* Posts by Katie Saucey

452 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Mar 2011

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NASA's TESS mission in distress, Mars Express restart is a success

Katie Saucey
Boffin

TESS GNC issue

Guidance and navigation issue? Just point it up!

The new, new Psion is getting near production. Here's what it looks like

Katie Saucey
Go

JUST..

..TAKE MY MONEY!

How alien civilizations deal with climate is a measure of how smart they are. Just sayin'...

Katie Saucey

Bring on class five!

But without the carbon taxes and asinine 'green' subsides.

Snopes.com asks for bailout amid dispute over who runs the site and collects ad dollars

Katie Saucey

Snopes is not much more than a popular basement blog run by a very opinionated (ex) married couple. Half the time they use Wikipedia for reference, and on political 'facts' they just sway towards popular media opinion. Seems about right that either facebook or google should bail them out.

What a time to be alive: drone pooper-scoopers are a thing now

Katie Saucey
Terminator

Good luck with that

My 2 100lb German Shepards would disable or destroy the ground based robot in under 5 seconds, especially if it emitted the slightest whirring noise (which I assume it would), not just because as puppies they where teased with RC cars, but because I think most dogs would think it was an evil vacuum cleaner gone Terminator.

Microsoft kills Windows Vista on April 11: No security patches, no hot fixes, no support, nada

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Thumb Up

Thank the Gods, unfortunately I still have family running it, luckily they definitely will not have heard of this news and panic calling 'just in case'

Pack your bags! NASA spots SEVEN nearby Earth-sized alien worlds

Katie Saucey
Alien

Re: How Accurate?

The 12 colonies were spread out among 4 stars in the Cyrannus star system Helios Alpha, Beta, Delta and Gama

Here's the simple diagram

As with everything sci-fi, fans have made numerous elaborate and visually pleasing posters/infographics complete with shipping lanes moons, outposts etc.

I've arrived on Mars. Argggh, my back!

Katie Saucey

Re: A never-ending study on how to mess up humans... @ma101

Launching material off the moon might be relatively easy, and maybe even mining it won't be to hard, but most of our ore refining methods rely heavily on gravity separations (at least at some point). That's a whole lot of new (and heavy) equipment to design and ship to the moon before you get your first batch of moon-metals.

Spoiler alert: We'll bet boffins still haven't spotted aliens

Katie Saucey
Devil

Re: Instrument error?

' If you can squash a 0.8mm copper wire with boots sufficiently to increase the resistance of a length noticeably, you may be in line for some kind of award.'

Cake eating?

Katie Saucey
Happy

'As any followers of the “Tabbi's Star” controversy will tell you, put “aliens” in a media release and you're bound to get the clicks'

You got me.

Did last night's US presidential debate Wi-Fi rip-off break the law?

Katie Saucey
Big Brother

Wi-Fi rip off?

Media trying to control the narrative? Well at least it isn't the jews ...oh wait.

And before I get perma-banned for being 'literally Hitler' look at the concentration of ownership in of the media westerner countries, the bias is real regardless whom of might be doing it. They all spit out the same narrative day after day, even Al-Jazz does this (RT the same but with a Rusksie anti-american slant), AP releases a clip/bite, everyone parrots, then relentlessly shoots down any independent opposition as 'a conspiracy' or freaks out about some autistic 400lb'ers on 4chan (Trump) with the frog memes (Hillary).

Here is an oldie, but a good example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzAytlDjl7E

The worst part is no one f-ing seems to care. Poor Orwell, he was absorbed in the Huxley merger of 9/11.

Unlucky Luckey: Oculus developers invoke anti-douchebag clause, halt games for VR goggles

Katie Saucey
Meh

Re: I actually feel for the guy @Tommy

'No, but we can choose simply to not fund idiocy.'

Ever drive a Ford, use an IBM device, Siemens, Bayer or BASF product, Hugo Boss etc? Companies with decent products have long supported some form of idiocy or disagreeable ideals. I'd claim you'd have to leave the planet behind to avoid being a hypocrite, but that tech started with some questionable characters as well.

Lindsay Lohan's Grand Theft Auto V cartoon case kicked out of court

Katie Saucey

Truly a wonderful time to be alive

Intel teases geeks with 2017 AI hyper-chip: Xeon Phi Knights Mill

Katie Saucey
Terminator

An AI Hyper-chip eh?

As long as Intel doesn't buy up Boston Dynamics and stuff the chips into this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

humanity will be safe.

Lab-grown black hole proves Stephen Hawking's radiation claims – physicist

Katie Saucey
Unhappy

Lab-grown black hole

Stop teasing us with headlines like that! I glanced at it and for a brief second, and had hopes that just about the coolest thing ever had happened overnight. Once the first bits of caffeine kicked in and my eyes focused on the first sentence, I realized I'd been tricked again into reading about reality. Quite interesting stuff, but where my frigg'n stargate already.

'Alien megastructure' Tabby's Star: Light is definitely dimming

Katie Saucey
Alien

Spoil sport.

Adblock Plus blocks Facebook's ad-blocker buster: It's a block party!

Katie Saucey
Mushroom

Re: arms race @Charles 9

'abandon Facebook, but for many it's the only way to keep up with remote family'

Whew. Does making an account with that particular demon still require an e-mail account and presumably an ISP? If yes, then viewing 6 million ads just to get in contact with someone you know is not necessary, e-mail groups and lists work fine, and are ad free. Do you just want to troll around and spam what you ate for lunch? Carry on.

No need for the nuclear countermeasure if you don't encourage the cancer to begin with.

New York jerks face $25K fines for hassling ex with fake caller IDs

Katie Saucey
Big Brother

Re: In short, it doesn't pay to be a douchebag

Larry Ellison, Zuckerberg, Jobs, googles entire staff, and numerous Microsoft execs ( specifically the one's who's idea it was to nag me for a year about 'upgrading' ) might disagree, it would not surprise me at all to find out they started their careers as professional douchebags.

Kaspersky so very sorry after suggesting its antivirus will get you laid

Katie Saucey
Thumb Up

Re: I fucking hate the over-sensitive MRA asses out there

Tl; dr fagot. OK, I did read your comment and for the most part agree.

Katie Saucey
Meh

Re: God damn I hate SJW bullshit

18 thumbs down prove my point. (inb4 someone reads more into this comment)

Katie Saucey
Holmes

Re: Stop "Criminalizing" Everything Male!

Meh, just call them faggots or jews, seems to work on 4chan. Although the commenting on El-Reg over the years has seemed to be above that, the MS and Larry Ellison battles are pretty good and almost there, also when is AManFromMars coming back?

Katie Saucey

Re: God damn I hate SJW bullshit

Possibly, the only problem is that my doggies seem to have made friends with the bears (or at least signed some sort of non aggression pact that I missed), they are a bunch or retrievers though, I wouldn't put anything past them that does not involve extra sleeping or much past getting extra puppy treats

Katie Saucey
Childcatcher

Re: An On-Purpose

We are talking about Eastern Euros and Russians here Mark, different set of rules and upbringing, SHIT I let that slip! call the PC police and ban me! I'm sure there are some 'false flag' injections of ads here or there, but this just looks like some guy and his co-workers and PHB, who thought it would get a laugh, not a sacrifice on the Tumblr alter

Katie Saucey
Mushroom

God damn I hate SJW bullshit

This apologising shit has got to end, you cannot comment on, or do anything without some faggot being so ass-pained that they try to make a federal case out of either a) a bad joke, or b) your opinion which they don't agree with. I read somewhere awhile back that some 40% of millennials would agree to peeling back to 1st amendment if it meant no more rude people on the internet. I declared my home a politically incorrect zone years ago, it's getting so ridiculous now that I might need to a build a wall of some sort or something...I already live in the woods

Apple Watch craze over before it started: Wrist-puter drags market screaming off a cliff

Katie Saucey
Meh

Re: @Bob Dole ... Could Also Be...

'The Apple Watch keeps perfect time'

For about 12-18hrs depending on usage. My TimeX s-l225 self-winder has kept good time for 40 years (it was a hand me down) and has never let me down, the only drawback is I can't use the now frequent "my watch/mobile died" excuse if I'm horribly late.

Pokemon Go oh no no no, we're not reading your email, says gamemaker

Katie Saucey
Meh

@Voland's right hand Re: In concentration camps too

What's worse? The fact that the developers didn't bother to write in exceptions for every sensitive historical spot on the planet which may or may not have a museum or memorial, or that fact that some dumb-ass feels the need to whip out their Iphone at Auschwitz instead of trying to grasp the sites significance?

Sociology student gets a First for dissertation on Kardashians

Katie Saucey
Meh

@Voyna i Mor Re: Earth Shattering Stuff...

"..if you regard sociology as a joke subject...as they use sociology and psychology to manipulate you without your knowing."

My opinion of sociology is that in the last 20 years (my observable timeframe) is that it has indeed become a joke, and is now on par intellectually with images and memes generated by 4chan. I can say with some confidence that that I can spot this bullshit a mile away. The only noticeable effect on my behavior is excessive eye rolling and added disgust that my tax dollars help subsidize what are essentially hugbox/daycare programs for young adults.

Graphene is actually self-folding origami, proclaim physicists

Katie Saucey

RE: I would welcome views

"The gas will have a 'temperature' but any atom/molecule will have it's own (and changing) velocity"

I'm pretty sure that is the gist of it, if I remember correctly one could talk about a temperature for a large molecule, in effect relating the sum of all it's vibrational modes to the equilibrium state of the ambient environment, although I have no clue where or if that comes in handy anywhere. This stuff was 20 years ago for me, and the only thing fresh in my mind is the traumatizing brain tangles and PTLSD (post thermodynamic lectures stress disorder).

UCLA shooter: I killed my prof over code theft

Katie Saucey
Holmes

Re: Interesting omission

"..strange that no one has mentioned the killer was Muslim."

Pretty sure that is because he was Hindu, 4chan/pol when through 100 threads on this today.

Swiss effectively disappear Alps: World's largest tunnel opens

Katie Saucey
Pirate

Pretty cool but..

I bet it is going to get annoying fast when the train keeps stopping halfway through to let Dr. Doom's henchmen on and off

Feinstein-Burr's bonkers backdoor crypto law is dead in the water

Katie Saucey
Black Helicopters

Senator Feinstein

I paused reading right there, and naturally assumed that somewhere in the bill there is a new and idiotic gun restriction stuffed in, just to truly make this bullshit legislation worthy of her signature.

Boffins flip the unflippable: Meet the latest storage extender contender

Katie Saucey
Meh

Re: "it'll take years"

Yep, about five years. I look forward to picking my new copper-whatever-arsenic HDD up in my hydrogen powered flying car, also just around the corner, in 5 short years.

Score one for the patent trolls: US appeals court says it's OK to shop for patent-friendly judges

Katie Saucey
Holmes

Re: Texas. The nanny go[a]to state for trolls!

Butt-hurt euro detected

Nanoparticle boffinry could boost battery life

Katie Saucey
Happy

Great article....

...except where's the quote that goes something like this:

"We expect to see this reach the consumer market in about 5 years"

All kidding aside, this type of research sounds great not only for better batteries, but for materials engineering in general. The more insight there is on how nanoparticles behave the better, and hopefully it get us one step closer to manufacturing that magic space elevator material to boot.

Windows 10 Anniversary Update draws nearer with Inky preview

Katie Saucey
Windows

Re: Look I like Windows 10

"BECAUSE IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A$$."

You can fix that to some extent apparently:

http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/make-windows-10-like-windows-7

Why Microsoft decided to go full retard and decided to include all the ridiculous facebook/instagram tier options by default is beyond me. Why not just have a simple 'classic look' option like win 7 does? Did someone in marketing think "Wow, I bet people who have been using windows for the last 20+ years would really love to spend a few extra hours of install time getting a look and feel they want!". Scratch that last comment, it's ms business as usual.

'Hobbit' heads aren't human says bone boffin

Katie Saucey
Alien

Obviously they are the lost tribe of the Bikura, they weren't discovered by a certain Father Paul Duré were they? Oh wait we're not on Hyperion, or are we?

PHONE me if you feel DIRTY: Yanks and 'Nadians wave bye-bye to magstripe

Katie Saucey

'Nadians?

Sir we prefer either Canuck, Maple Ni**er, or just plain old Hoser

The Voices: A horror-comedy that’s as schizophrenic as its protagonist

Katie Saucey
Pint

Since when did the reg do movie reviews? meh it's the weekend I guess. Also, at least the movie has some aspect of realism, cats are always evil etc..

Brit hydro fuel cell maker: our tech charges iPhone 6 for a week

Katie Saucey
Mushroom

Re: Explosions?

I assume they've planned for this

SkyNet did, just chuck'em out the window!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdRbnjSAddE

Katie Saucey
Meh

though full scale production and commercial release remain some years off

Humm...just some years off (I bet a company rep says 5, it's always 5)..where have I heard that before? Right, I'll have my fusion reactor by then. Pics or it didn't happen etc. etc..

Captain, dark energy sensor readings show dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way

Katie Saucey
Joke

Re: Pah!

I take your puny 520Mpixels and raise you 3.2Gpixels!

Pfft..probably be standard fare on the next round of mobiles anyway

US State of Georgia sues 'terrorist' for publishing its own laws ... on the internet

Katie Saucey
Trollface

This is a joke right? Oh yeah, it's 'mericca 2015. Can they not at least plant some 'evidence' and keep this out of the press? Frigg'n noob prosecutors

'Real' vampires reluctant to 'come out of the coffin' to social workers – barmy prof

Katie Saucey
WTF?

'Real' vampires etc

So... this the research produced when the 'millennials' graduate. Do vampires get their own pronouns as well? Wouldn't want to hurt any vampire feelings by just calling them out for being delusional tumblrite snowflakes, and also risk getting labeled cis-species bigots (or is it anti-vampite these days?).

I want of this ride.

Microsoft's curious Sway comes to iPad and iPhone

Katie Saucey
Holmes

Re: Clearly you are not optimally leveraging your cloudsourced assets.

I couldn't have said it more cromulently myself.

Screw you, ISPs: Net neutrality switches on THIS FRIDAY – US court

Katie Saucey
Joke

Re: Have I ever mentioned....

As soon as I figure out how to get my old Delorian up to 88 mph I'll fix everthing, just ignore the unforeseen consequences, and the libyans in the wllmart parking lot. If I fail call, this guy name Gordon Freeman and hope for the best

Soon your car won't let you drink. But it won't care if you're on the phone

Katie Saucey
FAIL

I don't even know where to start....

Thank god my new car will not only check my blinds spots, park, reverse, and brake for me, it will now make legal decisions for me! I thank all the organizations involved for reminding me I'm a born criminal just waiting to offend, there's just no way I could keep myself from constantly driving drunk and mowing down children. I hope they develop sensors for my house that calls the SWAT team if I raise my voice after a drink, I could be on the verge of shooting up the neighborhood. Maybe some systems could be in place that keeps me home from work if abnormal stress is detected in the morning as well, I maybe ready to assault someone. /sarcasm

Also what happens if the sensor is damaged/malfunctioning? I assume the by default the car would be disabled, and you're SOL in an emergency. I also assume failed attempts to start the car are logged and definitely not forwarded to your insurance company (auto and health), police and other interested parties.

Doom, Mario, Pac-Man level up to video gaming's Hall of Fame

Katie Saucey
Happy

Sierra adventure games

Gold Rush was a classic. I still remember starving to death many many times aboard a ship to Panama because I couldn't figure out how to eat a pig that was running around the deck. Finally I typed "GRAB THE PIG" and it worked, who would have thought? It must have been a great game for me to still have that in my head over 25 years later.

Katie Saucey
Flame

No Half-life?

- won over fifty PC Game of the Year awards

- IGN ranked Half-Life as the number one greatest first-person shooter of all time, stating that "When you look at the history of first-person shooters, it all breaks down pretty cleanly into pre-Half-Life and post-Half-Life eras."

HL was a game changer when it was released, I (like a lot of gamers) bought my first 3d add-on card specifically for the HL. Half-life also spawned CounterStrike, arguably they greatest online multiplayer of the last 15years. HL's mod community was and still is huge, with many modder maps becoming instant online classics. I can't believe it didn't get a mention.

You can't keep a Secret and nor can anyone else: the app is closing

Katie Saucey
WTF?

So he didn't really expect massive trolling?

How frigging new was this guy to the internet?

Man the HARPOONS: YOU can EASILY SLAY ad-scumware Superfish

Katie Saucey

Re: Any worst than by the NSA or any other ... agency

Of course! No economic espionage here!...I know because the gov said

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