* Posts by michael

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Filesharers petition Downing Street on 'three strikes'

michael

@Mectron

the pint is that the is going to be NO cort date or things like that just letters form your isp and then no connection on your line

US gov now says Eye-o-Sauron™ border masts are crap

michael
Coat

the real reasion it was scraped

patent infringment saron sued the us gov and there contractors

yer mine is the eleven one

Paper clip attack skewers Chip and PIN

michael
Unhappy

@AC

"Life is easy when you use cash."

cos all online shops take cash

Minister defends National ID Register security

michael
Coat

spinning stats 101

take an example of standard stats on an issue

20% in favor

40% nutral

20% opssed

so the side lobbying for it say 60% will suport us and the side opssed say 60% opssed and boith sides clame to be suporting the will of the pepol whail the majority of the pepol switch chanle and watch pop idol

AI prof: The robot terrorists are coming! Aiee!

michael

????? (this IS a TITLE)

"I can imagine a little girl being zapped because she points her ice cream at a robot to share".

I will have what he is having if he can go form toyplane/cruse missile (plasbile) to child killer robot wandering the streets gunning down icecream fancers in one leap

Disintegrating wind turbine caught on camera

michael

@William Clark

obviosuley you never played with lego moters as a child

if one of the waight matched blades gos the uneven spinwill cause it all to disgentrage v soon after cos of thje exisive speen the energy involved made v soon to be undecitable with the footage we have

ICO tells Cabinet Office to release Iraq docs

michael

@chris

actuley it has allways confused me say what you like about tony (and I have lots of times) he loved popularity but the war was unpopler so why did he do it.

all the rest of the time he was a slave to public opinion why did he go against it this time?

HMRC pays criminal for 'tax dodger' discs

michael
Coat

do not post them!!!

what if these disks get lost??

UK rattles 'three strikes' filesharing sabre (again)

michael

@Nick Palmer

welcome to last year

we all relised that the online pitation system was a load of codswallop I do not even tink a person looks at it I think it is a 4 line vb script

michael

Cover's of songs? (i.e. by a tribute band)

the way bt works is working agents here

they join a suspect swarm

takje note of the ips in it

when they have got the files being shared by the swarm they analise them

it tey are copyrighted they keep moniteriung the swarm and send out the letters to isp

fearly easy

michael

hover cars

"I'd be lobbying for compulsory hovercars (what do you mean they don't exist???)"

actuley they do but the goverments thinks that if we all ad personal planes liek that there might be some acdents

michael
Flame

NO MORE NEW LAWS

can this goverment stop making new laws pls we do not need more crimaile offences and actions we need actual govenence

(acyulaey I think I may start a politcle party with that as my slogen)

Virgin exhibits coconut-powered flying jumbo

michael

they allways need power

any fule carried by anything is just a way of storing power wjhat we need is a cleen mass power genration plan I am still hopeing for fusion

EU wants RFID tags turned off

michael
Thumb Up

I am w8ting

for a super market to use these so you do not have to unpack at the ceq out you just wheen the trolly throught a rfid reader you can even make a rfid zapper arch as well to turn of all the tags

BitTorrent busts Comcast BitTorrent busting

michael

@Oliver Jones

the torrent client I use (I am not saying for what) randomizeses ports every time it oppens unless they block all ports it will work and if they did that they might as well not have a connection I know for a fact that almost every program execpt browsing uses diffrent ports and for yor infomation there are a LOT of online gamers

'Suspicious comment' provokes LAX terminal evacuation

michael
Coat

suspicous

no no I did not make a suspicous comment no no do not drag me away plese noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Academics propose carbon-capture kit for cars

michael
Boffin

car fule

the problem with any car is it needs a store of energy assume you are going toi y you need a amount of energy x to cover the energy costs of acerlation braking and over comming friction on the jorney so the car needs to have an energy store of X

the problem is using a methord of storing X energy that forfils the requirments of being

1 small and light ( the more it masses the more x in incresed my it's mass)

2 resionbaly non volitle ( we need a gradual controled relise not an explosion)

3 easy to replenish (we do not want to w8 2 hours of rechanging to drive 1)

4 must not cause to much ploution eather long turm (global warming) or local (smog)

seames there are escencley only 2 sorces of energy (sun and nuclar) the whole question becomes how to we take energy form there sorces and put them in our cars in the way that best fits out requirments so far all the methords that have been come up with fail at one or the requirments

michael

@ale

it problem with taking co2 form the air to make hydrocarobons(even if it is posible and you can genrate the large abounts of hi dence energy needed) the the dencety of co2 in the atmophere is not hi your plant might use up all the local co2 in the air

michael
Stop

hold it hold it...

" Rather than being burned right away as at present, the car would initially run it through a "CO2/H2 Active Membrane Piston (CHAMP) reactor" which would convert the juice into carbon dioxide and hydrogen.

The carbon dioxide would be stored as liquid in an onboard tank, and the hydrogen would be used to drive the vehicle. Ordinary car engines can run on hydrogen with only minor modifications; or the hydrogen could be used more efficiently in a fuel-cell and electric drive. In either case, there would be no significant emissions."

so as I understand it (and excuse me cos I am not a hi payed acidmation) but you put the go juce in the car the car tuns it into co2 and Hydrogen and uses the hydrogen to drive and the co2 is shiped baclk to make more go juce ... why not skip the midle man and split the co2 qand hydrogen at te pump and put only the part you are useing in the car? or better yet at the factory before you ship it to the garrage or better yet why do we need it atall if we are just using hydrogen to power the car?

Armed police swoop on MP3-packing mechanic

michael

well ok but

the police have to react to reports of fire arms but after it was obvious that he was not a "mental gun nut" they should have grovled and releced him and removed all records is suspision life time prof now?

Firefox 3 beta is live

michael

@alex read

fire fox is FREE vista is £300 for £300 I expect a compny to employ some testers and decent coders

Healthy? You're a burden on the state

michael

yes pm pedent

the actual quote form the unbeatable sir humphry is

"Yes, but cigarette taxes pay for a third of the cost of the National Health Service. We are saving many more lives than we otherwise could because of those smokers who voluntary lay down their lives for their friends. Smokers are national benefactors."

"not that there is any corsal link between smoking and lung cancer"

(apoliges for the bad spelling)

Brits can't distinguish history from the TV listings

michael

if fact

depending on the messer used more than half can be below average intelegence

michael
Happy

@ Sarah Bee

I allways play nice

*trys to hide large club behind back*

Ofgem, MoD attack pricey terror-friendly windmills

michael

hitting reactors

"Also, it would be fairly trivial to locate a nuclear power plant in the UK by eye from 20 000 to 30 000 ft or lower"

the plant yes but I know form experance taht even on a site I worked on (it contractor) I could not have picked the reactor out of the office buildings even when it was pinted out to me

michael

@storing power

pump storage we actuley have a few allready

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity

(I think wiki can be trusted in this case)

but even thought I still do not think wind power is the anser

Giant solar plants in Negev could power Israel's future

michael
Joke

@ alcohol-producing panels

1 spark and BOOM!!!!!

Woolworths stores to stop selling HD DVD

michael
Coat

failed we have

won the dark side has

small brown coat and walking stick

'100% accurate' face recognition algorithm announced

michael

100% (how is that not a valid title)

depends on there sample size 9 samples it is easy to get 100%

HP plunks 16GB SSD drive into slim business PCs

michael

laptop

yes but when will I be getting a laptop (everyboady in my 300 person company uses laptops)

Scottish Government to block wind farm plan

michael

@Hands up who's seen a windfarm

*rasies hand* seen them being build (seen the nimbyisms that happened) seen them opperating seen them having to be turned off 9 days out of 10 for veroius reasions (too much wind too little wind too meny birds sun in the wrong place) and the whole wind farm and all the fuss replaced less them 1/10 of the test nuclar plant just down the road that keeped working and employed more pepol and took up less space

Auntie hops in bed with Murdoch on MySpace

michael

@ iplayer

I know form personal experance that flash iplayer works on firefox on winxp so it should work on most flavors on nix

Designs for SpaceShipTwo displayed in New York

michael
Coat

100k what would I buy

small flat

wife

trip to space

hum

taxi "take me to the space port. let me stop to get my coat"

michael

well done

at least somone is trying

@ too much

you obvoiulsy looking down the wrong sofa

Vodafone USB Modem 7.2

michael

@fair use

my contract has a 3gb limite and I have not yet used it up in a mounth or resonable iplayer watching but even if you think you might be getting close there is a nice little monitor on the app to tell you when you are etting close to the limite

michael

image compresion

"You can change the amount of compression for images from the main one of the configuration pages inside the mobile connect application. From the menu, go to Settings -> Optimization (Using version 9.1)"

using vodaphone mobile connect lite v2.2.2.1 there is no optimization option under settings and sme sites do not re load hi quality images probley due to the desine of the site

michael

it is voda phone not the device

that "degrades" the images they are also responcable for the content filter that blocks almost every page as unsutable till you pay the £1 from a credit card

there are some tricks on the internet to make your jps fine again but it is anoying

EU president sets green plans in stone

michael

@ planning pmision for windmills

the problem is that the amount of power per square km of wind mills compared to power per square km of coal or oil or nuclare is puney so you need more land and you get pepol copmplaning about there view (I lived near where one of there was going up I KNOW how nimby pepol get) we need land for housing personly I would raver live near a nuclar palnt (I have done 2wice once in selifeail and once dounreay) then a windfarm (again in caithness) windmills make lots of noise and the flikering blades gave all the near buy office workers migranes in fact that windfarm had to be shut down in the afternoon cos of health and safty

Will Microsoft parachute Windows 7 in early?

michael

but shurly

windows 7 (aka cr*p face) will just be vista with bits on

Spirit discovers life on Mars

michael

did I not see him

on starwars?

Brazil bans the evil sold in EverQuest and Counter-Strike

michael
Joke

I can sleep safe in my bed

now that 10 year old games are band and I am safe form such dangers and piculated terrorists and lissardmen when I go to brisial

(as a note are they banning counter strike source as well? the terrorists are not as pictulated on that)

Electrical contact lenses created for in-eye displays

michael

I WANT THIS

I do not care if the turns me into a cyborge it rocks

Time Warner moots billing based on bandwidth usage

michael

pay as you go is here

http://www.keconnect.co.uk/products/residential/broadband/

but at least you know when you purches it how much you are paying and it is all up forunt there unlimited packegats are unlinited

United Arab Emirates plan zero carbon desert city

michael

milton keens

in the desart?

Home Sec in anti-terror plan to control entire web

michael

not a hope in hell

they can not block child p0rn or spam how are they going to block bomb making instructions

Beeb confirms iPlayer streaming dominance

michael

also it is the defult

it could be to do with the fact that when I went to check out the iplayer when I went to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ it was the flash verson poped up nothing on the page sugested I should downlaod anything

Toshiba pitches HD DVD players as... DVD machines

michael

why indeed

"Why buy a movie on HD DVD if the DVD's much cheaper and your player makes it look almost as good as the pricier product?"

there was a point to the vhs/dvd switch you got a digital pic and extras and a nondegrading meida but the point of the dvd hd/blu switch is not easy to see

Microsoft develops 'intelligent' shopping trolley

michael

NOOOO

not more "targeted adds" when will it end

Royal Society: UK gov needs to grow a biofuels policy

michael
Joke

sola powered

tractors and refinerays are the way forward

Crucial solid-state drive passes vibrator test

michael

re: he forgot

I beleve they have solved that problem or at least migated it I rewmber them saying they had incresed the limite up a factor of 100 they must of overwise they would not consider selling the product

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