Closed until it's open

By some of the arguments here, Android "Poptart", "Quality Street", "Rum Truffle", "Spotted Dick" etc are also closed ... until public push occurs.

Why use the phone naming convention ?

If, as I understand it, Honeycomb is just for tablets, then why give it a name in the Android Phone sequence ? They should maybe have started a new 'tablets' sequence, with initial letter aligned with Android phones perhaps. Hazelnut.

In future

Watermark all your photos before posting them online - then at least you'll have a copyright case.

pedant corner:

"aren't we all p[a]edos now" - well since she appears to be sexually mature, technically, no.

Readies

*Please* give us cash on the PIN card - like Proton etc. in Europe

Not only but also

Lost in the mists of time is OS/2, which gave Windows a run for its money at the time (as well as the Taskbar) thereby demonstrating that a little competition can improve the end result, even if the other competitors fall by the wayside.

Yes, I did run OS/2 Warp for a while and found it much better than Win 3.11.

clarkson

"draconian controls Herr Jobs imposes" - pandering to UK tabloid national stereotypes, by any chance ?

Viewfinder

"As the reviewer notes, there isn't a viewfinder, but it's not particularly common in cameras of this class " - well my old (2003) Olympus D390 2.0 Mpixel camera has one !

How else can you frame your shot and steady the camera at the same time ?

Overheads

Don't forget that if you are working away from home, B&B and petrol for the week can easily take up ~£5/hr of the rate ...

Do not

"Donut" - brought to you by the people who think "and" is spelt " 'n' " ...

Not quite

"I reckon you'd send a standard golf ball into orbit." - well with 'g' on the moon being 1/6 that on Earth, you would require to get it to 1/6 Earth orbital velocity, around 1 km/sec (depending on the orbit) - can you hit a ball that fast ?

Never heard of them

Who are all these so-called conspiracy theorists anyhow, are you sure they exist - I've never met anyone who didn't believe there were manned moon landings anyhow.

AND the TV coverage at the time was presented by (Sir!) Patrick Moore and James Burke, and you can't get much better than that.

Sumer is icumen in ...

"has gotten worse" ?

Super-superheavy

In any case, isn't a neutron star just one hell of a lot of neutrons with, I imagine a few protons in there somewhere, so that could conceivably be considered to be a "nucleus" since it's held together by the strong force ...

False to the character ?

I don't think the book's Dr. Lecter/Lektor would ever have used the naff phrase, "a nice Chianti" (correct me if it's in the book !) ... but I guess the scriptwriter didn't want to appear too elitist .

Punctuation misquote ?

I would have thought that since the first sentence was what "the punk" would have been asking himself ('direct speech'), it should itself be in quotation marks , i.e.

""Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?"

(also added the comma !)

Slashdot days...

Who's the Meta-Moderatrix ?

And how many Mod points have you got ?

Cumberland jam ..

@tim:

Appeal ! and keep on appealing. Write to your MP. Then write to the Daily Mail if all else fails ...

Good Fellows

The name "Shuttleworth" is indelibly associated with such ditties as "Pigeons in Flight" - let's hope Ubuntu release 'P' is Pigeon, of some description.

Right Ken ?

Surely ..

"The first 230V, 16A pilot McPost ..."

also, slight kudos to McD for their free Wifi - more than many hotels can offer !!

Smooth scrolling ?

Didn't the VT100 have that ?

BMW Shoe

... don't you think that a 1 series looks like a slip-on shoe ?

Better controlled

FR, at least when I joined it, seemed to be better-controlled and moderated than the current likes of Facebook.

From that point of view, the higher quality of information was worth a premium over the freebie free-for-all ad-supported sites.

I think you'll find

that I already suggested a big sheet of Blutack for the China satellite scrap event ...

User friction

They should try it the other way round - make non-admin tasks a hassle under an admin account.

Then people might use a non-privileged account for everyday stuff. (Ok, sysadmins ...!)

But it's hard to change people's mindset - I still come across developers brought up on Windows, when using Linux, logged in to 'root' for their normal work.

Confusion over names ?

Wonder if Sky has any issues with the name, given that most satellite users have a 'Sky box' ?

Sorted ?

Will I still require History Search Sorted plugin - or have they fixed that now ...?

Sack the Infection Control manager ...

'nuff said ...

What coral reef ...

I thought that rising ocean CO2 levels increased the acidity of the water, threatening the existence of corals ?

Not just Mars probes

"... corporate air that's been heated to a temperate 72 degrees ..." - unless you don't like working in a sauna ...

Oh, well ...

"support that we believed we had from the main opposition party was withdrawn"

... it shows that the Daily Mail has some use after all ...

World's first ?

Maybe the world's first commercially available such telly, but didn't IBM demonstrate a large super-high-def screen back in around 2000 ? I remember the spin saying you could read the newsprint in the paper being read by a man in the picture ...

Maybe that was just a graphics monitor.

Before you Reg people get all sanctimonious ...

What about the people who punted their money on Bernard Madoff ?

DM influence

Don't forget Danger Mouse !! (or Penfold ...)

Judging by their spelling ...

doesn't give you much confidence in the prod:uctZ ...

say no to 0870 phishing ...

Only trouble with the 'say no' website is you have no guarantee that the alternative number you are calling is the pukka service ...

Ozone repair

I read somewhere that if dollops of ammonia (NH3) gas were lobbed into the Antarctic air, that would kill off the CFCs ... don't know if one balloon-worth would be enough though ...

Thorough

Surely those wishing to be thorough would use Secure Erase THEN splat it physically ...

Howzat ?

"which will allow errors to be bowled out" - but how ? LBW ?

Common sense

"giving the standard "we don't comment on rumors or speculation" line" - since it's the only 'line' anyone could sensibly give, unless they actually had something to say.

If they selectively commented on certain "rumors", that would allow pundits to draw conclusions on them, and the rest that they didn't comment on.

Made to last ...

"The American taxpayer was told three months for each rover" - but obviously there were few "made in P.R.O.C" components so it lasted better than most current consumer goods ...

PS to Mike: It's spelt "hear hear" !