* Posts by AGirlFromVenus

45 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Mar 2008

Boffins play ping-pong with single electron

AGirlFromVenus

Next; Breakout or...

...Galaxians by electron. This will spawn a whole new industry and way of life for a generation.

APP OF DEATH plots local fatalities on demand

AGirlFromVenus

with a public api...

... you could build a realistic zombie game, use google to add real names and you'd surely have a winner.

B.

Legal expert: Letters can be evidence, so can Facebook

AGirlFromVenus

in the UK, waste of time

...because the state can demand your private key, and thus a PGP signed document is meaningless in terms of authenticity.

B

Antimatter hangs around at CERN

AGirlFromVenus
Pint

next steps...

...first anti-oxygen, then anti-carbon then anti-CH3OH. Awesome

Rapture postponed as world inexplicably fails to end

AGirlFromVenus

What bible?

Would that be the different bible written in Aramaeic (?) or Greek, or Coptic Egyptian or Arabic or whatever, that all are going to differ somewhat.

Facebook planking game claims its first victim

AGirlFromVenus

Darwin beckons if 20 yrs. old

That looks like a sensible entrance age to get a entry in Darwin awards then. First one to plank on the hi speed main line down by me and get cut in half would be a more likely winner tho.

Police head-cam TV show debuts in US

AGirlFromVenus

So will this be ITV5...

then? Just imaging the fun turning on the TV in 2025 and watching those hilarious tazerings and shootings from 2011 on ITV5. Can't wait (to die).

So, what's the best sci-fi film never made?

AGirlFromVenus

Iain M Banks

Excession would make an amazing film. Go! Sleeper Service, Go!

W**k-O-Meter

AGirlFromVenus

great for politicians

Network wank: recommended by Cameron, Sarkozy, Belosconi and Obama. Target you jiz over Libyia.

Can telephony and IT work together?

AGirlFromVenus

yorkshire fire service...

... and a burning ambition. Hum.

ICO waves stick at climate boffins over FoI compliance

AGirlFromVenus
FAIL

repeat after me...climate is not weather...

weather is not climate.

Crazed reindeer stalks, attacks Scottish woman with antlers

AGirlFromVenus

Buckfast maybe?

Perhaps some happy walker had left a part bottle of buckfast that our happy Rangifer tarandus had sipped up?

B.

Russia wins World Cup bid in parrot-sickening travesty

AGirlFromVenus

ho-fucking-ray

I am spared the mindless gibbering of has been footballers and arse kissing grovelling politicians, my pocket is saved from the, whoops..you know I said it would cost 2billion, well its now costing 9billion thieving scum. and lets thieve the difference from the lottery funding that you would have had locally. Good day.

Artificial replacement human livers made in lab

AGirlFromVenus

is there a moore's law...

... for growing livers? how long to scale up?

yea, open a bottle of red.

Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractals, dies at 85

AGirlFromVenus

Powerfull influence

Reading about Mandlebrot sets in the early 80's, the maths. and computing visualisation was a major, major influence on my life at a time when I needed some direction. Bless you Beniot.

B.

Much of recent global warming actually caused by Sun

AGirlFromVenus

willl need new bridges...

... for a frost fair, to provide the same number of piers as the middle ages bridges had, as they helped obstruct the flow, and made freezing easier.

Scottish skies clear of giant vulture menace

AGirlFromVenus

sponsorship

Perhaps Vulture Central should sponsor a dead chick a day (or whatever) for Gandalf?

'Climategate' university to open up data

AGirlFromVenus

jisc funding

With JISC funding they will spend a chunk of money on computers, employ somebody for the project duration, spend loads of money on project meetings and "outreach" and writing exit strategies, then it'll go down the pan when the funding is withdrawn, or maybe transfered (without any public tender process) to one of the core JISC cronies, oops, data centres.

Wales joins supercomputer club

AGirlFromVenus

not networked?

I thought that there was already a (tax payer funded) network to connect Universities in the UK together, JANET. Does this mean a whole 2nd network or something virtual built on top maybe?

Cheers,

B

'Huge airships to carry freight starting 10 years from now'

AGirlFromVenus

helium?

Can somebody remind me about the avaiability of helium and it renewable status? I thought it was basically use it then lose it...

Cheers,

B

Competitors vie to provide earthquake-proof radios

AGirlFromVenus

Richter scale is so 20th century ...

... and is now out of date. Earthquakes are now measured on the "moment magnitude scale".

Cheers,

B.

Wayward 'zombiesat' poses risk to other satellites

AGirlFromVenus

geostationary is 36000Km...

...high, and not likely to hold many satellites with earth focused cameras.

Lots of TV/Radio transponders though...

Cheers,

B

Cheshire lass, 8, wins Playmobil vid challenge

AGirlFromVenus

She needs to get a ...

... job with Nick Parks crew. Awesome.

B.

Bromsgrove lass slapped with Boozbo

AGirlFromVenus

homebrew time then...

yeast + sugar + water + flavour (optional extra) . wait a few days...sorted

B.

Chinese hunters capture 'yeti'

AGirlFromVenus

It's in China? Deep Fried ...

... with plum sauce then.

B.

Saga servers quiver for Cameron

AGirlFromVenus

As a SAGA target demographic I .....

...shall surely be voting YaHa Me Scurvy Shipmates if I get the choice. If not I guess I have to record a null vote somehow.

Eggheads solve England penalty-shootout crapness riddle

AGirlFromVenus

Sunglasses?

Can't the shooter then wear sunglasses so the goalie can't follow the gaze?

B.

LHC dimensional apocalypse from midnight: Your thoughts

AGirlFromVenus

@Valerion

The speed of light does not apply to the expansion of the universe, cause it's not going anywhere, it's just getting bigger. The cosmic word is inflation.

B

Farmer fined for ignoring cow's 'psychological needs'

AGirlFromVenus

victim surcharge?

What this for. Dr. Dolittle to come along and sort out the post traumatic stress disorder, or to pay for a golden pair of stun bullets when it's hamburger time?

B.

Yank slams El Reg 'zio-fruitcake' Playmobil 'crap'

AGirlFromVenus

zio...

zionist?

B.

Mainframe emulator goes commercial

AGirlFromVenus

hercules is great fun...

... to play with. Spent many a happy hour playing about with MVS and pascal/fortran 2. Always was a bit disappointed never to find z/OS on piratebay.

There is aslo a lovely alpha/DEC emulator out there for running openVMS as well if you're fed up playing with linux.

B.

Microsoft fans call for Opera boycott

AGirlFromVenus

@law

um, never heard of ftp?

Obesity witchhunt is a 'moral panic' - sense out of Texas

AGirlFromVenus

The Science of a Chocolate Teapot

For experimental results see...

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/kitchenscience/exp/how-useless-is-a-chocolate-teapot/

Glastonbury new-agers protest WiFi

AGirlFromVenus

orgone generators...no accumulators

bring on hawkwind

http://www.last.fm/music/Hawkwind/_/Orgone+Accumulator

omg ... is that 30 yr old tab still good?

yours, wow the colours,...

me

Don't delay: Delete your DNA today

AGirlFromVenus

so.....the data sent to america then

So, how do we delete our data from stuff that has been given to the Americans, Aussies, Canucks and Uncle Tom Cobbley and all. What about deleting data from archival backups?

You think the yanks are going to give a fcuk about a European court rulling!

Attack of the quarter-ton, 'fridge-sized' killer jellyfish

AGirlFromVenus

new for the takeaway

just tell the chinese, they'll do a nice jelly stir fry with them, and it'll be no. 201 on the menu in double quick time

German boffins plan frictionless liquid crystal lubricant

AGirlFromVenus

vibrator.com...

surely a product for them

Honda debuts groin-clutching walker exoskeleton

AGirlFromVenus

Calling all doms

Wow, imagine a bondage dominatrix getting this, and putting in/on an anal plug with appropriate restraints. Make more money than formula one. Even better add gps and remote control. (I patent this idea)

'Water bears' survive in outer space

AGirlFromVenus

Thinking of experiments...

It would be fun to try and expose Bush and Blair to hard radiation and vacum, and see what happens. Would God protect them? Answer on a postcard.

Amazon flash mob mauls Spore DRM

AGirlFromVenus

Problem is, it's quite a tedious game after the first few hours

Does not live up to the hype and expectation, and turns into a really boring space trader game. Very dissapointed. Had to delete Conan to make space for spore, but think I'll roll back from Spore.

Hadron boffins: Our meddling will not destroy universe

AGirlFromVenus

Where's Scotty when you need him...

Beam on Scotty

Hasbro kills Colonel Mustard in the corporate office with the marketing ploy

AGirlFromVenus

Bit more imagination requitred

Sexy Sara killed kinky MP by gagging him with a tangerine in the lounge

Fringe organisers launch inquiry into ticketing fiasco

AGirlFromVenus

Next years big hit show....

implementing a tickiting system for dummies

Attack of the Italian space pod parachute babes

AGirlFromVenus

too easy

SPacecrew Emergency Module (SPEM) => SPacecrew Emergency Rentry Module (SPERM)

Paranoid partners to get GPS snooper

AGirlFromVenus

This'll be fun

What's the small print then about DPA? It's not out fault about anything blah blah blah