Posts by Sean Purdy

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It's not as if there aren't already at least two languages called M

Dear AC

It is still the Union Jack - when you fly it on a ship. And the Union Flag otherwise.

And to Liam - I'm sure more than 1/2 the people in this country think it's their flag, because it is.

More pointless debate on the interweb, hurrah!

Oh, and the Jolly Roger, because that's the nearest the icon set has to a flag.

adult community

> “violence in a manner patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community” should carry a legally enforced age restriction.

Porn stars get to rate the games then?

(Paris - she knows all about the "adult community")

Broken

So when there's a big disaster, and people are trying to text their loved ones, the system will be jammed up with this official spam. Thought it through much?

Although I suppose the US probably doesn't have as much of a texting culture as Europe, as you can tell by the design of the iPhone.

@Nathan

Nice troll

HOLD, RETREAT, ESCAPE or ABORT?

Looks like they're still running it on DOS.

Another chance

"Why do we keep on giving these people another chance?"

Oh I know, every 4 years we give someone a chance in 10 (or 11) Downing Street and they always mess it up.

Daisy Duke, penetration testing...

Snigger. I'll get my trenchcoat...

Forgotten Tech?

Just how is this Forgotten Tech? :-)

We had a whole room of BBCs at school - everyone was playing Elite and whenever you were about to dock with a spacestation you'd have to find whoever had the floppy disk last and put it in your drive.

Oh and that's "British Broadcasting Corporation" microcomputer - IIRC some Swedish firm had BBC as a trademark and our BBC hadn't bothered trademarking its own acronym, so they had to rename the machine.

PS for those suffering Elite withdrawal symptoms, Oolite for Mac/Linux is the next best thing.

Aliens, because that's who we were zapping in our Cobra Mk IIIs.

PCBF

A Passive Common Berthing flange eh? Gosh.

Help me with my maths here

According to that URL, these things use 3 x CR2 batteries. According to http://www.ebattery.co.kr/pdf/lithium/camera/CR2.PDF those batteries can deliver 2.5A in a pulse at 3V. So 3 batteries x 3V x 2.5A is 22.5VA. Divide by 900000V and you get 25pA. Is this painful? Am I missing something?

Missing the point

Never mind DRM or not - is there actually anything worth watching these days?

Malware

"Research by Google's anti-malware team on three million unique URLs on more than 180,000 websites automatically installed malware onto vulnerable PCs."

Why is Google's research installing malware onto PCs?

Battery life problem?

Easy - just buy two!

But

Whither Technology?

Tootsie?

Of a what now? Never mind, I'll look it up on wikipaedia....

T-shirt!

"I read it in wikipedia so it must be true" - time for a T-shirt methinks.