* Posts by hplasm

5610 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

WannaCry vanquisher Marcus Hutchins pleads not guilty to flogging banking trojan Kronos

hplasm
Coat

Re: Framed?

"Has he had a hand in this affair?"

Just a little one.

World's largest private submarine in mystery sink accident

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Happy

Re: But, but, but ..

It's 'whoosh whoosh whoosh'...

Sarcastic propellers overhead.

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Headmaster

Re: What's sixze got to do with it?

"I would of thought that was a major weak spot."

Second only to the grammar that has been crushed...

Kaspersky axes antitrust complaints against Microsoft after Windows giant vows to play nice

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Gimp

Re: In Time

We will be free of the CRAPWARE that is called Windows.

You're Welcome.

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Gimp

Re: Get real everyone

MSFT is the only OS supplier than doesn't create profitable demand and writes and releases malware into the wild.

FTFY, Fanboi.

Don't buy Microsoft Surface gear: 25% will break after 2 years, says Consumer Reports

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Mushroom

Re: "...we don't believe these findings..."

""Microsoft Surface Pro is designed and built with performance and reliability in mind,""

Just what they keep saying about their OS too...

Where's the burning pants icon?

Hey America! Your internet is going to be so much better this January

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Facepalm

When did El Reg, a once rather conservative British tabloid,

What??

Schoolboy bags $10,000 reward from Google with easy HTTP Host bypass

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Happy

Re: There are an infinite number of monkeys out there

"who are happy to pen test your network for peanuts."

Multitasking whilst writing Shakespeare?

Cancel the farewell party. Get back to work. That asteroid isn't going to hit Earth in October

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Coat

Re: Aim is improving.

Third attempt: 12 Million Light Years.

(Sorry El Reg- couldn't resist...)

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Happy

Re: damn

"> i'd ordered butt plugs and everything."

"WHY!"

Brown trousers are still at the dry-cleaners...

Revealed: The naughty tricks used by web ads to bypass blockers

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Coat

Re: On the other hand...

""Brisbanetimes.com.au I'm looking at you.""

No yer not! We think you have an ad-blocker!

Official: Windows for Workstations returns in Fall Creators Update

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Gimp

Re: What about auto-updates?

"I have half a dozen Windows 10 PCs and none - yes none - do this."

You really should update your Windows boxes regularly, you know.

US border cops must get warrants to search phones, devices – EFF

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Facepalm

Re: Remote Desktop...

"Just take a new USB Live version of Linux with you,"

Or, I hate to say it - Windows To Go...

Ew.

Microsoft's Surface Pro 2017, unhinged: Luxury fondleslab that's good...

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Boffin

Re: "Does it run Mint?"

"911 prices, 911 bodywork, air-cooled Beetle engine."

ITYM

'911 prices, 911 bodywork, lame horse.'

(Nothing wrong with the air-cooled Beetle engine- the 911 has a 6 cylinder version.)

It's 2017 and Hyper-V can be pwned by a guest app, Windows by a search query, Office by...

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Gimp

Re: Products have flaws,,,,

"So show me a OS that does that?"

You keep saying that, over and over, and yet the Windows turd remains unpolished.

HMS Queen Liz will arrive in Portsmouth soon, says MoD

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Coat

Re: ship design philosophy question

"Bridge and battle bridge to allow for saucer detachment."

...Lest the cup is destroyed in action.

It is a British ship...

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Happy

Re: I've been thinking about cheap ways to kill carriers.

"I'm sure your going to get a knock at your door ..lay face down arms spread and no sudden movements .."

Sir, can you put your hands in the yellow circles, please?

China can't find anyone smart enough to run its whizzbang $180m 1,640ft radio telescope

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Unhappy

I would do it...

But I'm totally unqualified in every way.

Sounds like 'a great opportunity for the right candidate' though.

Good lUck, Chinese astroboffins!

CMD.EXE gets first makeover in 20 years in new Windows 10 build

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Coat

What is Windows? Sounds innovative

A product that is a Transparent Ripoff...

Uber drivers game Uber's system like Uber games the entire planet

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Happy

Re: Whatever way you look at it...

it's a mugs game, life.

/Marvin.

Microsoft: We beat Google, AWS to cloudy GPU VMs in Blighty

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Coat

Excellent news!

Now customers can get their work finished whilst the MS cloud is still up.

'Real' people want govts to spy on them, argues UK Home Secretary

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Thumb Up

Re: well played poms

The Encryption Ashes, eh? I think we have a new ElReg passtime to keep an eye on!

Skype for Business is not Skype – realising that is half the battle

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Devil

Re: "it was possible to organise building an atom bomb"

"It was achieved putting all the needed people in the same place... and ensuring nobody could go."

Like some sort of...walled garden!

Microsoft Surface laptop: Is this your MacBook Air replacement?

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Holmes

Betteridge's law of headlines...

Answers this question nicely.

Look out Silicon Valley, here comes Brit bruiser Amber Rudd to lay down the (cyber) law

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Holmes

Re: Never mind the dawgs!

"Increasing taxes hasn't worked yet ... what make you think it'll ever work?"

It's not supposed to work - you just keep putting the taxes up. Result!

Sun of a b... Rising solar temp wrecks chances of finding ET in our system

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Holmes

Re: NO gas molecule can capture, store, redirect or amplify radiant energy photons....

"Magic Gas".... at FauxScienceSlayer.com"

'Nuff said!

Microsoft: Get in, IT nerds, you're now using Insider builds and twice-annual Windows rollouts

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Thumb Down

Re: Did we mention...

You are any things, but no Linux user.

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Devil

Re: Windows 10 is the new

"No SHE plays with Linux,"

Oops, sorry for the missing 's', using a Microsoft keyboard...

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Gimp

Re: What's the problem?

"It's not difficult to do any testing well before the s/w hits desktops."

Still with the bugs the testing flags up...

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Facepalm

Re: Did we mention...

"my RPi running Linux, and my Linux mint box wont do anything until they have updated either.... "

Lies. Stick to Windows... you can't work a Pi...

hplasm
Gimp

Re: Windows 10 is the new

"Play nice, my 4 year old does."

Because he has Windows to play on?

hplasm
Gimp

Re: Windows 10 is the new

users: Oi! Stop pushing Win10 down our throats!!

MS: Er, OK then. bend over...

Latest Windows 10 preview lets users link an Android to their PC

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Paris Hilton

Re: But uhm...

"What about Windows Phone?"

What about what, now?

Hackers can turn web-connected car washes into horrible death traps

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Happy

Re: Spaceballs quote

Oh dear! Now my senses are working overtime...

Big Cable falls into wormhole to alternate universe, sends back blog post about USA's amazing broadband

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Thumb Up

Re: Gaming - Dungeon Master

Oh look! Broccolli- how quaint!

*squeak*

"Your party died."

OH...it's dangerous broccolli!

Brilliant! (ST here :> )

Briton admits to router hack that DDoSed Deutsche Telekom

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Happy

Re: Danny Kaye?

No, no..the chalice with the palace has the pellet with the poison, the flagon with the dragon is the brew that is true.

Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10

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Holmes

Aha...

"You need a tool like ms paint so that you can take s screen shot when there's an error, and redact areas of the screen, before submitting bug reports."

Exactly....

Virgin Media broadband latency headaches still not fixed six months on

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Boffin

Virgin is a stupid name anyway...

... it reminds me of an elite grinning bearded goblin.

Ooo, you sound like a psychiatrist's dream...

They say we're too mean to Microsoft. Well, how about this... Redmond just had a stonking year. And only 8% tax. Whee!

hplasm
Headmaster

Re: A Stonking Year???

Stonking? It's like 'Bazzing'...

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Happy

Re: Tax rebates?

It's the American way. Think of it as an encouragement for profitable companies to invest in new yachts.

FTFY

So, FCC, how about that massive DDoS? Hello? Hello...? You still there?

hplasm
Holmes

Re: Can we slap him?

Freeze Peach- not just for the GOPs, eh?

US Homeland Sec boss has snazzy new laptop bomb scanning tech – but admits he doesn't know what it's called

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Happy

Re: Flashbacks

More like growing up on Metaluma, with murderous giant-brain-headed security mutants- except without the giant brains...

'Coke dealer' called us after his stash was stolen – cops

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Coat

Jeez...

What was this guy on?

Oh, I see...

Why can't you install Windows 10 Creators Update on your old Atom netbook? Because Intel stopped loving you

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Gimp

Re: Good luck getting reliable support runing Linux on those obsolete silicons

Can't figure it out, eh?

Microsoft drops Office 365 for biz. Now it's just Microsoft 365. Word

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Gimp

Re: Microsoft 365?

"You've* done something wrong. Several times probably."

Bought Microsoft?

Dear racist Airbnb host, we've enrolled you in an Asian American studies course

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Coat

Re: Short-term memory

"How many Americans know the ancestry of even their grandparents, much less great-grandparents?"

Default 90% Irish 10% Cherokee, isn't it?

UK government's war on e-cigs is over

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Happy

Re: Does this affect the models that...

"...heat some minced tobacco leaves..."

oh... That's what you are supposed to put in them...

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Happy

Re: Grrrr, it's NOT vaping

"It is the solution (the e-liquid) in an atomised form."

OMG..It's NUCULAR!!

*hides under leadfoil hat*

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Meh

Re: Jesus, NO!

Thinking of the Children...

Jesus walks away after 7,000lb pipe van incident

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Coat

The Internet IS a series of pipes...

There's the IT angle.