* Posts by ravenviz

1838 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Nov 2009

Merde! Dummkopf! Google Translate used as spam cloak

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Re: " because it may easily be used to lute users into visiting malware-tainted websites."

The ought to be strung up.

Boffins brew eyes on bugs' wings

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Re: That sounds awesome

Nah, they should have used a turbo encapulator.

Boffins probe into moons – and associated rings – 'beyond snow line'

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Re: Yeah but..

That's why the major palnetary bodies *generally* orbit in the same plane, there is currently more variation in orbital inclination as there is much more space to play in, and thus takes a lot longer for the collisions to create a truly flat ecliptic plane. The principle is the same though.

Egyptian navy captures divers trying to cut undersea internet cables

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Re: The mystery of the mysterious operatives

Looks like a photo of a photo.

Dragon capsule makes fiery entrance, safe splashdown

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Re: Dirty Laundry and Empty Packaging?!

Re: laundry and drying times, surely they could use some sort of multi-million dollar washing line, it's quite warm outside when the sun's out!

NORKS switch off 3G data for tourists

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Re: The most amazing thing about this....

Re: tea girl, the look on her face when he said he didn't want coffee.

There does seem to be some sort of innocence portrayed when North Korean are filmed, I'm not sure what to make of it, it's a sort of unworldliness; we know about opportunity and aspiration, they are prevented from ever knowing what that is. But then we also know about all sorts of other bad stuff, but at least we have a choice to live our lives how we want to (or so we're told).

Space probe spies MYSTERY 'Cold Spot' in very fabric of cosmos itself

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Re: It's the blow hole ...

It's the plug in the ebony bath.

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microwave wavelengths, equivalent to a temperature of just 2.7 degrees above absolute zero

How come my microwave heats baked beans hotter than the sun?

Roomba dust-bust bot bods one step closer to ROBOBUTLERS

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The system could identify tubes of crisps and bog roll

Looks like it just read the labels...

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I redesigned my whole interior layout just for my Roomba!

NASA chief: Earth is DOOMED if we spot a big asteroid at short notice

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Re: Earth is doomed?????

Very good!

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Re: Nothing new under the sun

It won't matter where any km sized object hits, the climatic implications are enormous and will affect globally. 100 m - 1 km hitting land will do pretty much the same climate-wise whether it hits a city or not; an oceanic impact may also have a greater immediate risk due to tsunami.

We're all so wrapped up in whether or not we as people get hit directly or not (i.e. an impact to a city), it clouds our judgment. If we want to save lives, put the 'scopes up in inferior orbit and give people time to evacuate to whatever squalour they then must put up with for years to come (think Ike, Katrina, etc.).

Software bug halts Curiosity: Nuke lab bot in safe mode

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"We can just delete that file, which we don't need any more"

Hope it's in the Recycle Bin.

Plastic Logic shows off bendy 'leccy posters: Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

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2p

I will just say that "Anyone? Anyone?" and "Beuller?" are in different scenes in the movie.

Nexus 1 put in orbit to prove 'in space, no one can hear you scream'

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The screaming is quite silly

But so are people, we are us, we can do what we want!

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Re: Hang on....

I think the problem is if it ends up in the Atlantic Ocean instead.

North Korean citizens told: Socialist haircuts are a thing... go get some

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This will just send haircuts underground.

Just wonder when they'll get involved with pubic topiary.

Drone quadracopters throw and catch inverted pendulum

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Is it April? So soon!

Boffins spot Luna-sized exoplanet

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Re: "in the constellation Lyra"

That's just peanuts compared to, er, hang on...

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Re: Staggering

One would assume the detection prospects are highly magnified due to their proximity to the parent star. Might be a lot more difficult to detect bodies the same size in the respective habitable / water=liquid zone.

This 320-gigapixel snap of London is size of Buckingham Palace

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Building site

London seems to be a bit of a building site! Can only be good though. Amazing how crowded St. Paul's cathedral looks, considering it would have dominated the skyline in Wren's day.

The image was quite slow on my machine so only got to look at 'downtown'.

Still, a good effort though!

Clarkson: 'I WILL find and KILL the spammers who hacked me'

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Re: Whats he gonna do?

Apparently they're for 'overtaking safely'.

Traceroute reveals Star Wars Episode IV 'crawl' text

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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster remembered 10 years on

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Re: The rescue options?

Actually, remember to convert £ to $ but the principle is the same!

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Re: The rescue options?

I never like to make financial comparisons between different arenas, but $450M to rescue 7 people doesn't compare well to spending the money on benefit projects. We say you can't put a price on life but we do it all the time, i.e. decide to let people die because it's too expensive to justify otherwise. Oxfam's website says £25/month would pay a teacher's salary, equivalent to 30,000 of those teachers for 50 years.

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Re: "those who were in the know"

@C-N, great blog post, thanks for the link.

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HSE

People say the world has gone HSE mad but you will never know if it works as you will not have that 'life changing event'. Let it slide then the risk is realised and everyone says, told you so.

Risk analysis also needs realistic risk mitigation.

Revealing new pics of galactic princess Andromeda

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Galactic collisions anyone?

The image seems to show at least two planes of eliptical rings at different inclinations.

Asteroid-mining 'FireFlys' will be ready for action by 2015, vows space firm

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@ John Smith

Boom boom!

/basilbrush

Pubic louse falls victim to eager Brazilian strippers

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trimmed shrubbery

Bring us another (trimmed) shrubbery.

Computers are 'electronic cocaine' that make you MANIC

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At my desk the urge to 'fix quickly' gives a real adrenaline surge that I can feel. It makes me shake, probably not good.

Is it a desire to perform, or a fear of not performing?

Newborn planets spotted slurping up gas from young parent star

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There's a nicer image in the Independent.

I tried to buy a satellite and all I got was this lousy $67,000

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Bit harsh

shifted around the world by well-meaning nerds

Sniff.. Phew! WORLD'S OLDEST CHEESE discovered in Poland

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Re: What was that?

Actually I think they were referring to any manufacturers of dairy products.

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"Traces of milk lipids on the pottery revealed its original use"

It's not much of a cheese shop, is it?

Happy birthday, transistor

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Technology advances

I'm always fascinated by this "right time" for technology advances when so many can have worked on the same problem at the same time, often independently and release their findings within months.

As it says on the edge of a £2 coin: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Revealed: The Brit-built GRAVITY-powered light that costs $5

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Re: Attracting mosquitoes

Attic or loft?

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Er, I don't think they live that way because they want to!

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@AC 11:18 If you posted as you, you could have used the troll icon...

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Re: Nice

I've get a light sensitive LED light plugged in in my kitchen, it is very bright when you're close to it but to be honest it really is quite dim at range. Mind you it is only 0.5W and it saves switching the light on to get a glass of water at night.

It pays to study the habits of your email users

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MS Outlook

If you're clever in Outlook you can pile (only have an Inbox and Sent Items) and file (use clever search folders*).

*You'll need to change the registry to turn on Query Builder though

Jokes of no more than 2 lines

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What's green, got eight legs, and would probably kill you if it fell out of a tree?

A snooker table.

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What's red and sits in a tree?

A sanitary owl.

New research cuts Kepler's exoplanet count by one third

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Re: NASA's Kepler

No, ex-Shell employees.

Patrick Moore: Lived with cats, accompanied Einstein on the piano

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What an excellent story!

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Re: On my way home this evening

I noticed the stars have been especially bright these last nights, even from London. A fitting tribute!

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Patrick Moore presented us with our Astronomy degree certificates back in 1989, a true privilege!

Where is the Patrick Moore obituary?

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Where is the Patrick Moore obituary?

See above.

'Build us a Death Star, President Obama' demand thousands

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Re: $852,000,000,000,000,000

That's only 1.6% GDP if spread over that time period.