* Posts by TeraTelnet

62 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Dec 2009

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Senior engineer reported to management for failing to fix a stapler

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Re: But I DO want to know!

For a moment I thought your comment said 'QuickTIME', which I suspect might have been a even worse fate.

Prototype app outperforms and outlasts outsourced production version

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Ah, but was your advice 'quality product, safe to buy' or 'don't touch it with a bargepole!'?

Avira also mines imaginary internet money on customers' PCs

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Re: Wait, what?

BitDefender?

(Please validate my choice!)

'Father of the Xbox' Seamus Blackley issues Twitter apology to AMD over last-minute switch to Intel CPUs

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Coat

Given what the normal meaning of 'munch' as a gathering means, I should hope not!

Mine's the one made of zipped rubber, please.

Australian court rules an AI can be considered an inventor on patent filings

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Re: Do machines have rights now?

Well yes, but only because the employee signed a contract containing a clause to that effect. DABUS isn't able to do that, so the situation is not quite the same.

Who'd have thought the US senator who fist pumped Jan 6 insurrectionists would propose totally unworkable anti-Big Tech law?

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I am so sad this isn't actually a series.

Yes, there's nothing quite like braving the M4 into London on the eve of a bank holiday just to eject a non-bootable floppy

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Devil

I'd be an even bigger nightmare for you - I'm the self-taught PC 'expert' who has a go before calling in the professionals!

(Self-taught since the Commodore 64 days, mind you.)

Slow your roll: LG reportedly puts new smartphone on ice as it mulls future in market

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Man, I remember that my first ever portable television was a Lucky Goldstar... that thing lasted me through a C64 and two different Amigas. Good times.

NASA sends nuclear tank 293 million miles to Mars, misses landing spot by just five metres. Now watch its video

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Re: Correction

It's always weird to me, considering the USA has been a member of the Metre Convention since 1878.

Then there's the whole problem about having two different measurements for a foot...

Nvidia cripples Ethereum mining on GeForce RTX 3060 to deter crypto bods from nabbing all the kit at launch

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Re: Older drivers?

Those may not support the about-to-be-released 3060 though?

You can drive a car with your feet, you can operate a sewing machine with your feet. Same goes for computers obviously

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Re: Foot pedal

I use one of these every day, but I don't even need the connected dictation device - it's all mobile apps now.

Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting

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In the UK, the bakery won on appeal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-45789759

AMD's latest top-end RX 6900 XT GPUs vacuumed up in minutes... maybe even by some actual gamers

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I eventually gave up and went with a last-gen Radeon 5600XT instead. It'll do me for 2-3 years, considering I was upgrading from a 7850!

Senators, net neutrality advocates rail against looming lame-duck confirmation of new FCC commissioner

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Re: Scorched earth

All of it. So much damage, the best damage by the way, everyone says so.

Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges

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Re: It's only money...

They did indeed look at the immunity policy and amended it to remove immunity from family members.

Not retrospective though.

Everything's falling apart. The Moon is slowly rusting up – and it's probably Earth's fault

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Boffin

'The team will have to wait for NASA’s Artemis'

Uh-oh.

Microsoft claims AWS has used new JEDI mind trick with secret contract objection filing

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Mushroom

Re: Choices

No, by then all data centres will be Taco Bell.

Boots on Moon? Well, the boot part is right: Audit of NASA's Space Launch System reveals more delays, cost overruns

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Re: Expect nothing less

Wrong House, I think - it isn't nicknamed the 'Senate Launch System' for nothing.

OK, which Dombås stuffed Windows 10 to bursting at Swedish flatpack flinger?

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Re: "Relationship-ending"

I, on the other hand, have ended up with spare screws etc in the packets the last few times I've built anything from Ikea.

He’s a pain in the ASCII to everybody. Now please acquit my sysadmin client over these CIA Vault 7 leaking charges

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Coat

"If they did, how did they do it?"

"If they didn't, how did they didn't?"

"If they didn't then it's easy, 'cause they simply didn't do it."

"If they did it, then I knew it, but we've nothing that can prove it!"

With apologies to the fuzzy frog puppet in my coat pocket.

Big Falcon explosion as SpaceX successfully demos Crew Dragon abort systems

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To South America, presumably.

Bose customers beg for firmware ceasefire after headphones fall victim to another crap update

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'Durability' is included in the legislation as one of the aspects of 'sufficient quality'.

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

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Re: Exploiting science

According to a couple of articles I read today, Professor Goodenough was indeed forced to retire by Oxford University, which has a mandatory retirement-at-65 policy; he then moved to the University of Texas, which has no such rule.

From Red Planet to deep into the red: Suicidal extrovert magnet Mars One finally implodes

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Shurely Mars has plenty of Spiders?

Yeah, mine's the one with Aladdin Sane in the top pocket, thanks

Apple yoinks enterprise certs from Facebook, Google, killing internal apps, to show its power

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Re: Seems to me that FB and Google got caught with their hands in the cookie jar

As Ted Nelson once said, "Using an IBM PC is like juggling straight razors. Using a Mac is like shaving with a bowling pin."

SpaceX enjoys three whole seconds of fire and fury on Pad 39A

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Re: 3 seconds

If you think that's bad, try getting anything at Dorsia around that time.

Court orders moribund ZX Spectrum reboot firm's directors to stump up £38k legal costs bill

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Re: Kibibytes burn in hell!

10 PRINT "I'LL GET MY COAT"

20 GOTO 10

Scumbag hackers lift $1m from children's charity

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Re: More to this than meets the eye

Only in England and Wales - in Northern Ireland you have to be given a quotation including all likely fees and expenses at the start of any conveyancing (well, for houses anyway).

Find these, er, appealing? UK.gov takes red pen to spy court rules, asks for Parliament's OK

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But not the European Court of Human Rights.

Experimental 'insult bot' gets out of hand during unsupervised weekend

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And Northern Ireland.

Mac fans' eyes mist over: Someone's re-created HyperCard

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Re: That reminds me...

Or possibly the mighty 3D Construction Kit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Construction_Kit

BAN the ROBOT WHORES, says robot whore expert: 'These AREN'T BARBIES'

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The real issue

I'm mildly worried about a paper that mentions 'robot whores' and 'My Little Pony' in the same breath.

Whisper tracks its users. So we tracked down its LA office. This is what happened next

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Coat

Well, he's probably within 500 metres of it...

BT consumer biz saves day: Grr, if it weren't for that meddling Ofcom

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Re: Churn

It's a bit too similar to 'chum' to be comfortable for me.

HP offers $150,000 for 'exploit unicorn' in Pwn2Own hacker competition

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Coat

Surely the successful hacker known as Pinkie Pie must be a shoo-in for this equine prize?

Mine's the one with the rainbow-coloured hood, thanks.

Ten gaming headsets

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Re: Great, but what about us four-eyes?

I wear glasses all the time and have never had any comfort issues with the Logitech G930s, if that's any help.

Ballmer bets 'all in' on Phone 8 and Windows

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Re: What's with the hobbit

Film tie-in?

Pilots asking not to fly F-22 after oxygen problems

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Re: Raptor is NOT the highest-tech aircraft

It's the Lightning II, not III, just for clarity.

Indiana Jones flicks out on Blu-ray this Fall

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Re: Dum-da-da-dum-dum?

Not quite - El Reg is quoting the quiet little intro bit that comes BEFORE the main 'dum-da-da-dum'.

Proview parks IPAD battle tanks on Apple's US lawn

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Re: extract the maximum amount of cash

Well, not really. If they wanted to extract the maximum amount of cash then they should have negotiated a better sale price than $25,000, not started playing three card monte with the IP rights (allegedly).

Syndicate

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Coat

It was from Syndicate Wars - and was indeed very good.

Judges probe minister's role in McKinnon extradition saga

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Coat

You called?

Saints Row: The Third

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Boffin

Also available for PC

Just so you know.

EU: Apple-Samsung row could be stifling competition

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Justia says yes

Looks like Picsel voluntarily withdrew from the case - http://dockets.justia.com/docket/delaware/dedce/1:2009cv00100/41844/

Huge US command-&-control airship gets quantum optics

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Alternatively ...

... "Kirov reporting!"

Amazon's Silk looks creepily Phorm-ulaic

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You are David Icke ...

... and I claim my £5.

Sonex calls in administrators

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Not all Sony products stocked, either

Don't bother trying to find accessories or parts for a PSP or Playstation in a Sony store however - bizarrely enough, they don't stock anything to do with them.

Site appeals feds' unprecedented domain seizure

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Joke

I know!

Sealand, your time has come.

Libya fighting shows just how idiotic the Defence Review was

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Coat

Captain Scarlet?

More like Action Force - Storm Shadow was Cobra's answer to Snake Eyes!

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