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Voyager 1 passes another milestone: It's now 138AU from home

Wednesday 14th June 2017 10:44 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Tape

Probably Betamax

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Wednesday 14th June 2017 10:20 GMT Aladdin Sane

V'Ger from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Nomad from The Changeling.

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Wednesday 14th June 2017 08:38 GMT Aladdin Sane

Is that a euphemism?

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Wednesday 14th June 2017 08:37 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: What's that work out to?

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams

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British Airways poised to shed 1,000 jobs to Capita

Wednesday 14th June 2017 09:02 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: What Does BA Mean?

BOAC - Boeing Only Airways Corporation. They had UK companies custom design cabs like the VC10 for them, then ordered Boeing cabs in bulk.

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French firm notches up 50km unmanned drone inspection flight

Tuesday 13th June 2017 15:03 GMT Aladdin Sane

unredundanting

My eyes!!

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Tuesday 13th June 2017 14:58 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: BVLOS?

Not really. Line of sight in this instance would refer to a straight line between the operator and the drone. The drone may have moved far enough away that it is not visible to the Mk.1 eyeball, but there may still be an unimpeded direct line between the operator and the drone that could be used for control (e.g. radio).

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Hundreds stranded at Manchester Airport due to IT 'glitch'

Tuesday 13th June 2017 11:28 GMT Aladdin Sane

Probably because the airport/airlines haven't released details of the exact nature of the outage and therefore any information in the article would be pure speculation. Also, it's not like airlines would tell the truth anyway (see the recent BA cockup).

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Tuesday 13th June 2017 10:20 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Do NOT switch off power to the building to change a lightbulb.

So THAT's where I've been going wrong all these years.

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Lockheed, USAF hold breath as F-35 pilots report hypoxia

Tuesday 13th June 2017 10:28 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Awesome...It's called globalization, if you must know.

Trip to Shanghai seems less risky than a trip to Turkey ATM.

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Tuesday 13th June 2017 09:45 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Awesome...

F-16 - Fighting Falcon (also commonly referred to as Viper)

F-104 - Starfighter

Both are now Lockheed Martin products though (General Dynamics sold its aircraft manufacturing business to Lockheed in 1993)

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From landslide to buried alive: Why 2017 election forecasts weren't wrong

Tuesday 13th June 2017 10:10 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: As Liberal Party of Old would have told you

Manipulation of opinion polls is a running theme in To Play the King.

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Swedish school pumps up volume to ease toilet trauma

Monday 12th June 2017 17:48 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Who shits at school?

If you think 0830 to 1600 is 8 1/2 hours, you should go back to school.

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Monday 12th June 2017 15:31 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: When I was a lad ....

But when you were a lad, all this were fields.

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Monday 12th June 2017 15:14 GMT Aladdin Sane

Wind beneath my ring.

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Capita call centre chap wins landmark sex discrimination lawsuit

Monday 12th June 2017 14:46 GMT Aladdin Sane

EVERYBODY has "Investor in People" awards.

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Monday 12th June 2017 11:36 GMT Aladdin Sane

"We ... as an organisation that takes equal opportunities very seriously"

Except when it costs us money.

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We're not saying we're living in a simulation but someone's simulated the universe in a computer

Monday 12th June 2017 10:03 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Joerg

Not without the troll icon, no.

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Monday 12th June 2017 10:02 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Are we a simulation?

So we're a virtual machine then?

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Donald Trumped: Comey says Prez is a liar – and admits he's a leaker

Friday 9th June 2017 15:33 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: @ Sparty...

"[N]one of the world leaders wanted to deal with Hildabeast and prefered Trump to her"

Nope, nope, nopity nope.

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Watch out Facebook, Google – the EU wants easy access to your data

Friday 9th June 2017 13:59 GMT Aladdin Sane

All your data

Are belong to us

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Teen texted boyfriend to kill himself. It worked. Will the law change to deal with digital reality?

Friday 9th June 2017 10:11 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Is american law stupid?

Depends on the wording of the law.

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US spook-sat buzzed the International Space Station

Thursday 8th June 2017 11:03 GMT Aladdin Sane

Do you want ants?

Because that's how you get ants.

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Thursday 8th June 2017 08:43 GMT Aladdin Sane

That's no moon.

It really isn't.

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Ex-MI5 boss: People ask, why didn't you follow all these people ... on your radar?

Wednesday 7th June 2017 15:39 GMT Aladdin Sane

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

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Uber, er, taxi for the 20-plus bros booted out of upstart for harassment

Wednesday 7th June 2017 10:10 GMT Aladdin Sane

Probably being shown the seminar from Magnolia on loop.

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No hypersonic railguns on our ships this year, says US Navy

Tuesday 6th June 2017 15:42 GMT Aladdin Sane

Will it fit on a shark?

Or ill-tempered sea bass?

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Ex-Waymo engineer pleads the 5th in ongoing Uber law fight

Tuesday 6th June 2017 13:57 GMT Aladdin Sane

That's most likely in stock options which have yet to vest.

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Tuesday 6th June 2017 12:38 GMT Aladdin Sane

How fucked is this guy?

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Microsoft totters from time machine clutching Windows 10 Workstation

Tuesday 6th June 2017 08:36 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: 4 Processors Chips which could be 88 cores, 6TB of RAM...

But will it run Crysis?

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ESA astronaut decelerates from 28,800kph to zero in first bumpy landing

Monday 5th June 2017 08:05 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Well, thumbs up

I see your trip to LEO and raise you visiting Challenger Deep.

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Monday 5th June 2017 08:03 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Can someone explain...

OK, one last time. These are small... but the ones out there are far away. Small... far away... ah forget it!

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BA IT systems failure: Uninterruptible Power Supply was interrupted

Friday 2nd June 2017 15:37 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Looking forward to the BOFH's take on this

Hail Cthulhu.

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Friday 2nd June 2017 15:05 GMT Aladdin Sane

We haven't heard anything from the BOFH recently.

Coincidence?

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Toyota's entertaining the idea of Linux in cars

Friday 2nd June 2017 13:11 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Rather Linux than Windows...

How about Windows for Warships for Cars?

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Friday 2nd June 2017 10:01 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Two things that will happen ...

KSP would be more interesting.

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Trident nuke subs are hackable, thunders Wikipedia-based report

Friday 2nd June 2017 11:29 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: DavCrav

Was the hacker called Little Bobby Tables?

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Giffgaff 'roam like at home' package means £1/min calls in Jersey

Thursday 1st June 2017 12:08 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Calm Down

Or even "whingeing".

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Boffins play with the world's most powerful X‑ray gun to shoot molecules

Thursday 1st June 2017 09:57 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: I used to be a MALDI-TOFfer

Did you laugh like a maniac each time?

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Microsoft founder Paul Allen reveals world's biggest-ever plane

Thursday 1st June 2017 09:26 GMT Aladdin Sane

Design

All it is, is a scaled up White Knight Two.

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BT considers scrapping 'gold-plated' pensions in bid to plug £14bn deficit

Wednesday 31st May 2017 12:52 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Much like my pension, which I'll likely never get.

Actually, the typical person will get more money out of it than they put in due to the wnder that is compound interest:

"Compound interest. Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe." - Albert Einstein

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Wednesday 31st May 2017 10:20 GMT Aladdin Sane