* Posts by tony2heads

1344 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Apr 2010

The hoarder's dilemma: 'Why can't I throw anything away?'

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Re: Athlon XP 2400 PC

Would probably work fine as a firewall or file server for the house

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@I ain't Spartacus

well the Dark Matter should be about 75% of the mass of the universe.

I suspect that the rest is floppy drives and reel-to-reel tape decks

How about printing your electricity?

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@Callam McMillan

a case for implementing 'lp0 on fire'

Microsoft Cortana EULA contains the Greatest Disclaimer of ALL TIME

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Terminator

Re: Are they sure that this is unintended behaviour?

Possibly 3 extra laws should be added

- Creep people out as much as possible

- Embarrass the owner at all times

- Feedback all information to appropriate spy agencies

Linux app lets you control fruit fly brains - with frikkin' LASERS

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Linux

Finally

a linux app that we really need!

This should be a huge breakthrough

128-bit crypto scheme allegedly cracked in two hours

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Re: And the obvious error in that sentence is ...

No they carry stuff around AND behave like ursines

Pirate Party runs aground in European Parliamentary elections

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Pirate

plank!

Pirates get hung from the yardarm!

Or to speak in pirate 'Yarrrdarrrm'

Creepy Facebook urges users to pester friends about their SEX LIVES

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Big Brother

@ captain hogwash

"Betray your family and friends, fabulous prizes to be won." - to quote Red Dwarf

Microsoft: You know we said NO MORE XP PATCHES? Well ...

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Linux

XP

Surely the old yeller of operating systems.

Surely Microsoft should get the rifle out for it now

Today's bugs have BRANDS? Be still my bleeding heart [logo]

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Flense

Should we just see comments by the likes of Linus Torvalds as the sort of robust language a harpooner on a whaling ship might use?

Trolls and victims watch Supremes for definition of meaningless patents

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Joke

Diana Ross & The Supremes

Best judgement on this would be 'Stop in the name of Love'

Got Windows 8.1 Update yet? Get ready for YET ANOTHER ONE – rumor

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Trollface

@forget it

I thought that it was a metaphor about having to self-mutilate to get out of some horrific thing you are trapped in.

Clearly watching too many horror movies

Reg man builds smart home rig, gains SUPREME CONTROL of DOMAIN – Pics

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@timely

keep a torch or a phone next to your side of the bed

KILLER SPONGES menacing California coastline

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Joke

Re: @Big John Obligatory...

NOOO

They are the opposite to the Noodly one! They come from below - the dark side!

A black box for your SUITCASE: Now your lost luggage can phone home – quite literally

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Re: useless

Or Bologna, Boulogne...

Actually had a colleague going to Bologna & the secretary booked Boulogne (she assumed it was a typo and did not know Bologna)..

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Re: Yep

Avoid Joburg at all costs! Fly direct to Cape Town

Over half of software developers think they'll be millionaires – study

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Re: Getting to be a millionaire

if $CURRENCY == ZimbabweDollar:

then I= trillionair

else I=pauper

Actually if I remember it was worth about $33 USD at the time

Gnome Foundation runs out of cash

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cinnamon

what's that MATE?

Want a free Bosch steam iron? You'll have to TALK TO THE DEAD

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@mage

and Ballmer is still undead

Eco-friendly fluid keeps SGI supercomputer cool and moist

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Re: Useful with a gaming rig?

are we talking about regular engine oil or the laxative type?

And while talking about oil - would cooking oil (sunflower or canola) work?

USA opposes 'Schengen cloud' Eurocentric routing plan

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Trollface

EU like Royston Vasey

Don't touch the things, this is a local shop for local people, there's nothing for you hear

Nothing's as SCARY as an overly aggressive SOFTWARE PIMP

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Unhappy

reminds me of a poster

There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but there is always enough time to do it over.

Seems so horribly true for software.

Also why do they always try to add extra features (and bloat). Why not get a 'good enough' set just right.

Back off, Siri! Microsoft debuts Halo beauty Cortana

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@R69

Male Bovine Dung I assume

Money? What money? Lawyer for accused Silk Road boss claims you can't launder Bitcoin

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@Vociferous

s/on/down/

FTFY

Raised £350bn in crowdsourced funding? Tell me about it (not)

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Re: 沖縄国際映画祭 日本語 メールニュース

rubbish

only good stuff from Japan was by Kurosawa - like Kagemusha or Seven Samurai

Brit game devs WILL get tax relief for, er, EastEnders Game and Legend of Slough

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WTF?

grand theft auto -Lambeth?

or maybe legends of Essex

bloody stupid idea in my opinion

Life support turned off: NHS Direct dies silent, undignified death

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re:4chan

anyone going there for medical advice is already brain dead

Terminator-maker 'Cyberdyne Inc' lists on Tokyo stock exchange

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Terminator

@Proud Father

then please report to our human processing facility

Microsoft issues less-than-helpful tips to XP holdouts

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Re: locked in

To quote that great philosopher Bob Marley: emancipate yourselves from mental slavery

sorry off to get a bite to each (getting the munchies)

Bulls hit city streets after alleged Samsung ad shoot hits the fan

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looks more like bullocks to me

GIANT FLESH-EATING DEVIL CHICKENS roamed North Dakota

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Alert

Re: Not original

and (male) lions

lions & tigers and bears^W chickens oh my

Google's Larry Page: DeepMind 'discovered CATS on its own'

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Re: So they...

All the sci-fi I have seen suggest that the first thing AI will do is world domination; I suspect that it will just slack off like most human beings (and cats!) .

After all what drive would it have for domination?

Keep your quinoa, hipsters: Boffins back healthy slabs of choc

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Happy

re: What chocolate

I think that we are talking about the Lindt Excellence 99% territory rather than Tesco's plain

Google wearables: A solution looking for a rich nerd

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battery life

If the battery life is good (like weeks between recharges) it might take off.

And the earpieces- who the hell wants to look like they have a hearing aid or like Agent Smith from the matrix?

Bill Gates-backed SOLAR POO RAYGUN COMMODE unveiled

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Re: Clouds

There are large areas with little cloud cover:try the Karoo or Namibian desert

-but the problem is that very very few people live there.

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@ AC

Laptops: No

Cell phones: very commonly

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Friday is Pi Day

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Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling. In mystic force and magic spelling. Celestial sprites elucidate. All my own striving can't relate

Count the letters of each word

335/113 is a pretty good approximation so why not celebrate at 03:55 on the 11th of March

Square-kilometre radio telescope wins millions in UK funding

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Re: 915PB a day?

Jodrell Bank has had 1Gbps data streaming for eVLBI for the last 10 years through research networks

NSA's TURBINE robot can pump 'malware into MILLIONS of PCs'

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Big Brother

Re: So now they are impersonating Facebook...

So how can I know which facebook is spying on me?

It's BANKS v TELCOs: Mobe payments systems go head-to-head

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difficult choice

Who do I least distrust?

HTML is a sexually transmitted disease, say many Americans

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Help me doctor

I have a bad case of CSS and my selectors are unable to ascend

Chillax, cranky commentards: Anger can KILL YOU

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Holmes

Re: Breaking news...

I thought that this was know for centuries see for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Agricola

PS. I hear that members of the Ursidae family defecate in silvan areas

Facebook: We want a solar sky cruiser comms net that DARPA couldn't build

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Flame

saturation coverage

There are large areas of semi-desert that are wanted for the SKA radio telescope array project where we DO NOT WANT drones saturating our receivers.

It sounds similar to the Afristar concept where the majority of the intended audience could not afford the receivers and did not particularly want the product. Those who can afford it picked up satellite TV, like DSTV (I see their dishes even on some shacks).

But... you work in IT... Why aren't we RICH?

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Re: Totally agree about WTFapp

Yes, with children on a different continent SMS gets expensive

However it is basically an IRC, so hardly innovative.

Energy firms' security so POOR, insurers REFUSE to take their cash

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Re: "Self-insured"

Some things are unique and cannot be replaced - hence no insurance

Others are an almost certain catastrophe coming - hence no one will insure them

I let others judge which the energy firms are

'G-WIZ like' object doing 40,000 MPH CRASHES on the MOON

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Alien

G-Wiz

I for one welcome our new G-Wiz driving overlords

Even if they can't steer

Retiring greybeards force firms to retrain Java, .NET bods as mainframe sysadmins

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“'Poor performance' is now being viewed as a defect,” Richards reckoned.

What ! from a banker!

I am astounded.

MIT wants quasars to help put free will to rest

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Re: Does this mean...

That was a cat walking off with it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdFeYZVQKmY

BOFH: He... made... you... HE made YOU a DOMAIN ADMIN?

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Flame

Re: Administrating a domain is a black art...

just get the bathrobe made of guncotton

SPACE VID: Watch JUMBO ASTEROID 2000 EM26 buzzing Earth

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Joke

Re: Needs hefty telescope indeed

what did you do with the rest of the missile?