Rational people can't explain anything to morons, AC

.xxx is a bad idea for the adult industry because if they were forced to use it, any and all ISPs could instantly block all porn sites from their customers. They are upset with it for precisely the same reason Jews and homosexuals were upset when the Nazis forced them to wear yellow stars and pink triangles.

"If Apple were evil, the product owners would complain"

Yes, and Scientology can't possibly be evil because Scientologists don't complain about it constantly. It's all people who have never been part of the brainwashing cult and have no intention ever to be part of it, plus a few ex-Scientologists, who are giving the magical and revolutionary Church of L Ron Hubbard a bad name.

He wouldn't get a penny

Because Android at least already has wireless syncing built in. The market for the iPhone app only exists because iOS is a shabby piece of crap.

A most impressive feat

Using two mobiles simultaneously AND sticking two fingers up at everyone at the same time? A man who is capable of that is perfectly capable of controlling a car without using his hands.

Pedantically speaking...

... a cock is a phallus whenever it's long enough to dangle, hard or soft. You're propagating a phallusy.

"No more Viagra spam"

You have plans to dip your wang in acid and fill the holes with saline solution, then?

Beats me...

It's not a good analogy, though, as Cnut ordered the tide to go out as a demonstration to his lords that there were limits to man's power. The Tories have no such delusions of realism.

You forgot to add...

"Posted from my iPhone"

Hi, Affordable Graham!

You seem to have got it back to front. This person isn't saying that BDSMers often abuse kids. He's saying that child molesters often enjoy BDSM as well. It's like how when you say that murders are often committed with guns, it is not the same as saying gun owners are all murderers.

"Why shouldn't he just go get a job?"

Because sometimes the job just isn't there. Employers pass you over for the jobs you're not qualified for because they can find someone who is; they pass you over for the jobs you're overqualified for because "you'll only move onto something better as soon as it appears". After a while your skills get out of date and you can't even get the jobs you're trained for any more. Eventually, employers start passing you over because you've been unemployed for a long time and so there *must* be something wrong with you, or you'd have found a job by now.

Unemployment is a trap, and it can be very hard to escape. Every time I see some clueless fuckwit holding forth that "unemployed people could get jobs if they really wanted" I feel an overpowering urge to pick up a shotgun and create a vacancy, because these people are the same kind of people who *do* think "I won't employ him, he's been unemployed so he must be lazy".

@AC 11:21

Try reading the post, moron. The poster works. Their friend who is lodging with them is on benefits.

A quote so famous...

... you may even have heard of it before cutting and pasting it from the BBC website, who mentioned it yesterday in the day's most popular news article.

No, actually it doesn't

Preparing for the worst does not mean that the worst is going to happen. It just means that if it does, you're covered and hence do not have to come to El Reg forums to pule and whine about your terrible experiences.

"Copy of the iPhone 4"

Or as non-fanbois like to describe it: a different phone with bigger screen, more memory, faster processor, and greater room for customisation.

I doubt it

You really don't want to be waving placards for hours when you have arthritis or the rheumatizz.

No, they want the prototypes

How will Apple be able to sue Samsung because their next-gen phones copy the look and feel of the iPhone 5, if they don't know what Samsung's copies look like before they design it?

Clearly some people have not read the article

The same doofus predicted the Rapture would happen in 1994. People still believed him this time, and in numbers just as great.

True...

... but Spam is also a registered trademark, and the name is also an abbreviation of what it is: "SPiced hAM".

And also ...

... Apple introduced the term produced by putting the word "app" next to "le", and most Apple users accepted it as a term for the company!

"Apart from"?

If you start getting spam to an e-mail address that you've only used with one company, you should be splatting that company as well. Either their security sucks, putting your personal data at risk, or they've sold your addy to spammers.

Welcome to the 21st Century

If you're waiting for a time when TVs won't be superseded by the next generation in six months, you will never buy a TV again. Just buy one you think is really good and use it for three years or more, like everyone who doesn't feel the urge to condemn rapid technological development as a bad thing.

No, two questions.

Can you read?

Because this question has been answered twice already in the comments.

Huge?

Good grief, man, how small are your hands? Because mine ain't big by any means, and my SGS2 rests comfortably in my hand with my thumb on the top left corner and my little finger at bottom right (I'm a leftie).

To the previous poster who was asking if the phone can be rooted - yes, it was successfully rooted within a week of release.

(Paris, because she seems to have trouble keeping HD video recording devices in her hands too.)

No, just to think they have spotted another

I never said I've never done anything stupid. I just said I've never done anything so stupid and dangerous that anyone with two functioning brain cells could tell it was a bad idea.

I must have forgotten

Because I don't recall ever doing anything monumentally stupid and dangerous when I was 20 (unless you count asking out my best female friend, which even in the worst case was unlikely to be fatal).

It doesn't take a fool to spot a fool.

You fail, and so do they

Last time I looked, all sorbet was made of ice water and glucose (AKA sugar) and therefore is vegetarian by definition.

"Your claim to patent BREATHING is rejected"

MAD Magazine in 1971, IIRC.

Well, actually it could...

... but only because Crossley is a lone shitbag.

Permission is granted to go Tonto on him anyway, though.

Danger Room?

Though it used to be a large empty room containing a variety of spiky death bits that the X-Men had to avoid, at some point the Danger Room became a holodeck-equivalent. Unfortunately I can't provide an exact cite of when, but I think it also predated ST:TNG (if not Yamato).

Gold and silver VHS

The gold and silver VHS Star Wars boxes weren't any kind of attempt to rip off the public. The gold box contained the original versions and the silver box contained the Special Editions. Of course if you wanted both you had to buy both, but it's not like they forced a double-dip on anyone (see: Rings, Lord of the).

Also, Lucasfilm cannot be blamed for the punny URL. The assemble fandom have unofficially been celebrating Star Wars Day on May the Fourth for a good few years now.

And not a stainless steel one

Though it does appear someone has read The Stainless Steel Rat For President. Julio Zapilote couldn't have rigged a vote better.

Tesco sell iPhones

So, yes, Tesco can prove it.

Samsung slavishly copying Apple technology...

... like the iPhone's ARM processor, a licensed technology that Apple had nothing to do with the design of and which Samsung manufacture for them.

Oh, wait.

US collector's edition is what you seek

It contains 3DBD, BD, BD of Tron, and a DVD extras disc. May be hard to find now, but the US also has a separate BD release of Tron and it's very high quality. And like all Disney BDs so far, it's not region locked.

Non-IT?

How is someone posting a fake article to the Indy's website lacking in an IT angle? Do you also think that World War II suffered from not having Germans involved?

Yes it does

The first movie ends with Flynn exposing Dillinger and becoming CEO of Encom. The second movie exposites that afterwards, Flynn returned to experimenting with the Grid and eventually got stuck in there when Sam was 8 or so. There is no unexplained story gap.

That'll be the 2D

3D version is £18 - I already looked.

Online sites that pop up and go away...

... like Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars? Those sites have both been in operation for better than five years if memory serves. Curse these shady fly-by-night operations.

Wood?

No reason to get that excited ... it's just a girl in a bra.

"Fraud" should be a hint

Say I have the name, address and SSN of John P, aged 16. I go to Bank X that asks for name, address and SSN to confirm identity and input their details, but in the date of birth slot I put a date that matches my apparent age. The bank checks the name, address and SSN and finds they are valid, so it stops there and does not check the DOB. I spend a couple of months paying fixed sums into the account from my company to give the appearance of receiving a regular wage, then I go to the credit card company armed with evidence that I'm John P and I'm old enough to have a card. They run a check, find a clean history, and give me the card. I then withdraw all the money I've put into the John P account, run up a stack of charges on the card and flee.

Of course, if you try following those steps to the letter you'll be caught and jailed because there are loads of things I'm not mentioning - but then the aim is not to turn El Reg into The Fraudsters Handbook. This is just a basic explanation of how it might be done.

If you think the acting was OTT...

... you've missed the point. Tony Montana is meant to be OTT. He's a poor Cuban kid who has never seen money, never seen power wielded responsibly. Suddenly he can do whatever he wants, and he goes mad with it. That's the plot.

It's not the best movie ever, but it's not awful.

Yes...

... it is indeed the bank that told you off for utilising a service you're not eligible to use. You probably also use the disabled toilets at train stations to save 20p, and sit in the seats on buses reserved for the elderly to avoid climbing unnecessary stairs.

Indeed

Now, if only he can manage ten minutes he'll be set.

I never understood why people want the body of a Greek god

Imean, if the statues are to be believed, the body of a Greek god is marble white with a tiny dick.

Beats me...

... Mary's been dead for years.

Yeah, yeah, yeah ... on my way already.