Posts by 4a$$Monkey

So they don't like competition...

As far as I can see it the only reason an airline would not want someone to use one of the price comparison websites is because they think they might loose customers to other airlines that have cheaper or more convenient flights.

Generally when I have found a flight I want on a comparison site I'd check and see if it was cheaper on the airline's site. Either way its a win for that airline.

> Black helicopters because they have more leg room than budget airlines.

So in summary

These people are pissed off because a huge multinational set-up in the area bringing jobs and prosperity.

Oh and get some blue paint. The attempt to recreate the Goggle logo is pathetic. F

"Paris Hilton..."

All right who was it? Own up!

This is clearly the work of a Reg reader :D

So now it's safe to join the "what would a Jihadists do?" group

/coat

Yeah... leave the OS alone

It's an interesting idea but you can't knock the OS too much. They do produce the best maps in the world! Try finding maps of similar quality and accuracy for any other country - you won't be able to.

You can't wiki-up that kind of quality as we all know.

For a government committed to listening, this is a pretty poor show.

Ah but they are listening... into your conversations! What more do you want?

Oh no there has been a terrible accident!

Hmmm those uni building look awfully flammable. Has the Halon system been checked out recently?

Gift ideas

I think the gift ideas on the site... blue ray dvd player... Xbox 360... etc are quite reasonable. After all the users should consider how much they appreciate their files.

It's stange how so many disks on RAID array can fail in one go.

No where did I put the bulk eraser?

If apple invented Phorm

If apple invented Phorm I bet the fan boys would still defend it... so so sad.

questions

The questions are ridicules... one asks why you don't play outside

a) its not safe

b) there is nothing to do

c) it cost too much

d) I I prefer to stay at home

kind of assuming they never go out isn't it!

I thought we had "packs of feral youths roaming the streets". Have the media been misleading us?

Mac fanatic

Ah yes even being ripped off wont dent their rabid support for Apple.

WiiFit

Go do some proper exercise you sad fucks!

Nuclear technology equals little children dying in agony

And it could cause the mutation of the general public into a zombie army of pedo-terrorists!

Think of the children people!

Coat > Mines the one with the chainsaw and boomstick

job security

you might as well say teachers should fear computers because they will take their jobs.

Backdoor

I'll bet it also puts in a backdoor that allows the tool kit authors to install their own malware / botnet clients

Kazsat-1 - Number one satellite in whole of Kazakhstan

Had to be said.

V

"Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquillity of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent."

Manhunt to treat vilonet psychotics?

...hmm maybe not.

> mines the one with the arms tied behind the back.

"how computers talk to each other"

Do these ministers get their IT knowledge from "Jack and Jill do IT"? Why do they not get someone to brief them properly so they they look like a complete idiot when reporting these cock-up?

Joke alert because that's what they are.

Top quality

Nice one Simon.

Chop their fingers off...

...and see how good their skilz are when they are trying to control their bonnets with head wands!

Hanging's too good for 'em

"it seems logical that IPS would contract out the interviews"

So the process of verifying the identities of passport applicants is going to be given to the lowest bidder... well I'm reassured.

Goverment request moon on a stick

So the government are asking for the moon on a stick again - that's fine we'll just whip up a magic system that will stop people form being able to sell the tickets then.

Simple

Giant solar farms in the sahara provide electricity to water electrolysis plants on the coast that produce Hydrogen that could be shipped round the world.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/25/faiman_negev_solar_plan/

Result low cost "green" fuel and a massive income to otherwise quite poor African countries.

Is it really good news?

I'm not sure what's worse a yahoo owned by MS or an even more powerful Google. I'm edging towards the prior as Microsoft's attempts to take on Google will most likely fail and they appear to be on a slippery slope to irrelevances anyway.

Games

Its been said already but I'd second the more games point. I wouldn't put Linux on my home PC because of the lack of game support. I'm rebuilding my main machine at the moment and it looks like it going to have to be Vista. Bah.

Note to self: order extra 2GB ram.

Transparent money grab

Is it just me or is this just a transparent money grab? I'm trying to see how they could possibly think this was a fair deal.

Surly a tax would require either the cooperation of all MP3 manufactures or legislation. If it was a proper legislative tax than people would just order MP3 player from abroad from a country that didn't have the tax. That or you'd get guys flogging cheep player in pubs.

As for it being illegal in the UK to make an MP3 copy of a CD you have paid for... does anyone care?

Guitar Hero is only fun if you have...

The guitar controller + mates + beer

Playing on your own is just sad

Just one problem

The average age of a Wii owner is 9!

£25,000 Chucks

The idea of giving out chunks of the licence fee to anyone wanting to make a decent show is a great one. Unfortunately I would worry that it would be presided over in the same farcical way the national lottery hands out its good causes cash.

Paris icon because she knows how to make a good show!

Drug testing

How long before we see drug testing at the noble awards?

Both right and both wrong.

The BBC traditional delivery method as a radio transmission was paid for by them and so it is false to claim that they shouldn’t be paying for delivery. When you are watching BBC on Freeview they are paying for the transmission. But no other internet content provider would expect to subsidies the ISPs for delivering it’s content.

On the other hand ISP are supposed to deliver whatever content we request over their networks. It’s a bit ridicules to ask for a premium or subsidy just because someone came up with a popular product that uses a lot of bandwidth.

There are only two ways this is going to turn out;1) We say goodbye to unmetered internet access; or 2) The networks step up to deliver the bandwidth that is demanded.

WTF?

Ubuntu Christian Edition 3.3

www.whatwouldjesusdownload.com

That's a joke right?

Right???

(Joke alert because I really hope it is one)

Why are the Sys Admins not aware of what is going on?

I’d like to think I’d notice if any machines on my network started trying to send emails to anything other than my mailsevers.

A good BOFH wouldn’t allow a botnet to run of his network (unless it was making him money).

It’s a good job law enforcement wasn’t so stupid when I was young

... because my friends and I would have been shipped off for a long holiday in Cuba for some of the stuff we made in our extra-circular science and technology studies!

Thumbs up for making a Taser from a disposable camera. Well done kid.

Three things about open source

One, nobody owns it... Open source doesn’t necessarily mean free and it certainly doesn’t mean nobody owns it!

Two, everybody uses it... Well apart from those 'paytard' M$ users;-)

And three, anyone can improve it... As long as they can code!

Aren’t you allowed to shoot home invaders on sight in America?

Breakout the M16... it’s for home protection!

WTF?

Seriously who the fuck thinks blinding airline pilots on approach to landing is funny! Hanging’s too good for em!!

How they wrote the report...

I think its clear when they were meant to be writing the report they went to the pub for some refreshments... had a few too many beers... probably grabbed a kebab on the way home... stuck on Die Hard 4 and then wrote it while completely trashed.

We’ve all been there :-)

Instead of the food fight application you get...

Jihad!

Ozzie has launched a suicide bomb attack on you! Click here to install the Jihad application and retaliate now!

space battle

Wow! In almost no time at all I found this image...

http://www.google.com/sky/#latitude=66.33970959528405&longitude=-42.44293212890625&zoom=9&Spitzer=0.00&ChandraXO=0.00&Galex=0.00&IRAS=0.00&WMAP=0.00&Cassini=0.00&slide=1&mI=-1&oI=-1

Looks like evidence for some kind of space battle to me!

re: Motorbikes

@ Simon: I totally agree.

@ FlatSpot: You are kind of missing the point – yes the MPG is about the same as a small car but you don’t spend hours sitting in traffic jams on a bike so you’re not using as much fuel. Plus riding a 600cc bike is even more fun than driving high performance / sports car. If you go for a small 125cc bike the fuel economy can be a fantastic 100mpg!

As for Sunday riders I can’t really excuse them (I live in Wales... you should see how many we get round here). But for those of us who use our bikes as our main form of transport it is a low cost and low emission alternative to a car.

Reg standard unit of paranoia

Wasn’t the Reg standard unit of paranoia the 911? I.e. one 911 = “the chance that 911 was an inside job”.

Compliance

Variable speed limits:

On the M42 where there are cameras people generally stick to it, at least by the gantries with the cameras on.

On the M25 where are aren’t cameras people generally ignore the variable limit... of course it’s pretty rare you can speed on the M25 anyway :-)

Average speed cameras:

On the M60... sure people comply because they have to - it’s that or a ticket. It doesn’t mean they like it or that using them along with a pointless 50mph restriction when there aren’t road works is good idea.

Of course on my bike I’m immune to the forward facing average speed cameras anyway (no front number plate) LoL. Unfortunate I doubt they will let that loophole continue on a national road charging scheme:-(

Flame for whole concept but thumbs up for banning HGVs form overtaking.

To quote the BOFH

"A REAL computer has ONE speed and the only powersaving it permits is when you pull the power leads out of the back!" I blurt. "In fact, a REAL computer would have a hole in the front to push trees into and an exhaust pipe out the back for the black smoke to come out of."

BOFH 2008 - Episode4

8.4% and 3.7% so what?

It’s not that much! Getting a project that complicated in almost on budget is something they should be pleased with and 8.4% is hardly worth shouting about.

How it was defeated

It didn’t take long for the Mexicans to find a way for defeating Eye-o-Sauron™. Here is the latest shocking photo from the border...

http://seiboh.notlong.com