* Posts by tony2heads

1344 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Apr 2010

Open source app can detect text's authors

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Letter to the Hebrews

To compare authorship you surely need to do this in the original language - so how would a translator be involved?

Adobe punts fix for Reader, Acrobat holes battered by PC, Mac hackers

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Linux

Re: No problems here

evince

http://projects.gnome.org/evince/

(also available for windows)

Ubuntu's Shuttleworth embraces tablet terror: Our PC biz will survive, too

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Linux

Dell

I just order a Dell laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed. So you didn't look very hard

Quit the 2D internet, flee your cave, and GET LAID, barks rock star

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@Ru

I know of an ex-colleague whose son was fired from his Saturday retail job at a computer store because he was too interested and knowledgeable.

Predictably the store went bust and he now works in IT (last heard of working on image recognition systems)

Moral: some store managers seem to want to fail.

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Weather forecasts and Timetables

These are only works of fiction anyway.

Microsoft: Office 2013 license is for just one PC, FOREVER

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Unhappy

Re: Who actually buys office anyway ?

Nobody buys OFFICE, just buy a license to use office

Python-lovers sling 'death threats' at UK ISP in trademark row

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Trollface

five men and a dog

The dog better watch out for pythons!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVXlPP1Q9Y0

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Joke

Re: This is exactly what I expect from the Python community

Typical of pythonidae:

"When they feel threatened, many will hiss, ooze a bad-smelling material from the vent area at the beginning of the tail, and possibly strike and/or bite."

Tizen mobile OS releases v2.0 code

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re: room at the bottom

for feature phones with good battery life there is indeed plenty of room in developing countries. However these will always be low-margin devices and I don't see much money in it for developers

Civilization peaks: BEER-dispensing arcade game created

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Linux

should dispense Tactical Nuclear Penguin

http://www.brewdog.com/product/tactical-nuclear-penguin

That would bring down any civilized standards

logo - obvious

HYPERSONIC METEOR smashes into Russia, injuring hundreds

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Boffin

Re: Mercator

Other fields have noticed the problem with Mercator giving a huge area distortion, astronomers often use

Hammer-Aitoff or Mollweide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_projection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollweide_projection

Surface RT now on sale in 13 more European markets

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Linux

valentines day

my first word connection is 'massacre'

Could that be the fate of RT?

Microsoft exec: No 'Plan B' despite mobile stumbles

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FAIL

Re: Sounds familiar

Sounds like first world war generals:

- over the top lads, this time we will really get through the barbed wire and past their trenches

Adobe investigating attacks on PDFs using zero-day flaw

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dont use Adobe crap

this works

http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html

Ask Google this impossible question, get web filth as a reward

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There are multiple complex roots

1+1j

1-1j

Oracle wants another go at Google over Android Java copyrights

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Joke

Freudian ??

"saving grave" - are you suggesting that Oracle is shambling about like a zombie ?

Intel's new TV box to point creepy spy camera at YOUR FACE

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mirror

I like the mirror concept. You could put any picture of somebody you want to defame in front and then watch 'disreputable' channels.

Soak up CO2 with sponges, says CSIRO

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density of liquid CO2

I checked the some online data- its about 77% the density of water at room temperature and deep ocean pressures

So it won't sink

Love in the time of the internet: A personal memoir

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Alien

can turn out badly

http://cheezburger.com/6981988864

Samsung laptops can be NUKED by ANY OS – even Windows: new claim

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FAIL

Re: It is not a hacked machine issue, it is a virtual machine user space crack

You didn't give the full link

http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/scratch/brick_samsung.txt

I am surprise how few lines of C are needed

Vertu-alised Android revealed at an all-too-real €7,900

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Coat

NFC??

Surely one has flunkies to pay for ones purchases

coat - one was wearing the ermine robe

Nemo cancels Microsoft's Surface Pro launch

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Pirate

I thought it was named after Captain Nemo

something to do with his 'detestation of the nations of the surface" - to quote wikipedia

Solar undercuts coal in New Mexico

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Mushroom

similar peak in South Africa

At a similar climatic zone the peak is early evenings in summer - get home, switch airco on and start cooking the evening meal while others are still at the office with aircondition still on.

icon for what it feels like without airconditioning

YouTube's hilarious cat videos could soon cost you $5 a month

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Trollface

Pai for lolcats on da internetz

DO NOT WANT

Big biz, expensive beancounters write UK tax law, says senior MP

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Unhappy

patents

Why isn't 'intellectual property' taxed like other property - for instance like business rates?

Alien space rocks EXPLODE in fireball over Japan

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Alien

'Crashed' into the sea

That's what the Atlanteans want you to think

Forget 3D: 13,000 UK homes still watch TV in black and white

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Go

Achromatopsia

Some people have no colour perception. Hence they would not need a colour TV; it is genetic so there could be local variations (in Pingelap it reaches 5% of the population)

'Doomsday' asteroid Apophis more massive than first thought

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We need the Great Cat!

In ancient egypt the enemy of the demon Apep (Apophis) was the Great Cat

http://www.duatdesigns.com/image-viewer.htm?gallery/lolcatlarge.jpg

Curiosity gives Martian rock its first scrub down

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Alien

Now we just have to scrub the rest of the planet!

SPUDS ON A PLANE! Boeing boosts in-flight Wi-Fi with tater tech

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Go

Potatoes want to wifi too!

entered on behalf of:

King Edward

British Queen

Lady Balfour

Maris Piper

Désirée

Nicola

Marcy

Belle de Fontenay

and an Irish Cobbler

Brazilian-made 'iphone' runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread

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Re: Slipping already!

Maybe its the letter thorn Þ

Revealed: The Brit-built GRAVITY-powered light that costs $5

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cheetah wheel

It sounds crazy but I have seen a wheel for a bengal cat (part domestic, part asian leopard cat)

Second PAC-MAN orbiting SATURN: Local absence of dots explained

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Alien

the pattern is

the superlaser is charging

Elon Musk envisions small town of vegetarians on Mars

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to quote Arnie

get your ass to mars

Nokia's imaging chief makes surprise exit

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Re: The first lemming leaves

Surely the rodent analogy should be a rat leaving a sinking ship

Plan your BLACK FRIDAY CHARGE: Google shop maps go desktop

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FAIL

Heathrow map

Heathrow is precisely the sort of place that you need a an 'indoor' map of. Just like any other structure that goes on for miles.

Do you know a chimp who's feeling doleful? Mid-life crisis, probably

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Kids

I suspect that it corresponds to when our offspring no longer need us, so part of our role in life has deaparted

US petitions Obama for better policing of its mega-cities

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Joke

Re: Hmmm

I knew you'd say that

BOSS Bang boffins: DARK ENERGY spreading across the Universe

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space

We know that spacetime is bent by gravity - we even need to account for this stuff to use GPS - so why can't it be created or destroyed?

'Out there' uses the same physics as 'down here'

Industry in 'denial' as demand for pricey PCs plunges

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Unhappy

it aint broke

But the poor punter might well be broke

UK's planned copyright landgrab will spark US litigation 'firestorm'

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WTF?

Intellectual property

If Intellectual Property is 'property', why isn't it taxed like housing 'property' just for owning it?

A bitter spill to swallow, or 'how to smeg up your keyboard'

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Linux

Re: Simple solution

Cats are stern hardware critics - the 'crap on it' behaviour shows their opinion of apple keyboards

ALIEN DETECTION was SUPPRESSED by the BBC - top boffin

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Alien

Re: BBC's 'Health and Safety' is just a smokescreen

They dont wan to be found, so they have exercised mind control of BBC bosses.

Gaping hole in Google service exposes thousands to ID theft

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Bounty?

Doesn't Google give bounty for people finding holes in their systems?

Anyone at El Reg looking into that

-no bounty hunter logo?

The Cloud made of Penguins: Open source goes 'industrial scale'

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penguins

I would say that the cloud is held up by a raft of penguins!

Payment protection tops list of SMS spam scams

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WTF?

Cost

As it cost me to send an SMS (but not to receive) how does their cost of this scam relate to the benefit they get from replies?

Someone please enlighten me

Quite contrary Somerville: Behind the Ada Lovelace legend

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Trollface

association

by association with another Lovelace

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Trollface

Re: Grace Hopper

Anita Borg would have assimilated her

Big Blue bigwig: Tiny processor knobs can't shrink forever

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Re: "even long enough for someone to figure out how to shrink atoms down to a more convenient size"

Keep the muons relativstic - use heavy elements?

Whopping supersonic-car rocket rattles idyllic Cornwall

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Mushroom

Good thing it is not at Vernuekpan

It is good that they did not plan it for nearby Verneukpan

Quote: from http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verneuken

Etymology

From ver- +‎ neuken.

[edit]Verb

verneuken (weak in -t)

(vulgar) to deceive

(vulgar) to fuck up, to screw