* Posts by Crisp

2852 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2012

Boffins baffled over pulsar with 'split personality'

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Changes in the pulsar are like a chameleon

They come and go... They come and go

Shiny, shiny! The window's behind me...

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Everyone off the bus!

I want all the shiny people over here, and all the matte people over there, ok!

I represent mean angry pizza-eating coding people, alright!

As long as there are no dead pixels, we can get on with writing software!

Ministry of Fun builds crack team to juice up bumpkin broadband

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Flame

A pilot scheme will be be tested on bumpkins

I for one am against the government testing this BT on poor defenceless bumpkins.

Hydrogen on demand from silicon nanospheres - just add water

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Boffin

Re: If the silicon acted as a catalyst

Then the little nano spheres would give off both hydrogen *and* oxygen.

I'll leave figuring out why this is a bad thing as an exercise for the reader.

Crisp

Re: silicon nanospheres sound a whole lot more transportable than lithium ion batteries.

And less likely to explode, burn, or leave nasty contaminants behind.

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Re: Fuel Cells

What is it that you don't get about easily transported, safely stored hydrogen?

Would you rather fill your laptop up with a pressurised hydrogen gas tank?

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Mushroom

So how many of these would I need

To power a fricken laser?

Backdoor root login found in Barracuda gear - and Barracuda is OK with this

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Time to redirect Port 22 to a terminal that only plays Zork

You are standing in a field west of a white house.

There is a mail box here.

>_

Opportunity celebrates nine years on Mars

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Re: This is cool

It is when you are flinging an SUV sized robot 225 million miles to be dropped on a dusty desert planet by a flying sky crane.

Activists urge Skype: Tell us who is spying on us

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Don't like Skypes lack of security?

Don't use Skype. There are plenty of software voip phones out there. Some of them even come with RTP stream encryption!

Dead Steve Jobs' patent war threat to Palm over 'no-hire pact'

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Big companies banding together to shaft their workers.

Who said big businesses can't get along?

‘That’s not art’ says Apple as it pulls nudes from AppStore

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What is it with Americans hating naked people?

Their priorities are totally screwed!

Hackers on anti-Egypt spree bury Egyptology journal in the sand

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Facepalm

Re: I got confused by the URL

Oh that's priceless!

DARPA shells out $194m for 'phase 6' of STARnet chip project

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Whatever happened to...

Using genetic algorithms to design better, faster and more efficient chips?

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Terminator

Re: Is it just me......

I was surprised that Aperture Science didn't have their logo up there...

UK taxmen turn heat on tax-swerving big biz, hope to smoke out £1bn

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It makes sense to tax the rich

After all, they are the ones with the money.

WTF is... Weightless?

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Re: utensil porn

At least the cooker isn't looking at real filth like sporks.

Security audit finds dev outsourced his job to China to goof off at work

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Re: Breaking Laws And Contracts

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Here we go again: New NHS patient database plan sets off alarm bells

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Once medical records are in the cloud

There's no way to get them out again. And there's no way to prevent scope creep.

Because you can bet that some bureaucrat somewhere will think to themselves, "We've got a lot of data here on every man, woman and child in the UK. I wonder who we can sell it to."

BT's 'six-month free broadband' offer is a big fat FIB - ads watchdog

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BT Lying Again?

Write an article when BT tell the truth about something.

That will be news!

Wanna really insult someone? Log off and yell it in the street - gov

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Re: Dickens

Humbug used to be a grossly offensive word.

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It leaves the definition of "grossly offensive" up to police officers (and judges)

So if the investigating officer is in a bad mood or an idiot, you're screwed.

(Please don't take offence at "you're screwed", it was meant in the nicest possible way.)

NRA: Video games kill people, not guns. And here's our video game

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Re: Hyper violent "Worms"

Send in an exploding sheep.

Problem solved.

Crisp

Guns don’t kill people.

I'm sure they make the job a lot easier though.

NASA aims Curiosity's percussive drill at pink, veiny target

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Re: How about aiming for/looking for some kind of life forms?

That's what they *are* doing!

Pay attention!

Media barons threaten to spike UK.gov's audacious copyright grab

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Ok, so who do all my base belong to now?

See Title.

Sheffield ISP: You don't need a whole IPv4 address to yourself, right?

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When the government can't track down an individual twitter user

You can bet that we'll be moving to IPv6 pretty sharpish.

IBM brains ponder universe, say kids will go nuts for STEAMPUNK

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Re: I don't recognise actresses in the cinema, but...

On closer inspection. No. Definitely not.

http://www.partycity.com/product/steampunk+vickey+and+steampunk+jack+couples+costumes.do?sortby=ourPicks&size=all&from=Search&navSet=steampunk

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Re: I don't recognise actresses in the cinema, but...

While it looks quite like her, I don't think it is. Probably just some random redhead.

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Steampunk is back again?

Awesome. Brass cogs for everyone!

Computers are 'electronic cocaine' that make you MANIC

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Screw Electronic Cocaine

From observing my co-workers, it's more like electronic pot.

Smooth criminals spared the clink for hacking Sony's Jacko archive

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Flame

This reminds me of that time that Sony snuck a rootkit onto my machine

And no one was arrested.

Bubble baron treats Space Station crew to blowup model

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Re: What happens when they get struck by micro-meteorites?

I guess they would coat the vulnerable parts in that new self healing ballistic gel.

Now Microsoft 'actively investigates' Surface slab jailbreak tool

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No Microsoft.

Once I've bought the hardware. It's mine, and I'll run whatever I like on it.

Likewise, once I've bought the software, it's mine to use any way I feel like.

India's tough hacker crackdown: IT security leaflets with every device

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Re: Isn't this why the "Read Me" file was invented.

Well yeah. But some people really need a large sign in a 90 point font to actually pay attention to something.

The printed approach should get everyone that doesn't need a frickin neon sign to get their attention.

Unbelievably vast quasar cluster forces universe-sized rethink

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Boffin

Re: Can't make sense of this article

It doesn't have to be dense. It just has to be gravitationally bound.

Is this possibly the worst broadband in the world?

Crisp

Don't like BTs service?

Stop paying them. They'll get the message.

Latest exoplanet discovery is a virtual CLONE of Earth

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Boffin

Re: I'm overweight as it is.

Depends how dense it is I guess.

Astronaut yells FIRE ... from SPAAAACE

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All that technology to get a man into space

And he's taking photos by pointing a camera out of a window!

Toy train company bids for West Coast Mainline

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Go

I ride that particular section of railway.

I honestly think that Bigjigs could do a better job than London Midland.

(tbh, a zoo full of drunken monkeys could probably do a better job than London Midland.)

'Physical pressure' from Iran’s cyber cops killed blogger

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'Physical pressure' from Iran’s cyber cops killed blogger

Yeah, standing on someone's neck in a jack boot will do that.

5.6TB helium disks could balloon, lift WD onto enterprise throne

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Pressure Differential

In most hard drives, there's an itty bitty hole to allow the hard drives internal pressure to equalise with the external air pressure. I'm guessing that drives using helium would have to necessarily be sealed and pressurised, Which could cause problems for the drive heads when the helium eventually leaks out.

Crisp

Hydrogen tends to be quite reactive

It's harder to keep a hold of than helium, and it eats metal.

Curiosity gives Martian rock its first scrub down

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Trollface

Curiosity

You've missed a bit...

Ubisoft probes sudden rash of hijack attacks on gamers' accounts

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Re: the user cannot unlink this account.

But what if I want to sell my game on the second hand market?

Now you can control ANY Win 8 kit with your EYEBALLS

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For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials

Now this means that you have to sit infuriatingly still if you want to keep listening to the same programme.

First rigid airship since the Hindenburg enters trials

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Fringe Event

Zeppelins in the skies everywhere!

Lights, camera, infection: HACKERS get Bollywood makeover

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The plot revolves around hackers and computer virus infections.

So 90 minutes of a guy doing a SQL injection attack followed by a sysadmin doing a restore from backups.

Brit boffins build projectile-vomiting robot to kill norovirus

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So not spread by coughing then?

Looks like I'm going to need a new reason to be annoyed by people that don't cover their mouth when they cough.

Ofcom looks at contract opt-outs as users rage over price hikes

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Kick them where it hurts Ofcom

Contracts should be fair to both parties.

I don't see why I should get screwed over because some phone operator feels like they are entitled to my money.