EML2 has other advantages
Like using the entire mass of the Moon to screen out Earth-generated radio & TV signals.
This would however also require a comms satellite in L4 or L5 to talk to the base.
Posts by WonkoTheSane
197 posts • joined Thursday 17th July 2008 16:35 GMT
Posted in Ten... Star Wars videogame classics
Original Arcade game protip
5000 bonus points for NOT shooting whilst flying down the trench.
Posted in BBC deletes Blue Peter from BBC One
I believe this to be a good thing...
When I watched kid's BBC (back before the dawn of time), I was always really annoyed when it got pre-empted for the budget, tennis, snooker or pro-celebrity tiddleywinks.
Dedicated channels like CBBC/CBeebies will not see this.
Re: It's all so depressing...
There _was_ a supersonic Harrier in development, until the Gubmint of the day canned it in 1965 to buy F4 Phantoms.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_P.1154
Note for GCHQ:-
Expect large uptick in highly encrypted email.
Posted in Jolly rogered
Time to put an end to these "Victorian Sensibilities"...
After all, the old battleaxe has been gone for over a century now!
Posted in Battlefield Earth ruled worst film EVER
I take it the polls closed
Before anyone saw "Battleship"?
@Flibble
I thought it was called "The War Against Terror"?
At least that's what I've thought of every politician since...
Yes (Prime) Minister was never a sitcom...
It was a Docu-Drama with a Gubmint-imposed laugh track to make us think it was fictional!
Do what I'd do...
Tell them you don't have a Farceberk profile.
(Except I wouldn't be lying)
As any fule no
It's _tachyons_ you need for FTL & time travel!
What should happen next...
Sir Ian McKellen should insist on the premiere being held in Southampton, with the after-party held at the establishment in question.
(Y'know - just to rub the lawyers noses in it).
Satnav blindness is everywhere.
One end of the road where I work is closed for a couple of weeks whilst the roundabout there is enlarged as part of improving access onto the industrial estate.
Sat-tards are driving past ALL SIX "Road closed ahead" signs and not turning round until they've found the big hole in the road at the very end.
citation:- http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/110836/wrexham-drivers-risking-lives-by-ignoring-diversion.aspx
Remember when Shakespeare said "First, kill the lawyers"?
Maybe he meant UI designers, because this makes Ubuntu Unity & Gnome Shell look well thought out!
Obligatory...
I for one, welcome our new alcohol-fueled robotic overlord!
'The full harm to Apple cannot be calculated'
Divide by zero error?
Title goes where?
"mass-produced, lowest common denominator, well, shit being pushed out by "artists" every day"
Or "Complete & utter Cowell" as I like to call it.
You forgot 8
8) Nobody wins but the lawyers.
Shakespeare saw this coming...
Dick The Butcher: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
(Henry VI Part 2 Act 4 Scene 2)
Mine's the doublet.
"There were a series of marketing cock-ups from Acorn"
Like cancelling "Project Phoebe" (RiscPC II) only six weeks from launch _after_ taking pre-orders?
Posted in Ofcom sides with Orange over price hikes
Too late...
T-Mobile is now linked with Orange under the name "Everything Everywhere"
If the gubmint _really_ wanted everyone to have the latest maps...
Then they'd force car dealerships to update built-in satnavs for free as part of the annual service.
Instead of asking for £££ to buy a disc just for yourself that can update _all_ cars with that system.
Posted in Parody is illegal, say barmy bureaucrats
@Loyal Commenter
"Moot something so outrageous that everyone is up in arms. While they are all distracted by agreeing that it should be stopped, sneak through something less harmful (but still harmful) into the legislation."
You mean like sneaking the EU's sign-up to ACTA into the bowels of an Agriculture & Fisheries meeting?
See page 43 of this press release:-
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/agricult/127031.pdf
Let's see now...
No black surround? - check
No rounded corners? - check
No horizontal speakers? - check
Apple will be livid!
Have you got it?
Try "Voodoo Carrier IQ Detector" from the Android Market.
(Says no on my Orange Samsunge Galaxy SII)
What the e-petitions website really needs...
Is an e-petition directing MPs to debate and act upon e-petitions!
Wait a minute...
OFCOM had teeth?
Title should read...
Software maker sorry for getting caught trying to silence security researcher
Mojave Spaceport...
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, we must be cautious.
Posted in CableJive DockBoss Plus
Why I bought a Vauxhall...
It came with a full-size USB & a 3.5mm socket instead of a fruit dock.
Add-ons disabled by default?
No Adblock Plus, no me!
The 3 tenets of politics
1: Promise everything.
2: Deliver nothing.
3: Blame someone else.
Divide by zero?
nothing to see here, move along.
Get root
Root it & install CyanogenMod 7.
It's possible LTE would displace one of the older technologies like say, EDGE.
Have you checked how often folks are stuck using EDGE instead of GPRS or 3G in the UK?
Posted in DeLorean goes electric for 2013 roll-out
Agreed re fruit-connector
Just go with a standard USB socket, like my Vauxhall.
Aircon will suck the batteries dry, but we'd only need it 3 days a year!
TL;DR = WANT!
(Mines the one with the Palestinian Plutonium in the pocket)
Not the only problem...
It would help if O'Bama would stop appointing MAFIAA lawyers to the Supreme Court!
Posted in Ten... earphones for mobiles
Noise Isolation + Public road != Good thing
You really REALLY want to hear that car/bus/truck coming as you step into the road!
Loudhailer so that you can hear me over your dubstep mix.
P already decided
12.04 (an LTS release due next April as the version number suggests) will be codenamed Precise Pangolin.
Obviously
They had trouble installing the NSA backdoor on the servers.
The first comment made when this story hit Slashdot?
The researchers are totally off base here. These aren't self-portraits; they're writing. When transliterated into the Roman alphabet, they read "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
Expected changes
I foresee the cancellation of F1, Top Gear & everything Dr Who related - the only BBC shows I watch.
This coupled with a massively increased budget for 'Stenders, Costume bl**dy Drama & Celebrity "I can't dance to save my life".
Posted in Obama+world pays tribute to Steve Jobs
Jobs' family to arrange "quiet" funeral
They say he didn't want anything flash.
Oh Really?
I hadn't noticed, thanks to Adblock Plus.
@Naughtyhorse
"such a claim by tea partiers would be admitting man went there, and i'm pretty sure it says in that there book of theirs that we didn't."
Fixed that for you.
I do see where you're going with this...
http://www.ironicsans.com/images/steampunkterminator.jpg
Dixons prays Olympics will boost sales
Title fixed.
Not Anonymous
These people have been named, therefore they cannot be members of Anonymous.
If they were members, the article would have read "two unnamed men".
Opinion
David McLeman
My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Chris Mellor
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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