* Posts by Gordon 10

3872 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009

ISS crew fling out arm, grab SpaceX Dragon capsule

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Re: What's with the..

Blasphemy - reg standard units only on these hallowed pages!

SpaceX Falcon 9 flameout leaves commercial satellite in wrong orbit

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Re: Insurance

Usually - I believe so.

I sorta suspect that once a bit more established SpaceX may even attract lower premiums as the chance of a total loss would be lower. A shorter life span satelite is still better than no satellite at all.

Target Silicon Valley: Why A View to a Kill actually made sense

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Meh

Re: Grace Jones

Movie nerd alert - forgetting his 80's output for a second - Stallone had multiple Oscar nominations for Rocky and his performance in Cop Land also got a few minor best actor awards.

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Re: Modern targets

Actually assuming Zorin is alive and flooded Thailand last year.

How much money did he make shorting all the HD manufacturers and their insurance companies, plus how much did he make on taking positions in those not impacted?

The estimates of economic losses from the floods currently stand at $259Bn. Even Zorin would be happy at 1% of that.

New telescope tipped to spot 700,000 galaxies

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Mushroom

Am I the only one

Who wants to place a Hand Of Nod or Tesla Coil between those dishes?

Perth porkfest crowned ULTIMATE BACON SARNIE

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WTF?

Eh?

Surely that fact that its delivering pork is the very reason it was classified as an Ancient Evil?

Boffins prescribe SNAKE VENOM as future pain killer

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Stop

Patent madness again

Surely the fact that the compound exists in nature is the ultimate form of prior art?

Or is it the manufacturing/purification process the "unique and novel" bit.

Why do I get the feeling that Big Pharma patents are at least as broken as Tech ones?

(Just so we are clear where I stand - In Your Face Ventnor)

Big Data skills gap needs filling says tech industry

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Big Data Myth

Isnt Big Data just replacing the wisdom of the Crowd with the wisdom of the Cloud?

Bad analogy but half the Big Data advocates seem to be those who were spouting Web2.0-arhea a few years back. There seems to be a major assumption with big data that just because its now possible to collect and store this data we can and should be doing so. There is little or no attempt to sort it for relevance and REAL meaning.

For every google where every user transaction tracked is another advertising dollar earned it makes sense.

For most big enterprises if they didnt identify their key kpi's and metrics years ago - they dont deserve to be in business.

Human beings are utterly shit at detecting meaningful patterns from large datasets - often they see things that arent there as the brain searches for order amongst chaos. All the data visualisation in the world doesnt change that.

Even after all these years Big Data still has the smell of the Emperors new clothes about it......

Still - if someone wants to pay me to deal with it - bring it on! :)

Liquefied-air silos touted as enormo green 'leccy batteries

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Re: Penny wise, pound foolish. @H@rmOny

Errr - hate to point out the flaw in your argument. If we went 100% (or even close it it) nuclear there would be a huge need to store that excess power because it would have to be set up to meet peak power demands - which afaik are much much higher than the average.

Ergo Nuclear would benefit almost as much as Renewables from this technology.

US data show slump in Apple tablet share

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FAIL

Percentages are irrelevant

Tell me how many millions of Tablets we are talking about. As long as Apple is creaming off the lions share of the profits in a growing market (and there is $600Bn worth of reasons that say we should assume so) - do you think they care?

Especially since their Market share can fall - and their actual salescan keep increasing for a good while yet..

Now Space Station forced to DODGE flying Japanese junk

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Re: Solution

Its a little known fact that that device is almost ready for deployment to the ISS.

Boffins are still working on getting it to make the "Eeeeoooowwwwwppp" sound in space.

'Leaked' doc shock: BT denies inflating prices for rural broadband rollout

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They didn't deny it.

That was a suspiciously worded statement. Didn't anyone else catch the qualifier "full cost" to the tax payer?

Therefore giving BT so wiggle room when it turns out they passed on 70% of the cost to the tax payer they can be accused of complete lies.

New science: seas will rise due to CO2 ... but not for centuries

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Trollface

Let the Foaming begin!

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 review

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Re: price @ac

Cramming a bigger battery into the same space?

You mean like it says in the review that they did between the note 1 & 2.

AC commentard fail.

BYOD trend could kill off role of CIO – SCC

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Mushroom

Right conclusion wrong reasons

The CIO/CTO is an endangered species but nothing to do with BYOD. Its more to do with the CFO realising that up to 25% (or more) of a companies expenses are IT, and the corresponding desire to control those expenses (and the budget) that goes with it. Cue a decade of embarrising data leakage and high profile technical failures until they realise why they need an IT SME at Cxx level.

Bloke jailed for being unable to use BlackBerry Messenger freed

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WTF?

Re: Meanwhile, in the real world...

@ac 1938

Actually the solution is not to attempt to remove the human and compassionate aspects of the law in a knee jerk reaction to daily fail pedo hysteria.

Cases like this are exactly why judges should be permitted to use their judgement. A very poorly written law.

Satellite broadband rollout for all in US: But Europe just doesn't get it

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FAIL

Re: the sub headline?

Bryn

I don't know if you are a cretin or deliberately bring obtuse. There is so much wrong with your post it beggars belief.

Firstly sky don't own any satellites they rent transponder space on them.

Sky don't own either the dishes or the installers.

So taking those away and the moronic hash tags it leaves your post pretty redundant.

Vote now for the ultimate bacon sandwich

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Cheesezilla obscenity

Ok I can handle eggs, black pudd - even at a push "death on the toilet" peanut butter.

But - grated cheese and cutting the baconiscious bounty into thin strips like an economy lunchtime sandwich. A line that must not be crossed.

No I tell you - a thousand times NO!

Apple MacBook Air 13in review

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Re: Expensive flash and no ports .....

hmmmm

just as good = inferior display - what planet are you on?

Think what you meant to say was for your particular use case you were only willing to part with £500 (btw was that real retail - a quick google suggests the online price of the current version is closer to £650).

So in short your comment should read" I have no need for the features the air has over my tosh - therefore I question the value of the Air for my own little world but I fully understand that others need to have a better screen or different OS validates their desire to pay more".

Agree with me or just having a thinly veiled dig at Apple for no real reason?

Hobbyist star-gazer cops amazing eyeful of Jupiter's space ball

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Trollface

Am I the only cynic

Who wondered if his special software was the Photoshop clone tool and a copy of the professional image ;)

In all seriousness - fair play to the man.

Barnes & Noble Nook HD and HD+ hands-on review

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But what about Kindle books?

Surely without a way to protect your investment in Amazon ebooks its missing a trick? A fairly major one if you have a significant investment in Kindle coded eBooks?

No Im not talking about offline conversion via Calibre. Im talking about something seamless that happens on the device that consumers not geeks can use. Just like when I swap between the same kindle ebook on my iPhone and iPad.

Other than that they look like great piece of kit - especially if they are rootable to jellybean.

Apple weekend iPhone 5 sales miss forecasts

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Re: analysts BS

And why are you so fundamentally insecure that you felt the need to spout it to the world?

Im a Apple Fan - and love their tech - as a combination of form and function I find it hard to beat for my particular uses.

Whilst I read the Reg Apple stories with amusement and occasional disbelief Im not so attached to *any* piece of tech that I would find the need to broadcast a defense of it to the entire interwebs.

Neil Gaiman’s saucy pop wife agrees to pay her musicians in money

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Re: It will all go to Sea Org

Gaiman denied he was a Scientologist in 2010.

So many devices, so little policy

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Sailors

Why do many of the Reg headlines and sub headlines have a nautical theme today?

We need answers.

O2 looses legal torpedo at Everything Everywhere 4G monopoly

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FAIL

What Ofcom should be doing

Is refusing any license changes from anyone for any band until they agree to submit to the 4G auction rules and bring these idiots around the table (without lawyers) until they thrash out a deal.

North Tyneside: Mega-outsourcing deal will SAVE jobs

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Re: Till the next time.

Most of the major construction companies have "facilities management" arms - started out with the typical roads and buildings maintenance tasks and then evolved from there. Keeps them busy during the inevitable construction downturns,

Apple lawyer: 'I promise I am not smoking crack'

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Indeed

She should just cut to the chase and fine them both $1bn for acting like small children and tell them to sod off and sort things out.

The legal equivalent of the naughty step if you like,

British boffin builds cool maser after argument with wife

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Re: 100 Million @ Atom Bomb

dont know if this is true or not as I got it second hand but its a great story anyways.

Apparently before the first atom bomb test Oppenheimer and the gang had a betting pool going on the effects. It was evenly split between those that believed the test would ignite the atmosphere and extinguish all life as we know it and those that thought it wouldnt.

Probably not true but conjours up a great mental image of boffins sweating bullets...

US appeal dismissed in Dotcom case

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Whilst I agree with the sentiment

The scenario's are not the same.

This was an independent judiciary deciding that in the interests of a fair extradition hearing this evidence needs to be disclosed.

May is not the judiciary - she is part of the legislative arm of the government - multiple members of the judiciary have ruled there is no basis for McKinnon's or Assanges extraditions not going ahead and now its in the hands of May to basically decide on a whim.

The 'experts' who never see BBM will never understand RIM

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Re: Qwerty

You are living in the past - some of their keyboards are now dreadful - the base model curves in particular.

BMW slams ad machine into reverse, screeches out of pirate den

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WTF?

Yawn - cheap shot

So BMW's ad agency has a been a little lax on its site profiles. Its hardly the end of the world. - Actually scratch that - its a heinous crime deserving pitchforks and fiery torches.

For shame on the Ticorder loons angling for a bit of cheap and meaningless publicity.

Banking IT cowboys 'need whipping into shape by watchdog'

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Re: "prevent future financial crises"

Are you aware faggot is also a tasty tasty meat/offal based dish in the uk made approriately enough by a company called Brains (other faggot producers exist)?

Thought not - and equally irrelevant to the matter at hand.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://www.shitefood.co.uk/2012/01/mr-brains-pork-faggots/&sa=U&ei=1p0jUNi0MsTQsgbtoICoCw&ved=0CBoQFjAB&usg=AFQjCNHqnDBS3mdOnwwC0qzFsetB7MZ90Q

Russia slashes space station ship trip to just six hours

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Missing a trick

If I was in charge I'd be launching me rocket downwards and slingshotting past the Earths core.

Might annoy the Morlocks but they don't count.

Amount of CO2 being sucked away by Earth 'has doubled in 50 years'

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Hmmm playing both sides?

Not sure I like those scientists temporising over the limits of these new/improved sources of sequestration.

If they don't understand what they are how can they begin to know wether they are limited and to what timescale that limit works on. If that timescale is small yup we're in doodoo for this particular feedback mechanism only. If that timescale is geologically long then we are in clover. Repeat for the limits of each known or unknown sequestration mechanism.

UK's thirst for energy falls, yet prices rise: Now why is that?

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Re: The root cause of all of this mess?

Only AC's could get away with commentardlyness.

Any true Reg commentard knows that Thatcher was just the pendulum swinging the other way in response to madness that produced Leyland Cars and the Winter of Discontent.

IT departments are BRATTY TEENAGERS

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FAIL

How do BMC equate to

"deliver capabilities 100% successfully every time"

Having used their products all I can say is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Old-timer Odyssey to babysit Curiosity's Mars landing

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Trollface

Does oddyssey have a camera?

How else are we gonna get a picture of the mushroom cloud that starts an interstellar war as our "sky crane" lander goes titsup?

CO2 warms Earth FASTER than previously thought

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Re: Relax...@ Big Yin

1) We are, as a species, dead. The environment is so loopy that we can't grow enough food and die off. On the scale of "Bad things" that's up around eleventy-billion. It's really is not good.

Oh really? How exactly? Or are you making a wild overstatement? If only 10% of the worlds population lives near enough to sea level to be killed by a 10 METER rise (disclaimer wikipedia) then the other 90% are all right. Lets be pessimistic and suggest extreme weather pattersn and their impacts will kill another 40%.

Will it be a global disaster - on the individual level absolutely - will it be the end of our species - NO!

You do realise the the human race has be brought to the brink faster before than any climate change can possibly act - and survived - See black death, flu pandemics etc. Yet Im willing to be we are spending a fraction of the money on pandemic research that we are spending on climate change and its various costs.

Lets just keep some perspective eh?

LOHAN acquires mighty igniter arsenal

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Re: Careful with all those explosives!

Am I the only one wondering how it got to Spain and whether it broke any export rules?

The Higgs boson search continues ... into ANOTHER dimension

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Re: Is there an end point?

Big Fleas have little fleas,

upon their backs to bite them.

Little fleas have smaller fleas,

and so on ad infinitum.

Yes, yes, the Olympics are near. But what'll happen to its IT afterwards?

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Re: I smell some sport!

Ooohhh bitter much?

I could point out that the sailing is in Weymouth, the rowing in Erin and there are events in Manchester and Brum.

But no doubt your choking on so much bile it's making you blind and deaf as well as dumb.

Ice island snaps off Greenland: Just a fifth the size of 1962 whopper

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Trollface

Is Lewis unwell?

He missed the chance to wind up the AGW-ists.

Olympic Security cock-up was down to that DARN software

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Blatantly wrong operating model

Was it not obvious to G4S that the requirements of maintaining continual security for 2 months of Games are completely different from getting a few staff for a gig or a festival over 1-3 days?

With their stupid model they would need between 12k-15k of people on their books and still could not be guaranteed 100% cover.

I presume they were aiming to profit by paying day rates rather than 2 month contracts.

UK snoop system had 1,000 COCKUPS - including 2 duff cuffs

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Hate to say this

But I think thats actually quite a reasonable number of errors.

Gotta be better than most other civil service error rates.

Still doesnt justify the powers imo though. Just means we cant legitimately use the rate of errors against them.

Spotify coining it at home in Sweden: But are artists getting any?

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WTF?

How come

Spotify is allowed to pay such a pittance? Are the Spotify rights specified differently in the standard industry contract?

Eurozone crisis hits pay TV: Punters pick broadband over telly

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Re: Who wrote this tripe?

Some good points.

What is it about cable tv operators that leads them to take on huge levels of debt? It's not as if they are a real utility.

Is there any cable co in the Europe actually expanding their use base by cabling up new areas or are they all owned by VC's whose only skill is convincing banks to help them start leveraged buyouts?

Seize your moment, Microsoft: iPad is RUBBISH for enterprise

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Flame

More Gibbering

So Apple dont make good enterprise apps. Dont think we can argue with that.

Newsflash Matt this does not equal iPad is no good for enterprise. There are plenty good enterprise apps for the iPad from Third Parties that let the ipad do well in its niche which is BYOD, Note taking, and very basic office functionality.

iPad as a desktop/laptop replacement - errr Matt nobody sane said it was (not even Apple). Whether the surface is it will take 2-3 years to find out.

In short more inconsistent Matt Asay rambling.

Seriously do you even try to write a coherent article any more?

WikiWin: Icelandic court orders Visa to process WikiLeaks $$$

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Re: Although I am against censorship from governments and nation states...

The point wasnt that it was one Company (Visa) its was *ALL* of them.

At the very least thats Cartel behaviour.

Off all the shenanigans around Wikileaks and Asshat (most of which I have mixed feelings about) - this is the one incontrovertible wrong that was done. It was Censorship by economic means with no due process.

Move over Raspberry Pi, give kids a Radio Ham Pi - minister

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Re: Not as good idea as it sounds...

I had one or two of them. From Tandy I recall.

Basically you had components with terminals ending in springs, and shitloads of wires you used to connect them up by pushing between the spring coils.

They were great fun until you dislodged a wire and couldnt remember where it came from.

Asteroid miners to strap 'scopes to new Virgin Galactic rocket

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Re: Surely?

The mass of the entire asteroid belt is estimated at approx 4% of the mass of the moon. (disclaimer - from wikipedia). Therefore we could move the whole belt here and still have pretty minor impact.