Re: Cool things that people have done with it?

remote control for your cat?

Do you mean:

(a) A device that controls your cat remotely?

You're not another of these fans who think this thing is actually magical, are you? I'd believe in this more if anyone had even cracked non-remotely controlling them yet.

(b) A device your cat can use to remote-control things?

No. Just No. See icon.

Re: Remember AOL?

Your cup? You carry that around too?

What's that made from?

Neat, don't think I've seen an OP get 22 up / 22 down votes (at time of writing) before. You, Sir, have devised the...

Perfectly Polarising Post!

Icon: what it averages out to

Re: Remember AOL?

You carry a pocketful of coasters around with you?

/unfriend

Re: Re: Fresh batteries

>Where is my tin foil hat?

Be patent, I'm sure it'll turn up.

Re: Why?

Small point, but Windows has had IPv6 enabled by default on network connections at least as far back as XP (certainly SP1 if not RTM). No idea how pervasive it is across their non-OS estate, mind.

Re: 3 Wolf Moon

When the package arrived, I tore it open, and I SWEAR angels sang. I think it was Freebird.

Love it. The subject of the article is clearly dominated by (Profanisaurus-reading) Brits, this one does the US chapter proud.

Re: So a HTML5 webpage can open a port on the local network and listen for incoming connection?

I suspect the above are correct in how it works, but it still leaves a question of why Apple allow the device (or a web-app running on the device) to use two data-bearers (wifi and *G) at the same time. What the heck would you use that capability for, other than tethering?

Maybe this is obvious to an iPhone owner, but I can't even get my head around *how* a mere web page, HTML5 or otherwise, can specify which data-bearer to use for a particular connection. Anyone?

The real learning we can derive from this study is that a night with twins means double the work as well as double the pleasure :(

Wow

A testament to the human spirit, but how the fuck am I supposed to actually hold it?

I love the idea of trying to wield this thing while using the, for example:

Fine fork for watch spring bars

Corkscrew

Nail file

Golf divot repair tool

The only reason I'd take that thing camping with me is to shelter under it if the tent blew away!

Lastly: All that lot yet they seem to have left out the thing for getting the stones out of horses' hooves?

@AC

I dunno about that. The data's mostly just text, so even in a council area with as many as 500k citizens (rare, maybe nonexistent), each cit gets 2MB. You can get a lot of text in that, and probably leave room for a passport photo.

Of course, it's probably naiive to think the actual records are as space-efficient as that. Scans of paper documents, bloated MSO docs, gawd knows. Just saying they *could* squeeze your "life" into a lot less...

Nope, 0% unemployment...

...No retirement either though

'Twas before my time, but I do recall a previous article on this subject, wherein it was speculated that El Reg's mocking of the way Jobs pronounced "Jaguar" (something like "Jag-wire") was the final insult.

If that's the case, maybe (as some have already suggested below) the rest of One Infinite Loop were just waiting until the coast was clear to have a good chortle themselves. If this is a portent of a tad more humility and less ego-driven politics down Cupertino way, then I welcome it.

Oh HELL NO!

Stop stealing the glucose from my drink ya bas!

Also, will taking a swig not be like licking a battery?

Well gee

I'd assume the zombies to be those raised by Sabbat the Necromagus in the mega-epic, Judgement Day, no?

<- How Dredd actually deals with zombie cities

Well, not if you're a UK entity, no - you spurned your own country's TLD, here's where it got you. Blaaargh.

If you're a US entity, then complain away, but haven't you got a SOX compliance audit to be getting on with? :P

Imans?

How many people do we need to train to be David Bowie's wife?

@DF118

D'oh, not having a good week here, sorry :(

In my defence, normally if an item had been covered in a previous article, there'd be a backlink ... OK, I'll stop digging now...

Green Folks

They're just pissed that Capt. Kirk kept loving and leaving them :S

@Gene Cash

Minor point, but do monster trucks really *get* stuck in mud? I sorta thought that was one of their selling-points...

@Giles Jones

Dang, I really did read "HTC" and it arrived in my brain as "Android" (despite me being aware that they also did WinPhos). How embarrassing, and how telling. Please don't tell Ballmer, I forgot the chair-proof suit today!

No, that's the X1.8, this is the muffler bracket from a '79 Pinto.