Posts by Bonce

I'm curious to know

How paper tape and punch cards made it into the "magnetic media afterlife"

/pedant

And this benefits consumers... how?

It doesn't does it.

"Leverage"

Enough said.

And so...

The cyberpunk era is truly with us.

The Player Of Games

by Iain M Banks. I think that would translate into a good movie.

Can't think of anything I'd like to see less

I bet Simon Pegg bit his fist on hearing of this 3D rehash.

send messages to the past or future

Any fool can send messages to the future. The time capsule I created in my childhood, encouraged by Blue Peter should still be under the pond in the garden of my parents old house, awaiting discovery.

Sending messages back in time though... good skills. Lottery numbers please, future me!

Maybe I'm lazy

But my eyes feel tired just thinking about this!

Awesome!

He's also just f*cked all his future employment prospects.

Call my cynical

But how long before it gets nicked?

Ooh! A present from Auntie Stacey

How exciting!

*unwraps*

Hmmm, a dead puppy with ten dollars stuffed in its collar. Thanks Auntie Stacey.

Cathy Cruz Marrero

Has also f*cked her insurance claim for damage to her mobile phone.

If...

If I were a grower, I'd set up a barn full of guinea pigs and heaters, wait for the inevitable bust and apology, insist my details were kept on the police database as a guinea pig lover, and then start growing!

Pornography

I'm not sure if I admire or pity the kind of chap who would phone a data recovery company to save his pornography collection from a dead hard drive.

Permanent double vision can't be much fun

But I bet he heels better with $650k in his pocket

Sad...

...but not for the right reasons.

title

At the end of the day, surely it's going to be the software that makes or breaks *any*pad

Or instead of a computer and camera

...you could use your eyes. Obvious research alert!

I've noticed some fairly obvious patterns on my screen so this research comes as no surprise. I treat the lock pattern merely as something to slow somebody down for long enough for me to send a lock and erase message to my phone via WaveSecure.

Nice

...but will it blend?

So you're saying

That during product development, nobody saw this coming!?

Don't believe it for a moment.

Efficiency board

"Under the new regime no new websites will be allowed except by the special permission of an efficiency board run by the Cabinet Office and the Treasury."

Hmmm, I wonder how much the efficiency board will cost to operate once the expense account is taken into account. My guess is around £30k per website they approve.

Fancy case with venting over the circuit board

Why cover the circuit board with that vented box? Wouldn't it be better to leave the board open?

My guess is that if you were to remove the cover you'd see an embarrassingly empty board with a couple of tiny chips on it. I suppose they need it to look cool in a gaming rig.

El Reg Merchandise

Was any of it seen on the show?

Save fuel by saving weight in your car

Go to the toilet before travelling and do not attach this numpty device to your windscreen.