Re: FUD
Okay, stop it now.
It's turning into a Two Ronnies sketch.
Posts by Imsimil Berati-Lahn
221 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Oct 2010
Tor is '90 per cent of the net' claims City of London Police Commish – and he's dead wrong
Everyone can and should learn to code? RUBBISH, says Torvalds
Tuesday 10th June 2014 09:32 GMT
Re: @AC101 @stu4
"Learning Latin teaches you Latin. that's it."
Learning Latin instills linguistic reasoning, induction and deduction. It teaches the phonetic, grammatical and syntactical building blocks of five other majority languages spoken worldwide. It develops ones ability to communicate and understand by using language.
Some of those for whom it seems important believe that everyone should be made to learn it.
However, it is not everybody's forte.
It should be available to learn, but not compulsory.
Facial recognition tech convicts man in Chicago robbery case
Still watching DVDs? You're a planet-killing carbon hog!
Thursday 29th May 2014 12:24 GMT
Re: Worth checking the source
Thanks for the working link.
My opinion is that the study has some flawed assumptions.
1) People will exclusively use EITHER physical media, OR streamed media.
2) Physical media will only be watched once.
3) Physical media devices use more energy than streaming ones.
Generally, none of these assumptions will be true.
And also the study is incomplete for not including the retained downloaded electronic media model.
Also those kind of figures are like a fart in a hurricane compared with food production energy usage.
The Internet of Things helps insurance firms reward, punish
Real, hovering SPEEDER BIKE can be YOURS for cheaper than a house
Monday 19th May 2014 12:38 GMT
Re: "45 MPH isn't really very fast "
The mileage will depend upon the wind direction since that maximum 45mph is air speed.
You're absolutely right though. For that kind of money I could get an ultralight, a Hayabusa and a Landrover with plenty of change left over for various types of mind-altering chemicals if I ever got bored the previous three things.
Game of Thrones written on brutal medieval word processor and OS
Vinyl-fetish hipsters might just have a point
Lost treasure of Atari REVEALED
Monday 28th April 2014 10:48 GMT
Choice of burial site and reasons for exhuming
I thought they chose the New Mexico desert in the misguided hope that nuclear weapon testing would vaporise their stockpile of toxic waste. Unfortunately they were ill-informed about the chosen test sites subsequent to completion of the Manhattan project. So now the offending articles are being exhumed and shipped to North Korea with the promise of molecular-level annihilation some time soon.
Japan plans SEVEN satellite launches to supercharge GPS
Thursday 24th April 2014 09:33 GMT
Re: Is there a rocket scientist in the house?
I wondered about this.
If they're going for a geosynchronous SV, just have the one with a footprint pointing at Japan. Ahh, but then it's not at the zenith from Japan and you don't get cen-ti-meee-terr accuracy, (cos that's soooo important for your average user). I would hazard a guess that they'd need to use inclined elliptical orbits so the SV is wafting North and South of the equator on a daily basis, hence the need for 4 of them each with the inclination axis offset by 90° longitude to ensure there is an aggregated link overhead all the time. That's why they call it "Quasi-Zenith" I suppose.
NSA spies recorded an entire COUNTRY'S phone calls for a MONTH: Report
Blighty goes retro with 12-sided pound coin
Five unbelievable headlines that claim Tim Berners-Lee 'INVENTED the INTERNET'
Projector on a smartphone? There's a chip for that
Neil Young touts MP3 player that's no Piece of Crap
Monday 10th March 2014 13:44 GMT
Oh Emperor! Your new clothes do look wonderful!
Zero / minimal phase >distortion< perhaps? That'd be a Finite Impulse Response filter then...
Oh, but they don't want to be using such a negative word as "distortion" in marketing bumf.
Maybe try "maximum phase fidelity" instead of just avoiding the "D" word + sack their marketing dept + pay me a F.O. huge commission. (yeah, right).
Nothing to see here I'd venture, however a definite whiff of snake oil / BS. Oh, the smell of it.
Here's interesting though.
Found this from the annals of the Salzburg Konservatorium, circa 1800
Regard: the new UberKlingen.
Guarranteed to be nicer than your current StuckSheize in a manner that is not clearly defined or objectively measurable in any way.
Endorsed by Ludwig Van-Beethoven.
Only 5x the price of equivalent apparatus not carrying said endorsement.
Insecure hipsters with BEARD ENVY spur facial hair transplant craze
Actor who played Rogue Two in Star Wars dies aged 67
Wednesday 19th February 2014 13:08 GMT
Fist full of travellers cheques
It has been mentioned, but I'll always remember him as the unhinged cafe owner in this Comic Strip classic.
Keep calm, Marie.
That's an awfully big bus. There could be six people in there.
Jesus! If they only buy coffee, it'll be enough to pay the ground rent.
Condolences.
SCRAP the TELLY TAX? Ancient BBC Time Lords mull Beeb's future
Object to #YearOfCode? You're a misogynist and a snob, says the BBC
Thursday 13th February 2014 13:20 GMT
Simple solution.
Legislate that it is prohibited for anyone under the age of 25 to learn about computers or to write and implement computational algorithms.
Suddenly, the topic acquires a mysitque and subversive caché.
Teenagers throughout the land will be clamouring to learn and understand the forbidden knowledge.
It can't be worse than the current, ham-handed deployment of besuited politicos endeavouring to be "down wiv da kids" which is naff at best and seems to be quite counterproductive from what I have heard. Buuut, maybe that is their ultimate intention.
Drone expert: Amazon's hypetastic delivery scheme a pie in the sky
Tuesday 3rd December 2013 13:18 GMT
How fast can these things fly??!!
My nearest Amazon "fulfilment centre" (sounds more like a fancy name for a brothel if you asked me, but anyway...) is Swansea, a full 80 miles away as the multi-rotor-crow flies, assuming it can make it over the Brecons. Even if the pick, pack and pre-flight process is >instant<, that thing will still have to pull an average 160mph to get my Chinese-crapola to me in 30 minutes. I would not want to get in its way.
Post-Profit Prophet RUSSELL BRAND is the HUMBLE CHRIST of STARTUPS
Monday 18th November 2013 15:43 GMT
Champagne socialists.
Every generation has their crop of these. I have very little time for them. Many a true word spoken in jest (vid circa 2:03) He is in the employ of the ruling elite, massaging away potential revolutionary ideas. The buffoon is made the most earnest face and voice of ideas which have gained traction recently amonst disenfranchised erstwhile capitalists, thereby eroding the credibility of such ideas for the wider populace. A most elegantly deployed weapon, (if in a somewhat inelegant guise this time round).
Japanese boffins unveil INVINCIBLE robot rock, paper, scissors 'bot
Tuesday 5th November 2013 13:45 GMT
Slow news day / year? See 28/06/2012
Are we going to get a re-telling of this same story every year now?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/28/janken_robot/
Could have saved a bit of server space by just posting a link to the article published last year.
Thought there would have been new information.
Turns out there wasn't.
Ubisoft's Watch Dogs muzzled by delays
Students prep for battle of wits, MIPs and watts: It's student cluster-wrestling time
Atomic clocks come to your wrist
Thursday 3rd October 2013 12:24 GMT 
Oh yeah, and by the way...
Symmetricom just came back with a quote for their CSAC:
$2000 each, (MOQ of 10).
A rough calculation for the remaining parts:
machining that fugly f'ckin case: $500
That fugly f'ckin dial and hands: $100
Clock mechanics: $10
The electronics to mount CSAC and interface its 1PPS to mechanics: $10
Total BOM cost: $2620.
Down the pub with the remaining $10,000 then?
Woo-hoo, party on!
Thursday 3rd October 2013 12:15 GMT 
Chip Scale Atomic Clock.
I expect they're using Symmetricom's heart-of-gold for this fugly timepiece:
http://www.symmetricom.com/products/frequency-references/chip-scale-atomic-clock-csac/SA.45s-CSAC/
module size approx 40.5x35x12mm
No mention of battery life for this chronometer.
All very well to have a watch that keeps time to +/- 1 second every thousand years, but if it only runs for 15 minutes at a time...
In a syllable: MEH.
Reg readers! You've got 100 MILLION QUID - what would you BLOW it on?
Valve shows Linux love with SteamOS for gamers
David Attenborough warns that humans have stopped evolving
Wednesday 11th September 2013 12:38 GMT
Re: Who TF is David Attenborough? @Shagbag
Spectacular piece of trollery there, old chap.
Hats off to you, indeed.
Not that I wish to encourage such stuff, but some people really should learn to
NOT FEED THE TROLL!
I'd venture there's enough troll food here to sustain your average Ringlefinch for about a year.
Headmaster calls cops, tries to dash pupil's uni dreams - over a BLOG
Boffinry breakthrough OF THE DECADE: Teens 'influenced' by friends
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active: The mobe for CHUCK NORRIS TYPES
Thursday 5th September 2013 15:42 GMT
Re: About bloody time!
I'm with you on this one dajames.
Ubiquitous electronics, such as mobile phones have become, should be like wristwatches insofar as you shouldn't have to worry about them if you get caught out in a downpour without a brolly. They should be as impervious to the elements as the human body. A quick towelling off and happy happy once more, not like my poor old 3110 which caught a fatal cold and died a week later. I have been more careful with my mobes since.
Mystery of Guardian mobos and graphics cards which 'held Snowden files'
Kiwi jetpack gets all-clear for manned tests
ULTIMATE cuppa contenders prepare to go mug-to-mug
Police probe IDIOTIC Twitter bomb threats slung at journalists
Transdimensional rift appears above Australian bolt supplier
Murdoch machinations mean Microsoft must rename SkyDrive
Beam me up? Not in the life of this universe
For pity's sake: DON'T MOVE to the COUNTRY if you want to live
Wednesday 24th July 2013 12:10 GMT
Rural UK accident rates scientific survey.
The following documentary is FACT.
There is absolutely no evidence to support it but it is a fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0GyRz_lOQA
So based on the scientific study thereby conducted, if you so much as clap eyes on a farm in the UK, you >will< die one of the horrible, grizzly deaths detailed therin.
My scienceings are now concluded.
Give me my PhD immediately.
US Navy coughs $34.5m for hyper-kill railgun that DOESN'T self-destruct
Friday 5th July 2013 12:46 GMT
Sea Snake torpedo anyone?
"Delve special". Series 2, episode 1: A rocket for defence.
or for the more visual amongst you
"This is David Lander". Series 1, episode 5: The rocketing cost of defence.
Both as true today as they ever were. Truer, even.
Trouble with parody these days is that it's difficult make fiction more absurd than the reality it is mocking.
Idaho patriots tool up to battle Jihad with pork bullets
Friday 28th June 2013 12:19 GMT 
A firey furnace sounds quite nice to a Norwegian in winter time.
Those least assured of their own convictions are the harshest critics of others'.
Besides which, Haram implies volition. Unwillingly ingesting that which is not Halal, is not itself Haram.
Forcing someone to do so is though.
So the perpetrator of forced or unwilling ingestion will of course, burn in the eternal fire of perdition but since the fine folks intent on deploying these meaty munitions are already infidels there is little or no change to their supposed fate.
Osbo jacks up spending on spooks to keep us safe from TERROR
Thursday 27th June 2013 12:42 GMT
I'm a big fan of the security industrial complex, but...
I keep coming back to this:
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin, 1759, (or about tea-time).
A gentleman who, by today's standards would almost certainly be categorised as a terrorist.
Flying a kite in a thunderstorm? Why sir, that is madness!
Beer, because of the alcohol reference:
"Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy"
Benjamin Franklin, 1779.
Ex-CIA techie Edward Snowden: I am the NSA PRISM deepthroat
Tuesday 11th June 2013 12:22 GMT 
oh my! how splendidly re-entrant.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
But now the government has been unmasked as the biggest hobgoblin of all.
Whatever are we to do?!
<headless chicken dance... ooh, ooh, Mister Peevly >
Biting the hand that feeds IT
