* Posts by Captain TickTock

679 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Sep 2009

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Supercomputers take efficiency up another notch

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Pint

That's right..

FLorida Orange Pressed.

But it runs better on beer.

DHS airport spooks stalk star hacker

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Headmaster

Fantasy Island

Boss! Boss! Deplane! Deplane!

..is what Tattoo says at the beginning of every Fantasy Island episode.

The word you're after is "disembark".

Dirty PCs: How much filth can you take?

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Coat

and i naturally thought of.....

... which way to mount the case fan.

either way is fine with Paris...

ok, ok.

3D printers, one-dimensional enemies

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Stop

That's cheap...!

Stop, Mr cynical.

Doing a quick search, HP printer ink can be anything from £1000 - £2400/litre.

However, if you make your own reprap printer (reprap.org), the printer can cost around $1000 or assembled for around $1500.

There are no proprietary "inks", but the ABS plastic filament used can be had for $50-60 for a 5lb spool.

If you want to go proprietary, yes you can pay 10x that or more.

But it's the "open-source" nature or the diy designs which could have it really taking off.

Hitachi refrigerates rack rears

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Boffin

Money for nothing?

43.5 kW of cooling capacity is just the moving of 43.5 kW of heat from the rack to somewhere else, not producing 43.5 kW.

No WTF AFAICT.

Elon Musk vs NASA and the US rocket industry - ding ding!

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Go

What would it take..

.. to human-rate Ariane 5? The ATV has a manned version proposed.

PARIS in 89,000 ft climax

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Thumb Up

Hey, Ridley, ya got any Beeman's?

And did he fall off his horse the day before?

No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed

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Paris Hilton

final int KILOBYTE = 1000;

And I saw that 13 years ago... when I tried to explain why it was 1024, he glazed over.

Paris, because "bit" in French sounds like something low-level she knows about.

Vulcan bomber lives to fly another day

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Boffin

Have you seen the Haynes Manual?

http://www.haynes.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&productId=51201&langId=-1

Could Haynes be persuaded to donate something for each copy sold?

PARIS nursing mother of all hangovers

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Pint

Friday

A great time for good news. (Couldn't of timed it better if you'd planned it... or did you ;-)

Beers all round

DfT to install new motorway tech

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FAIL

Hard Shoulder

So what happens when there's an accident, and all lanes and the hard shoulder are jammed.

How do the emergency services deal with that?

Java guru quits over Oracle 'disregard'

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Troll

Don't feed the troll

Oh, I see no one is ;-)

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Joke

_ma_ hos

Yo need som'un ta learn yer ta talk right

UK gov vets the vetting process

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Big Brother

Oh great...

My wife wanted to volunteer at a special needs school. Similar story, except that as they were small, they were told to use a CRB submission service, which was useless - the screwed up the application 3 times.

On her own, she applied for an extended CRB check, (for another volunteering post) which came back approved in record time...

Unfortunately at the time, you had to get a fresh check for each post...

Big Bother more like.

Apple trade marks 'There's an app for that'

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Coat

There's some crap for that...

oh sh1t...

ok, can I say "There's an ointment for that?"

(Mine's the coat with a tube of Preparation H in the pocket.)

Tesla Motors: Our cars don't burst into flame, but our emails do

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To be fair...

how many car companies release their recalls to the press?

Iowa police mugshot exposes world's worst tattoo

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Troll

Could you identify the man in a line up...?

Hell, yeah!

Mozilla Labs pops out JavaScript language tool for coders

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Boffin

Javascript _is_ something like LISP...

@Martin Usher

just changing the syntax will not necessarily make it easier to write properly.

...and it's used for way more than guessing user's intentions, BTW.

With AJAX it has really come into its own.

Burglars used social network status updates to select victims

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Boffin

Keep the broadband lights on...

Thank heavens for NAS boxes, and BitTorrent (seeding OSS of course, otherwise the film and music industry will be breaking in....)

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Boffin

Address?

Do you have a website on your own domain...?

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Joke

Bathroom light?

Our neighbours leave their bathroom light on all the time.

Go burgle them!

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Friends' Friends

I'm pretty sure if a friend of mine likes or comments on my status, their friends get to see it, even if they don't know me.

So I don't say nuffin no more.

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Boffin

Just say no to WiFi...

But then, the same risk is true if someone dodgy works at your ISP...

Sarko hit by 'asshole' Googlebomb

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Joke

Trou Duc

Proof that the nobility is alive and well in France.

Wonder how the prices compare to here?

NASA buys cutting-edge Cornish robot

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Coat

Phwoarr2-D2

Bit of brand-storming for The Sun...

Eric Schmidt warns Berliners: 'We know where you are'

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Pint

Evilgle

take the lower case 'g', colour it red, add 2 horns

Simples!

Schmidt? Schmuck!

Brand Consultancy Fee: 1 pint.

Conroy, Family First isolated on Oz internet filter

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Joke

Go Fiona!

Or just hack their websites ;-)

Facebook bug spills name and pic for all 500 million users

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WTF?

Surely this is not new...

It's just taken a while for someone to notice...?

Google finally pulls Gmail contacts tool into line

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Flame

Erm...

And who runs the relays that Tor uses? Volunteers. Can you trust them all?

http://www.torproject.org/download.html.en#Warning

I remember now why I didn't jump on it straight away.

UK.gov to scrap new staff training rights

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Thumb Down

Risks

If you train your staff, there's a risk they might leave and take what they've learnt with them

If you don't train your staff, there's a risk they might stay... and you're stuck with them.

Many bosses complain about the quality of the staff, that they've chosen, and then haven't developed.

Everyone is responsible for their own development, true. But a boss is responsible for results, and fostering an environment where employees are encouraged and helped to develop is the one of the best ways to improve results.

Ellison blasts HP 'idiots' for Hurd's exit

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Paris Hilton

That would kind of give things away...

"The affair emerged when Wilkins paid for billboards in US cities and a web site picturing the couple and featuring messages between them. "

Paris - a picture of discretion.

Ryanair plumps for Dell EqualLogic

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Pirate

To access your data...

transfer times on the data bus are longer than the actual query, because the data is not stored in the database you paid for, but in the real one, which is 2 hours away.

Elon Musk plans new Mars rockets bigger than Saturn Vs

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Pirate

Re:why are all the designs based on sex toys?

Merchandising, baby!

(Bumper sticker on my flying car - "my other car is a HOTOL")

Court slaps down coppers in photography case

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Big Brother

Because it's easier...

"I know it's a tired cliché, but when there really is no shortage of properly nasty individuals, why do we constantly hear of law abiding people being intimidated and pushed around by these lot?"

Data for 100m Facebook accounts published to BitTorrent

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Joke

Driving a double-decker bus through

the stable door after it's bolted.

There's not enough room to swing a horse in here

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Coat

Phnarr..

If you get the thrust of the article...

Mine's the trenchcoat, I'm going in deep, deep, deep undercover.

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Headmaster

Tin-Can

[1] "tin", to you Brits.

yeah, we know.

Nude trampolinist bounces free from court

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Coat

First, Donkeys paragliding...

Now this..

It's been a long week.

Canadian flyboy prangs CF-18 Hornet

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Boffin

The tie is on its way

http://www.martin-baker.com/Sub-Navigation/Ejection-Tie-Club.aspx

The Sun saves parasailing donkey's ass

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Coat

Donkey Found On The Moon

As the Sunday Sport would have it.

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Coat

Your ass is mine!

Hee haw.

Brigitte Bardot demands flying donkey action

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Coat

BRIGITTE BARDOT DEMANDS FLYING DONKEY ACTION

She needs to get out more...

(let me be the first to congratulate you on your headline, as I get my coat)

Airline ejects passenger for being hungry

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He is...

a marketing guru. See his blog.

Plenty of free notoriety. There is no such thing as bad publicity (for him at least)

Boffins develop greenhouse invisible to night-vision goggles

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Happy

Wavelength Emission Elimination Device...

... W.E.E.D.

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Boffin

Mud is all you need...

just paint your greenhouse with it and ugly-chops won't be able to see you.

Just be ready to get underwater when his thermonuclear wristwatch goes off.

UK Skylon spaceplane set for engine test in '3-4 years'

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Megaphone

MacGyver...

Could make one out of bits of an old Cessna.

And is it just me, or is there also a whiff of Eagle transporter about the passenger module?

(yet another BB link..)

Megaphone because Brian doesn't need one

For sale: Dr No's Scottish bunker complex

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Boffin

Probably

diesel generator

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Joke

Surely they should be asking...

(...raises pinky to corner of smirking gob...)

One million dollars!

Come on people, somebody throw me a frickkin' bone here.

iPhone 4 burns, hurts owner

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Coat

Clever little...

...BGR...

yeah, just jealous.

Renault DeZir: 'leccy sex machine

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Boffin

Would you like us to fit a plug for you?

20 years ago when I came here and bought an alarm clock, I had to do a double take when they asked me that.

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