* Posts by BorkedAgain

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Google shows off Project Glass augmented reality specs

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Snuff ending disappointment

So glad that wasn't just me... :)

Star's guts turned INSIDE OUT in supernova mega-blast

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Re: The moral of this story?

*makes note*

Thanks for the hint. Anything else I should try to avoid? I already know not to rub my eyes after chopping chillis.

Virgin Media's latest throttling rules

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Re: ARRRRGHHHH!!! FFS Virgin!

@Wardy01

This is what I'm talking about. Excellent work here. You could learn much from our crispy friend. Nice use of multiple exclamation marks, you'll notice, and the hint of a swear...

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Re: Just athought

For shame, Wardy01, you're being all grown-up and reasonable. You're supposed to whip yourself into a frenzy before mashing a furious, incoherent tirade into your keyboard. I suggest you think about what kind of an example you're setting here. How would you like it if everyone were as thoughtful as you? Hmm?

Apple drops 'thermonuclear' patent bombshell

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Re: Apple commented to...

Yup. That was the only part of the whole article I couldn't believe...

Adam Sandler's cross-dresser shocker is Razzies stonker

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Re: Showgirls

Yeah, me too. For a couple of minutes. Then I suddenly and inexplicably lost interest...

That's a curiously appropriate icon, isn't it?

Steve Jobs biopic

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Re: Bill Gates

Dammit, someone else got there first.

Kermit may not be slimy enough, mind.

100 EARTH-LIKE PLANETS orbit stars WITHIN 30 LIGHT-YEARS!

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Re: With every passing discovery,

Well, for one: why did God so love THIS world that he gave his one-and-only begotten son to save us? With countless billions of other inhabited worlds in the universe (there are a lot of galaxies out there, even the tiniest, weeniest probability multiplied by that much space will turn up a lot) what made us that special?

Does He just really dig arrogance, perhaps?

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@dssf - God as Glitch

You know The Matrix was fiction, right?

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Re: Fermi Frightens Me.

Or c) - Only those civilisations that survive get invited into the grown-up club. If you can achieve cheap energy, cheap orbit and not screw your homeworld in the process then it's yippee! Everyone gets a t-shirt and some blue dude turns up to explain how numbers really work to the three humans capable of grasping it and passing it on. Also the fundies get to meet-n-greet the angels (who turn out to really like Dr Scholls, and look shifty when the subject of begetting is raised) and we all get to holiday at the Galactic CentrePark (nice views, but don't drink the water...)

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Hello Swarthy.

Pleased to meet you! Welcome to the intelligent life club. So glad you could make it.

Do take a seat; there should be plenty of room...

UK government says no to turbo e-bike

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Re: Yeah!!

Murder's illegal? When did that happen?

BOFH: Dawn raid on Fort BOFH

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@Steve Knox - Re: not...

I only regret that I have but one upvote to give to you.

Charge of the Metro brigade: Did Microsoft execs plan to take a hit?

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Re: Why?

"Can I borrow your brain?" - I'm having that. Thanks Mr O. Have an upvote. :)

(We need a popcorn icon...)

Apple iPad 3 packs LAPTOP battery

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iPad 3?

Are we calling it that to wind up the fructophiles? Just checking...

World's Raspberry Pi supply jammed in factory blunder

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Re: The hand of Sinclair..... Not the same as 1980's

I'm still waiting for my ZX81 kit...

I remember a story, may even have been true, of a BBC kit returned to the manufacturer as broken. They opened the case and found all the components carefully and precisely superglued into place...

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Re: The hand of Sinclair.....

*sniff*

Happy days...

New iPad: Crack open your wallets, fanbois, here's what it'll cost

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Re: Re: Japanese version of Siri?

Yay! That was the joke! And you killed it!

Space FIREBALL over Blighty sparks hunt for rich meteorite

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Re: .the Kraken Wakes

Oh yes indeed! One of my favourite Wyndham novels... Must hunt out my copy again... :)

Android Market morphs into 'Google Play'

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Re: does not matter what you call it

"...secretly taking your details, your friends details and then bombarded you with useless and meaningless spam ads"

Really? They're awfully clever about it then, because I'm pretty sure at least one of my friends or business contacts would have mentioned an increase in spam as a result of installing some productivity app or another, but they're bombarding us all with such subtlety that we'd never guess.

Which raises the question: If a tree falls very gently in the woods and nobody notices, who gives a shit?

Hackers print tiny Linux box to net up your home

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They are now.

Nice one, Monkey... ;)

Powerful, wallet-sized Raspberry Pi computer sells out in SECONDS

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Re: @Marty 26th March delivery

Mid-may is my EDD. I'm not bothered; it'll be fun when it gets here. With any luck I'll have figured out what I want to do with it by then. There may be some giants' shoulders I can easily stand on to achieve it by then as well.

I can't be the only dilettante wannabe-hacker who's quite keen to encourage "proper" IT in our curriculum, not just lessons in how to use Microsoft Publisher and Facebook Studies? IF nothing else, I reckon my kid'll get a blast out of seeing a tiny board functioning as a real computer. I still have fond memories of the blinking light on my Dad's ELF II...

Ten... top Android games

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GTA3 +1

Quite. Absolutely stonking on my Note. Quite remarkable.

It's game over for pinball pioneer

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That last line was priceless.

Must find a local machine and see Mr K on his way. Thanks for the flashy, tinkly memories.

RIP

Court rejects Tesla’s latest libel spat with Top Gear

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Re: @ rob44

More efficient to burn it in bulk, convert it to electricity, transmit that electrical power through the domestic mains, and store it energy in heavy, expensive-to-produce-and-nigh-unrecyclable rechargeable cells? As opposed to simply carrying the highly-energetic fuel around and burning it in situ?

I could be wrong, but it almost sounds like the solution's worse than the problem...

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@David D

*Thank* you! Couldn't have put that better myself.

Cameras roll on 'blockbuster' new Who series

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Re: >180km from London

The US scenes looked like they'd been shot in GTA: San Andreas, I thought...

Councils spunk £515m in 4 years on CCTV

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So that's one canine offender that won't be pooping there again. I think we call that a result.

Worth every penny.

</sarcasm>

Virgin boss victorious in .xxx Branson pickle

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Come the revolution...

...they'll have made so much on the fight over the firstagainstthewall.xxx domain that they'll be able to flee the country to a small tropical island with scantily clad lovelies and no walls.

Just saying.

CRACK made by quakes FOUND ON MOON

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Re: Re: geothermal energy

Selenothermal?

Black Ops has best videogame ending ever

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Oops. Sorry.

Deepest apologies to whomever I offended enough for them to downvote my post. You're right. Lego Star Wars was better.

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My money...

...would have been on Portal 2. The whole storyline was fantastic, and the operatic ending? C'mon...

...Spaaace!...

Lego builds Lord of the Rings collection

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Childcatcher

Well...

My six-year-old was almost inconsolable when we reached the end of the Hobbit. The Neverending Story is keeping us busy for the time being but there's nothing really suitable to bridge the gap to the LOTR. Smith of Wootton Major, maybe...

...or else we just dive in with the Nazgul and the Balrogs...

Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for him

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Who needs beer?

Upgrade eliminates Atlantis from Google Earth

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Not Sulphur...

...sodium. But yes, I'm pretty sure it was a Clarke short. One of a series around a scientific outpost on the moon. Gosh, that takes me back... :)

UK probes Snickers over 'celebrity' Twitter adverts

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WTF?

Downvote? Really? Who'd I offend with that?

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I see what you're saying.

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Not at our school.

...We valued the creative arts, and responded "Squirrel Shite" 'cos it rhymed...

iPad users 'risk shoulder pain', say US gov, Microsoft boffins

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It's true...

...I frequently lie on the sofa with the TV on your wife, and it's lovely and snug.

Starship Voyager dumped into skip

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@AC 13:30

You've done this before, haven't you?

Ancient tulip-like stomach-onna-stick creatures found in Rockies

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@AJ

Hang on, are you telling me my Christian Fundamentalist school friend was correct, and the fossil record is actual, scientific evidence of the biblical flood? Yikes, I owe someone an apology...

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Marvin?

Missed you, man! Where you been?

Survey: Android set to beat iOS in battle for coder love

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You anonymous star, you...

Hey, thanks for that tip! Caustic looks excellent...

Shatner faces final frontier as Priceline.com spokesman

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I'm with Boltar.

Also, does anyone else now associate "Shatner" with "Bassoon?"

The one with the cake in the pocket, thanks...

MIT boffins devise faster Fast Fourier transform

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@Krankenfart

Genial!

Made me laugh, almost literally out loud... :)

Ten... stars of the Consumer Electronics Show

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What's for breakfast, mother?

Maggots on toast?

Official: The smartphones that suck much more than others

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...as good as it were...

I think you mean...

2012 Games Preview

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Portal 3?

Steve Jobs action figure set for shop shelves

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There aren't enough upvotes in the world.

Early Bell recordings live again (kind of)

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Mars Attacks?

That "Mary had a little lamb" recording may have become mixed up with the soundtrack of a Tim Burton movie, if I'm any judge.

Cool stuff, though. I guess the truly remarkable thing here was simulating the stylus rather than playing the physical track with a laser stylus...

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