* Posts by Frumious Bandersnatch

2662 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Nov 2007

It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare

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Re: I'll stick with me old-fashioned watch

Aha! So you've clocked it, eh?

Bear insistent on playing tonsil tennis with you? Just bite its tongue off

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Re: license, hell

Hmm. I read that as Ralph Fiennes and I was wondering how he had such a successful acting career without a full set of digits.

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When your head in de lion^Hbear mouth

Take no time, just pull i' out!

Please be aliens, please be aliens, please be aliens... Boffins discover mystery mass beneath Moon's biggest crater

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Re: Must Mention....

Late Lunar Lander licks lithic Legacy Largely Lost Long-time, Lately. Lacuna'd Land Lit at Last.

It's official! The Register is fake news… according to .uk overlord Nominet. Just a few problems with that claim, though

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Re: Reputation management

... and what brand of joss sticks they waved over their logo

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Re: I am tired of you bringing up Trump for no reason.

That was cold, Alistair ... enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

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Re: "Fake news"?

Despite the fact it's a stupid phrase (if information is fake, it isn't news),

Only to the degree that Pravda isn't Izvestia and Izvestia isn't Pravda.

(Na Zdorovie!)

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Re: The problem with "fake news"...

There is always the .GB TLD

I think that "GB" stands for "Gordon Bennett" these days.

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Black Helicopters

Re: The problem with "fake news"...

So Nominet deserve it with both barrels.

I wouldn't phrase it like that (incitement to violence and all) but they do deserve a sky burial. Engage every Vulture Central turbo-props (--->)!

Church roofs? Nyet, say Russian scrap thieves, we're taking this bridge

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Re: Who would steal a bridge?

So you pontificate?

To the max, my child.

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Re: Ah, the old ones are the best

(or slightly more to the point)

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Re: Who would steal a bridge?

I'm the archbishop of Catenary, for Christ's sake. Keeping you in suspense is my business!

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Ah, the old ones are the best

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/man-who-sold-eiffel-tower-twice-180958370/

Ready with the 'welcome neighbour' fruitbasket, retailers? Amazon opens Manchester pop-up shop

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Re: What's next ?

(Tommyknockers! Fookin wrong book!)

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Re: What's next ?

Surely somebody like Mr. Bezos can see that the 'green light' is glowing more brightly these days, illuminating such a more beneficial business model.

I think that the only "green light" that it brings to mind for him is like the green light described in Stephen King's Needful Things. (You need a bookshop?)

Uncle Sam wants to read your tweets, check out your Instagram, log your email addresses before you enter the Land of the Free on a visa

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Re: No passwords are requested.

And as for ESTA, beware the frumious feature creep.

/slowly parsing as non-stalker-like behaviour (phew!)

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Re: Hello darkness, my old friend

I think Gilliams 'Brazil' is nearer the mark these days.

Hello, Buttle, my old friend...

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I'm Cypherpunks

... and so is my wife.

Former unicorn MapR desperately seeking cash as threat of closure looms

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Trollface

But, but ...

Unicorns!?!

Wow, talk about a Maine-wave: US state says ISPs need permission to flog netizens' personal data

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Headmaster

Re: Socialism!!

If you "up" your tithe, you pay more than 1/10th. I could get behind "tweentithe" at a pinch (13-19%), but not "twentithe" (1/20th).

Otherwise, excellent post. I like the cut of your jib.

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As Maine goes ...

so goes the nation (hopefully).

(not just a provisional title for a Stephen King book ... Cell, was it?)

That's a hell of Huawei to run a business, Chinese giant scolds FedEx after internal files routed via America

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probably apocryphal

I doubt this is true, but I remember a story that one of my school teachers told us in class, that somewhere in China, they named a city "Sheffield" so that they could stamp it on the cutlery that they wanted to export around the world. Perhaps there is a Busan, Tennessee that sometimes, inadvertently gets added to the routing slip?

There's a scarily good 'deepfakes' YouTube channel that's quietly growing – and it's freaking everyone out

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Re: Infernal Affairs

And don't get me started on "Heat"

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Infernal Affairs

Or rather the US remake (The Departed). I just couldn't understand the casting. Di Caprio and Damon just have those kinds of faces that make it too difficult for me to distinguish between them. Though maybe it's just me. Just the other week, I mistook my wife for a hat.

Get out of Huawei, it's an avalanche of news from everyone's favourite Chinese bogeyman

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Re: "We read this week's Huawei happenings and filleted it so you don't have to"

Hmm. Your handle is an anagram of "Wickken", so I'll yield to your superior magical powers in this arena.

/his[*] manuFacturer's Bond

(*or her, natch)

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"We read this week's Huawei happenings and filleted it so you don't have to"

You're so Electric Monk, el Reg!

Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers

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Re: Elections???

Here in the United States we are able broadcast the election results moments after the polls close

And sometimes even before that.

Quit worrying about killer robots, they are coming whether you like it or not – and they absolutely will not stop

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Soylent Brown ...

... is made of OXO.

Age verification biz claims no-payment model for 40% of Brits ahead of July pr0n ban

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"There are plans afoot to ..."

https://www.xkcd.com/305/

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Re: Business model

Tcch! Big Nothing!

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Re: *eye roll*

*fnarr*

Fire up the FruityLoops! Sir David Attenborough wants someone to remix Balinese field recording

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Re: Needs moar ...

(Pavlov)

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Re: underground dance music niche built around Sir Dave's dulcet tones.

I am not clicking that link!

Curses! How did he know that it's Never Gonna Give You Up played backwards? Yvan Eht Nioj!

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Coat

Needs moar ...

Amen Breaks.

(haha! trope subverted! Eat that, Christopher Walken)

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tele-zoology?

Is that like telling me that cows are far away?

Cocaine, psychedelics, DMT? They sure knew how to party 1,000 years ago: Archaeologists make startling discovery

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"and that ayahuasca use may have roots in antiquity"

Reminds me of Terrence McKenna's Food of The Gods. A cracking read, even if it's not actually true/provable.

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Coat

Harmine/DMT

IIRC, DMT isn't active orally, so you have to mix it with a monoamine-oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), hence the Harmine.

The article says that the mix of the two is evidence of prolonging the high, but it could also be that they didn't smoke/vaporise(*) DMT at all (no pipe included in the kit, but I suppose you can inhale smoke without one), but rather hit on the right combination to make the DMT work with the method(s) of ingestion available to them. So less "searching for a bigger high" than "figuring out how to make the thing work in the first place", I think. Either way, For Great Science!

I guess that the bufotenins (5-MeO-DMT, not mentioned in the article, but I did read about it elsewhere) that you get from toads are probably mixed with MAOI-like substances in the toad's skin. Otherwise it wouldn't be much of a deterrent against being eaten...

(*I'm not sure if DMT is active when snorted without a MAOI, either)

(that's weird---how can my huge copy of TIHKAL fit into that tiny pocket? --->)

We regret to inform you the massive asteroid NASA's all excited about probably won't hit Earth

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Britain built

Ahem, "Britain and France..."

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Re: 3 football fields?

Yeah, but mass... lead Zeppelins.

May Day! PM sacks UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson for Huawei 5G green-light 'leak'

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Re: Whilst May's actually making decisions...

It's not so much that, as knowing who has put in the big orders for carpets and quicklime. You don't get rich digging for gold. Hardware is where it's at. (BTW, GW can totally hook you up with a second-hand fireplace!)

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Re: Whens

remember, look busy and do something

Psst! Pass it on: Jesus is coming. Look busy!

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Re: Whens

including the infamous ferry company that had no ships, no port and no experience of running a ferry

But to be fair, it also had a pretty good privacy policy ... for a pizza delivery company.

Fujitsu 'continues to bludgeon through' UK, Ireland job cuts – union

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I am geshocked! (月食された、I tells ya!)

Russian-trained spy whale spooks Norwegian fishermen

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Re: Frickin' lasers

(edit: porpoiseful!)

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Why-a Russia?

It's-a not-a going anywhere!

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Re: Frickin' lasers

laser beams on angry seabass

"To make sure we ate the most intelligent herring, he fished the estuary. He planted a notice: "Literate herring, this way" below the waterline, at the corner where it met the sea. The paint for the notice was made of crushed heads. Red-eyed herring (sore from reading) would round the corner, read the notice, and sense the estuary water, bland and eye-easing. A few feet brought them within the confining friendliness of his manila net... and a purposeful end."

I'm off to play some (travel) Ludo...

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Re: Why show the country of origin on your spy equipment?

Ooh, slick!

Eggheads confirm it's not a bug – the universe really is expanding 9% faster than expected

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@Dick Speed

Three cheers for nominative determinism!

(because this space-related report is obviously more yang than yin, natch)

Enough about me, why do you hate Kaspersky so much? Revealed: Insp Clouseau-esque bid to smear critics as shills

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I think it's more like Carl Zeiss having a time machine (via the monolith) so that he could shoot the moon. (Омон Ра, товарищ)

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I will say zis only once

I am sorry. My "fountain pen" was not ready. What did you say?

I said, "I will say zis only once..."