* Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me

1782 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009

Virtual reality audiences stare straight ahead 75% of the time

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Trollface

Why don'y VR film makers put on the 'front' view a message saying look behind to get a code for a free Starbucks/pizza/etc? That'd encourage couch potatoes to move, even if it's just their head !!

Google plans to scrub 'inflammatory' and terror vids from youTube

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Why doesn't Google only allow certain users to upload possibly terrorist-flagged videos, like the BBC etc so home users i.e. actual/wannabe terrorists get their propaganda automatically removed?

Insert coin: Atari retro console is coming back

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Let's hope they don't bundle Kodi with it to make it a media box !!!

FOIA documents show the Kafkaesque state of US mass surveillance

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Super secret court

but the judge is named. Not secret or smart !

You wait ages for a sun, then two come along at once: All stars have twins, say astroboffins

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Nice stating a ;fact which can't be disproven - if Sol had a twin (and they've already named it after a Star Trek movie), we should see it as a big hunka light, even if it's 1,000,000 AU away. We haven't spotted it so I would guess either (a) it never existed or (b) see a !!!

Ofcom fines Three £1.9m over vulnerability in emergency call handling

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" added an additional backup route to carry emergency call traffic" but it seems normal calls will still be cut off if the link goes down. Nice. Now OFCOM how about fining them for that as well?

Oh the irony: Government Digital Services can't pay staff because of tech problems

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Hopefully these Frenchies hold all that personal data in the UK because I've heard a rumour we might not stay in the EU (I know, I know, never trust rumours!!!)

Software dev bombshell: Programmers who use spaces earn MORE than those who use tabs

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RPG/28 and RPG/400

Try programming that with spaces - for people under 50, it's the programming language for IBM System/38 and System/400 mini-computers.

Fighter pilot shot down laptops with a flick of his copper-plated wrist

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Both copper bracelets and magnets are just sham medicine and I'm surprised an ex-fighter pilot fell for it.

Brit hacker admits he siphoned info from US military satellite network

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If the rozzers found the data on his home computers, why did it need the help of the FBI and DoD to get a conviction?

Samsung releases 49-inch desktop monitor with 32:9 aspect ratio

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125% of the sRGB colour spectrum

Note the spelling !!!!

Uncle Sam bungs rich tech giants quarter of a billion bucks for exascale super R&D

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By 2020 I expect a 2 exascale machine looking after my fridge. Has Moore's Law been repealed?

Operators and vendors agree that Europe is falling behind in 5G

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5G?

I think most telco's are still paying off their 3G license fee.

Facebook tried teaching bots art of negotiation – so the AI learned to lie

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Hats? Bah !

Sex. Get them to learn about sex and how blokes want it and what trade off they have to give to their partners for it.

Disney mulls Mickey Mouse magic material to thwart pirates' 3D scans

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How will the human eye see it if it distorts light? Will Mickey look like Minnie?

Europe-wide BitTorrent indexer blockade looms after Pirate Bay blow

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So, peer to peer networks are out. What about downloading files directly? Or is that also covered?

Just asking for a friend, obviously !!

It's 2017 and someone's probably still using WINS naming. If so, stop

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Suppose you want me to stop using IPX as well even though the Novell servers have gone !!

Nokia snatches clump of 16nm FinFETs, crafts 576 Tbps monster router

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I wonder if people like the NSA need something like this in ISP's data centres to copy US citizens private data at speed?

Currys PC World given a spanking for misleading laptop savings ads

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Does the ASA not realise the free advertising they are giving Currys PC World?

It came from space! Two-headed flatworm stuns scientists

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Did a bloke called Hercules do the head cutting off?

Ever wonder why those Apple iPhone updates take so damn long?

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But they are 'special' guinea pigs. So it's fine to be treated that way :-)

British Airways poised to shed 1,000 jobs to Capita

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Because last months fan wasn't big enough :-)

Marissa! Mayer! out! as! Yahoo!-Verizon! closes!

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"I'm also brimming with cash and stock options whilst 2000 will be joining me at the unemployment office with a slightly less generous payout." she allegedly said.

Discredit a journo? Easy, that'll be $55k. Fix an election? Oh, I can do that for just $400k

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Read beyond the headlines? In this day and age? Might as well stop elections now.

France and UK want to make web firms liable for users' content

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'bout fecking time

Google should be held liable for allowing Justin Bieber to show his videos on Youtube !!!!

Specsavers embraces Azure and AWS, recoils at Oracle's 'wow' factor

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Not so much 'Should have gone to Specsavers' as 'Have gone to AWS'

Sharp claims Hisense reverse-ferreted its US telly licence deal

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But Sharp tellies are crap. What's the complaint?

Lockheed, USAF hold breath as F-35 pilots report hypoxia

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Top Gun

Take my breath away..... and now you'll be singing it all day :-)

German police nick alleged admin of dark web gun sales site

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Re: False connection

In America, any nut job can buy a gun and ammo. Some states do check for things like are you are recently released mass murderer, but some states can't be bothered - something to do with the right to carry firearms although technically, it's muskets.

Mac ransomware author is giving away malicious code to script kiddies

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Either a very lazy malware writer or someone whose using the Apple store method of taking a third from hard working spam artists.

Who will save us from voice recog foolery from scumbags? Magnetometer!

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Time to buy shares in NXT speakers.

IBM warns itself of possible outages in lab shift screw-up

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Sounds like he didn't really want Austin to close, what with threatening a fortnights outage of some services.

Has riddle of the 1977 'Wow!' signal finally been cracked? Maybe...

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Obviously aliens ride comets as a stellar Uber and the signals are are them talking to each other.

Anything else is an Illuminati-led cover up to keep the sheeple on Earth whilst they plan to leave this cesspit before it gets too hot.

DDoS attack brings Qatar's Al Jazeera website to its knees

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DDos attack and no mention of the Russkies?

DUP site crashes after UK general election

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She could possibly get away with no coalition - how often is there a full house in the Commons?

Human-free robo-cars on Washington streets after governor said the software is 'foolproof'

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A fool and his money

are soon elected governor of Washington

Alphabet offloads bot businesses Boston Dynamics and SCHAFT

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Surely Alphabet was improving humans lives by not letting robots take over our jobs/sex life etc.

20 Apple China staff collared for allegedly flogging customers' info

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Correction

easily reaches the *millions* surely if they sold data @ $1.50/record and made over $7 million.

Oh no, Silicon Valley! Failed startup CEO on fraud rap after allegedly bullsh*ting staff and refusing to pay them

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How long does US banks take for a wire transfer? In the UK, it's literally minutes nowadays (from high street bank to high street bank). If someone showed me a confirmation slip, I'd expect the funds to be in my bank by the time I log in. Not there and I'd be kicking off immediately, not working for another month or however long these guys took to realise they'd been conned.

Live blog: Fired FBI boss spills the beans to US Senate committee

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Question.

Did Trump ever say 'Read my lips' before blatantly lying to the press?

Spy commissioners: Did we audit our bulk data sharing with industry? Err... not exactly

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Collect too much information and you can't sort the wheat from the chaff and that is even more irresponsible.

Nuns chastise Google and Eric names Larry greatest human alive

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"pay equally across genders" - ah, I see Alphabet's problem. They don't realise the girls are also a gender which is why there is so much bro-mance in Silicon Valley.

Most vulnerabilities first blabbed about online or on the dark web

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How long does it take for a NSA used 'bug' to become public and fixed? I doubt days :-)

Busted Russian casino hackers had an appetite for drugs and chocolate

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Sounds like the plot lines for Sin City 4.

Pop-up Android adware uses social engineering to resist deletion

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If you've rooted your phone, chances are you've got a 3rd party app which uninstalls system apps anyway (gets rid of bloatware from phone manufacturers/telcos).

Rustle up a privacy research project and ICO queen Liz will see you handsomely rewarded

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Well first off I'll need the personal information of all staff at the ICO. Then £100k. Then good bye and when they try to find me I'll just claim they're breaching my personal data rights by grassing me up to the fuzz.

When can real-world laws invade augmented reality fantasies? A trial in Milwaukee will decide

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If this stops future Pokemon Go games I'm all for it.

Otherwise in the current climate you'll have HuntTheJihadi type games where you go around mosques and find the Muslims.*Other religions are available.

Ex-MI5 boss: People ask, why didn't you follow all these people ... on your radar?

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I thought it was a different kind of bloke walking around in dirty macs who frequented Hampstead Heath.

So despite all the cash ploughed into big data, no one knows how to make it profitable

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Big Data is just like all those tax dodging schemes celebs and footballers sign up to. 'Loose' money and wipe it off your tax bill. Big Data doesn't really exist and when the taxman finds out, oh dear oh dear.

Golden handshakes of almost half a million at Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: Why I don't donate to big charities

they are the same as in the bosses pay themselves vast amounts why expecting the frontline workers to do it for free. Also secrecy about what they pay themselves etc. etc.