* Posts by Jonski

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Virtual Australia & New Zealand Initiative launches

Jonski
Facepalm

And if the 3D model is incorrect, or out of date, and you still manage to dig through your neighbour's Internet connection, who is liable? I think I can guess the answer.

Powerful, wallet-sized Raspberry Pi computer sells out in SECONDS

Jonski
Joke

Re: Re: Pre-Order

"some soldering flux and capacitors... don't ask"

Did you say flux capacitor? Then I must ask! How many jiggawatts is it??

Enterprise flash: The good, the bad and the cloudy

Jonski
Joke

Cloud Flash?

I believe the correct term is "lightning". Or is that something else?!?

CERN: 'New physics starts now'

Jonski
Boffin

I can't begin to imagine the possibilities

Being able to manipulate mass in the way we do electricity or light- I wonder if the BOFH would feel the need to replace his magnetic pinch with a bosonic pinch? Mind you, fitting the LHC into a suitcase may be problematic.

I'm just doubtful we'll see much domestic use out of this research in our lifetimes...

Japan, Russia in plan for elephant to birth CLONE MAMMOTH

Jonski
Go

Another resurrection request

10. Haast Eagle. (World's largest raptor ever)

11. Moa, for the eagle to eat.

On another note, once this mammoth project runs out of funds and public interest, is it possible for a species to go extinct for a second time?

Steve Jobs had 'personal moral failures', was no role model

Jonski
FAIL

Religious tract FAIL

When someone uses their holy book to moralise, and that holy book contains genocide, gang rape, infanticide, genital mutilation and a host of other nasties and portrays this as morally just, then they can fuck off and take their god with them.

Just sayin'.

NZ ISP piracy law kicks in

Jonski
Trollface

Guilty of bad taste, at least.

Look, if you're gonna download Rihanna or Lady Gaga you're gonna get what's coming to you.

Blogger freaks after airport lackey fondles checked-in vibrator

Jonski
FAIL

Re: Confused

>Why is leaving a note any more of an invasion of privacy than normal "screening"?

It's not, except that we believe our own lie that our privacy is not invaded. Having a hand-written note of a sexual nature placed in your bag is not just a reminder of this lie, it is a flagrant breach of trust and etiquette.

Similarly, you can admire the cute derrière of someone walking ahead of you in the street, but if you call out and tell the owner of the aforementioned derrière what you'd like to do with it, you could be arrested for offensive behaviour.

Simple, really.

Google report reveals YouTube takedown requests... by country

Jonski
WTF?

Ironically,

This page from El Reg is blocked at work. I have never had any other Reg page blocked here. Hmmm...

Pumped-up radio telescope seeks new moniker

Jonski
Coat

Eddie Izzard would name it

the Fuck Off Big Array.

Can general relativity explain the OPERA neutrino result?

Jonski
Mushroom

Science. It works, bitches.

http://xkcd.com/54/

And it works because scientists are always ready to accept they could be wrong.

Religious creotards have no appreciation of this, and any attempt made to fit their ideology to fact is inherently doomed to fail- because they can't accept that the rules they use to prove science for their purpose are the same rules that negate their purpose out of hand.

Oh, and by definition, nothing in this universe is "supernatural" and *everything* is a suitable candidate for scrutiny by the scientific method.

</rant>

Microsoft unveils file-move changes in Windows 8

Jonski
Trollface

On second thoughts...

Bring back XTree Gold.

Jonski
Windows

Quelle surprise

"According to that data, copying, moving, renaming, and deleting files are "far and away the most heavily used features within Windows Explorer" and account for half of all commands."

It's a file manager, FFS.

In other news, getting in and out of a car, driving to destinations and carrying passengers and loads are far and away the most heavily used features of a private motor vehicle.*

*Except in certain chav locations, where the main activities are listening to crap music, standing around in crap clothes drinking crap booze and dealing crap drugs.

Seven Dwarfs password gag declared Fringe's best

Jonski
Joke

Not a patch on Dylan Moran

Who I went to see a couple of nights ago. I ran out of air I was laughing so hard.

The jokes about would be funnier if... they were funny.

Martian water slides caught on camera (maybe)

Jonski
Mushroom

No facehuggers?

Even so we should nuke it from orbit- it's the only way to be sure.

Nuclear Mars tank to roam imposing crater

Jonski
Go

Please check location, NASA.

It's red, it's sandy and it's shaped like Australia...

It *IS* Australia!

PS Could also make comparisons with intelligent life, sophisticated culture, lack of water...

Putting the Square Kilometre Array on a Cloud

Jonski
Mushroom

@AC 14:31

"God versus Evolution will never be settled while there are academics and bible bashers"

Not true. It is settled, and creationists are marginalised by anybody with a half-decent education.

"How many billions do we nee to spend to see where we came from"

So missing the point. This kind of pure research will answer some questions and throw up new ones we would never otherwise think of. Plus, there could be spinoff technology that will drive domestic technology further and one day make life at home that little bit nicer.

"about 1 person per 100,000 really gives a shit"

And the rest read News Of the World.

Hack attack kills thousands of Aussie websites

Jonski
FAIL

Here's some Fail for you, and Fail for you, and you and you.

From another report of this mess... "I think I'm in shock ... I have lost everything .... I couldnt possibly replicate all those years of work again ... my whole lifes work is gone down the drain," wrote one.

How does someone entrust another party with their life’s work, with no copies of it themselves?

Epic, epic FAIL.

Francis Maude goes back 110 years for cybersecurity strategy

Jonski
Big Brother

I want my Identity Assurance

And I want my Tor. And ne'er the twain shall meet.

So, what's the best sci-fi film never made?

Jonski
Go

Citizen Of The Galaxy

Robert Heinlein.

Australians can’t read or count

Jonski
Boffin

In other news, half of all people are below average.

Wake me when the Industry Skills Council can clearly differentiate between mean, median and average without becoming all mealy-mouthed.

The Register and Australia-New Zealand

Jonski
Heart

More, more

See title.

Jacqui Smith 'shocked' to discover we're drowning in sea of porn

Jonski
FAIL

Meh

"I'm not naive. I know why men watch pornography. But I think greater availability on the internet is worrying, the way porn is seeping into the mainstream."

1) Yes she is.

2) For the same reason that women watch it?

3) It was always mainstream, just not publically admitted. Pron has been around as long as civilisation has, or longer.

NASA dusts off X15-successor rocket hyperplanes

Jonski
WTF?

@ Mr Smith XIX

Are you referring to Ithacus? A "plug-nozzle semi-single-stage-orbit launch vehicle [used] as a 1,200 soldier intercontinental troop transport"?? I really don't feel like being smeared across the rear bulkhead of somebody's rocket-powered meatbag-thrower.

6 hours is fine. A scramjet is perfectly acceptable, thanks.

Jonski
Flame

I don't care how

Just as long as they develop (in my lifetime) the ability to fly commercially to the other side of the world, in a timeframe that doesn't leave me a gibbering wreck. Let's say, 6 hours.

I'd pay the price of a 1st-class ticket to do that in a cattle-class seat. Currently, it's 36 hours door to door AKL-DUB. Grrr.

Oh, and some sharks with frikkin laser beams too.

Think tank rages at NHS' £700 bill for fertility clinic porn

Jonski
Joke

"so it's not possible to calculate the return on investment"

Would that be in Pounds Sterling, or litres?

Burger King cooks up Windows 7 Whopper

Jonski
Go

Methinks

it needs more cheese.

Philips waves farewell to point-and-press remote controls

Jonski
FAIL

So, you're cuddled with your missus

on the sofa and she's gone to sleep because you're watching the F1 and she wanted to watch Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall with his homies instead and the cat is intermingled amongst it all. You realise that the gentle snoring is indicative of something and go to turn the volume down...

I can't see this scenario ending happily with a remote like that.

Electric plane takes to the skies

Jonski
Boffin

Re: Noisy??

At normal altitude it would be audible, just as completely unpowered gliders are. The airframe makes its own noise, and sounds like a buzz.

Don't call me Ishmael

Jonski
Go

FWIW

A smallish home LAN I know well is based around Asterix.

The domain is Amorica, the small laptop is Asterix, the media centre is Cacophonix, the over spec'd and underutilised desktop is Obelix. The NAS is Getafix (in control of all the information, see?) and when my Dad's lappie is on the LAN it's called Geriatrix. I've got several dozen more names before I need to rethink the scheme... (thinking I'll go to Life Of Brian- can't wait to use Sillius Soddus and Biggus Dickus! And of course Incontinentia Buttocks!!)

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