* Posts by Aladdin Sane

2988 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2015

Leaked: The UK's secret blueprint with telcos for mass spying on internet, phones – and backdoors

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Obligatory XKCD

China's first large passenger jet makes maiden flight

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99 orders secured

Their airlines have been told to order 99 cabs.

Best be Nimble, best be quick. You're out of a job at HPE – and that's sh*t

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Re: Human resources

Then shit them out.

Booze stats confirm boring Britain is drying

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If alcohol is so bad for you

Why doesn't the government shut the heavily subsidised bars in the Palace of Westminster?

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Re: Possible reasons

Fewer.

Microsoft Azure capacity woes hit UK customers. Yes, you read that right

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Re: data sovereignty is a PR issue?

IIRC, that was a specific case with a US account holder whose data was stored overseas for network efficiency reasons.

Link

Don't panic, Florida Man, but a judge just said you have to give phone passcodes to the cops

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Re: Misleading

Previously they did it illegally.

Chip design chap arrested for using photocopier

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Re: Is Huali....

Probably worked in the XYZ division.

China launches aircraft carrier the length of 13.6 brontosauruses

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Re: Oak smoked kippers.

What a guy!

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Re: Honey badgers

Does anybody know if Nick Cummins can swim?

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Only 1 island

So only half as good as the QE class.

UK.gov throws hissy fit after Twitter chokes off snoop firm's access

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Re: Re Mr. Python

So the government is filled with Gumbys?

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Pint

Re: depressing...

If it helps any, neither side wants you to drink beer.

TVs are now tablet computers without a touchscreen

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Re: Samsung. Eurgh .....

I won an LG Smart TV 5 years ago. Plex, Netflix and iPlayer still work absolutely fine. Still trying to win a UHD TV though.

Reg reader offered £999,998 train ticket from Cambridge to Horley

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Not forgetting

Michael Collins.

A very Canadian approach: How net neutrality rules reflect a country's true nature

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Re: given the endless efforts by Americans to cajole and rile them

Did you wake up listening to Heat of the Moment by Asia?

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Re: Just more decent, more sensible

Have you never seen Trainspotting? Or an old firm derby?

IT error at Great Western Railway charging £10k for 63-mile journey ticket

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Re: IT Error?

PEBKAC

Ministry of Justice scraps 'conviction by computer' law

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They'd probably just put the fine on expenses.

Mastercard launches card that replaces PIN with fingerprint sensor

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Re: @ patrickstar

I assume you mean BNP Paribas, not the right wing scum?

NASA agent faces heat for 'degrading' moon rock sting during which grandmother wet herself

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Law and justice are seldom the same thing.

Boss swore by 'For Dummies' book about an OS his org didn't run

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Pint

Have a --->

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Then why is there digging going on?

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Are you suggesting he's buried several wives?

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Re: But the real issue is

Solid eggs are now a thing.

Their pricing takes the piss though.

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Re: But the real issue is

Golly, I bet you're a hoot at parties.

As you stare at the dead British Airways website, remember the hundreds of tech staff it laid off

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Re: And it's back up it seems.

No, no, no. Wham! Make It Big is the album that George and Andy earned the exclamation point.

FCC kills plan to allow phone calls on planes – good idea or terrible?

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Re: erm,

Early 90s - Die Hard 2

Payday lender Wonga admits to data breach

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Re: Utter scum

Because genuine loan sharks don't want to be associated with this shower?

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Utter scum

Up to you whether I'm referring to the hackers or Wonga.

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Re: Cyber attacks are on the rise eh?

Nah, that's just Wonga's interest rates.

Ex-IBMer sues Google for $10bn – after his web ad for 'divine honey cancer cure' was pulled

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Headmaster

No adverts when I search on Google for homoeopathy?

Try searching for homeopathy and you might get different results.

Honor phone for paupers goes upmarket, assails flagships

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Re: pronunciation?

They could at least have spelt Honour correctly.

Manchester pulls £750 public crucifixion offer

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I see an opportunity

To get the special project bureau involved. Maybe if we 3D print the cross?

Alabama man gets electrocuted after sleeping with iPhone

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Re: Headline contest

Could go for the buzzfeed angle -

You won't believe what this man sleeps with. Shocking.

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Re: so much wrong here...

Another advantage of UK plugs is that they're so much easier to find barefoot in the dark.

D'oh! Amber Rudd meant 'understand hashing', not 'hashtags'

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Wearing gloves, we hope.

Head of US military kit-testing slams F-35, says it's scarcely fit to fly

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Re: Dr Havilland Mosquito?

And quite stealthy for its time.

Reg now behind invisible HTML5 Bitcoin paywall

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Re: Making money

Just nod if you can hear me...

SpaceX wows world with a ho-hum launch of a reused rocket, landing it on a tiny boring barge

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Re: Amazing

Our billionaires?

Virgin galactic are still around, though ever so slightly overshadowed by SpaceX's achievements.

Robo-AI jobs doomsday may, er... not actually happen, say boffins

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Re: Displaced not redundant

@Bob Rocket

Choose life.

Choose a job.

Choose a career.

Choose a family,

Choose a fucking big television

Choose washing machines, cars,

Compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.

Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance.

Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments.

Choose a starter home.

Choose your friends.

Choose leisure wear and matching luggage.

Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase

In a range of fucking fabrics.

Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning.

Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing

Sprit-crushing game shows

Stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.

Choose rotting away at the end of it all,

Pishing you last in a miserable home

Nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish,

Fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself.

Choose your future. Choose life.

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Terminator

I, for one,

welcome our new robot overlords.

UK's 'homebrew firmware' Chinooks set to be usable a mere 16 years late

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Re: Of all time?

Other classics yet to be discussed -

TSR2

F-111K

RAH-66

Bradley Fighting Vehicle

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Re: Of all time?

QE class catapults.

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Re: Usable Life

They should still have a long life ahead of them as they won't have amassed the flight hours that combat ready airframes would have.

Microsoft wants screaming Windows fans, not just users

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Re: I have a Win10 laptop

For your average consumer, that's all that matters.

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I have a Win10 laptop

It was cheap, it works, and it's better than 8 and Vista.

Home Office accused of blocking UK public's scrutiny of Snoopers' Charter

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?

Pirate of the Caribbean to play Hacker of the Caribbean

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Re: I'd throw in

Dennis Hopper is too dead.

Samsung plans Galaxy Note 7 fire sale

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CMOT

They'll probably be flogged from a market stall by some bloke called Dibbler.