* Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

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Russian rocket roll-out and raising revealed

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Re: @ allthecoolshortnamesweretaken - Space-grade Gaffer tape?

Give me a Swiss army knife or a Leatherman, a roll of duct tape, a can of WD-40 and a handful of cable ties and I'll get you to hell and back.

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Re: Space-grade Gaffer tape?

You can't go to space without duct tape, and that's a fact.

(Poke around a bit with a search engine, there are dozends of pages dedicated to the use of duct tape in space. Many missions and 'nauts lives were saved by duct tape.)

Legion of demons found in ancient auto medical supply dispensing cabinets

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Well, why should drug dispensing machines be any saver than money dispensing machines...

One way to look at the problem is to conclude that the free market is not able to provide sustainable long-term solutions.

So what will it be - a medicinal-industrial complex akin to the military-industrial complex? A handful of companies that control the market - but are increasingly unable to deliver anything useful (Exhibit A: The F-35 desaster)?

Or a cluster of manufacturers attached to universities to combine R&D and actually building stuff, all run by the state in order to make sure they are still operating in a couple of decades?

Free x86 mainframes for all! Virtual x86 mainframes, that is

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Re: Just a thought

Sounds intriguing. Anyone here who knows enough about UNISYS to answer this? Could the ACME SPLAFFER run in this?

BTW, I came here to ask if anybody could tell me what a virtual UNISYS mainframe could be used for. So browsing aside, what can you actually do with this?

US Marine Corps launches hacker support unit

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They sure do love their acronyms, don't they?

Wouldn't it make more sense to set up a seperate arm of the services that deals exclusively with all the cyberwar stuff and nothing else? You know, like when the Air Force was set up as as a seperate arm when it became apparent that operating a large fleet of bombers and fighters and whatnot was too big and specialised to be just a sub-branch of the army? This is pretty much the situation we have now, isn't it? You need a dedicated outfit of specialists for this sort of thing, not half a dozend competing sub-branches.

Project "Schrödinger"

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Interested, but pretty sure I'm > 5 km away.

Good luck with the experiment, but do be be careful!

Microsoft GitHubs BotBuilder framework behind Tay chatbot

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Coat

It's obviously a plot by North Korea to destroy all counties which are on a higher technological level than NK. In other words - the world. We are doomed. Mine's the one with the SAS Survival Handbook in the pocket.

Bash on Windows. Repeat, Microsoft demos Bash on Windows

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Microsoft's Brad Smith on encryption: Let the politicians decide

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"The answer lies in focusing on "timeless values," which include freedom of speech and privacy."

I wholeheartedly agree - so maybe dial down the telemetry a bit, mmmkay?

Surface Hub: A Howard Hughes folly, or a cunning Post It Note killer?

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"Surface Hub ... a cunning Post It Note killer?"

Don't be silly - where would people keep their passwords?

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If I had the money, I'd buy one. Just because.

Three-bit quantum gate a step closer to universal quantum computer

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Re: All Gates Now Available

Including Bill Gates?

DARPA issues collaborative spectrum sharing challenge

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Re: Explanation required

I can't even...

Firefox features will land out of cycle and Mozilla's cool with that

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Re: Alternatives to FF and Chrome?

Sorry, somehow the link was chopped.

Here is a working one.

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Re: Alternatives to FF and Chrome?

I've been testing Brave for the last two weeks or so. Chromium based and FAST.

See

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2016/03/10/Known_Hero_New_Anti_Tracking_browser_from_Ex_Mozilla_cofounder/

Favourite sound chip and why

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Adblock wins in court again – this time against German newspaper

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Re: Home taping is killing music!

Home fucking is killing prostitution!

Oz uni in right royal 'indigenous' lingo rumpus

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You don't get to choose your ancestors, and whatever happened in the past happened, good and bad.

I kinda like Churchill's take on this. Apparently he worried not so much that those who forget the past are condemned to relive it, but that the loss of the past would mean “the most thoughtless of ages. Every day headlines and short views.” (House of Commons, 16 November 1948)

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Re: Universities in Australia

Ahh, that explains everything!

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Re: Universities in Australia

I notice your name isn't Bruce... well that's bound to cause some confusion...

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If Cook would have been delayed by just a couple of days, Australia would have been a colony of - drumroll - France.

Discuss...

IBM's 'neurosynaptic chip' to power nuke-watching exascale rig

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Pint

Thanks, have one on me!

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Re: Skynet

Dyson? What do vacuum cleaners have to do with this?

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How does the chip compare to a human brain in terms of power consumption?

Sick to death of mighty rocket launches? Avoid these dates

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Pah...

I demand daily rocket launches!

Teen tricks leaky Valve into publishing hot new Steam game: Watching Paint Dry

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This kid is going places, brilliant!

And I totally would pay to play 'Watching Paint Dry'. For a reasonable price. And when I'm drunk. But still...

Apple's fruitless rootless security broken by code that fits in a tweet

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Re: They're so darn cute...

Aww, c'mon - when your kid gives you a paper smeared with crayon you say it's nice and pin it on the fridge. Positive re-enforcement, etc. Would start to worry if kid is actually 35, though.

Internet users don't understand security or privacy, says survey

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Always worth checking: who paid for the survey/study?

He who pays the band gets to pick which tunes it will play.

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Re: Government mistrust in Germany and Korea

Germany has seen terrorist attacks*, it's just that thankfully it's been a while since a large successful one.

*amongst others:

- mid 1960ies to mid 1980ies the Baader-Meinhof group and three generations of 'Rote Armee Fraktion', including the hijacking of LH181

- Olympic Games Munich 1972

- Oktoberfest Munich 1980

The FBI lost this round against Apple – but it aims to win the war

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Coming soon: FBI vs The Tech Industry, round two! Stay tuned, and pass the popcorn.

Right now the FBI has made a tactical retreat, combined with a couple of smoke grenades. But it ain't over 'till the fat lady sings. I wonder what they will try next, and how they are going to do it.

What really could spice up the proceedings would be a whistleblower from the FBI. I'm pretty sure there are feds who still have the fidelity, integrity and bravery to consider this.

Yahoo! Starts! Sale! Process! To! Fend! Off! Starboard!

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Is Yahoo! "big in Japan"?

'No regrets' says chap who felled JavaScript's Jenga tower – as devs ask: Have we forgotten how to code?

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Re: Are these dynamic dependencies really a good idea?

It's a DevOps thing, you wouldn't understand...

NASA discovers black hole here on Earth – in its software budget

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In comparison, going with SAP couldn't have been that bad...

Here's a great idea: Let's make a gun that looks like a mobile phone

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Re: I can make sense of it...

Good point. I'd like to add the 'please love me' attitude.

As to "Lovely people, but the ones who put men on the moon are in the increasingly small minority. - a lot of the ones who put men on the moon are dead already. (Especially the "Nazis with slide rules" brigade.)

Ransomware scum sling PowerShell, Word macro nasty at healthcare biz

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"Another strain of PowerShell ransomware was spotted by security researchers at Palo Alto Networks earlier this month. That strain, Powersniff, actively avoids healthcare and education machines, unlike PowerWare."

Interesting. Ransomware coders with a bit of consience?

Spanish launch heroic bid to seize Brit polar vessel

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Aww shucks,

if the NERC have the final word, it's going to be RRS "Suggestion by Expert Panel pending" anyway.

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Re: Half Man?

Vicar: "I'm not a complete man anymore..."

Major: "You've lost both your arms as well."

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Re: Seriously

Also, Columbus was Italian, working for Spain. Historical side note: Columbus faked his log because he was traveling in Portugese waters. No one was quite sure how big the world really was at the time, but Spain and Portugal had already divided it between them, contract brokered by the Pope and all...

But as part of my family is Norwegian - yeah, something viking, I could live with that!

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Re: Regardless of what NERC decide

Sorry, I can't shake the feeling that this was originally cooked up in the SPB's Spanish Branch's secret underground lair. Any comment?

William Hague: Brussels attacks mean we must destroy crypto ASAP

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"This ability "is vital in order to see patterns in the behaviour of those who might join a cell such as the one in Brussels. And it can help us to spot them if they make a mistake," wrote Hague."

So the game plan is to wait for the opposition to make a mistake? Very reassuring, Mr Hague, very reassuring.

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Re: Old school tradecraft

Moscow rules rule!

...pass the yellow chalk, please.

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Re: I find myself wondering . .

I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

Some old SAP systems have default kernel user accounts. Guess what happened next?

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Re: I'm going to have to change my name

"Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion." -- Terry Pratchett

Closing courts to fling £700m at digital stand-ins will fail, MPs snarl at UK.gov

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Okay, who let the minister talk to the consultants without proper supervision?

That's 50 points from Jellyfish House, and no puddings for a fortnight!

Whatever happened to ... Nest?

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"Fadell is a close friend of Alphabet CEO Larry Page, and was diverted to rescue Google's creepy wearable Glass. He's also rechanneled to be a performing "thinkfluencer" at the secretive celebrity events Google likes to host."

A performing thinkfluencer - is that really a proper job for a grown up?

Also, what outfit is he wearing for his performance, on a scale from, say, ABBA to Die Form?

Forum post stuffing

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Oh dear, looks like Andrew O thinks I'm a forum stuffer too... post re the NEST article awaiting moderation since +1 hour now... have I made it on his watchlist?

Apeiron reckons it's the Godzilla of upstart flash arrays

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Odd analogy to use. Will Aperion eventually be driven into the sea and destroyed by an experimental device of mass destruction too?

Amazon ports Alexa voice assistant to Raspberry Pi

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Amazon Echo

Put one in every room at every funny farm there is and see what happens...

Load DynamiX ties knot with Virtual Instruments

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"To coin a cliche, it looks like a marriage made in heaven."

That's exactly what Daimler Benz said when they bought Chrysler.

R&D white coats at HP Inc will make corporate ID into wearable tech

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The only wearable from HP I'd be interested in would be a calculator watch. With a longer battery life than the original ones.