Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me

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is likely to succeed only in getting participants into trouble, security experts "yawn".

I wonder if Samsung will 'donate' to this or aren't any presidential cronies involved?

My army of squirrels are primed and ready to find the acorns I've planted in the power grid - please pay 100 Bitcoins or else......

This is exactly the kind of attitude the rich need to make the rest of the population like them. Sorry can't find a 'Like' icon, especially not him !!!

Last time they tried this was 65 million years ago. Don't they ever learn?

based on experience and merit (at being a white bloke)

If the Trumpster closes his eyes and mouth (if only), that looks like a picture of him.

$50 million from a billionaires club? That is, frankly, pathetic.

"In addition, the binary also includes the open-source libjpeg code, which was last updated in 1998."

So it would have been written after 1998 then.

Perhaps they couldn't cope with the extra second just before midnight on New Years Eve? Accurate to 28 billionths of a second = extra second means 28 billion extra times to go wrong. Doh!

So the icons can't be understood by the locals so the words are underneath (in Japanese) but foreigners (let's face it, most can probably read English) have to understand cryptic icons whilst bursting for a slash?

They insist on being called JT Global not JT. This is due to grandose arrogance and the belief that it sounds better than JT Minnow on a world stage.

Sign hanging over Qualcomms door (probably) - "To patent is to profit'

But the battery still has to catch fire to burn through the insulating layer before the TPP kicks in. That's still a fire in my books even if it does eventually get put out by itself - assuming there is enough TPP to counteract a raging inferno in my pocket (oh er missus).

Just ask Facebook and Google. Their internal advertisers database would include "faith" as a metric.

It sounds like they don't want competition :-)

But Trump is in power in a few days. What's to stop him recinding that commuted sentence and making her do the full 35 years?

The polarising screen is in (I think) Jaguars or some other high end car so the driver can look at the GPS map and the front seat passenger can watch a movie.

I reckon people wanted a waterproof VR headset so they can pretend they're in the waterfall scene in Flashdance !!!!

“up to business and academia to manage the transition”. No, I'd prefer a duely elected government to decide what's going to be legal in the future.

An excellent study, sponsered by Costa. We all know (from othe studies, probably sponsered by Tetley's) that coffee gives you cancer.

So how does a developer use API's of 3rd party systems without putting in credentials, such as Twitter or Google's Gaming system?

The program is secure but if the admins still fall for social engineering/phishing emails... Oops, there goes the security.

It's that pesky human element again :-)

But whose going to be the first to launch an actual telegraph pole into space? That'd be a backup for the ISS if they lost radio communication !!!!!

Germany has form in telling Italy what to do. Check 20th century history, maybe around the late 30's/early 40's.

Good for him?

Begrudgingly, yes.

Should someone tell the FCC that the technical contact email address isn't working because if they do interupt existing transmissions, someone has to tell Amazon to stop.

Exactly how many people died when the service was working? More than one?

the late pastor ... started The Church of Eternal Life.

Not very good then was it.

I take it this to to preempt Le Pen winning and kicking off a shitstorm about how everything is fixed?

Surely home AI gadgets won't need to be controlled by another gadget? They have AI to know what to do.

So if it's an ex-directory number and I then dial 1572, does that then blacklist every ex-directory number?

And if those 8 divvied up their wealth to the poorest 1/2 of the worlds population will that change things? Not really. The next 8 will have more money than x percent of the population.

Now, just because Oxfam's directors are paid less than £125,000 a year (2015), it seems they want to bitch about the rest of the rich. When they give their time for free as their shop workers do, then they can complain - and put that £125k x number of directors to relief efforts.

Am I a killjoy

by pointing out it should be 616 not 666?

Yay, tell them on Christmas Eve and expect a fix. Just because he doesn't have any family or friends, doesn't mean all security bods don't spend Christmas alone/working.

List # 15 and 20

Really, they seem good to me or are they some geeky codewords?

First smart watches, now drones. Is 2017 the year tech dies?

In other news, 1000 Indian call center workers are brought over to Blighty.

Oi, HP

Come and buy my business. It's worth £10 billion, honest. Trust me. No, don't bother doing anything like checking the books yourselves, it'll just tire you out.

Not really SFW that website

since it shows Greg's "stuff" in Ann*, admittedly as a line drawing but Mary Whitehouse wouldn't like kids seeing it.

Also, it says it can count the calories burned by both people - how can it count the ladies calories burnt if the blokes on top doing all the work?

* Greg and Ann are the picture 'people' according the screen image on the app.

Whereas all space programs (on TV) show that if planet Earth was swallowed up by our Sun (when it expands as it dies), it just gets absorbed into the Sun, not shattered into a million pieces. Probably because the Earth is made of rock and the Sun is just a bit of gas. Can't see why Tabby's star would be any different.

Department of Energy? That well known establishment of international spies and spooks !!!!!!!

How did they not know 900GB was being pumped off their old server? Don't they have even basic web analytics running, or someone (their ISP/hosting company) giving them a ring to point out the bandwidth used?

Very sloppy.