More valid than most rubbish I see in Reg Comments.

Yes I appreciate the irony.

SPC-1 definitely has to be interpreted, a big box of RAM isn't suitable for everyone (anyone?)

They're trying to say they've made a high capacity box that doesn't perform like a dog or cost a lot, and they're sitting amongst the frontrunners in that race, over toward the capacity flank. Doesn't "stand out" though.

DayZ

You are wrong, game of the year is DayZ.

Slow software

I do agree, I'm not keen on the tendency to develop far faster, usually. Firefox for example, I still can't move my bookmarks around, how can you go through tens of major releases and not fix that. But the excuse these companies always use is that they have to do this in order to compete, which means people are buying it, STOP BUYING IT!

I for one welcome our new stick wielding cockatoo overlords.

Someone had to.

So he had his windows broken and then he broke his windows?

Taxi!

Not AOONS at all...

Upon reading the article, it is clear that none of the incidents mentioned qualify for a Darwin Award, by your own definition; this is not an AOONS. I must insist that you publish a retraction.

Thought this was about Facebook...

Little difference TBH.

Nice article, shame about the title.

Has anyone had any idea what a Reg article is about before reading it in the last couple of years? Granted this one is ok, the "god particle" in this title is a well known term now (even if it's a ****** term used by idiot hipsters). But it's been a long time since I've seen a title make a lot sense now: "Dell drowns competition with defective ducks..." WTF!?

So what's in it?

Go on, feel free to tell us if you know...

Maybe...

Maybe they should stop presenting their clients users with such a shitty GUI?

Works at altitude?

Can that parachute open forcefully enough to pull the chord in the thin air at ~100,000ft?

Could I suggest an alternative which detects lift from the baloon: http://iamtheb.org/me/weightdetector.GIF

Aerodynamics have no part to play. No unreliable pin to pull. Spring still ensures electrical contact.

When the weight of the payload is zero, it is in freefall. Keep the tube long to account for turbulence.

Is it real?

Worst case:

The file name is combo_not.txt, so it may just be a list of just the hashes that a simple dictionary attack could not solve. The cracker really has every detail from every account but didn't share it.

Best case:

Some joker just published an sha-1 of the Oxford English....

I suspect we will never know. Change your passwords.

Partial power disruption during scheduled maintenance.

Partial power disruption during scheduled maintenance = somebody tripped over the chord.

Two ways to dissuede intelligent applicants...

1. Attempting to gain access to social media content that you otherwise cannot.

2. Requiring pain in the arse assessments, like a 15 minute automated skype video interview which gives you 5 minutes to answer each question to camera. I wouldn't have done that even if I did have a fast enough broadband connection back then.

Telstra?

Do they have "pubs" in Austrailia?

Clearly Siri doesn't work their either.

Sounds like...

...a product for a storage admin who is unable to think about what the application actually needs. We're never going to see this for one big reason, a thing with everything will always cost more than a thing with what you need.

I'd love to try and do Virtualisation in a server located thing though, decentralised replication, eeer, QoS definately required.

Err...

OH! MY! GOD! Two flash cards have the same heat-spreader!!

They're not even the same profile...

Best or most popular?

Is the survey adjusted to consider the number of people who have used each service?

SuperDuperISP could be the best thing ever and have only 10 users take the survey, so come in low.

Goose objection.

This seems like a great way to spill gigabytes of traffic into the air making it even harder to use WiFi. All for devices which for their years of life; NEVER MOVE!

It should be illegal for stuff that sits still to use wireless connections, use a cable FFS!

"dedupe is coming next year"

We'll keep hearing this line for a while.

Get ready to not really be sure how much storage you actually have. Someone could wipe out heaps of back end by simply using "Find and Replace". But then thin provisioning is a bit like this already.

Are they not listening?

Nobody wants 3D, NOBODY!

Most of the "3D" media you can get (with the exception of toy story) is not 3D, it's a 2D video which has been made selectively blurry and all out of kilter by Intel, who seem to think they have a way to turn 2D movies into stunning 3D. Intel; you can't, just stop it.

Speaking as a first born...

...my younger brother was far more restricted than me. Though he has written off 4 cars in 8 crashes to my faultless record. My parents saw this difference coming long before we started driving.

It's because...

...3D TV is shit.

I have never been impressed, it makes my eyes and brain hurt watching it. The sooner the craze (lol) dies down again the better.

WHAT!?

Why does the layman want a seperate /home partition? To stop them filling the filesystem with their bittorrent downloads and crashing the system, yea, I know. But that setup requires an advanced user to maintain the balance, or you end up wasting hard disk space.

It makes much more sense to have one partition, warn the user when it's getting fine and only allow root to use the last 5%. Silly register.

Who's with me?

This calls for an interplanetary-system apology, as soon and as loud as possible.

Good.

I've always hated optical storage. Any form of storage where you can get a miscompare as easy as a CD you've burned needs to be ousted.

This is awesome

I've always bought the cheapest model that has the full compliment of cache, then clocked it past the most expensive model. If this continues I'll be able to buy the bargain basement model, open the extra cache and threads with the inevitable keygen and clock it past the fastest model.

WHAT!

You mean I have to wait for someone to jailbreak the driver to use it on my PC, damn you Apple!

so...

So it's going to crash and burn?

It was me.

It went down just after I created the worlds longest "Quick List" of Dilbert episodes. It was getting progressively more buggy as I added more episodes, then it just died.

Can you tell I'm a tester by profession?

Ugh!

Every new Ubuntu release lately brings me something else to change back upon installation.

Yahoo! back to Google

Ehaterber it's called back to Pidgin

Evolution back to Thunderbird

El'Reg office shocked by internat revelation.

Employees of IT News agency The Register, were shock this morning to find that they are amongst the only people in the country inseparable from the internet...

erm

I suspect the survey actually means that roughly 10% of Brits have a sense of humour.