Posts by Paul_Murphy

Re: "teenagers hogging the phone line "

C20 for the lazy, CXX for the latin-trained

:-)

Re: Nice!

No idea, but maybe these servers will have liquid cooling as standard or something.

Which is about time to happen IMHO.

Re: Irrelevant observation number 1:

I use a speedview (http://www.speedview.co/) after market HUD, which just shows your speed - which I think is all you need, apart from voice navigation perhaps, else there will be too many distractions.

The idea of handling calls when driving is just wrong.

Re: Random factoid.

Well you could have started a discussion about the Buccaneer, or the TSR2 I suppose.

Re: Heck no...

My 990 is still going Ok, and I bought mine in the new year - I have found one location that doesn't allow either sim to work, but away from there it's normally fine - the tunnels out of Kings Cross can be troublesome though :-)

After all a quad-core (1.5Ghz), dual sim, dual camera, microSD (up to 64Gb) phoe with 2Gb RAM and 32Gb ROM for £200 from Amazon is worth a try isn't it?

Re: Even accounting...

A space elevator would be far more useful.

Re: Why did we publish this?

And of course we are the ones paying for it.

Re: The tank used for the illustration ...

I was wondering if I were going to be the first to notice and post :-) not by a long shot,

Concurr - ISU122 sp assault gun

Thats why I read the Reg comments..

Re: American GPS stations

I think you have to be american for that to make sense: ie. the World series, MIss Universe, .com etc.

Re: Why bother with...

Hmm, you're taking my thought experiment seriously? that's just as odd don't you think?

Maybe I should have put a joke icon in there somewhere :-)

Re: Interesting, but

I have wondered whether our universe is actually closed and curved, so that though it is indeed very large (as per HHGTTG) it's as though we are looking around the curve of a sphere, our line of sight (so to speak) never ends, but just keeps on going around and around, with the same objects being seen multiple times at different wavelengths since they would be at different positions each time.

An idle thought anyway.

Re: I've had an idea

Well look into space elevators and the materials that would be needed for one of those - graphene (or something similar) is the main step along that way.

As for patenting it there have been way too many prior publications - try Fountains of Paradise, Pillar to the Sky or any of the many othes.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=book%20about%20space%20elevators&kl=us-en

Re: Well, perhaps not all the tactics.

By definition if it's against the law then they are criminals - if it's legal then they aren't.

Wait - who are we talking about? governments, big business or criminals? it's so easy to get them confused.

Re: Wow

The bright light - just where the arrow is pointing in the lower left.

The moon isn't know for producing these on it's own (whereas the sun does it on a boringly consistent basis) so it's pretty noteworthy.

Not if everyone does it (the opting out of the filter - not porn (ab)use).

The most effective form of control is one that people do themselves.

Re: What type of star is it?

Wasn't Dave supposed to kick-start the next universe using jump leads from Red Dwarf?

OMG, we're living in Dave Listers universe...

:-)

Oh, actually it was from Starbug, nevermind, ignore this post and carry on :-(

Re: Post war operations

Apparantly the Russians were taking any enigmas, and presumably Lorenz, they found during and after the war as well, so no doubt they were very useful in getting a picture behind the curtain.

What is strange is that the Russians were being given some Ultra intelligence during the war, but never seemed to realise it was from the Enigma and Lorenz machines.

What is staggering is the total secrecy that BP worked under - even (or especially?) people that met there and married each other never let on what they did,

Re: A message from the target of these 'improvements'

There is no need to limit a letter to one person, Think your MP, Bletchley local councillors, local and national newspapers, the education board, BPT trustees - the list goes on.

>you cant polish a turd?

Sounds like you haven't even tried:

Freeze it,

Varnish it

Polish it.

Let us know how you get on :-)

Re: Yawn

Well it's one thing to have a defined and definite enemy, as with the cold war and the IRA, but it's another to have a society systematically trawled for all it's information regardless of it's value.

I'm all for finding and thwarting terrorists - but the NSA and GCHQ have been busy intercepting internet traffic and, it is alleged, this has not made any substantive impact on terror attacks.

I think that Snowden is right, has taken extreme risks in what he has done and it's instructive that the one place that he has been able to find asylum was, up until recently, the very worst of countries (we assumed) for monitoring it's citizens.

Re: Complaint in Writing

Well that's YOUR story started then....

:-)

Re: I had the Sharp PC-1500 in 1992

A friend and I had one each and I remember writing a program to work out starship specs (for Traveller - a D&D in space) which worked pretty well as I recall.

I also have a 2600 in the loft, but I also enjoy listening to Johnathon Coultons '2600' which is a tribute to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1bRm7XXNo

Re: City of London Police

Ha Ha - you're funny....

Think - why is it called the 'City of London Police'? and exactly what sort of 'clients' are there in the City for the Police to look after?

Re: Yooof ?

Traditionally one way to deal with an over-population is to take someone elses' land- using any excess males to do so.

hmm.

Re: Faggots? Yuck!

>Your IQ needs recharging

Hmm, reminds me of:

' Prime Minister of New Zealand Robert Muldoon was asked about the increasing exodus of New Zealanders leaving the country to work in Australia. His comment was that by doing so, they were raising the average IQ of both countries.'

source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_humour#The_Trans-Tasman_rivalry

No easy answers

Well the only 'easy answer' I can think of is:

We do not spy or collect information in a general manner on anyone.

We will use RIPA and other laws/ techniques to investigate any reported suspicious behaviour'

Please tell us if you see anything suspicious.

The hearts and minds approach to getting a population on your side is to ensure that the general population see that it's in their own interests to help.

Without the willingness of the people to help it's only a matter of time before there is anarchy/ revolution/ civil war.

Give people back the sense of the country actually being theirs and they need to help look after it.

(wishful thinking I know, but hey - Friday!)

Re: "netflix4k stealer"

Interesting - combine streams from a variety of sources, taking alternating frames from each source (hmm a BitTorrent/ BOINC cross-over?) and make a copy (sorry, create an idependant work) of the original.

Some effort, but would there be enough information in a single frame to identify the source? if so then would combing each frame from various sources sort that issue out?

I'm sure people much more cleverer than wot I am will find other ways around this - though as mentioned is it really worth the effort? just stick Fawlty Towers or Red Dwarf on.