Posts by Anonymous John

Digilante

"Internet-based crime-fighter, above or not necessarily in conjunction with the law.

419eater.com is a good example of a "digilante" "

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=digilante

@ Limited printing

I've always found it fiddling to feed envelopes into any printer. Easier to use window envelopes, or a dedicated label printer.

"An even more spectacular debacle occurred in August,"

Spectacular possibly, but not Internet related. And thee judge was about to cut the trial short anyway.

"Judge Hodson said that the evidence offered by the Crown had been insufficient to prove either charge. Had the case continued, he would have directed the jury to return not guilty verdicts, he added. "

@ Space Maintenance

" Big can of WD40 and a smack with a hammer??? :)"

Don't know about the hammer, but it is a clean and lube job.

<Sucks teeth> "What cowboy did this? It's gonna cost ya."

@ First sensible thing...

" they have recently been directed that paperclips must always be recycled"

We weren't allowed to use them when I was a Civil Servant. Too easy for extraneous papers to get caught up in the clip.

So we had to cull the breeding colonies of paperclips on our desks every now and again.

I expect

they turn up on Ebay every now and again.

Or

she got an email saying that her account would be suspended, unless she logged onto a (fake) site and confirmed her password, etc.

I've read of some hotmail users being caught this way, and the scammer then targets poeple in the address book.

I doubt that the scammer will be caught. He won't have given his real location, and WU payments can be withdrawn anywhere in the world.

@ AKIRA!!!!!

"'Leccy bikes"

SMIDHY.

@ I can see it now

Five fingerprints or less/fewer.

@ Cutting NASA's apron strings?

Not in the next few years, and not with the $500 million (money well spent) NASA has awarded under COTS hoping to privatise launches to the ISS. Why would SpaceX not want a customer like NASA?

www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20081103 refers to Dragon docking with the ISS in 2010.

They're clearly looking far beyond supporting the ISS. Delivering people and cargo to the Bigelow inflatable habitats for a start. And what about beyond earth orbit? I wouldn't be surprised if they beat NASA back to the Moon.

@Non-reusable space planes...

"Reusable space planes are, without exception, much more expensive than non-reusable."

Are they? The Shuttle is the only one so far and it's a 40 year old design. And many of its problems are due to its size. I'm sure that a smaller version using today's technology would be a far different animal.

I for one,

welcome our new steam-powered overlords.

Hand gesture

"This isn't the shade of brown you're looking for."

I've recently bought the Cybook.

But only because it supports Mobipocket. I already had a load of books in that format.

If my only consideration had been hardware, I would have gone fr the Sony.

I've got a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop.

Does this mean I get a new badge for the lid?

@ Eventually you get caught

Unless you're a lad from Lagos.

"The coroner's case is closed."

Is it? We now know he's dead, but not how and why he died. Why was he in a mountainous area, if looking for somewhere for an attempt on the land speed record?

Other unanswered questions too, which will probably remain unanswered.

@ TV?

"I may be reading this wrong but isn't it just a monitor with an add on tuner?"

So what?

Things are changing so quickly now, that an add on tuner strikes me as a good idea. I don't think that any Freeview equipment on sale so far will support the forthcoming

HD Freeview transmissions. So the built in tuner is redundant. Ditto if you want Freesat.

I'm a bit surprised that Hitachi didn't do for a separate PSU as well, if they thin.

@ @Eponymous Cowherd

" But if you removed the encryption any devices the neighbour already had setup with encryption would all stop working, no?"

No. If you view the available WiFi networks on the laptop it will show as unencrypted, but it will still connect.

I liked today's Matt cartoon.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/

So what?

I never watch it.

Mine's the red one with the white edging.

"London kept its position as the ‘most wireless city"

As far as domestic premises are concerned, what they're actually counting is the number of people with broadband.

Is anyone still selling non WiFi routers?

NASA seems unwilling to find room for VASIMR on the Shuttle

Understandable. It would mean leaving something else on the ground. And with the second stage still to be tested, there's no guarantee the ion drive will work.

There's no time to get it on the Shuttle Unless the new US administration authorises additional flights.

They could call it the HAL 9000

"You sound a bit depressed Dave"

"Dave!. What are you doing Dave?"

I really don't think you want to open that airlock door, Dave"

"Dave!!"

<Whoosh>

Wooden cars

Owner: "What's the damage?"

Mechanic: "It's bad news."

Owner: "What?"

Mechanic: "Dry Rot and Dutch Elm Disease."

Where's

the Playmobil reconstruction?

@ God or no God?

If they were there long enough to be identified as Jehovah's Witlesses, he hadn't quite got the knack of getting rid of them.

I wonder what sort oft maths questions they'd set?

Tarquin's bought his house with a £2.5million mortgage. It is now worth 73% of what it was when he bought it. He has a fleet of Porsche's worth £42,995 each. How many will he have to sell to make up the negative equity?