* Posts by Anonymous John

2374 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Oct 2007

DARPA: Send limbless troops back to war with robo-arms

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Because of funding problems

DARPA can only afford $6 million dollars per soldier.

FBI asks for help to crack mystery code in 12-year-old murder case

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It probably says::

"The name of the murderer is ARRGGHH!"

The Professionals set to abseil into cinema

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Paris Hilton

The Champions.

How about a remake?

Who to play Sharon MacCready though?

Chinese man jailed for provoking nuke panic

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Re I'll admit ignorance here

The thyroid needs iodine, or your metabolism goes pear shaped. Soils in some parts of the world is deficient so salt is iodised to compensate.

You don't want radioactive iodine in your thyroid, and I understand it's easily displaced by taking more iodine.

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Re jailed for provoking nuke panic

If that could happen here, there wouldn't be any tabloids to read for a while.

Fukushima explained in crap cartoon

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Coffee/keyboard

Brilliant!

あなたは私に新しいキーボードを借りている。

Hamburg vice girls to be serviced by cable car

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Less than 500 days to go.

Too late to build one in London, I suppose.

Dutch courts: Wi-Fi 'hacking' is not a crime

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Good news

For Google..

Fukushima one week on: Situation 'stable', says IAEA

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Nuclear experts are beginning to condemn the international hysteria

Some of them were being hysterical until today.

How Google taped up its email outage wounds

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Email was down last night in the UK

I was getting this at about 11pm.

"Sorry, there seems to be a problem. The service you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. We are working hard to restore your access as soon as possible. Please try again in a few hours. Thanks for your patience."

It was back when I got up this morning, so i don't know how long it lasted.

Judge mulls 'wasted costs' as ACS:Law cases close

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"Crossley had spent £750,000 on pursuing alleged online pirates."

For banging out a shedload on threatening letters?

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Re Media CAT

I suppose that explains the picture of a CAT cable on the BBC news page.

Texas bank robber asked for ID

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Title

It doesn't seem to be the reason it was caught though.

Playmobil reconstruction please. I don't think we've had one this year so far.

Hadron Collider 'could act as telephone for talking to the past'

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Already done.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/quirkies/8779718.Bevendean_woman_finds_time_capsule_from_30_years_ago/

"Jill now plans to record her own thoughts and bury the two documents in the same spot for her predecessors to discover"

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We probably have.....

But it arrived in someone's spam folder and deleted after 30 days.

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Hello?

I'm in the 21st Century.

I SAID, I'M IN THE 21ST CENTURY!

Fukushima situation as of Wednesday

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Re Declaration of interests

It's good to read the truth, rather than the FUD the media is spreading.

The BBC has just reported some US official saying that it was worse than Three Mile Island. True, but meaningless.

Three Mile Island resulted in no deaths,injuries, or dangerous radiation exposure. Most people nearby got about 1% of a year's background radiation. Nobody got more than a year's worth.Yet nowadays, it's seem as a major disaster. Total nonsense.

Sexy eco-bulb wins Design of the Year

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Paris Hilton

"beautiful silhouette and organic form"

Am I the first to spot the Paris Hilton connection? CFL bulbs are usually dim.

London's Olympic clock claps out

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Next year is a leap year.

I hope they've allowed for that.

Hang on.... No I don't.

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FAIL

How...

Can anyone set up an e-commerce site that doesn't accept all in-date cards?

Data-mining technique outs authors of anonymous email

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Happy

It works!

I've just googled on "respomse" and found about 88,800 examples of your work.

Russia knocks back Soyuz launch

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Unhappy

Re Cosmonaut vs Astronaut

I'm waiting for the time when space travel is so routine that both terns become as obsolete as "aeronaut".

Anonymous John

No problem.

There are always enough Soyuz capsules at the ISS to evacuate the station. And the Shuttle has never been suitable for taking crew up and down. It can't stay in orbit long enough to serve as a lifeboat.

Dim Brits think TARDIS IS REAL

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Re Internet tradition requires...

Muphrey's law.

NASA aims for space tests of Mars-in-a-month plasma drive

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No.

Accelerate for half the journey, turn the ship round, then decelerate for the second half.

Not quite that simple of course as Mars is a moving target, but you get the idea.

Tablet hype brings e-book readers a more merry Xmas

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No surprise there.

They started selling the on the High Street last year. It must make a difference when punters can actually see them.

Connecticut suspect's 'half-ro' haircut wows web

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Happy

That's what I call

a bad hair day.

Whitehall to puff punters: 'Hide your fags'

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Pint

Re Costs and Revenues

There's still a legalised, taxed alcohol industry is the UK, even though it's easy, legal, and cheaper to make your own wine and beer.

It just takes longer than buying it. Which would also be the case if cannabis were legalised.

Mine's the one brewed in a bucket in the airing cupboard.

Toyota plans major electric car roll outs

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e)

New man at the elm.

Tas magistrate finds legal book of filth illegal on computer

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The UK can be just as silly.

Convicting someone for buying a book from Waterstones.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/24/bookshop_conviction_overturned/

NASA's Glory climate-data sat crashes into Pacific on launch

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God's way...

..of telling us there is no such thing as MMGW.

Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old

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Happy

That's nothing.

I bought a Nascom 1 in 1977, and a Nascom 2 two years later.

Official: Booze prevents senile dementia

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Pint

Old folk on limited incomes

Make it available on prescription..

Twitter terminates Steve Jobs parodist

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More than 460,000 Twitterati?

Probably more than the real Steve Jobs.

Health experts flip over McD's burger-flip toy

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There's a name for that.

Nominative determinism.

NSPCC blurs lines as vetting debate kicks off

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It's worse than that.

Being over 18 and receiving any form of health care makes you a vulnerable adult. A regular dental check-up would seem to make you one.

Dixons prices up Motorola Android 3.0 tablet

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Re If you think £450 is spectacularly cheap

Because it's WiFi only? Does adding 3G capability really add more than a few pounds to the cost.?

Londoners warned of card skimming risk

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Re e Re: Are they joking?

No, they are spelled differently.

"Excuse me Sir, We've had a complaint that you are lurking suspiciously."

"I'm not lurking, officer, I was watching that man who is loitering."

"No I'm not. I was watching you lurking."

"Right. We'll sort this out down at the police station. You're both under arrest.

Customs officers get X-ray machines for down under searches

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Correction,

"would quickly exonerate the innocent" = "would quickly give the innocent a potentially dangerous radiation dose".

Conviction overturned for abuse images bought from bookshop

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Re Is that it?

Perhaps he took the book round to PC World and showed it to the Tech Guys.

Oracle: 'Eight Android files are decompiled Oracle code'

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All your source are belong to us"

See title.

Eight years for ID fraudster

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Makes a change from reading about Nigerian scammers. .

Oh, wait a minute.....

Polyglot 419 scammers target German and Welsh speakers

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Re "You need to be a crook before you get scammed."

With the traditional advance fee fraud, probably.

But that leaves several scams that are aimed at honest people. Fake lotteries, romance scams, fake jobs, and fake charity appeals.

I've no doubt that scammers will be trying to exploit the New Zealand earthquake shortly.

Facebook pulls naked smutty filth from NY Academy of Art page

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Well it is called Facebook.

Not Bum and Titbook.

iPad 2 launch could be delayed by two months, analyst says

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Re: Re: Joke

I expected it last October, so I already have one.

Blind man excels at videogames

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Pinball Wizard

"That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball",

20-tonne space truck heads for ISS

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Yes it does.

The mass of the vehicle. It needs engines and fuel to dock with the ISS.

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Something we may never see again.

Six spacecraft will be docked with the ISS later this month.

Two Soyuz capsules, one Progress, a European ATV, a Japanese HtV, and a Shuttle. To say nothing of the weight of it all.

Airport face-scanning robots switched off

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I've just had an idea.

They could employ people to compare faces with passport photos.

Storm brews over Chinese synchronised goldfish

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The title is required, and must contain synchronised letters and/or digits.

Where does this leave the synchronised swimming events in the 2012 Olympics?