* Posts by Marcus Aurelius

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Jedi chapter seeks leader after master resigns

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Coat

Dizaei

The disturbance in the force will result in prisoners feeling Dizaei......

Politicos bid to stop Microsoft's cloud migration

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Washington Needs Jobs?

Is unlikely to succeed

Jobs is unlikely to set up shop in Washington as Gates is there.

Home Office spawns new unit to expand internet surveillance

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Heart

Re:Re: Re: it was widely assumed progress on IMP would slow

Just so long as the bunny isn't boiled afterwards.

Adultery website boosted by Christian publicity campaign

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FAIL

Actually

Assuming he's genuine, Jon Kurht had better be careful how he conducts his campaign, Since Mosley v Newsgroup Newspapers, he's opening himself to being sued for breach of Article 8 of the ECHR

Can the iSlate kill off Web 2.0?

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Re: Sarah Bee and the Register

I noticed that you noticed.

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Sarah Bee and the Register

Is always a good vendor of fine Whines....

Red Hat sponsors open source religion

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Go

I was expecting

to read that Red Hat was starting to sponsor the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

Web2.0rhea infects International Space Station

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Paris Hilton

Simples

1. Due to it's orbit it has to change downlink stations rapidly. Not something that is very common on the Internet....

Why not? Transitioning basestations has presumably been achieved for all other traffic to from the space station, and is a relatively trivial problem for just about every single cellphone system.

2. There is nothing on Internet that is of any interest to an astronaut, and if it were; not something they would have to retrieve for themselves

Months in space, no females or porn? What could possibly be of interest on the Internet I wonder....

Paris, because she knows what every astronaut needs....

Avon & Somerset cop computers titsup?

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Coat

I'm not bothered so much by the 30 Indians

... than I am by the cowboys who came up with this in the first place

ASA bans tyrannical German boss ad

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FAIL

So when

Does the ASA get round to the meerkats with the stereotypical russian accents?

Simples

No World Cup anthem for England football heroes

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Paris Hilton

Footie Anthems

Almost universally bad; about the only one I can recall liking is "Three Lions on a Shirt" - they should just re-release that every time and be done with it.

Paris - because balls make her sing - allegdly

New Labour bring old Nuremberg Laws to Britain

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Stop

Does HRA Get Out Clause breach Convention?

One obviously questions whether the 1998 Human Rights Act is itself compatible with the convention, as it allows state authorities to breach the Convention provided some primary legislation exists to back them up.

Fem-rage shocker: Woman zaps ex-boyf with pink taser

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Paris Hilton

I for one

Will start wearing my electrically grounded underwear from now on.

Paris, because nothing shocks her...

Home Office picks new prof for Nutt job

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FAIL

Actually

If I recall, Nutt went on to say that the chances of "dope psychosis" are minimal and this was factored into his comments. The real risk is approximately double that of a non-cannabis user i.e. statistically significant but not greatly so. Your chances of dying from alcohol or tabacco use are much greater. As further evidence that the doctors are not on the side of Daily Mail outrage, it is the opinion of the BMA and Lancet that cannabis should be legalised

Monty launches frantic 'save MySQL' web campaign

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He's on crack

The GPL protects MySQL from inactivity; if Oracle did let MySQL fester in any way, it would be forked and stolen from them. Eben Moglen, who created version 3 of the GPL to meet the legal requirements of the current age rebuts Monty's squealing most effectively

http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/blog/cases/oracle-sun/ec-hearing-and-after.html?seemore=y

The new fork obviously would not have the MySQL brand and trademarks, but that hasn't stopped forks of Firefox for Debian (Iceweasel) or Joomla! being a highly successful fork of Mambo when that project went in a direction that most developers didn't want. Gnome sprung from KDE over licensing issues (at the time). In short, there are plenty of examples of successful forks when a GPL direction heads in an unfriendly direction.

Paris - because she supports as much forking as possible....

Nuke-bunker-nobbling US megabomb delayed

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Space launches

One problem with a space weapon is the energy costs in getting it up (so as to speak). It requires a fairly large rocket to get a 10 ton payload to altitude.

Then there's the accuracy viewpoint. You'd need a bigger laser to 'light up' your target from space, although a combination of GPS and image recognition would probably do the job....

Congressmen steam over Wikileaks TSA breach

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@K.Adams

Just to play Devil's Advocate, you understand...

Regardless of who is right and who is wrong, I suspect that a more critical comparison, bearing in mind the fairly indiscriminate blowing up of a stolen fuel tanker in a crowd of civilians, and the use of Predator to hit targets regardless of whether there will also be civilian casualties, may result in a few more Yes results against the US and its Allies. The US does not need to hijack civilian aircraft for its building rammings, as it has enough military ordinance to do the job without such methods.

I also suggest that visits by US right wing fundamental ministers, plus linking of aid to church oriented sex education might convert the last couple to "Yes, maybes" too.

Magpies hold funerals for fallen feathered friends

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Joke

It in an Ex Magpie; it has ceased to be

'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-MAGPIE!!

The other magpies were checking to see whether it was really dead or simply pining for the fjords

US Army doubles fleet of enormous floating eyes

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Joke

@Wonko

I never start shooting after a plate of beans, so wind isn't a problem.

Anyway, 1.5km up means you're probably 2-3 km in a straight line to the target, unless you're directly underneath the thing with a load of pissed off 'merkin soldiers.....

It's still something you could shoot at with a missile though.

PC tune-up software: does it really work?

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Dead Vulture

Given the very limited performance gains

Why didn't El Reg be a little more condemnatory of the absolute rip-off these products represented?

If this was some defence kit that performed as uselessly, I'm sure your inestimable Mr Lewis Page would have been all over it with biting sarcasm.

British troops get nifty techno-gunsights

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@SillyFellow

As a ex resident of Zimbabwe, can you honestly say that those without weapons have not been dispossessed by those with weapons?

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