Posts by Mahatma Coat
904 posts • joined Thursday 11th June 2009 14:00 GMT
Re: I don't know
Which of the two countries are you talking about?
Posted in Soylent days and soylent nights
"if it's not chilled, it's utterly disgusting"
Sounds like Australian beer.
Can't wait until the anti-windfarm brigade see this
And here's how the Google Time Machine visualised the idea over London in the 1940s.
Speaking as a vegan...
...I want to know how much they'd pay me to eat this.
Re: Landfill devices
Obvious fanboi troll is obvious
I wish people would stop repeating these pat little phrases. They add nothing.
"U.S. government also acquired a back way in"
It's worth remembering that this very organ reported about possible backdoors in Skype some five years ago.
Let me get this straight...
...Windows was uncool because it ran on Intel chips.
Unix was uncool because beardy geeks like it.
Vista was uncool because of the interface.
And now Apple is using all of them,
Apple is the new old.
Another CIA-funded upstart...
...is Google Earth, aka Keyhole Inc, financed by In-Q-Tel, the venture capital wing of the CIA.
*waves at the spooks*
I claim prior art
I noticed years ago that a "tongue protrusion" always gained me entry.
Good luck, Theresa May...
...You're going to need all the luck you can get with your steenkin' Snoopers' Charter now.
I need multiple icons for this one but will settle for the black helicopters.
Tory policy on censorship
Censorship in Turkey = Bad.
Censorship in the UK = Good.
Rustie Lee
Just kidding.
NBN credibility
It seems the Libs have not a shred left.
A game of trumps
Two big bullies trump one big bully.
Re: Watching spaceship mating...
I was watching it streamed to my pocket size wireless phone while sitting outside
Not that I'm a fan of the genre but we really need some new science fiction. So much of the old stuff is now everyday fact.
And thanks to Simon for the article or I wouldn't have known about the live feed.
Watching spaceship mating...
...whilst sitting at my desk. Humans can sometimes be quite awesome when they put their minds to it.
Re: @Mahatma Coat (Really?)
Obviously I pressed a button
Yes, you did. I am a migrant to Australia.
Are you familiar with the term "straw man"?
Are you familiar with the phrase "quoting Miranda Devine isn't a smart way to win a debate"?
Re: Really?
Really? Miranda Devine? I actually lol'd.
Let's clear up a few things. One way to reduce the amount of "irregular maritime arrivals" is to not let the refugee boats reach the shore. That is Liberal Party policy.
You'd have to lived under a rock for years to not know how that works. Let the boats sink with huge loss of life such as SIEV-X with 353 dead. Or maybe lie to the nation about refugees threatening to throw children overboard. Or ignore established maritime law. And so on.
Compared to many other countries Australia has very few asylum seekers* arriving by boat but we still bang them up in what amount to concentration camps.
* I use asylum seekers in the true and legal sense, not the Daily Mail frenzy of racism sense.
Re: We're in trouble...
Just take some time to look at what his foundation is achieving, then jump off your high horse.
But it's not his money he's giving away. It's the squillions he made by arm twisting manufacturers into making you buy yet another copy of Windows every time you bought a Wintel computer.
It's your money he's giving away.
Saint Bill, my arse.
Reassuring
No, I was looking for that other word that means the opposite of reassuring.
Re: Is anyone writing anything new in the entertainment world?
No and this is why I never watch, let alone buy, Hollywood's latest bowel evacuations. It's the same old shit all the time.
Here we go
Cue lots of derogatory comments about how crap this all is by people that, despite obviously being fully qualified to design and build such large scale projects, were somehow overlooked for this one.
Posted in Fairphone goes on sale to all
Hmmm
Anyone managed to squeeze FirefoxOS on one of these?
Jeez, I just looked at the site and saw this:
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Nein danke.
Spotify’s CEO is the 10th richest man in the UK music industry
Maybe he doesn't spend all of his profits on payola, hookers, private jets, cocaine and overseas sales conferences.
No need for the joke alert icon.
Re: Don't be evil
A downvote already. I guess government by unelected, tax-avoiding overseas companies is the latest must-have accessory for trendy young things.
Don't be evil
Oh just fuck off, Google, and take your steaming pile of fanbois with you.
FTTG
Fibre to the Ger.
Posted in Review: HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook
Re: Are Chromebooks the new "No OS supplied" option?
Are Chromebooks the new "No OS supplied" option?
Exactly my thought. Rip out the Google shit and install a decent OS.
Matter/anti-matter
Nothing really matters. Anyone can see.
Re: Social contract?
Two downvotes? The joke alert icon needs to be more obvious.
Social contract?
Commies.
The missing one
I'm sure it wasn't an intentional omission from the test dummy design but it didn't allow for "You can shove your shit, over-priced subscription TV up your arse, Rupert".
Nonsense, it was a UFO crashing
I read it in an Erich von Däniken book so it must be true.
NB For those of you under 50, Mr v D was to truth in the 70s what the 'Net is in the 21st century. The name Däniken is Swiss German for "utter bollocks".
Sounds good
When can I get this at home?
Re: Nice looking hardware
It is the fuggliest thing I have seen in a long time.....
iPad owner?
Posted in Ten ancestors of the netbook
Zenith Minisport
I had one of these around 1990. A4 sized and it used 2" floppies (yes, really, 2" floppies). I still have the floppies somewhere here.
Posted in Pirate Bay docks in Iceland
I may have dreamed this...
...but aren't Icelandic men outnumbered 2:1 by gorgeous blonde Viking girls? Why would they need porn?
"let our site partners decide themselves"
How about letting the people using the service decide for themselves? They are the ones ultimately paying for it.
Posted in Review: NetAtmo Urban Weather Station
Re: Toytown
Really? Define "waste of money".
Sodding post edit function timed out on me so here's the rest of my response:
Joking aside, I live in the wettest town in Australia so I know a little bit about rainfall. We average over 4000mm per year with a record peak of over 7000mm. We can sometimes get over 500mm in 24 hours. 500mm is roughly London's annual rainfall, if you want a bit of perspective.
I get my weather info from the BoM Web site and a few natural indicators. When the farmer next door mows his lawn during the wet season it means it will rain within two hours. If the tree frogs start croaking during the day it means it will rain within 15 minutes. And so on.
Weather is about tried and tested observation, not apps with sensors that don't like the rain.
Posted in Review: NetAtmo Urban Weather Station
Re: Toytown
Really? Define "waste of money".
Buying a telescope from Dixon's for deep space research.
Posted in Review: NetAtmo Urban Weather Station
Re: Toytown
About the only thing this does that sticking your head out of the window doesn't achieve is the air quality stuff:
Quite.
Posted in Review: NetAtmo Urban Weather Station
Re: Toytown
Did he explain why it's a waste of money
Low quality sensors, mainly. If the Bureau of Meteorology or any other met service, could get away with low cost hardware then they would. Example: The anemometer on a decent weather station needs to be a minimum height above ground for any thing approaching accuracy. I would guess that most people couldn't be arsed to install a suitable tower in their garden to complement a 150 quid iPad app.
Posted in Review: NetAtmo Urban Weather Station
Toytown
I talked to a weather scientist about personal/automatic weather stations last year. He said anything below AUD25k (GBP16,843) is a waste of money..
His best piece of advice was if you wanted to know what the weather was like simply stick your head out of the window. It's free, up-to-date and highly localised.
Vint Cerf
He sounded like a man with a fully functioning crystal ball once. I stopped paying attention when he sold his soul to Google.
Good article
Nice work, Simon.
Well done everyone involved
This is proper boffinry combined with international cooperation that came together over the Internet and all in the name of fun and science.. It's what a less cynical me from a couple of decades ago was hoping for.
Re: This seems like the opposite of open source...
How does this make them different from the dictators they're trying to strike against... It's still "do what I say or else".
You have a choice of what browser you use. You don't have a choice on what dodgy cert is presented to you.
Meh
I've never worn a watch.
Typo
the Coalition's operational expenditure forecast is incomplete incompetent.
