* Posts by DJ 2

208 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009

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Russian supply ship heads for ISS, space garbage crashes into Pacific

DJ 2
Holmes

XKCD has the answer.

https://www.xkcd.com/681/

Scalextric restarts space race with Star Wars craft

DJ 2
Joke

Jar Jar Filter is Active.

What is this Episode 1 that you talk of, there have only been three starwars movies.

Shame they only made one Matrix film as well. https://www.xkcd.com/566/

NASA shuts off Voyager 1's central heating

DJ 2
Holmes

The pale blue dot picture was taken in 1990

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pale_Blue_Dot.png

Busted Phobos-Grunt in harmless splashdown

DJ 2
Big Brother

There is a good chance that id did come down in the Andes, the Russian media spiel says that it came down in the pacific, which has been repeated across the globe, but from what I've heard it seems that it would have de-orbited too early to be where they reported. I'm waiting to see if there are any news reports when Chile and Argentina wake up.

Apple, Amazon and Google take lazy punters hostage

DJ 2

The reason I put off buying Apple products for so long, was the god awful iTunes. I still wish I could get away from it. Unfortunately there isn't an alternative.

Raspberry Pi Linux micro machine enters mass production

DJ 2
Flame

Shouldn't be too hard to find something to mount it in. my only worry is how hot will it get.

NASA's ageing black hole-stalking probe switched off

DJ 2
Mushroom

It's probably to avoid someone trying to deorbit it right into the path of something else.

French get unlimited mobile for €20

DJ 2
Stop

My public wifi bit is turned off because of this reason alone. The last time I left it on, there were 20+ ips distributed on the public side of the box.

Sleep Cycle

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Thumb Up

I've been using this app since just before christmas. For me it seems to be working, I'm awake when the final alarm goes off and not at all zombiefied. Placebo effect or actually working? I don't know but worth giving it a shot.

Bah, humbug! Virgin Media censors Charles D**kens

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Facepalm

I like the way that the Censored version of Arsenal is worse than the uncensored bit.

Next Dr Who game to leave Xboxers in the cold

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Thumb Down

Well that gives me a reason to

get out my big glowing di**o.. er Sonic Screwdriver.. er Move controler. or perhaps it will stay charging like it has been since sports demo got deleted.

Shock claim: Playing Elder Scrolls WILL MAKE YOU GAY

DJ 2
Devil

Well I was hesitant.

But now I think that I will have to go out and buy a copy :)

Scientists probe Earth's core, make mystifying discovery

DJ 2
Joke

Well Duh.

Most important computer in the world, running a multi-billion year calculation, of course it's going to be silicon!

It's ALIVE! Broken Russian Mars probe finally answers calls

DJ 2

You can't keep a satellite up without expending power, even Geosync satellites need a little power for station keeping, in a low earth orbit you have atmospheric drag to contend with, let alone avoiding all the bits and bobs that are spinning around up there. Send it to the moon, get some sort of work out of it, although I bet that's going to be tricky as the moon has a higher G than phobos.

Russian Mars probe heads into space WITHOUT ENGINES

DJ 2
Boffin

From the comments that are going around on the MPML list, it's fooked.

"I just watched it pass from San Francisco. This thing is tumbling. It started out ISS bright. Then it faded. Then it intensified to the brightness of an iridium flare. Peak-to-peak was about 20 seconds.

Tommorow night, SF has an even higher viewing.

-Tony"

NASA nuclear Mars tank launch delayed by one day

DJ 2
Mushroom

With a 65% failure rate for mars missions, and the last 6 mars missions being a success.. I'll be watching with popcorn..

Teacher investigated over mysluttyteacher smut site

DJ 2
Flame

Their elite class, who are made up of Lawyers, Accountants and Millionaire Business men, voted pizza sauce a vegetable. No future arguments about the sanity of Americans can be taken as credible.

Brussels: Water cannot be sold as remedy for dehydration

DJ 2
WTF?

The Icon says it all.

The new touchy-feely Doctor Who trend: Worrying

DJ 2
Facepalm

I've just finished watching the first 4 doctors on Iplayer, I much prefer the latest batch of doctors. The story arcs are a lot more complicated as well.

The Great Smartphone OS Shoot-out

DJ 2

My Google contacts and Ipad contacts sync perfectly fine.

Just add Gmail as an Exchange Provider, Calendar and Contracts and Mail sync without any problem what so ever. Verifying on an colleagues iPhone 3, the option is there as well.

DJ 2
Windows

My Google contacts and Ipad contacts sync perfectly fine.

Just add Gmail as an Exchange Provider, Calendar and Contracts and Mail sync without any problem what so ever. Verifying on an colleagues iPhone 3, the option is there as well.

Shock movie upset - Daniel Craig still James Bond 007

DJ 2

that's how they usually go.

Octopussy, only had the tattoo in common.

RIM stands, staggers, falls again

DJ 2

12 GMT it's back up again, I just got a slew of Emails, first in 4 hours.

Steve Jobs: The Movie in the works

DJ 2
Flame

Please please please.

Portray him as the money grabbing con man, who's spiel enslaved millions while turning over all spare cash each year, for an underpowered device.

Aussie fans of old BBC fodder get paid iPlayer offering

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Thumb Up

Nope, it's nothing like the original Iplayer, and 70 years of back catelog, doubtful.

I can watch all the new Seasons of DR Who, which when you factor into the markup they put on imported box collections here is well worth the subscription fee.

Rogue toilet takes out Norfolk server

DJ 2
Pint

"Up to his neck in it until the pump gets fixed".

As title.

1-in-3,200 chance* that a fiery satellite chunk will hit someone on Friday

DJ 2
Pint

Didn't I hear that...

Russia had to pay for clean up of Canada when one of it's satelites spewed nuclear material all across the country? If I find a bit of the satelite, Nasa can bloody well pay me for it! Should keep me in beer for a while.

Booze giant's Facebook tie-up sparks ad concerns

DJ 2
Pint

Nearly right.

Children (-18) can consume alcohol in a Pub / Resturant, as long as they do not buy or are bought alcohol. Basically if it is free they can get as sloshed as they want.

'Angry Bird in the Sky' spotted by astronomers

DJ 2
Joke

Where is the chicken?

I would have named it, The Inquisitive Firefox.

Why do these traders get billions to play with, unchecked?

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Thumb Up

Yeah, Finance is obsfucated to try to make it sound like a mystical art.

RIM share price nosedives following stinky numbers

DJ 2

I've had a blackberry for a few years now, but the next phone will be an Iphone, either a 4, 4s or 5 depending on the specs of whatever is produced.

Currently the AppWorld doesn't work at all, I've got applications on the blackberry that I use every day that I cannot use because an update is required.

Schoolkids learn coding at GCSE level in curriculum trial

DJ 2
Flame

Well obviously it won't be something useful, but it will be free. so PHP?

Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray disc set

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Thumb Down

Won't have to purchase again?

Some of my First bought DVD's have already died, CD's have a built in 10 year limit, I'm guessing at the number of recent failures that I've been experiencing DVD's have the same life time ( Alien box set, only 2 disks work ). We will have to wait to see how long Blu Ray last.

Glow-in-the-dark kittens to help produce cure for AIDS

DJ 2

The ultimate clubbers body modification, Green UV glow in the dark skin

End of UK local dialling in sight as numbers run out

DJ 2
Alert

Really?

I haven't dialled a number that hasn't used the full area code since the late 70's.

I'm shocked that it's still possible.

Sony Tablet P in pictures

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Thumb Down

But

There is a great big bloody black gap in the display, where is the folding LCD? I can't imagine anyone buying this, imagine watching movies on that, with a great big black gap in the video.

iLuv iPad 2 case and Bluetooth keyboard

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Thumb Down

From the photo,

It looked like the case was covering the back facing camera, this is a big big failure with all the cases I've looked at.

David Cameron turns water cannons on social networks

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Thumb Up

I want to make one amendment.

Lets start with the sodding pigeons, kill all the flying rats.

Sony S1 and S2 screenshots leaked

DJ 2
Facepalm

Yet another cable connection type.

Why can't they stick to one of the USB standards and stop pissing around.. Jobs stop snickering boy!

Beeb rolls out global paid iPlayer app in €urope

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Thumb Up

About bloody time.

Waiting 5 years to get a badly dubbed DR Who , or wait 6 years and get a box set that costs 60 Euros. Looks like a good option for me :) Auntie beeb comming out of the stone age at last.

NASA eyes Atlas V for 'naut-lifting duties

DJ 2
Facepalm

I was always led to belive

That the take off velocity of Delta and Atlas launchers, basically ex ICBMs converted to lift satelites, generated too much G's to lift squishy humans.

CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment

DJ 2
Alien

Here's one Graph

And here is another,

They look similar but you shouldn't draw any conclusions. Because politically, it's inadvisable to say that they are similar and I'm certainly telling the press that you can't say ANYTHING about the two similar graphs stacked one on top of the other..

Over 900 police staff caught misusing databases

DJ 2
WTF?

Over 900 police staff caught misusing databases looking at BBW.

We need to get the boys in blue better p*rn.

Schmidt preaches 'deep integration' desire with Facebook, Twitter

DJ 2
Thumb Down

But one of the reasons wave died.

was that it was impossible to get normal people to try it, because you couldn't invite. By the time that invites were available people weren't hearing about it in the news.

600 tonne asteroid in low pass above Falkland Islands - TONIGHT

DJ 2
Pint

From what I've been following,

It's only just 156 m/s shy of being captured in orbit. Now if it had hit a GPS satalite, I wonder if it would have been slowed down enough, 2 moons, (all be it a tiny spec in the sky) would be cool :)

Apple pulls app after dev publishes users' PINs

DJ 2
WTF?

Not really.

My wife and I had separate cards from the same bank issued, individual accounts, that had the same pin number. After a little bit of persuasion, they issued us with two new cards with two new pins.

Obviously not that random.

Pixmania users report scam-spam bombardment

DJ 2
Devil

And exactly how.

Can you tell this from their usual high spam content. Pixmania send about 3 emails a day, and it's impossible to unregister.

I bought ink from them years ago and to this day my spam box is full of "Good Deals"

Japan seeks unheard-of new uses for cell location data

DJ 2
Big Brother

But it's easy.

To take two adjacent cells and calculate the flow of above average usage following the path of the march.

NASA restores Pluto to league of planets

DJ 2
Pint

The fun thing is.

The description of a planet, is that it is sufficiently large enough to clear it's orbit of asteroids.

Then they find yet another asteroid in a horse-shoe orbit

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-horseshoe-orbit-earth-companion-asteroid.html

Earth isn't a planet, it's a minor planet.

RIM taps Microsoft Bing for phone and tablet search

DJ 2
FAIL

I'm on my 6th blackberry,

Dear Microsoft & Rim,

Microsoft can't do search, they never could, and they will never get it right. Developers GOOGLE MSDN.

Kthxbai.

DJ, ex Blackberry owner

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