Posts by Klek

Reavers! Google patent would affix pedestrians to car hoods

...and Unstuck, how?

Strong enough to adhere a normal person to the *hood of a moving car*...

But when it finally comes to a stop and we'd like to get off, how do we detach again?

Brit boffins build 'tractor beam' out of sound

Screw

-driver, Sonic is the only form which I will accept. And progress has been suspiciously slow.

Hey, Facebook – these are the new Like buttons you should have used

What? No HATE button?

Seriously, we need some overtly negative optinos. Idiot is good, clearly. But I think Farcebook misses the bot if they don't include the following:

Dislike

Mistrust

Dubious, at best

Hate

Loathe

Troll

"SafeWord"

Fuck

Marry

Kill

You know, just to keep things on the up and up.

Watch out Wizard, Bezos wants the Emerald City for himself

Re: Rents ARE high and rapidly rising in Seattle

Ahem. The article means *commercial* rents, not residential. You git.

Yes, it's true that residential rents are rising also, and we can blame the likes of Amazon & Farcebook for paying their brogrammers too much and inflating rents. Something ought be done, but I don't know what. :(

Mars One's certain-death space jolly shortlists 1,000 wannabe explorers

:::Horse::>Cart

1058 selected applicants, rigorious ment/phys/emot testing (..for broadcast also?) to trim the numbers some more.... however....

No plans or construction schedule for a spacecraft that will take years to even build once begun (probably in orbit, yeh?), and only a robotic probe being sent out first in.... 4 years from now.

How old will these fools actually be when "their" spacecraft (specially built with loads of cameras and digital storage) is finally finished? (Assuming that even magnetic-field radiation shielding is perfected by then..).

Clearly, they are idiots if they are going to sign up for this without any ship even close to *begun*.

We'll probably get a season of "Mars One Simulator" on the telly where Bas & Co. pack two dozen rubes into a newly renovated "BioSphere 3"/Mars Spacecraft Mock-up out in the Arizona desert and force them to live inside it for half a year -on camera, natch- before a few of them crack and either kill someone or escape the confines, only with lifelong psychological trauma.

Colosseum Televiso Psychologica ?

'Best known female architect' angrily defends gigantic vagina

Commendable work

"My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina." - Maude Lebowski

I though the soccer pitch looked vaginal well before I was aware a woman designed it. The assumption was that the male designers had just been very, very hopeful.

<shrugs>

'WikiLeaks of financial data' prompts worldwide hunt for tax evaders

Financial piracy on the high seas

I wouldn't be surprised if Rmoney (aka Romney) is caught in this net.

Security audit finds dev outsourced his job to China to goof off at work

Guerilla capitalism?

When companies do it, the market lauds them.

When individuals do it, they get the book thrown at them.

It would be nice if capitalism's little rules were evenly applied.

(cf. Aaron Swartz)

The 30-year-old prank that became the first computer virus

No mention of the Morris Worm?

How did this article miss mentioning the infamous Morris Worm? That came *well* before "Sasser, Blaster & Code Red" and deserves at least a passing mention. Crikey.

Badges for Commentards

It would be nice if comments had numbers...

The badges are dandy, and giving gold/silver folks the ability to edit posts will be interesting!

However, I would like to propose that comments receive a number, in order that they were posted... so that when commenters refer to another's comment, we all don't go blind looking to track down the greyscale name marking the comment in question. A nice big number on each comment would be most helpful to keep track of the comment-recomment flow.

cheers.