Posts by tony2heads

Re: re. traditional seafood nomenclature

How about Fugu - it inflates itself and is toxic!

backdoors

Maybe the Chinese manufacturer make a firmware backdoor in the US designed backdoor?

Yo dawg I heard you liked backdoors, so I put a backdoor in your backdoor

re: Government icons

The pointy thing with rings above - does that signify ' sit on it and spin' ?

If you want to take your Tiger on the road..

Try a Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B

Nobody is going to cut you up! Also you can take the short cuts through walls. houses, shops etc.

Go for the one with the Maybach engine and Porsche turrret

Going to fetch the person.

An old colleague of mine just left quietly and allowed them to talk to the air. It usually took them a few minutes to get through the spiel, and a minute more before they realized that there was silence on the other end.

logo- all all centre bosses.

Bas-asses

Try the Honey Badgers in South Africa - that is serious bad-assery! They are the Chuck Norris of the animal kingdom.

http://www.honeybadger.com/

Re: gps

also two clocks - in case the left and right are in different time zones

Re: Chances are its all true but.....

He is probably in a rendition flight to Guantanamo at this moment...

Re: How ironic

They serve and protect the rich and powerful ! Who else?

Re: You know your country is f*cked when...

Some governments doing even know what they themselves are doing.

Re: Couple of questions

how it gains device administrator privilege -see

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/8106/The_most_sophisticated_Android_Trojan

"

Obtaining privileges

Immediately after it starts, the application attempts to obtain Device Administrator privileges"

So it just ASKS for them

rogue state?

@Cristoph

you mean the USA I assume

Re: Kuwait Is Not Sinking, but Houston, Tx is

So is Groningen with the removal of gas from the Dutch gas fields

re: anti-eadon

Surely they would both vanish into a huge burst of energy - what's the problem!

Re: Hotel Facebook

I claim to be a penguin (see logo) and to live on Marion Island* (human population 0).

Still get central heat adverts however :-(

*It is part of ward 55 of Cape Town

tax residence nowhere

Try the S.R. Hadden trick - simply fly off and don't land anywhere.

The Jules Verne version was to stay offshore literally on Propellor Island

Re: Yeah, but ...

You're holding it wrong

Re: Heating the air

The scale height for water vapour in the atmosphere is only about 2km; if you put your satellite dish 1 or 2km above sea level there is little left; hence the placement of radio telescopes for frequencies > 20GHz preferentially in high deserts. Second preference is for cold places where the water vapour has frozen out. The water vapour effect is very little below 10GHz so that is why most TV/GPS/GSM/WiFi stuff is there.

If you transmit strait up (or down) well above sea level you will only get a small atmospheric absorption; if you try this at sea level and then at ground level for many tens of kilometres (e.g in rural areas) it would be a different story. You could get 28GHz system to work well over short distances (like cities or towns with lots of towers)

Klingon code

That explains everything!

http://aumha.org/a/klingon.php

particularly Number 1: “Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!”

teaspoon

to quote spoon boy - There is no spoon

Re: fruit salad

I would like mine with a service of Ice Cream Sandwich

Re: Two sides to the orphan issue?

Let the children compose their own music

Sorry to appear harsh, but I expect my children to work for a living when I am gone; why are composers' kids different?

unspecified mince

anyone seen my horse recently?

Actually in South Africa it has been donkey appearing in the food chain.

Use less electricity

If this gets hacked and the power is switched off at your home you WILL use less electricity - like it or not!

Re: Once again...

You are of course referring to

http://xkcd.com/327/

re: boots

@irongut:

I once had my motorcycle engine block on a cooker; I want to try that one on his iPad

@MrT

I have to inform you that the ambassador has been diverted to Lagos

TV Tax

and bloody advertisements too!

maxwell's demon

but he's drunk

Heisenberg Compensator

The cat is working on it