* Posts by Jamie Kitson

730 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Aug 2007

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Billy Bragg: Why should songwriters starve so others get rich?

Jamie Kitson
Coat

Bro

Maybe you could get his brother in on the subject, him that uses all those long words on that program on Radio 4.

Mine's the one with the re-writeable CD in the pocket.

HP launches Linux-loaded Eee PC rival

Jamie Kitson

Noisy CPU?

Surely it's the fan that's noisy, which would be down to the manufacturers of the case rather than the CPU?

Reality crashes Google hippie code fest

Jamie Kitson
Paris Hilton

Cut and Pastes Need Titles

Well, you Gates slaves stick with your bug-riddled crash-tastic Windows set-up if you like, we'll have the last laugh.

Paris, because she sucks like you

iPhone may sidestep rubbish caller ID suit

Jamie Kitson

Fix

There was a fix to this problem here:

http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/AppSupport

which is not currently available.

O2 falls short of 3G target

Jamie Kitson

But Where's The....

Never mind Hilton, where's the iPhone angle?

'I live the mobile lifestyle dream...'

Jamie Kitson

Tautology

You missed the chance to use one of the best words in the English language :(

Major Linux security glitch lets hackers in at Claranet

Jamie Kitson

I Wonder...

I wonder what distro Claranet are using. Debian's only on 2.6.24 on unstable, and as far as I am aware odd numbers, eg, 2.6.23, are dev/testing only, no? What were they doing on 2.6.23/4 in the first place?

Internet s&x auction ends in pregnancy, legal feud

Jamie Kitson
IT Angle

s&x?

Are you not allowed to print "sex"?

I was going to ask about the IT angle, but I guess it is V day after all :)

US may shoot down spy sat to safeguard tech secrets

Jamie Kitson

Misogynist Master Chiefs...

Such as Loyd Grossman?

Holocube introduces '3D' display gizmo

Jamie Kitson

3D

Surely if it works as described then it merely projects a 2D image which appears to float in mid-air, rather than an actual 3D image.

Dell makes exploited hamster cry

Jamie Kitson

Quick Link

The link that I was looking for in the story:

http://apps.facebook.com/graffitiwall/contest_finalists.php?contest_id=4

How much does El Reg cost the global economy?

Jamie Kitson

3 Hours, But...

I work at McDonald's and so am doing my bit fighting the capitalist scum.

Also, shouldn't it read:

"...puking their guts up in mission-critical servers"?

Beer makes people have sex with you

Jamie Kitson
Stop

Floor

I am now going to state the bleeding obvious, surely the chances of a pregnancy (unintended or otherwise) actually relates more the number of times you have sex rather than the number of partners you've had sex with.

Orange to offer unlocked iPhones for €749

Jamie Kitson

First Six Months?

"Orange said that actually unlocking the thing will cost a further €100.... Orange just told us that the €100 fee only applies for the first six months of iPhone ownership."

What? Surely unlocknig is a one-off cost anyway? You don't have to unlock it once a month or once per SIM do you?

Brit office Xmas parties going to the dogs

Jamie Kitson

Never Been A Problem...

As ours isn't even at Christmas, to save money ours is in April. Bah Humbug? Quite.

Woolworths flogs Disney Princess chair for £100m

Jamie Kitson
Happy

Surely...

"Thanks to Simon Mullin for the rip-off."

Optimise your mobile content for free

Jamie Kitson
Stop

Why Bother?

http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/13/volantis_opens_up/

Woman bites boyf in wedding tackle

Jamie Kitson
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Where's the, erm....

Since I know the rules of Reg Club by rote I will not ask the obvious question, but really, domestic abuse hasn't been a laughing matter since at least the 80's, you wouldn't have posted this story in such a light-hearted manner if the genders had been reversed.... oh wait... never mind.

Google funds hold Firefox fate (for sure)

Jamie Kitson
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Funny...

By far the most invasive ads have always been found at el Reg, but these dinosaurs who walk all over the text take the biscuit! Thanks for the AdBlock tip!

Hypersonic hydrogen airliner to bitchslap Concorde

Jamie Kitson
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Wrong Shape

IANAAD (I am not an aero-dynamicist) but surely the plane in that picture is the wrong shape, IIRC super sonic planes should have the same cross sectional area throughout the body as much as possible, that one is shaped like a wedge.

Dot, squiggle, plop

Jamie Kitson
Alert

erm...

.tv is the TLD for Tuvalu. It's not some special TLD for TV channels. While I'm here I can also tell you that .im is for the Isle of Man, and not some special TLD for instant messaging, I could go on :) Personally I am all for the new TLDs I look forward to my own .xxx domain.

Hampshire copper in bus flash outrage

Jamie Kitson
Go

Shame

Shame the bus wasn't pimped. I'm sure it isn't a true reflection of the average Hampshireian's non-standard issue dustbin exhaust.

Mobiles give you brain cancer?

Jamie Kitson
Joke

I Keep My Brain In My Trousers

To be honest I am far more worried about the effect that my phone has on my balls, most of the time it is far closer to them than my head :)

Kim Jong Il: dictator, gnome, and now 'internet expert'

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Kim Jong Il's Blog

http://users.livejournal.com/kim_jong_il__

UK start-up tackles PIN fraud with patterns

Jamie Kitson

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

PINs don't necessarily stay the same, you can change them, maybe banks should force changes on users sometimes. Maybe banks shouldn't allow users to chose their PIN at all.

Windows XP repair disk kills automatic updates

Jamie Kitson

More Than One Critic, More Than One Mouth

But there's more than one critic, it doesn't make them all inconsistent that some complain about forced updates and some complain about non-forced updates.

Foundations laid for Galileo ground station

Jamie Kitson

Their Biggest Mistake

I still say their biggest mistake was to name it Galileo. Why why why not something that didn't begin with G?

eBay forum mysteriously leaks account details on 1,200 users

Jamie Kitson

Isn't It Obvious?

> it's tough to know why someone would go through the trouble of culling information associated with 1,200 eBay users and publish it smack dab under the noses of eBay's security team.

Maybe it's the only way they could do it, they wrote a script which published the details by posting them on the forums.

UFO lover 'lost three ton asteroid in office move'

Jamie Kitson

Crop Circles

Talking of UFOs, check out the markings on our new kitten:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamiekitson/1095007141/

Oz foetus becomes Facebook star

Jamie Kitson

Ah, a myspace man hu?

nt

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