* Posts by Drew 11

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Ten classic electronic calculators from the 1970s and 1980s

Drew 11

Re: Big casio programmable?

Found it.

FX360

http://www.dentaku-museum.com/calc/calc/2-casio/5-casiofx/casiofx.html

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Big casio programmable?

I remember in the 80's using a Casio programmable that was about 5 inches wide and an inch deep, and had a fluorescent display with more digits than normal.

Corners were quite rounded IIRC. Style was similar to the FX-102 but a lot bigger and a lot more keys. What the hell was the model number?

I wish I still had it, it was great.

Picture this: Data-wrangling boffins say they have made JPEGs OBSOLETE

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They don't have a guy called Philip Whitley working for them?

http://www.sfo.govt.nz/casestudy/Philip-James-Whitley-1674

Snowden latest: NSA stalks the human race using Google, ad cookies

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Thankfully, The Reg does not use Google Analytics. One of the few websites that doesn't, unfortunately.

SECRET draft copyright treaty LEAKED: Meet the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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Almost makes you yearn for the upcoming global economic collapse, doesn't it?

Looking forward for a bunch of corporates and their politician employees to get flushed down the toilet.

Another day, another Bitcoin burglary as Bitcash.cz goes titsup

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Keep your bitcoin wallet close and your bitcoin wallet back-up closer.

Hosted bitcoin wallets = bad idea, unless you're a thief.

Boffins agree: Yes we have had an atmospheric warming pause

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FAIL

"about a decade after governments banned substances that were dissolving the ozone hole"

Shouldn't that be "banned substances that were creating the ozone hole"?

Indestructible, badass rootkit BadBIOS: Is this tech world's Loch Ness Monster? VOTE NOW

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The door's open, the lights are on...

Sounds like this guy's got the same problem Aussie motor racing legend Peter Brock had during his "energy polariser" era.

ICANN approves Arabic, Russian and Chinese global domain spaces

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Re: Multiple ways for the same visual result

"Then there's the whole issue of full-width vs half-width characters. Phishers dream, indeed."

Have a read of the IDNA2008 specs (RFC's 5890-5894) and then get back to us.

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Re: Not really

It'll keep people like you away from their websites, obviously.

HAD IT with Planet Earth? There are 12 alien worlds left to try out

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When the truth about Fukushima finally gets past the various filters, we'll be wishing one of those planets was a little closer.

NRC FOIA documents make for interesting reading...

http://hatrickpenryunbound.com/?p=3928

OAR-some! 18ft SEA SERPENT discovered off US coast

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There will be more showing up. Whatever they feed on is no longer where they expect it to be.

Starfish melting in Canadian waters.

http://nwpr.org/post/mass-starfish-die-hits-vancouver-may-happen-washington

Sardine fishery collapse, humpbacks missing

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Sardine+fishery+collapse+affects+economy+ecology/9036436/story.html

One word: Clusterfukushima

Thousands! of! Yahoo! Mail! users! driven! crazy! by! revamp!

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Obviously...

...the MBA that screwed up Yahoo Groups last month got promoted sideways into the Mail department.

NASA's Jupiter probe wakes up after unexpected snooze

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The probe was so excited it was going to get a message from earth.

10 minutes late, only "H" had shown up, it got bored and went to bed early.

Oracle sued over $33,000 bill for SaaS: STRIPPERS as a SERVICE

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"and just a 15-minute walk from El Reg's bureau in the city"

20 minutes, if there's a queue at the ATM just down the road.

First rigid airship since the Hindenburg cleared for outdoor flight trials

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Re: @Don Jefe Rigid Airships have a place

"I don't think an airship's a good option for precision lifting due to its poor stability in even slightly breezy conditions."

Ah, but with an airship, you could tether it to the ground with 3 cables, increase the airship lift to take up the slack, then you pretty much have a giant tripod sitting over the target area. Then you can just alter the length of those cables to "winch down" the load to the exact spot you want it. Highly stable.

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Re: and most of the energy is used on forward momentum.

Hurrah for jetstreams!

Oh noes! New 'CRISIS DISASTER' at Fukushima! Oh wait, it's nothing. Again

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If nuclear power stations were required to be insured by the owners, they simply wouldn't exist.

Kiwi jetpack gets all-clear for manned tests

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I could think of a lot more uses for this, before the age of "drones".

Now, not so much.

Jokes of no more than 2 lines

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No chickens

Why did the sheep cross the road?

To visit her boyfriend.

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Google Street View releases devastated Fukushima town tour

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Re: If you ask me

If you really think any data coming out of the self-regulated nuclear energy sector or their paid university minions is remotely believable, well...

Second International Cat Video Festival coming to Oakland CA

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Thumb Down

So many cats, so few recipes.

LOHAN slips into tight rubber outfit

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Re: Meanwhile, back in LA

Was it a ceramic blanket?

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

Thin layer of that, held in place with your pilfered heat shrink tubing.

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Ceramic blanket, anyone?

Drilling into 3D printing: Gimmick, revolution or spooks' nightmare?

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Not quite

"We need also to recall, first, that America, land of the car, inventor of the assembly line and inventor of the sit-down strike"

I'm fairly certain the assembly line came from France (bicycle manufacturer). The Merkins get credit for "moving assembly line".

'Strong basis' to claims Nominet board breached duties - legal top gun

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FAIL

"Registry's members hire barrister in row over running of UK's web overseer"

WEB overseer?

Is this TheRegister jumping the shark?

Court says startup swiped IP for high-frequency trading tech

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FAIL

CLose but no biscuit

"Practitioners of HFT simply cannot tolerate the latency offered by conventional networking kit, as a few milliseconds' delay can be the difference between a profitable trade and an unwelcome loss."

No, HFT isn't about profit and loss, it's only about profit - getting in between pleb traders on slow systems and taking a cut on the way through.

10 goto zerohedge.com

20 search "hft"

30 for i = 1 to 10

40 read article

50 next

60 cls

70 print "holy crap"

US judge SLAMS both IBM and the SEC over bribery settlement

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Yay SEC.

1. Big corporation gets caught fiddling.

2. SEC settles out of court for pennies on the dollar.

3. A few years later, the boss of the SEC dept that signed off on the settlement shows up working in a cushy job* for big corporation mentioned in (1.) above.

* usually a director or "consultant".

Shh! Proxima Centauri can hear us!

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Listening now it would be a complete shambles. But if they were listening in the early years of Earth radio with only 1 transmitter per channel...

Prisoner found with phone + charger in anal cavity

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FAIL

Misleading headline alert

'Twasn't a charger, it was a charger CABLE, which is not much different than passing a tapeworm, I imagine.

If you're concealing a charger, best make it one with those prongs that fold up.

Apple squeaks over revenue estimates, misses earnings target

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I stopped buying iMac's last year when they began to dumb down Safari and OSX to turn my iMac into a glorified iPhone. Oh, and when the "app store" option appeared in the apple menu.

Oracle rushes out patch for critical 0-day Java exploit

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FAIL

"Java 7 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.7.3 (Lion) or later''

So I'll leave it switched off, then, until Apple gets around to updating Java 6.

If they don't, then that's the end of Java for me.

Hotel keycard firm issues fixes after Black Hat hacker breaks locks

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Facepalm

The fix is obvious. Ban Arduino's.

(Takes off politician's hat)

Scientists find safer way to store hydrogen

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FAIL

"(that’s NaBH4 for all you chemists out there)"

Hopefully the chemists out there would be able to figure that out quite quickly without help.

Phishing, cybersquatting scum could ruin gTLD fun for biz

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'Enria had also identified potential regulatory issues because websites rooted at .bank would "not [be] linked to a specific country, to a specific supervisor or to a specific regulatory framework."'

Because you don't get that problem in .com or .net do you?

Oh, wait...

Drew 11

Re: Let's see some Russian phisher

.сом would be disallowed under the "string similarity" rules.

ICANN battled dot-word TLD registration leak bug for WEEKS

Drew 11
FAIL

Hmmmmm

I wonder if California's Security Breach Notification Law applies here?

Bonfire of the brands: ICANN's top-level domain selloff

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FAIL

Who is the dumbarse that let her have the TM "MyCorporation" for a corporation? WAY too descriptive.

Or maybe she doesn't have a TM, only a company name. She seems easily confused.

Nuke support in UK hits record high

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Mushroom

Well, if you're going to call into question NRC emails, then I guess the only answer is for us to send you and your family on a 2 week holiday to the plant surroundings and have you report back in 20 years time.

Drew 11
Mushroom

NHK has reported that the reactors were damaged BEFORE the tsunami hit.

Here's some other stuff to contemplate (NRC emails via FOIA)...

NRC email showing Iodine-131 (which has an 8 day half life) INCREASING in the USA in early April compared to March.

http://enformable.com/2011/11/april-12th-2011-i-131-sampling-results-in-us-levels-increase/

http://enformable.com/2011/09/april-2nd-2011-reactor-1-uncontrolled-depressurizationleak-dose-rate-of-27-rhr-found-radiation-level-at-reactor-2-measured-over-100-rhr/

http://enformable.com/2012/01/march-17th-2011-jsdf-helicopter-crews-report-dose-rates-of-375-rhr-300-ft-above-reactor-3/

http://enformable.com/2012/01/march-16th-2011-japan-reports-5-persons-have-received-lethal-radiation-doses/

http://enformable.com/2012/01/march-23rd-2011-suspect-3-ft-of-salt-in-bottom-of-reactor-vessel-sfp-lasted-3-days/

Lots more...

http://enformable.com/category/foia/nrc-foia/fukushima-disaster/march-2011/

Well, burn my atomic-clock-powered new human renaissance platform

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Mushroom

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/nuclear/fukushimas-reactor-1-meltdown-was-worse-than-we-realized

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Mushroom

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22206700

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FAIL

"And the death toll from radiation release (as opposed to the quake and tsunami wave)? Zero, and set to remain at zero."

Bull. Shit.

You need to start paying closer attention to what's really going on at Fukushima. Far, far worse than Chernobyl.

Button brushes off 'car accident' website defacement to claim GP win

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yep

I blame frontpage extensions.

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WTF?

But but but

Did he get into trouble for not replacing his steering wheel after he climbed out of the car at the finish?

Apple seeks patent for keyboard that sucks

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Big yawn

Pretty sure this was stolen from the ZX81 keyboard. Well, a worn one, anyway.

Want to stiffen your rack?

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Bouncy is better

Vibration resistant racks?

That doesn't sound like much fun.

Vegemite unscrews lid on iSnack2.0

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v2k

>They should have taken the ironic doomed faddishness to its logical extreme and called it Vegemite 2000.

You mean V2K, I hope.

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Two points

1. Vegemite comes into it's own when spread on hot buttered toast. Whoever decided cheese should be put in the mix needs to be put down inhumanely.

2. Why do idiots come up with brands that cannot be represented in a functioning domain name? iSnack2.0.com ??? *

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