* Posts by Anonymous Coward 15

699 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Sep 2011

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NASA to flip ion engine's 'OFF' switch after brilliant 5.5 year burn

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Re: Neat

Manned missions are fscking cool, and if the Space Race had carried on we'd be on Mars already.

Windows Store apps for Office probably won't ship until 2014

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FAIL

Isn't this the sort of thing that should have been ready at launch?

PlayStation 4 is FreeBSD inside

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Re: The righteous

Rules 1 & 2!

Microsoft caves on Xbox One DRM and used-game controls

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Oh, and I just remembered this comic. It's not xkcd but it'll do.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2878

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Anyone else suspicious that they were planning this all along for the publicity?

Nuke plants to rely on PDP-11 code UNTIL 2050!

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Re: Stop press - there's life for VMS after Itanic

Well there's FreeVMS but I'm tempted to believe someone has their wires crossed.

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I still need to build something with the J-11 chip I bought on eBay a while ago.

Norks taunt, yank Yanks' crank over PRISM: US is 'rights abuse kingpin'

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Flame

Apply cold water

to burned area.

Tor users locked out of Facebook after wave of dodgy traffic

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Re: There are people who use Tor to go on Facebook?!

They probably also go skiing and complain that it's cold outside.

Flash flaw potentially makes every webcam or laptop a peephole

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FAIL

Re: Surprise!

Eadon, you seem to have ticked the AC box by mistake.

Number of cops abusing Police National Computer access on the rise

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Re: Telegram from the Queen?

Wrong thread?

Ad-slingers! Punting peeps' pics into promos? You must read THIS

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Re: One weird old tip

Doctors probably are angry about that weird old tip if it draws people into some made-up woo instead of actual medicine.

Badger bloodbath brouhaha brings 'bodge' bumpkin bank burgle bluster

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Badger, badger, badger, mushroom, mushroom.

1,000 O2 staff chose redundancy over Capita

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Re: No....

That is the question.

Scientists investigate 'dark lightning' threat to aircraft passengers

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Devil

Dark Lightning

Good name for a band?

Desperate Venezuelans wiped clean of bog roll

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Do they still have tissues? Or if they're that desperate, newspaper?

Patch Tuesday: And EVERY version of IE needs fixing AGAIN

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Re: Reboot required

net stop wuauserv

Yes, maybe we should keep hackers in the clink for YEARS, mulls EU

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"no attempt is made to notify website owners or other vulnerable parties"

Does that include sticking a big "hacked by Anonymous" message on the homepage?

Linus Torvalds threatens verbal assault on developers' pets

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Happy

you, your mother, and your deceased pet hamster

Do they smell of elderberries?

The fearful price of 4G data coverage: NO TELLY for 90,000 Brits

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Re: Freesat

What about line of sight? If you're surrounded by hills or trees you might still be screwed.

All major UK ISPs prepping network-level porn 'n' violence filters

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Devil

Re: Babbit55

A publicly accessible official government directory of sex'n'violence? What could be wrong with that?

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DNS based? So how long until the kids learn how to set a custom DNS server? Or are they going to transparent proxy all DNS requests, or block third-party DNS servers?

LinkedIn snarfing contacts from Exchange

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You're giving your work login credentials to a third party. Sounds like a potential sacking offence.

Kinky? You're mentally healthier than 'vanilla' bonkers

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Re: @ribosome @Chris Miller

If it perturbed the orbit of Uranus it might be closer to the article's subject matter.

/snigger

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Linux

Re: @Bill Neal It's not the stuff you do

It gets really weird when you start involving a penguin...

Microsoft offers free keyboard covers for Surface RT

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Re: iPad Linux

Someone will crack or work around it eventually.

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Is the Touch cover

as much like a ZX81 as it looks?

Fancy some mobile filth? New logo tells you when not to bother

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Paris Hilton

Won't they just go somewhere that doesn't have the logo/where the WiFi isn't from one of the major brands?

Wonder substance pulses QUADRILLION lasers per second

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Can you attach it to frickin' sharks?

Security boffins say music could trigger mobile malware

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Devil

This sounds like the backmasked satanic messages thing.

Fedora cooks up new Linux for Raspberry Pi

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Re: @Cliff

JOE ftw.

Peak Facebook: British users lose their Liking for Zuck's ad empire

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I very rarely see ads on Facebook due to quite aggressive ABP settings.

'Catastrophic failure' of 3D-printed gun in Oz Police test

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Re: Why would I bother printing a handgun?

For the lulz?

If you've bought DRM'd film files from Acetrax, here's the bad news

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Re: The PirateBay

I do know not to do the actual download through Tor. I have a foreign VPS anyway.

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Re: The PirateBay

Yeah, then you can use Tor, a proxy or a VPN.

Slim Shady wannabe Zuck's Facebook 'STOLE' MY SONG - Eminem

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So won't the real Slim Shady

please stand up?

EU boffins in plan for 'more nutritious' horsemeat ice cream

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Coat

Re: mmmmmmmmm..........

The diet version, with no added Shergar.

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So now *we'll* have to ban *their* meat because it's full of mad cow disease?

Microsoft reveals Xbox One, the console that can read your heartbeat

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Re: What a terrible name

It's like when everything was called "2000" so it sounded cool and futurey.

A backdoor into Skype for the Feds? You're joking...

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Re: And then...

If they suspect you of something and you're using Truecrypt, they will suspect the hidden volume is present.

Computer use irrelevant to education outcomes, says US study

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Re: Only computers?

Implying they won't use it for cat videos and porn like normal people.

Crack Army pilot to be first PROPER British astronaut IN SPAAAACE

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Methinks you move in some interesting social circles, perchance?

Not particularly, but I have been watching Breaking Bad.

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When I saw "Crack Army" I thought "as opposed to the Meth Army or the Smack Army?"

Marks & Sparks accused of silently bonking punters over the tills

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There ought to be a "confirm" button on the operator's screen.

Also, don't you mean Hanlon's Razor?

UK.gov STILL wants to tout pupil data – don't use the word 'product'

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How good is this data considering they can't plan school expansion with a 5 year warning?

Steve JOBS finally DEFEATS the PC - from BEYOND THE GRAVE

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It's not the size

It's how you use it.

Life on Mars means subsisting on grim diet of turd-garden spinach

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Alien

Martian farmers

Outstanding in their field, err, crater.

Hemp used to make graphene-like supercapacitors

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Re: can't resist

Ticket closed because user appears to be tripping balls.

Currant Bun erects £2 paywall: Wraps digi-paper around free footie

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Paris Hilton

Re: More importantly

It's the Internet, you can already see boobs and a whole lot more elsewhere.

Oi, Google! Stop LIBELLING us Germans, fix your autocomplete

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Headmaster

Don't tell him your name, Pike!

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