* Posts by Naughtyhorse

2416 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2010

British killer robot takes out two Britons in Syria strike

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Re: no court of law was involved, no evidence has been offered, and no defence allowed.

yup

fuck em

I think you'll find the concepts of 'law','evidence','and defence' don't mean much where they live

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Oh dear,

How sad,

Nevermind

So Quantitative Easing in the eurozone is working, then?

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Re: Agree 99%

well yes, he's a given.

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Agree 99%

the exception being lewis, who, I notice, one is not permitted to criticise any more...

<rejected>

Pioneer slaps 80s LASERS on cars for driverless push

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Re: if the wipers go continuous for more than 12 seconds.

rather suggests it is affected then. makes sense.

using survey lidar you get more than 1 bounce from a pulse, so for eg, a pulse from an aircraft hitting the canopy of a tree will give a return from the canopy, and the light continues sending further returns as it encounters more leaves, and finally the ground. usually you can take upto 4 returns from each pulse.

A raindrop would surely generate a return, and even moderately light rain would trigger a few returns over the sort of distances you would want to measure in a driving system which would be okay for the laser, but really up the workload on the the processing end of things!

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Re: Signal to noise and interference

I'm pretty sure the time of flight is too fast for any meaningful encoding to be possible. not that it makes a lot of difference at the hardware level. I'm a little confused also that they take the view that laserdisk tech is 'useful' 'cause as far as i can see taking a couple of hundred thousand samples a second is not going to cut the mustard, by a couple of orders of magnitude.

T-Mobile US CEO calls his subscribers thieves, gripes about 'unlimited' limited tethering

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In other news...

Pimp complains girlfriend fucks other men.

So, was it really the Commies that caused the early 20th Century inequality collapse?

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So let me get this right....

The post war boom was due to the introduction of tech...

Which kinda begs the question 'what the fuck happened in the 80's?'

BACS Bank Holiday BALLS UP borks 275,000 payments

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Joke

Re: withdrawing £20,000 in cash?

Although on reflection the shotgun and balaclava was a bit of a mistake....

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Re: can sue your company for failing to meet the payroll even if it is bank's fault.

But it's a pretty fucking stupid thing to do.

cos for A) there is less than zero chance of winning in 'n' years time when it gets to court.

and for B) you'll find yourself at the back of any good queue, and the head of any shitty queue until they find a way to sack your ass.

Perhaps the AIpocalypse isn't imminent – if Google Translate is anything to go by, that is

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Re:He said 58 words in the first film :)

$17,500 a word I seem to recall

More deaths linked to Ashley Madison hack as scammers move in

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Re: Oscar Wilde.

Marriage counselling expert?

The good burghers of Palo Alto are entirely insane

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Re:above average intelligence themselves (they're high earners)

Greg 16, let me introduce prospective candidate for POTUS donald trump, you have clearly never met!

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Re: Houses, trees, brush, concrete, asphalt, whatever,

Let's add asbestos and cadmium to that list...

although to be fair, prolly not much in the way of Japanese Knotweed which is equally outrageously expensive to remove from site.

Why do driverless car makers have this insatiable need for speed?

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Re: The end of any driving pleasure

Thoughtful and insightful post however 1 small issue.

" I base this on the continued existence of classic cars. "

no chance mate!

quality cars in days of yore were built as well as they could be.

quality cars these days are built so you need to buy a new one in a few of years.

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Re: The end of any driving pleasure

I think you are 30 odd years late with that one.

Government embarks on futile mission to censor teen music vid viewing

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Progress!

Imma letchu finish but....

Some bands on some sites in some locations will now show a splash screen.

Raising recent government internet policy to a totally new level of futility.

Exploding Power Bars: EE couldn't even get the CE safety mark right

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Re: Totally ....

Faulty cable in this instance would mean dead short.

First rule of writing this kind of bumf... don't be too specific.

Labour Party website DDoS'd by ruly democratic mob

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Re:Who has the power?

Absolutely correct, assuming they have 0 customers.

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Re: Can someone answer this question?

Which speaks volumes as to the efficiency of right wing propaganda and says nothing whatsoever about the subject.

Just imagine Corbin in No. 10 and Bernie Sanders at 1600 pen ave.

if the prospect scares you, that's because you are part of the problem.

FAIL: Windows 10 bulk patch produces INFINITE CRASH LOOP

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Re: Depends on what OS your using.

windows for workgroups - a period drama

Oracle pulls CSO's BONKERS anti-bug bounty and infosec rant

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Re: Sensational historical revelation!

but 'hitting the messenger with a large stick' doesn't scan.

In fact it sounds like a bit of a(n - sounds... yuk) euphemism, in the best Finbar Saunders tradition.

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Amazing....

Just from the power of words alone i get a picture forming in my head.....

mom from Futurama.

probably grossly unfair, but it did actually happen.

OK, who unplugged the modem? North Korea's internet disappeared for four hours today

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Why wasn't the headline...

Nork Intertubes gone all ronry?

Texas senator Ted Cruz serves up sizzling 'machine gun bacon'

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Re: He's Canadian. Born in Calgary

man you need to search that dial for something other than faux m8

he no more hid his childhood than Hillary is going to cop shit for doing exactly what every secretary of state after the invention of email and pror to the change in regulations _after she left office_

Benghazi!

<gotcha>

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Re: He's Canadian. Born in Calgary

Turns out, the whole 'where you were born' thing only only applies if you got some black in you...

pure bred aryan stock... not so much.

I shit you not

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Re: IMHO, BATSHIT

The people he's 'playing' to in the states are the kind of people who think that ” We cannot take action on climate change until everyone in the world agrees gay marriage vaccines won’t cause our children to marry goats who are going to come for our guns."

And are, increasingly an electoral irrelevance. if not now, then when trump eventually spits out his dummy and runs independent. Thank Dawikins/FSM

Is it just me or does everyone hear the theme to 'The Munsters' every time they see the canadian\cuban oaf?

All hail Ikabai-Sital! Destroyer of worlds and mender of toilets

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Re: Remove the seal! To return to IT.

Checking stuff???

you flash git!

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Re: whatever that thin white stuff is called

PTFE

Which stands for Plumbers Tape For Everything

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Re: homophones

The trick is spotting which end you need to blow into.

Virtually no one is using Apple Music even though it is utterly free

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Re: the 4 movements of Beethoven's 9th are not "songs"

But the Scherzo transforms seamlessly into 'On the Run'

excellent comment.

screw streaming:

a> i already have all the good music,

and

b>never seem to have bandwidth to burn

Moronic Time cover sets back virtual reality another 12 months

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Well at least...

Will Smith from tested.com can once again be seen in public :-)

AIDS? Ebola? Nah – ELECTRO SMOG is our 'biggest problem', says Noel Edmonds

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The Beeb.

Given the revelations about many of their erstwhile colleagues, I'd say batshit crazy is prolly a good deal

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Re: does it have round edges?

Not unless it's made by apple it don't

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Re: energy and consciousness

I appreciate that I am on thin ice here.

And I have absolutely no wish to be associated in any way with the cockwomble(heheheheh) in question.

but on the question of consciousness and energy... i think there is a clear link.

What is 'me' is an unintended consequence of all that electrical activity going on behind my eyes.

electrical _energy_ that is. ergo I am energy, when the energy goes away... I stop.

</pedant>

that said, crystal vibrations is bollocks (apart from,,,, err real ones)

dowsing is just a twat in a field with a stick.

Prince Philip is most certainly _not_ a lizard.. I'm pretty sure anyway.

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Re: There isn't such a thing as death?

ouch!

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Re: You clearly haven't thought this through...

In a world full (ish) of genital piercing fucking magnets is A BAD THING

Clueless do-gooders make Africa's conflict mineral mines even more dangerous

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Re: Singapore

yeah...

but you wouldn't want to live there!

Obsolescence of food is complete: Soylent now comes in bottles

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Re: Sneer at this if you want...

To be fair it's a pretty dumb idea, and it would not come as much of a shock that, after some time in the wild there were some significant health comebacks.

plus no one mentioned the colossal and exquisitely revolting farts that accompany the fad.

still cooler than a smartwatch tho

Stop forcing benefits down my throat and give me hard cash, dammit

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Re: Still Time......

There was still time to manage the immense economic and societal dislocations this evolution caused...

And I'm sure the millions being ruthlessly exploited by the satanic mill owners (read that how you will) living in squalor, regularly thinned by cholera and typhoid had an abundance of patience while waiting for the regulatory system required when 1 man has 10,000 places to fill and 11,000 individuals need to stay alive was slowly brought into being.

I mean those who survived did.

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Re:Whoooosh....

....and there goes the point

RTFA

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Re: It'll really, really scare you.

For that empathy would be required.

If empathy was available much of Mr Worstalls ideas would have to be bucked up.

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Re: Don't feed the troll....

Who are you calling big nose?

UK.gov wants to stop teenagers looking at tits online. No, really

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Obligatory...

Rule 34

thassal

And on that bombshell: Top Gear's Clarkson to reappear on Amazon

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Re: Errr...

Here's hoping the spaceship turns out to be challenger

Hurrah! Uber does work (in the broadest sense of the word) after all

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change the definition of a "crime" to fit your personal or political viewpoint...

Ah! anonymous coward, let me introduce Wall Street....

Bloke who tried to get journo killed by SWAT cops coughs to conspiracy charge

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Re: almost any reason....

Actually the common thread to all of the above, recent murders in addition to the ethnicity of the victim is the occupation of the murderer, they were all police officers. just a few of the 70 odd homicides committed by the US police each MONTH.

Not all perps. not necessarily all Black or Hispanic, just all dead. (now I come to think of it the guy asking cops directions who was shot in the head was white I think)

protect and serve indeed.

The merkin sickness vis-a-vis guns is well documented, we in the free world fail to even register surprise with each passing massacre.

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Re: almost any reason....

Stealing a can of coke, while being black.

Driving in a nice car in a nice neighborhood, while being black..

Asking for directions while being lost... and black.

Walking away from a police officer, while being black...

being mentally ill, while being black...

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Re: bursting in with guns blazing.

Errr.. The article did state this happened in the USA.....

Keep your stupid drones away from piloted aircraft, rages CAA

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Drone users must understand..

Do you see what you did there?