* Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me

1782 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009

New measurement alerts! Badgers, great white sharks and the Lindisfarne Gospel

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what about 128 calves (clv) = 1 Lindisfarme Gospel (LFG) ?

Bring out your dead! Firm wants to pay big bucks for old bugs

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If phone manufacterers haven't upgraded their kit since Kitkat, they won't be offering patches.

Although I am willing to stand corrected HP and Lenovo (specifically tablets) !!!

Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals to be made from old electronics

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8,000 kg of precious metals for 4,000kg of medals. Someone doing the classic, 1 for you, 1 for me methinks!!

Ohio bloke accused of torching own home after his pacemaker rats him out to cops

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Flame

If he was doing an insurance job, why bother collecting stuff to save from the fire?

Twin brothers. One went into space. The other didn't. NASA reveals how their bodies differ

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Identical, except one is full of jealously and one went to space !!!!

Trump hits control-Z on cybersecurity order: No reason given for delay

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WTF?

RNC was not hacked. As in it was hacked but they didn't get the incriminating emails.

King Battistelli tries again to break Euro Patent Office union

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Is the Trumpster getting pointers from this guy?

Australia to review effectiveness of ISPs' copyright-defending website blocks

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Is the Oz gov't a fan of Spock? "The (copy)rights of the few outweigh the needs of piracy for the many"

Fitbit plans layoffs – report

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How will they choose the victims - make them wear Fitbits for a month and the slackest get the boot?

If USA wants a say in 5G, Cisco HAS to buy Ericsson

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Look at Ericsson's shareholders. Over 50% owned by Swedish corporations. Another 9% by Swedish retailers (whatever that means). I doubt they'd want their local company to do a "Nokia" (brought by yanks then closed down effectively with all the unemployment that comes with it).

To Hull with the crap town naysayers: UK Culture City's got some amazing... telecoms

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Well, you can polish a turd and get a polished turd. But what happens when you try and polish Hull? Yep, it's still Hull !!

Boeing's 747 to fly off the production line for the foreseeable future

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"signed up for fourteen 747-8 freighters in late October 2017, with options for another fourteen in the future."

Sooooo, do you mean 2016 or they took the option for the future 14 Jumbos?

Zuck quits anti-social Hawaiian land title lawsuit

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My brother went to Hawaii last year with his missus. He knows exactly what the locals farm (and you wo't find it for sale at the local Walmart either). As he said, cos of the missus, he didn't try any local produce but loads of locals sat on the beach with it.

Marketing company leaks 17,000 recorded phone calls, many with credit card numbers

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Remember, it's not the size of the leak but the leaks contents that count.

Happy Friday: Busted Barracuda update borks corporate firewalls

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And this is you should just let the NSA look after your firewalls, they're not going to bork any data streams !!!!!

Kylie withdraws from Kylie trademark fight, leaving Kylie to profit from… existing?

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Surely proper Kylie has prior art or whatever they call it and wannabe Kylie is just leeching off proper Kylie's years of hard work?

VPN on Android means 'Voyeuristic Peeper Network' in many cases

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Childcatcher

Just goes to show - trust no one, they are just trying to ensnare you. Especially on the Play Store.

Police pull up van man engaged in dual carriageway sex act

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Nice how if you follow the 'public sex site' link, they tell you the current known diggng sites. Not sure if it's to encourage 'visitors' or keep people away !!

Stop replying! pleads NetApp customer stuck in reply-allpocalypse

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Why the fuck was 'Reply to all' ever put on email programs?

'Celebgate' nudes thief gets just nine months of porridge

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If his stuff wasn't uploaded, I think we should see it. You know, to prove he did download the porn, er self expression not meant for public eyes.

I'm deadly serious about megatunnels, vows Elon Musk

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So, self driving cars in a gridlock underground won't be soul destroying or a cause of mass claustrophobia?

Apple goes global in Qualcomm license war: Patent spat hits China

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So they get a good deal in the USA but a bad one in China? Surely it evens out so it's the same as everyone else paid?

Forget Tony Stark's Iron Man – exosuits of the future will be spandex

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a. All superheroes (with super powers) wear spandex. Glad to see someones put 2 and 2 together!!!!

b. How come all those disco dancers in the 70's looked so lame or is that lamé ?

AI eggheads: Our cancer-spotting code rivals dermatologists

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Based on images alone

Proper doctors perform physical tests before irradiating/cutting up their patients.

Kaspersky cybercrime investigator cuffed in Russian treason probe

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Re: @AC

code 275 means no one (in the public) gets to know anything.

But my opinion is, whoever is high up nowadays in Russian cyber intelligence has just found out who stitched them up when they where DDosing UK betting shops in their youth.

Unite: CSC UK set for 'jobs massacre' as 1,101 heads put on chopping block

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It's just a IT joke...

1101 employess to be fired. It's actually 13 (in decimal).

* Just like the 'There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't."

Modular dud drags LG to first loss in six years

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Pinning their future on a smartwatch? In other news, LG filed for bankruptcy in late 2017.

It's that time of the year again: Texas school district blabs staff tax documents to phishers

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Why doesn't the IRS blacklist those returns with compromised social secirity numbers so when a return is made, check with last years address and I dunno, their name. If it's changed, send a SWAT team instead of a tax rebate.

UN staff demand ouster of controversial WIPO boss Francis Gurry

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Sounds a bit like a certain ex-FIFA charirman who refused to go.

UK ISPs may be handed cock-blocking powers

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How are ISPs going to deal with websites like Youtube ? Lots of harmless cat videos but also many videos of tits,cocks and pussies if you know the right terminology for the search box. Youtube just says are you over 18? Er, yes gov.

Congratulations – you're looking better than ever this morning!

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Earth seems very cloudy. Hope that doesn't affect the global climate.

Google tests Android Instant Apps streamed on-demand to mobes

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"The benefit for developers is that once an app has been streamed to a device, the full app gets installed and remains on the device, which should make ongoing use more likely."

So, to recap, you can now install apps without going through Google's store. Hopefully the security aspects have been prioritised so compromised websites don't spawn malware ridden apps. I mean, Google has thought of that. Haven't they?

I'LL BE BATT: Arnie Schwarzenegger snubs gas guzzlers for electric

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If Trumpy gets rid of the EPA, does that mean VW is off the hook?

Googlers reveal code they use for mass Windows deployments

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I was under the impression that Google didn't use *any* Windows products cos of some historic spat and forced their employees to use either Linux or Macs. It's good to see they've seen sense.

Using LinkedIn will land you a shiny new job – like, er, CTO of Microsoft

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But if you're with Microsoft and use LInkedIn to find another job.....

UK courts experiencing surge in cyber-crime case load

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"committed by teenagers and people with almost no technical skills." - bet they still wear a hoodie whilst on their computers !!!!

Jinn workers besiege delivery app co-founder to protest wage changes

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Appointing Wosskow seems akin to appointing Rolf Harris to see if paedoes are a bad thing.

Irish townsfolk besieged by confused smut channel callers

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Re: Wait a minute...

that was my first thought - unless Babestation has more than one number to call?

Where's a Playmobile scene when you need one?

2014: El Reg booze lab proves Bluetooth breathalyzers are crap. 2017: US govt agrees

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Pint

What about testing those disposable ones that you have to carry when driving in France?

Former HPE CTO Fink retires retirement, returns to tech

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Steven Campbell off to HPE then?

We've found a ‘vaccine’ for fake news. Wait! No, we really are Cambridge researchers

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If I post a fake news story, how can anyone preempt it by posting a less fake snippet?

Unless they can see into the future and then why don't they just buy winning lottery tickets rather than work for a thankless, faceless organisation?

Microsoft's Linux love-in continues with SUSE support in SQL Server

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As if Trump getting elected didn't forecast the end of the world, there is now this abonimation created between MicroSatan and SUSEvil. We're doomed, doomed I tell you...

Lloyds Bank outage: DDoS is prime suspect

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Coat

Probably refused a loan/credit card/mortgage to an IT chap.

Mine's the one with an approved application form in it :-)

Mozilla wants infosec activism to be the next green movement

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Harking back to the 60's? That'll explain the new corporate logo then :-)

Samsung set a fire under battery-makers to make the Galaxy Note 7 flaming brilliant

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If they were that shoddily built, how come they didn't explode on their first charge? Sounds like a conspiracy to me :-)

My hole is a private thing – see for yourself

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Dabbsy, IoT and VR were cancelled due to lack of interest by the public. Do try and get your head out of your hole and pay attention !!!!!

On last day as president, Obama's CIO shrouds future .gov websites in secret code

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So once they register a new sub-domain they'll pre-load it on web browsers? WTF? Why do I want US govt sites preloaded on my web browser? I never look at their stuff and it'll just use up my hard disk space.

Also, it's only going to encrypt new sites. So what about their existing stuff?

Fired Ofcom Remainer bod sues UK gov for withholding his payoff

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a bunch of incompetent, egomaniacal clowns.

Why does the article suggest only one minister when we have a government full of them?

Viral Chinese selfie app Meitu phones home with personal data

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That's a selfie of Darren?

Ooops! One in three tech IPOs now trading below their starting price

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Thought LinkedIn was now a Microsoft division?