Posts by caffeine addict

Re: @jakeisatwat

Clearly a typo of Jakie Satwat

Re: Don't you love the EU?

If youtube (or the porn equivalents) aren't "on demand" I don't know what is.

Technically, how does browsing Youtube differ from iPlayer?

Re: 'about equal to the size of Texas'

A Whale's worth of whale, compressed down to a smaller amount of brent crude by the north sea? Of a Whale of brent crude, regardless of the number of whales that were compressed to make it?

Re: nasty breaches ahoy

If we're talking about me personally...

This is the only site I use Caffeine Addict or it's associated email address on.

Facebook has a fake name and an unconnected email address.

My twitter accounts have names not used elsewhere.

My imgur account uses a unique username and email address

My Reddit account uses a unique username and email address (although that's only because someone else got my imgur name)

Stack overflow uses a unique username and email address

Metafilter has multiple unique usernames and email address

You get the idea.

And, until I worked for a PR company about 5 years ago, none of the uses of myfirstname mylastname were actually me, despite there only being about 30 entries for mylastname in the phonebook UK wide. Thanks to that PR company, there are now 3 photos of me that come up on the second page of google image results for my name.

Re: A biologist writes

Я поїхав до Чорнобиля,

і все, що я отримав,

була ця пухлина ?

Re: Wut?

In Wordpress's case, often by people who shouldn't have the rights to do so...

Re: This is a good thing...

I was being optimistic. It happens about twice a year. Don't go and ruin it for me.

Re: Yeah right

Would have been nice if Youtube deleted ALL footage of the event under copyright grounds. After all, it can't just be the bit they dislike. See how fanboys and other media sites howl when all 3rd party footage of the event goes...

It's a bit like comparing a small child and a butler.

"Go get your homework"

*butler heads off* : "Sir - I found these papers, but I also found a booklet about working from home."

*child returns* : "I found a toy pony! And for some reason I've taken one leg out of my trousers!"

Re: so easy to get in

90% of any crime is looking like you're supposed to be doing.

I once broke into a friend's house by smashing the front window, climbing in, and opening the front door.

At 6pm. On a Friday. Less than 10ft from the hometime traffic jam that always blocked the highstreet for 2 hours.

Re: How touching

I don't know... he's got a bronze coin next to his name...

Re: Re:have a machine with a 4G module just poll a random Reddit page

To think that the average terrorist not only knows how to make a bomb without killing himself and, on top of that, also has the hardware and software skills to program something that goes and "polls a random Reddit page" is frankly pushing the bar.

Great. Thanks. That's "knowing cron and curl" added to the signs you're a terrorist...

Re: ALL my calls from shouty men

Sadly, unlikely to work on military and police types. Especially if you're in the military or police.

Re: If...

It does seem like the sort of non-core thing that the BBC should be letting BBC Worldwide charge a couple of quid for rather than doing for free.

I'll never understand why the BBC spends so much on things that aren't news, tv or radio while cutting funding to those things.

But, presumably, you can't be forced to disclose why it would incriminate you, so it effectively applies to everything, no?

Re: Stop naming things after things that aren't those things!

Remember when Surface wasn't a tiny tablet but a rich media coffee table thing?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/30/surface_computing/

Re: Probably fine, handled badly

Yes - all that leaks is the DNS request. Until someone spots the domain, registers it, and looks at all the lovely data that's coming in.

"Insecurity by obscurity", if you you will...

I can't decide if therapistfinder.com would have been better or worse...

I don't think I'll ever see a better metaphor for Canada vs America on a tech site - Zero indexed vs One indexed.

Reagan is no longer the bar for this kind of joke...

Re: Seen similar in London

Watching mainstream news try and cram a Brexit angle into everything even vaguely tangential is tedious. Having ElReg add it to things completely irrelevant is annoying.

If it's about, or affected by, Brexit then shout about it. But bringing it up in irrelevant articles just turns the comments into the same old predictable bollocks from both sides.

Re: Opera?

Oh carp. I've been doing caustic tea and afternoon wit.

Have... have I become an American?

Re: how about a simpler system

If I was less mature (or if it was Friday) I'd have made a joke about Soo having a fist up her.

Luckily, I'm not.

Re: is it just me

This would have thrilled Claire Rayner...

Re: stats

What multiple choice questions do you mean? And what is 'right'?

I mean, for Brexit, would a valid question have been

"do you believe this thing MP X said?"

OR "do you believe the side of a bus?"

OR "would we be better off out"

OR "which is bigger, the sun or the moon?"

Because the first three are all subjective (in advance of the event) and the last one (if OkCupid is to be believed) would be failed by half the population...

Re: extinguishing four candles

You'll be creating snuff videos next ...

If there is any justice in the world, this will become the most upvoted comment on the internet today.