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1297 posts • joined Monday 16th January 2012 14:00 GMT

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Where can you get Exotic Matter from?

I hear that it's very hard stuff to come by.

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Re: Star Trek isn't real.

You'll be telling us that the White Walkers in Game of Thrones aren't real either next!

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Mobile phones don't cause cancer?

What am I supposed to do with my tinfoil hat now?

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Childcatcher

Can I play Master of Orion 2 on it?

Are you telling me that it will be easy to set up an IPX lan game?

Are you Microsoft? Really?

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Re: "communications by any means involving the use of electrical or electro-magnetic energy"

A Marconiphone and some wax discs would be perfect!

But it doesn't side step using electrical or electro-magnetic energy to make the recording so I'd probably have to record that somehow as well.

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"communications by any means involving the use of electrical or electro-magnetic energy"

I'm pretty sure that my tongue interprets electrical signals from my brain to facilitate communications.

How the hell do I go about recording that?

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Re: If true...

It would be patented.

Probably already is.

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Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to make Fox look bad

You don't really need to go to that much trouble to make them look bad!

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Get rid of Internet Explorer

Is that even possible?

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Paris Hilton

I clicked on the link

I was sorely disappointed at the lack of pictures or footage of half crazed birds slamming into windows.

Paris. No end of pictures or footage there.

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FAIL

Re: Projector Blind Spot

My living room has five walls.

So.... um...

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Alien

@Dave 62

I for one would totally support a manned Mars Mission even if its only goal was to do just that.

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So the general gist of the article is:

If you want free music, BitTorrent is totally the way to go.

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Certain criminal threats - do not exist when cars are designed

They certainly do.

An unsecured "back door" into the system is a definite no no. The threat was a clear and present when the car was in the design stage!

Thinking about it from the point of view of physical keys and locks: What good is a car with a sold lock on each door if all a potential criminal has to do to get in is pop the hood?

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I read the article

And I'm still none the wiser as to how safe my personal data is.

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UK boffins get £3.8m pot to probe 'science of cyber-security'

That's an awful lot of scientists that are going to be surfing 4chan then!

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Re: Pig tentacles?

Just don't keep an Octopig and a Dogapuss in the same tank.

Or you'll just end up with one very fat happy Dogapuss.

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Re: Two words....

Cannibalism ftw!

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At least only the privileged 1% that was affected.

Makes me glad to be one of the 99% for a change.

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Re: more intelligent rubbish containers

Or they will just incinerate their rubbish.

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I read the article

I now feel like I know even less than I knew before.

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Re: Just wondering .....

Did he wake up in a bathtub full of ice with his soul missing?

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The DWP doesn't have a very difficult job.

Hand out money to people looking for work. It's hardly rocket science!

They could probably afford to pay twice what they do now in benefits if they sunk more money into doing what they actually do, rather than spending it on flavour of the month ICT systems.

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Has Curiosity managed to catch one on its tongue yet?

And is CO2 snow anything like regular snow?

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Re: Uh-oh

Probably for the same reason that there's a small island called France on Damogran.

The universe is so full of stuff that there's bound to be stuff that looks like other stuff.

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The arms race continues...

It's quite interesting to watch the evolution of cyber arms and armour from the sidelines.

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Upvoted for using exactly the same language as my post above.

I really should read all the comments before submitting my own!

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Go

Re: Surely this kind of thing is what real hacking is about?

Definitely. Tinkering with something until you bend it to your will!

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FAIL

I'd be happy and grateful if I could at least get a 3G connection

I really don't see the point in upgrading to 4G if I'm going to be stuck using the crappy EDGE network.

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Why the phrase "illegal payments"?

When the word bribe would do?

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Paris Hilton

If people are searching for Emma Watson

Then they aren't really likely to make it past Google Image Search.

Paris, because you could probably catch malware off her too.

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Alien

Re: It's looking right at me!

Now there's another face on Mars!

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Terminator

Robots do not make for good law enforcement

You've only got to watch the documentary RoboCop to see how badly things can go.

ED 209, I'm looking at you.

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Terminator

It's looking right at me!

That single unblinking eye!

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Twitter claimed today that it has no rivals on the world stage

Don't Menshn that other site!

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Re: Neither, I'd bypass the filter.

I read the question. It's a false dichotomy. That's why I neither upvoted or downvoted you.

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Fixed to a pole?

Fixed to an inanimate carbon rod!

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Isn't about time we built another Voyager?

Just imagine what we could learn with a Voyager packed with modern day scientific instruments.

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Pirate

We're all pirates now.

Fair use of clips?

That's a paddling.

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Re: I'm still waiting

That'll be the day!

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Well duh!

I am Jacks complete lack of surprise.

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Re: Cancer Duct Tape

Patent Pending.

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Re: Strange

Other way around.

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Rather than innovate and develop its own technology

Apple have decided to rehash the same tired lawsuit again.

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But hey, NASA just put a rover on Mars

"You know, you blow up one sun and suddenly everyone expects you to walk on water."

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Re: Bored?

Billions of dollars spent of getting a robot with a laser to Mars.

What do they do with it? Draw penises on Martian rocks!

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Re: Question?

I figured that it was the same way they figured it out in Stargate Universe.

"That's where the sun rises. We'll call that East."

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Re: That's Shome In App Purchase !

Can I have a LGM-30 Minuteman MIRV please?

I need somewhere nuked from orbit.

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Upgrades

How soon until these implants are better than human eyes?

I'm thinking UV, Infra-red, thermal imaging, low light vision, integrated targeting scope, video camera, and picture in picture.

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What does it do if you clench your buttocks?

See title.