* Posts by playtime

20 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2009

Neighbourhood watchers in Reading get speedguns

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Joke

Mr/Mrs/Ms

@Very old hand

Or were you just showing them how tall Kyle is?

George Nazi assumes Alcatel 'senior execution role'

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Grenade

Has he seen Kyle?

And does he know how tall he is?

US ARMY prepares force of GIGANTIC BOMB RATS

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Mr

We3 by Grant Morrison.

Judge Dredd returns to the silver screen

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Insert hammer here

@Lloyd - Hammerstein was just one model of ABC Warrior

Microsoft wins wants right to appeal Word patent ruling

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Paris Hilton

Circa Win3.11-95 partition compression tool

...that M$ re-implemented as DriveSpace:-

Stacker.

Stacker succesfully sued M$ iirc

Paris... cos she's stacked... no wait... bee stings don't qualify

Vulture 1: Plane plans planned

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Grenade

Save me re-reading all the previous articles

What's your wing span and area?

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@Mark_T - Damn! - Beat me to it!

Also, shoot the guy who's handling the glue gun. Far too messy. More glue = more weight.

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Sanity check

Have you talked to any aeromodellers about this? Or even the BMFA? I've a hunch you materials and construction methods are laughably heavy.

Another scenario amuses me - the volume of air trapped in the straws would expand by a factor of 100 going from sea level to 100k feet. If this had no outlet, the stucture would go pop!

Hybrid CD vinyl unites warring tribes

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I may be a little out of DATe here

but the bit rate will be the same as the original digital recording ;)

Two years later, Apple Safari still open to 'carpet-bombing'

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Paris Hilton

Get rid of titles

@AC -

The same mechanism is present in windows too - downloaded exes, zips, etc are flagged and present a 'confirm to run/open' dialog.

Paris, cos she always opens zips

No refunds for ID card pioneers

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Remove titles and shoot idiot who put them in in the first place

Idiot tax.

Symantec lays out $1.3bn to buy VeriSign's security business

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FAIL

Get rid of this title crap now.

So now one of the worst av vendors (Norton Anti-Game?) owns most of the western worlds root certificates.

Get off that treadmill now and run your own CA server.

Green Berets to get Judge Dredd computer smart-rifle

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Points of information

A MANPAD (MAN-Portable Air Defense) is sod all use against a tank ;)

The Lawgiver couldn't explode a bullet at a pre-set range. It was a Sov beam-weapon that could pass through solid matter and explode at a manually-selected range in the story 'War' when Dredd was running Luna-1 (Luna City? - can't remember) [Prog 51]. It was defeated by running like buggery towards the enemy, the enemy not able to set the correct range quick enough, and giving them the old 'standard execution' round.

Scammers plunder gullible iPad owners' backdoors

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@AC Market Share

It could be there is less malware for Macs as the scammers know you've already been scammed by Apple and had sod all cash left for them to nick.

To paraphrase a well-known make-up peddlar - 'Because you're not worth it'.

iSlate? I spy more control from Cupertino

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The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

Looks like the fanbois are out in force from all those thumbs down on well-reasoned comments.

Vatican awards self 'unique copyright' on Pope

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Go

Who's pope?

Set Cerebus the Aardvark on him

Mobile directory blames press for latest failure

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Where you register a mobile as ex-directory is missing from the article!

I'm registered for post and land line but I don't recall doing the mobile.

Anyone help?

There is no question icon either :(

Phorm phading phast

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Bill Hicks has the way phorward

Simply:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo

X2 supercopter in first tail-drive flight

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WTF?

Not the first.

The AH-56 Cheyene was the first to use an extra prop for thrust but this did have the Retreating Blade Stall issue with a single main rotor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH-56_Cheyenne

My apologies for using wikipedia ;)

Why would anyone run their own base station?

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Am I missing something here?

So the only benefit is power saving on your mobile phone? Which is at home... plugged into the charger.... for £160... let me get back to you on that.