Posts by Mike Flex

Re: this is what england will be like in a couple years

> the shits, i mean rich people, will pin your country down and fuck it in the ass with their lame sports events, ...

I thought that was scheduled for this summer, rather than a couple of years time.

Re: I think it's safe to say

> the most pointless collection of shit the reg has ever assembled

Though I must give some grudging acknowledgement that el Reg is now prepared to publish criticism of itself, rather than just quietly dropping it in the moderation process.

Coming shortly - an article listing the 10 most pointless Reg articles ever.

Re: And there's the characteristics of the down-market laptop market...

> the same reason undergraduates stagger around campus with 17" laptops

They're using them as desktop replacement/media PCs in their accommodation and can't afford a second smaller laptop to cart around campus.

Re: Fosters

> Just need a potty and a fridge to complete the look :)

A pass on the potty but an optional fridge for your 6-pack is available:

http://www.premierehomecinema.co.uk/p/premiere-home-cinema-seating-mini-fridge/

Re: Non-zero Y-axis and 'Quite a bit slower'?

> Look, maybe it's me, but when you graph stuff (looking at second graph here) not from a zero Y-axis you should say so.

By clearly labelling the Y-axis perhaps? Oh, it was. It seems we have some Regtards who could do with some practice reading graphs.

The individual words appear to be taken from English but they seem to have been thrown together arbitrarily.

Perhaps the author was testing a new rnd() function?

Re: Ahhhhh!

> ...the cinema. You go with someone to sit in a darkened room where you aren't even allowed to talk.

If only. My very occasional visits to the cinema are kept that way by the prospects of sitting next to some group of people who are so intent on yakking away I wonder why they didn't just go to the pub for a convivial shout at each other.

Re: I remember when my were disconnected.

> spontaneous reconnection

The article is about a prostate removal, not a vasectomy.

It's about tackling a different sort of unwanted growth.

"The issue is not on the front page because...the system that we use to change this sort of thing on the site is affected by this outage too."

Er, they can't access their hosting provider from any Internet connection on the planet?

Re: Greed

c) Somebody punting the unobtainable bargain on fleabay.

Re: Mr Cox, can you sum it up in one word?

> "Amazing"

> Thanks Brian.

Though the BBC licence fee payers had to fly him and a film crew to New Zealand for that quote.

Re: Not quite the £25 computer in reality

> Don't forget the USB hub,

Available from Poundland. For £1, funnily enough.

Re: How to mark International Womens Day

> International Sense of Humour Failure Day too is it?

If you find scenes of (implied) group rape amusing, well, that's telling us more about yourself than you might have wanted to reveal on a public forum.

Re: @Mike Flex

Bjorg wrote:

> Are you saying that most people don't own a computer so if they want to learn how to program they would have to do it in school? Because (at least in the developed world), that's wrong.

No, I'm suggesting that school children who have access to computers just know how to use them (for social networking/media consumption at home or introductory MS Office, masquerading as ICT, at school). A few well-motivated children will learn to program by themselves but most children won't know it's even possible unless they are exposed to something like this at school.

> Also, what makes the school environment a good place to learn to program? I don't know of any schools that allow you to stay in the classrooms unless it's for an approved after-school activity (which could be some sort of programming club, which would invalidate your hypothesis that it's not available for hacking code). So you're implying that school PCs *should* be available for hacking code during school hours, when you should be learning Math and English.

Schools ought to be able to teach computing (some form of computer science) rather than just ICT (turning out the next generation of obedient MS office drones). The RPi is a handy platform to do that on. I don't think the school curriculum should be limited to two subjects.

> Someone that can't do basic math, read, write, or speak well isn't going to do anyone any good and isn't going to get a job, even if he can program.

Thank you, Sherlock. Such a student isn't going to get far programming.

Re: time and time again

> In this case top secret info - unencrypted.

Where does the article claim this was unencrypted top secret info? The article merely mentions "secret plans", which doesn't necessarily even mean SECRET plans.

Dassault claimed the lost documents were not particularly sensitive though, of course, there might be a touch of the Rice-Davies' about that.

Re: I've said it before, and I'll say it again ...

> Anyone who uses the term "cyber" ... is probably completely clueless

It's the term of art in government and military circles. If you don't like it; tough, it isn't going to go away.

Re: Re: X in SPAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCEEEEEEEEE!

> b) Travelling more than 300 miles from Cardiff.

I think you'll find Utah is considerably more than 300 miles from Cardiff.

Re: My super more awesome way that the reply button should work.

wot yoinkster rote.