Posts by ElectricFox

Jack Churchill

Scored the only British Longbow kill of WW2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

Who needs nukes with officers like Jack?

I hope that kangaroo gets tried in a court of its peers...

# A B C D E F G #

All your details belong to me!

Have you been raiding Lewis Page's photo album

Because those look like Fleet Air Arm sea harriers on the main image: not RAF...

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PoS terminal?

Piece of Shit terminal?

I hope the next Bond film trolls them....

by featuring a lesbian orgy

Why wasn't posting retarded comments on The Register included in this test?

(Posted from my iPad)

PRINTERS ARE EVIL!

My mother-in-law had a wireless printer that failed to print every month. Her work-around was to re-install the software each time she wanted to use it. Turned out the software simply allocated a static IP address to the printer when it installed. She turns the printer off for a few weeks, and it is allocated a different IP address when she then turns it back on to print. I'm sure there's a nifty driver/software solution, but I just reserved a static IP address to the MAC in the router. That way, it should work with any other devices that she wants to use it with in the future.

I didn't want any reward, as harmony with the in-laws is priceless!

replace the aging B-52 and B-2 fleets?

I don't see this paying its way in asymetrical warfare, and I'd hate to be a GI in a war where such capabilities were really needed....

The BOFH devises a red button that nobody can resist...

Where will it all end?

Seriously though, when I was doing work experience, I met a guy who spent half of every working day taking numbers from a dozen spreadsheets from different engineering departments and manually entering them into one master spreadsheet. He had been manually repeating exactly the same process for years.

A more fair trial...

...would be 5 F-35 competing against 30 or 40 A-10C, accounting for the cost of purchasing and maintaining those numbers of aircraft.

Reported on the BBC today: the UK is reducing the F-35 B orders from 36 per carrier (72) to the two carriers "sharing 12" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34077719). I'd hate to be going to the Falklands in 1982 with 12 jets. Two Harriers were lost in a mid-air collision in that conflict. That would be 1/6th of your F-35 jets wiped out.

Dinoboffin

Such a cool word. I hope it's on their job titles!

Started listening to the Jurassic Park film score after reading this....

Move the radio telescopes to California

With the drought they're having, there will be no need for robotic lawnmowers.

Why engage with these losers?

Surely if you ignore them, they'll go away, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuxEwjBXlZE

reasonable person?

"This will include anything a "reasonable person" would consider to be sexual, "so this could be a picture of someone who is engaged in sexual behaviour or posing in a sexually provocative way"

This is so open to abuse. As an extreme example, if you were to upload a picture of a woman without her "headscarf", there are a number of ethnic minorities that would consider that sexual.

I'm sure that this can be dealt with using existing laws, no?

Or in English

A 747-400 with GE engines gives 2.76 kNorris of thrust. So this rocket's thrust is equal to ~41 kNorris. I don't think that a 747 thrust would make a good Register standard unit as there are too many variations and configurations of the aircraft. This might lead to confusion.

I wonder what you would do with 12.619 kiloJubs in low earth orbit?

Animal rights are no laughing matter, and to portray them as such is cruel and irresponsible.

So long as they are our cute fluffy pets, or "companions". Tough luck for cows, pigs and chickens.

I love this paragraph from the blog:

When you hold the book in your hands to read a story, the opposite book is upside down, facing out. So the final insult to this entire literary disaster is that when you read “Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer,” it appears that you are so fucking dumb, you’re reading “Barbie: I Can Be an Actress” upside down.

You managed to get a ride on the Flying Banana....

I'm so jealous. Thanks for this great article!

"Moreover, XP's decline has flattened: cheapskates, ignoramuses and the brave clearly feel little incentive to move to another version of Windows."

Add into that people who spent £50k+ on a scientific/engineering/electronic/mechanical instrument where Windows XP was the only option from numerous vendors whose corporate structures saw it as "industry standard". Perhaps you should add "The locked in" into this category....

Wow, 185.0642 pieces of Linguine, or 2.8104 Double Decker busses weighing in at 15.5 kJubs

But only 0.1874 times the length of a Brontosaurus according to the Register's automated online standards conversion calculator, which puts a single Brontosaurus at 15 Double Decker busses (just under 140 Metres). I know that the Brontosaurus is a misclasification of Dinosaur, but the Wikipedia redirect puts this species (Apatosaurus) as averaging 23 Metres in Length. Could there be a reference I'm missing here, or is there a fundemental problem with the Register SI measurement system. Such a glaring error would surely throw the commentard community into chaos!

False sense of security

"Only 39 individuals were on the Registered Sex Offenders' list, said the NCA."

A CRB only shows that you haven't been caught. We're sleepwalking into a witch hunt of guilty unless proven innocent.

Quite right!

What we need is another standard. I guess 1 more standard is better than 100 more...

A fool and his drone are soon parted...