Posts by Nev

@AC "A victory for morals"

Which "Good Book" are you looking to for moral guidance? The Bible?!?

I suggest you actually go read it. Including all those wacky passages

on rape, slavery and sex with children.

What is it with uk.gov...

and databases?

Are they obsessed?!?

What next? IBee cards?

Philip K. Dick

They've obviously read "The Zap Gun".

Hmmmmm...

... didn't the BNP hold their "Hate Week", erm..... I mean party conference there last year?

Makes for a cheap FTP server too...

...Linux based. Bargain.

Just Google how to get SSH working on it and off you go....

Oh FFS!

Does anyone else she death-of-someone-famous induced hysteria a la Diana, Princess of Wales in all this?

Now looks like all someone has to do to win public adoration and critical acclaim is to cark-it.

(No matter how mediocre their oeuvre really is.)

Hopefully some celebs will take it upon themselves to try for this type of praise.

Death: The new black?

@AC

@Nev By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 9th February 2009 15:06 GMT

"I'm a product of 80s and 90s education, and don't have many problems with spelling...."

"So this seems to be more an issue of individuals rather than the education system itself. Furthermore, there's nothing stopping people who know they can't spell just picking up a book and learning."

Hmmm.... seems you have a good grasp of the plight that others less fortunate than yourself have found themselves in.

Well done. [sic]

Just because the education system didn't fail you, it doesn't mean that those for whom it did fail can be tarred as lazy, ignorant or stupid by people such as yourself.

So **** you too.

Range Extender

"Interestingly, the options list also includes a “range extender” which we take to mean to larger battery pack. "

... or a very long extension cord.

Reason for it's crapness

Although Bale seems to have vacuous playboy Bruce Wayne down to a tee, his portrayal of the Batman persona is laughable. (And not in the good way.)

Ledger's Joker fell well short of what I'd been expecting with all the rave reviews it recieved.

Not madcap, not scary, just lame. Mind you, he didn't seem to have much in the way of good dialogue to work with, so he doesn't get all the blame.

Michael Cane, the cheeky cockney Alfred? Well I'm sure his paycheck put in a good performance when he banked it.

Less "Dark Knight", more "Slightly Muggy Afternoon".

Is that better?

Can't get away from the iPhone...

Christ if you ring up SFR you currently get "Mr Bluesky" blasted at you and them harping on about the iPhone.

Stop the madness, please!

Another place not to buy one from.

SFR, the other big network, is now offering sign-up for the end of Orange's monopoly on the iPhoney.

Mine's the one with the Sony Ericson in the pocket.

Works on most Java phones...

Works perfectly on my SonyEricsson K850i StreetView data was available for Paris when I used it there a few weeks ago too.

@Ed RE: FireDTV

Wow, so sorry. I take it all back.

Where's my white coat?

@AC "What is wrong with the BNP? "

Oh look what just crawled out from under a rock:

Someone who's probably on that list!

Next he/she/it'll be extolling the "virtues" of thugs beating up non-whites and homosexuals.

Proof, if need be that the BNP are vermin.

Backlash

You can leave comments of support on the BBC's complaints website.

Get cracking everyone. I'm sure we can muster >500 pro messages.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complaints_stage1.shtml

Dropping your phone...

... is not excuse enough to stick your hands down a French khazi!

Bill Hicks had it right...

""By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself."

Seem to have missed the two best portable speakers...

Saitek A200 for long trips where you are sure you have power and a bit more luggage space. (It really needs mains power.)

Sony SRS-T70 for short trips with only hand luggage. (Also allows un-amplified audio when you run out of power.)

BNP

The origin of this story was a BNP stir-it-up "press" release.

People are so gullible.

Cruel!

The guy spaced 3000 animals and not a peep out of animal rights groups?

Well, at least it wasn't Sea Monkeys!

Dead animals (inc. birds): Mostly good for eating.

No Spoiler Alert!

I've not had a film ruined like this since someone revealed the plot twist in "The Crying Game".

Data Roaming

What they don't tell you is that although you pay per kbyte if roaming in the US,

there is a minimum per connection charge of about $2.

Hollywood didn't call when he was alive...

...why the hell should they make money out of him after his death?

I, for one, won't be needing to watch it after seeing him live.

(Bet the script'll have juggling titties in it though.)

@Graham Marsden

"Actually I'd like to know what the editor and journalists of that reprehensible lying gutter rag get up to at the weekend."

Yes, very good point. Most of the journalists seem to be drunken coke-heads who like to beat up spouses etc. We have a right to know all about their filthy private lives!!!

Time for in-depth investigations from El Reg?

Good to see the great British public supporting the BNP

The source of the Red Arrows non story was a BNP press release.

Brilliant! Looks like the unwashed masses fell for it hook, line and stinker.

Idiots.

Not very useful...

...unless you can also use it to take pictures of the car in front

with someone behind the wheel who's driving like a twat.

Especially if you could immediately post it on YouTube.

Manufacture

Wow, most posters have totally misunderstood the issue.

Greenpiece[sic] are bitching about the nasty stuff used to manufacture electronics.

You know: arsenic bearing compounds, hydrofluoric acid, etc.

Even Paris would've understood that.

Sad

At the time of the CEGB the uk was a major player in the nuclear electricity gen field.

Now reduced to selling it off to foreign companies and importing foreign know-how,

It's quite pitiful.

Hope they get them up and running before the EU carbon emissons reg come in in 2015 and all the coal fired stations have to be closed.

The death of Britain.

"Infamy! Infamy! they've all got it in for me!"

Sky bitching about stuff like this is soooo funny.

Obviously..

...this Shaun Robinson, 40, IT manager (and apparently an aviation expert too) must have an axe to grind because some snot-nosed French kid got to go in the cockpit and he didn't.

I love Air France. They're very free with the booze on long haul, and they don't seem to have BA and US airlines' policy of employing pensioners as cabin crew.

Mine the one hung up at the front, thanks.

Hate to admit it..

Have had a Windows CE/whatever-they-now-call-it bluetooth phone option in my car for two years and it's a great piece of kit. Never had a problem with it and the voice recognition is surprisingly robust.

It's just another component system that hangs off the CANBus.

So: sorry naysayers, it works.

Well he was a facist dictator...

... but at least he did one thing for the good of mankind.

Anyone with a satellite dish...

...and a DVB-S receiver can already watch BBC and ITV channels.

Everyone else in Europe has to pay licence fees too.

So stop the whining.

Innovation

BBC : Teletext, Nicam, RDS the list is endless.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/milestones/index.shtml)

Sky/Newscorp : Fuck all.

BBC is a clear winner in the innovation stakes.

When will people stop giving their money to Murdoch and his spawn ?

I bet even Paris hasn't got as much brass as the Dirty Digger.

Why is the PC in the loop!?

Would make more sense to have something directly on the PSP. Why tether the service to a PC/Mac/[Insert computer of choice here]?

Sky's updated verion of "The Professionals"

'nuff said.

Chinny reck on!

Why are they even talking about these expensive schemes when it was revealed to all today (with the doubling of car tax revenue to achieve a decrease of <1% in carbon emissions) that uk.gov are only interested in the tax revenue when it comes to carbon?

When will the uk get rid of this lame duck prime minister?