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ARG! A GHOST SHIP! Pirates sunk by UK cops return from watery grave

Saturday 31st May 2014 00:25 GMT LaeMing

Re: I didn't think plod did "Intellectual"

It is like the Military doing Intelligence.

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Using email? Text messages? Congrats, you're in the 'underbelly of dark social sharing'

Friday 30th May 2014 10:10 GMT LaeMing

I've never seen anything advertised before a youtube video that I was the least inclined to buy, advertised or not.

And 'Dark Social' : I need a black T-shirt with that printed on it in about 12-point white sans-serif. I'd wear it with pride.

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Still watching DVDs? You're a planet-killing carbon hog!

Thursday 29th May 2014 07:15 GMT LaeMing

Carbon

Aren't DVDs and their packaging predominantly made of plastic, which is made from oil, which would otherwise be burned into the air in an engine?

So our shelves of DVDs are technically carbon sequestration. The government should be paying us for the service!

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Thursday 29th May 2014 07:11 GMT LaeMing

Re: Lovely graphic

I imagine that is all the authors supplied them with.

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Google TOO WHITE and MALE, says HR boss, looking in mirror

Thursday 29th May 2014 02:02 GMT LaeMing

Nothing if you are living in a society where the majority of the whole population is male and white.

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Tech that we want (but they never seem to give us)

Wednesday 28th May 2014 08:12 GMT LaeMing

Re: Emotion detecting jewlery

HTTP error 444: if you don't know what's wrong, I'm not telling you.

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Wednesday 28th May 2014 08:06 GMT LaeMing

Re: 2 Simple Requests

"how do you propose we penetrate their disguises?"

With something sharp but serated. And a bit rusty!

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Monday 26th May 2014 20:52 GMT LaeMing

Yes

But only if it is /my/ definition of 'really really really good'!

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Police at the door? Hit the PANIC button to erase your RAM

Wednesday 28th May 2014 07:58 GMT LaeMing

Re: This app will self destruct in 5 seconds...

Well yes and no, I guess. Yes, it being on your system shows you very particularly don't want others accessing your data. But no, it doesn't prove you are hiding anything from the law in particular (maybe you are concerned with industrial espionage, and activated it before you knew it was the police bursting in the door).

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Watch: Kids slam Apple as 'BORING, the whole thing is BORING'

Tuesday 27th May 2014 21:02 GMT LaeMing

Not an iPad

A colleague at work's son spent most of his third year wandering about touching any flat shiny surface available and sadly declaring "Not an iPad".

(He had access to an iPad at pre-school).

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Kiwis unplug supercomputer after intrusion

Monday 26th May 2014 02:35 GMT LaeMing

Re: Wait....

Being in the land of hydrothermal, I guess there is also a reasonable chance it is technically steam-powered, too!

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SKA under budget cloud in the Great Oz Science Brain Drain

Monday 26th May 2014 02:29 GMT LaeMing

The only tech the average politician can understand or support is self-driven colonoscopies for the rich. Without the $7 door charge.

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Monday 26th May 2014 02:25 GMT LaeMing

Re: Please

Remember the current government didn't really win the last election. The previous one lost it*. Yes there is a difference!

* and ther really deserved to. Just a pity there was nothing to genuinely replace them with.

I imagine (hope) by the next election, the other lot will have got their act back together enough to again be convincingly be the least-worst-party available at the polls.

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Bondi shark alert systems beams warning to nobody on Google Plus

Monday 26th May 2014 02:19 GMT LaeMing

But...

...do the sharks use Google Plus???

Duh Du Daaaaaaaaaaaaa.

....

Actually, I guess this means they technically do. So Google Plus gets more users from this.

Just be careful who you add to your inner circle!

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350 DBAs stare blankly when reminded super-users can pinch data

Wednesday 21st May 2014 08:09 GMT LaeMing

One thing for my ex...

...was that he flipped out a little when he worked out that I could access anything in his user account on our shared computer. I never did - professional pride - but I appreciate that even as a complete IT-ignoramus he could grok the implications.

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Cisco reboots PC with $1500 'Scandafornian' Android fondleslab

Wednesday 21st May 2014 07:51 GMT LaeMing

Re: The trouble with 'touch' on the desktop...

I notice most people defending 'touch' are citing non-desktop cases (checkout, factory floor, hand-held). Well yes, I did specify "on the desktop" for a reason - namely that for a phone or tablet touch is quite easily arguably the best interface and for specialised uses all bets are off. For doing any sort of serious content creation, though, touch is unlikely to be helpful.

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Tuesday 20th May 2014 07:47 GMT LaeMing

The trouble with 'touch' on the desktop...

... is that they never include wrist-wrests on counter-balanced multi-degree-of-freedom-moving levers to compensate for having to have to lift your arms up all the time to interact with the system.

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Creepy Facebook urges users to pester friends about their SEX LIVES

Tuesday 20th May 2014 20:47 GMT LaeMing

Re: Elbow? Meet Arse.

Very much so. In my own experience, the 'targeting' makes the average StarWars Stormtrooper look like a crack-shot sniper.

But, advertising people have to justify their billing somehow, I guess.

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Tuesday 20th May 2014 20:43 GMT LaeMing

Re: They can do what the fuck they like

If your 'friends' will sell out your private data like that...

... you have a very loose definition of 'friend'.

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot becoming mere pimple

Tuesday 20th May 2014 08:09 GMT LaeMing

Save the big red spot.

One order of ALL-THE-GREASIEST-FAST-FOOD to launch, please.

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Welcome to Heathrow Terminal, er, Samsung Galaxy S5

Tuesday 20th May 2014 00:40 GMT LaeMing

Re: Terminal <whatever>

I'm going to build an airport with 12 terminals and name them "Terminal Aries" thru "Terminal Pices".

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Monday 19th May 2014 08:22 GMT LaeMing

Samsung and LG should get together

and give out BB guns to everyone at terminal Samsung Galaxy S5

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Multiplayer Elite to debut on May 30th

Monday 19th May 2014 07:57 GMT LaeMing

Re: Blast from the past

Oolite -- www.oolite.org -- is pretty good too. You can play it in a raw close-approximation-of-the-8bit mode or add (or create) mods to your heart's content. Explicitly single player (Elite's IP-holders have historically let them release it on condition that they don't monetise it or do anything that might step on their own plans for reviving the franchise).

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550 reasons to buy this book for your beloved: COCKROACHES of Oz

Thursday 15th May 2014 21:08 GMT LaeMing

Oh dear

I think cockroaches may be able to travel by TCP! I haven't had one in here for months, then within hours of this story going up, a huge one craws out from behind my computer desk!

(It is now lying dead on my kitchen floor awaiting the great blue dustpan to carry it off to the big bin in the corner).

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Wednesday 14th May 2014 06:25 GMT LaeMing

Keep in mind...

...you will never find a native Australian cockroach in your home - it is way to dry for these tropical-leaflitter-loving beasties to survive in. Only the introduced species tend to infest human habitats.

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Graphics pros left hanging as Adobe Creative Cloud outage nears 24 hours

Thursday 15th May 2014 20:57 GMT LaeMing

Something about...

...eggs and baskets.

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Game of Thrones written on brutal medieval word processor and OS

Thursday 15th May 2014 07:26 GMT LaeMing

Re: Whereas today...

I won't argue with that, deadlockvictim! Macintoshes /used/ to be phenomenal. I would use nothing else. But that was last century.

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Thursday 15th May 2014 06:04 GMT LaeMing

Whereas today...

...Macintoshes are brutal and clunky. Seriously! I let the design department talk me into installing two teaching labs of the maliciously-crippled things (on the - obviously outdated - assumption that an OS was an OS and it really wouldn't matter much), and am now stuck with them for another 2 years (well technically, the students are stuck with them - it took me 2 weeks to get sick of the one in my office and have it replaced with a Win7 machine - and those who know me know I am a Linux fanGrrl).

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Vendors pushing fibre on developing countries, says Oz minister

Wednesday 7th May 2014 07:20 GMT LaeMing

Re: Philippines

"Maybe Australia does't want to look stupid when all the developing countries around them have better connections?"

Very much so, I think!

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Report: Google's NSA dealings not as bad as you thought – THEY WERE WORSE

Wednesday 7th May 2014 01:54 GMT LaeMing

Fine Print

* for certain values of no-evil only.

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Fix capitalism with floating cities on Venus says Charles Stross

Thursday 1st May 2014 08:11 GMT LaeMing

Yes, people at that end of society have far transcended the hierarchy of needs. Personal wealth becomes more of a high-score issue at that point.

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Boffins build billion-synapse, three-watt 'brain'

Wednesday 30th April 2014 06:12 GMT LaeMing

Re: A brain is not the answer.

Well, yes. But no-one is intending to shoe-horn this into doing the sorts of tasks that computers today do well. It is aiming for all the things they do badly.

This isn't modern politics - it isn't either-or!

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Wednesday 30th April 2014 06:10 GMT LaeMing

Re: “you have to know how the brain works to program one of these”.

How many people use a brain? At all?

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Chap builds mobe based on Raspberry Pi

Monday 28th April 2014 07:22 GMT LaeMing

Re: PiPhone

The fact that he knows enough about 'technical stuff' to do the project almost certainly already has him on a watch list. Can't trust people who know things!

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Japanese boffin EYES up big bucks with strap-on digi-glasses

Wednesday 23rd April 2014 06:44 GMT LaeMing

Your eyes!

They are the most beautiful shade of Windows-has-crashed.

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Hackers attempt to BLACKMAIL plastic surgeons

Wednesday 16th April 2014 20:30 GMT LaeMing

Re: I'm disappointed

"Give us back the data and we will swap your nose and genitals back."

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A black box for your SUITCASE: Now your lost luggage can phone home – quite literally

Tuesday 15th April 2014 07:15 GMT LaeMing

They need to cross-promote...

...with the "Bomb-shaped-travel-alarm-clock" guys.

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Mechanical monster macropod LEAPS out of the lab

Monday 14th April 2014 01:42 GMT LaeMing

Re: Rear LED

The light, quite literally, shines out of its.....

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AMD unveils Godzilla's graphics card – 'the world's fastest, period'

Thursday 10th April 2014 03:21 GMT LaeMing

Re: For people who don't get laid.

My comment above was for Belardi, not Destroy All Monsters (though it works for both!).

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Tuesday 8th April 2014 20:50 GMT LaeMing

Re: For people who don't get laid.

You must have very unusually-shaped bodily orifices.

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Ancient Earth asteroid strike that dwarfed dinosaur killer still felt today

Thursday 10th April 2014 03:18 GMT LaeMing

Re: Fascinating

You are joking right. A full-on sky survey would cost more per year than the anual maintenance of two high-end fighter planes.

...

Um....

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Video games make you NASTY AND VIOLENT

Tuesday 8th April 2014 06:55 GMT LaeMing

So...

Flappy Bird is the harbinger of the apocalypse.

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Lego is the TOOL OF SATAN, thunders Polish priest

Thursday 3rd April 2014 07:26 GMT LaeMing

I'd have thought,

the melting point of plastic a little low for hell!

Meccano, OTOH...

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Greenpeace reveals WORLD'S FILTHIEST CLOUDS – and the cleanest may shock you

Thursday 3rd April 2014 07:17 GMT LaeMing

Re: Nuclear = Red?

Ah, but because we had (have?) a habit of building volatile and intrinsicly unsafe types of reactors, simply because these types have weaponisable by-products, we have now got used to the idea that ALL types of nuclear fission reactors are inherently a disaster waiting to happen.

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Australia's opposition backs warrantless metadata collection

Monday 31st March 2014 06:36 GMT LaeMing

Re: Insignificant cause of mortality.

Or... funnel all that money into the health system?

...

Nah. That might help disadvantaged people! No party funding in that!

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Homeopathic remedies contaminated with REAL medicine get recalled

Friday 28th March 2014 21:12 GMT LaeMing

Stop knocking homeopathy!

It is a known contributor to the forward-going health of the human gene pool.

I know it is all very PC, in this age of 'everyone gets a trophy so no-one feels left out', but stupid people dying by their own hand in ways that don't take undeserving others with them is, ultimately, good for the species as a whole.

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