Why Would Brits Be...
...celebrating Independance Day?*
That said, the advert violates some rules about using the US flag as a garment.
*other than in a "good riddance" sort of way.
Posts by Disco-Legend-Zeke
915 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2007
Sexy Hustler honeys unlikely to corrupt Croydon yoof
Seagate squirts out rectal cleaning spray
Shuttle Discovery to bring back PLAGUE RODENTS from SPACE
BOFH: Join the club
Over 100,000 stops-and-searches: zero terrorists
DARPA fashions miracle robotic attachment from balloon, coffee
Google ends all Street View Wi-Fi data collection
International Telecom Union drags self out of past
Police turn to extreme-sport mobe sucking
Friday 15th October 2010 14:56 GMT
If It Fell In The...
...ocean, a good rinse with distilled water might be a great help.
Water is not particularly damaging to electronics, an hour in the sun revived my GF's waterfall dropped camera. But a single drop of ocean water rendered another "unrepairable."
As to killing phone chips, keyfob memory, etc., methinks a minute or two in a microwave would be quite irreversable.
211 seems to wipe my memory, just not for long enough.
BOFH: Pepper-packing bot plot
Robot goes berserk in Balkan lab: 6 boffins given dead arms
Former White House advisor wants cybercrime haven crackdown
Friday 15th October 2010 09:26 GMT
War On Drugs Successes...
...are many.
20,000 innocent bystanders killed.
17,008 felony marijuana arrests in 2009 (california only)
Kids switched to meth because their dealer can't get pot anymore.
A RAND Corporation study estimates that if legalized, pot prices in California will drop from $500 per ounce (untaxed at any level) to $100 per ounce ($50 to grower plus $50 State tax.)
Unsurprisingly, one of the groups tha opposes Proposition 9 in CA is the cannabis growers.
Pint because there is no Gram icon.
Tape backup could be binned soon
Thursday 14th October 2010 15:34 GMT
The Gravity Challenge Is...
...brought up by Sony salesmen, as it releates to archival television content.
My personal thoughts: Store on redundant hard drives, at least one of which is in another city.
211 is marketed as "high gravity" so another data safety test might involve drunken operators at the console.
Florida cops tase naked jogger
Foxconn warns phones prices will rise
Jobsian fondle-slab in SEXY FILTHGRAM CRACKDOWN
The differences that silicon can make to the desktop
National Schools Film Week punts unsafe URL
Robot teddy bears attack Alzheimer's
Doctors' appointment system goes tits up
Tesla says 40% of its Roadsters may catch fire
Boston firefighters get oxygen masks for cats and dogs
Thursday 7th October 2010 09:38 GMT
Humans...
...are capable of deep emotional attachments to other species, especially dogs, who are predisposed to family (pack) ties.
The tragedy of a residential fire can be compounded a hundredfold by the death of a pet; this is a great idea, i might suggest it to our local FD's.
Doggies like beer, too.
Cryptome vows to pursue those who breached site
Sony Ericsson confirms Symbian spurning
Stuxnet worm can reinfect PCs even after disinfection
Tuesday 28th September 2010 23:52 GMT
Is This Our First Look...
...at weapons grade worms?
The Calutrons in the Manhattan Project were controlled by clueless ladies. Iran has plenty of those. And the new supermagnets make building mass spectrometers a snap.
Funny... Netflix just dropped "China Syndrome" through my mail slot.
Genetic engineers can now create plants (yes, hemp) that selectively remove metals from soil. That technology could lead to very cheap enrichment.
Has America become the World's Hall Monitor?
No beer cause copper thieves got the brewing vat.
Did you know that BORON quenches both fire and fission?
Researchers up evilness ante with GPU-assisted malware
Copper prices push cable thefts to new high
Tuesday 28th September 2010 14:04 GMT
Copper Theft...
...here in Las Vegas reached epic levels, with miscreants attaching a truck to street lights and pulling out a mile or so of power cable, and climbing phone poles to saw out sections of 400-pair.
I talked to some phone guys who told me they worked full-time replacing missing segments, the cost of labor for all that splicing higher than the price of new cable.
Another target was the condensor coils of outdoor unit of heat pumps.
It took local police a few years to get a handle on the problem, requiring photo ID from anyone selling scrap, and running sting operations to bust scrap dealers that didn't.
The funniest theft in my recollection was a kid in Long Island the stole a shiny new helicopter airframe and skin from outside a factory, then whined when the scrap dealer became suspicious and called the law.
Beer is brewed in copper tanks, and the price of a 12 X 12 oz pack of 211 just jumped $1. Coincidence?
Mystery lingers over stealthy Stuxnet infection
Christian group declares jct 9 on M25 cursed
Monday 27th September 2010 14:20 GMT
Evil Spirits Infect...
...the designers of roads, not the roads themselves.
We have a similar interchange here in Las Vegas (Eastbound Sahara exit from I15 North.) The local TV chopper guy calls it the Bermuda Triangle; a minimum of three accidents per day.
I have been using the exit for 10 years and still can never figure out which lane to be in. The exit signs with lane designations are not visible untill just a few hundred feet from the commit. Just to add an additional risk factor, the express lane ends a few miles before, requiring that drivers negotiate crossing 5 lanes to make the ramp.
Add a tier of tired tourists trekking up from California and you have a Devil's cauldron of trouble.
And, as an afterthought, wouldn't a passel of preachy pretenders distract drivers even more?
National Grid blames BT for gas explosion
IBM 'one atom, one bit' storage breakthrough
Saturday 25th September 2010 16:34 GMT
Having A Murderer's DNA...
...on file would enable the reconstruction of accidentally executed people.
Or maybe batch replicate 25,000 grunts and 3,000 missle experts, etc...
I read once that the Dole was created because the street urchins being drafted were too scrawney to fight.
Sadly, it seems, men can't seem to get too drunk to fight.
India bans mass messaging on mosque riot fears
Blockbuster winds itself into Chapter 11
Thursday 23rd September 2010 22:15 GMT
When I Read The Head...
...aloud, my GF immediately said "NETFLIX." *
We drove by a Blockbuster yesterday, and noticed the facade was in dire need of repainting. Blockbuster's strength is access to studio product, earlier availability, especially in streaming formats, could be the secret sauce that lets them catch up to Netflix.
* Really, she said it in all caps.
Yahoo! opens chicken coop data center
Google mounts attack on penis-pill pushers
Craigslist: no plans to revive adult ads in US
Craigslist to tell Congress why it cut adult ads
Tuesday 14th September 2010 19:14 GMT
Not To Mention...
...the hundreds of chatrooms such as YAHOO.COM and the encrypted 1-US.US.
I recall trying to open an 18+ dance club in a rural venue. The reaction was "Every drug dealer in trhe county will be in the parking lot." This seems to me to be very convenient for the anti-drug crowd (in this particular jurisdiction, pot enforcement was so successful that only crystal meth was available) but I was never able to get the club open due to political pressure.
It's easier to just sit back and enjoy a brew (which was illegal for many years.)
Netizens now Facebook more than they Google
Monday 13th September 2010 11:29 GMT 
I Recall A...
...chapter about why we say IBM instead of International Business Machines, but Ford instead of FMC.
American English Users adopt the pronounciation, abbreviations, acronyms, and contractions that most easily roll off the tongue. Google and Hoover are superior to search for or vacuum partly because they are easier to say. They are also more fun to say because they have oo sound in the middle of the first syllable.
Well Said, C 2
BT preps nationwide TV network
Friday 10th September 2010 15:44 GMT
Meanwhile, Out In...
...the Colonies, those pesky Americans, Century Link*, An aggresive CLEC that just bought The Las Vegas LATA from Sprint^W Embarq called me and offered 120 channels of HDTV for an extra 40 bucks a month. The very sweet lady in an American Town**, told me that TV rides the same copper as your voice line and DSL, so adding FTTN is pretty cheap, and produces an instant revenue stream. Also, she went on, they are rolling out 40 Meg home service but it is not yet in Las Vegas.
While she was on, I bumped my DSL from 3 to 10 megs for $10 more a month. Century Link is at the paperwork stage of buying AT&T^W Mountain Bell^W Qwest's 14 States full of ILEC plant and customers!
Now that telephone and cable companies have a level playing field in the triple play arena, we can hope for a true marketplace to emerge.
* I asked, and i was happy to find an American job that had not been sent abroad.
** All trademarks are the respective property of their owners, and will be randomly misspelled and miscased. I have no relationship with any companies mentioned except as a customer and/or reseller.
Here's a pint to all the lab guys that develop this stuff, and the provider management with the guts and vision to deploy it.
Robots capable of 'deceiving humans' built by crazed boffins
Rackspace claims credit for shushing Koran-burning 'pastor'
Friday 10th September 2010 13:01 GMT
At Least He...
...is now including the Torah in his burn bag. Thats appropriate since the Torah and the Koran are derived from the same writings. Of course many of us are more familiar with this book as "The Old Testament."
Now if the Book of Mormon, The Twelve Steps, and other texts promoting various "Higher Powers" were added to the list, we could have an Equal Opportunity Bonfire.
Reg Readers aside, it seems most humanoids need religion to help them understand life. According to Isaac Asimov in his "Asimov's Chronology of Science & Discovery" (ISBN 0-06-015612-0,) the concept of something beyond life began about 200,000 BC.
Monotheism, had to wait for the development of writing (3500 BC) and the alphabet (1500 BC) before a proper sky fairy could emerge. The first known monotheistic religious writings were by Amenhotep IV, of Egypt, around 1375 BC. He wrote about the Sun-God Akehenaton, but was opposed by the Egyption Population, especially the Priesthood, and was thrown out of office, but his writings preserved these ideas, which about 150 years later were taken up by the slave leader Moses. (ibid.)
Since there were no books to burn, Amenhotep had soldiers smash statues and temples to the previous pantheon.
Apparently his website was also taken down.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
