* Posts by Zmodem

1518 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jul 2008

National Audit Office: UK's military is buying more than it can afford

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they should try buying some new land rovers and trucks, and save a billion for a few a year in maintenance, computerised shocks save on tyre wear too when pulling along tanks

BT's profits plunge 37% following Italian Job

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BT should hurry up and become bankrupt and let EE go back to the way it was, been rocking 10kbs downloads for a week, BT have gone and eaten all their fibre

EE are a waste of time too, go to 3 or giff gaff for unlimted data

Government calls for ideas on how to splash £400m on fibre

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use it to pay off all the phone bills the public has never paid, so the 50% of the population can actually get access to fibre

just because your street is covered, it does'nt mean you can have access

Leaked paper suggests EM Drive tested by NASA actually works

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then if you take the spec's for the US Navy railgun and use it as a basic scale model and times everything by 100,000, you would have 100 tons going at 256 million MPH

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still can use ring magnets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2IKoxt16Ro

and real pulse propulsion like a maglev train putting both magnets inside a normal thruster, and blast off like a railgun with 1000KW's and 400 ton craft

'Extra-supermoon' to appear next week

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grab a skywatcher newton telescope and check to see if you can see apollo landings or alien bases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giTdkmurDts

The Reg seeks online community manager

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how much do you get paid

20 years to get Amiga Workbench 3.1 update, and only a fortnight to get first patch

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the only real good thing about it, is you could stick it in any rucksack and carry it about

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i had a A600, peice of crap, lasted a few months, then the floppy drive died, and you had to phone up all the rubbish adverts in the back of magazines, and it costed more to fix then the A600 itself

GMX Mail Chopped (unless you read their adverts)

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use mail.com, its GMX parent company and uses the same interface, you can use it with adverts or pay for them to be removed and get some extra storage space and alias accounts

Looking for another smartphone recommendation

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xperia e5 or xperia m5, if anything else fails, you can grab a xperia m4 for €60 on ebay, but the m4 will probably on have 8GB of space 2 or 3 can be used, the best option would be a xperia z3 for €140 on ebay

UK minister promises science budget won't be messed with after Brexit

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leaving the EU won't affect any science research, britain leads the world in drugs, never done much for space science, and you would expect scientists to earn more then £30,000 a year which immigrants need for long term stay

all britain can do is give BAE Systems some of the £15bn eco money from the EU payments and redesign skylon to have EM pulse propulsion which can get to the edge of the solar system in 33 hours

Digital minister Matt Hancock promises 'full fibre' eating plan for Blighty

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ain't all bad, £12 a month you can have unlimited 8MB/s on EE and tethering your andriod phone via usb or bluetooth/wifi, doom 2016 is still playable most of the day

if you live in crappy bath and in a crappy council block estate you can have 80MB/s on BT if your lame enough to pay them direct

ExoMars update: Schiaparelli probe's parachute malfunctioned

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Re: "should have tested"

they could have shot it off the bottom of a plane, using some gas, like an ejector seat, 1 fail in a 100 and its time to redesign

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they should have tested it first

Hard-up Brits 'should get subsidy for 10Mbps'

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should be doing something about the line rental, broadband is only £10, line rental is £17.99, line rental should be £10 too is you don't need a phone

if you don't have a phone you should'nt have to pay for satellite bandwidth and maintenance, the internet goes through ocean fiber

Whinge on: T-Mobile US docked $48m for limiting 'unlimited' data plans

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t-mobile uk is unlimited, throttles, and just gone upto £12, watch as many movies as you like on youtube in 144p and download as many games as you like on steam

Data-thirsty mobile owners burn through 5GB a month

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i burned 20gb or more last month on EE, but it downloads at 5-700kbs, so a 10gb evil within patch seemed fair

it probably gave them a new advert for being stable too

BT and EE, O2 and Three: Are we in for a year of Euro telco mega-mergers?

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Re: Talk about special pleading...bought Huawei exchange kit which really pissed off HMG

its more likely all in the small print when the government sold the network to BT in the 80s, at worst the government could probably just revoke the sell at anytime, all of the government war lines that are not connected to any other network still need to be operational

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O2 and three, its more like

£10.20bn = three

£00.05bn = O2

Ten years in, ultra-high-def gets a standard

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theres me turning the saturation down lower and lower on every tv i buy to make the picture look realisitic

Seagate's new drives are so shiny, we should call them ... bling buffers

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if its 10gpbs usb 3, they should just make a SAS wrapper driver, and bring their enterprise SSD`s to the public, and quit making SSHD drives

Got a pricey gaming desktop from PC World for Xmas? Check the graphics specs

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but then, you can just get 3dmark demo on steam and run the firestrike benchmark, if the box does`nt shutdown at full load, your all good for standard games

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Re: Rails

amps ^ volts are normally in the spec`s for the rail, which will give you the total watts, so 53 * 12 = 632 watts

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depends if the PSU is single rail and a platinum or gold rated PSU, a bronze PSU probably won`t do the job, your only getting 400watts -the 20% for efficiency, so as soon as your heat sink and card needs more power, + any other system fan you have plugged into the board, the box will shutdown

2016 in mobile: Visit a components mall in China... 30 min later, you're a manufacturer

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no point going all the way to china when you can buy it all on ebay and get free post

Samsung Gear VR is good. So good 2016 could be year virtual reality finally makes it

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samsung VR, complete with only the on/off switch

How to build a real lightsabre

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it would be more of a controlled reflected arc wielder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTDx3sN2dhU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTDx3sN2dhU

use some magic to make electric go in a straight line with a prism or something

find a real stupid hz and you can probably control the laser length with atmosphere pressure sensor

Rounded corners on Android phones cost Samsung $548m: It will pay up to Apple after all

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Re: The difference between Apple and Samsung

and for 30 years apple did nothing, they would probably be bankrupt if it was for the ipod, the ipod is nothing special

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it would be easier if samsung quit the USA and stopped selling all products in the USA, if someone is tarded enough to patent round corners in the first place

the USA can`t make nothing, they just have microsoft, the rest of the economy is all internal

Alert after Intel Skylake chips, mobo sockets 'warp under coolers'

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Re: why would you have a massive 50lb heatsink

if you had a single heat sink that was 24kg, the rest of the PC would be atleast 6kg which would put it over the health & safety limit of 25kg for men, and you would have you get a trolly if you don`t do weights and can lift 25kg in 1 hand

office workers are soft and get footrest etc all paid for under health & safety in the office level 1

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Re: why would you have a massive 50lb heatsink

if you drop your box you would be expecting everything to be broke, so a bent socket means nothing, most cases would be broke, and half of your PC would fall out, you have to buy a rack mount case or spend £200 on a sturdy ATX

if a socket could handle 24kg, the motherboard would need case mounts on all 4 corners first

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it depends on where you buy CPU`s too, PC World etc will have retail CPU`s which come with heatsinks, overclocking shops will have OEM CPU`s which don`t come with heatsinks

having retail CPU`s in a overclocking shop would just be pointless and a waste of alloy

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why would you have a massive 50lb heatsink, when a corsair hydro is £30 more

anyone with intelligence would`nt trust something that weigh`s 24Kg ontop of a CPU

Facebook's UK wing paid just £4k in corporation tax last year

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Re: HMRC - struggling to leave the dark ages

they should sort out housing benefit too, if you have a part time job, they keep taking your wages away making you pay more and more rent so you never more then £40 a month better off then you are when your on job seekers allowance, but if your middleclass and have a full time job, you can have £10,000 savings, tax credits and housing benefit

PHP 7.0 arrives, so go forth and upgrade if you dare

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you should all learn to code clean code, i`ll update null nuke with a 8 pack of beers, 99% of php functions are used in 2 files, inside my own functions for the php function

Joining the illuminati? Just how bright can a smart bulb really be?

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light bulbs are useless, you can control your whole hous for £170 :

http://swarmautomation.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=96

beon need smart light bulbs to connect to common smart house boxes that have been on the market for 10 years, then you can turn your lights on using your phone

Why Microsoft's .NET Core is the future of its development platform

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it will take 10 years to optimize the framework so programs run as fast as c++ and file size are 3 times smaller before anyone cares

How to build a city fit for 50℃ heatwaves

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im still good with a topless woman waving a big fan my direction

TPP: 'Scary' US-Pacific trade deal published – you're going to freak out when you read it

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"To summarise then, as it stands, Cameron has engaged us in a race to the bottom!"

briton is the atlantic rim

UK's internet spy law: £250m in costs could balloon to £2 BILLION

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Re: Err...

its enough to get a back door added to PGP etc

its a waste of money, and its better spent on bringing back crisis loans to cover people`s first month of work if they have to sign off when they get their first full wage

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Re: Err...

the FBI pays every company a $1million to add backdoors to everything

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who exactly cares about what people brought at argos and your supermarket, the rest of the internets is rubbish and why most people just use tablets

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waste of money, when you can just force microsoft, and other browsers into sending your history, or sysncing it with a remote server, then let everyone patch the dll

echelon is suppose to look for keywords and take your number

Google engineer names and shames dodgy USB Type-C cable makers

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3A on a usb 2.0 device would just be like a constant spike, and not a massive concern anyway, only apple would come with only usb 3.0 type c and no other usb ports

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most devices have capacitors in, so they are globally usable, more so if they are mains powered, and run on all countries power AC/DC 110-240v, then they have to comply with EU`s ErP which is more strict then USA energy star rating power usage thing

so production lines take the best out of both ErP and engery star, and make a single globally usable production line to keep the cost down

Facebook's laser-powered internet drone preps for take off

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only facebook are sad enough to want to make a trampoline fly

Cops' IT too complex for quick and dirty revamp – Police ICT boss

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the central database for the national ID card base has to still exist with all those billions IBM or HP took for it over the years

all of the forces should still be able to have a central database, and then all stations would just need a new computer

Cash injection fuels SABRE spaceplane engine

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meh,, its would be cheaper and alot faster to to make electro magnetic pulse propulstion drive, and have a 1Mw perpetual generator on, so you can super charge your thrusters in space and accelerate at near light speed, and have a single pulse every 100 light years

shoot off like 2 rubbish magnets on earth retracting when you push them up to one another and you let go of 1 of them

all the hardware has already been made, except a 1Mw generator, all the sensors and computer software are already in use on maglev trains

Fancy flying to Mars? NASA's hiring

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meh, i`ll fart, scratch, smoke and take a ride on skylon the british won`t take the british out of flying around space