* Posts by robin48gx

108 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2010

Moscow's speed cameras 'knackered' by MYSTERY malware

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The driving test should have subtle questions in it to determine if the candidates fully understand

the equation

E = 0.5 * m * v**2.

If they cannot grasp this simple bit of physics they should not be allowed a driving license.

Boffins use DVD burner to scale graphene supercapacitors

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Meh

How many uFs per cap did they get?

Telecom bigwigs: 'We're all friends – really'

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Happy

Re: Cry me a river

or the practical compromise. Buy a new battery for the phone off ebay and go to a minimal 300 texts 100 mins 10 quid a year contract

Clarkson: 'I WILL find and KILL the spammers who hacked me'

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Re: Silly man

Anyone who punched peirs morgan in the face is ok with me.

Own a drone: Fine. But fly a drone with a cam: Year in the clink

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Re: What is the UK's take on a drone camera?

that helicopter looks very unreliable from the reviews

Any storm in a port

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FAIL

Thought it was a stupid design when I first saw it

Obvious people would get annoyed with it, should not have been visually symmetrical. What committe designed that ? Who was on the board ?

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

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Re: Sweet Jesus H Christ On A Bike

Ah I see, the BIOS detects an `overrun', thinks its under attack, and then self destructs.

Bit like a Japanese WWII soldier, rather commit suicide than be captured.

I pity the poor owners of these machines...

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Samsung loosing the plot

Lots of their tellys are failing (replace the "sam young" capacitors they start working again), now their laptops brick. Sounds like they are putting profit b4 reliability...

Irony alert: Pirate Bay accuses anti-piracy group of illegal copying

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Re: har har!

Whats worse than being raped by ten pirates ?

Being fingered by captian hook !

Curiosity photographs mysterious metal object on Martian rock

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Trollface

original image here, though the NASA channel number 4

Before the NASA censorship department have time to shoop de woop on it

https://images.4chan.org/sci/src/1360593572190.jpg

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Mushroom

Re: Periscope.

http://www.marspapers.org/papers/Mole_1999.pdf

This scientific paper shows us how to deal with it.

British games company says it owns the idea of space marines

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Meh

Re: Another bit that isn't original

Starship troopers was 1958.... What rubbish to start yelling about IP on the concept of a space marine.

Earth-like planets abound in red dwarf systems

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Re: Lemme know...

Like a ring world ?

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Re: Entropy: Big Problem!

Ever noticed some seaweeds are red not green ? Thats because, the UV and even the blue and green light is not available a few meters under the sea. Nature adapts. Even here on earth we have photosynthesis that can use much lower wavelength and engery EMR than UV....

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Re: Entropy: Big Problem!

Ever noticed some seaweeds are red not green ? Thats because, the UV and even the blue and green light is not available a few meters under the sea. Nature adapts. Even here on earth we have photosynthesis that can use much lower wavelength and engery EMR than UV....

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Re: Space is big but time is big too

The cosmic seeding idea. Absolutely, what is all that junk DNA really for. Bet its for a creature with a big brain, four arms (it lives in micro/very low gravity) and a 1000 year life span... we are mere monkeys compared to what the seeding has in store for us...

US military advisor calls for McKinnon pardon, recruitment of "master hackers"

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Meh

And sack Carmen Ortiz....

How to destroy a brand-new Samsung laptop: Boot Linux on it

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FAIL

self destruct built in?

Does this mean there is a KILL LAPTOP call, that is called if the OS checksum fails? Who would buy a computer with a built in self destruct feature ?

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I am only going to buy new PCs after consulting the ubuntu compatibility lists now

Never again will I buy a computer without checking first it runs Linux, or whatever else I might want to put on it.

Lotus 1-2-3 turns 30: Mitch Kapor on the Google before Google

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Re: Ability Plus?

I had a summer job as a lifeguard and the beach inspectors used that to keep track of all the beach hut problems.

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Happy

visicalc

I had visicalc on my artari 800 in 1981.

Bradley Manning to speak in public for first time in two years

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He hacked into the pentagon to set information free

Manning and Assange hacked the info out of the pentagon.

Its revealed here in a public pronouncement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDrW5NOsD4 10:58 onwards, according to

the Gong.

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Trollface

A folk song about him

From a dingy pub in brighton....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BG0mZmRHb0

Humans becoming steadily STUPIDER, says brainiac boffin

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Trollface

Cavemen

Thos new generation, poncing about, painting on the cave walls, we had to fight the giants, thirty of us in coordinated attacks with our newly developed spear throwers.... this new lot are getting weaker and stupider by the generation......

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Re: Just another point...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Haig,_1st_Earl_Haig

Your eugenics implementation hero then I presume.

SECRET 28 'scientific experts' who Greened the BBC - Revealed!

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Happy

complain

complain to them.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/

Fans' loyalty questioned as iPhone popularity plummets

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Re: Empires Rise...

or back it up to forgot your phone . com

Sun daddy: 'Machines will replace 80 per cent of doctors'

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Re: While I agree that there does remain a soupçon of witchcraft

What about automated urine and blood tests---use science not heuristics...

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at least you would be able to get an appiontment

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-187692/One-GP.html

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Re: Vinod prognosticator who brought us Sun now predicts new stuff

those SUN 68k unix systems worked well and reliably... unlike most of the other stuff around at the time...

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Re: Just like NHS Direct

Yeah, but it will tell you to go see your doctor when it knows whats actually wrong with you.... all he has to do write the prescription (in the UK).... in civilised countries like spain u can prob just walk to the pharmacist and cut out the middle man

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therac 25

they took away the hardware interlocks on that to save money, because the regulators knew very little about safety they passed it.....

Software and safety technology have moved on considerably...

Without a computer to control the aircraft with CofG pushed right back, no pilot could control an aircraft now...

And its a red herring anyway because its

absolutely nothing to do with diagnosis.....

Black helicopters circle Street View car crash

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Happy

black silent helicopters

in the book that taught me DSP, written by people in the the US Navy electronics something or other

found it here

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Processing-Addison-Wesley-Electrical-Engineering/dp/0201095181

it does do FFT analysis on helicopter sub-sonics. Most of it is 20Hz so some pretty big sub-woofers would be in order, but very doable.... esp as the turbines in helicopter engines are controlled to constant rotation, and controllable torque....

Lords blast UK.gov's fixation on broadband speed over reach

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Re: Damn right

Naw, my 15 year old son was very disappointed with the internet speeds

in England (he is Swedish).

We are well behind in this country, out internet crawls......

Judge: Patent litigants behave like animals

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Linux

With or without prejudice.....

I like this judge.

But did the author of the article really mean "without prejudice" ?

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

Brit telco flagship BT joins blockade of Pirate Bay

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Re: Sir

header---should that be hydra ???

Study: The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate

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Go

Psychohistory...

I thought it was a process for understanding mass psychology, and also reducing natural language down to mathematics (and therefore revealing true meaning and intent from diplomatic speak).

Twelve... classic 1980s 8-bit micros

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Mushroom

Atari 800 series ???

You missed out the one made by the makers or arcade games.

They knew how to make gaming hardware.

A sound chip that could do drum beats, and could be configured to high accuracy for pitch.

A graphics chip with a sophisticated display list (so you could scroll play fields using pointers), and superimpose 4 sprites (players) as vertical columns and missiles, represented in contiguous memory.

The players and missiles had h/w registers to indicate collissions between objects on the playfield and sprites and missiles.

That meant no programming of coordinates to detect collisions was required.

That meant the 1.79MHz 6502 could do more.

Play fort apocalypse on an atari and it was an experience. Play it on a commodore 64 and it was laggy.

US Navy preps railgun for tests

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FAIL

yup. I agree. Someone should get an 'o' level physics book. btw kinetic energy == 0.5mv^2

Windows 8 hardware rules 'derail user-friendly Linux'

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Go

GRUB

Sounds like we need one key. To run a modified GRUB as the alternative OS that can then find other bootable images.

This means that each distro won't have to obtain an expensive key from micros**t.

Google to join Wednesday's anti-SOPA protest

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Go

JUST TURN JAVASCRIPT OFF

WIKI

Boffins quarrel over ridding world of leap seconds

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Go

I use 64 bit unix...

So 2038... not a problem,

Wikipedia to shut down Wednesday in SOPA protest

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Happy

read the manual on crontab

then you will be able to understand about doing something at a certain time/date with a computer.

Bomb threat lobbed at Finnish anti-piracy squad

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Megaphone

denying information

By blocking a site this is denying information, not everything on pirate bay is copyright violation.

Whats next ? The only DVD burning software allowed are ones that cannot burn `copyrighted' material ? Going further, could they want to ban C compilers because we could write software that enables copyright enfringement ?

I think anonymous have a point. Banning pirate bay really is the thin end of the wedge.

Apache confirms new OpenOffice build by 2012

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Megaphone

latex

trashes word and OO...

UK nuclear: Walking into darkness with eyes screwed shut

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Well done LEWIS

Brilliant stuff !

Right on the nail!

Army raygun to boost power with starlight de-twinkling tech

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Zernike polynomials

I wonder if this stuff was worked out for optical spy sats pointing down at earth at first.

Drinking alcohol wards off asthma

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High rates of Asthma in Children

Maybe that's why children get asthma so much.

Maybe we should give them beer like they used to hand out milk