to the RCA Cosmac as sporting the absolute worst instructions set even embedded into silicon).
Re: Most excellent
Mmmmmm...detcord....
Dear One Million Moms,
Get
A
Life!
Sincerely,
The rest of the world
@Ken Hagan -- Re: insurance claims
You simply make it illegal to set an insurance premium (or refuse insurance) on the basis of medical information about the applicant.
Ken, you've seen how well that's working out on the West side of the pond, haven't you? How is it you can assume that it will work out any better on the other side?
A side-scrolling overlay advert?
Whazzat?
@boltar -- Re: I don't mind being compared by age...
Oooooh...name calling!
How quaint.
The end will be nigh...
When the Cubs win the World Series.
(I expect Linux to have taken over the desktop long before then...)
Sent from my iPhone (which still works)...
You're turning in on wrong....
"Specialisms"?!?
"Specialisms" is the new "Synergies"....
Really?!?
People are competing on, and innovating based on, the technology in rendering engines?!? And we consumers are basing our browser choice on that technology innovation?!?
I must be living in the wrong universe. (Which, of course, begs the metaphysical question: How is this post getting rendered in your universe, Mr. Scrote?)
Re: Imagine
"Since you're watching Vixens from Space perhaps you'd be interested in this, from our sponsor Astroglide..."
