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* Posts by Aladdin Sane

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Somewhere, Google's financial bods are playing on repeat... What do you want from me? It's not how it used to be...

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Need to get better at Google-fu.

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Artful prankster creates Google Maps traffic jams by walking a cartful of old phones around Berlin

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Combine the two and glass him? Tends to be very harsh on the hand of the glasser as well.

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Re: I don't think this does as much as people think

But they would be in public transport mode, not driving.

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Re: Ingenious

Stephen Fry saying "Handy" in a German accent is fantastic TV.

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Re: Ingenious

You could tie each phone to a balloon to make life easier, maybe coloured red for easy identification.

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Microsoft Teams starts February with a good, old-fashioned TITSUP*

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Re: Do I get to cast the first stone?

BSC or SSC?

Smeghead.

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Latest twitter update says an authentication certificate has expired, which seems slightly amateurish.

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In your face short sellers! Tesla goes two quarters in a row without losing money

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Re: Real profit or phony profit

Even if Tesla does eventually crash and burn (which is looking increasingly unlikely), they've succeeded in changing the car industry.

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Re: welcome to China

I think the speed they're developing the vaccine is pretty damn impressive.

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So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: turned it on like a PHB in a bondage parlour

New keyboard please

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Brute, Force and Ignorance

And now I'm going to listen to Rory Gallagher.

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Not call, dude: UK govt says guaranteed surcharge-free EU roaming will end after Brexit transition period. Brits left at the mercy of networks

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TL; DR

We're fucked.

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Star wreck: There's a 1 in 20 chance a NASA telescope and US military satellite will smash into each other today

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Surely they can create some sort of international agreement that all future payloads have to have sufficient fuel at EOL to de-orbit?

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You know the President is able to shut down all US comms, yeah? An FCC commish wants to stop him from doing that

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Re: Its not Huawei we need to worry about

Would that bring down Amazon as a whole or just the .com? I assume non-US based sites such as .co.uk would continue, as would all non-US based AWS etc.

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Accounting expert told judge Autonomy was wrong not to disclose hardware sales

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"wasn't improper in the sense of being beyond what a reasonable auditor could have imagined"

Ouch

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Rugby legend Will Carling tells El Reg: Techie stats bods will love this year's Six Nations

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Hogg's got a pretty decent boot on him, the 60m attempt for Chiefs the other week was insane.

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Re: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics...

That ground doesn't exist any more

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Beware the Friday afternoon 'Could you just..?' from the muppet who wants to come between you and your beer

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Was it a missing semi-colon?

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SLS goes vertical at Stennis while NASA practises SRB stacking

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Re: In MY day

OK boomer

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Obviously need more struts.

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Pretty sure I've built that in KSP.

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The Foot of Cupid emits final burst of flatulence in honour of fallen Python Terry Jones

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In tribute, I have bought some waffer thin mints.

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South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal and unjust' sale of .amazon to zillionaire Jeff Bezos

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Re: Balkanise

Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.

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Autonomous Logistics Information System gets shoved off the F-35 gravy train in favour of ODIN

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Re: Military Spec

Was one of those systems called WRAM? Papa Sane worked on that.

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The $4.3bn trial of the century is over! Now we wait for judgment

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Assuming that they have grounds for an appeal.

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Leaks point to Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with mammoth 108MP camera and ... what? 16GB of RAM

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But can it run Crysis?

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US hands UK 'dossier' on Huawei: Really! Still using their kit? That's just... one... step... beyond

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Re: Won't make a difference

Or worse, turn it into a bomb.

Step away from your keyboard and get some fresh air.

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What was Boeing through their heads? Emails show staff wouldn't put their families on a 737 Max over safety fears

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Re: How many other manufacturers?

Bravo

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Whirlybird-driving infosec boss fined after ranty Blackpool Airport air traffic control antics

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What a plonker.

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BOFH: You brought nothing to the party but a six-pack of regret

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Re: New year

Sure thing. Just take your bank balance and convert it to Iranian Rial.

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Re: New year

Ask and ye shall receive.

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Re: 'You brought nothing to the party but a six pack of regret?'

Only if you've been at the cricket.

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Love T-shirts, but can't be bothered to wash them? We've seen just the thing!

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How long until this gets issued to squaddies?

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It's Becoming Messy: Judge says IBM's request to shut down age-discrimination lawsuit should be rejected

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Can we have a popcorn icon please?

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'Buyer's remorse' drove HP's legal crusade to go after Lynch, High Court told

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Re: Christmas films are banned until much later in the year.

That's a film tie-in I didn't expect to see.

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Re: Slightly disappointed

I understood that reference.

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5G signals won't make men infertile, sighs UK ad watchdog as it bans bonkers scary poster

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I would happily inflict pain on the bastards that sold dowsing rods as bomb detectors.

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Obligatory XKCD is obligatory.

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Re: Report on Experimental Results

Far more fun to put slices of pickled gherkin into the microwaves they ave in Burger King. Quite illuminating.

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What's that? Encryption's OK now? UK politicos Brexit from Whatsapp to Signal

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Re: No, silly

So we've all been deceived?

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London's Westminster Council wins appeal against phonebooth-cum-massive-digital-advert

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Are the phone booths less lovely or are we having fewer of them? Enquiring minds want to know.

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Capita unfurls new consulting arm. Hmm, what shall we call it?

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Re: There is no such verb as "to ink"

actually less characters

Fewer

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Huawei's P40 and P40 Pro handsets will not ship with Google Mobile Services, Richard Yu confirms

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Re: Maybe worth considering

Yea - ok, you can downvote me for that

Done

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Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands

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Nah, they lack the depth and ability to give pleasure.

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You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched

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He already has a gaping void where his heart should be.

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Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

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Re: or, 1 byte

That's a hell of a ping test.

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Beware of bad Santas this Xmas: Piles of insecure smart toys fill retailers' shelves

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Re: Easy solution

When I was younger:

Don't meet strangers from the internet

Don't get into stranger's cars

Now:

Your Uber will be arriving in 5 minutes

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Doogee Wowser: The S40's a terrible smartphone, but a passable projectile

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Re: There was a time....

They missed with unerring accuracy. Concussing a child was frowned upon even in the good old days.

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Whoooooa, this node is on fire! Forget Ceph, try the forgotten OpenStack storage release 'Crispy'

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Re: proper application of thermite

Remember kids, thermite and thermal paste are 2 very different things.

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Re: proper application of thermite

Liberally and frequently?

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