* Posts by hplasm

5610 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

US docs show Daimler may have done a Dieselgate – German press claims

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Coat

Re: What about the monkeys?

Gas Monkeys got paid.

Boom!

UK.gov calls on the Big Man – GOD – to boost rural broadband

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Angel

Re: A crucifix

Upwards?

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Coat

Re: Location, location, location

"So which one gets the mast?"

Voda on one EE on t'other.

None for Three...

Kentucky gov: Violent video games, not guns, to blame for Florida school massacre

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Thumb Up

Re: I have a cunning plan my Lord

"...people will sooner bankrupt themselves than give up their arms for fear the government will oppress them."

No problem. The gun nuts are generally anti social-care payments too. They can reap what they sow when their money runs out.

Astro-boffinry world rocked to its very core: Shock as Andromeda found to be not much bigger than Milky Way

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Happy

Dwarf Galaxy anyone?

Is that a 'Fun Size' one, or have they just reduced the content size and not the price?

Arrrgh! Put down the crisps! 'Ultra-processed' foods linked to cancer!

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Unhappy

It's probably due to Palm Oil

That shit's in everything these days.

You're decorating it wrong: Apple HomePod gives wood ring of death

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Big Brother

One ring-

Half an iMysteron.

"We know that you can hear us , Earthmen. (We can also hear you. All the time...)'

iSpy.

Crypto-gurus: Which idiots told the FBI that Feds-only backdoors in encryption are possible?

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Big Brother

Re: What the TLAs must do to make it work

You forgot

6) remove the phrase "Land Of The Free" from the US.

(Probably long overdue. Not that anywhere else is much better, but not trumpeted about as much...)

edit: Possibly 7) then, after China 2.0 :)

IBM declares it's the 'backbone of the world's economy'

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Devil

Hold your heads up high, staff.

The we can reap them all at a single stroke.

Roses are red, revenge is so sweet. Microsoft extracts a few quid from Corel Office Suite

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Devil

Well...

Corel thought it was agood idea to copy the ribbon - they should be made to pay!

UK Home Sec Amber Rudd unveils extremism blocking tool

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Happy

Really...?

"...when the thought police are looking for deviants I'll be safe.."

You are accused of publishing images of sphincters, prohibited under the ASCII ART prohibition act 2020. how do you plead?

" * "

NASA budget shock: Climate studies? GTFO. We're making the Moon great again, says Trump

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Facepalm

Re: Valuable minerals?

Trumpium.

Boffins upload worm's brain into a computer, teach it tricks

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Devil

Re: Jesus!!

For bad eyesight I sentence you to six male hairies!

Wow, MIND-BLOWING: Florida Man gets an earful from 'exploding Apple AirPod' bud

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Happy

Re: This...

"...gibberings of the mind eaters..."

I like this. May I have it?

Ta

BOFH: We want you to know you have our full support

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Devil

Re: >KZZZZZZEEERRRRRRT!<

From a NetMGR* Help point of view, i was expecting this to end with a resounding

THWACK!

* If you know what I mean...

Wish you could log into someone's Netgear box without a password? Summon a &genie=1

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Thumb Up

Re: "with remote configuration access enabled"

" *SLAP* *SLAP* *SLAP* with a ginormous green onion... "

Rule 34!!

Hyperscale oligarchs to rule the cloud as the big get bigger, and the small ... you won't care

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Happy

Sounds familiar...

"we're headed for ~700 colosso-bit-barns"

640 colossal bit-barns should be enough for anyone!

I see you're writing a résumé?!.. LinkedIn parked in MS Word

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Windows

Re: Despite Brexit...

See - that's a masochist for you!

NASA's zombie IMAGE satellite is powered up and working quite nicely

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Holmes

Re: Lo that bright joy will turn dark and it will slowly plot its revenge

"who is going to merge with it and a sexy android?"

Sounds like a job for... Kirk Unit!

No Windows 10, no Office 2019, says Microsoft

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Windows

Re: just to it

"What a frankly shitty attitude."

What? t's the same one MS use.

"Back in the real corporate world..."

Ah- an oxy moron. (sic)

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Meh

Bloody hell1

A talking marsupial!

How rare!

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Meh

Re: And the MacOS Platform?

"Mac, Android, iOS and whatever else will likely remain as is."

Badly supported?

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Windows

ITTM...

“to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve spend more”

And achieve less...

Weasels.

Morrisons launches bizarre Yorkshire Pudding pizza thing

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Coat

This-

Would make an excellent hat, particularly with gravys...

And then you may eat it.

heeeeeheeeeeheeeeee!!

Where's the straps on me coat??!?!

Shopper f-bombed PC shop staff, so they mocked her with too-polite tech tutorial

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Devil

Re: The worst customers...

On the phone: "Do you know who I AM !?!!!!"

No. Do you know who I am?

"No.."

Good! *click*

$14bn tax hit, Surface Pro screens keep dying – but it's not all good news at Microsoft

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Holmes

Re: The other MS disease

"Give me an open unit..."

Aye, there's the problem right there...

Glue, glue, Barney McGlue...

As Facebook pushes yet more fake articles, one news editor tells Mark to get a grip – or Zuck off

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Facepalm

Laziness and Stupidity

Monetise either or both of those, and you can be as rich as Zuck.

Oh- I see now...

Are you taking the peacock? United Airlines deny flight to 'emotional support' bird

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Devil

Oh sorry!

I've inadvertently used Your Emotional Support Animal as my Lumbar Support Animal...

Now, don't get emotional...

FYI: That Hawaii missile alert was no UI blunder. Someone really thought the islands were toast

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Devil

Re: Hello fellow USian

"it'll be the shapeshifting robotic lizard people who'll really win."

Until the robotic lizard-shit shifters go on strike...

I'll torpedo Tor weirdos, US AG storms: Feds have 'already infiltrated' darknet drug souks

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Meh

"One can only imagine the unmasking of these villains by Jeff Sessions"

And then realise it's more likely for this to be done by a large cartoon dog.

US Pentagon scrambles after Strava base leaks. Here's a summary of the new rules: 'Secure that s***, Hudson!'

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Devil

Re: IOT Hysteria

ITYM

"'Is that the Brit's aircraft carrier?' - 'Yep - must be -it hasn't got any planes,"

Ubuntu reverting to Xorg in Bionic Beaver

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Coat

Re: Just to be clear...

"Like it or not, Wayland is the future,.."

Mr Yutani would like a word.

You want wires with that? Burger King backs, er, net neutrality

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Meh

Re: Well, Thank The Heavens

"You can make some people believe anything if you dumb it down enough."

True, the evidence is out there.

It is orange.

Hawaii governor: I wanted to tell everyone nuke alert was fake – I just forgot my password

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Coat

so why didn't he just have the spokesperson send the msg?

They were fleeing as fast as their spokes would carry them.

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Coat

Re: Twiiter... As an authoritative source of WW3 warning

"And tardigrades studiously ignoring the silly humans and cockroaches."

An improvement from the Retardigrades we have in charge of ignoring us now.

£60m, five years late... Tag criminal tagging as a 'catastrophic waste' of taxpayers' cash

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Mushroom

Re: Consequences?

How about -

s/Lessons will be learned/Heads will roll/g

and follow it though.

'WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?' Linus Torvalds explodes at Intel spinning Spectre fix as a security feature

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Coat

ButtPlugchaku??

You know what you can go and do with that!

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FAIL

Linux is complete and utter fucking shit

Said No-one No-where. Ever.

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Devil

Re: Mr T is oh so good

"Does Linus make CPUs?"

Does Intel? Strictly speaking?

'The capacitors exploded, showering the lab in flaming confetti'

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Happy

Re: Improbable

The 'correct' answer is a question: Peak or RMS?

America restarts dodgy spying program – just as classified surveillance abuse memo emerges

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Paris Hilton

Re: cry more

Unlike crossing the road where you want to.

Sad-sack Anon calling himself 'Mr Cunnilingus' online is busted for DDoSing ex-bosses

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Coat

"...dog turd in your boss's letter box "

Things have moved on - this is now DSaaS...

F-35 'incomparable' to Harrier jump jet, top test pilot tells El Reg

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WTF?

Re: VIFing?

"VIFFing was never used during the Falklands:"

I guess the BBC used non-existent CGI to show that on the 6 o'clock News, then?

"And the US Marines invented it during a demo flight "just to see what happened if you tried it"

[citation needed]

Software that predicts whether crims will break the law again is no better than you or me

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Black Helicopters

Re: Subject to Status

"Or, to put it another way, shows that black people, even those who don't reoffend, are more likely to be picked up by the police...."

...or paramedics, after being shot by the police...

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Unhappy

Re: indemnity

Sadly, you are correct.

Make Apple, er, America Great Again: iGiant to bring home profits, pay $38bn in repatriation tax

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Happy

Re: Academics

Who will, of course, 'stuff mattresses' with the money.

FTFY

DXC execs: Here's another deadline for skills profiling

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Angel

"What about ticking everything, or at least everything that you could bullshit your way through?"

Isn't that standard procedure for such things?

BOFH: Buttock And Departmental Defence ... As A Service

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Headmaster

Ahem.

Might 'have'...

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Happy

Re: Ahhh!

Hardly- just taking it easy in the pre-xmas lull, I suspect... got to lull the mooks...

Remember those holy tech wars we used to have? Heh, good times

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Headmaster

Re: S**t!

" If you want to say shit, say it."

Agreed. Even the POTUS says shith**e.