Perhaps...

Maybe the ubiquity will mitigate the long-term risks, after all, if everyone's doing it, what's to be embarrassed about? If the novelty wears off maybe passing them around will become pase.

> perhaps they should be admired for having such confidence in their own bodies.

Love it, Gok Wan eat your heart out!

> ten per cent of those questioned had sent pictures of themselves naked,

> while 17 per cent had passed on such photographs without permission,

Is that 17 percent of the total or 17 percent of the 10 percent? I suppose it is possible for more people to pass them around than to send them.

New Icon?

Does this mean we can have a new icon for Where's the seasonal angle?

Yep

Posted this six months ago, third paragraph:

http://blog.kitten-x.com/2009/05/welcome-to-21st-century.html

Godwin's

Wow, we reached Godwin's pretty fast today.

btw Reg, your vote up/down interface sucks, I want to be taken directly back to where I was.

Re: First Three Posts

1) Lag from a long cable? LMFAO or whatever it is the kids say these days. Apparently you can use up to about 45 feet without an amplifier.

2) Agree, you might as well get a long HDMI cable.

3) I'm not 100% sure that this device does audio, but the article is titled AV and HDMI does audio.

Other Uses

How thick is it? About 7mm? My desk leg is missing about that much, it might be just the thing I need to stop the whole desk wobbling.

Re: Other Uses

And it would have the added benefit over folded paper that I would always know where my desk was.

Iris Browser

I recommend Iris Browser for WinMo. Shame it's not being developed any more but there are still plenty of places to download it.

Reminds me

Of that old FOTW...

Maybe they could smoke a fag afterwards :)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/22/letters_2211/

Ahhhh

That explains it, I received a video the other day of two robots having a badly scripted conversation about design jobs.

Contrary Speeds

From Kingston's own site:

V

64GB, 128GB – Up to 100MB/sec. read; 70MB/sec. write

40GB – Up to 170MB/sec. read; 40MB/sec. write

V+

Sequential Read Throughput – 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB - 220MB/s

Sequential Write Throughput – 64GB - 140MB/s, 128GB - 170MB/s, 256GB - 180MB/s

and benchmarkreviews.com reckons that even 150 MB/s write is slow.

V+?

I now notice there is a V (or V-) and a V+ version of the 64gig drives, the + version being an extra £70. Anyone know the differnce?

64gig A Better Option?

> the write speed is very low as you can see when you compare the 40GB drive with other members of the Kingston SSDNow V series

With the 64gig SSDNow V at £100 (ie, £1.56 per gig vs £1.75 for the 40gig) wouldn't this make the 64gig a much better bet?

Also: Beatles Dead, Queen Anne Split Up

So the IWF is ineffectual and the Sun is biased, inaccurate and sensationalist? You're going to be busy if you're going to report on every occasion of that!

Backwards!

> "a bug that has been fixed."

It's not a feature it's a bug!

Oh Thank God

It's about bloody time.

Passwords

You know how we're always told to use different passwords for different sites, etc? Doesn't the whole one login thing mean that not only are we using the same password for every site, but also the same user name.

Easier to change I suppose.

Minor Bugs

I've upgraded two machines, one was flawless and one had the kernel issue you mentioned, which is actually a minor bug, apparently actually caused by grub1/2 issues, fixed by reinstalling grub2:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/449679

Spoonerism

Kwok-fu, you're making this up!

Investigative Journalism

This is a bit one sided, just like the BBC's article, you don't have to read much of the blog to get some idea of the situation*, obviously I'm not saying take it as read, but you could do some follow up.

* The situation apparently being several serious conflicts of interests.

http://muckandbrass.blogspot.com/2009/10/democracy-works-sometimes.html

Re: I Want....

I was looking forward to ditching streaming on my iPhone when I got an HTC with a radio. Unfortunately I've found that phone and radio signal drop out at the same time on trains :(

Kind of obvious when you think about it.

http://blog.kitten-x.com/2009/02/old-news.html

Or Vice Versa?

http://picasaweb.google.com/cschlaeger/JapanLinuxSymposium#5395358413061926434

Literally

My colleague said he reckoned he'd BSOD if he ate one of those.

I love the way the site loads so slowly that you can't tell when the tower might end.

I don't know...

MS's strategy of letting users slowly get used to Windows 7 and allowing a lot of leaks has meant that there would never be a big bang on release day, and I think after the perceived fail of Vista people didn't want to expose themselves to possible disappointment. I think there was excitement over the Vista release and I think there will be excitement over further MS releases.

All this from a Linux user.

Preventing Forking?

You don't explain how Oracle would prevent a fork.

Re: Preventing Forking?

Nice FAQ here:

http://planet.mysql.com/entry/?id=21170

Does this mean...

I remember reading articles in the Register when iPlayer was first developed saying that the amount of money spent developing a flash player was ridiculous. Does this interest mean it's actually quite good?

Doctor Doctor

The bit about the doctor not being allowed to mention it is ridiculous, being over weight is bad for your health (ie expensive for the NHS and the rest of us) and is something you can change. I wouldn't have thought there was much argument over that. It'll be smokers next :)

Sorry

Should have read the fucking article *before* commenting.

Reminds me

of the Conservative Bible Project

http://www.youaredumb.net/node/1401

http://www.youaredumb.net/node/1406

Comment and Response

I tried to leave this comment on the post:

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You are insane, there’s no such thing as witches.

Did it occur to you that the “blood” is far more likely to be paint or rust?

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and just received this reply by email:

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May the one true living God bless you Jamie and all Australians with His Saving Truth and Everlasting Love! (John 3:16-21)

We at Catch the Fire Ministries will keep praying for you Jamie and all Australians to believe the Bible (Word of God) as the mighty Voice from Heaven that calls, “I died on the cross for you and rose from the dead to save you from eternal death, hell and destruction! Repent of your unbelief / doubt and surrender your life (past, present and future) to Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord before it is too late!”

Time is running out as we will soon stand before Him face to face as our Final Judge! (Revelation 20:11-15)

Say, 'Yes to Jesus, Yes to Heaven Forever!'

Say, 'No to Jesus, Yes to Hell Forever!'

Make the Right Choice Australia, Your Eternal Future Depends On It!

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I would like to point out that I am not Australian.

120lb

That's 8 1/2 stone or 54.4 kg for the rest of the world.

- HTC

Hurrah, no more HTC repairs for me.

Co-Accused

Barclays must be loving this. Not.

Re: Helpdesk fools

There is one exception to this: O2 Broadband, don't know whether it's a hangover from Be Unlimited, but their mobile help line is awful, twice I've had the representative tell me that they do not know what to do.

From a Friend

The best one I've had was at my last company where I wasn't even on the helpdesk.

One of the account managers I worked for was complaining she couldn't see her laptop directories on the network.

Asked where the laptop was to inspect it she said she'd forgotten to bring it to work & had left it in her hallway at home!!!

My Favourite

The company I work for supplies bespoke software to local government. I took a call once from a guy asking me how he could create an auto-run CD, he went on to describe his IT department in disparaging terms and was very flattering about us.

A less favourite call involved about an hours investigation before I managed to get out of the caller that that morning they'd had a power cut.

And my favourite bug report:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28

Who would believe a user who said that OpenOffice would not print on Tuesdays?

Clarification

"According to Adobe...the current version 10 has achieved 93% penetration. Riastats.com shows a more modest 81% for Flash Player 10, but it remains well ahead of rival runtimes such as Microsoft Silverlight and Sun Java."

riastats.com says that 81% of flash installs are version 10, but does not (seem to) say what percentage of all browsers have flash 10 installed, nor compare install base to Silverlight or Java.

Distance

"The company doesn't say how far the carrying Hercules transport plane was from the target vehicle in the vid, but there's no audible engine noise on the soundtrack, suggesting that it was some distance off."

Did they say that it was flying? I'm imagining it sitting right next to the ve-hickle

Re: So old hat

> Once saw a bloke doing this with a mirror in the middle of new york - 20 odd years ago.

There is a shop in Brighton that sells walking sticks with wing mirrors towards the bottom, so to speak.

> It'll be watches next.

erm, crawling about on the floor to get the right angle might make it a bit obvious.

Bitter?

Bitter as in beer or bitter as in freedom?

CFLAGS

I re-compiled everything with -ffastmath and got an extra 6%.

CB

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/28/charlie-brooker-microsoft-mac-windows

Exemption

The Reg Writer will be able to go out with his wife as that will presumably be between 6pm and 2am. I'm not sure what happens before or after this period which means that others cannot be trusted with your children.

Question:

Where does the £5,000 come from and where does it go? Presumably from one tax payer funded department to another, taxing Paul, fining Peter and paying.... Peter perhaps?

Tried! To! Change! My! Password!

Seems Yahoo! won't let you have exclamation marks in your password! Oh the irony!

Tweleted

Shows up on tweleted.com for Marthalanefox.

Another Spot

My sister was followed all the way from Partridge Green to Steyning (West Sussex). No picture though I'm afraid.

Shadowy Organisations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETCU