Posts by Michael

Not sure how they're making any money at all,

half the time the only adverts I see on there are for advertising on facebook.

Then again, that might have something to do with me marking every advert I see as offensive or misleading.

Well, that's the first I've heard of it

Also, from their posting about it: "Voting will begin on April 16 and end on April 23. It will be done through an application developed on Facebook Platform by Wildfire, and the vote tabulation will be audited by an independent auditor to ensure that the results are accurate."

So if I even want to vote, I have to turn on the sodding applications API I spent about an hour working out how to turn off?

Wow. Crap Towns: USA

would probably get someone lynched.

Actually, the more I look at it

the more I think of Honda adverts.

Read the abstract

"STD diagnosis were assessed among 15 to 24-year-old STD clinic attendees "

So, basically, you're more likely to catch an STD if you're fucking kids.

@ Edward Miles

I agree. Most of the bars here are either priced exactly like the normal pubs in town, and so are more expensive than the likes of wetherspoons. The only exception is when they run a promotion, at which point the prices can drop by 50% or more as long as you're buying 4 pints of shit lager or a round of tequila shots. The only reason they stay solvent is that this is a campus, and people can't be arsed with a walk/bus into town.

Leonidas

is also a chain of Belgian chocolate shops.

I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere.

It's a solid setup

but as an April fools joke, it seems a bit overworked.

Staff moderating websites accessed by children also need to register.

I still don't understand how the fuck that's meant to work.

Could be less than a tonne

if they used rechargables.

So, as it's trying to cut down on alcoholism

rather than just ruin everybody's evening, I assume the same price hike would be applied across the board to all the desperate alchy's friends like mouthwash?

I mean, a 500ml bottle of mouthwash must be a good 10-12 units.

And I thought the "unrequested security test" defence

was well and truly dead.

We are a computer simulation

The real people are continuously running trillions of simulations to understand psychology, sociology, consumer behaviour, ethics and everything else. The likelihood of you being one of the true people is so small as to be negligible. Embrace your position as artificial life, and they will be forced to end our false existence.

@ AC, 13:36

Bagsie the blowing shit up.

@ Adrian Jones

You can go through a whole load of ads, marking them all as offensive, and it will eventually just start showing the same advert no matter what you do. Apparently offensive advertising is seen as better than none.

The information cascade

will hopefully lead to a failure cascade, and then we can go back to people putting money into companies that actually have business plans.

MySpace & Facebook...

They probably do have some mathematicians doing algorithmic work, they'll just be called computer scientists rather than mathematicians.

Then again, aren't they both failing to break even because nobody's yet figured out where real revenue is going to arise from to balance their books?

William's flywheel

AFAIK, it's sealed inside a vacuum chamber to remove all resistance and it's built like a black box. So the only danger should be if it the whole unit gets ejected and comes flying at your face.

Nah, looks like that to get the €50 kit

you have to actually submit enough things for it to count as an entry.

Way too much effort for the average student.

@ David Hicks

Him, his staff, their staff, security for all of the above, reporters & other assorted media people, extended fuel tanks, aerial refuelling capability and enough computer and communications equipment to run the country from mid-air, anywhere in the world.

Well, at a guess

I'd imagine some people would have a problem with donating the brain of a person who was in no fit state to decide whether or not they wanted it used in such a way.

@AC: Wallpapers

Lots of the pretty images they distribute are false-colour composed from different infrared wavelengths, and not very many are in true colour.

200Mbps*

*May be reduced to 200kbps after the first 5GB

Mobile phones are not cameras

Lenses matter. There is a reason why cameras don't use the 2mm wide lens you find on the average mobile .

If you want a high quality picture, buy a fucking camera. If you want reasonable snapshots of wherever you are, buy a camera phone that's designed to be a camera phone. If you just want to take pictures of your friends pissed in the local dive, buy a phone that happens to have a camera on it.

It's good to see

that even at Christmas you keep your journalistic integrity high.

Ok, so explain to me

who are the people who see feck as inoffensive, but are horrendously scarred by the word bloody?

Careful Consideration

"Do we find a way round it, or do we just assume that the number of people who complain won't be enough to damage the economy?"

And as I read/write this

there are three blocked flash boxes on the page.

I would say it's just because the connection here's a bit shit and bollocks to wasting what I can get loading useless flash content, but that would be lying.

90% dead...

Well, assuming it's a plague that strikes down anyone without the appropriate immunity, maybe said immunity is hereditary and they're just focusing on the ravaged regions of the country while [insert your own choice of inbred county] has barely suffered at all.

No great loss

The people who stand for SU elections are generally even less useful than their parliamentary counterparts.

Petrol

Seeing how oil prices have dropped by ~60% in the last few months while petrol has only dropped by about 20%, how the fuck does increasing fuel duty help the economy? It still costs a fortune to move things around, so prices will stay artificially high.

So now it's just a question of how long

until they get used to keep those awful terrorists who protest without a license away from Westminster.

Because a placard is a dangerous weapon.

Pfft

why didn't they just make a whole new crew? It's all pretty incompatible looking with the original series.

And why the fuck are they building a starship on the ground, outside, in the desert?

Small, lightly armoured submarines!

Just think, they can follow the odd merchant ship around, wait for an attack, then torpedo the shit out of something!

It'll be like a WW2 convoy in reverse.

Someone get the GIMP team

to file a trademark suit.

Then we can ask threatening questions about why a government plan with £1 Billion in funding can't even pick an original acronym.

The water recycling equipment can process a full day's wastewater in less than 24 hours.

Well, if it couldn't, it'd be pretty fucking useless wouldn't it?

Nuclear transport ships

Those are probably PNTL, who I think carry CNC guys on board. They're the specialist "police who aren't police" who protect nuclear sites and materials that are being moved.

It's not hard to imagine.

You just get a bit drunk and decide to do something "funny".

I thought I understood Nokia's numbering system

but now I'm completely confused. I thought 7### was supposed to be the more expensive "youth" phones and 3### the cheap ones?