Re: Excellent
"No wonder it got struck down. That's evolution."
Nope, that's abiogenesis.
Posts by Peter Johnstone
159 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Sep 2007
Flying Spaghetti Monster is not God, rules mortal judge
Sorry, Californians, you can't have this: Asus to build WATER COOLED notebook
Wednesday 9th September 2015 09:38 GMT
Re: Only PURE water is an insulator...
Wrong. Even pure water will conduct electricity. H20 ionises to H+ OH-. At any given time a small fraction of water will exist in the ionised form, allowing it to conduct electricity. Furthermore, more water will ionise in the presence of an electric current.
Chrome on Mac sucks (electrons), says Google, so we'll fix it
Creationist: The Flintstones was an accurate portrayal of Dino-human coexistence
Round Two in Sky vs Skype trademark scrap goes to Murdoch's men
Lost WHITE CITY of the MONKEY GOD found after 500 years
Sick of the 'criminal' lies about pie? Lobby the government HERE
Hello, police, El Reg here. Are we a bunch of terrorists now?
Wannabe Startup CEOs Hate This Guy: Potato Salad man and the $60k
What's it like using the LG G smartwatch and Android Wear? Let us tell YOU
Sunday 29th June 2014 14:44 GMT
Re: Integrated Strap?
I'm with you on that, although I have the opposite problem. I've got fairly slender wrists for an adult male, and always have to remove links from straps to get them to fit. I never buy leather or fabric straps as they invariably don't have enough holes to go narrow enough to fit me.
Please work for nothing, Mr Dabbs. What can you lose?
The internet is 'a gift from God' says Pope Francis
Antarctic ice shelf melt 'lowest ever recorded, global warming is not eroding it'
Haswell micro: Intel’s Next Unit of Computing desktop PC
Apple loses sauce, BlackBerry squashed and Microsoft, er, WinsPhones (Nokia's)
Monday 30th December 2013 21:28 GMT
Re: Title? What title?
I'm with you on the google glasses, you're spot on about the laser eye surgery. Did wonder how they'd work for people who already wear glasses though.
I think the smart watch might be a bit more of a viable idea, but I'd hang off until battery life is a bit longer.
Can I join you for that beer?
Tiny, invisible EXTRATERRESTRIAL INVADERS appear at South Pole
Stephen Hawking: 'Boring' Higgs Boson discovery cost me $100
Have you reinstalled Windows yet? No, I just want to PRINT THIS DAMN PAGE
Saturday 2nd November 2013 19:33 GMT 
Printers are bad enough but the prize for the worst IT product I've ever had the misfortune to own goes to the Belkin Wireless G All-In-One Print Server F1UP0002UK. Couldn't get it to work reliably via wireless so had to keep it connected to my router. The software that came with it was windows only so had to use bootcamp to print from my mac. No 64bit drivers, although managed to find a compatible driver elsewhere. Propriety software that basically took ownership of the printer then released it after an idle time only if you checked a setting in the preferences that always unchecked itself on my wife's laptop. If she shut down her laptop without disconnecting, you'd have to reboot the device to release it, otherwise no-one could print at all. I'd punt it on ebay, but I don't think I'd sleep at night!
BOFH: Is WHAT 'running slow'!? GOD
AREA 51 - THE TRUTH by the CIA: Official dossier blows lid off US secrets
Boffins find evidence Atlantic Ocean has started closing
MISSING LINK between HUMANS and MONKEYS FOUND
Pope: Catholics, go forth and multiply... your Twitter followers
Sinclair ZX Spectrum FAILS latest radio noise rules SHOCK
Scientists build largest ever computerized brain
NASA: THE TRUTH about the END OF THE WORLD on 21 Dec
Pirate cops bust LITTLE GIRL, take her Winnie-the-Pooh laptop
Santander downplays risk of 'personal data-stuffed' cookies
Windows 8 pricing details announced as preorders begin
Russian Christians boosted by Pussy Riot law spank 'sinful' Apple logo
Thursday 11th October 2012 19:32 GMT
Re: Was it an apple?
"I'm sure someone will take Comfort in that comment. :)"
Maybe that someone is this guy: Ray Comfort AKA Banana man.
D'oh icon because, well, watch the video and you'll see why.
China domain name land grab about to start
Wednesday 3rd October 2012 19:52 GMT
Re: Impressed
@theodore
OK, free starter Chinese lesson:
In my post I'd written 好极了! (pronounced hao ji le) meaning 'very good'.
Wheaty73 replied 谢谢你！(pronounced xie xie ni) which you correctly identified as 'thank you'.
I've replied with the traditional response, 不客气 (pronounced bu ke qi) roughly translates as 'no need to be polite'.
You'll be fluent in no time!
Wednesday 3rd October 2012 19:30 GMT
Re: >> the day English has officially lost it's grip on the world
I think that mongo was actually referring to the incorrect usage of the apostrophe in the word its changing its meaning from possessive form of it (the intended meaning) to 'it is' or 'it has' (the usage of an apostrophe to show possession is incorrect for personal pronouns). For a fuller explanation see: http://www.eng-lang.co.uk/apostrophe_rules.htm. Personally I think that's a bit pedantic even for this site!
Bone-bothering boffins pull TINY fanged dinosaur from drawers
Top admen beg Microsoft to switch off 'Do Not Track' in IE 10
Wednesday 3rd October 2012 21:43 GMT
Re: Advertisement is the cancer of capitalism
Advertisers must think that we're stupid. I can tell that my behaviour is being tracked because I'm being shown ads for stuff that I've recently bought online. What makes the ad men think that 'personalised' ads for stuff I already own and therefore have zero interest in buying is going to work? Manufacturers should stop wasting money on these clowns, there must be a better way!
Brighton marathon munchers banned from all-you-can-eat diner
Oregon farmer devoured by own hogs
Climate change threatens to SHRINK FISH AND CHIP SUPPERS
Icelandic town demands vulva museum
Vote now for the ultimate bacon sandwich
Friday 28th September 2012 15:58 GMT
More than half of these aren't bacon sandwiches!
I've said it before and I'll say it again; There's nothing wrong with putting an egg or black pudding on a sandwich with bacon, but once you do they are no longer bacon sandwiches, they are bacon and egg / black pudding sandwiches. All of the entries with other ingredients should be disqualified.
McFlurry McMisdemeanour costs Welsh lass McJob
Thursday 27th September 2012 19:50 GMT 
Fast Food Franchises
I don't see the attraction with these places. Cheep supermarket burgers taste better than McDonalds. If I didn't have kids I'd never go anywhere near these place. Where do they get that awful cheese? It tastes like it's made from melted down carrier bags.
I did once have a really nice KFC though, in Beihai park in Beijing which is no longer there. They had altered their menu to suit Chinese tastes though.
Hobbyist star-gazer cops amazing eyeful of Jupiter's space ball
Symantec source code leak becomes torrent
Wednesday 26th September 2012 18:03 GMT
They were right about Norton killing performance.
I uninstalled Norton Antivirus after finding that after a fresh windows install, installing Norton doubled the boot up time of the machine that I had installed it on. Switched to MacAfee which was better at the time but has gone the same way.
One further thought; would I want to by security related software from a company that couldn't keep their own systems secure?
Governments block YouTube over that video
Wednesday 19th September 2012 18:39 GMT
Re: atheist 'sense'
"For a bunch of people who do not even have a basis for good or bad, right or wrong, atheist appear to love to talk alot about how bad others are. They do not appear to realise that atheism gives one no way to determine either.
For a bunch of people that claim to 'think for themselves', atheists display a singular lack of ability in that respect."
I am an atheist. My parents are Christians. I arrived at the the conclusion that there was no God by questioning the teachings of the religion of my parents. All atheists would have religious ancestors, so at some point the've chosen to abandon religion by thinking for themselves. Unless you've converted to Islam, it's likely that your belief has been bestowed upon you by your parents, so the thinking for yourself argument hardly stands.
I am an atheist. I believe that there is no God. No God means probably no afterlife. No afterlife means you only get one shot at life. Therefore murder destroys the potential that a person had for the rest of their life. Therefore murder is bad. Not able to determine good or bad without religion - give me a break?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
