* Posts by Naughtyhorse

2416 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2010

More transistors, Moore’s Law, less juice

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Trollface

great framework document

you should patent that...

i'd suggest changing the word item... cos thats already covered

Defendant presents Playmobil rendering of court in court

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I think we should be told

Just exactly when did them at 1 infinite loop acquire playmobile?

and more to the point how on earth did the reg miss it.

Anti-gay bus baron rages at being stuffed in Google closet

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Joke

lol...

can understand M Gambon's line

I used to be gay, but i was *forced* to give it up...

it made my eyes water

BT trying for fibre 'monopoly', claims TalkTalk chief

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pardon?

no financial benefit?

what about all the money raised from the share issue.

true it was spaffed away on tax cuts for the rich

and true the company was heinously undervalued to ensure a successful issue.

but you need to speak to thatch about both them issues

nowt to do with bt

Three in ten Americans urge feds to read their email

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ahhh

I always thought it was

'The ends justifies the means'

same cowboy... different shirt i suppose

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thought provoking...

sunday mirror...

maybe not then

plus; do the poll again in 10 years time see if the results differ

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Three thousand people were murdered ten years ago

Three thousand *American* people were murdered ten years ago.

3,000 deaths in iraq or afganistan makes it.... a wednesday, not a big deal.

there fixed it for you

coffee meet olfactory system

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bnp...

of course you do, it's the republicans.

remember dukakis - a greek dude ffs he cant be pres.

oh yes, there was another one too, a bit more recent

obama - just look at the vile spiteful racist invective this guy has been subject to since election.

the klan is alive and well and fully *stomached* in your land of immigrants.

maybe not on your street/city/state and thats good work on your part.

but the US is by definition a broad church - and you know the knd of people you find in churches

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glass house... not me

Im just as keen to see that bastard blair in the hague as gaddafi, and bush/rumpsfeltd/chaney

tried

convicted

and killed with fire

clean(ish) again

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Unhappy

A nation in chains...

and the chains are inside their heads.

Most bosses monitor or block social-network use at work

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absolutely

we used to have this sort of policy, then in moved the IT nazis.

and here we sit 3 years down the road...

50% of the highly trained staff gone.

massive 'fuck you' mentality and unnoficial work to rule from the remaining workers.

decreased productivity.

the extent of blocked sites encroaches on work related information sources.

thanks FSM we have such brilliant managers, else we would surely go out of business!

Why modern music sounds rubbish

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sorry to hear that

you are bothered by the extra harmonics in digitally recorded/mastered/stored music.

not really the industries fault though.

you have non standard ears.

even crappily sampled audio - say 20k samples/second would introduce harmonic distortion _starting_ at 60khz. hiven that even an asthmatic child (i.e. those with the greatest acuity, outside the fantasy world of the audiophile) would not be able to reliably detect anything above 22-25khz

so the real question is... are there many bats in your family tree?

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I know the problem

the dobly stopped them turning the amps up to 11

Much of the human race made up of thieves, says BSA

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2 words

online sales

fail

Does Cameron dare ditch poor-bashing green energy?

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Joke

are...

you some kind of communist? boy?

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, thanks to the actions of the previous government, unions and general idiocy

and i suppose nothing at all to do with the cost of keeping an entire generation on the dole, to be used as a stick the threaten the lucky ones with jobs to produce a lot more for less wages.

thank god for that then

Nokia offers $10,000 for new ring tone

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WTF?

maj7

sounds lovely all etherial and suchlike. make me look for a swirly special effect to signal a dream sequence...

now your basic flattened 9's and flattened 5ths (devils interval) that'll do the trick...

or anything covered by jedward of course (assuming the geneva convention is not a problem where you are - you know, UK, USA, Lybia in the old days....)

Facebook deletes hacked Pages, destroying years of work

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not a reason to avoid them

until it happens to you

<cough>astroturf<cough>

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RTFA

thats all

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Joke

cost???

not much,

just your soul :-)

Green energy and jobs will cripple the UK economy

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UK can gain a comparative advantage in the manufacture of renewable energy equipment

well that's not going to happen in any case.

look where all our green kit is manufactured....

it aint here.

I hate to sound pro market, but govt subsidies are skewing the market. wind and PV only work because of subsidy, which costs. and just down the road we come to learn that wind and PV generate pretty much fuck all, plue our transmission/distribution grids are not designed to have little bits of power squirted in here and there - effectively running a top down (kinda-almost) system in 2 directions.

so the upgrades to sub station protection schemes end up costing us, on top of the subsidy.

and in the end we _will_ have to build a ton of nuclear to keep the lights on. which will _really_ cost.

bugger!

Bury council defends iPads for binmen

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dunno

half a dozen blokes on min wage, plus run an expensive truck, £40 seems to be pretty good value for money (this assumes that said missed bin is not immediately outside the depot)

and I thought foxcon made ipads :D

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mobile fucking phone maybe??

thats all

Space junk at 'tipping point', now getting worse on its own

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Unhappy

looks like we can now say...

mankind has truly arrived in space, and true to form is filling the place up with his shit.

well done us!

All WikiLeaks' secret US cables are on BitTorrent in full

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wikilieaks secrets revealed

the words 'petard' and 'hoist' spring to mind

We didn't leak names of US agents, insists WikiLeaks

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dont believe a word of it

american spies in israel???

why ffs? it's not like the us would ever act on anything that happens there.

Russian rocket flub threatens to empty ISS

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Meh

not so sure

I think the failure was all political - concordski and whatever their shuttle was called (paperdartski?) - politically driven efforts to shore up a clearly morally,economically and idealogically bankrupt system.

but some of their kit is pretty good - mig (insert number here dependent on your age) was ALWAYS something that caused brown trousers to an opponent (assuming russian aircrew)

AK47 anyone? may not be the best gun around but fuck me theres a lot of em, and that must be for a reason.

and lets not forget that pretty much the only space based race they lost was the one to the moon - admittedly a biggie.

That mahoosive ground effect thing with a dozen engines traveling 600and odd mph at 20 feet!

loads of good kit.

Woman in strop strip for Bermuda airport customs

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I must have read a diferent article to you guys

"unspecified past association"

so her ex was a smuggler (pure conjecture on my part - but it's hard to think of an association that could relate to customs that isnt about smuggling)

that's why she's constantly being searched.

which strikes me as hardly surprising.

if that is the case then the judged remarks look more like

"stop trying to smuggle shit, and we'll stop trying to catch you"

or at worst

"cos we strongly suspect\are aware of you of smuggling in the past, we are no longer prepared to take your word"

I could well be wrong, and maybe she really is being victimised... who knows

Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

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Like many here - especially here, of all places

By no means an apple fan, but this sounds pretty bad.

Hope things go well for him.

Apple after Steve Jobs is still Steve Jobs' Apple

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well-versed in the Jobsian Way...

so that'll be followers then, just what the company need, all indians no chief

Room-temperature brown dwarf spied just 9 light-years off

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doesn't orbit other celestial body in close proximity

<cough>Binaries<cough>

Hey, Music Industry. You're suing the wrong people

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hardly

a fair comparason, everyone has an off day.

do you really think that anyone who ever saw the beatles live (after the star club days say) enjoyed tuneful singing and expert musicianship?

They might have enjoyed _watching_ tuneful singing and expert musicianship, but they couldnt hear a thing over the noise of all them screaming girlies. and even an x-fucked-her finalist sounds better than that.

unless, of course like me they went to see dylan at wembly arena, and stood at the back whenre they couldnt see anything either.

:-)

Samsung says Apple lifted iPad from Kubrick's 2001

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Sapristi!

you beat me to it

lol

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blakes 7!

as i recall a chunk of the blakes seven machine was an acorn system 1 - 6502/uart/1k ram/ 11*7seg led display/hex keypad and a tape interface.

my first computer.

had to solder it all together myself... brilliant stuff

or did you mean orac?

see the acorn here

http://starringthecomputer.com/computer.php?c=209

Moaning Scots told 'cheer up FFS' on broadband cash

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WTF?

as a non scot

(although i sit near one in the office)

the fund is for rural development, thats rural, which scotland has a lot of.

discussions about the uncome generated by sotland are entirely specious.

by the same calculations the city of westminster generates (in good years), say 25% of uk income, so it follows that 25% of the rural development fund should go to them.

what bollocks

iPhone app tracks Android-equipped Surrey cops

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Facepalm

WTF????

did anyone consider that the location and activities of the plod just _might_ be of interest to people other than daily fail readers?

like say crooks and terrorists for eg??

God particle back in hiding

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99% to 95%

Is it just me or does that still sound like good odds?

German authorities park tanks on Facebook's lawn

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claiming that everyone is only subject to US law regardless of where you live

now where would they get such an idea....

oh yes the dude who lives at the end of pensylvania avenue.

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oi! facebook!!

for you zee web2.0 is ofer

LOHAN rival to inflate bulging orbs with hydrogen

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lemmie get this straight...

you wont be using hydrogen, for fear that in the event of the magnificent orb doing the big firework, you'll all end up back on the fags??

need a chicken icon

ARM vet: The CPU's future is threatened

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naturally involving nanotechnology....

I'd hazard a guess that stong halucinogenics would be a more productive route!

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errrrr...

Q: didnt i read here that the great Moore hisself no less admitted that the 'law' only ever really worked for the 70's and 80's a bit, and was basically bollocks anyway?

(Ans: yes i did read it here... just cant remember where!)

Scientists devise 260GB CD-size glass disc storage tech

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units!

thats about 2.3 femtowaleses...

i think

praps DRoCs are a better unit??

Ridley Scott confirmed for Blade Runner pre/sequel

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Unhappy

Blade Runner ii

excellent, brilliant news

Ridley Scott - fantastic, amazing, I am salivating at the thought of what he will do with the story 30 years on..

excellent

oh, russel crowe......

wont be seeing that then

bugger!

Free Ride: Disney, Fela Kuti and Google's war on copyright

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Owen Carter...

is unique!

(identical twin notwithstanding)

as are we all.

Apple changed shape of Galaxy Tab in court filing

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I don't think you can argue that Apple's lawyers are purposefully misrepresenting the Tab's shape

so the pictures changed size 'all by themselves'

bollocks, apple are taking the piss, and have been caught at it.... again.

Innocent passengers targeted to protest subway agency

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WTF?

'the use or threat is designed to influence the government'

so waving a banner saying

"change policy 'X' or i wont vote for you, and you'll be out of work"

puts me in the same camp as bin laden.

freedom fail

US breakthrough in Oz bomb hoax case

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The big question is...

What was the Tai-Pan reference?

Android respawn horror: Hacker says hackers' phones hacked

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tres

droll

take the weekend off my man!

Joe Public invited to hunt God particle

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Mushroom

data getting sucked out of cern??

so that'll be the black hole all those tin foil hatted 'experts' warned us all about then.

oh noes!!!!1!