Posts by bexley

Why not just ignore Israelfrom now on

Just dont go to that frankly imoral and agresive nation that is basically the cause of most of the insability in the middle east.

Our typical "israel is our friend" line is unfounded, most people in the UK you speak to dont consider them a friendly nation at all. Why is it that we maintain a freidnship with them considering the things they get up to?

I accept that this alone is not strong enough cause to alter a relationship but state sponsored assinations and the wagin of war against civillian populations is a pretty good reason.

6 seconds of what ?

First of all to all you people who are complaining of the injustice of being possibly jailed for CGI tiger porn - the article clearly states that those charges were dropped.

So we are left with a 6 second clip that is deemed serious enough to jail a man.

What is in those 6 seconds?

This new law worries me as much as the nextman but if this guy had something truely nasty like kiddy porn then perhaps it's not unwarranted.

Let's wait and see what the clip contains first

wow

i wonder if i'll be able to reboot / shutdown my netbook in this one

They better have made this a whole lot more reliable than 9.10 or they will loose a lot of their user base

on theother hand

people that 'do' want windows are getting a good deal no?

just saying...

sigh

I have a pirated copy of windows 7 on my netbook. All of the software on in is either open source, freeware or pirated.

i dual boot with ubuntu which is my main and preferred operating system.

I dont feel great about occasionally using a pirated operating system but i dont feel bad about it either since i would never pay for it in the first place.

If an update comes out that detects the crack or whatever and i cant find a new working crack i just wont use windows anymore- it does not mean i will rush out and spend a lot of money on a legal version.

i'm not just saying that either, i really would ever buy it.

so aside from the morality issue, have they lost any money from me?

On a windows7 crack site i got my crack from, i noted that there have been 2million downloads of the crack. Does that mean that microsoft have lost 2 million sales? i dont think so.

Besides, everybody knows that microsoft dont really mind unlicensed copies being used since it serves them in the long run to have as many people using their products as possible.,

The 50 year anomaly that is the music industry has had it's time, artists dont need them anymore, music can be marketed and distributed without them. Look at myspace.

The internet brings artists and the public infinite choice and opportunities for new music,new music that does not fit a small music company's narrow minded "it has to be like this or it wont sell" criteria for signing new talent.

I say screw them, music has been around an awful lot longer than EMI, Sony etc.... it will be around longer than whichever the popular medium for the times is too.

Piracy is not killing music,it's arguably killing the music "industry", music will be around for as long as humans have emotions. that is the simple fact.

Making money in my opinion is not what music is for, it is a form of artistic expression. For something to be art, it must have no other purpose other than to be art.

Unfortunately our government's are staffed by businessmen and women who are trained in making money and law, not much else. Therefore those that speak the language of business are those that will be listened to.

if anyone from...

Northern Ireland complained then ok but what has this got to do with america?

Your american's not irish.

oh my god i am so tired of hearing about the bloody Olympics

It's not distracting me from the real shitty problems we have in this country you know ! <wave fist>

*what they did to that homosexual chap was horrible but come on, they said sorry

here's an idea

The seats are too small. I'm a fairly skinny bloke and i find the seats to be much to close together and as pointed out above, they do this to fit more people on so they can make more money.

Sorry but that;s not a good enough reason to keep somone crammed into a small space for 14 hours!

It's not healthy..

Fat people are still people and there are plenty of them and always will be, just ignoring that when seeing how many seats you could possibly fit inside an aircraft is not a responsible thing to do. Oh and now look, fat people cant actually fit in the damn seats. I know,instead of acepting the design flaw let's just make them pay more.

Good point on the emergency exit's, what happens if the overweight chap gets there first and blocks the door ?

I too would prefer to be put to sleep and put in the hold, to relive the bordom if nothing else. Why is that not an option by the way?

Would you like a sedative with your vile tasting lunch sir?

I'm resorting to staying up all night before my flight to mexico next week- that way i plan to be exhausted when i board so that i will mercifully sleep through some of the flight.

let me just add that sitting next to a fat guy is nothing compared with sitting in a 100% full747 full of North Indian's who can talk and talk and talk and talk for 9 hours without pausing to breath. And let's not forget the Mother of three spoilt little kids that scream through most of the flight while she does nothing to stop them.

braniacs

Yes the last bastion of pure science, a source to be trusted.

But i agree with you none the less. The issue with mobile phones is that they dont have non conductive seals over the battery charging points.

In other health and safety regs electrical equipment used in area's where there is likely to be flammable gas non conductive seals must be used. I guess they just highjacked that advice for mobiles. To be honest though who switches their phones off at petrol stations anyway,i never have.

To return to topic, the labour gov do seem rather keen on banning things that they cant think of a solution for, which is a lot of things, so yeah, add movies to the list.

From now on only rom /coms with tom hanks in should be allowed.

Sad that this guy died the way he did but lets be honest, it was not the movie that killed him, he was ill anyway.

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i had to fill this since i have a connecting flight to Mexico from there. It's anoying since i wont even leave the airport, i am literally flying from heathrow to huston and then catching a connecting flight to Mexico.

I find the yanks attitude to British travelers anoying at best, i thought we were their closest ally? is it customary to make your closest allies sign a form saying that they were not a member of the nazi party and ask them if they are a terrorist, are a member of a terrorist organisation etc...

No i am bloody not and i take at offense at the notion that you think that i might be!

They better have done something about the high cpu problems

I reached the end of my patience this morning while writing a blog with a few images in it. My whole OS was dog slow because firefox was using 100% cpu.

It was not even playing video, just a handful of images.

I have been a loyal FF user since it was first released but i have had enough now, when i cant use my computer anymore because of firefox's crapness then it is useless to me.

Mozilla, put the new features on hold and fix the damn thing before releasing anything new.

i work with two men that look just like that pic (him with no beard)

I'm currently looking at the 25 million reward and wondering if i should turn them in, maybe just one of them.

I'm work with lot's of asian blokes and have no difficulty telling the difference between them, i'm not a racist or one of those people that says " they all look the same to me".

But honestly, that picture is not going to help find mr bin laden, they have simply characterised him.

In all seriousness, he would not look at all out of place in london, and now i think about it, it's a damn good idea for him to hide out here, as said above, everyone is looking for him in pakistan.

He could set up here and run an empire of convenience stores and textile shops (no offense intended but that is a common asian / arab business venture and there is nothing at all wrong with that, admirable in fact)

Makes you wonder doesn't it.

I do think that the septics credit this chap with far more ingenuity and power that he really has. Maybe if they were not so keen to scape goat someone for every bad thing that happens they might do a little better in tis abhorrent war on terror.

Still, i dare say that this picture has given Osama and his mates a good laugh whenever they look at it. Better still it let's him know when to have a shave or change his hair style since he now knows what they are looking for.

fantastic

Justice has been done

nice

I wonder what the linux driver is like, the difference between the quality of windows and linux wifi drivers is still quite large.

I have found centrino drivers to be good on linux though

rubbish comutputers anyway

It's shame people have had towait so long to find out they just bought shit computers.

6 weeks to deliver a PC? and off the shelf PC (fine maybe with a different HDD and RAM but they take minutes to install not weeks)

I would not want to wat more than a few days and a company the size of Dell should not be making people wait more than a week.

You can have an HP pc the next day. servers next day to. In fact with a lot of HP gear you can have same day delivery.

I gave up on Dell a while ago when they could not understand why i wanted tobuy a certain netbook without windows xp.

Your lucky if you get through to the Irish chaps though, i do find that you tend to get a more coherent conversation with them, the indian call centre is like pullng teeth.

i wonder how much carbon the clothing factories in China will produce

Since China are to blame for all of the worlds carbon (if you read the Guardian) and have refused to reduce it, is it ethical to have them make all of our clothing ?

I kind of like the new pattern, bit sad to see woodland DPM disappear though as it is very very good.

Still though, there will be a huge influx to to the market for DPM kit now, should drive the prices down.

poor show

poor show, was this a short straw article, nobody wanted to write this so you all drew straws?

rushed and boring with the exception of the chewbacca microsoft photo

to all those people that say sp what it is only data

Dave the insurgent : Alah akbar Trevor, they are watching the market place at the moment so dont going there to blow yourself up, i can see that they have company size strength on the ground and an Abrams.

Trevor the insurgent : Are they watching the gas works?

Dave the insurgent : a bit, they have a section sized force guarding it, and a humvee, it's much less protected and it looks as though they are just filming themselves dancing for a youtube video so they are not really paying attention

Trevor the insurgent : OK Dave, i'll go the the GAS works and blow myself up there instead.

Dave the insurgent ; Ala akbar

To see what your enemy is doing is invaluable hence the Americans extensive use of UAV. If you can see what they are interested in it makes the task of feeding them false intel all the easier not to mention that finding and unguarded target is much easier.

There is no excuse for not encrypting data feeds from miitary intel gather devices, it is not difficult or expensive.

I even watch my movies and share my files via an ssh tunnel, not because i'm scared of anyone intercepting my data, it's just so easy to do it i thought why not?

has nobody made any christmas music since the late 70's?

I have wondered for years why we all appear to be stuck in an audio time-loop come christmas time.

Why do we always go back slade every year, sure, i know pretty much every christmas song has been naff but it's not as if that slade riff is any better, it makes me clench my teeth every year when it play's in all the shops.

I have even been known to walk into a shop, then walk straight out again to avoid that song.

bah humbug

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Dear The Register,

Please dont follow the tabloids into the shameful world of sensationalism and ignoring the fact's that get in the way of a good ol blamed filled story.

For one, I am very happy that the MOD do not just focus on ongoing operations. They have to plan for every eventuality. It's all very well equipping your forces to fight only in the middle east and Asia but what happens when a conflict occurs somewhere else?.

It is simply irresponsible to judge the MOD unfairly and negativity because every single procurement does not fit the exact requirements of the war in the Afghanistan. I use the term War for want of a better word, War implies that it can be won.

It is the MOD's responsibility to consider what has been, what is happening now and what might happen in the future while considering new equipment.

The lead time's on military hardwareare absurd i agree, but there is little competition. If the MOD were to say, right, we like Aircraft A and Aircraft B, the first one to get it ready for operations in the next 8 years including operational testing to ensure that quality is up to standard (an arbitrary but reasonable time frame) get's the contract. Now off you go.

You wait and see how quick these aircraft get developed then.

The comments somebody made about the Navy not be able to defend it's self during the Falklands are correct.

Wow, it is pure chance that our carriers were not sunk by Exocet, pure chance. They were fired at the Carrirer but hit Gallahd instead killing 50 Welsh Guards injuring 50 more.

The problem i have with that statement is that we were not fighting a 3rd world airforce, they had pretty much the same era of technology as us, The very latest French built Exocet anti shipping missile, Mirage etc...

Credit to the RN for shooting so many of them down (83 aircraft destroyed) but we lost 5 ship's, an awful lot of hardware along with them including 5 Chinooks hundreds of casualties. In fact the Argies inflicted more damage on us from a hardware resources point of view than we did on them. Only thanks to the Argentine's incredibly poor judgment and intelligence coupled with some good old British steel and elbow grease did we win that war.

Anyway, to the Register - can you please go back to writing factual, interesting and thought provoking articles instead of sensationalist, opinionated tabloid'esq rubbish and is a waste of your time and ours. This is what The Sun is for.

I have heard you fip flop between "buy it from the Americans, they already have cheaper and better ones available" to " our dependence on the American tech blah blah blah".

Come on will you, i'm sure you didnt start writing for a living to generate mindless rubbish just to get paid, grow a spine and write an article you can be proud of :-)

tax payer money well spent

Never mind that cure for cancer nor the threat of climate change.

It's way more fun to fuck about with micro snowmen.

I would not mind what these chaps did under normal circumstances. But i wan them to get on with some real work now thankyou very much.

why on earth do a i have to add a title to this? i'm replying to a topic not starting a new one

I think it is a good sign that this chap is showing an interest in understanding the 'problem'.

However, i do wish that he would listen to the advice of those that know about these matters. Instead of staying quiet while that idiot of a home secretary that we have to put up with until the inevitable ousting of labour in favor of the equally as bad conservative party, went ahead and sacked the chief advisor on drugs - for not agreeing with him.

AC 4th December 2009 14:04 GMT is bang on the money with this one. The cause of the most of the perceived problems with drugs are their legal status. Arghhh it is so blindingly obvious that it makes me want to fine an MP and shake him until he understands.

What worries me most is that these people, the same people who refuse to accept the blatantly obvious are running our country / lives, what other painfully embarrassing and dangerous mistakes do they make on a daily basis ?

i was going to give him a thumbs up for trying but now he can go fuck himself for not listening to what has already been said a million times.

more scare mongering

The Register Editor : come on chaps, i know we are a tech news site but where is the sensationalism? Cant you run a piece on celeb sightings, the stupid public love that shit

The Register Journalist : Well i was reading some shite about Mckinnon's mum crying in the Telegraph the other day, i could just plagiarise that?

The Register Editor: oh the story where Alan Johnson snubbed her? Didnt she say that he had nothing to do with her crying?

The Register Journalist: yeah but the public will just start commenting on the injustice of the whole thing and forget that my story was utter bollocks with no basis in the realms of fact.

If your going to lift and cover most of your articles, can you just lift and cover the true stories please?

oh forget it, this was the straw that broke the camels back. I'm not reading this crap anymore.

You just lost an Ad viewer.

burning body parts?

what it is that is causing the carbon emissions from the healthcare sector though?

why are we always left with more questions after reading a register article anyway? a little bit more effort than a copy and paste anbd maybe a bit of journalistic research would make the world of difference.

only one thing bothers me about this

tha other news companies might follow suit.

i say let him go ahead, i wont miss it. greedy bastard that he is. the less of his lies we see the better. america for one will be a better place without news corp "news".

it will be fine so long as he does not persuade others to follow suit.

i look forward to an internet without neo con news sites polluting public opinion.

the first sensible thing i've read all week

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By Valerion Posted Friday 6th November 2009 14:22 GMT

Is the whole "recreating the conditions just after the big bang" thing.

The last time that happened, as I recall, the entire Universe sort of came into being and proceeded to grow continually outward at, presumably, the speed of light.

Seems to me that starting off another one of those in Switzerland could be considered A Bad Thing.

what is wrong with you people?

why do you think that it is ok to take a monkey out of it's home and away form it's family, tie it to a chair and blast it with radiation to see how much it suffers?

i cringe as i read your comments.

who is the stupid species?

A) the one that lives in harmony with nature for thousands of years

B) the one that spreads like a virus consuming every natural resource until the nature cannot sustain them anymore - leaving them with no option but to try and leave earth to go and fuck up some other eco system.

i find it disgusting that anyone would think it is justifiable to do what NASA are proposing.

to all the people that say run th tests on the protesters - why not step up yourselves, are none of you prepared to step up for the good of mankind?

Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 6th November 2009 13:25 GMT

yes i see your point, i guess i was trying to express my opinion that simply being a politician does not necessarily qualify one to make such decisions.

this is the reason that we have independent advisory bodies staffed by people who are qualified and do have a better grasp of the issue at hand.

i'll restate my comment

without having the proper prior knowledge accrued by proper and appropriate experience, research and listening to the advice of those at the top of the field then i do not trust what these people are saying, nor do i respect it.

it just beggars belief that these people are in a position to make such decisions that affect us all without having to slightest appreciation of the consequences of their actions.