* Posts by tony2heads

1344 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Apr 2010

UK mulls ban on tiny mobiles to block prison smugglers

tony2heads
Mushroom

Key fobs??

What use does a prisoner have for a key fob anyway?

Anyway I suggest that many mobile phones can be fitted inside a 'Chatham Pocket"; tablets perhaps not.

Icon - In case the batteries have a problem

NSA admits slurping thousands of domestic emails with no terror connection

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Unhappy

Legal

As opposed to the rest of the population, where they can always find something illegal if they want to

Mighty multi-scope snaps stunning STARBIRTH image

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Boffin

drifting gas

gas can also be moved around by radiation pressure & stellar winds. Hot young stars give off lots of wind

Climate change made sea levels fall in 2010 and 2011

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WTF?

Also..

The first recorded flooding in the Atacama Desert happened in 2012. Previous to 2010 there had been no recorded rain in most parts for 400 years

Green German gov battles to keep fossil powerplants running

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Radiation effects of coal

Several studies have shown that coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste, so in normal operation

(barring Chernobyl style accidents) your coal burning plant is the radiation risk

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/202/4372/1045.short

icon - for the stupidity of burning coal

British spooks seize tech from Snowden journo's boyfriend at airport

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Big Brother

Brazil

The world gets more and more like Terry Gilliam's movie everyday - a mix of totally incompetent bureaucracy and strong-arm tactics by the enforcement agencies (I omit the word 'law' deliberately as they usually omit it too)

Make or break: Microsoft sets date for CRUCIAL Win 8.1 launch

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Joke

Re: Whilst paddling up De Nile...

They are still in de nile

Samsung Mega 6.3: Enter the PHONDLESLAB

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Re: VLP == Vain Losers Poserphone

maybe in a shoulder holster (like Dirty Harry) or small of back holster (Like Tony 'Scarface' Montana)

REVEALED: Simple 'open sesame' to unlock your HOME by radiowave

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Re: Who..?

just get a key chain that attaches to a belt

Nude swimmers warned of GONAD-GOBBLING FISH ON THE LOOSE

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SIZE of these things

checkout the picture

http://theagitatedangler.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/314137016_big-1.jpg

Xbox 180: Microsoft scraps mandatory Kinect policy

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Devil

Re: For once, Microsoft actually does the right thing.

By horsemen do you mean RIngwraiths?

logo - for Xbox One

Tell me, professor, what is big data?

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Alien

Re: Signal to noise

Hal 9000 reported that, "I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit. It is going to go 100 percent failure within 72 hours."

Now what could possibly go wrong

100,000+ Earthlings star in 'reality TV contest' for ONE-WAY ticket to MARS

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Re: doomed to fail

It is somewhat like an antarctic winter stay. Only a few people can take the being cooped up and lack of change of scenery. Stay indoors or die.

Perhaps they should do a try-out there. The temperatures are pretty similar to a lot of Mars, and if you don't like it or shit happens TOUGH LUCK.

I also would also suggest that anyone under 25 is too immature to make a one-way trip decision

Netflix dares UK freetards: Watch new Breaking Bad NOW or torrent it?

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Netflix

"Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country yet.

Enter your email & we'll let you know when Netflix is available."

Outside the US and UK (plus a few others) there is no legal option for Netflix. IF they want other people to stop torrenting their media, then allow them to pay!

Feds arrest rogue trucker after GPS jamming borks New Jersey airport test

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Joke

Re: Crumbs

But Elliot Carver would be pissed off at paying so much

Despite Microsoft Surface RT debacle, second-gen model in the works

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Joke

stars

To quote Dave Bowman: "MY GOD IT'S FULL OF STARS!"

Open source 'Cubesat' set to soar

tony2heads
Mushroom

BAH futile indeed!

Cubesats are perfect for small missions - like ionospheric studies and amateur band transponders

US feds: 'Let's make streaming copyrighted content a FELONY'

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Alien

re: NASA

If it applied off-world we could all be in deep trouble if aliens have already copyrighted everything we can think of (perhaps even our genome)

Lumpy milk and exploding yoghurt? Your fridge could be riddled with MALWARE

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Joke

Re: Milk from the shops

if it is 20 minuets that must be tiring. How about doing faster like a waltz or mazurka instead?

Ken Brill, 'the father of data centers', powers down at 69

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Enemy of the state?

I have wondered if "Brill" the ex-NSA guy in Enemy Of The State was named after Ken Brill:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/

Does anybody know?

Ultimate Radio Deathmatch: US Navy missile-defence radar vs 4G mobile mast

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Devil

Re: Please oh please

Why not just put Jedwood immediately in front of 8MW of microwave power & watch them sizzle!

Dutch banks get nod to inhale Amazon cloud

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I still have some money in a Dutch bank

I expect to have a large hole where that was when the hackers get in.

Beam me up? Not in the life of this universe

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Boffin

500MHz bandwidth at 30GHz

That is clearly not feasible. Try encoding a decent bandwidth (maybe 100THz) in the violet-ultraviolet region. That must be what all that lights that go with the beaming process is about.

Add some lossy compression - and ...

Still sounds impossible

BOFH: Don't be afraid - we won't hurt your delicate, flimsy inkjet printer

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Happy

nostalgia

I remember an old hammer action printer that one of the older members of staff (at a previous job) preferred.

The sound was like 1000 AK47s going off at the same time - bloody deafening. Good old days...

Wow! British Gas bungs a million remote-controlled sales-droids in UK homes

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Black Helicopters

NSA

I suppose this will all be streamed to the NSA so they can estimate how many people are in the house. Always useful when "the Cousins" (as they are referred to in the John le Carre novels) drop in

Raid millions of bank accounts. New easy-to-use tool. Yours for $5,000

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using RDP

How about just blocking port 3389 unless YOU decide you need RDP. Wouldn't that help?

ISPs: Relax. Blocking porn online won't really work

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Facepalm

"gaping" hole

perhaps not the best epithet to use for lax security in this particular case

Senator: Surveillance state based on secret law 'has no place in America'

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Unhappy

Temporary

Like income tax in the UK was brought in for the war against Napoleon - but seems to have stuck

PHWOAR! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, Prime Minister

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Happy

Re: "Horoscopes are classed as occult"

Electromagnetic waves (as in WiFi and 3G) are also intangible. The ADSL signal is intangible (but the cable is not) Ergo this whole debate is nonsense!

Microsoft's earnings down on slow Windows sales, Surface RT bust

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Linux

struggle to believe them

Give up the struggle and come over to the Dark Side

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/374

Paypal makes man 1000x as rich as the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE

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Re: @Zmodem

Barclays group

ABSA (the local part in South Africa) are contending for the title of worst!

http://www.fin24.com/MyFin24/Detained-over-fraudulent-debit-card-20130613

A man shopping was detained for hours because his card was declared fraudulent by the system; they were waiting for the ABSA fraud check expert to come along

" He proceeded to ask me four or five questions to verify that I was the account holder. That was done in under a minute and I was told everything is fine.

I asked what the problem was and why my family and I were subjected to this. He proceeded to tell me that it was simply an Absa system error and also told us that if he had not come through to verify my identity, I would have spent the remainder of the weekend in jail."

Lasers to carry 622 Mbps Earth-Moon link

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Alien

Re: RTT Time

Yes the Ping time will be huge, but you always have that in space communications. I wonder about tracking the earth base from the moon. Earth-Moon should be simple enough but who sets up and checks alignment from the Moon side.

Do we have contact with extraterrestrial network engineers?

The IT crowd: Fiercely loyal geeks or 'inflexible, budget-padding' creeps?

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Unhappy

overtime

I have heard of overtime pay, but never seen or felt any

Microsoft lathers up Windows 8.0 Surface RT for quick price shave

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Joke

Re: shave

Well "throwing the RTs at attendees" is less lethal than throwing chairs

STEVE BALLMER KILLS WINDOWS

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Petronius and Suetonius in one article

Clearly this all these references to the Roman Empire are ringing true.

Can I quote Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire':

But its fall was announced by a clearer omen than the flight of vultures: the Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

For 'subjects' read 'users' in this case

Oi, jobless yoofs: Upload a witty video bio if you wanna find work

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FAIL

sounds like everyone should do an Aleksey Vayner

and that worked out so well

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100406109

NOT

Brits: Give us £1m and we'll build a crack ALIEN-HUNTING TEAM

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Asteroids

I was having a discussion a while ago about why an advanced civilization would want to broadcast large amounts of radio power; the best answer we could think of was asteroid radar.(http://http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/)

Keeping track of them as a spacefaring species would be as vital as nautical charts to seafarers.

The Three Amigos offer sanctuary to cornered NSA leaker Snowden

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Muchas gracias

They may have a poor human rights record, but is the USA really that much better??

Win 8 man Sinofsky's 'retirement' deal: $14m shares, oath of silence

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Linux

telco-like

WIth the telletubby interface

US Navy coughs $34.5m for hyper-kill railgun that DOESN'T self-destruct

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re: next disaster will be:

200miles cannot be straight line- the horizon for a ship will only be about 20-30 depending on the deck height.

The system will be sub-orbital. Mach 7 is about 2km/s ; escape velocity 11km/s and orbital is round 7km/s

Bolivian president's jet grounded so officials can look for Snowden

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Trollface

state monopoly on violence

The should copyright it!

British Bebo founder buys back social network for $849m profit

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Re: Sanity Clause

Chico Marx in 'A Night at the Opera'

"You can't a fool a me there ain't no sanity clause"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS2khYJZKwA

Brilliant film.

'Weev' appeals AT&T iPad hack conviction

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insecure set-up of AT&T's servers

Surely that's the way that the NSA wants!

I hope that he doesn't live to regret the name 'Goatse' for his company

Zynga zinger: Xbox chief bagged as new CEO

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Devil

Re: Wow. Leaving Microsoft for Zynga.

Rats leaving a sinking ship?

Logo -for Zynga

Judge nixes Microsoft SkyDrive name in BSkyB court ruling

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Stop

Stop this DriveL

Exclusive: SNOWDEN and ME. TRUE MOSCOW story of OPEN DATA HERO

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Smeg

Just about sums it all up

Ed Snowden could be in some serious trouble and all this does is make a joke about it

Live or let dial - phones ain’t what they used to be

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Linux

Re: I too look like James Bond!

I'm closer to the ornithologist who wrote the 'Birds of the West Indies'

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/11/26/bond-james-bond/

logo - only bird available

EU sets ball rolling on ominous telly spectrum review

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Flame

TV

I don't know about the TV in every country, but most of the TV that I have seen (terrestrial and other) is utter crap, so I really don't know if it would be seriously missed.

The search for market share has driven down quality standards a lot, and most of the what remains of intelligent and interesting content left is spoilt by gimmicky camera work and irritating hype.

Tearing a strip off Microsoft's Brazilian: That's no way to attract mates

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WTF?

re: brazil

nuts to that!

Brits' HSBC bank cards, net access goes TITSUP

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Re: "We are sorry for ANY impact"

We need a Honey Badger icon (as it Doesn't give a $H!T )