Posts by toxicdragon

A robot kitchen? Whatever. Are you stupid enough to fall for this?

Re: Pratchett quote

Ah outside the edit limit. I was wrong, it wasnt jeremy it was a former master of igor. Doesnt say its not johnson though.

Re: Pratchett quote

Sadly no, Jeremy Clockson one of the main characters of the book. a master clockmaker who is deemed a bit weird even by the guild of clockmakers.

Whats that pratchett quote?

"If the items in the kitchen were in the right place, the clock work chief could create a passable cup of tea, if not it could create a furious cup of cat"

Something like that, thief of time for those who are interested.

Pokemon NO! Hospital demands ban on virtual creatures after addicts invade private wards

Re: pokemon

That would be chancey, no joke a nurse chancey has appeared in the anime a couple of times.

Elon Musk: I'm gonna turn Mars into a $10bn death-dealing interplanetary gas station

Re: Heart of Gold...

"huge turn-off for the general population"

Really? I might not be part of that then, yes it would be risky, yes the people will probably die of about 10 million different types of space cancer and hard vacuum but dammit it would be cool. I would happily do it.

North Korea's Red Star Linux inserts sneaky serial content tracker

Re: Apparently

Holy fuck that's a mental image.

Beer is not enough

Conviction by computer: Ministry of Justice wants defendants to plead guilty online

hmm

On the one hand this sounds like a good idea, on the other hand Johnny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie keeps popping up in my head and I cant think why.

Hacker and chums jailed over gold bullion hack, track 'n' grab scam

Why does this seem familiar?

He would have gotten away with it if he used a helicopter to track the delivery vans.

Watch SpaceX's rocket dramatically detonate, destroying a $200m Facebook satellite

Re: Turn retrograde, burn all remaining fuel. The ground will meet you shortly.

Easy, turn retrograde and burn just enough to get the periapsis (lowest point of orbit) is just below 70k meters and wait. when you are below the re entry burning jettison everything you dont want to make it down, then wait till around 6-4k up, no less then that, at this point you should be slow enough to activate a drogue chute, once that has deployed do the main.

I like KSP.

EDIT: Actually once you are below the heat effects you could fire off the remaining fuel you have, the only thing is to make sure that you are far enough down for the chute to work and slow enough.

Lindsay Lohan's Grand Theft Auto V cartoon case kicked out of court

Re: Original model whose image was used for the artwork

Wait that's who it was? I always thought that was supposed to be Micheals' daughter.

SpaceX Dragon capsule lands in Pacific carrying 12 moustronauts

Re: Deja Vu

@ Sokolik Laika

'Flying Bum's' first flight was a gas, gas, gas

I don't care how ugly it is, I just love airships, childhood me is very happy.

Nintendo to investors: Pokémon Go won't make money come

Re: Not the only thing over-inflated.

There has been leaks on it for ages the NX, that, according to http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/nintendo-nx-release-date-news-and-rumors-1289401 has even MORE gimmiky rubbish, a pulse-o-meter is the given example, although I am sure that it has been tried,

Gaming apps, mugging and bad case of bruised Pokéballs

Re: Strange

The pig thing is angry birds, my little nephew is obsessed. As for the bottles I don't know but there used to be "shooting alleys" that used either BBs in a plastic box or lasers that you shot at tin cans to make them fly off a shelf.

Watch it again: SpaceX's boomerang rocket lands on robo-sea-barge

Not sure what else I can say beyond this is seriously cool.

Brits who live in 'smart cities' don't really know or care

Now here's a thought, what with all this money spent has anyone actually bothered to ask what the people living in the city want?

The web is DOOM'd: Average page now as big as id's DOS classic

"Fine then, here you go.."

There goes my friday night.

Mystery object re-entering atmosphere may be Apollo booster

Re: Only one possible question

More struts and boosters. And for good measure strap jeb to the outside.

After Burner: Sega’s jet-fighting, puke-inducing arcade marvel

Hamleys THAT was the place thank you. Thats where I first saw the full 360 one. I have been wondering about that all day.

This was the first ever game I played in an arcade. I still love it. Although I wasnt brave enough to go on the full blown upside down ones.

Curiosity rolls over onto Martian WET PATCH, takes satisfied selfie

"nuclear-powered laser-packing space tank"

Best. Phrase. Ever.

Three-mile-high pyramid found on alien dwarf world, baffles boffins

Quick place a microphone on it, it might give off an SSTV signal of aliens looking to earth.

ESA launches new ground-monitoring satellite

I always think thunderbirds myself.

Google: Our self-driving cars would be tip-top if you meatheads didn’t crash into them

Re: AI is hard @ toxicdragon

You know for a tech site I have wondered this a lot. What is wrong with you? It is cool. An autonomous thing did something. thats two marks on the cool scale. All it needs to do is have jet boosters and glow in the dark for the full set.

Show some wonder in the world.

Re: AI is hard

Im calling!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2AcMnfzpNg

Large Hadron Collider gives young ALICE a black-hole ray gun

Re: Quark-gluon plasma

@Arnaut

Thats my favorite theory, some kind of dimensional reproduction.

Right Dabbsy my old son, you can cram this job right up your BLEEEARRGH

Re: Ours were all Pauls

Its a song by little richard, used in the opening to Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon. And probably others.

Something's missing in our universe: Boffins look into the SUPERVOID

Re: If you stare into the abyss

Gaze ye not into the abyss, lest the abysses boyfriend get narky.

Post-pub nosh neckfiller: Tortilla de patatas

Exactly. I didn't say I cooked them.

Garlic works too, in a slightly back of the throat way if you follolw me.

Whats wrong with onions? They are just about the only food I can taste these days, can't have too many

Scummy transients FOUND ON MARS by NASA rover

"analytical cake-hole"

I'm still giggling at that.

National Grid's new designer pylon is 'too white and boring' – Pylon Appreciation Society

Re: White pylon

Christ I only said that I think they look cool. Didn't realise it would turn into this, sill I suppose its nice to have a discussion.

Re: White pylon

Well yeah probably, but they still look cool.

White pylon

Sorry but I like these, almost look like something out of a Sci Fi film, now if we can just get the upright barrel style windmills instead of the propeller kind I will be happy.

Flying cars will take to the skies in 2017, if government allows

Re: The flying car

As did golf club + hip flask.

High Court: You've made our SH*T list – corked pirate torrent sites double in a day

You delete the game, optionally putting it in a sub folder you never open. If its a game you think you will hate odds are you will wait till it is on sale and pay no more than a fiver, personally that's a risk I am willing to take.

X+Y shows teens are teens, regardless of where they are 'on the spectrum'

Re: Classification

humans as a species, to me at least, seem to want to consider themselves better than everyone else, and they will do so how ever possible.

Blurred vision: Google dreams of a campus mixing buildings with nature

Re: Ahhh....

Do you? Good way of getting sheep spawn indoors, which is just irritating if you ask me, the animals can stay in the 2 deep 6 wide hole I dug for them out doors.

BOFH in mugnificent return to Cash'n'Carrion

Re: shock-resistant?

Have to agree, I am not the most delicate person and have broken army style tin mugs before now.

So having something really tough would be brilliant.

Why does the NSA's boss care so much about backdoors when he can just steal all our encryption keys?

Then I honestly think at that point some form of action will be taken, who by I don't know but when it gets to the jackboots at dawn aspect then something will happen.

"NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers has said it is vital Uncle Sam's crimefighters snoop on people"

Fuck. Right. Off.

Russia considers keeping its own half of the ISS alive after 2024

Re: NASA is setting the date

That is the coolest and scariest thing I've read in a while, thanks.

Marconi: The West of England's very own Italian wireless pioneer

Re: Timeless wireless communication ...

Have to say I prefer the horrible histories version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fowKS6LPQUI

This optical disc will keep your gumble safe for 2,000 YEARS

Re: Reminds me

My favorite idea is to let 3 year olds design the danger sign, whatever they could come up with should be fairly universal.

Is it humanly possible to watch Gigli and Battlefield Earth back-to-back?

Re: Is this a tech site or not?

Hackers is watchable, mainly for the soundtrack IMO, if you are drunk enough.

Re: I nominate

I thought lord of war was good.

Free Windows 10 could mean the END for Microsoft and the PC biz

Re: Soooo...

Because its microsoft, a company that has a habit of suddenly throwing away the rubber gloves and gallons of KY they showed you and promised they would use and replacing them with a 6 inch wide masonry drill, tree felling wedges and Naga Chillies.

Erik Meijer: AGILE must be destroyed, once and for all

Thing is the exact same thing can be said for his argument, he wants "move fast and break things" model, this wont work on everything. Yes agile wont work on it all but then again, making software as quickly as possible, pushing it out THEN fixing it after the nuclear dust clouds dissipate is not a good idea.

Orion Space shuttle wannabe preps again for test flight

Re: NOTAMs

Did not know about those, thanks