Posts by james 68

Re: **** the European badge

Yeah because Spain is the entirety of Europe. The 'Merkin education system at its best, who needs geography when you can have creationism?

Ahhh Acer.... does their 'stuff' ever actually break?

Many moons ago I was working in the bell tower of a church installing some free space optics kit and dropped the Acer laptop I was using to set up the laser. When I retrieved it, despite falling approx 120 feet onto tarmac, it worked perfectly (once I popped the battery back in as it had shot out on impact) and only had a few scuffmarks, no cracks or breaks. Truely impressive build quality, considering that laptop casings and screen hinges on most other crap tend to crack and break just from being looked at funny.

Re: "widely respected businessmen"

Steve Jobs was indeed a widely respected businessman, slimier than the lawyers he was so fond of hiring and as immoral as a pedo in a santa suit at christmas, but he did indeed have the respect of other businessmen and his cult like followers. In fact those very immoral aspects are probably why other businessmen respected him, he was what they wished they could be if only they could eject the last of their humanity, he was a hero to many of those people.

However to those of us who are sane, humane and had not drank the apple flavoured Kool-aid he was best described as an asshat.

Re: But they are patent trolls!

"That fact that Apple produces some stuff..."

Nope, Apple design and market some stuff, production is left to the Chinese slave labour in factory cities that could pass for internment camps.

This is a catch-22 for Apple, fighting a patent troll in court which could lead to a legal decision against trolls which could well be used against their own trolling in the future if it sets a legal precident, perhaps I am a little twisted but I find great amusement in that thought.

Re: Try this then

Depends on how you power the BB gun, compressed air tank is always fun (and available cheaply from paintball supply stores).

This is a 1mm compressed air powered BB gun vs aluminium sheet the thickness of a coke can:

http://youtu.be/ij6Zm0tJ03Y

same weapon vs cd case:

http://youtu.be/KbKVHipGBdQ

That would tear the average joe public drone to pieces.

I had a headache until I read this story.

So... either I broke causality or trying to think about this took my mind off it long enough for the pain to dissipate. Either way I'm happy.

Re: For all the believers out there

I fail to see what relevance this tirade has to the story.

Did a young earth creationist piss in your cornflakes this morning or something?

I ask because I'm curious.

Re: Samsung

well according to apple fanbois it means they get to call other businesses success's failures.

Re: Legalese

"Not that either side is whiter than white in this area, but I do wish Apple would just STFU and get back to packaging products and buying software startups."

fixed that for you.

@Fluffy Bunny

Unfortunately it doesn't work like that.

The synthetic oil developed in WW2 was made from coal and is energy intensive in making, meaning either you use more oil not less just to make fake oil or you go back to coal in power stations to provided the needed energy, which is worse than oil for pollution.

Of course more nuke stations are an option but one that will never float since the politicians would have to take a u-turn after all that Fukashima scaremongering.

The only real viable alternative is growing your fake oil (rapeseed etc) but since on any real scale that would necessitate removing vast amounts of land from farming actual foodstuffs, it's not a great idea either especially long term when you figure in drought etc which will mean even less foodstuffs again and less fake oil leading to both food and oil shortages.

Re: “you have to know how the brain works to program one of these”.

theres always the yanks with their MK-Ultra "experiments".

though the argument could be made that they got it badly wrong...

wayward son...

shouldnt that then be "pelvic trusts to the tune of kansas"?

yeah

im old

Re: And when the Greens get pissy...

but do they have lasers on their heads?

inquiring minds need to know

Re: Pixel wars

call me convinced, better processors and more memory are obviously useless and a natty flash is the dogs bollocks

woe is me ive been living a lie for sooooo long now... not

Re: Amazing

this is an apple patent filing (please forgive the huge address) http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=D0618678&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO2%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsearch-bool.html%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526co1%3DAND%2526d%3DPTXT%2526s1%3DD618,678.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2FD618,678%2526RS%3DPN%2FD618,678&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page

note the patent is only for the part of the image with solid lines.

which is rectangle with rounded corners.

a plain old rectangle, with rounded corners.

so yeah. believe it.

doubt it

japanese police and their law in general is not only extraordinarily harsh (hence the low crime rates) but extremely expensive for anyone considered a suspect.

its a lot like legal extortion, you pay for everything, even access to your lawyer, phone calls to/from family etc, but no matter how much you pay it wont effect the outcome of your case. even your own lawyer will be in on it, cant pay extra? too bad you get a real estate lawyer instead of a criminal defender, and the whole time your own lawyer will be trying to make you confess anyway.

its often better for innocent people to claim guilt than fight a charge.

if anything by denying involvement the third guys family will end up financially broken and he will get the longest sentence.

Re: Simmer down, people: she's a lobbyist.

alternatively they'll use her to get better concessions (read as: money) from government etc for deep access to their hosting facilities.

its not a one way street and when in doubt the answer is 99% of the time, money.

Re: It should be measured in Essex girl knee tremblers.

they some big girls....

when their knees tremble not only does the ground shake but due to the revealing nature of their clothing you can see seismic waves flowing across the exposed flab

just claim to your boss that you're upgrading and testing ssl and point em towards a link to a heartbleed story.

i've used it for a days dossing already, works a charm.

Re: even more exclusion?

"Like Australians not being able to see content on Hulu or BBC web sites when they are supposedly promoting globalisation"

You think thats bad? There are areas on the BBC websites that British citizens cant access, because they contain "content not available in your country". Not only television shows but forums and news sites too.

British Broadcasting Corporation my ass, if its paid for by my bloody TV license then I want access to it.

actually i alluded to a thrusting bell-end, but my enquiry was serious.

Re: Oh please thise same tired old crap...

cannot decide if troll or deludedly serious, well played sir.... however april first was yesterday.

Re: Blackberry

they didnt need to hack the blackberry - as you stated its authorised to run on DoD networks, thats pwned by definition right there.

Re: just a thought

Perusing related links on here i came across this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/31/paper_plane_flight/

Size and shape would be perfect and its capable of holding the tracker.

On that note in the comments on that page, the suggestion for lobbing a paper aircraft from the ISS and wether or not friction would cause it to burn up were stated previous to my posting here.

I apologise to both Joe Gurman and Blitheringeejit as it must seem like i tried to plagiarize - I had no intention of stealing your ideas and did not in fact know you had made them till just now.

I guess great minds think alike.

Re: James 68 Kept sectret from the public, or from the target government ?

I bet Angela Merkel thought Germany would be waaaaaaayyyyyyyyy down the list too.

Re: GPS is FAR more accurate at altitude

"I'm not saying a barometer is utterly useless, but there are plenty of features that could be added to smartphones that 1% of people will find useful, but if you want the Swiss Army Knife of smartphones that includes a bunch of niche features just for the hell of it, you buy a Samsung Galaxy, not an iPhone."

That's because everyone is fixated on altitude. There is another use for barometers - weather prediction, combine barometer, moisture and temperature gizmos and weather is the obvious answer.

Add to the above that Apple will then be able to collate a HUGE realtime database collected from its customers devices it can then sell to third parties to make even more monies off of its users like weather services etc and its a no brainer.

Re: Article title caused serious WTF moment.

yeah they screw up a lot of words, mostly its amusing though.

I always giggle when asking an american where they're from, to which they reply "i'm a merkin".

or the classic george w bush "i am proud to be a merkin" which he seemed to state with alarming regularity. probably the most honest words he ever uttered.

schoolyard humor perhaps but bloody hilarious when you consider the growing number of signs appearing across the states demanding that english be proclaimed the official language and anyone who doesn't speak it should go home.

Apple didn't invent siri they bought it outright from siri inc in 2010.

Your argument is still valid but lets not add to the confusion by intimating that apple actually "invents" stuff ;-)