Posts by Will

Spammers crack Gmail Captcha

moving captchas

Imaging a animated GIF captcha swirling in an infused cloud of incandescent murkeyness. That would stump everyone. Top marks.

Will

US declares 1400-mile Pacific sat-shoot exclusion zone

@paul townend

Please guys, official units only.

Area

The standard unit of area shall be the nanoWales, defined as 1nWa, representing 0.0000207km2 or 20.78m2, 5.195 Thai talang wah or 28.99 Old Spanish square vara. The microWales, milliWales and Wales (Wa) are, naturally, accepted multiples of the base nanoWales.

* Football pitch = 194.89nWa

* Wales = 1,000,000,000nWa

* Belgium = 1.47Wa

* Democratic Republic of Congo = 113.3Wa

* Known universe (rolled out flat) = 19468502x1012x10256Wa

Example:

* The eruption of Vesuvius took out an area of 13 milliWales, although the effects of the blast were felt up to a thousand brontosauruses away. Survivors reported rocks and pumice the size of Bulgarian airbags falling from the sky for three days before the tragedy, and experts have calculated the total debris would fill around 120,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Canadian runs up $85,000 mobe bill

No Mobe!

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Microsoft hopes to patent 'automatic goodbye messages'

Hope they get it

Hope they get it...

'the facility may select a goodbye message based on other aspects of the conversation, such as time of day, length of conversation, mood indicated by the user, and so forth."

...Cant wait for the first 'Land of the Free' law suit for 200million based on the MS gadget selecting 'I sick of you you boring little f**k, goodbye' based on the mood it had selected. Heh..maybe they will measure how hard you are punching the keys and choose your mood on that.

Oh goodie, this will be fun

Coat, Taxi..

Rewriting the SaaS laws

@ Avangelist

Get a data card

Three Gorges Dam an 'environmental catastrophe'

Whould have been easier

to build a more a few more nuke reactors imo. Puts up a compelling argument for them anyhow and thats comming from a Kiwi!

Anyone have any idea what MWs are comming out of this little dam?

Why Apple won't sell 10 million iPhones in 2008

Hot and Cold

I have two thoughts on the iPhone, one hot the other cold.

Hot; most comments I have read around this subject fail to acknowledge the impact the iPhone will have in terms of integrating your 'mac world'. When taken into context of an iMac owner, with iTunes, airport extreme and Apple TV, the iPhone becomes seamless the pocket interface to this world. Forget downloading music on overpriced mobile networks, by the time you get to your dining table your iPhone will have updated with *all* the content your iTunes has pulled down for you while you have been out. Kick back on the couch, and the iPhone drives your front row software on your Apple TV, while quietly pulling from your iPhone into your network the cool attachments sent to you while at work today for viewing later. Effortlessly connect you iPhone to a friends Apple TV and show them when you go over there for dinner and show them too. Phone rings, guess what, you can answer that too, then make a skype out call (gtalk etc etc one day) with ease.

Cold; Touch screen interfaces; anyone owned an LG Chocolate will tell you..it just ain't right.