* Posts by Little Mouse

1444 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Dec 2014

Cyberpunks might not be crooks but they're really very rude

Little Mouse

And I take objection to *this* article.

It's offensive to "Cunting Gaylords".

Buzz Aldrin's Apollo XI expenses claim revealed

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How tempting...?

There are boxes there for "Speedometer Reading" &"Miles" for every part of the trip. Including the Moon bit.

NASA puts lenses through a different drill to stare at the Sun

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I was going to post a comment sooner

...but was unable to look away from those two hypnotic eyes...

Astro boffs to say bye to Philae lander

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So long, li'l buddy.

<sniff!>

Seminal adventure game The Hobbit finally ported to the Dragon 64

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Re: pfft!

Things varied by school, but also by time.

The release of so many different machines was staggered over a three to four year period, and, much like trainers, what was hot six months ago could soon fall out of favour.

Happy days though. ZX81 and proud of it.

Alleged Aussie plum plucker pleads guilty to motel tissue swipe

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@x7:

Over there they call them "Sheilas".

Little Mouse

Re: Just... this whole article

Plums, Tissues, Hotel rooms & Australians had me naturally assuming that this would be a story of the, well, onanistic variety.

Pluck pluck pluck away....

The Reg Coding competition – 10 times as hard as the last one!

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Re: Seriously...

But this might be a chance to put the infamous "Bubble-sort" algorithm that we were forced to learn decades ago to some practical use(!?)

That said, even on today's kit it still might take more than 60 seconds...

Newly spotted distant dwarf planet orbits the Sun every 700 years

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Re: My First Thought Was....

My first thought was....

Are we DOOOOOOMED?

Remember those stupid hoverboards? 500,000+ recalled in the US after they started exploding

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Re: Huh?

Cheers, Cuddles. That makes more sense.

"It must be a Thursday..."

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WTF?

Huh?

"42 cases of overheating batteries that caused burns to necks, legs, and arms, or severe property damage to 16 customers"

16 people suffered 42 incidents of injury and/or damage?

Are we talking about the sort of person who just cant take a hint, despite having hoverboards explode under them twice already?

Lenovo scrambling to get a fix for BIOS vuln

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Re: it's a backdoor, not a bug

Someone else has installed a backdoor on Lenovo PC's?

I think that's called Getting A Taste Of Your Own Medicine.

A trip to the Twilight Zone with a support guy called Iron Maiden

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Headmaster

"Focus" takes me back to my schooldays.

Picture an old fashioned & very French supply teacher, who looked like Anne Widdecombe on a bad-hair day, maniacally shouting "Focus! Focus!!!" to a class of teenage boys.

Well, you probably had to be there...

We'll smash probe into comet 300 million miles away for kicks, er, sorry, ... for science

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Re: smash?

I wonder how many of the boffins involved were nagged by their parents when back at school for "wasting" too much time playing Scramble & Lunar Lander?

Man sues YET AGAIN for chance to marry his computer

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It would never last

Each time I buy a new PC I tell myself it will last for years, but I'm eyeing up newer models before you can say "disloyal".

Honey, why are porno apps on your Android?! Er, um, malware did it!

Little Mouse

roots handsets, downloads pornographic applications, and displays pop-up ads at random intervals

I call that Hiding in Plain Sight.

Mystery black hole hides by curbing its appetite

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The real reason they're good at hiding...

...is that the colour of a black hole is black. And the colour of space, your average space colour, is...

You know the rest.

Watch as SpaceX's latest Falcon rocket burns then crashes

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"the engines couldn't take it"?

Musk should employ a plucky Scotsman to tell him when the engines are reaching their physical limits...

Sneaky brown dwarf gives us a bright flash and astroboffins are confused

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Boffin

Re: SI or reg units please otherwise it makes no sense.

"half as hot as the sun"?

Twice as cold more like.

Easy.

Little Mouse

Re: re: black light

The answer is None. None more black.

Cold space gas? Sure, supermassive black holes can eat that. Nom, nom, nom

Little Mouse
Headmaster

Some numbers, please?

My bath water is hot at 40 degrees C, and cold at 20.

What "hot" and "cold" values are we talking about when referring to "space gas"?

Reg photography special: Get a better snap of a BLACK HOLE

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Re: Post pics or retract!

If you could get close enough you could take an actual photo. But how close would that need to be?

A bit too close for comfort would be my guess.

Brit Olympian defies Zika with frozen man oysters

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"Frozen Man Oysters" would make running and jumping a tad uncomfortable.

It would be like having a pair of clackers bouncing noisily around in your pants.

Marauding monkey blacks out Kenya

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Monkey Photo

Is it safe now for photographers to publish photos of monkeys without getting into a copywrite spat with PETA?

Electric Babel Fish swims into crowdfunding

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Re: very easy to do badly

Well, the telepathic matrix produced by the original was babel fish excreta - i.e. fish shit.

That said - I do look forward to the not-too-distant future where gadgets like this will work as described, and not need to be tied to a smartphone.

123-Reg has another PITSTOP

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Tempting...

"an offer of six months free hosting as comfort"

That's like being offered money-off vouchers for a restaurant after you've complained that their food is unfit to eat.

New solar cell breaks efficiency records, turns 34% of light into 'leccy

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Flame

We're thinking about this backwards.

Instead, I reckon Science should figure out a way to increase the output of the Sun...

Time to talk about stupid and preventable failures

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"Optimise I.T."

The first "cost" to get compromised is always the training budget. The one that absolutely definitely wasnt going to get cut this time around, following the "lessons learned" from the last screw-up.

Aussie wedges spam javelin in ring spanner

Little Mouse

Re: "I admire the steady hand of whoever cut"

And I pity the poor fireman who had to "hold everything steady", so to speak.

Supernova bubble clocked at 19,000,000 km/h

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"supersonic" expansion?

What exactly is the speed of sound in a vacuum these days?

Laser-zapping scientists will save the Earth from meteorite destruction

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Re: Ah! Frickin' lasers!

What we really need now is a small spaceship that can rotate both clockwise and anti-clockwise, and accelerate forwards.

Tabby's Star's twinkle probably the boring business of calibration

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Resulting in a full eclipse in 400 years' time? Cool.

Little Mouse

Re: And this is why there is no global warming

Even Climate Change is sooo last month.

If you get your news from the BBC anyway.

Gozi trojan mastermind sentenced by US court to time served

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Over three years on remand??!!

Holy crap.

IBM's quantum 'puter news proves Big Blue still doesn't get 'cloud'

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It's all about context.

"Poorly thought-through outsourcing deal" is another one.

India trumpets seventh navigation sat launch

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Happy

On the whole, this feels good.

Preparations A through G were a complete success...!

One black hole, three galaxies, four BEELION solar masses – found by accident

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Boffin

Tipping point?

Has anyone checked to make sure that we're not being slowly sucked downwards into this unstoppable galactic plughole?

We need to build a giant needle-shaped rocket so that we sew the black hole shut, Abellard Snazz style.

Redback sinks fangs into Oz builder's todger

Little Mouse

These incidents always make me think of the "Deadly Animals" song - the Scared Weird Little Guys' attempt to woo tourists to their fair land.

"Come to Australia. You might accidentally get killed."

Whitehall waste: Cash splashed on consultants and temps up 90% in half decade

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Facepalm

Viz Top Tip:

Whitehall / Local Government / NHS:

"Save" money in the lean times by laying off your more expensive and experienced staff.

How innocent people 'of no security interest' are mere keystrokes away in UK's spy databases

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Happy

Re: Staff looking themselves up

"Remember when you said if I was ever in town, I should look up your wife?"

Pusher's purist: Five steps to reaching your DevOps zen

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The thing I like about DevOps is..

Ah Hell - the Reg won't let me leave this bit completely empty.

Idiot millennials are saving credit card PINs on their mobile phones

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Headmaster

Re: PIN numbers?

I feel your pain.

No-one ever seems to use the correct term - "PIN number number" - anymore.

Hey, Atlantis Computing. What the heck is this in your EULA?

Little Mouse
Facepalm

It must be a Thursday.

I never *could* get the hang of Thursdays...

Vulture conservationists hatch cunning 3-D printed egg plan

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Re: Pretty cool use of tech

In total agreement with you there.

And, as an added bonus, it makes for a NON-boring 3D-printer-related article, as opposed to the usual kind.

Surprise! Magic Kinder app could let hackers send vids to your kids

Little Mouse

Re: Bollocks

But "Kinder Crushing Disappointment" just doesn't have that same ring to it though...

Marketing. There's a fortune to be made selling cheap tat - as long as you package it right.

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Childcatcher

The "best" bit of the Kinder egg was always the yellow capsule that the "surprise" came in. You could use them for all sorts of stuff. They were even watertight! Yay!

But then they had to go and ruin even that by putting on a crappy hinge lid.

Waiting for your Oculus to arrive? Yeah, it's going to be some time

Little Mouse

$600???

There are a lot of basic headsets on the market for peanuts that accommodate a smartphone or tablet. (E.g. cardboard)

Can any of them actually be used for anything more than just showing off the manufacturer's own demo content?

April Fool decries Blighty's dodecaquid

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Coat

Harsh indeed...

I can hardly blame sanwin for being confused. That coin clearly has 14 sides....

Astronomers find first neutron star in Andromeda galaxy

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Thumb Up

So far away

My first thought on reading this was that picking out any detail from something so far away must be almost impossible. How could anyone possibly tell whether signals from another galaxy were coming from the same source or not?

Then I saw the accompanying image.

Seven shades of awesome. Consider my gast well and truly flabbered!

Champagne supernova in the sky: Shockwaves seen breaking star

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Mushroom

"first sighting of sun-cracking aftershocks..."

Phew. Not that Sun.

Colour me foolish.