Posts by LaeMing

Ten... tech treats for mum

Thats

a pretty nice selection.

Middle England chokes on Nice Baps

Massive Tool

There was a large LED billboard on the highway on my way home from work for several weeks recenely declairing:

MASSIVE

TOOL

sale (that last word in a markedly smaller font)

Men at Work lose Down Under plagiarism appeal

Maybe

the recent behaviour of the record labels pissed them off enough that they decided to give them a taste.

James Cameron to amp up Avatar frame rate

Yes, except it is actually 3 shutters per frame.

For 72 fps (but three identical frames at a time).

Been reparing 16mm projectors the past 2 months.

You are quite correct.

This is a major reason for resistence to higher FPS in the film industry.

Not as much as you might expect.

A higher frame rate will generally have lower inter-frame difference, so will compress better for the same perceptual quality.

Not really.

Only if you don't understand the mechanics of film (and presumably digital) projectors, particularly how the shutters actually work.

Jesus Phone brings the DEAD back to LIFE

Don't know about doctors

but the portable rescuscitator we have in the medical kit here talks you through how to use it. Obviously it isn't instructing on drug dosages, just where and how to attach the electrodes, and timing the CPR appropriately for how many people are assisting. It is just to keep the patient ticking over until the medicos arrive. Not something you habitually carry about in your purse, though.

Is Samsung imitating Sony?

But was it put there by Samsung?

To truely pull a Sony, it has to be there due to a management decision, not someone on the factory floor operating without permission for a paper backhander from a third party.

Google unleashes (another) Facebook knock-off

The OP was thinking of:

RE: "Perhaps you were thinking of Microsoft"

The OP was thinking of Microgoopleonykia-every-other-multinat-tech-company. They are all in it up to their rectums (which are just behind their teeth, FYI) as much as each other.

Praying for meltdown: The media and the nukes

The radiological sources can be traced fairly accurately,

so yes, this is being accounted for. In fact three of the "high" radiation sites near the reactor quickly turned out to be radiation from decades-past atmospheric nuclear testing. The other two are quite clearly from the reactor itself. Keep in mind "high" here is still not very, though I wouldn't build a house on it, it isn't at this stage considered anywhere near a risk to those passing-by.

Bit like the Queensland Floods

A disaster to be sure, but some of the TV reporters were getting visibly flustered by the effected locals just getting on with the clean-up rather than running around howling woe.

RE: just cause they wrap your chips in it doesn't mean it's credible.

Over this side of the world you haven't been able to wrap chips in newspaper for decades - the ink was causing food-toxicity issues.

Apple's 'App Store trademark': A farce of Jobsian proportions

That is why you will find my posts...

...habitually (ie, unless I forget) referr to Microsoft's OS as "MS-Windows". Or even "Microsoft Windows" if I'm feeling unusually energetic. As opposed to "X-windows", which are one of the things you will find on my own PC at home.

(Notice I grew out of using the dollar sign for the 's' several years ago - it was fun for a while, but in the end saying a public company is primarily interested in money is a bit like saying a shark is primarily interested in eating seals.)

Handy radiation checker comes to iPhone

Don't forget

restricting the types of smoke detectors available and banning several forms of medical imaging.

I wouldn't worry about the CRTs

They have all that inch-thick lead glass on the front. That's more than radiologists get.

Oz parliamentary network breached

I imagine the Australian parliament's network was being read long before.

Even the Ruskies had a multi-gigahertz 'air vent' on their embassy roof decades ago.

And as for that huge 4-support spy-antenna slap-bang over the middle of the parliament-house roof!

Oh Noes

They will steal all the great words of our leaders.

Like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJE4qDGx6wM

Steve Jobs screws my wife (out of $944)

This "butthurt Apple fanboy"

Is a going on 10-year GNU\Linux user. Who considers Apple did to BSD with OSx was much like what Kathy Bates did to James Caan in /Misery/. But that doesn't stom me calling out BS when I see it applied.

Have a pointless day.

Have to agree.

The title is a cynical attention(clicks)-graber with no actual relevance to the article.

I don't see how you (or your wife) can be "screwed" out of money if you are satisfied with the result.

It is like having a headline "Terrorists are going to kill us all" and then an article about how, no they really aren't.

Bomb threat forces Apple campus evacuation

iExplode

X?

Your census data will be kept secret - except from MI5, police, courts etc

Terry Wrist

A bit like tennis elbow but comes from overuse of thick tea-towels.

Oz gov kicks off censorship review

The new rating system in Australia...

...will be based on bra cup sizes.

Apple bashes 'gay cure' app

With a name like Exodus International...

...surely exiling them from the planet is the locical solution.

Their kids can sue them...

...for psychological abuse, more than likely.

Total ban.

Didn't they try that in some countries last century? Didn't work.

I don't have a problem with religeon per-se. It is just some of the wacky anti-humanitarian BS and kiddie-bedtime-stories dressed up as it that creeps me out.

I'm pretty sure if some sort of God exists, it won't be anything at all like tiny little human minds can make up in their own image as an excuse for whatever bad behaviour they want to take part in that century.

If you answer the door in the nude...

...you soon get your address blacklisted from their visits.

(stay behind the screen door please, the neighbours don't need to see that!)

Legally Required

Uh, Apple is a publicly traded company. They are legally required to maximise proffits over all other considerations. The only thing they are allowed to consider is what a particular action will do to their bottom line. Anything a public company does (even things that are pro-social seemingly at the expense of immediat proffit) must be with the reasonable expectation of eventual financial gain. That it the way it was set up in our civilisation's laws.

She isn't one of these women...

...who guys keep 'being gay' to get out of dating is she?

Russian jailed for 6 years for smutty billboard stunt

Now THAT...

... is an offesive image!

Duke Nukem Forever DELAYED

1 month delay

So is that 1 Calendar month?

or 1 DNF month?

Nvidia rushes to ARMs

Somewhere I heard the ARM architecture described as...

..."MIPS for the Masses".

It is one of my faves too.

Here's hoping when they do go to a 64-bit arch, they do the transition CLEANLY and don't cludge it.

Auditor to Oz PM&C: Don’t use Webmail for leaks

One of our politicians (I think it was one of ours)...

...several years back, admitted he couldn't watch Yes Minister because it was too disturbingly close to reality.

Paramount buries Dune remake

I always wondered...

...what it would be like if the mini-series had had the budget of the film.

Anonymous DoS attacks thwarted with Aikido hip throw

Cleverer than U?

I imagine this was one of several factors weighed up before releasing the info. And it was likely decided the information would be of less help to crackers than to other defenders.

Apple 'gay-cure' app severely slapped

Obvious answer

Allow the app, but make sure a similar app targetet at "curing" people of biggoted religeous beleifs is displayed next to it with equal prominence.

HBGary's nemesis is a '16-year-old schoolgirl'

Ah,

So you are saying the FBI did the hack?

Bloke with hammer fixes London's Olympic clock

He's a Reg reporter

That should be enough to answer the question!

Dummy!

It is so they can charge us for them.

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

Bugger!

I was getting random calls from someone claiming to be me from the future. I told her to bugger off and got the number blocked.

Teen charged for Facebook birthday hoax that drew 200,000

Hmmmm.

We should set up a fake account with a party invite, address at an uncovered mine-shaft. Just in the interests of the human gene pool, you know.

Message from South Oz: YouTube not for assaults

Of course you will be able to.

Just need to get the officer's permission first.

EA blocks user from game after alleged forum outburst

Not sure what you described is "piracy"

Since you have a licence to the games in question.

What you are more likely guilty of is "bypassing DRM on software you hold licence to" - a far more serious offence!

Dear US gov: Stay the hell out of Silicon Valley

Great point

But dragging in poor Adam Smith is a bit harsh. Not his fault the West cherry-picked one of his works while conveniently ignoring the others (in which the need for a strong socialist-base government to under-pin the capitalism was discussed, for example).

Intel: 'PC makers took the light out of Light Peak'

Or..

...you can just run the copper power cables down the same line as the optical.

It isn't rocket surgery!

Facebook 'stalker tracker' tool just makes you a spammer

Re: Gardening app -> dating app

In a perfect world, that dating app would have been flooded with profiles of leeks and cabbages seeking other leeks and cabbages to polinate with.

We can dream.

Voyeurs invited to watch space truck dock

Docking! Docking!

All you ever think about is docking!

How to build your own Watson Jeopardy! supermachine

I must admit I liked Slave.

Particularly when he started getting snotty with Orac towards the end of Season D.

Brisbane's sewer fibre plan goes down the pan

In Australia, the internet isn't even a number-two priority.

Ba da dum!

Egyptian bloke dubs sprog 'Facebook'

There is always the chance that...

...by the time she hits upper-school, FaceBook (the site) will be gone and forgotten. Replaced by somethiny even more narcistic.