* Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon

5770 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2007

Laser boffins blast bits onto hard drive at 200Gb/sec

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"how many people does the disk fly through after a containment failure?"

Cue obligatory random sci-fi quote:

"I come in peace"

"Yeah, and you'll go in pieces, asshole*"

*It was an American film. After all, Arnie never said "Fuck you, arsehole" - although it would have been quite funny if he did.

Beware Freedom of Info law 'privacy folktale' - ICO chief

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If they (the Gov) have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.

But of course they do, so they are scared shitless.

Printed jaw lets woman swallow again

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Good luck with that one unless you either

a) have an unprecedented healing ability or

b) like picking your nose with a really long scalpel blade

Ye Bug List

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Just found a doozer :)

I looked through the features forum, sorted on new posts.

Chose a post I wanted to view the previous comments on, so clicked on the # (which took me to the post on it's own).

I then clicked on the little doohicky dash thing that usually takes me to the very same post but in the main flow of comments and got a loop going..

this is the url it gave me:

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/2/2012/01/23/BristolBachelor_New_forum_Wishlist/#c_1305135

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You may need an auto-wrap for stuff that idiots post with no spaces in it </sheepish grin>

such as

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Boffins crack superconducting graphene's melting mystery

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Inventing things on a shoe-string is still one of the vanishingly few things that are still Great about Britain.

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I think you'll find Cambridge University (amongst others no doubt) garner a fucking fortune lot of money in licence fees for all the stuff they've invented there over the years.

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"I believe they can be improved much further, scaled down to nanometre sizes and work at sub-THz frequencies"

When I read that I almost peed ! :D

BT reveals ultra-fast cable blowing plan for homes, biz

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This is all very laudable, but there are still large swathes of the country that cannot get > 1Mbps download speeds.

I wouldn't mind paying for my link to the local cabinet if the local cabinet was fibred up to the exchange.

New forum Wishlist

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I'm tempted to use it on the main pages to tease people, but it's your idea so I'll let you do the honours.

Only one person has asked me so far how I managed to put a proper hyperlink into my post :)

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"^H^H^H^H"

You know you're a techie when you find that funny :D

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I usually have javascript disabled so I don't see any of the icons, so I mostly just use a </joke> tag at the end. Inelegant maybe, but it does the job.

Considering Drew just announced the free-for-all on the main forums I think he might be busy for a bit :)

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Fuckin-A COOL!

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You double-posted but with different words - that is illogical Captain.

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Not sure if it's already been mentioned, but one thing I would like to see is: when I look at 'myposts' it would be nice to see some indication that there has been a newer post in the 'thread*' of replies for me to look at without having to click on my post and read the thread.

*By thread, I don't mean the whole listing, just the post that has been made/replied to - damn I can't explain it, you know what I mean :)

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I think user defined avatars would be a nightmare to administer.

If you go down that road at all, why not have some pre-made ones, perhaps base them on number of posts/up-votes/down-votes or whatever.

Bronze, Silver and gold vulture profiles would be nice, with the black/red reserved for staff :)

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I think it was supposed to be more Like this.

Which you can only get if you click on the post link, and then on the 'show in context' link. I think.

Fotoshop by Adobé: The miracle beauty treatment

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pro-pixel intensifying fauxtanical hydro-jargon microbead extract

(featuring nutritive volumizing technology)

Superb.

Ukraine file-sharing site disappears

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I prefer the hidden message in this SOPA protest..

Hat man is here somewhere

Reading Reding: Pouring water on DP draft bill

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In my opinion *"opinion alert!"* we, as individuals, should have a legal right to ask a company for any and all records pertaining to us (individually).

If we no longer have any business dealings with said company, we should also have the right to get that company to remove said information.

I don't know about anyone else, but I am sick to death of being contacted by companies I dealt with 10 years ago who still have my mobile or email addy in their database, alongside another indicator that says 'mug' or something. I'd love to have a legal right to get them to remove me, because otherwise the conversation goes something like:

Me: Can you remove my details from your system, I haven't bought a product or service from you for 10 years, and am not likely to do so whilst I keep getting aggravating calls.

Droid: Of course Sir, can I just take some details?

Me: No, I'd like to remove details from your system, not add them

Droid: Ok <clickety click> Done.

Me:Thanks, bye

Two minutes later...

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Brit pair deported from US for 'destroy America' tweet

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no stupid tweets if your going to go to the USA on your holidays, or its going to be a long plane ride right back home.....

That isn't the message I heard. The message I heard was -

"Don't come to the Totalitarian States of America if you are a free-thinking, free-speaking human being - coz we will fuck you up...totally."

Media groups propose anti-piracy 'code of practice' for UK search

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57% of notices sent to google under the DMCA to demand removal of links were sent by businesses targeting competitors, not copyright infringers.

any chance you could quote your source for that info?

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Oh how I'd like that to be true :) Imagine the wails of angst in the corridors of bribery and corruption if you could provide documentary evidence >:)

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If God were truly real, I'd like to see him turn up and sue every one of these bloodsucking fuckers for infringing his copyright. After all, he created them and I believe I remember (just before being born) seeing a contract that says whilst I am incarnate, anything I create is the Intellectual Property of God.

(This isn't a serious post (for those people who are hard of understanding))

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The dice are rollin' and the wheel turns once more.

Cut off a search engine, and a dozen will pop up in their place.

When will these todgertitwranglers understand that no matter how much money they throw at squashing 'piracy', there will be some geek in a bedroom somewhere who goes 'Hey, I've just had an idea on how to get round all that malarky they've just thrown up' and they're out stacks more money and are several steps behind once more.

Their business model simply cannot compete with an individual with a will to do something (and not just for money - it's usually for the challenge).

Students busted for hacking computers, changing grades

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"Let's get the prom queen....."

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They say that two people can keep a secret - if one of them's dead.

Shouldn'a told aaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooone.

IQ:A+

CS*:E

CS = Common Sense

Untangling the question of antimatter mass

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Ah, you are quite right.

I stand, as ever, perpendicular.

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"Just keep to the other side of the room at parties please."

Where I think you will find they have just discovered a way to make the hostess's frock disappear and re-materialise 2 feet to her left.

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What I like most about science is that bright people are hell bent on improving our understanding of the universe and our place within it.

What I don't like about science is that very bright people are hell bent on improving our understanding of the universe and our place within it and are letting the morons* ruin our lives within it.

*Politicians for the most part.

New Earth-observing satellite snaps 'blue marble' shot

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"Or we could all just be proud to be Earthians..."

I wonder what the orforities would do if I claimed I was Terran?

Newt Gingrich wants Moon to be 51st US state

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Did anyone else read that title as New Grinch?

Planet-hunting Kepler hits EXOPLANET JACKPOT

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What's the word I'm looking for? It describes simultaneously the excitement of all that 'stuff' out there to be investigated and understood and the lack of ability to go out there and do just that (and likely not forthcoming in this lifetime).

IBM demos new nanotech

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Fuckinell Bronek, give them a chance!

What have you done this week then?

Fanboi Wars

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of course I was joking :)

it was really koala

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Most weirdy meat I ever ate was otter.

Try a 'shroom before ruling on chill pills, boffin tells gov

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Hey Boltar, have a read of this..

Does Decriminalisation Work?

You seem to be performing a lot of sweeping generalisations in your posts regarding people who partake of the female hemp plant, it makes you sound a little childish.

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Bluebird was a place for locals and well away from God's Chillum. Not surprised you weren't hassled.

Used to love playing the pinball machine in there :)

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That's worth a thumbs up and a repost..

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19744846

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"The good of humankind is secondary."

This is the only superfluous statement in your post. I would argue that as far the gubbermint and pharmaceuticals are concerned it is entirely irrelevant.

Korean boffins make e-books more like real ones

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Does anyone yet make a decent e-book reader that actually looks like a book?

That, combined with this, would be very nice.

Two million-degree matter from SLAC laser

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I'm wondering if this has a knock-on effect for the research into fusion.

My brain hurts today, so don't be nasty if that was a really stupid question :)

The Pirate Bay torrents printable 3D objects

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!I can copy the actuall record itself as well as the song"

Awesome! for all states of awesomeness, what a great idea.

1)Take a .wav file (or flac) and 'convert' it to a 3d-printable vinyl disc.

2)...

3) Profit

pcAnywhere let anyone anywhere inject code into PCs

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"weaponised into exploits by hackers"

I prefer the term haxsploited meself :)

Anyway, I always thought PCAnwhere was just the PC equivalent of X and inherently insecure.

Friday afternoon X wars were always a favourite - trying to sneak a few google eyes and cockroaches under the other guys' windows before he noticed and then hitting him with the script that filled his screen with ants and flying santa claus and snow etc.

Thems were the days.

Mellanox chops 10-gig Ethernet switch, adapter prices

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"300 MB/s NFS file server operations (limited by my RAID array)"

I think that is a protocol limit, you should be able to push that up to around 350 using ftp.

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If you are able to generate that level of traffic on a home network, you will quickly start finding other bottlenecks that are harder to overcome, such as disk write speeds

US govt security advice site trashed by hackers

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"highly embarrasing the 2nd time around!"

you would think they would patch it before putting back on t'net though. However, I won't be holding my breathe.

MPAA threat sparks White House petition for bribery probe

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"It is not illegal to try to donate to someone who try to push an agenda that will benefit you."

Perhaps it should be.

Pay attention, 007: Wi-Fi cufflinks perfect for a spy

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Speak for yourself, almost all my shirts require cufflinks, and I have about a dozen pairs.

My favourites being the 'Monkey Magic' ones, and the motorbike ones.

I still can't see the point of these though, unless the PC you plug the usb bit into doesn't actually have a wi-fi card. But if you can afford these, you can afford a wi-fi enabled laptop and turn it into an ad-hoc access point. Stuff a bit of routing software on there and you are done.

Still, pretty cool though.

Bletchley Park flogs Alan Turing first day covers

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Saw a telly program about how Alan 'broke' the enigma code the other night. No mention of how he was persecuted though - odd that.