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* Posts by shinanygnz

12 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Dec 2010

Microsoft finds Huawei to get Chinese biz back on its sales ledger: US permits Redmond software supply line

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Translation

"I am genuinely frightened by what we have learned from our investigations of them." = They make really good hardware at a sensible price that dumps all over that of the companies that lobby/pay me.

My P20 Pro is a flipping great phone, and when my dear old ma & pa asked me and my brother if we were worried about the Chinese tracking us, "What? On top of Google, Facebook, Cisco backdoors, bugger knows how many other intelligence services, Amazon, any sod else whose site we've even looked at, etc, etc. No"

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Britain beats back Argies over Falklands online land grab

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Rolling back to 1830

The gist of the Argentinian position appears to be that we return to the map of the world in 1830 so they get the Falklands, but by that argument we get India, Canada, Australia, large chunks of Africa, etc., etc. back. Sounds like a win for us, though the current inhabitants may or may not be too happy about that. As for the state of Europe, well, that'll be interesting with no Germany, the Prussians back, Italy breaking up, and so forth, and the Turks might like it too.

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Post-pub nosh neckfiller: Deep-fried cheesy Hungarian

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Pint

Go to snack of choice

in Leipzig at Wave Gotik Treffen, washed down with a nice cold Radeberger or Ur-Krostitzer, well several usually. Roll on this May

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FUTURE ROBOTS will EXTERMINATE UK jobs – study

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Re: Here we go again.

They already know

http://imgur.com/wkLiT

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What does a flashmob of 1,024 robots look like? Just like this

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Replicators!

Someone call SG1 quickly and we can kill them at v0.1

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Robot cars to hit Blighty in 2015

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Terminator

Will your car kill you to save another?

Have a read of this, quite thought provoking.

http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/zero-moment/mathematics-murder-should-robot-sacrifice-your-life-save-two

Now do you still fancy the idea?

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Running the Gauntlet: Atari's classic ... now and then

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Great fun, and Gauntlet 2 was just as good. It was such sweet revenge after "so and so is eating all the food/stealing all the treasure" to wait for a shots stun other players level, stun the smegger and shove them into the room with level 3 ghost generators.

Fingers crossed this lives up to the legacy.

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No, pesky lawyers, particle colliders WON'T destroy the Earth

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Re: ... and back to the subject ...

Largely what I was wondering. They even give the game away in their statement, "...might be profitably reappraised"

It's past time to line up the lawyers and accountants

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NASA quandary: Should Curiosity channel Fast and Furious for Martian dune-buggy jump?

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Re: So, they landed it in a hole...

As the Cat would say, "laser our way through". Why else did they install one?

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Higgs Boson hiding place narrows

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Careful what you feed the kitteh

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/06/04/funny-pictures-survived-the-experiment/

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Richard Branson to prowl oceans' hadal depths in flying sub

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Virgin New World Order is coming

Virgin Galactic and now this... yes see where you're going there. It even mentioned lasers on the sub. He doesn't live in a volcano lair on his island (fortress) does he? :-)

Seriously, good luck to him. As many others have said, at least he's doing something interesting and worthwhile with his money.

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Missile defence FAIL: US 'kill vehicle' space weapon flunks test

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Back to the Future?

They did have nukes on the end of some interceptors back in the day (50s & 60s), then they discovered the joys of high altitude EMP and what it did to electronics on the ground, and then there's the various treaties that are supposed to stop that sort of thing.

IIRC (I'm supposed to be working, so haven't checked my possibly faulty memory), the 80s era ASAT weapon deployed a wire net behind it to increase the chances of interception, but actually hit in the couple of tests before they canned the project. You don't need to hit with much at closing speeds of several thousand mph to make a mess of the target.

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