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Posts by Asiren
132 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Apr 2010
Tablet marketgasm? Don't make us laugh, say Intel chiefs
Twitter vs Beeb in superinjunction nark shindy
Thursday 26th May 2011 13:45 GMT
MJI's view is what I understand
Giggs shot himself in the foot about that.
Papers were snooping, approached/confronted the woman.
Woman runs to Giggs and warns him the papers are trying to run a story.
Giggs runs to get a super-injunction to protect his name, but fails to get her name protected.
Papers run story "We're not allowed to tell you someone had an affair with *this woman*" and cue scantily clad pictures of said woman.
There's another injunction out on another footballer, but that one actually protects the woman as well. Papers running a "Footballer has affair: Can't name anyone" story just doesn't catch the public's attention.
Judgment Day prophet resets doomsday clock
Sony BMG Greece hacked
Nude gardener's arse hauled into court
Libyan network hijacked for rebel cause
Prof debuts miniature laser diode for fast networking
Watchdog turns a blind eye to Danish fu*king
Google, antitrust, and the 'Copygate' hypocrisy
Thursday 10th February 2011 15:43 GMT
Your decision
Right. And how many people out there realise that using IE automatically shares your clickstream with Bing?
And as mentioned in the other reply, it's not you doing whatever you want unaided. It's what you're doing with the aid of Google's algorithms that's being copied. You would not have clicked through to that site without Google. Bing would not know that site was a "search result" without your click-through. Thus Bing is using Google's result to improve it's own results.
That's copying Google's results, and thus bad.
Thursday 10th February 2011 15:32 GMT
Letters and 123
Bing, as far as what Google is implying, is lifting Google's results and displaying it as its own when certain terms are searched for. So it's just aggregating Google's results from Google's algorithms, and presenting them on Bing's result page. That seems to be not presenting similar content though a similar (but fundamentally different) process, which is what Bing claims to be by offering an "alternative" service, but to be giving either the same results, or filtering Google's work an presenting as "original content".
The problem with Foundem seems valid too. Why would a user want a search engine result to return another search engine result? That's like looking for cheap flights through Expedia, and being told the Opodo has a list of cheap flights too! Taking this in extremis, we could have a loop where one search term in Google returns the Foundem search, returning the Bing search, which returns to the Foundem search which it lifted off Google! The user gets nowhere!
Diary of a Not-spot: The readers speak
Thursday 30th December 2010 11:47 GMT 
Build an eye-sore
You should just build an absolutely giant eye-sore mast for the antenna. A mini Eiffel Tower of wood and metal joints, a huge SatAn dish at the top etc.
When neighbours complain, send them to the council. When the council complain, claim that it's the only way to get reliable broadband, claim that it's a human right (or something), and that if they want it gone, they should wire you up or offer a reliable alternative.
Done!
:-)
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Siphon Wars: Pressurist weighs into Gravitite boffin
Tuesday 18th May 2010 11:24 GMT
Actually...
To throw everyone off, surely it's the combination of gravity and SURFACE TENSION?
Without surface tension, the liquid, whatever it might be, would just break at the top of the siphon and fall down seperately either side.
It's why sand can't be siphoned, as the tension between each sand particle isn't enough to "pull" it up the pipe.
Non?
Spaceship 'salad units' to farm special astro strawberries
Tuesday 4th May 2010 13:06 GMT 
Needs less light?
Floating through the expanses of space, without atmosphere to block it out, surely light is something they'd have in abundance? (This is assuming we're not floating off to the next star, and are still within the asteroid belt...)
Though strawberries in space. Mmm... Now we just need some space-cows for the cream.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
