Posts by Scroticus Canis

Optical Illusion?

Is it just me or is the one on the right bigger?

Californian legislation has bite - revenge-porn operator gets 18 years just deserts!

Kevin Bollaert who ran the ugotposted.com website (hosting 10,000 explicit pictures posted without the subject's consent) just got sent down for 18 years porridge in California.

How come this is missing from the article?

Haven't had Java or Adobe Reader for 2+ years and no problems.

Killed Java and un-installed Adobe Reader over two years ago and haven't noticed anything missing at all. Everything works fine and no problems with PDFs as preview reads them just fine. Still need the accursed Flash Player though and scrub the tracking crap once a week or so.

Jump into this 'ere blanket, we'll catch you.....

...laugh? I nearly shat!

Those were the days.

"high-power telescopic rifle" - ¿Meep?

Where can I get a rifle that is telescopic? Barrel extends and collapses (for longer or shorter range I presume)? Breach also longer for shorter rounds? Hell of an interesting technology for high-powered rifle methinks.

Singing with "decreased amplitude" - accurate model?

Well one obvious difference between avian and human drunks then. So how accurate a model can these poor abused finches be for human drunks?

Oh a Windows only article, how interesting - NOT.

An article that only considers security options for Windows based systems is hardly "up there" is it. Isn't Windows security an oxymoron of note?

So relieved it's not the UK stores

Lost interest fast when it became apparent it's a foreign affairs story.

The Weekend Edition front page is more like it

Have just revisited to see if anything change and clicked the Weekend edition tag on the nav bar.

Now that front page is more like a reasonable redesign. Liked the fact that you actually have the date and time stamp of the article instead of the 1 day, 2 day crap, also like the fact the author is named so you can choose who you read (big plus that one).

It is also not overly clutter-fucked with pictures on the story title.

So just use that style for the main landing page and much will be forgiven (in time of course).

They already got one there and back which is impressive of itself.

Good luck on the second try but must admit bit sceptical of 'bombing' the asteroid. A penetrating harpoon might be a better option; less shrapnel and chance of the asteroid being propelled elsewhere.

A bomb calorimiter does not mimic digestion or metabolism

Plain and simple the body does not burn food, it metabolises it and the two way of extracting energy are quite different. Fats are hard to digest needing expenditure in energy producing enzymes and all, and then require significant energy to move them around and store/re-utilise them. Carbs on the other hand are easy to digest and slip into the Krebs cycle very easily and an excess is stored as, yes, fat!

Cholesterol in the diet is damned hard to adsorb and most passes straight through, where as the cholesterol excreted/secreted by the liver is modified and is almost all reabsorbed. Learnt this in physiology at med school 40 odd years ago and believe me human physiology has not changed in that time, just the idiots writing 'knowledgeable' papers; oh and the diet, we just eat too damned much now for our life style, end of.

TAB - That's Africa Baby

A conflict free Africa is about as achievable as preventing AGW by covering the world in concrete wind farms.

Forget about the Muslim north where peace reigns under the laws of the Koran because it isn't real Africa.

There has always been conflict and slavery. People still kill each other over a box of matches in a shebeen (illicit pub) argument, or over grazing rights, or use of the water hole, or over which one of a gang gets to keep the cell phone they have just knifed someone for. No matter how peaceful an area one lives in there is always some thug from elsewhere who wants what you have and who does not care how they get it. Westerners who have not lived in Africa just have no idea of what the (sad) reality is.

Since most of these minerals get exported to China for refining (or done locally in a Chinese owned and run facility) the American law described is a useful as a $4bn chocolate teapot.

PS: TAB was in use long before TIA was introduced by Di Caprio.

Jasperisms - higher wavelengths and wandering radio dishes - WTF!

"higher wavelengths" ¿Que? - the photons have an increased girth or what? Maybe you confuse wavelengths (longer / shorter) with frequencies (lower/ higher)?

"The telescopes which make up the ALMA array can be moved around a plateau in Atacama desert". - No they can't, they themselves can pan and tilt but they definitely don't move about the plateau, watch the video link you supplied Jasper.

"stars form within clouds of gas and dust which are squeezed together" - gravitational collapse is not being squeezed, or do you you think a god cups it's hands around the gas and pushes inwards.

"dust then forms rings which again coalesce into larger particles and eventually great big chunks" - um the dust and gas coalesce into the "big chunks" under mutual gravitation and the "chunks" mass gives them increased gravitational attraction which causes the rings by sweeping in the other dust and gas.

Paris because she doesn't have a clue either.

Boffin knows little about post sex munchies

If these solitary bees are anything at all like the solitary (unattached) human male they will definitely be rummaging in the larder for something to eat after a shag or two, since bees don't have larders or fridges I bet the orchid will be on the raiding list for nectar. Problem solved and happier bees!

UK twat-twit audience will gather to watch

Obviously the Samaritans have forgotten the UK public's response to David Blaine and his daft starving in a glass box stunt; having people waving hamburgers and pizzas at him while they chowed down or hitting golf balls at the box, etc... This app will just enable like minded 'tards to gather to watch the suicide spectacle with suitable cat-calls: "that's not how you tie a hangman's knot mush" or "ten extra points if you land on the Range Rover darlin' ".

Chytrid desease is not new!

Would like to see a link to the source for the warning Dr Lips is supposed to have said or is it more Jasperism "reporting".

Got to love the way he never mentions the main-stream name of the amphibian affliction he is "reporting" on.

Photoshop or genetic mangling?

Looks like a chupa-chihuahua-cabra head stuck on a hare's body. I know it was Halloween an' all but....

Sun's latest FIERY BURP

Didn't know you could light a burp. Now a fart on the other hand..... would be beyond X class n' est pas?

Again it's just the law abiding middle classe who are being targeted

Lets see the plod actually work up the courage to go and check a few travellers sites or known radical hot spots first. If the police want respect time for them to earn it like they used to.

"200,000 F" - Who converted the ºK to ºF for this verbiage?

Scientists, even is America, use Kelvin or Celsius for temperature, not Fahrenheit. So some one dumbed down the original article this was taken from. So should be 110,820º K or there abouts.