* Posts by Fractured Cell

108 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009

Google auto-alerts Gmailers to suspicious log-ins

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WTF?

This should be fun...

Particularly because my ISP likes to change my GeoIP every 7 hours or so...

So. How long till i get blocked completely?

Amazon posts Kindle for Mac

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Dead Vulture

This...

...Is nothing more than a faceless plug!

Shame on you ElReg!

Desktop refresh cycles: How long is yours?

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Coffee/keyboard

4 years? HAH!

My school still have machines back from the heydays of Win98, and they still make us use them. Only now are they starting to replace them with dual core machines, which are a breath of fresh air compared to the old ones. Around 1/2 the machines in the 900 machine strong network are the oldies that run:

Single processor @ 600Mhz

256Mb RAM

16Gb HDD

Server Built WinXP

USB 1.1

And it takes around 17 minutes to desktop from cold.

(I shall have to start introducing superglue to the ports & cooling system...)

Sarah Palin to testify in email hack trial

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Pint

If Anything...

At least it managed to shut that smarmy [expleteive deleted] up for a while.

She deserves everything she gets.

<PalinVoice=on>

I'm so awesome, because im an average american, and im a soccer mum, etc...

<PalinVoice=off>

AAAARGH! NOBODY CARES!

</rant>

On the other side, sloppy work by the so called 'Hacker'...

Need beer to get my brain functioning again

Sony launches 'WiiMote for PS3'

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Heart

Is it just me...

... or does the one with the blue ping-pong ball on the end look like a 'Body Cavity Insertable Pleasure Device™'?

PayPal restores Cryptome for real

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Go

Hurrah!

The truth will out!

Now get your cash out of there pronto...

Microsoft's dual-screen booklet shows 'face' on web

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Thumb Down

WHAT!?!

Not the full OS?!?

First the iTablet, and now this?

I thought I was actually going to get a decent tablet offering this year...

Guess not.

*Sigh*

Designer pitches iPad gaming wheel

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Joke

T,FTFY

Production costs will be wheely cheap

Steve Jobs uncloaks the 'iPad'

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Pint

TBH, Rather disapointed.

Most of the concepts that the iFans made were better.

I was expecting it to at least run a buggered version of OSX, not a slightly better version of the iOS.

Watched the Keynote with bated breath, but when the Moses Tablet™ was unveiled, all I could say was: Thats crap! Its just a massive iPhone!"

Very dissapointed, was actually expecting something useable.

(now to go drown myself. (With large amounts of ethanol, of course.))

Car-stopping electropulse cannon to demo 'next month'

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Stop

Tell them to come back...

When they have found a way to mount them on the heads of my existing fleet of currently laser-equipped mutant sharks.

Til then, No sale.

Bob the Builder slapped with CGI rendering

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@IndianaJ

"Fireman Sam (which, in fairness, was shit to start with)"

NO IT WASN'T!!!

*Stamps foot and starts wailing*

But in all fairness, they have turned him into 'Generic Safety Man™', with no character. In the old series, he used to have robots cooking fried eggs, now he is just a big-chinned moron.

Apple (finally) boot camps Windows 7

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Megaphone

odd:

Win7 (rc1) worked out of the box on an old version of Boot Camp from 2008, once I had installed the drivers from my OS X DVD, no more issues.

And only NOW they have the gall to tell me it's supported.

MALE COW FAECES SAYS I!

Brit firm aims to make airport perv scans obsolete

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Go

Well, I for one...

...Will be wearing undies made entirely from tin-foil for my next few trips, just to see what sort of an impact it has: i.e. Whether the operators are paying attention or not.

Intel puts cloud on single megachip

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Megaphone

Not going to be a commercial product?

Damn you!

WANTWANTWANTWANT

er, WANT?

LHC knocked out by ANOTHER power failure

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Boffin

My Goodness!

"I never thought I'd see a Resonance Cascade, let alone create one!"

ISS crew drops from 12 to 2

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Thumb Down

With a title like that,

I was expecting either an 'Alien' attack,

or

"Can someone go and shut thge airlock, it's letting in a helluva draft!"

Anyway, wheres the predator when you need it?

Aus gov dredges up cuter panic-button for kids online

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Thumb Down

We dont want a dolphin,

We want Sexual Harassment Panda!

Microsoft enlists faceless girl band as face of Windows 7

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@AC, 11:28

Ballmer giving birth: A frankly terrifying prospect.

"Well 'e can't 'ave babies, 'e 'asn't got a womb! Wheres the foetus gonna gestate, you gonna keep it inna box?!?"

Thats because he doesnt need a womb, he just reproduces asexually, creating hordes of MiniBallmers, all who have tiny fits of chair-throwing rage, and will eventually take over the world!

*Evil Laugh*

Strap-on jetwing birdman does an Icarus into Straits of Gibraltar

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Go

A Memorable Quote from Buzz Lightyear:

"Tins isn't flying - Its falling, With Style!"

How blogger kept Belle de Jour's ID secret

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Thumb Up

Well Done!

Good for you!

I think this man deserves a round of applause.

Well done to you, Sir!

Atheists smite online God poll

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Megaphone

Wait just a cotton pickin' minute...

How much do you bet that this was perpertrated by 4chan?

Or a flash mob?

I can also see a really sadistic botnet owner doing this for a laugh.

(I say to him: "Well done, Sir!")

Also, he has won 1 Internets.

Microsoft offers online tools for Swine Flu infected kids

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FAIL

Um, hang on a minute...

Most UK schools have a system like this set up already, with much more functionality.

Its called a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment).

Brown says the 'C' word

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Megaphone

Im Davina Mcall, and

Welcome to a special edition celebrity live fly on the wall edition of Big Brother!!

And remember, dont say fsck or bugger!

Police drag feet following DNA law change

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@Graham Marsden

But does the Pope shit in the Woods?

BOFH: Hammer time!

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Pint

Well Done!

Just what I need on a friday afternoon, you are on form as always, Mr. Travaglia.

Here, have a (metaphorical) beer on me.

Lords cut Irish travel from e-Borders

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Welcome

Huh?

"dropped plans to introduce immigration controls between UK...and the Channel Islands."

AFAK, they always check immigration when I come into the UK from Jersey, so I dont have a clue what they are on about. They usually lump us in with the easyjet morons coming home from spain, muttering about how they will get back to solihull.

(Just try not to breath, trust me)

Yorkshire cops accused of copyright theft

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Title goes here: Yay!

Green Dam anyone?

Sound familiar?

Home Office gets another ad agency for ID cards

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Stop

Yeesh!

Are they never going to let this go?

"HO! ME JONNY ENGLISH, ME WANT BIG DATABASE, BIG, BIG!"

*Testiculates with arms wildly*

I swear, if I hear another thing about them trying to reinstate this heap of sewage, i will go stir crazy. And not in a good way.

NASA data shows 'dramatically' thinned Arctic ice

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Alien

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!1

*laughs like a maniac, and runs around with no clothes on*

BTW, its all the fault of the aliens, they're all really robotic freemasons anyway!

Sprint punts 99¢ netbook

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"Borken"

Got to remember that one, it sounds like a winner.

Yahoo! takes notes on your searches

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But...

Does it have a pr0n H^H^H^H^ sensitive viewing mode?

China cuts internet to quell ethnic riots

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Stop

NO! NO! BAD CHINA!

No internet for you!

Now go and sit on the stairs!

Olympics bosses probe mobile tracking tech

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Big Brother

Just look at the detection radius:

With 30 to 50 metres you will have false positives all over the place.

"but officer, i was just walking my dog next to this canal here."

~~

"Whats that? This 40 foot blue fence?"

~~

"N..No, officer, I..I"

*sound of handcuffs clicking...*

BB, because although he is watching, he is not watching close enough.

Bing slips into bed with Twitter

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Terminator

Why do i have to have a title?

"Little one says 'roll over'"

'Cos I've found the lube.

Software firm goes after Google for internet invisibility cloak

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FinallyFast...

I saw an Ad for that once.

Isn't it one of those products that claims it can magicially 'fix' your cheap, beige box running Win95?

Or I /may/ be mistaken, their website is blocked at work.

can anyone prove me wrong?

Sounds like CrapWare to me though.

Petrol station robbers cuffed after running out of petrol

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FAIL

How long before

These pair are nominated for a Darwin Award?:>

Users claim iPhone 3.0 GPS mis-map mishaps

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Grenade

Ahhhh, hah hah hah, etc...

Ha. OK, I'm done now.

Its because you have sinned against the JeezusPhone™, and Jeezus is annoyed with you.

Get a phone that can go through the wash, and come out the other side unscathed, bar a day on the radiator, and still work (Three times now), can be thrown against the wall whilst drunk, and still ring for a taxi, and then, maybe, /Just maybe/ you are ready for a B&W NOKIA!!!

Who wants Apps, and a camera, when you can have snake, and a torch on the top?

Texting, and a phone book, the ability to make calls, thats all you need. get a seperate PMP and camera, if you wantt quality, and the ability to save 200 odd quid.

Can your phone survive this?

Prof: People reject news which conflicts with beliefs

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Paris Hilton

So,

I'm a BeanCurd scoffing IT loving hippie am I?

Paris, because she loves scoffing other peoples dubious stuff

ICANN appoints former cybersecurity chief as new boss

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WHAT?!?

He was /VOTED/ as cheif of ICANT?

i pity the poor man.

iPhone 3G S unlock path discovered

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Megaphone

Go faster

HURRY HURRY HURRY

HURRY

(or you will suffer most painfully)

*Cracks Whip*

US kids busy bullying, sexy texting

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Boffin

Whats this about horny teens?

I demand a playmobil construction, preferably with that ridiculous camera-phone pose where they hold it up over their heads, going "LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEE" or similar.

My mim always told me to stop looking at pr0n, or id go blind, so now i wear safety goggles when i am exposed to the stuff.

Louisiana judge holds Dell in contempt

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Pint

(O_O)

"$2,700 bill at a strip club"

What, did he hire the entire place out privatly or something?

Thats a helluva big bill.

*Beer, cos he can afford it. (shove it on the card, mate?)

Microsoft's Bing in travel trouble

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Pirate

Any tech suficiantly advanced can be misconstrued as magic

Oooh, can i get a job at Micro$oft as master HTML wizard then?

"Your job today is to create a travel search site."

OK, Kayak.com.

View>Source

Ctrl-A

Ctrl-C

Open Dreamweaver

Ctrl-V

Save

That'll be 7.5 Billion, thank you very much.

in cash, and small bills please.

UK.gov decides best form of cyber defence is attack

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Grenade

Well, DUH!

"But in the medium term they will be looking at what the UK can do to counter such attacks."

For a start they could ditch windows, move to some form of linux, which is much more secure.

if they have programs they /cannot/ do without, let them run WINE.

you heard it here first.

UK police chiefs mull regional cybercrime squads

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Big Brother

Remember,

in an orwellian twist of BB:

Now is the time for all good pigs to come to the aid of the farm.

CGI Thunderbirds sadly not go

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Thumb Down

FAB, Virgill

"...a CGI rehash of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons which first appeared...in 2005."

Yes, and we all know how craptacular that little escapade was.

NASA moon-attack probe beams home first lunar shots

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Megaphone

The moon is drifting away?

But then the sky will fall!

*Runs around screaming: THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!*

Bing zings, but for how long?

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Megaphone

Ok, What?

So they have just re-invented Windows Live Search with a new UI.

Big Whoop.

i give it about 3 weeks before people start to realise what a crock of shi-ummm, sugar it is.

That is, all except those who used Live before that, and Yahoo! before that. But they deserve to be burnt at the stake for being a heretic.

The Jesus Phone has spoken! Now spread the word!

German old timers torture financial adviser

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Alert

To Quote GTA:IV

I thought you would say: "Sick Bondage Club"!

'Overweight' people live longer than those of 'ideal' weight

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Pint

Hang on a minute...

My family are skinny, have always been skinny, and will probably will be skinny in years to come.

and every single one of them have reached the milestone of 85 years old.

now put that in your pipe and smoke it.

(just dont hold me liable for any cancers that may occurr)

Now go and buy me a pint. (why is it not guinness?!?)