* Posts by Katie Saucey

452 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Mar 2011

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Littlest pirate’s Winnie-the-Pooh laptop on the way home

Katie Saucey
Unhappy

FFS

That's all.

Internet shut-down easier, in more countries, than you think

Katie Saucey
Happy

Re: "Poor suffering New Zealand has one trans-Pacific connection..."

Sorry stuartnz, forgot the /sarcasm on that last post.

Katie Saucey
Go

"Poor suffering New Zealand has one trans-Pacific connection..."

Apparently not for long if Kim Dotcom is to be believed.

Chinese student fails job interview because of iPhone

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WTF?

Really?

How did the employer even know what brand of phone this guy was sporting? Whipping out your iStuff for everyone to drool over is sooo 2010...

Seagate private equity whispers begin... AGAIN

Katie Saucey
Meh

I've had the same experience. Seems every Western Digital I buy goes for a warrenty return after a year.

John McAfee remains on the run, but outside Belize

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WTF?

Really? A North Korean passport? WTF?

Scientists build largest ever computerized brain

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Re: Can I borrow it?

It would be useful to have a pluggin for those hangover Mondays. Also, despite the slow processing speed it could probably 1-up my boss on his best days.

NY Museum of Modern Art embraces 14 video games

Katie Saucey
Coat

Re: Eve Online but not Elite

We had a pretty good time with Elite here in Canada. I used to love it, whenever I could peal dad off the C64.

I'm out to Riedquat via Leesti.

Sex offender wins case against Facebook vigilantism

Katie Saucey
Unhappy

Well it is popular with the media, and that's what matters. Not to by any mean try to defend the fucks that perpetrate these crimes; I'm constantly told by every primetime show to not go into the carpark by myself, don't go out for "just for a walk or jog" at sundown etc. Unfortunately we all live with uncertainty of running across a nut. No amount of regs and laws will make the probability zero.

Oi, Apple, stick to phones, forget about TV - Time Warner CEO

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Alert

More lawsuit fun

Whatever happens it'll be fun watching Apple/LG/Sony/Samsung tear at each other over idiotic patents (speaker shape, button placement, content menu GUI etc). I really hope this doesn't turn out to be true.

RIM bribes coders: Make BlackBerry 10 apps, GET A FREE SHINY

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Re: 100?

Apparently they did throw developers a few (about 7500).

http://business.financialpost.com/2012/11/29/rim-unveils-qwerty-prototype-and-rebrands-app-world/

Dawn of the X-Men? MUTANTS swarm AMONG US, say geneticists

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@Graham

Damn it! Your comment suckered me into it too.

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Re: Moties! : Pak Protectors

Not to worry we haven't polluted the earth with thallium oxides yet. But IIRC certain thallium oxides are used in some high temp super conductors, so maybe in a few decades we could see "tree of life" plants sprouting up all over the place.

'Abnormal' thruster halts South Korean space rocket launch

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Joke

Hmmm

Must have acquired their rocket designs from the north, but were smart enough to provide a little fault detection.

Japanese firm offers 4-tonne GIANT MECHs for just $1.3m

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Step 1. Acquire mech.

Step 2. Smash that fucking old shitbox SUV that always steals my parking spot

Step 3. Become ruler of parking lot

Step. 4 ???????

Step 5. Profit

Half of us have old phones STUFFED in our drawers

Katie Saucey
Meh

All trash..

..if not equipped with a micro-usb connector. I just couldn't stand keeping track of each different proprietary charger (LG/Samsung/Sony were all guilty at some pt), so they got chucked. Seem to be fine with my SII on me and backup HTC in the car. That said, everyone I know has gone through at least 5 or more phones in the last 10yrs, the various stray batteries alone have got to be enough to wipe out a good number of pandas/whales etc...

Ten weird Chinese mobile phones

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Star Phone

I want that star phone sooo bad, just so I can whip it out when I get the "my battery is dead...can I make a quick call.." request.

New science upsets calculations on sea level rise, climate change

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Coat

But I like like tinkering with models..

If nothing else, the code link in this piece has inspired me to dust off my matlab skills. And about your facts, at least only influential character had this to say, “Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.” (Homer). Give me the weekend and I'll publish you some new facts, no prob.

Iran's Photoshop FAIL: 'New drone' actually Japanese university bird

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Joke

Re: We may laugh...

Pics or it didn't happen! oh wait ...

'Boson' Higgs: Yes, CERN has seen the coming of the God particle

Katie Saucey
Alien

Oh, well.

"What has been found at CERN looks like so much a good fit to the simplest version of the theory of the standard model that it isn't providing any hints of what might come next," I like surprises, I guess I'll just have keep filling my sci-fi shelf in the mean time.

Real sci-fi space ships coming at last? NASA tests nuclear engine

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Happy

A good rule of thumb,

is to avoid standing downwind from any rocket thrust nozzle.

Katie Saucey
Mushroom

Sure why not..

..some nice warm glowing showers to melt all that ice, keep those ravenous polar bears at bay (unless they turn into super mutant bears) I won't bitch too much.

Boffin claims Bigfoot DNA reveals BESTIAL BONKING

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Alien

Wow

I think (Dr.) Melba may have spent to much time in the wood, or hanging out with that "ancient aliens" guy from the history channel.

Cambridge boffins fear 'Pandora's Unboxing' and RISE of the MACHINES

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Re: The forgotten vector

Reminds me somewhat of the AI "techno core" in The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons, an excellent read.

BlackBerry 10: AWESOME. If the hardware matches it, RIM jobs are safe

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Facepalm

Re: I ditched Blackberry ( after 5 phones )

If I ditched a carrier (or OS, company, brand, etc) each year because of technical problems or outages, the weight the trash would have long since collapsed into a world gobbling singularity. The only communications tech (email, fax, SMS, IM, fucking Canada post, etc) that has never failed me in all my life, is the plain old landline (about the only thing Bell Canada can do right).

Boffins: Jurassic avians were more like Angry birds than modern ones

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What about the little (proto)pigs?

What did they build their houses from? Bricks, sticks, or straw? or I'm I just getting things confused?

Apple DID buy social video network - check out this BONKERS lawsuit

Katie Saucey
Trollface

Pussy

Pffffts. I've had worse jobs, back in my day the boss used to ....

'Rare for tech not to be involved in child abuse cases'

Katie Saucey
IT Angle

Re: Press "submit", bitch!

>How does that actually work? Do people have discussion about their pr0nz when they are performing rape?

Well, I guess you would know that they are truly sick fucks if they started rambling on about windows 8 usability, their facebook status, design patents etc...

British Ruby conference cancelled after diversity row

Katie Saucey
Meh

Ruby?

...and here I thought all Ruby coders could be classed as I minority.

Sydney Uni boffin wants database to track smokers

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Re: Good luck with that...

..cont. unless this results in substantially higher revenue, without pissing off the smokers and the "FU government! get out of my life!" type voters, it's doomed. Not everyone hates us smokers.

Katie Saucey
Meh

Good luck with that...

I smoke around a carton (200) of cigarettes a month. I realize it's not for the good of me, but I wish my government (Ontario CAN) would fuck off and let me be. In about 1998 a pack of "premium" Canadian smokes was about $3 CAN, now it's north of $10. Fortunately I live 15 minutes drive from an Indian reserve where I can pick up my tax free smokes and booze on a regular basis ( about $10 for 200 smokes and $20 for 60oz whisky).

Everyone I know living within 100km of the reserves does this. If the western "we care about out citizens" 'govments really care, they should ban smokes alcohol, driving, +dogs etc, until I need a licence to make coffee in the morning (Ok not coffee please). I think the problem here in Canada is the provinces are as hooked on the tax revenue as much as I'm hooked on the product.

Apple stops Caring in Italy, probably all Europe soon

Katie Saucey
Meh

Re: 'Telephone support'

I worked in Dell tech support back in 2000 (just out of uni), and *gasp!* my paycheck was actually from Dell not some outsourced call centre. It was straight tech support, no BS "smiling though the phone shit" , no offering upgrades etc, just fixing stuff. Soon though, small things started changing, managers bitching about average call handle time etc..long story short, tech support is now just glorified "customer care". I guess for most companies it must be cheaper to just smile and replace their shit product with more shit than to pay someone to think.

ROGUE PLANET WITHOUT A SUN spotted in interstellar space

Katie Saucey
Alien

Re: Very strange stuff

Easy, it's the Pierson's Puppeteers homeworld.

Astroboffins spot smiley face on Mercury

Katie Saucey
Mushroom

Re: Since, as yet, no one else has...OK then...

..nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure...

Analyst: There are LOADS of iPhone 5s, Apple is keeping them back

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Joke

Prior art...

Apparently (from what I'm forced to listen to), Apple's behaviour closely mimics the bulk of wives and girlfriends out there, holding out, without reason that is.

Australian volcano starts to blow

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Joke

"Don't worry: only penguins are in danger as it's in the middle of nowhere"

MS win8 first assault on the pengin! Duck and cover!

Windows 8: Is Microsoft's new OS too odd to handle?

Katie Saucey
Mushroom

I can predict an Angry Birds port..

(if it doesn't already exits), in which case I go to bar, come home and see it installed..and am force to destroy my PC with my anger. For this reason alone I will forgo the update for a decade.

WHITE WHALE spent 4 years trying to tell us something, then stopped

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Happy

Re: Not surprising!

I don't know about BT, but I found that the whale speech was lot more comprehensible than that of Bell Canada cust. service...

Valve's Half-Life

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Arrrg!! etc

I can remember buying a 4mb monster 3d card specifically for HL. I'm not old I'm not old...

'Small' upheaval at McAfee, not many fired

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Black Helicopters

Re: I assume this has to do with...

McAfee baked on the chip? Soo it's got 1024 cores and clocks 10 THz?

Katie Saucey

Re: Hmm

MS Essentials seems OK. In my experience most end users trust it more than other "free" products just because it comes straight from MS download/win update, this seems to put it on par with pay products in their minds (overcomes the "must be better because it cost so much" syndrome).

40,000 sign petition to oust Rep. Paul 'pit of hell' Broun

Katie Saucey
Devil

Which part of the bible (oops..oem manual) does it tell us how to construct the wall of death that he's speaking in front of? I think it'd be really cool for my Halloween party...

Better pay your taxes: The world's NOT going to end this year

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Flame

FFS

Is anyone else a little saddened that this conference was even held ?(not to put down the field of archaeology) Seems to me like more cash wasted to point out the obvious.

Windows 8 and you – So, what's next?

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Meh

"What will Windows 8 mean to what you build and how you built it..."

I thought the dumping of .NET was a mistake, that said c/c++ will probably out live MS.

Vandals break into congressman's office, install Linux on PCs

Katie Saucey
Joke

not all that bad

I guess it could have been worse, the culprits could have just dropped a bunch of apple gear off.

Apple iPhone 5 review

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Re: Get a Room

alas ...unfortunately I can only up-vote you post once

Katie Saucey
Happy

Re: Obviously A Fanboi ...

One new keyboard please

HTC's 4G patent beef could get iPhone 5 BANNED in US

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Re: IT Pros?

Upvote for the Ruby bashing!

GoDaddy stopped by massive DDoS attack

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Re: GoDaddy no wonder

I agree, so far I've only received one complaint email (from mom) about not seeing my new dog pics. For 5$ a month you get what you pay for.

Ambitious Alibaba wants to take on Android

Katie Saucey
Trollface

Whatever..

If it will dial the number, and hangup when I want, who cares? (as long as it's not iOS)

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