* Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me

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BAE Systems' autonomous research aircraft flies itself to Scotland

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And when a kid

shines a laser into the electronic eye, then what?

UK warships to have less firepower than 19th century equivalents as missiles withdrawn

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The Mary Rose restoration seems to be nearing completition.....

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How are we going to protect the Falklands from those Arggie aggressors? Surely we can't leave it just to Jeremy Clarkson?

Shhh! Shazam is always listening – even when it's been switched 'off'

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Trollface

Re: Person of Interest

You don't need a tin-foil hat to be paranoid. Especially if you own my (patent pending) tin-foil onesie (with hood). Also useful if you're recreating 50s/60s sci-fi films in your underground basement !!

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So if Shitzam is listening, does that bugger up any other app that wants to use the mic, like Skype etc? It certainly caused issues in Windows 10 recently so is MacOS the same?

Google and Facebook pledge to stop their ads reaching fake news websites

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"or the primary purpose of the web property." - so Google will stop showing adverts on search pages because their primary purpose is showing adverts, not search results?

Microsoft, Slack et al will 'laugh their asses off' at IBM's biz messaging tool

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Facepalm

What, has Notes been canned?

Martian 'ice cauldrons' are prime spot to hunt LGMs, say boffins

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Re: Planetary Protection Programme

But do aliens take the same level of protection when they came here, kidnap red-necks in the middle of the country side and do probing of their various orifices?

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Just because there is liquid water and a bit of heat doesn't mean life appeared. You need a catalyst to start the whole living thing. So unless a bacteria laden meteor crashed into the ice sheet, got through it and settled in a nice warm bath for a few millenia, life is still unlikely.

NHS IT bod sends test email to 850k users – and then responses are sent 'reply all'

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Well, at least it was done by an IT profesional and not a dumb user !!!!

Samsung flings $8bn at buyout of connected car biz Harman

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$8 billion for a company that has annual revenue of $7 billion. Deal of the decade or what?

Drubbed Grubhub bub scrubs anti-Donald-dubbed snub sub-hubbub

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Surely

His comments are offensive and insulting to pro-Trumpers and he's actively discriminating against them. Double standards me thinks.

Kotkin: Why Trump won

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What I don't understand is

how can someone not elected into the Senate/Congress get to be President?

Robot solves Rubik's Cubes in 637 milliseconds

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"Infineon claimed the test had implications for driveless cars" - now the cars can try solving Rubik's cube whilst pile driving you and your car into the side of a truck. Nice.

Newly discovered cave-dwelling creepy-crawly is four times the man* you are

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"four penises, hairs capable of secreting silk and a whopping 200 poison glands" but how is natural selection going to compete with my size 12 boots?

‘Alan Turing law’ to give posthumous pardons to 59,000 men for 'gross indecency'

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So in a future distopean world

if kiddie fondling was legalised, Sir Jimmy would be pardoned? It's a dangerous road to go down.

Just what Europe needs – another bungled exit: Mars lander goes AWOL

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Breaking up the party

The lander was supposed to fuck up. That's what the boffins said before hand. It was being used as a test bed for the real lander in 2020.

The fact it probably made a new crater and from above the shiney bits will glint in the sun looking like water won't confuse any of Mars orbiters in the slightest though !!!!

Let's all go down the Strand (our data centre). King's College London goes TITSUP*

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I read

"SITS systems" as their SHITS system. Toilets not working? Major problem !!!!!

Brexit? No impact at all, chuckles reseller juggernaut

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hired 133 incremental staff

Couldn't get normal staff then?

Soz, folklore fans! Negligence, not Nessie, sank WWI German sub

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Pirate

Where's negligence? Nessie hit the sub, buckled some plates and it couldn't dive. Nessie should be awarded a Dickin Medal.

Digi minister Matt Hancock: Britain needs go full fibre. And we're not paying for it

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Why not copy Switzerland?

Out of the EU but trades with them. Oh no, not that bit. The gigabit over copper bit. We've loads of copper in the ground. Up the voltage or whatever tech magic they do and easily get 100 Meg + speeds. No more digging up roads etc.

Ecuador admits it cut Assange's internet to stop WikiLeaks' US election 'interference'

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Plan B

pigeons - those damn Yanks can't shoot everyone out of the sky, especially around London.

SHA3-256 is quantum-proof, should last billions of years

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Good for beelions of years eh? Like my 640K RAM which I was told was all I'd ever need !!!

NHS patients must be taught to share their data, says EU lobby group

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Who cares what the EU group think?

we're leaving.

LG’s V20 may be the phone of the year. So why the fsck can’t you buy it?

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and Clove just says "wait", you can't get it yet.

Apple's car is driving nowhere

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On Google's car - with A-pillars that thick, you're going to need help seeing out in front, especially coming up to junctions.

Court finds GCHQ and MI5 engaged in illegal bulk data collection

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Illegal but no recourse so justice is shown to be served (but not upheld).

I wonder if all the migrants who want to come here know it's more oppressive than where they're running from?

Chinese 'nauts blast off for month-long space station scouting mission

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Alien

Does Obama know what the 'I' in 'ISS' stands for?

Suppose he's one of those American's who think people from the 'Far East' come from east of the Mississippi.

Where's an ISS icon when you need one?

Drone idiots are still endangering real aircraft and breaking the rules

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So when they're buzzed by UFO's, they don't want to talk about it. But buzzed by UFD's (unidenified flying drones), everyone wants in on the action.

Sextortion on the internet: Our man refuses to lie down and take it

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Wonder if the crims thought

The Register was 'that register', you know for paedeos. And got your name/email from here thinking you're already known to the authorities.....

Forget malware, crooks are cracking ATMs the old-fashioned way – with explosives

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Thumb Up

How to reduce the amount lost

Put less cash in the machines but have more machines where they're needed. A bit of extra capital expense to the banks, sure, but if the losses are less. That's a big thumb up surely?

Drone exercise will transform future naval warfare, says Navy

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also attending

was the Russians and Chinese. Via malware, backdoors, trojans and well, any means necessary. And traditional means like double agents and that large submarine. Just there. To your right.

Hey! spies! Get! in! here! and! explain! this! Yahoo! email-scanning! 'kernel! module!'

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Only incoming mail?

What if my terrorist group used Yahoo! as a distribution server. Did the NSA catch me then?

Pwned Clinton aide Trumped

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Podesta obviously didn't learn anything from Hillary's use of personal email services for work use.

Casino cops are coming if we can't move all this cash in a hurry

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I hope his call out fee was pro-rata the cash in the cage !!!!

Galaxy Note 7 flameout: 2 in 5 Samsung fans say they'll never buy from the Korean giant again

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Most cargo carriers don't want to ship stuff with lithium batteries in them by air. Have had this policy for a number of years. Doesn't mean they don't get shipped, just that they shouldn't.

A robot kitchen? Whatever. Are you stupid enough to fall for this?

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Re: It's all bullshit

Strange, that's how they tech robots in things like car manufacturering. See how the human does it and then repeat.

Snowden investigator slams leaker-detector background checks

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Don't spy on your own citizens and insiders with morals won't tell the world.

Theranos investor sues

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And

Partner Fund Management should be sued by it's investors since PFM obviously didn't do due diligence on Theranos' claims. Karma !!!

Second hacking group targets SWIFT-connected banks

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Devil

They are now stealing from the banks, not the banks customers. So a victimless crime then?

Twitter yanks data feeding tube out of police surveillance biz

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Everyone is saying 'commercial usage'. Police/secret squirrels aren't going to pay commercial rates.

US investment 'heroes' are the people you love to hate

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The old guard know the cost of pocketing a congressman or senator. The newbies just chuck money at them so they currently are flavour of the month.

If bribery and corruption occured in US politics of course!!!

There are some really crap budget phones out there. Vodafone's Smart Ultra 7 isn't

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SIM-free?

A telco offering an own brand cheap phone SIM-free - are you sure?

Samsung to Galaxy Note 7 users: Turn it off. Now

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But they are still heavily advertising their other models on the telly. Let's hope it was only a certain type of battery that's the problem.

Google hires comedians

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"Ok Google... I'm have a heart attack - dial 999 please"

"(thinks - medical related...) Have you read the stories about the junior doctors?"

"Are you having a fucking laugh? Dial 999"

"Alright, alright. Just trying to lighten the mood. Do you know you can get a BUPA subscription....."

Nuke plant has been hacked, says Atomic Energy Agency director

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What's the collaboration between hackers infecting a nuke power plant and some kids wanting glow-in-the-dark bollocks trying to sneak some stuff out?

Yahoo! halts! email! forwarding! to! outside! email! addresses!

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Currently all emails are forwarded to the NSA. Some people want their emails forwarded to their own alernative email addresses. This is the problem which Yahoo! are trying to fix.

And wasn't there a story about BT users having this problem. Seems it wasn't BT's fault after all !!!!

TV5Monde was saved from airtime-KO hack by unplugging infected box

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Yves Bigot - bet he's not biased :-)

Steve Jobs' thermonuclear showdown with Samsung reaches US Supreme Court

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The evidence m'lord

'Samsung of “blatant copying” of the iPhone' - iPhones catch fire, Samsung's.....

Confirmed: UK police forces own IMSI grabbers, but keeping schtum on use

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For this kind of money, you'd think they'd upgrade Tetra.