* Posts by Mike 140

118 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009

Pollster predicts mega UK smart TV sales

Mike 140

Re: People tell lies on surveys

Yup. You can collect peoples' answers until you're blue in the face. It's their revealed preference that doesn't lie.

LOHAN slips BRA over BOOBIES in ballocket backronym buffoonery

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Mushroom

Are you going to take this lying down?

Never mind all this acronyming. A major upgrade to Lohan is clearly needed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/9668659/Harvard-students-send-hamburger-into-space.html

Bacon sarnie payload.

Another systematic SCADA vuln

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Facepalm

More than that. Why connect them to the net in the first place?

MYOB users didn't want no steenking cloud

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Boffin

MYOB

CEO must be a fan of the golden age of Sci-Fi. Eric Frank Russel's short story 'And then there were none'. I commend it to the house.

Apple's brilliant plan to fix iOS Maps: Get YOU to do it

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Pint

Customer Service Announcment by TfL

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rQ9KExUsWsY/UFx1I1pKAlI/AAAAAAAB-B0/rJH6gD36gyg/s1600/tube_2346388c.jpg

Reg readers serve up bacon sarnie amuse-bouche

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Holmes

Tricky decision

http://themellowjihadi.com/2012/09/15/yes-bacon-money/

Eat it, or spend it?

Ultimate bacon sarnie scrap starts to sizzle

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Bread?

Who needs it? Just copious amounts of bacon served between 2 slices of bacon.

eBay invites mystic wrath over ban on spells, potions and lotions

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Alert

Re: Tarot Cards

Boiled or fried?

High tech toilets receive big prizes from Bill Gates

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Pint

for the definitive comment - http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/guardian-readers-order-500-tons-of-microwaved-african-toilet-charcoal-2012081638277

Tom Logan, from Hatfield added: “So Bill Gates is recycling shite. Plus ca change…”

IBM tells electrons to strictly come dancing in spintronics first

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Happy

Reminds me of a spoof storage device from the early 70s that was going to replace disks – spherical storage. Complete with its own set of hardware instructions. I can only remember a few, no balls, twirl balls, and of course, all balls

Disaster strikes Doyenz disaster recovery cloud

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Facepalm

I see a gap in the market. A Recovery Service to protect against Recovery Service disaster.

Iterate as necessary.

Fatties are 'destroying the world'

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FAIL

How much?

".. 34% of the world's biomass " A widely acccepted figure is that +70% of the biomass on earth is bacterial. (citations if I can find time) Add the claimed USA blubbermass to that and it doesn't leave much for any other fauna, flora, fishes, fungi, .....

LOHAN sucks 27 inches

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Trollface

They're coming to take you away, ha ha, hee hee, ...

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/interest-in-lindsay-lohan-classified-as-mental-illness-2012052428430

US space programme in shock metric conversion

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Pint

Re: all or none

Could be tricky. There is no official SI equivalent to the year.

Enough of this. Time for a few 568mls.

Mike 140
Headmaster

the civilised world of SI

It's been a pleasant 295 Kelvins today.

Embattled Foxconn raises wage slaves' salaries

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Headmaster

For an alternative explanation, http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/02/17/foxconn-raises-pay-karl-marx-explains-why/

Drink diet pop all the time? Look forward to VASCULAR DEATH

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Headmaster

"the size of New Mexico"? What's that in British Standard Wales?

MIT boffin's 'truth goggles' probe print and pols

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Flame

I hope that ...

... there's an industrial strength version for use on comments sections.

Water utility hackers destroy pump, expert says

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Alert

Optional

YTF was a water company's control system attached to the net?

Smart meters: Nothing can possibly go wrong, says gov

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'nuff said

"Utilities want to deploy smart meters because the technology will simplify the process of ........ controlling supply at times of high demand"

CERN boffins re-running neutrino speed test

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Alien

Sorry, but yes, you have. Neutrinos aren't affected by a wave guide such as a fibre optic cable. They stop for nothing and nobody. Their path is a geodesic. With only occasional exceptions they pass through matter as though it doesn't exist.

Apple sending sun-juiced iPads to rural Zimbabwe

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FAIL

Taking the piss on a country-wide scale

Yeh, right. Fondle slabs. A supply of (paper) notebooks and pencils would, I suggest, be more useable.

Boffins fear killer gamma death blasts from space

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Facepalm

unh?

"..black holes careening into each other"

Beached black holes having their barnacles removed?

Cyber crime now bigger than the drugs trade

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FAIL

Bears, wood etc.

Security firm says you must buy a security product.

Icebergs measured in Manhattans: Official

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WTF?

Re: Re: 1 question

Lemons? Lemons?? If one adds fruit, it is a slice of lime.

Before the PC: IBM invents virtualisation

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Happy

down memory lane

Aah! CP/67. I remember it well from my days at Big Blue. Another of those not-quite-official products that kicked the arse of the mainstream offerings. And so became the grudgingly (to the suits) acceptable VM/370.

Sweaties decode ultimate mystery of chips

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Alien

a new world of Scottish cuisine.

Mars bars have a genome?

New company to lead UK police ICT procurement

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Big Brother

ACPO

"May said she expects the Home Office, and possibly the private sector, to own shares in the company alongside police forces."

ACPO Ltd *is* a private company.

Woman dies of heart attack at own funeral

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Childcatcher

A hospital spokesman said ..

"See, we were right. We just got the timing a bit out."

Refusal to unveil scuppers French refusal-to-unveil trial

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Ceci n'est pas un title

Is there not a contempt of court offence in France?

Living, biological raygun produced in lab

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Facepalm

This won't end well

".. created their lasercyte by meddling with some unspecified mammal cells .."

Next step, fish cells. Large fish. With pointy teeth.

£1.1bn Royal Navy warship finally armed, sort of

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Grenade

... a cricket ball travelling at Mach 3

Charlie Griffith, eat your heart out.

Facebook caught exposing millions of user credentials

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Big Brother

Also, amazing news about bears and woods.

I'm shocked, shocked to find that leaking is going on here.

Important breakthrough in mole-cruiser technology

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Alien

I, for one, ....

welcome our molesque underlords.

Dear Mr Beefy ex-soldier: Your BT needs you

Mike 140
Grenade

Are they expecting ..

.. a shoot-out with Sky cable-layers?

RAF Eurofighters make devastating attack – on Parliament

Mike 140
Alert

re why f18?

Ah yes, the AV8B. Also known as the Harrier. Sounds vaguely familiar.

UK boffins to develop 'Solar Squaddie' electro-uniform

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FAIL

disappearing up its own thermocouple

At night the electricity generated wil be used to drive a body heater.

Croatian brainboxes deploy calculus-based CAPTCHA

Mike 140
Headmaster

My title is Mr.

But the expression contains only the single variable, x, so why a partial derivative?

Asian soup peril menaces bionic shark

Mike 140

Ceci n'est pas une title

Isn't becoming snared in the tackle of fisherman bad news for said fisherman rather than the shark?

NO-SH*T CURE FOR BALDNESS discovered by accident

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this is a title

So to hide my dome, I cover my head with hairy mice. Have I got that right?

Latest boffinry: Feeding TNT to sheep

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WTF?

which animal?

"Anaerobic transformation of 2,4,6-TNT by bovine ruminal microbes."

Them's cows, them bovines is.

Official: PhD in 'Essential Oils' or 'Natural Toiletries' = 'a Scientist'

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All maths degrees are BSc or Msc ?

Indomitable @ 13:40

Nope. I had a choice of BA or BSc for mine. At one time Oxford awarded only BA's, no matter what the content. (I think that's changed, but not 100% sure)

German docs develop remote-control stomach submarine

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sounds Fantastic

Does it contain a miniaturised Raquel Welch?

Article deleted

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Paris Hilton

I'm not so sure ...

about your opening phrase.

French woman chased up tree by wild pigs, rescued by copter

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Pirate

But what about ....

... that most feared of the symbols of Christmas - The Brussel Sprout?

Mike 140
Pirate

But what about ...

.. the most feared of all those symbols of Christmas - The Brussel Sprout?

Gov report urges total consumer contract law overhaul

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FAIL

The death of satire

A 222-page report that recommends a simplification.

Much of recent global warming actually caused by Sun

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Thumb Down

Sun, Pope etc.

Sun affects temperature.

Don't miss next week's study on the species Ursidae and their defecatory behaviour in an arboreal environment.

ACPO defuses impending photo row with police forces

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ACPO?

WTF has it got to do with a private company ?

Hup Holland, viva España

Mike 140
Pint

but then again ....

An alternative mathematical view from

http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/may-aug10/football/index.html