* Posts by Crisp

2852 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2012

Capita and pals get £500m for ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE call centre

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Zombie Apocolypse

So what are their plans should a wave of zombies start infecting the UK?

Microsoft unfurls patent lasso, snares Linux servers

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Re: 1962?

Surely that patent has to be in the public domain now?

LOHAN acquires mighty igniter arsenal

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Go

Careful with all those explosives!

You don't want a visit from the terror police squad!

Blizzard faces court battle for 'misleading Diablo III fans'

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Can you not get a 3rd party patch to fix it?

I'm sure that some enterprising programmer out there has made one.

UK Border Agency to create 'national allegations database'

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At this rate

It would be easier to keep records on people that were entitled to live in the country. Like birth certificates or immigration papers or something.

ITC was wrong: Apple, RIM owe us $1bn for that patent – Kodak

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What exactly is 218 patent?

From the article, I can only imagine it to be some sort of thumbnail.

I'm sure that it can't be that though, because that would be a patent of the bleedin' obvious.

JELLYFISH bio-bot built with rat cells to mend broken hearts

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Scientists with the best of intentions build jellyfish bio bot!

No.... This doesn't sound like the start to an apocalypse movie at all...

Is running IT for the Olympics the worst job in the world?

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Unhappy

Still pissed off with ATOS screwing over disabled and sick people

And unfortunately, that's all I can think of whenever I see their name in an article.

Gov must act on 'innocent' web-browsing copyright timebomb

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Coat

As I understand it, just viewing your words and making a temporary copy of them on the back on my eyeball is tantamount to a copyright violation.

This particular post is posted under a Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike License.

Google ordered to censor 'torrent', 'megaupload' and more words

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Coat

That's what they'll do. They'll call it something else.

Mines the coat with the pockets full of magnet links.

US county named 'area of outstanding natural stupidity'

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Re: Firearms, personal liberty and the USA...

Dammit! What am I supposed to protect my home with now? Harsh language?

LOHAN to brew thermite for hot ignition action

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@John

Do you want it done right? Or do you want it done fast?

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It's amazing the number of problems that go away when you use Thermite.

It's incredibly useful stuff!

'Extreme' solar storm speeding straight towards Earth

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Re: This is all we need.

Mass hysteria!

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Coat

This is all we need.

First the rain. And now we're going to have machines coming to life and AC/DC falling off a bridge and toasters eating people. It's the end of the world all right.

Christians get God-optimized 'Edifi' Android fondleslab

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Re: A fondleslab for the hate filled bigot on the move.

How exactly am I supposed to regard people that stand on street corners and tell me that I'm going to burn for an eternity in hell?

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A fondleslab for the hate filled bigot on the move.

How soon till we start getting yelled at by street preachers with these things?

Gambling site's 'no strings attached' offer had strings attached

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A casino acting dishonestly?

How did this not make the front page!

Apple pulls China Japan war game amid diplomatic tensions

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Coat

Re: "using nets and lasers"?

Can I get a shark to go with that laser?

BBC mulls seizing the wheel of Local TV

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Do we really need more TV?

I'm sure that that white space can be put to better use.

Religious wars brewing in ICANN gTLD expansion

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Re: Dave

Can I also recommend

.NASTY - You don't want to know.

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Re: @Oliver

I believe that you're supposed to take two doves. Burn one and sprinkle the blood of the other one around.

I'm not really sure how that helps though.

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Re: pot.. meet kettle...

Why are religious types always so obsessed with pornography and sex!?

Dwarf galaxy conundrum untangled

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It seems that all the best science is done

When you're looking for something else.

Can neighbours grab your sensitive package, asks Post Office

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FAIL

I'm not ok with that.

If the package is addressed to me, deliver it to me.

Don't deliver it to my neighbour, because the last time you did that they opened the package and invalidated the warranty on my new DDR3 memory.

UK.gov to clear way for Britain's first SPACEPORT

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Awesome

Maybe I wont have to learn Mandarin or Russian to go into space after all.

Chemical giant foils infected USB stick espionage bid

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Free USB sticks?

Thank you very much hackers :D

Anonymous vows to wipe web clean of child abuse scum

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Re: Outing Innocent People

Lets hope they don't compromise an existing investigation. Or worse, lets hope this action by anonymous doesn't tip off the big league criminals into covering up their activities further.

Top spook: ISP black boxes NOT key to UK's web-snoop plan

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China's censors move to stamp out sex and violence online

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They want to stamp out “vulgar content”

I for one enjoy the vulgar content from time to time!

UK judge hands Samsung win for being 'not as cool' as iPad

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Re: Apple and the bleeding obvious

I've noticed that a lot of products for sale on the internet have more views of the front of the product rather than the back.

As a general rule, shoppers really aren't interested in the back side of things.

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Megaphone

Re: In the 80's

The spectrum was way better than the C64! Well the 128K version was anyway.

Atos IT workers threaten strike during Olympics over 'living wage'

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Re: Atos IT workers are threatening to strike

It's worse than that. They used a scoring system based on an American system used by insurers to deny medical insurance to people. The healthcare assessments they use are designed to exclude people from being able to get the help they need.

http://www.whywaitforever.com/dwpatosveterans.html

See the summer report of 2010, Section 8

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Flame

Atos IT workers are threatening to strike

They should have threatened to strike when the government used ATOS to force the most vulnerable in our society to look for work when (by any reasonable persons definition of sick) they were unable to do so.

I for one don't care if the poor ATOS workers are suffering. They have contributed to much more harm and anxiety for the sick and disabled people who's health they were supposed to be caring for.

Magnetic cells put biologists in a spin

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Coat

Trout.

How do they work?

Study: Climate was hotter in Roman, medieval times than now

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Re: ^^ What Phil said... but what matters more is ...

"However, there are *many* other factors at work in what is a maddeningly chaotic global weather system."

This. A thousand times this.

The state of the temperature of planet is something that is the result of a large number of variables and systems interacting with each other. No wonder it's taking a little time to figure out how it's going to change in the future.

Still. Nothing wrong with gathering more data and coming up with a contingency plan just in case the planet is reduced to an arid rock.

DARPA aiming for Mach-20 hypersonic rocketplane 'by 2016'

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Terminator

Re: A truly intelligent warhead delivery system

A truly intelligent warhead delivery system would find a way to pit it's human enemies against each other. What kind of intelligent warhead would just blow itself up?

KIT drives off with memory win: 1-bit-per-MOLECULE storage

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Sounds more like some new fad exercise

US ponders fibre link to Guantanamo

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Re: So these 169 inmates...

@Matt 15:09 - You can't have it both ways. Either they are criminals, which means they should be tried in a court of law, or they are prisoners of war and should have been released when the war was over.

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Re: So these 169 inmates...

" There's nothing in criminal OR military law that says you can't keep someone suspected of a crime from being locked up until you want to try them."

Of course there is! You can lock up a suspect, but eventually you have to either a) charge them with something, or b) let them go. And once you have charged a suspect with a crime, they then have (in civilised countries) the right to a fair trial. One of the things that makes a trial fair is the right to be heard within a reasonable amount of time. What exactly are they waiting for? Court rooms have been built in less time than it's taken for the USA to organise a trial.

"Who says the "war" is over?". George W Bush, that's who. Mission Accomplished.

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Re: So these 169 inmates...

Thanks Matt, that's really cleared that up. Except that the articles you cited don't have any reference to the trials for the people there convicted of terrorist offences. And aren't POWs usually released after the war is over?

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So these 169 inmates...

What are they in for again? Have they actually been convicted or anything? Are they still being tortured?

Just asking...

British Gas bets you'll pay £150 for heating remote control

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My heating runs off a 15Kg Butane Cylinder

If this home automation app can unhook an old can and load up a new one and then fire up the pilot light, then it's well worth the money.

'Biologically accurate' robot legs walk like an Egyptian

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Terminator

This is all we need. Robots that can climb stairs.

When the rise of the machines finally does happen, we wont be able to run away up stairs from our new evil overlords.

Chinese boffins build nuclear-powered deep-sea station

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Hey! There's a whole 7/10 of the world we haven't exploited yet.

Underwater castles for everyone! :D

Revealed at last: Universe's intergalactic dark matter skeleton

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No,

You're just slightly more restricted in your choice of lightsabre colours.

Global warming: It's GOOD for the environment

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Re: Well, not so much

Surely they would have been better off getting a load of sugar, hops and yeast and do their brewing in their green house.

That's how I got a bumper crop of my tomato plants.

BT to patrol MoD's cyber borders for another 7 years

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Re: BT vs bored 12 year olds

There are more bored 12 year olds than there are Bruce Schneiers. And the 12 year olds only have to get lucky once.

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BT vs bored 12 year olds

I can't wait to see how this turns out....

<<Grabs popcorn.

Door creaks and girl farts: computing in the real world

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In the real world, doors creak and girls fart.

Which is why we have hinge oil and vagisil.

And honestly, if you're out of the house with a phone that's down to it's last 15% of charge, then you *should* be carrying around a charging cable in your bag.