* Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

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Juno probe has tech trouble, cancels orbital re-adjustment

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Wolowitz, if the telemetry shows that the valves are sticky with meat loaf residue, there'll be trouble. Understand? Trouble.

Yahoo! cancels! earnings! call!, dodges! hacking! questions!

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Earnings call? What earnings?

Hello |FNAME|, this is the Obama-bot Drupal chat module speaking

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Okay, Simon, now I think you're a bot as well...

German regulators won't let Tesla use the name 'Autopilot'

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Autopilot

Nicht-autonomes Fahrerassistenzsystem mit beschränktem Entscheidungsspielraum und unter ständiger Aufsicht durch den Fahzeuglenker für den Einsatz auf Bundesautobahnen, Bundesfernstraßen und dafür freigegebenen und entsprechend gekennzeichneten innerörtlichen Verkehrswegen, unter Vorbehalt einer entsprechenden Zusatzqualifikation des Fahrzeuglenkers und der Zustimmung des Trägers der Kfz-Unfall- und Haftpflichtversicherung.

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Re: Elon the robot?

Do Teslas run over Electric Sheep* ?

* Good name for a band, BTW.

Radio glitch as Schiaparelli lander probe splits from ExoMars mothership

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Coat

Did they try

... switching it off and on again?

(Obligatory lame joke is obligatory. Mine's the one with "the internet" in the pocket.)

Location boffins demo satellite-free navigation

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Pint

Beat me to it... have a pint!

Coming up next: how to use a map and a compass.

Salesforce rules out Twitter bid

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Re: Losing 100m/quarter

Remember those San Fransico hippies in the 1960ies, proclaiming stuff like "money ain't real, man"?

Looks like they were right after all.

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As if Salesforce needed help at losing money... no, the odds of Salesforce buying Twitter were always slimmer than the odds of Marc Benioff getting a decent haircut.

Forget malware, crooks are cracking ATMs the old-fashioned way – with explosives

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Usually not solid explosives but gas. Propane, butane, LPG, whatever. Plus a roll of gaffer tape/duct tape to seal the ATM housing.

I hear you can tell the guys who use a lighter from the guys who use some sort of remote trigger by the singe marks.

Nuke plant has been hacked, says Atomic Energy Agency director

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Re: @Voyna i Mor / Fry, DNA

Give Jasper Fforde a try.

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Re: Not a surprise

Obvious smokescreen for the gullible ... *waves hand* these are not the conspirators you're looking for ...

New Brit Hubble analysis finds 2,000 billion galaxies, 10x previous count

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Re: Are some here misinterpreting this finding?

Yes. Obviously a lot additional holes were punched into the big velvet cloth draped above us.

Google DeepMind 'learns' the London Underground map to find best route

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Re: Did this for coursework in 1987

One word: Plankalkül.

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Re: You'll know it works when it says...

... no, no, you don't want to go there.

New GCHQ unit: Psst, breached biz bods. We won't rat you out to the ICO

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Re: Government Buildings

Possibly closer to the truth than anyone would be prepared to admit.

BTW, how come that MI6 and GCHQ got new buildings while MI5 had to make do with a hand me down from ICI?

So. What's North Korea really like?

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Re: Living in a country that doesn't observe sanction niceties ...

Thank you for sharing some very interesting first hand experiences. Safe travels!

Pwned Clinton aide Trumped

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They could start one for the young wannabes.

In 2020, biz will chuck $100bn+ at protecting itself online

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Re: Spend increase

Give them a stern talking to, and no puddings for a fortnight!

Drone exercise will transform future naval warfare, says Navy

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"The future is ovbious ..."

Warning! Sharp learning curve ahead!

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Re: Inconvenience them into surrendering

Brilliant! Have one -->

This could really work... carpet bomb them with fluffy toys and little rubber balls, saturate all frequencies with polka music... the possibilities are endless.

Come to think of, a bit like the tennis match in 'Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot".

That UK law that'll share Brits' private info among govt departments? Yeah, that'll need oversight

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Re: New World (dis)Order

Sell?

If you have nothing worth taking, more like.

And you'd still have reasons to be afraid - they might not be interested for the time being, but that might change any minute.

Euro Patent Office staff demand new rights to deal with terrifying boss

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Re: King Battistelli

By the sound of all this - why 'King' when 'Duce' seems so much more appropiate?

Google TensorFlow AI bots drafted into Ocado call centre service

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Re: So, cutting-edge technology

Yeah, well, technology does give you the tools to mess up things in new, exciting and more efficient ways!

Wi-Fi baby heart monitor may have the worst IoT security of 2016

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Re: smart nappies

Self-changing nappies.

Email security: We CAN fix the tech, but what about the humans?

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"We CAN fix the tech, but what about the humans?"

Of course we can.

A robot kitchen? Whatever. Are you stupid enough to fall for this?

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Re: Ultrahouse

I see your Ultrahouse and raise you one Autochef from Wallace & Gromit.

Time to crack down on sales of dragon's gold - securobods

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Re: Paysafe cards is one way of doing it

Book tip: Avery Corman - The Bust-Out King. Old school scamming and laundering, but quite transferable to the digital age. Quite funny too.

Pound falling, Marmite off the shelves – what the UK needs right now is ... an AI ethics board

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Re: Don't ...

Flauschig.

Which, according to my better half, is also a perfectly cromulant state1) she enters into during a lenghty back rub.

1) As in the six known states: solid, liquid, gaseous, plasma, Bose-Einstein condensate, flauschig.

The exploding Note 7 is no surprise – leaked Samsung doc highlights toxic internal culture

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Re: Caring ?

"29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less."

Full list here.

3,500 Verizon call center workers can't hear you now

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Not just disposable - biodegradable even.

Chat app Telegram's meltdown today was literal – its data center cooling failed

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Re: I'm cancelling my subscription!

Nah, the missing link is this.

Apple’s macOS Sierra update really puts the fan into 'fanboi'

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I can't help it - this is always what I think of first when I read or hear "Sierra".

Virtual reality is actually made of smartphones

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Re: form factor

It's a smeggin' handheld device! It has to be a size and shape that the majority of human beings can grasp and hold for a while, and that's all there is to it, really.

The article as such is pretty much par with what you'd get from a born again christian waffling about an "intelligent designer".

3D printers might sell. Really

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Re: Pigs may fly. Really.

Research studies in the late 1960ies hinted at enormous commercial opportunities in flying sheep.

Soylent bars farting recall

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Re: Total Recall

One of my sources claims that Fort Detrick seems to be interested but wouldn't divulge any details.

Student software finds new Minor Planet found way out beyond Pluto

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Dibs!

FYI: Amazon's corner stores scan your plates

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Re: Not really a big issue

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Oh well, that's okay then - no-one is allowed to misuse it.

Rrriight...

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Figures.

Blighty's National Pupil Database has been used to control immigration

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Re: I was not posting it in jest

Book tip: Edwin Black - IBM and the Holocaust

"When they came for us, they had lists."

What’s the link between Brexit, cloud and open source?

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Why are "Manufacturing, Engineering, Construction" always lumped together in one group? An engineering firm that designs stuffTM that will be manufactured or constructed by someone else has different needs IT-wise than those other parties.

Without new anti-robot laws, humanity is doomed, MPs told

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Re: Why the scare ?.

Indeed. If AI systems should misbehave we wouldn't even need heavy weaponry to deal with them. All we'd need would be to come up with some good AI porn to distract them, then pull the plug.

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You work for The Toast Marketing Board, don't you?

Snowden investigator slams leaker-detector background checks

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Slightly off topic: just how much of the actual work involved in the vetting process is outsourced?

UK govt sucks at AI and robots, doesn't use them to its advantage – wait, is that good or bad?

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"The UK government does not have a clear strategy on how to maximise AI and robotics for economic benefit ..."

It's none of my business anyway as a non-Brit, and I don't want to be rude or callous, but from an outsider's perspective - is there anything right now that the UK gevenment has a clear strategy on?

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Re: We're not ready

Given our track record as a species probably we'll never be ready anyway; it's part of our very nature. So it would be inhuman to wait for ... what exactly?

As far as AI goes, I'm not really worried. Things have a way of working out.

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Re: Not their job

Arguably it is their job to provide some sort of framework.

Queen Lizzie awarded good behaviour medal

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Re: Ah yes. More confirmed kills than anyone else

I think she actually would have been tough enough to do all that, and then some.

NASA opens ISS to private sector modules

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"Commercial modules would join the 15 US, Russian, and Japanese modules that comprise the ISS."

Did they ditch Columbus, did I miss a memo?

Facebook Yarn's for your JavaScript package

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Cafu (noun):

The frustration of not being able to remember what an acronym stands for.

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