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Australia puts 300 sharks on Twitter

Re: lol

Does lazerous mean "extremely lazy" I wonder?

Tim Cook gets weensy 1.9% increase - but it's still twice an average joe's salary

Re: Tom 13

A tax system with a marginal rate >100%, as you describe, is not "progressive".

Re: Just can't stay away from the Marxist flamebait can you?

You can't measure the "gap" in absolute dollar terms, since inflation increases it.

Re: AC @ 13:33

"The power is in YOUR hands."

That also depends on what you do.

Cyanogen grabs $23m, will ship mod-installed N1 smartmobe on Xmas Eve

Re: Oppo

That should be N≡C−C≡N.

James Bond's 'shaken not stirred': Down to trembling boozer's hands, claim boffins

Re: MATHS FAIL

Gouden Carolus is for little girls! Men drink Sink the Bismarck by the pint. And enjoy it!

(I quite like Gouden Carolus Classic)

Sensation: Chinese Jade Rabbit FOUND ON MOON

Humanity's first space doughnut?

No!

http://www.universetoday.com/60142/did-you-know-russian-lunokhod-rovers-created-memorials-on-the-moon-honoring-women/

El Reg's contraptions confessional no.2: Tablet PC, CRT screen and more

I should add the 10+ year old Nokia that lives in my pocket.

I still have a Sirius 1 and an Atari 2600 sitting in a cabinet in the shed. I also kept a pair of 12MB 3dfx Voodoo2s for the nostalgia value. None of this equipment is in current use, but it still works (or did last time it was used).

Mexican Cobalt-60 robbers are DEAD MEN, say authorities

Re: Moral of this story: Don't handle pellets which give off a pretty blue light.

That'll help you if you're dealing with a hydrophilic compound of a radioactive element that has been exposed to water and is emitting Čerenkov radiation.

Pellets of ⁶⁰Co won't glow on their own.

SpaceX Falcon 9 reaches MONEY RING with successful launch

Dammit

Having watched their previous two aborts, I missed this one because I didn't know about it!

I can't work out of there's a replay function on their webcast page either.

On the matter of shooting down Amazon delivery drones with shotguns

Re: AC @ 21:25

The M2 Browning has about twice the effective range of the M240, and rightly so.

I should know. I just looked it up on Wikipedia.

Saturn's moon Titan had swamps, say astroboffins

Polypropylene?

Come on guys, your very own article even says that propylene was found, not polypropylene.

Brit-boy Bates is Silicon Valley's pick for Microsoft's CEO

Bates?

Is his nickname Gilbert?

Krakoom! OCZ flies into the ground. Time to salvage the engines and look around

What is this I don't even

I've got a small stack of failed WD drives here.

Of course this proves nothing as I was only using WD at the time; context is everything. I suspect I gave these ones heatstroke. No failed Seagates, or any other manufacturer, so far.

Three Agility 3s running just fine here.

PS-PHWOARRR: We review Sony’s next-gen PlayStation 4

Re: In short

1080p? Aww, how cute.

HEADS UP, text-flinging drivers! A cop in a huge SUV is snooping on you

Re: Phil O'Sophical

Going to court to defend yourself from ridiculous charges due to over-reaching laws is not without monetary and psychological costs, and it clogs up the courts too.

Re: Gottcha

I'll take specific laws over krazy katch-all laws any day.

It's much more difficult for the police to abuse the specific ones.

To the MONEY RING: Musk's SpaceX to attempt boldest mission yet

Re: bhound562

I'm not sure if I've misunderstood your explanation, but it doesn't seem to address Jade's point that a satellite being launched to geosynchronous orbit is always going to be in the same location "above" the Earth relative to the launch site, regardless of when it is launched. It doesn't have to wait until the Earth's facing a particular direction.

Re: Launch Window?

Could the relative positions of the sun and moon be significant to the placement of the satellite in orbit?

Reg man inhales the smooth, non-cancerous, taste of USB nicotine

Re: flearider

"you'll actually find theres more nic in a potato than in whats exhaled from a ecig .."

So why not just switch to potatoes then?

Qualcomm slips out new Snapdragon hardness to gush 4K vids into palms

Krait 450 and Adreno 420

Any more details on these parts?

Issue of the day: When is the right time to drink coffee?

Something Alcoholic

Coffee stout, now that's definitely something.

For me, no coffee after about 15:00, otherwise I won't sleep that night. Yeah I don't drink much of the stuff.

And only ever black.

PlayStation daddy on new PS4: She's ALL 'PLAY', NO 'Station' this time

Re: PCs will struggle with the new console games

"If all motherboards had PCIe 3.0, video cards would cost more."

Wait, what?

Re: 17 Who is giving me a "thumbs Down"????

I think you're getting downvotes now purely because those people want to see you keep melting down. If you stop complaining about it, it'll probably stop happening...

Sony's new PlayStation 4: Early faults ENRAGE some buyers

Re: CAD has it covered

I don't think the joke icon is the right one.

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"Is this the end to garden rodent misery?"

Prozac for rats?

Re: *Headlines to which the answer is no.

"I've decided to stop reading all articles on the BBC news website where the headline is a question.

I cancelled my subscription to New Scientist for the same reason.

Was Darwin Wrong?

Was Einstein Wrong?

etc.

Ultimate electric driving machine? Yes, it’s the BMW i3 e-car

Re: 125kw motor

"An engine intended to give moderate life pushing around a couple of hundred kg of motorbike will be knackered in a couple of years given 1200kg to push around."

Fortunately it's only pushing a generator to recharge a battery pack when the car's running in range extender mode.

Re: Has there ever been an attractive BMW?

They have made some hideous cars of late. However, here are some more suggestions for attractive BMWs:

M1

3.0CSL

8 series

I'll grant you that the pickings are slim among BMWs that the average person can afford though.

Turnbull appoints Simon Hackett, Justin Milne and Patrick Flannigan to NBN Co board

Simon Hackett?

Things might be looking up for the NBN.

OK, maths wonks: PRIME TIME has arrived

Surely you don't consider 1 to be prime?

Google's Nexus 5: Best smartphone bang for your buck. There, we said it

Re: "90% of what's needed"

The only problem I see in Lumia 620 is the 1300 amps battery.

Yeah, that'd blow your tongue off. Don't lick it.

OH what a LOVELY, well-rendered WAR: Yes, it’s 'Call of Duty: Ghosts'

Re: "From a physics POV..."

Oh boy, what an embarrassing way to finish a comment that starts like that. Instead of demonstrating even a modicum of understanding of physics, you actually ended up demonstrating a rather profound lack of understanding.

...of chemistry.

Horrific FLESH-EATING PLATYPUS once terrorised Australia

Re: Someone get SciFi Channel on the phone!

"Platyphoon" might be even better, and its geographically correct!

It is a nice word but in Australia we just use the standard meteorological description; "tropical cyclone".

Google Nexus 5: So easy to fix, it's practically a DIY kit - except for ONE thing

Re: Really?

Having to replace the entire assembly only makes the parts more expensive.

Hopefully...

Aussie bloke hacks way to top of music charts with MIDI-based tunes

The System exists to be messed with!

SR-71 Blackbird follow-up: A new TERRIFYING Mach 6 spy-drone bomber

Re: @OrsonX "too fast for missile"

The U-2 was subsonic. They may have thought it was too high to shoot down, perhaps, but I'm sure they never believed it would outrun any AA missiles that made it to altitude.

Google RIPS aside curtain, exposes Nexus 5 phone, KitKat Android 4.4 coupling

Re: Not one, but TWO

On the upside, now you can tell iFans that you could have bought two phones for the price of their one. And did.

Lots of people use this IP address, though my particular "fingerprint" of system information presented to hosts is probably fairly uncommon.

In the end, it looks like it was related to information stored by my browser after all. It doesn't know who I am any more! Icon for myself.

With mild excitement, I went to order one. Despite not being logged in to Google, and having no cookies, it still already knew who I was.

Nope.

Nothing to sniff at: Dell Ultrabooks REEK OF CAT PEE, scream users

Re: we don't test for smell

Thumbs up for In The Pipeline.

Moto sets out plans for crafty snap-together PODULAR PHONES

Re: The 'endoskeleton'..

"It'll either fail or succeed."

Correct.

Mac OS X Mavericks 'upgrade' ruins iWorks

What do you put on those pallets?

Everything's going to be all white: Google Nexus 5 mobe expected Friday

You're not necessarily the advertising target.

I know I'm certainly not the target of ads for armoured fighting vehicles, naval fire control systems and fighter jets at the local airport (or in the local newspaper), but the decision makers who live in the same city as me definitely are.

Drone owners told: stay out of bushfire skies

Re: Playing nice...

Right, cheers. I was thinking of "control" in the wrong context.

LG G Flex: A new cheeky curvy mobe with a 'SELF-HEALING' bottom

Good heavens...

"the experience of watching an IMAX movie"

Your eyeballs would have to be touching the screen!