* Posts by Smallbrainfield

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US Army releases new vid of Judge Dredd computer smart-rifle

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Looks like something out of an FPS

especially with the animated sequence in the video.

Tesla Motors sues BBC for defamation

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Most people can't afford the cars they usually review on Top Gear anyway.

I hardly see how it's going to affect sales of Tesla cars, which are going to be a second car for rich people.

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I assume you mean in their magazines,

not on the telly? Last time I checked, the BBC doesn't run advertisements on the telly.

George Lucas 'very happy' with 3D Phantom Menace

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Can't believe we're still going on about The Phantom Menace

after all this time. Nice effects, crappy dialogue and a class (if distinctly unfair 2 against 1) light-saber fight at the end.

Make something new or fuck off, Lucas.

Fukushima situation as of Wednesday

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Yes, but that's the nature of facts isn't it?

Perhaps if they'd released a press release the day after the first explosion entitled 'HOLY SHI T WE ARE FUCKED' we'd all be laughing about it now, eh?

If you take the balance of reporting in the mainstream media, most of it is focused on the nuclear power station as it's far more exciting and less depressing than watching people pulling their dead relatives out of collapsed houses.

Plus you can have much sexier graphics and make it far more scary. I mean the earthquake was like, days ago, right?

Site-saving workers evacuated from Japanese reactor disaster

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I'm guseeing they plumped for nuclear all those years ago as it looked like the best

way of maintaining a steady supply of electricity.

I suppose wave or tidal power would be great (assuming they weren't then destroyed by the next Tsunami). How many miles of generators do you need to supplant a nuclear station? And what impact does that have on shipping and the coastline?

Would a solar furnace work in the UK? Seems like when it's not pissing it down it's cloudy. Or night-time.

Make streaming a felony: Obama

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Yes but

they won't mean streaming via established entertainment companies will they?

The plan is probably to end up with licensed services that can stream, while anything else will be considered illegal.

It's another attempt to shoehorn the old model of consuming entertainment onto the interwebs, rather than finding a way of allowing people to find and watch what they like and still get paid.

People were only happy with the previous model because there was no alternative.

Blofeld's Japanese volcano base erupts

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I expect this is why Blofeld is struggling

to find a buyer on e-Bay, his record as a criminal mastermind notwithstanding.

Threat to third Fukushima nuke reactor

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Good /bad publicity

I think this could be good publicity. Think about how well these reactors have performed in the light of a massive earthquake and then a tsunami. And these are fairly old reactors.

It's testament to the skill of the engineers that worked on them that they have withstood so much. Respect has to go to those people.

Here's hoping for a safe shut-down of the remaining reactors. The Japanese people have enough on their plates without having to worry about radiation leaks.

Whitehall to puff punters: 'Hide your fags'

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They could probably grow tobacco in their loft,

it's just easier to buy a pack of tabs from the shops. If cannabis was legalised, there would probably be restrictions on growth (H&S for a start) to deter people from growing their own.

And of course it would be easier to buy a pack from the offy, so why bother?

BBC accused of coming out for porn opt-in?

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And massive

forearms.

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But not a dangerous as high explosive porn,

which of course is the most dangerous porn of all. A friend of mine lost an arm when he stumbled across a cache of unexploded porn.

Blighty's expensive Watchkeeper spy-drone in further delays

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If one of those theoretical £32k jobs for doing nothing for 5 years

comes up, may I be the first to put my name down for one?

NO-SH*T CURE FOR BALDNESS discovered by accident

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Million Mulugeta?

Sounds like a great name for a super villain.

Does he plan to hold the world to ransom with his hair regrowth technology?

RoboCop statue fundraiser hits $50k

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STAY OUT OF TROUBLE

should be the motto underneath.

Humans shamed in round two of Jeopardy! showdown

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Yes, but

how good would it fare on 3,2,1?

Or Blockbusters, or that one with Michael Barrymore with all the telvisions on steps or bloody Goldenballs? My point being that human brains are still far more adaptable and Watson is still just a dedicated machine that happens to be good at one thing.

ROBOT COP scatters LIVE GRENADES in San Francisco STREET

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"Grandads Grenades"

Sounds like a euphemism for something terrible.

BOFH: There's no 'I' in team, but there's a 'u' in suck

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Nice work!

and a genuine officelol, loath as I am to use that phrase.

Diary of a Not-spot – the final chapter

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Fantastic stuff!

This has been a epic tale. I think that's actually faster than my connection at home.

Flickr thinks again about 4,000 pix loss

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In 25 years

we'll all be brains floating in jars. Hope flickr have learned a lesson from this.

Discovery crawls to launch pad

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Yes, but probes are not sexy.

Just ask any UFO abductee. ;)

I know it's more dangerous and more expensive, but I'd still rather be exploring Mars myself than sending Big Trak's bastard offspring to do it for me.

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I for one will be sad to see it go.

It might not have been the millennium falcon, but the shuttle is still the best piece of kit NASA ever spaffed it's cash on. I had several models of it as a kid, including a Moonraker version and always thought it would be my ticket into space when NASA had got round to building a few hundered or so. Back when it first launched, it still looked like we might be out exploring the solar system by 2001, just like in the film, except without the homicidal computers. And I could live on the moon.

Instead we're all here, on the internets. This is the reason why we don't have flying cars.

Google and Apple locked horns over iPhone location data

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"Good look with that."

Spelling test? Good luck with that.

Duke Nukem Forever release date revealed

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*rubs eyes*

Shurely shome mistake? If it's anything less than tolerable, I'll be disappointed.

2011 Games Preview

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That quote was nicked

from They Live.

Liverpool forward faces possible grilling over 'joke' Twitter pic

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WTF?

I'm more fascinated with the thought of a premiership footballer

heading home and firing up photoshop so he can make a satirical swipe at a ref.

Senior Guardian hacks turn on Assange

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"Coming over creepy"

I have no opinion on whether or not Julian Assange is guilty or even has a case to answer in Sweden. But a lot of people listening to that interview form their opinions based on how he sounds. And sad as it may seem, a lot of people base their opinions on how people look or sound.

Going on Today was a bad move for Assange. John Humphries technique was honed on politicians with skins so thick they're sought after in Chinese medicine. Assange's lawyers or publicists should have spent enough time with him to know he wasn't going to come across well.

Maybe he would have come across better on the One Show with Chris Evans?

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Have to agree on this. He came across as evasive

and rather creepy. I think anyone who heard it will probably have revised their opinion on the man.

I imagine his lawyers were facepalming in the next room listening to him. I don't think he will have won anyone over with such a performance.

Scientologist overlord declares victory over Anonymous

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Talk like this usually precedes a DDOS courtesy of Anonymous.

He's shot himself in the foot there, really.

Delicious, Yahoo! Buzz, MyBlogLog, AltaVista all face axe

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Happy

I used to use Alta Vista before Google came along, it was the gear

and before that I used Webcrawler, which wasn't.

BOFH: Who's been naughty and who's been nice?

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Wonderful

stuff indeed.

ASSANGE ARRESTED in London - in court later today

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Ahem...

http://checkmyinevitable.blogspot.com/2010/12/assange-arrested.html

Diary of a Not-spot: One man's heroic struggle for broadband

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An epic tale indeed.

It sounds like it might have been cheaper to move house?

I hope that rooftop crow's nest is rigged for storms, especially electrical ones.

Gran Turismo 5

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Is the opponent AI as bad as in previous GT versions?

I used to hate the stupid slot-car AI and non-damage cars of GT. It sounds like Sony got tired of waiting for the developers tweaking when they should have been polishing to me.

Online play sounds good though again there's a big flaw in struggling to find your mates online. Maybe they'll fix this at a later date?

Horror AVG update ballsup bricks Windows 7

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Have had problems with Avast before though

A year or so ago, one of their updates started recognising every .exe file as a problem and wanted to hoy them all in he virus chest. It was easy enough to stop however and didn't brick the machine.

I do like Avast for the same reasons you mention.

Russia wins World Cup bid in parrot-sickening travesty

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It was built up by the media to be something it wasn't.

The same people that build England's chances of winning every four years. Nobody apart from football fans gives a fuck.

Hosting it in the Qatar though, that must have been one massive bung right there.

Facebook homes in on world of Google

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Not for me thanks

Facebook isn't the internet. It's somewhere to put all your contacts. And then forget about them.

Windows hits 25

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Apollo Workstations!

Wowsers, I used an Apollo network at Sheffield Polytechnic at the arse end of the 80s. They were running Autocad and CGAL. They were superb machines and it was always a nice warm room due to the massive CRTs. Always a bonus for poor students facing a walk home in the snow to a flat with ice on the inside of the windows.

Murder victim-mocking troll jailed

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WTF?

Why would you circulate a leaflet about being a troll?

The bloke is clearly a loon.

App Store II: Steve Jobs sucks Mac's soul

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Erm, It was

Mandy Rice-Davies that said that actually.

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Comment pieces like this appear to suggest Jobs is

some sort of Dr Evil-style villain with a massive flaw in his otherwise foolproof plan for world domination, which the author of the piece has cleverly spotted. I think Steve just wants his desktops to be as locked down as his pads and his phones.

There used to be an illusion that buying a Mac was somehow buying into something original and unique. Jobs probably finds that legacy unclean. His devices should be pristine and unmodifiable, unless Steve says it's ok. Which it won't be, because a consumer electronics firm wants you to buy the new box, not something ugly and messy like memory or a new hard-drive (Jobs forbid you have to crack the case and look at the insides!). Buying a Mac is going to be just like buying a games console, only less fun. TBH I'm amazed this hasn't happened sooner.

Robot teddy bears attack Alzheimer's

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There's a plot for an episode of The Avengers in this

Talking teddy bears instruct biddies to rob various banks, post offices and stately homes...

"Mrs Peel? We're needed!"

Legendary steampunk computer 'should be built' - programmer

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Yes, but

has anyone worked out how to play Tetris on it yet?

Judge Dredd returns to the silver screen

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Mega City 2 got nuked

during the Judgement Day event as it was full of zombies. There's Texas City and a few smaller cites left as well.

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Give me big dumb guns

over Marvel's stable of angst-wank like X-Men any day!

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Rebellion did a Judge Dredd shooter which was okay

And Rogue Trooper for PC and PS2. I have thatl; it's awesome and I still play it every now and then.

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Could be quite good

Karl Urban is a decent actor and he was great in Strar Trek. It depends which story they base it on, if it's the Dark Judges it could be a difficult one to sell to audiences. The inclusion of Anderson suggests it might be... Tentative thumbs up from me.

iPad scammers hack Kirstie Allsopp's Twitter

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Kirsty Allsopp's Twitter

Is a euphemism of almost Finbarr Saunders proportions.

Fnarr!

Cashpoint mugger flashes distractionary chesticles

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Re: Eastern Lands

Essex?

Google experimenting with spy drones, says German maker

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Alert

The Daily Mail

will explode when it gets wind of this. I for one welcome our search engine overlords having a nosey through the bathroom window.

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