Posts by Paul_Murphy

Re: If they just ignored it

>An amusing solution I heard was to release daily cartoons of Mohammed

A better idea would be to do a daily 'know your deity/ prophet' (maybe as a cut out and keep series?) so that everyone gets some exposure to other religions.

I also wonder how certain people are that an image purporting to be of someone actually counts? Jesus is very unlikely to be a white male for instance, and a purported portrait of M* that looked more like, say, Alice in Wonderland, might take some wind from peoples sails when they see how ridiculous they are being.

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Re: It certainly seems a bit rich

You should patent that idea.

And maybe I should patent the idea of supporting others.. err sorry 'describes a method by which innovation efforts can be directed to the most cost-effective use scenario' or something.

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Re: Can more people

@Badvok

Facts? I really don't believe you'll be able to prove that all TOR users are paedophiles. That's like saying that all torrents are pirated video files or, come to that, that all pirated videos are a lost sale. Those views might be favoured in certain quarters but I do not think any serious studies will bear then out.

TOR enables secure and anonymous communications (within limits) and should not be FUD'd by claims that this automatically means that it is used by bad people elusively.

Bad people exist - but shutting down TOR, torrents, google, the internet, phones, letters, school playgrounds or anything else will not stop them.

Re: Re:

Actually I believe that the fact that the contract is non-negotiable is more relevant, since there is no mechanism for putting your wording on the 'agreement' your bargaining position is zero.

I suspect the lawyers would love to get their teeth into that one since it's one way to truly alienate your customers - paying full price for something that you can't pass on? not fair...

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Re: Typical journo rubbish

Like many others, I'm old enough to remember what happened to Apple Computer Inc the last time Steve Jobs departed from the company he co-founded.

Yep - but this time he ain't coming back, not unless he has his brain in a jar somewhere... sorry that would be in an iJar I suppose.

Not necessarily

Dont forget that valve will still be able to offer windows and mac games as well, but if the better experience is to be had on Linux than windows then I can see more people using Linux by default.

After all it's not as though console kiddies care about. The os they run, it's the games that are important.

I just hope that the ubuntu updater doesn't get confused when updates happen without it doing anything.

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Re: A quick heads up

In the interest of free speech and balance I believe your intended show is a necessity.

You may want to call dibs on channel 666 so that your viewers know where to go.

I will particularly look forward to the other shows that will be on the Satanist channel:

Sacrifices - explores some new ideas on what makes a good, err bad, err proper sacrifice.

Dating the Dark one - what will our guests make of their mystery date?

Witches in Winter - Dancing naked in the moonlight is all well and good in the summer....

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Re: Saw it live from NASA

I watched it on the NASA website with my 7year old on my lap explaining to him about how Mars is so very far away and how so many attempts at landing there have gone wrong.

He then went upstairs to 'tell mum about space' which probably went down well :-)

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Re: Bloody wonderful, dont idiots ever think first?

It's just as likely that microdots or similar will be added to the plastic, so that an item can be traced through the purchasing system to the person who bought it.

And if he didn't do this then someone else would have, and maybe not been so public about it.

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Re: Branding

That just leaves the iPud as the only other unused vowel (I will ignore the iPyd option) which I'm sure will hit the streets at the most opportune moment.

I wonder if Apples' next move will be to drop the 'i' prefix and re-imagine their products with some other prefix - ePhone anyone? or maybe uPhone (tm-pending) would be a better bet?

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Re: My Impersonation of these Questionnaires

Well Phil, I think you need to take your calcunow out of hex mode and but it back into dec mode.

I can see why hex mode is better though, especially for a Microsoft programmer, since B00B1E5 is a lot easier to spell out (184594917 btw).

Keep up the good work...

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Re: annoying

That's right - and new models are available on a continuing basis, so you may find it most economical to upgrade every year or two since the newer versions will come with more modern soft-ware (or maybe firm -ware is more appropriate?) and won't become obsolete so quickly.

Of course it might be more expensive in the long-run, and disposable of the previous model needs to be handle carefully, but the efficiency gains should be an on-going bonus.

Oh - I can see this idea running! :-)

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Re: ...The Bombe, and where it got the extra "e"

4-rotor? the early enigmas were 3-rotor, so I would have thought that the Polish cryptographers would have been working on those,

All in all a fascinating story, with the UK/French divide being as strong then as it was in the middle ages.

Re: Not pleasant :(

>lost

To be fair it's not as if we found it first.

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Re: Gun ownership.

ooh - my sarcasm detector is trembling, that's why I like these fora - it gets lots of practice.

:-)

Probably the same as with normal aircraft vs helicopters: range/ endurance, speed, simplicity & ruggedness.

Helicopters are very useful for staying in one place, or travelling very slowly, but are a poor cousin to a plane when the main aim is to cover ground.

For instance - finding open routes, unblocked roads, bridges that aren't collapsed etc. I would imagine to be a very useful aim.

For that to be done effectively I would imagine that covering a large area in a search pattern (or following a route until it fails the 'route is open' criteria and then mapping from the last branch) and determining the state of routes would be best undertaken by plane.

So if anyone at Google wants to spend some 20% time (or anyone else of course, but it would be easier with access to the google earth maps) to work on plotting A to B routes that are open then I'm sure there is some kudos to be had.

I must admit that this is a cool project, and I wish I had the time to spend on it. The uses just for disaster management are huge, let alone more commercial applications.

Re: The mekon

I want to know how the shirts fit over the Mekons' head - impossible unless it was an inflatable head

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Re: billions a pounds a manure

Wow - Mectons' post was a tower of lucidity compared to this - how old are you? 11?

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Re: empty cities

Film studios,

Advertising agencies,

Maybe people learning to demolish buildings ... or build them

LARP,

Emergency response training.

Traffic light management testing

Robot car testing

I can see that there would be a lot of interest in being able to hire a 'deserted' city. Good idea and handy that the USA has so much empty space.

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How to fix Bushey arches

I always thought that the main issue at BA could be alleviated by taking out the lights at the Saab showroom and putting in a crash barrier (maybe 30 yards long or so) separating the two lanes heading towards Century park

People in the right lane opposite the Saab showroom, and coming from BA past the Mercedes showroom would be able to flow more easily, hopefully making BA itself less congested.

Re: Parking on a skyscraper

I was thinking of having docking ports on the side of the building, and then thought that the cars could be stacked in 'carpark' quite efficiently.

I still like that advert with the waterslide - excellent way to get to and from work :-)

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Re: Because

Actually I totally mis-read that, the trackpad in the middle makes the most sense for most people. If it's off to one side it's probably a design bias by a right-hander.

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Re: We all don't remimber

Similarly it didnt take that long to go from Kittyhawk to the moon, but after what is roughly the same period of time we have gone from the moon to nowhere.

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TDC touch control screens

In the 80's I was developing screens for ABB Simcon process plant simulators which used TDC touchscreens to control pumps and the like - no gestures though which is what this patent is about.

http://i653.photobucket.com/albums/uu256/jayman_photo/Honeywell%20TDC%203000/TDC3000page8.jpg

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Re: Err...

Where is the IF in HTML, and DO etc. etc.

That is why HTML is not a programming language.

The fun of learning BASIC on the BBC was doing things like asking what the time is and then getting a 'Good morning' or 'Good afternoon' when you put in different values. Things then got more involved (ie interesting to the right people) when doing things like working out an orbit etc.

Obviously you don't worry about the more complicated things until you have got the keen audience seperated from those that don't want to know.

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Re: No windows...

Groan..

NEXT!

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Re: Hypothetically ...

>If this has triggered any illegal spying systems, I do apologise.

If this has triggered any illegal spying systems, I do not apologise since it's your system and I do not need to be watched like a criminal.

Is that better?

Re: What percentage of these planets ....

"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS—EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE."

Re: bows and arrows against the lightning.

But still - they came (though atm they are running late, probably the wrong sort of dust on their spaceships...)

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