Posts by Wyrmhole

Not used to

"They are very large animals that are not used to being kept as pets [...]"

As opposed to, say, cats who are born pre-accustomed to being kept as pets? From their previous lives?

ZOMG!

Life found on Mars! The planet is swarming with Pacman's (Pacmen?)! The "sand dune"(!) photo shows it all.

Re: The moon as a staging point

If Wikipedia is to be believed, Earth's gravity is 90% as strong as at sea level at the ISS's altitude. In that case, it can't be that useful as a staging area.

@fon

If you log in via https://mail.google.com it will be secure after login as well.

Uncanny

So they were charging for downloads/CDs while offering free streams, and finding that people were choosing to stream. What an unexpected trend. Sure justifies the "who needs downloads" conclusion.

Core 2 Quad

Core 2 Quad was a silly and confusing name. Good riddance.

x1000

"The 700 was based on a 25MHz Intel 486SLC processor backed by 4MB of memory and a choice of 80MB or 120MB hard drive."

The numbers are pretty much the same today, only multiplied by 1000. :)

The USB Keylogger?

How fast can you type your password today?®

Re: to: amanfromMars

Unless you're GW Bush, in which case it's pronounced "new-killer".

Re: Also on Soccer Pitches

You might want to see http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/21/chileans_mislay_lake/ (and especially its comments) for the reason.

But!

None of the movies had a plotline!!!!!!!!!! The agents were so disappointed. :(

Does this mean...

...that MessageLabs read their customers' emails? What if a false positive gets "intercepted"?

From: Wife <wife@home>

To: Husband <husband@work>

Subject: Re: $$$

You will increase my credit card limit or else no hawt s3cks tonite!!

MessageLabs reports that lately CIOs have been getting increasing amounts of wife spam...??

Yet another USB <bla-bla>

What would really be useful(!) is a panic button that is small enough to be attached to a keychain and, when pressed, emits "oh noez! the green phosphorescent liquid escaped its containerz!!11"-type alarm sounds. So when you're in any kind of sticky situation, even if away from a computer, you can take out the panic button, flip the cover, press it and save your friends with the power of laughter. <insert happy ending icon here>

Pretentious elitist artist-type ALERT!!

'"Artists have experienced non-local space all along, we just can't prove it," he added mysteriously.'

If I were 15 I would say "ROFLMAO!!11"