* Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me

1782 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009

Success in the bedroom breeds success in the boardroom – research

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So about prostitutes...

"a healthy sex life will help employees stay happy and engaged in their work" - they never look happy or have a spring in their step.

Cybercrooks charging more than the price of a new car for undetectable Mac malware

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But I brought 40 Bitcoins last year for only $250 a coin. It's a bargain for those who thought ahead!!!!

Come in King Battistelli, your time at the Euro Patent Office is up

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So how long has his current contract got to go and can he just extended it himself because everyone is too afraid to go against him?

That big scary 1.4bn leak was 100s of millions of email, postal addresses

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I'm suprised Spamhaus (and others) haven't already flagged RCM as a major spammer

America halts fast processing of H-1B skilled worker visas

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With the number of Indians being targetted in America, I'd think the number of applications would naturally reduce.

COP BLOCKED: Uber app thwarted arrests of its drivers by fooling police with 'ghost cars'

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So when Uber drivers rape their passengers, the police can't 'see' where the bastards currently are based on the app? Probably raping and murdering other passengers.

So isn't Uber aiding and abetting a criminal/interfering with a police investigation?

Cybersecurity rules toughened up for NY financial firms

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Re: Bah!

Trump has already declared that cybersecurity is just made up by the Chinese, the same as climate change. There is a rumour that he's signing an Executive Order only allowing Americans to attack financial firms.

Uber loses court fight over London drivers' English language tests

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Are Uber going to appeal against not having a London call center or are they just going to be picky?

Has your spouse stayed on after Mobile World Congress? This sex doll brothel might be why

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"use lubricants", "use condoms". If the dolls are that fussy I'm off to get a real woman.

Amazon S3-izure cause: Half the web vanished because an AWS bod fat-fingered a command

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I want to know want was the command they were supposed to enter and what did they actually enter.

Pure: We see a billion dollars in our future. No, not profits, silly!

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Are these figures just a 'flash in the pan'?

Who will banish spy-cam drones from US skies? The FAA doesn't want to do it. EPIC disagrees

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Aren't the US military about to flog their old drones (probably on eBay)? Methinks the FAA better get involved before the paps start flying Predators around Hollywood!!

Dyson backs Britain plc with $2.5bn AI and robotics investment

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Got an ex-RAF airfield so he can give the bloody Bosch, er Boche, a good carpetting!!

Tally ho chaps :-)

Prisoners' 'innovative' anti-IMSI catcher defence was ... er, tinfoil

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Screw(s) up

I don't know if I should congratulate the lags or laugh at the screws.

IBM UK: Oh, remote workers. We want to be colocated with you again

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Tosca just wants to be able to survey her domain (and wage slaves) which is tricky if they aren't all coralled into a pen (like pigs to the slaughter). Typical upper management with too much time on their hands.

You're Donald Trump's sysadmin. You've got data leaks coming out the *ss. What to do

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How can you monitor files for sensitive information being uploaded to Dropbox etc. via their webpages when they use https ?

BlackBerry's comeback: El Reg gets its claws on the QWERTY KEYone

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" thinks the battery endurance is the phone's best feature" - oh dear.

Brit cops can keep millions of mugshots of innocent folks on file

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Why not store the photos on Instagram and let the public 'like' suspected criminals. The police can then follow that up. Simples :-)

Booming Android ad revenue shows it’s no longer the poor cousin

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I think we've Facebook and Twitter to thank for these figures - both major ad-slingers and both have reasonable Android apps. I wonder what the figures would look like without these two !!!!

Google devs try to create new global namespace

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So, if you want to post a Facebook picture on Twitter, you expect Facebook to provide all the bandwidth? These guys have obviously never been on internet forums where that sort of thing has been blocked for years (decades?).

Hopefully this will end up where it deserves.

UPS & drones: Delivery company launches UAV from truck

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Apart from looking very James Bondish, do any of these 'drones for delivery' companies take into account the appalling weather the UK (and probably Europe) gets from autumn to spring? High winds, rain, snow etc. How's the range with a 30 minute flight time when you're fighting a 30 knot head wind?

UK recruitment biz Coal Intelligent Technology ceases trading

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Didn't anyone tell htem coal was obsolete thanks to Maggie. They should have called themselves Nuclear Intelligent Technology or something.

'I'm innocent!' says IT contractor on trial after Office 365 bill row spiraled out of control

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Why was he in control of their cloud service? Suely it was the CoC credit card used, not his. I certainly do this for my customers.

If he'd served them with a bill, why not just wait for the money?

Verizon! surprisingly! OK! with! Yahoo! despite! mega-hack!

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Is Verison going to cut their internet users bandwidth so AOL/Yahoo! etc is more "with it" and can compete with real web portals?

Microsoft offers drone lovers a simulator

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Black Helicopters

Other vehicles to be supported soon. So, flying saucers/triangles then? Or aren't they man made?

Hold the phone! Crap customer service cost telcos £2.9 BEEEELLION in 2016

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Move from one crap provider to .... drunroll please ... another crap provider.

It costs the consumers probably £2 billion in their time wasted trying to get a decent service.

The companies, being a cosy-cartel, don't give a fuck about anyone but their shareholders and themselves.

King's College London bods recruit members for penis ring study

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As Bernard Manning was reputed to have said - it's not the size that matters but the weight behind it !!!!

Roses are red, violets are blue, HMRC confirms Verify can STFU

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Re: HMRC

That's your problem right there - the job title is "international stud muffin" - note the extra sapce.

Google to cough up $20m after Chrome rips off anti-malware patents

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I thought the clickbait headline was that Chrome was found to be malware :-)

Russia and China bombard Blighty with 188 cyberattacks in 3 months

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Why bother hacking - defence, we have none whilst our nuclear subs are getting new window curtains fitted and foreign policy - suck up to those whose country is building our new war planes.

Co-op Bank up for sale while customers still feel effects of its creaking IT

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Prudential Regulation Authority - is that an authority sponsered by the Pru?

That guy using a Surface you keep seeing around town could be a spy

Your alien overlord - fear me

If the guy (or girl) using a Surface Pro is asking the coffee shop owner for a receipt, probably a gov't employee of some description. Duct tape over the webcam? Paranoid :-)

New PayPal T&Cs prevents sellers trash-talking PayPal

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Surely if Paypal want equal treatment (to other payment providers), then they should offer equal fees (compared to other payment providers)?

I can see them becoming as welcome as Amex is outside the USA.

High tides: Boffins spy on dolphins baked on poisonous piscines

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Next, puff the magic (sea) dragon !!!!

Bugat-wielding hacker: Yes, I tried to nick $3.2m from US schools, oil biz

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Extradited to America, 15 years in prison then deported. Why not just put him in a Moldovian prison for 15 years? They are probably not as comfortable as US prisons :-)

Crack in black: Matte iPhones losing paint at alarming rate, gripe fans

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It where the tears of the 7 year olds who build them have fallen prior to the paint job.

Samsung's Chromebook Pro: Overpriced vanilla PC with a stylus. 'Wow'

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"making it easy to mishit." - is that just a bad Nintendo Mii figure?

All of Blighty's attack submarines are out of action – report

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Re: Ok, what's the Trident money really been spent on?

Well, they're 18 months old and run on Intel C2000 chips. Nuff said?

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Buy the German U-boats

Well, at least they know how to churn them out in times of war. What, too soon?

Oracle settles court spat with fired cloud 'sales inflation whistleblower'

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"was terminated because of her failures to meet the requirements of her role" - requirement number 1 - bump up the sales figures - doh!!!!

You want WHO?! Reg readers vote Tom Baker for Doctor 13. Of course

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Plus he had the fittest assistants - not of course that had anything to do with watching the shows :-)

Welcome to my world of The Unexplained – yes, you're welcome to it

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You can take a trainee to a menu, but you can't make them click it :-)

Planned Espionage Act could jail journos and whistleblowers as spies

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Probably pass it when Trumpton is over here, to give journalists an alternative hate target.

Cardiff researchers get £250k to monitor Brexit hate crime on Twitter

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For something this important, I'm suprised they didn't get an EU grant :-)

SQL Server on Linux? HELL YES! Linux on Windows 10? Meh

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If a company is a *nix only company, chances of them forking out for a Microsoft program are remote to say the least. The main reaon is cost. Yes, some companies pay for *nix support (and MySQL etc) but alot more don't. Why would these companies suddenly open their wallets?

Smacks of 3D telly - lots of hype, lots of people saying it's the next big thing but when it come down to it, no one wants to pay for it.

Vapists rejoice! E-cigs lower cancer risk (if you stop smoking, duh)

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"significantly lower levels of tobacco-specific nitrosamines" due to stopping using tobacco based fire sticks and going to a chemical cocktail with unknown long term health concerns.

Supermicro boasts of secret super server Silicon Valley win

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OK, it's for me. I'm data-mining Bitcoins. Well, these servers won't pay ofor themselves you know !!!!!!

Elon Musk joins anti-Trump legal brief

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What the courts should be asking is why does the president have this power in the first place? There are democratically elected congressmen/senators who should be asked to vote on measures like this. Dictators just steamroll these kind of rules.

Intel's Atom C2000 chips are bricking products – and it's not just Cisco hit

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"A board level workaround exists" that involves us paying each other millions as bonuses for not paying attention to Quality Control. The rest of the world can just sit there wondering if their kit will boot tomorrow.

Who do you want to be Who? VOTE for the BBC's next Time Lord

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Idris Elba - he's in the running for every other 'main character' so why not Dr Who?