* Posts by LaeMing

2410 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Dec 2009

Galaxies to get the Pluto treatment?

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Go

Re: Find a galaxy that "sings" and name it Sam... then say

Then Apple can sue it for having round corners.

Boffins render fibre obsolete

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Happy

SETI

Should SETI be listening to neutrinos, or something even more obscure instead of that oh-so-primative EMF stuff?

Halo friends frag harder, longer

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Trollface

With apologies to The Searchers...

Don't blow your love away!

No no no.

Don't blow your love away!

'Cause you

Might need them

Next raid!

US withdraws IANA RFP, ‘no suitable responses’

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Megaphone

Re: nominative determinism

But will Apple let them?

if year > 2013 then PC != Personal Computer

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Unhappy

How many?

Technical old-timers who remember (or at least read about) the 70's - very few

Technical 'experts' - about half

General public - most.

My faith in humanity to be stupid, and then cry and whine about the consequences, is the only certainty I have left. :-(

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Go

Gartner says a lot of stuff.

But I am really hoping on this one! It will be most amusing to watch... from the outside.

Flying Spaghetti Monster's works spotted in space

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Go

Re: Proof is in the skies

Except... There is that nebula out there shaped like a gigantic middle finger pointing at us.

Telstra tips assets into NBN Co

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Meh

All those tubes.

That fil up with water every time it rains.

Social networks breeding spatial junk

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Old link, I know, slightly NSFW (the audio at least)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8

STUNNING NEW APPLE DEVICES that will follow the iPad 3 HD!

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Happy

It's basically a curved bluetooth touchpad then?

Not *quite* what they were describing. Think different. No not *that* different!

Workers can't escape Windows 8 Metro - Microsoft COO

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Happy

Re: I've tried to like it, I really have

I'm using Win7 at work recently as we test the upgrade from XP in our student labs.

I also quite like the UI. Can't speak for the core OS. I am a *nix person by preference.

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Go

Nah.

Just use a nice fat steel cable to fix the USB stick permonantly to the desk.

Eric Schmidt flicks INTERSTELLAR TOWEL at top tech fair

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Facepalm

Re: Captain Kirk is DEAD !!????!??!?!?!?!?!?

Sure is. They droped a bridge on him in one of the TNG movies.

LulzSec SMACKDOWN: Leader Sabu turned by feds last summer

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Happy

Re: Such Precision

But what is that in metric years?

Giant stick insect saved from extinction

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Re: "Our new Tree Lobster Overlords"

Well, they *did* have.

And they would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those pesky biologists!

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Joke

Thank goodness

Those things are delicious!

Warp drives are PLANET KILLERS, Sydney Uni students find

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Happy

Heh Heh. She said 'balistic'

I see what I did there (though only after clicking 'post').

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Unhappy

Looks like the funding is about to go balistic for this tech.

Now there is a military application :-(

US shuts down Canadian gambling site with Verisign's help

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Happy

Re: Token Ring MAU's

"Still have one in my loft."

Its the one you never talk about and when people come to visit, you pretend you can't hear it up there?

Feds unlock suspect's encrypted drive, avoid Constitution meltdown

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Unhappy

Re: Re: from the crowd

I think that is most places, not just the US.

Millions of China's tweeters 'silenced by real names decree'

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Go

Re: Listening to rumours...

Random ID check citizen.

Tongue tattoos out! Now!

'Nobody can resist the charming of iPAD'

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Unhappy

Re: 1984

Yes, it is the special running shoes for robots from Rebok. Branded 'Reboot'.

UltraViolet passes million download mark

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Megaphone

All I want

Is to be able to buy, at a reasonable price, a little plastic card. Say, the size of a credit card. It isn't required to watch the content. But it proves I have paid for the right to view the content privately. I can download the content itself easily enough from plenty of sources anyway. Then I put my card in an business-card box with all the others and can easily pull them out and show to anyone that comes knocking that I have paid for the content I have on my system.

I would LIKE to pay (a reasonable price) for all my entertainment - producers can then use that money to make more of it, after all. But I insist on being able to consume it where and when and on what playback device I choose.

Apple files patent for 'polished meteorite' keyboard

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Go

Do I understand your patent correctly?

You mean the throat?

This invention could be useful for dealing with IP lawyers.

Who's adding DRM to HTML5? Microsoft, Google and Netflix

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Flame

Re: THE WEB AS WE KNOW IT WILL DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE

Yes, they can flick their MicroGoo elsewhere AFAIAC.

LaeMing

They could also just admit

that DRM doesn't work, has never worked, and is highly unlikely to ever work in the future.

It is snake-oil to keep the shareholders happy and the stock up. Nothing more.

Woman spanked for dissing ex in Facebook snapshot

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Happy

Face it

Anyone posting here is a nutjob by definition.

Unknown fault darkens Australia’s Internet

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Boffin

Exetel reports the fault as fixed now.

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Happy

AARnet was a bit flakey early arvo too.

Always hard to tell if that is external of the dodgy internal proxy wall at my workplace, though.

Personally, I blame my mum. She was getting her first-ever internet connection on today. All her fault.

Microsoft denies report of Office coming to iPad

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Re: Would be rejected by Apple anyway

Also, it replicates functionality provided by an existing app (IWork) I assume.

Wang charged in inappropriate electricity socket use

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Happy

Stealing power - how the 'pros' do it

Stories (unverified) from my EE trades teachers many decades ago:

Phone company investigating excessive power draw on a line find a guy powering a basement packed with model trains from the 40volt phone-line float.

Power company investigating an unusually lossy major transmission line find a guy living adjacent to the line with big rolls of copper strung around his roof cavity powering his whole house.

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Joke

Taiwan, Singapore

They all look alike.

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Alert

Volts shock, amps kill.

As tradies and engies here say:

"It's the volts that jolts, but the mills that kills".

Fujitsu flaunts Tegra 3 for future phones

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Happy

I'm now eagerly waiting

for this chip to go into TrimSlice-like devices. I have little use for a fancy phone, but a lot of use for a few reasonably-grunty but power-sipping home-server appliances.

Grumble-flick chat site exposes flirts' privates

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Happy

Thank goodness!

Thank goodness my ISP lets me set up and destroy email accounts to my heart's content. Limited to 30 concurrently, as long as they aren't already in use at the time by other users (easy for random string names). I haven't even looked at the hower-many-hundred I get with my actual domain hosting.

An iPad in every pot, says Anna Bligh

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Unhappy

Angry Birds!

Pork Barrel.

Scroogle unplugged for good this time

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Unhappy

Re: Who would want to attack Scroogle?

Google? Probably not.

Any number of dodgy advertisers that use Google? Good odds.

Brit student locked up for Facebook source code hack

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Alert

Re: Punishment

I read that as "humilitatd by the lolcats".

Too... much... internet...!

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Trollface

Re: To those supporting him...

Hmmm. I live on the second floor. And good luck finding the stairwell. Most couriers can't!

Samsung spins off loss-making LCD biz

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Happy

Re: I assume those $ figs are correct?

Yes, it is always refreshing to look at MS's size in relation to all other global companies, rather than just in the IT sphere.

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Happy

Re: Nothing to see here....

That's all the panels in the backs of plane/train/car seats. Unless vehicle is in reverse gear.

Don't reform copyright yet, begs publishers' body

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Joke

Re: Re: Here we go again! -- Oh, I forgot....

Then Britain strengthened its IP laws.

And is no longer a world-power.

Cooincidence? I THINK NOT!!! :-P

Pakistani military building PAC-PAD fondleslab

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Go

Getting serious

Considering Apple's behaviour towards other phone and tablet manufacturers, having some heavy military gear to go in against the Cupertino lawyers with might be a really useful thing!

Ten... digital adult toys

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I disagree!

It is never too early in the morning to be thinking about clitorii.

Lumpy nanoparticles improve thin film solar cells

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Happy

Re: Simple solution ...

I assume you don't want to go to 100% efficiency - just as much as you want the windows tinted.

(But I like Flocke's answer better).

Canadians revolt over draconian internet privacy bill

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Unhappy

"hiding behind the abuse of children to justify a bill that is massively unpopular"

In other words, child-abuse by proxy in the name of political expedience.

That should be a crime in its own right.