Posts by Andrew Kelly27 posts • joined Friday 20th July 2007 15:26 GMT
Posted Monday 16th November 2009 16:59 GMT
In The biggest flash drive in the world
Memory stick sized would ge good but micro sd would be even better.
In 10 years time we'll all be saying "Remember when they brought out that 100TB SSD that was the size of a wardrobe? Those were the days!"
Posted Wednesday 20th May 2009 13:19 GMT
In Another 0.03% of Blighty goes wind powered
Can they be built using less energy than they produce? If not, then it seems pretty pointless.
Posted Thursday 16th April 2009 12:56 GMT
In Govt powers up electric cars with £5k subsidy
Your comments might carry more weight if we could understand what you had written.
BTW how do I transport my wife, 2 kids and luggage (including baby's pushchair) 150 miles to the Isle of Wight in an electric car?
I can't see us all getting into a G-wiz, Smart Car or Mini.
Posted Thursday 16th April 2009 11:28 GMT
In Govt powers up electric cars with £5k subsidy
Out of interest, how much carbon will be produced in burning fossil fuels to produce the electricity that these cars will run on?
Posted Monday 23rd March 2009 14:20 GMT
In BT names first 29 exchanges for fibre rollout
Where have you been hiding for the last 40-odd years?
Chingford, Enfield & Edmonton are very much in London.
Posted Thursday 19th March 2009 14:25 GMT
In Google Street View hits UK streets
A colleague at work had a knock on his door about 5 minutes after this picture was taken. The guys loading the lawnmomers on the van asked him if he had seen anyone acting suspiciously as their lawnmowers had just been knicked.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=n14+7al&sll=51.597161,-0.110314&sspn=0.006691,0.021887&ie=UTF8&ll=51.621574,-0.134089&spn=0,359.978113&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.621651,-0.134245&panoid=vRECveVAEFJrPVz2mXYbyw&cbp=12,156.18582320520653,,0,9.941176470588235
Posted Monday 16th March 2009 13:58 GMT
In National Express to 'ban' trainspotting
They installed gates at Hertford North a couple of years ago. They are only allowed to be operational when they have 2 Revenue Protection Officers (ticket inspectors to me & you) in attendance. When there aren't 2 RPOs around, the gates are left open. This tends to be after 7pm when all the non-fare paying scrotes use the trains.
Also had an incident a few months ago where an RPO challenged someone on a train who clearly didn't have a ticket. This person got off the train at the next stop and the RPO carried on checking tickets on the train. When asked why he didn't try to get the offender's details and issue a fine, he said that it's not his job to chase after these people.
Hardly surprising they're losing so much money. Sack all the RPOs and don't put in any more gates - they'll save millions.
Posted Thursday 12th March 2009 16:00 GMT
In Robbie Williams, Billy Bragg et al say downloads aren't illegal
Billy Bragg on the board of directors. Whatever happened to the angry young socialist?
Posted Friday 13th February 2009 16:18 GMT
In Prof: Save up fossil fuel reserves to fight the next ice age
We all move to Spain.
Problem sorted.
Posted Friday 23rd January 2009 17:35 GMT
In World's smallest working fuel cell developed
I think you will find that power is measued on BallmerJobs. Ballmers per Jobs is current divided by voltage which I will leave to some other clever dick to tell us what that is.
Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 16:03 GMT
In BBC's speak you're branes collapses under Brand-Ross sex outrage
There are an awful lot of people out there who can't spell even the most basic words.
My only comment on the Brand-Ross-Manuel saga is: how can Brand be described as a comedian?
Posted Thursday 23rd October 2008 14:38 GMT
In Blundering workmen cut major Docklands fibre
Do you know where Docklands is?
Having had first hand of these hairy arsed navvies I would put the blame firmly with them. Dig now, worry about the consequenxces later is their motto. And then try to a pull a fast one so you don't have to pay for the damage.
Posted Thursday 23rd October 2008 11:43 GMT
In TfL considers life without Oyster
Why doesn't the government implant a chip in all of us? Could be used for all sorts of ID purposes.
Mine's the one with my oyster card in the other one.
Posted Friday 5th September 2008 12:58 GMT
In Hadron boffins: Our meddling will not destroy universe
I'm sure that ET and his pals are keeping a close eye on proceedings. If they thought that there was a possibility of anything untoward happening I'd like to think that they would appear within plenty of time (7 seconds from switch on I would imagine) and put a halt on things.
Or maybe this is just a big ruse to get ET to show himself?
Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 08:44 GMT
In Lag log leaks - Home Office contractor loses entire prison population
is not the loss of data but this statement from the BBC website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7575989.stm
"The data on the stick also includes information from the Police National Computer of some 30,000 people with six or more convictions in the last year."
Have I read that right? 30,000 people have six or more convictions in the last year. How the hell does someone tot up six or more convictions in one year?
Mine is the one with its pocket being picked.
Posted Friday 27th June 2008 22:18 GMT
In Premiership tackles Ukranian football streaming site
Do a little research. This site was showing games that weren't being shown live in this country, i.e. games that kicked off at 3pm on a Saturday.
However, as others have said, it's incredible that this site was getting away with charging £9.95 for something that other sites give you for nowt. As the saying goes "there's one born every minute".
Posted Friday 4th April 2008 11:17 GMT
In UK.gov will force paedophiles to register email addresses
She is put in the public eye and given a load of rubbish to spout but she appears to believe that what she has been told to say is factually correct.
I can't believe that the opposition parties haven't ridculed her yet.
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 12:08 GMT
In Women overtaking men in tech abuse
Another April Fools joke. Almost caught me out.
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 14:06 GMT
In Beer set to hit four quid a pint
With many a good deal being closed in the pub over a pint or ten and those pints being claimed back as expenses and those expenses claimed back from the client via increased costs, could we be seeing compound inflation (have I coined a new phrase?) on the way?
Posted Wednesday 31st October 2007 11:57 GMT
In Woman admits fleecing shopping network of more than $412,000
You should go and give yourself up at your local police station immediately.
Posted Monday 22nd October 2007 16:08 GMT
In Cops pull plugs on TV-links, claim 'facilitation of infringement'
A Google search will bring up websites that link to copyrighted material.
Will the British bobbies be sent to Google HQ to arrest their top bods for something that they're not really sure of?
Posted Wednesday 10th October 2007 14:12 GMT
In BT home router wide open to hijackers
How about El Reg starts a thread purely for BT broadband horror stories. I reckon I could post 30+ straight away. It could be under some sort of fiction heading as most people wouldn't believe that a company could be run so badly and stay in business.
Posted Tuesday 11th September 2007 12:08 GMT
In Britannia triumphs over Johnny Metric
...is the next step a common language?
Posted Tuesday 4th September 2007 10:41 GMT
In Eurostar inaugurates UK high-speed track
I'm sure our continental cousins would be well impressed with a 2hr 15minute journey from Paris to London and then queueing for 2 hours for a bus/taxi due to the underground being on strike.
Posted Wednesday 8th August 2007 15:03 GMT
In Yangtze river dolphin is an ex-cetacean
I can't believe they are that clever. How many have won mastermind?
Posted Friday 27th July 2007 12:57 GMT
In VoIP services must offer 999, says Ofcom
As long as users are informed that they can't call the emergency services, then it is their decision to decide whether or not to go with VoIP.
The choice is there, they are not being forced into it.
Posted Friday 20th July 2007 16:12 GMT
In Harry Potter and the Chancers of eBay
...if JK Rowling ever read The Wall Around The World by Theodore Cogswell?
A story about an orphaned boy who lived with his aunt & uncle who treated him poorly compared to his cousin. He went to school where wizardry was taught and he had a flying broomstick, blah, blah, blah.
