Hey, psst,
wanna buy an IP address?
Can't you just imagine shady types approaching you in the street?
Coat, well, because, the shady types will be wearing them
Posts by Michael H.F. Wilkinson
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World IPv6 Day fails to kill the internet
Netherlands first European nation to adopt net neutrality
Psychology graduates remain poor for life, study shows
Engineering students design tent for camping on Mars
Wake up, Linux hippies: No one 'morally obligated' to give back
Wednesday 1st June 2011 07:49 GMT 
What is the price of goodwill?
For any company, being seen to be a "good guy" in the (often simplistic) public image is worth a lot,even if it cannot be expressed in money. Ethics and corporate responsibility are becoming more and more important in shaping that public image, if nothing else. This too may be seen as selfish, but it is not expressed either in terms of money or contractual obligations.
Vatican crackdown at Rome's Playboy Mansion-style monastery
Bloke drives with knees while manipulating two mobes
Fourth Euro star truck christened Albert Einstein
Drink 8 bottles of wine, you'll be unharmed if hit by Mike Tyson
Humanity frees cattle, buffalo from cloven-hoofed plague
Yanks officially recognise the word 'boffin'
Thursday 26th May 2011 09:59 GMT
Standradization of whinges: a valid point
Indeed, if you shout it's not a whinge, it's a complaint. A mega-whinge is either a whinge that that has high temporal extent, or one that is just extremely annoying, despite being brief. A standardization committee is required to make this more precise: the words kilo-, mega-, giga- and tera-whinge should not be used frivolously!!
I'll get me coat
Asus teases with MacBook Air-esque Eee PC
Brit expats aghast as Denmark bans Marmite
Oz paper in todger-based trivia quiz outrage
Steve Ballmer window-dresses Windows 8
ESA: British Skylon spaceplane seems perfectly possible
Rapture postponed as world inexplicably fails to end
Extragalactic black hole particle fountain awesomeness
Media, industry and cops baffled as Qld Police return hack’s iPad
BOFH: Attack of the Global Corporate Overlords
£1.1bn Royal Navy warship finally armed, sort of
Interstellar space 'full of Jupiter-size orphan planets'
Friday 20th May 2011 09:27 GMT
Even if their number was 100 times the number of stars
it would not be sufficient to make up the gap between directly observed mass and the mass apparent from gravitational pull of galaxies. This is because Jupiter-sized planets are only a fraction of the mass of a star, and there is a huge amount of missing mass (only 6% is observable, might become 12% with the lone planets, but still 88% missing). On the other hand, our model of gravity may be wrong.
Planet with British weather found 20 light years away
CATS to be saved by BLASPHEMERS after the RAPTURE
Tuesday 17th May 2011 10:02 GMT 
Note to self: get waterproof keyboard
The people who cooked this up must have thought: "I have a plan so cunning if you gave it a tail you would call it a weasel!"
This is such a brilliant way to get money out of people. Even if the believers in the rapture wake up rather bemusedly on May 22, you can still say: You simply paid an insurance premium, we will pay out (in the form of pet care) when judgment day does arrive.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
