* Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

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Sick burn, brah: SpaceX test fires rockets for SES bird launch this week

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Well, they say Xst time is the charm... seriously, good look for the launch and just that little bit more luck for Xst barge landing!

(Cue the Shepard's prayer...)

Austinites outraged as Google Fiber tears up Texas capital

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I always assumed "right(s) of way' in Texas had something to do with 'biggest gun' or 'most ammo', but maybe I just watched too many John Wayne movies as a kid.

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Re: Utility right of ways

But surely not ignoring the relevant codes doing so?

Is Facebook about to get a Virtual Reality check?

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I thought the to-cheap-to-meter leccy came from the fission plants already? Oh, right...

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20 years of VR* juuust before it's final breakthrough**

30 years of the paperless office juuust before it's final breakthrough

60 years of AI juuust before it's final breakthrough

*anyone still remember the cybersex-hype from the 1990ies?

**I've said it before and I'll say it again: the biggest obstacle to VR's success is still that you look like a dick using it

Ukraine has a Eurovision pop at Russia

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So, Russian subs in the skerry-coast off Stockholm (like in the 1980ies)?

NASA stormed by 18,000 wannabe 'nauts

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Re: Units

LORD IT'S HARD TO BE HAPPY WHEN YOU'RE NOT USING THE METRIC SYSTEM

- Atom and his package

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For what it's worth: 62 - 75 inch

= 11.2482 - 13.6067 Linguine

= 0,17808 - 0,2066 Double-Decker Buses

= 0,0114 - 0,0138 Brontosauri

(And here I thought being tall enough to ride Space Mountain would be just as well.)

Latest in Apple v FBI public squabble over iPhone crack demand

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This is shaping up to be bigger than the Super Bowl. (And far, far more important too.)

UK court approves use of predictive coding for e-disclosure

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So it's basically a search engine?

Intelligent Energy secures $7.5m to develop smartphone fuel cell

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Great. Users of the "I can't find the any key" variant fiddling around with hydrogen cartridges. What could possibly go wrong?

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What was the slogan?

"Come home to a real fire!"

Black Monday: Office 365 down and out in Europe

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Outlook:

Cloudy - with a chance of outages...

Software, not wetware, now the cause of lousy Volvo drivers

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Oh I don't know - I'd be quite convenient to, uh, borrow a nice car from tome to time. After all, we are supposed to be transforming into a sharing economy...

FBI says it helped mess up that iPhone – the one it wants Apple to crack

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Re: "the suspected terror suspect"

I think it's a legal technicality - anyone remains a 'suspect' until they are convicted, but as you can't convict a dead man...

Alcatel drives upmarket with Idol 4 smartphone series

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Didn't 'Alcatel' used to be a French brand/company once?

Yahoo! is! up! for! sale! – so! how! much! will! you! bid!?

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Re: External advisors

Scrap for parts - what parts? The only true asset they have left are the shares in Alibaba.

Okay, Wikipedia could buy the search engine (instead of building their own), but that's it.

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Re: @skelband

mumble mumble core competence mumble...

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Re: "Three dollars and a packet of crisps"

Okay, thanks for the info!

*Ahem* I bid 3.75 $ and two packets of salt & vinegar crisps!

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Now I'm strongly reminded of the bidding in the auction for Le Chifre's 'art collection' in the 1967 version of Casino Royale, but YouTube let me down, so no soup link for you!

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Re: "Three dollars and a packet of crisps"

What flavour are the crisps?

German mayor's browser tabs catch him with trousers down

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Re: the upside

Apparently his term ends on 2016-10-31 - so yes, there will be a campaign (I've first typed that as campaingn, I wonder why, but it didin't look right) in the late summer / fall. If his party will put him forward as a candidate again. But as this is already his second term, he'll be entitled to a full pension from the job as mayor.

BTW, it's about an hour's drive from Quickborn to Hamburg and its Reeperbahn. Where you can see the Beatles-Platz and visit Beatlemania, the Beatles museum. Which is the only reason why so many people go there every night, honestly.

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Re: language

No really, none whatsoever. Honestly.

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Re: I was going to say "So what"...

Thomas Köppl is a member of the CDU, (CDU homepage), which of course doesn't mean that he's not a hypocrite.

However, Köppl is available for a personal meeting, provided you contact his office to arrange an appointment.

On the subject ot the AfD: don't even get me started, that'd be a post deleted by a moderator for sure.

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1. "Merkel"

2. He's in the same political party as Merkel (CDU). Basically the German version of the Tories. So no real surprise there, innit?

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Re: South Tyrol

Beat me to it, have an upvote... South Tyrol was part of Austria until the end of WW I. East Tyrol and Tyrol proper (sometimes referred to as North Tyrol) are part of Austria. There is NO West Tyrol, mainly because Switzerland is sort of in the way.

Although technically South Tyrol is near the Italian border, but I know what you mean and you are right of course.

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Re: Sprechen Zie Deutsche?

"Does anyone know the German for "When in a hole... stop digging"?"

One variant would be "Zieh' den Fuß aus der Scheiße!" - (not safe in some invironments).

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Obgligatory xkcd...

Top new IoT foundation (yeah, another one) to develop open standards

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Re: IoT - Has it's time passed?

"It's 10 PM - do you know what your lamps are doing?"

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Oh good, just roundabout half a dozen 'standards' then. And here I thought things would be complicated.

The paperless office? Don’t talk sheet

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Re: "Print is dead"

"Print is dead." - Dr. Egon Spengler

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Re: Fax to email

Yup. NEVER try to laminate thermal paper. Unless you want a fancy place mat or coaster or something.

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Re: re Don't talk sheet

Silverado (1985), a personal favourite, mainly due to it's cast (what's not to like?).

All genres have a variable popularity, it's a fashion thing, but they rarely ever die. The first movies ever made were Westerns (in the US at last, yes, I know - the Skladanowsky brothers, the Lumière brothers, Méliès, Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, etc.), The Great Train Robbery was shot in 1903 and is a Western. Given the potential of the format, Western movies will always be an option. Also, they can be transposed into other settings - Outland (1981) is arguably High Noon (1952) in space.

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Re: This column has only one purpose:

What are you, under forty? Get off of my lawn!

Mr. Dabbs' taste in music is impeccable.

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Looks like someone at DEC remembered IBM and their punch cards (for the Hollerith-type sorting machines).

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Re: and don't even think of looking at my Rotring pens

Oh, lah-di-dah... - we used to dream about having a dip pen and a bottle of ink! Best we could manage was a twig with some of granddad's nostril hairs tied to it, and don't even get me started on the ink!

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Re: Getting there slowly

Otterbox - yes. Highly recommended. I have one for my tablet, works great, and personally I like the industrial look. Got it for my new tablet because I killed my last tablet by dropping it. And of course I haven't dropped the new one not once since it's been in the box. You really get a good grip with that.

Re tucking the phone between shoulder and the cheek (on my face, that is) - I have one of these gadgeds that look like an old telephone receiver. Got it as a gift, saw it as a toy first, but now I'm actually using it, and it just works.

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That should suffice to get you in - maybe not into the House of Commons proper, but certainly into one of the after-hours parties.

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Re: I'll see your dot matrix

"I still have boxes of line printer output that I use for lining the larder shelves."

I actually did a double take on your handle, could have sworn this was a post by Jake....

SpaceShipTwo ready to slip the surly bonds of Earth for Virgin Galactic

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Re: Yes, It's Exciting And All That

Book tip: "Limit"* by Frank Schätzing** features a protagonist based more than loosely on Branson. Got rich in the media business, now operates the world's first space elevator and has just buildt a hotel on the moon. Pretty good sci-fi themed political thriller, AFAIKT the science bits are researched quite well, so no 'Duh' moments.

*yes, there is an english version

**yes, the guy who dreamt up the Yrr

US DoJ files motion to compel Apple to obey FBI iPhone crack order

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Re: No longer a problem

What's he gonna do, ugly the data out of the phone by looking at it?

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Upvoted for 'Galileo clause', even if it does sound a bit like an episode title from Star Trek TOS.

Q: How many guns to arm nine coachloads of terrorists?

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Okay, tonight's movie will be Hot Fuzz.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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So you're saying that a terrorist can't have a PA? That's discrimination, that is!

SAP’s Byzantine licensing leaves its customers feeling exposed

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Can't help thinking that a cage fight of the SAP legal team vs the Oracle legal team would be fun to watch.

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Re: PowerBuilder.....

It's always the quiet ones that someday embark on a killing spree, isn't it?

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Re: An Imperial Message - with apologies to Herr K

Well, it beats waking up as an insect on any day.

Loved one just died? Pah, that's nothing

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http://memegenerator.net/instance/24085115

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Re: Am I the only one

Drop ypur panties, Sir William - I can't wait till lunchtime!

You don't so much read amanfrommars1's comments as decode them.

My personal approach is somewhat like the way you have to use on those "Magic Eye" books (remember them? must've been in the 1990ies IIRC), only not applying it to the eyes but the whole brain. A bit like meditation. You try to take it all in, don't focus on anything specific, and sometimes an idea or a mental picture or a clear sentence emerges.