Re: Beer?
A pint of Budweiser is like making love to a beautiful woman on the deck of Festival Pier.
Both fucking close to water.
Posts by TRT
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Roll up for El Reg's 3G/4G MONOPOLY DATA PUB CRAWL
LOHAN packs bags for SPACEPORT AMERICA!
How to marry malware to software downloads in an undetectable way (Hint: Please use HTTPS)
Rosetta's comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is one FUGLY space rock
Japanese boffins invent 4.4 TREEELLION frames per second camera
Don't call it throttling: Ericsson 'priority' tech gives users their own slice of spectrum
LOHAN acquires aircraft arboreal avoidance algorithm acronyms
Beware WarKitteh, the connected cat that sniffs your Wi-Fi privates
Farmville maker Zynga delays new games after losing 57 million users
Check your Clungene, Irish women warned
Thursday 7th August 2014 16:30 GMT 
Re: Thank you all for clearing up the history of clunge
There's also a Scottish word, I believe, "clundy" (with a hardish 'd' almost a 't' sound) meaning a dark, disreputable place, a hole, alley-way or drain opening. As used in the song "Wor Geordie". It's not a great phonetic leap from clundy to clunge.
Thursday 7th August 2014 15:33 GMT
The BBC did often make up rude sounding words for sitcoms so as to be as realistic as the situation part of the show without offending, e.g Porridge's "Naff 'Orf", "Nerk" and "Scrote". Channel 4 did the same with "Feck", though I believe that was already used in parts of Eire.
Top Ten 802.11ac routers: Time for a Wi-Fi makeover?
HUMAN RACE PERIL: Not nukes, it'll be AI that kills us off, warns Musk
Thirteen Astonishing True Facts You Never Knew About SCREWS
Thursday 31st July 2014 08:53 GMT
Re: Metalwork Teacher
My maths textbook at school had a practice question in the statistics section. It involved machines producing screws and sampling for quality control. One of the questions was guaranteed to result in an entire class of 14 year olds dissolving into ROFLs for the rest of the period. "What is the chance of getting a good screw?"
Feel free to BONK on the TUBE, says Transport for London
Monday 28th July 2014 08:55 GMT
Re: How will this work?
My Oyster card has been read by a bus reader from about two feet away. The woman in front of me got a free ride because it read my ticket instead of hers. I won't say exactly how I know it was my ticket that got read... suffice it to say that the one she presented couldn't have generated that code on the bus ticket machine display.
Friday 25th July 2014 15:52 GMT
Bloke down the tube station ticket office the other night...
bought 300 Oyster cards, apparently as he runs tours and dishes them out to his punters as part of the service. Seems he was there for hours as the system only allows you to buy them one at a time. Can't imagine how that's going to work in an Oysterless future.
Are you broke? Good with electronics? Build a better AC/DC box, get back in black with $1m
Captain Kirk sets phaser to SLAUGHTER after trying new Facebook app
Report: American tech firms charge Britons a thumping nationality tax
Tuesday 22nd July 2014 15:02 GMT
I think...
that you have to compare the US ticket price with the UK ex VAT price, rather than the amount punters have to shell out. In the US & Canada, you pay the ticket price plus regional and federal sales taxes, in the UK our ticket price generally includes VAT.
Then you have to convert to dollars at the prevailing exchange rate to make a useful comparison.
I wonder how UK manufactured goods compare? Do we have any consumer tech exports?
Yorkshire cops fail to grasp principle behind BT Fon Wi-Fi network
Wednesday 23rd July 2014 10:06 GMT
No-one has so far pointed out...
that these unencrypted public WiFi hotspots are both Godsend and menace. You see, all a nasty person has to do is set up a hotspot with the same SSID as one of these free public services, and any passing Joe's device is going to connect and spaff all manner of data into the waiting caches of the bad person.
New Star Wars movie plot details leak, violate common sense and laws of physics
Secondhand Point-o-Sale terminal was horrific security midden
Monday 21st July 2014 13:51 GMT
There was a place in Watford...
that used to recycle/scrap cash machines. They had thousands of them just sitting around on pallets outside the back of a warehouse, just a chainlink fence between them and a public footpath. Anyone could (and frequently did) climb over and have away with genuine faceplates, readers, screens, software etc. It was like that for the best part of 20 years, despite many attempts to get the local constabulary to have a word with the company about it. Don't know what happened to make them change their ways.
Dungeons & Dragons relaunches with 'freemium' version 5.0
Wednesday 16th July 2014 13:25 GMT
Re: I'm firmly...
What a superb idea! Yes, forget chess in the park as a way to while away the hours waiting for God. A wrinkly veteran in the corner of the care home loudly proclaims "20, 20, 18! For 27. The mercenary ducks as he sees you swing, his coif flapping up from the sudden move. Your bastard sword sings as it cleaves the air, a single pure note, before neatly slipping into the gap between coif and hauberk. You barely feel the blade slow before it comes through the other side. A look of surprise crosses the fighter's face, his trademark war cry cut short by the severing of his windpipe and an explosion of red through his mail. He falls to his knees, then forwards as his life-force oozes into the mud and straw of the outpost floor."
Phone charging log helps to convict murderer
Wednesday 16th July 2014 11:10 GMT
A substantial lesson to be learned is...
don't take a phone with you when you're out and about up to shenanigans. Don't drive your own car (odometer, GPS/mapping, traffic cameras). Don't take a taxi (credit cards, in cab cameras). Don't use a mass transit system (CCTV, "Oyster cards", credit cards).
In fact... just don't. Be a good little citizen instead.
Google's Pankhurst doodle doo-doo shows the perils of using Google to find stuff out
Delaware pair nabbed for getting saucy atop Mexican eatery
Get an EYEFUL OF CURRY for the sake of your brain
Tuesday 15th July 2014 09:28 GMT
Well, you could rinse your eyeball with balti sauce.
On another note, we're convinced that the amyloid beta is simply a marker left by degenerating cell bodies and the real culprit is what's known as a histone protein, H1. The simple explanation: DNA wraps around a histone core like cotton round a cotton reel and is secured by a linker histone, H1. All perfectly normal. Histone H1 is known to have antimicrobial effects and is released in response to infection. Mitochondria are extremely similar to bacteria - it's thought that they are, in fact, ancient symbiotic bacteria now essential to most if not all complex cellular life. H1 in the intracellular space can, by an as yet unknown mechanism, end up getting into the cytoplasm and disrupting and killing mitochondria. Neurones are especially susceptible to mitochondrial dysfunction - the neurones undergo apoptosis (programmed cell death) and burst, spreading more H1 as well as other proteins which cause the amyloid beta plaques. Glial cells are known to be stimulated by H1, so they reproduce and fill in the gap, soaking up the debris from the burst neurone, much as they do when fulfilling their immune response role. Nano-particles of nickel and aluminium (and other magnetic metals) of just the right size act as replacement histone cores and can bend and wrap DNA, but they also cause deformation and kinking and prevent H1 from linking properly, leaving free H1. So cell death leads to a cascade failure of neurones. Not a pretty site, and utterly devastating. Any neuronal death can start the cascade failure. It cascades until the glial cells manage to cut off the damage. So you'd ask if any head trauma or alcoholism is associated with increased incidence of Alzheimer's in later life? Well, it does.
Anyway, it's all still work in progress, I've only highlighted stuff which is freely published. There is a substance we're working on purifying which can block the uptake of H1, but for the sake of the £100K we need to pay the chemists to further purify the mixture of substances formed by the shotgun approach to making a designer molecule... the university wouldn't stump up the cash, everyone else is fixated on amyloid, there's no wriggle room in any budgets... it's only a generous private donation from a wealthy foreigner that's going to allow us another round of purification and testing. And then there's the unknown uptake mechanism - a paper on that will be out within two years.
Anyway. Where were we? Ah yes - curry.
New leaked 'Windows 8 screenshot': The Start Menu strikes back
LOHAN seeks stirring motto for spaceplane mission patch
Phab-u-less: Huge MONSTER iPhone 6 not due until 2015 – claim
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