* Posts by Marcus Aurelius

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Wiki crew launch attack on FBI official seal bluster

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US Government

by law, everything the US Government produces which is not Sooper Sekret is public domain, and therefore so are all badges and logos .

AMD, GlobalFoundries, and the Intel gap

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FAIL

Fail Redux

Keep going down..nope further down...further than that...you'll see the AMD Phenom II 965 benchmarked at 4261 compared to the Intel Core i7 940 @ 2.93GHz at 6000 and change. I accept that only someone with more money than sense will go for Intels top offering.

Thats a damn site more that a few percent difference, although like I said I grant there will be much less difference in a normal pc environment. My original contention was simply that you didn't have to go to £900 to make a system.

Also if a little cheating is allowed, i7s are very overclocking friendly you can take a "cheap" 920 (£180) at 2.6gHz and overclock to 4 - the days when AMD were the only overclocking cpu in town are gone.

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Still Fail

Yes, but like I said you don't have to spend £650 on an i7; you can come down to an i7-920/930 (1/3-1/4 the price of the high end i7quoted) and still show an AMD X4 a very clean pair of heels.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Incidentally, I'm not saying you'll see 50% difference in a PC on these benchmarks, just that the performance is there if you can use it....

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I like AMDs but ...

..the pricing quoted above was a complete whackjob.

Unless you go for the highest level i7, I don't see an i7 upgrade costing £8-900 notes. Only the 3.33 Extreme version is up in the £600+ bracket, and a reasonable 2.8/2.9Ghz version can be had for round £200.

i7 motherboard bundles with 6GB ram are £500 inc VAT, and that's only for a quick look....

Battle joined for future of open source IPS

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Paris Hilton

..because

With her being banned from the UK, this is as close as we're going to get

Cameron asks Obama for McKinnon compromise

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Happy

In that case

"One of the traditions we have is that the President doesn't get involved in decisions around prosecutions, extradition matters," Obama said.

Maybe Cameron can bounce that comment back in respect of Al Megrahi. "The Scottish Judicial system made their decision, and its not the job of Prime Ministers to be involved...."

McKinnon would be solved by implementing a UK law that forbids extradition of its citizens where the accused is willing to admit committing the equivalent UK offence and accept a UK judgement and sentence.

UK.gov abandons 2012 rural broadband pledge

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Unhappy

The problem is

..that the majority of the population lives in the South East, where most of the wealth is generated, and therefore more money gets spent on the infrastructure there, which allows more people and wealth to live be generated there.....

In order to break out of this, and to ensure you don't need to concrete over everything south of Watford, you're going to have to make it more attractive to stay out of the South East, and one factor will be ensuring that the whole country has access to good broadband, not just inside the M25.

RIM nemesis slaps patent suit on Apple, Google, Microsoft...

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WTF?

NTP

If I recall, NTP only became alive because RIM were claiming that they were owed royalties for things covered by NTPs patents. Further NTP initially only wanted $6m from RIM.

It appears that RIM were entirely responsible for digging this up from the dead, and now the zombie is going after the brainzzz and the money.

That said, I am surprised that NTPs patents didn't fail the obviousness factor.

Lindsay Lohan goes down for 90 days

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Paris Hilton

I vote

For a fly on the wall documentary of Lilos hard time...

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Headmaster

Sent down

Is often used to describe being sent to the court cells after a prison/remand sentence has been given.The cells are, strangely enough, often underneath the courts

This was a public broadcast on behalf of ensuring IT peeps are edumaculated properly, innit?

George Lucas rattles lightsabre at Jedi laser firm

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FAIL

Geostaionary Satellites

I think you mean Arthur C Clarke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#Concept_of_the_geostationary_communications_satellite)

Apple iPhone 4

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Grenade

Disagree

I wasn't sure whether to buy an iPhone (3GS) or HTC Desire, but had a personal preference for the latter.

So I sent wifey down to the local phone shop to try each out, without injecting my personal beliefs into the conversation. I thought the game would end in a 1-1 draw, but the final score is: HTC Desires: 2 Iphones: 0

It's possible the iPhone 4 addresses the display issues wifey had with the 3GS. Use in sunlight was a no-no and the better resolution of the HTC did show through.

Android spanks Apple’s iOS 4 in JavaScript race

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Coat

4X is

That Australian urine masquerading as lager

Fanbois love sex toys: Official

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Joke

Not forgetting

Living in your parents basement gives you more disposable income

US $250m superbomber 'almost as good' as $8m robot

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FAIL

No control takeover

...it has been reported that the video data sent from UAVs was unencrypted and could easily be received, but the control data is an entirely different matter.

England beat Germany - what are the odds?

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Joke

At least he got the number of goals right

He just needs to work on the distribution between the two teams

Humongous star ejects jumbo jellyfish

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Joke

Leave

..my huge starfish and digestive habits out of this

Microsoft offers iPhone devs Windows Phone 7 cash

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Grenade

Apple things

There are a number of things about Apples App Store which competition may be a good way to get suppressed.

The rules about approval for your application seems to depend on Steve Jobs whims, and it seems your application can be withdrawn at random if those whims change. It seems you are fine to have an application containing boobies if you are a large company like Playboy, but not if you're a small time developer. You have to clear a revenue threshold for each country before you get any money from that country, instead of simply clearing a number of sales internationally, which seems to me to be a scam to get more money for Apple at the expense of lower unit selling applications. At least Microsoft is actually giving developers money upfront.

Ensuring there is a level playing field for all should be mandatory, and whilst I'm not really a Microsoft fanboy, I don't have any objection to them providing competion

Mozilla's next Thunderbird gives Gmailers hope

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Boffin

Upgrade Problems? What Upgrade Problems?

I just upgraded from 2.x to 3.0.4 and it seems to have imported all my email accounts and data ok.

So what was the problem exactly?

Alt rock diva's nude snap 'leaked' to tweetosphere

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Hayley Williams is 21

So you can fap away to your hearts content.

'World's largest' airship inflated in colossal Alabama cowshed

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Thumb Down

Missing....

The fact that you will be burning fuel to compress the air you want to pump in....thus needing more compressed air.

I'm sure you're violating a few more laws of Physics, but I'll let Scotty explain further

Jobs drops hint on Google open video codec

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Flame

VP8 v H.264 flamewars

Recently, a comparison of Ogg v H.264 was carried out and used to refute any charges that Ogg was inferior. As Googles proposed codec is meant to be superior to Ogg, I don't see how it can be significantly worse than H.264

Whether you agree or not, I will say it is good to see Steve Jobs willing to defend his POV

German boffins develop sharkskin paint for ships, planes

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Pirate

All we need now

Is some frickin' lasers

McKinnon family awaits final, final extradition decision

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FAIL

Innocence is not the issue

McKinnon has already admitted he dunnit.

See my other post for a more reasonable solution

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EU Warrants

Extradition to many jurisdictions is hard, but extradition to other EU members is simples under the EU Warrant system.

Extraditions in most countries, including ours, drag on for the simple fact that extradition has a huge number of legal issues to address and appeal against, and a good defense can use political issues when that fails.

I'm beginning to see the benefits of systems like Russia, which does not allow extradition of their citizens.

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Grenade

Solution

Introduce an Act that makes extradition unlawful where the accused submits a guilty plea to the equivalent UK offence.

Result of this: McKinnon has already admitted guilt under the Computer Misuse Act, he'd get a slap on the wrist from a UK judge, perhaps with a short stay in a UK prison (or more likely a suspended sentence)

Novell seeks rich suitors

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Joke

Maybe

SCO can buy it....

Grow-lamps roast Yorkshire dope farmer in his sleep

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Thumb Up

Other sources output more lumens

But you can presumably place the LED lamps close to the plants due to their lower heat output

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Flame

Re:38C

The quoted figures (38C, 50C etc) *is* the shade temperature. Open sun desert temperatures can be 70C+ (158F+). The highest Saudi shade temperature recorded is a lovely 58C (137F).

Burning icon chosen for obvious reasons

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FAIL

I wonder

Why your average grower doesn't use LED lighting (perhaps with some form of small heater for temperature control) to reduce the heat (and wattage) output, which would keep the anomalous power usage down.

Ellison slams former Sun CEO for blogginess

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Happy

Has anyone noticed

That if you strung Larry Ellisons press releases together they would almost resemble a .... one moment, let me think of the word.... oh that's it....they'd be a BLOG!

Norks 'have answer to humanity's greatest problem'

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Happy

...a man replies

If that were the case, we'd never get out of the house and do any work. :-)

From an outsiders point of view, somewhere in the middle range is best IMO

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Happy

More evidence

If I recall there was one guy who (for a bet) agreed to have plastic surgery, with an artificial pair fitted and keep them for a year.

When the year was over he didn't want to have them taken out...

I hope that answers your question

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No you weren't

I continue to believe that Norks are the answers to almost any problem.

Bill Gates backs ball-busting ultrasound

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Happy

Where do I submit

...my list of "volunteer" test subjects?

Jimbo Wales exiles 'porn' from Wikiland

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Grenade

Jimmy Wales and dumping link on The Register

I think the original poster is referring to

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/03/jimbo_wales_rachel_marsden/

What more reputable source could you have than The Register? :-)

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FAIL

This is not enough

As far as such images go, I suggest that you restore from before Jimmys moralistic hacking and go through the list of images that Jimmy has deleted on impulse and give them an all clear or not.

I am deeply uncomfortable when THE World-Wide Encyclopedia adopts the restrictive morals of a small minority in one country, especially when it gives in to such pressure. Wikipedia has effectively become the encyclopedia for the world, where various countries have a huge spectrum of moral viewpoints, and Wikipedia should act accordingly. I'm wondering whether Wikipedia should be exported in its entirety to Wikileaks, which seems to have a much more robust response to outside interference.

The internet, as imagined in 1965

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World Box today

A modern webcam equipped laptop looks fairly similar to a scaled down WorldBox

Jacqui Smith and Charles Clarke shown the door

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IT Angle

What No IT

As mentioned - where's the IT angle?

Obviously which party gets in will decide how much gets spent, whether contractors can dump IR35 etc, but none of this is mentioned in the article.

Even the Sun managed to get an angle by saying that your Bulgarian Funbag viewing would be compromised if you didn't vote Conservative. (There's even an IT angle in this as the Guardian claims it was photoshopped),

In short, must try harder.

Wireless wee detectors hit Aussie grundies

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Joke

I presume the upgrade will be known as

Cr*p software!

Google brings @gmail.com back to Blighty

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gmail working all the time?

As this was not a domain name dispuite, but a branding dispute, I think you would find that even if you registered with a googlemail address, you could log in and send with a gmail.com address by changing a few setup parameters.

Steve Jobs: mystery patent pool to attack Ogg Theora

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Alert

I think

Apple would rather work with a Codec where they know they have secure access to all the patents etc rather than one where they didn't. Whilst I'd rather support a completely open format myself, I can certainly see the direction he's coming from

Gene Hunt tops 'TV stars for PM' poll

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Not forgetting

Jeremy Clarkson for Minister for Transport.

Megan Fox not world's sexiest woman: Official

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Alien

You mean

There are male Twilight fans?

San Francisco's rogue BOFH is guilty

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Stop

The UK is very different...

You aren't allowed to discuss jury proceedings - ever (the only exception is if you believe the jury has been unlawfully manipulated, and even then you are expected to report it to the authorities and not the press).

The Ministry of Justice site is very clear on that point.

With the US, freedom of speech overrides such restrictions.

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Boffin

Talking to the press

In the UK, you aren't allowed to whilst in the US things are different....

Nokia asks ever so nicely for return of missing prototype

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Coat

I wonder

If Nokia told the guy who lost the phone whether his career was Finnished?

Cops raid Gizmodo editor in pursuit of iPhone 4G 'felony'

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Grenade

Apple is the owner of the phone, not the engineer

I notice a number of people have complained about the fact that Apple, rather than the specific engineer were contacted with regard to the return of the phone. As it is a prototype, I highly doubt that the engineer "owns" the phone, he merely had it on loan. The obligation is to return "possibly" stolen property to its owner, not the person it may be loaned out to.

As it appears attempts were made to contact Apple to return the phone, then I don't see how any potential prosecution could stand. And that is before the protected journalism shield rights and warrant validity come into play.....

Brit astrophysical model scoops £1.1m at poker

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Joke

I guess she won because

Her pair meant the other players threw in their flushes!

Britain's bingers out-boozed by Irish

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Joke

Get them in then

Mine's a pint (or three)

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