* Posts by AbelSoul

749 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jan 2013

Milking cow shot dead by police 'while trying to escape'

AbelSoul
Trollface

Re: most jokes will be udder rubbish

Yoghurt away with it though.

Never trust a developer who says 'I can fix this in a few minutes'

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Trollface

Re: after dark when they're less stroppy.

Stroppy lions? That's tigers you're thinking of.

Lions are uppity.

PHOTON SPACE SAIL successfully Kickstarted into orbit

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Trollface

Re: How thick is an average trash bag?

About four times the thickness of a photon sail.

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Trollface

Re: Spanker, Spinnaker, Sphinx-ter?

I had no idea that a Spanker is also a type of sail.

Nor was I aware that the word Spinnaker came from Sphinx, mispronounced as Spinx, which is probably a fortuitous mispronunciation or else cries of "raise the Sphinkter" may have been heard for the last 150 years.

Japanese astro-boffins race to recover pulsar-spotting balloon basket

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Black Helicopters

Re: hopefully the 'chopper' is an autogyro

Or even more fun, how about this well known Australian chap?

Icon because.... well, how else can I get away with three choppers in the one comment?

DEEPENING MYSTERY of BRIGHT LIGHTS on dwarf world Ceres

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Trollface

how big are these reflective spots? Presumably much bigger than the Reg-SI unit of a fun-bag but smaller than a blue whale? Or perhaps it's several Olympic sized swimming pools?

Olympic sized fun-bag?

NASA plans electrolysis-powered ROBOT EEL for Europa's oceans

AbelSoul
Pint

Re: here in the U.S., where we have the right to arm bears

Bravo sir!

Thank you for raising a smile at the end of an otherwise tedious Monday.

Fox gives Minority Report the nod – precog goes primetime on tellybox

AbelSoul

Re: buy the rights to books and then turn out a film that doesn't resemble the book?

One of the most outlandishly unrecognisable examples of Book != Movie has to be The Lawnmower Man

Not that the original was necessarily any better than the movie (both pretty poor IMO) but undeniably a completely different story.

ALIEN HUNT: Water similar to life-bearing Earth lakes FOUND ON MOON of Saturn

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Trollface

Serpentinization

The discovery of serpentinization makes Enceladus an even more promising candidate for a separate genesis of life

Space Serpents?

Snakes on a Moon?

Oculus Rift VR bucket will be seen on noggins near you in 2016

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Trollface

Re: You won't see people walking down the street wearing one

You sure about that?

Wish I had your confidence.

AbelSoul

Shut up...

.... and take my money!

More seriously, I don't even have a computer capable of utilising this wonderful thing but I haven't been so excited about a new piece of technology for some time so will probably invest when the time comes. Let's hope it lives up to expectations.

Ryanair stung after $5m Shanghai'd from online fuel account

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Pint

Couldn't have happened to a nicer firm

There are very few companies that I refuse to have any further dealings with but that bunch thieving liars are one of them.

Aaahhhh, Shadenfreude!

Is Grant Shapps being naughty on Wikipedia – or did a Lib Dem stitch him up?

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Headmaster

Re: Cock Jockey

I once changed Tim Westwood's wiki page to read "cock jockey" instead of "dick jockey"

I'm going to take a punt here and guess that you meant disc?

BATWINGED DINO-PIGEON causes FLAP in bone-boffinry circles

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Trollface

Flaps

Henry Gee stated that he expected the paper "will cause a great deal of flap."

Which is probably a bit more than the unfortunate little Yi qi was able to achieve.

Calamity cargo capsule DOOMED: Space station pod in fireball re-entry

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Mushroom

It'll all be OK...

... as long as everyone remembers to Duck & Cover!

ROBOT telescope discovers ENORMOUS planetary neighbours

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Trollface

Re: a Pink Floyd track title from the olden days!

Several Species of Large Furry Planets Gathered Together 'round a Star and Grooving with a G&T?

Apple Watch HATES tattoos: Inky pink sinks rinky-dink sensor

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Headmaster

Re: Darker skin?

From the article *and* a previous comment:

Natural pigments appear not to have any effect on the Watch.

AbelSoul
Headmaster

Re: will it work on black or brown people?

From the article:

Natural pigments appear not to have any effect on the Watch.

Why recruiters are looking beyond IT's traditional talent pool

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Headmaster

Re: recruiters are looking beyond IT

I spent a year an a half as a recruiter, long before I got into IT properly.

It was a windy road though, having previously had a brief gig as a site engineer (civils), then a year serving pints down the local boozer, going via 10 years with BT (shifting routers and leased lines), then a brief stint at Sound Engineering college before learning (just about) to programme, which has kept me occupied for the last 30 months.

Still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.

The huge flaw in Moore’s Law? It's NOT a law after all

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Coat

Re: Inspiring Entrepreneurs

Down with this sort of thing.

Singapore's PM personally programmed C++ Suduko-solver

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Trollface

Re: if they allow conscientious objection, I wouldn't object

I would.

Cheer up songwriters, there's shedloads of money rolling in

AbelSoul
Megaphone

Did we tell you the name of the game, boy?

We call it riding the gravy train.

That said, last time around, I received my biggest PRS payment yet - a whopping £19.72.

Kerching!

This will crack you up: US drug squad's phone call megaslurp dates back to 1990s

AbelSoul

Re: a functional multi-party system

If only that were true.

Alas, despite some baby steps in the right direction, come the general election we'll still end up with one of two cheeks from the same arse.

Saturn's rings, radio waves ... poetry? At home with Scotland's Mr Physics

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Thumb Up

Re: Whilst in the area....

I had no idea about this. Cheers for the head's up.

As an aside, I'm guessing the Edinburgh station in question is Waverley and not one of the several other stations in the city ?

Irvine Welsh offers A Decent Ride, while the The Discreet Hero is yet to be revealed

AbelSoul

Re: Bizarre as it may seem

Indeed.

Apparently they can be beneficial where the gut of the patient is lacking helpful bacteria, such as after a course of strong antibiotics.

A quick search turned up this clinic, who appear to specialise in said procedure.

Al Franken to FBI: We need MORE revenge smut arrests

AbelSoul

It could be argued that it is the prudish and prurient attitude of society that really harms the people whose pictures are released. If they were treated as no big deal then the blackmailers would have no leverage and little incentive.

I've been saying similar for years.

The utopia depicted in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, where nothing is taboo so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, may be fanciful and unobtainable but is certainly worth aspiring to.

Dot-com intimidation forces Indiana to undo hated anti-gay law

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Thumb Up

Re: "GAYGESTAPO"

The Reg already nailed said commentard succinctly and accurately by describing them thusly:

... said one moron

Crack security team finishes TrueCrypt audit – and the results are in

AbelSoul
Trollface

Re: ..what the hell am I doing here???

"I don't belong here...."

V&A Museum shows Guardian's destroyed MacBook as ART

AbelSoul
Trollface

Re: >The art isn't the item you're seeing

This is not the droid art you are looking for.

Tidal music launch: Pop plutocrats pour FLAC on rival Spotify

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Boffin

Re: The number of people with hearing extending beyond 24000hz is ZERO

There's an online test to check your own threshold here (clicky)

Nothing above 16kHz for my auld, battered lugs.

NASA to take MARTIAN FLYING SAUCER for a spin

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Trollface

Re: What a waste of Helium

Such a precious and limited commodity to be pissing it away into space.

But at least you'd be pissing with an amusingly high-pitched squeak.

BOFH: Never mind that old brick, look at this ink-stained BEAUTY

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Pint

Perfect way...

... to draw an otherwise stressful Friday to a close.

I was smiling through most of that, cheers.

Almost pub 'o' clock.

Force your hand: Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display

AbelSoul

I have friends who are not power users, with maybe 20+ icons in the dock on a 13" laptop, the dock hide feature turned on and magnify turned on...drives me nuts to use their laptop.

I'm sheepishly raising my hand in confession here. (Well, apart from the 20+ icons - it's nearer 10)

Bloodborne: An immersively thick cut above its gaming rivals

AbelSoul
Headmaster

Re: A small point of order here...

That was news to me, thank you.

Everyday's a school day.

Blockhead fugitive Snapchats himself into police custody

AbelSoul
Trollface

Re: "There's one place we didn't look."

Sarge: "We found this spoon, sir!"

Centurion: "Well done, sergeant!"

Google Glass NOT DEAD. We're just making it 'ready' says chief

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Trollface

Re: It's not dead, it's resting!

Googling Pining for the fjords.

Samsung puts eight-core processor IN A WATCH

AbelSoul

Re: Battery life

The Citizen Eco drive Proximity never needs a battery replacement as it's solar powered - still has bluetooth 4.0 and the usual functions but doesn't have a power draining display.

Nor does it have anyway of letting you know who is calling you, meaning you still have to fish your 'phone out of your pocket/bag/orifice to check whether you want to answer it.

That makes it completely redundant for the only use-case that appeals to me so far but each to their own.

It's a nicer looking watch than most of the others though.

Rezzed: Indie gaming shows off its finest

AbelSoul

Roto chair

Nice idea but not likely to have much of a market for home users, given the cost + space requirements.

OTOH, your idea of the local boozer having one installed is rather appealing.

Flying cars will take to the skies in 2017, if government allows

AbelSoul

Re: Jet ski + Motorcycle

Your post got me thinking that I'd actually quite like one of those and a quick search turned up this.

Zuck: Get your FULLY EXPOSED BUTTOCKS off my Facebook

AbelSoul
Coat

Re: down with this sort of thing!

Careful now!

Dread Pirate Roberts' first mate Peter Nash faces life behind bars

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Big Brother

".. faces life behind bars.. "

Yikes!

Seems a bit harsh, to say the least.

SpaceX to deliver Bigelow blow-up job to ISS astronauts

AbelSoul
Trollface

Re: infeststion space hamsters

Or Spamsters, as we like to call them.

ALIEN LIFE drenched in HOT FLUID on Jupiter's Ganymede – is that so?

AbelSoul
Pint

Outstanding piece of boffinry

"If you observe the aurorae in an appropriate way, you learn something about the magnetic field. If you know the magnetic field, then you know something about the moon's interior."

Cap well and truly d'offed.

95 miles under the surface though? "Cat, are you drilling?"

Does my star look big in this? Milky Way 50 per cent fatter than expected

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Pint

Re: *applause*

You think you're one of the Macc Lads?

You're too f*cking tight.

I've spilt more ale down me waistcoat,

Than you've supped the night.

Rosetta probe to try contact with Philae lander on Thursday

AbelSoul
Trollface

Re: Are you sure the driver wasn't having a brew?

In which case he might have needed a boot up (the arse) too.

In assault on American values, Lockheed blasts pickup with raygun

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Coat

It'll be a bugger to track the target stably from the sharknado.

Bad news: Robo-cars will make you work billions more hours. Good news: In 2040

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Trollface

Re: If Apple made cars...

Racing around in your whyPod?

UK spaceport, phase two: Now where do we PUT the bleeding thing?

AbelSoul
Headmaster

Re: Newquay gets my vote; at least you can enjoy the beach

Prestwick also has a beach as, I'm sure do most of the other candidates.

ARM, Geomerics: Don't go to the dark side. Use the Forge, Luke

AbelSoul

Unreal Engine

The software will be bundled into Unity 5 and Unreal 3 and 4 3D gaming engines.

Does this mean the average Joe gets to use it for free (until they make three grand) ?

Forget 1,000 lashes for Facebook posts, Saudis now want to behead blogger Raif Badawi

AbelSoul
Trollface

Re: hadaway an shite

Surely you mean hadaway is shite?