Posts by ShaggyDoggy

Atoms

I'm no scientist, but when an oxygen atom is stripped of some electrons, surely it ceases to be an oxygen atom ?

Extraterritoriality

What business is it of US govt what people in Russia message to each other ?

Oh, wait ...

Difference

"that can tell the difference between 320kbps MP3s and FLAC files"

Just listen to the high-hats

3-state

"4 State Physics (is not, is, is-on, is-off"

surely that's 3-state

not, is-on, is-off

since 'is' is superfluous since defines by is-on and is-off which can't exist if it's not "is" in the first place

I need a coffee

Flash

What makes you think iAds are not Flash ?

Just because it doesn't say "flash" on the outside ?

Summer

You're making this up aren't you

"MBEs for..... invented the method of calculating the target score for a team batting second in interrupted one-day or Twenty20 cricket matches"

FFS

Time to start carrying a film camera

... with no film in it

.... just a dry run to work out shots and angles, erm, I mean pictures and angles

... then when stopped let them go the whole hog, since you're not actually taking pics you're not doing anything contra to s44 are you, court will be a larf

Ironic

So basically, the movie studios created a "torrent lawsuit"

Actually

1. Hattie Miles was on the promenade not the beach

2. The beach from the spring tide mark seawards is property of the Queen

3. Where do I get a photography licence

4. Surely Mr Beach 8 would be better occupied preventing people from drowning etc

Oh wait, you said Poole .......

Not a search engine

Final proof were it needed that Google is no longer a search engine.

First we have "sponsored links" = paid for "search" results at the top.

Now we have Google employees tinkering with it.

It is no longer a search engine.

It is an advertising platform.

Why bother with ENF

When the power coming into your home already has a background code in it in the first place, which is transferred to recording via "ENF".

And of course the national grid frequency isn'r deliberately changed, in a non-repeating pattern is it.

Mines the one with the audio recorder wrapped in tinfoil.

Derrr

"it is likely that councils will still have to collect data from all bins, and therefore all households, in order to select out data relevant to those who are opted in"

No ... those who opted out have bins without chips in .... derrrrrr

No diesel

There's no point waiting for a Honda 1.4 diesel to rival the Corsa etc.

They've put their eggs in the Hydrogen basket, no more diesels now.

Broadband Britain

But our prime minister said that he inteded to get broadband to every home in Britain.

Of course he didn't mention that you'd get a £150k bill as well.

LOL

Give it away instead

Facebook currently badgers the user into "sharing" their personal info with world+dog every time you sign in. Presumably this is "improved privacy" since you would then be choosing to give your info away, thus making it non-private by "choice" and therefore making it not come under any privacy settings in the first place. Well done chaps.

Girls

"set up a website containing all the photos from his yearbook so that he and his friends could rank the girls according to their looks"

.... and this is wrong how ?

Bullshit

That is bullshit Mr Clegg - there is NOTHING within these Isles and its peoples that is outside government control. Otherwise what's the point of having a government ?

Grow a pair.

Dell doesn't seem to know about this

Even searching their website for "streak" brings up nothing.

Says it all.

Huh ?

I thought the mascot was Lisa Simpson.

... or is that the logo

Oh no

_NOW_ I want one !!!

Erm ...

“If you and your partner have filmed or photographed yourselves making love in an exotic destination or even taking a bath, you will be breaking the law.”

Only if the pic is on this lappy mate, otherwise fuck off.

Open and Free

The policy of "neither confirm nor deny" does not fit well with the concept of an open and free society.

It provides shelter for malfeasance in officialdom.

It provides a hiding place for inconventient truths.

It provides everything that our fathers fought against.

Bad bad bad.

No to dab

Whoaaaaa

It's not public wants driving this, it's not even the broadcasters, it's not technical innovation, it's political.

SAY NO TO DAB

Extraterritoriality

If I shot a missile from the UK to the US and it landed there and did some damage, would the crime be tried in the UK or the US ?

If it did no damage at all but the US said that the damage value was the cost of installing a new missile detection and defence system, would that be ok then ?

Thought not.

24 million

They'll need those 24 million.

Here at work most are on their 3rd 3GS in a year and one guy is on his 6th.

Apple = the Amstrad of the 21st century

Private vs public

Twitter is public.

Blogs are public.

Facebook is public.

IRC etc is private, more akin to a phone conversation in text mode.

I do hope the judge realises this.

Oh, wait ...

Huh ?

It's the 21st century and there are still trade barriers, protectionism, etc.

Sheesh.

Erm

"dawn of PC computing" I think you need to go back a further 10 years for that

And anyway you only need MSDOS to run Prince of Persia

Charges

"14 charges of making indecent images of children"

images (plural)

so how many images in each charge then ?

And the rest please ...

1. Why am I not surprised

2. What else are they collecting that they haven't admitted to, oops I mean mistakenly collecting

Oh ...

"nanobots would be able to attach to cells, tell if they were malignant, and if so kill them"

Milspec version --> "nanobots would be able to attach to cells and kill them"

Cards

How come swipe/pin cards are ok for our actual money but for a library book they need fingerprints ?

Bandwidth

Since BT have just restricted my bandwidth for "excessive usage" how do I get this in as well ?

Precisely

"taking photographs on private property is not a matter for the police"

Exactly.

If your standing on private property it's a matter for the property owner.

If you're not then it's ONLY a police matter if a S44 in in force or other e,g, MOD property

End of

Shortage

They recently delayed the Europe launch due to "stock shortage" then a few days ago announced their 1 millionth sale.

Some shortage there, then.

Liars.

Use ?

What do people actually use an iPad for ?

I mean, that can't be done better and cheaper by something else.

If it's not much, then this is a fashion accessory.

Misrepresentative

"Labour, on 28.7 per cent have 232 seats - and Lib Dems, on 22.8 per cent, have 50 seats"

This can not be fair in anybody's election.

We are not Zimbabwe.

Superfast

Gotta love those politicians - describing 2Mbps as "superfast"

Read this then

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/moneybox/8347147.stm

Illegal

Can we use that term yet ?

The Mandybill is not law yet.

Better keep to "unlawful" for now please.

Local

Oh are they having local elections on May 6th as well.

You learn something every day.

Throw them out

Indeed, the new industry of selling personal information is the new 21st century version of when the first money lender lent his first money, way back then.

It was immoral then and it's immoral now.

Throw them out.

"Information should be neither bought nor sold"

(tm)

Burroughs 3.6

Seems to have missed out the Burroughs 3.6Mb 8" floppies.

Used on a B90 they came in a clear plastic sleeve that you inserted

into the drive, then pulled out leaving the disk in there. Happy days.

@ FFS

and what happened to personal privacy in that little scenario then ?