* Posts by hplasm

5613 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

Intel's Raspberry Pi rival Galileo can now run Windows

hplasm
Angel

Re: Its no Rasberry Pi

Chalk and Cheese.

One is a fully fledged computer with myriad uses and millions (?) of users.

The other is a Windows SBC...

Yes, but what are your plans if a DRAGON attacks?

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Go

Re: Easy pezee

Thanks- here is your £143,000 retainer fee.

hplasm
Devil

Re:same major incident plan

..."- they would put in place the same major incident plan that they use for natural disasters, terrorism or civil unrest."

Hide until the peasants are all dead.

Microsoft: Azure isn't ready for biz-critical apps … yet

hplasm
Gimp

Hmmm...

85% of the City of London runs on claret.

As for what GCHQ runs on- who's bullshitting now?

Microsoft Azure goes TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Usual Performance)

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Re: Total Inability To Support Usual Performance (TITSUP)

Absolutely! Best Heading and Acronym Evar!

hplasm
Windows

Re: 512K Day?

640k is enough day for anyone!

hplasm
Devil

Well-

That's what happens when you run a cloud on millions of Surfaces...

TV transport tech, part 1: From server to sofa at the touch of a button

hplasm
Joke

Re: Very interesting

Openreach? Twinned with Mos Eisley (q.v.)

Germany 'accidentally' snooped on John Kerry and Hillary Clinton

hplasm
Unhappy

Without coffee?

But...it's Turkish coffee!!

Take the shame: Microsofties ADMIT to playing Internet Explorer name-change game

hplasm
Happy

Re: How about

AIEEEEEEEEE!

Just like using it.

Top Gun display for your CAR: Heads-up fighter pilot tech

hplasm
Paris Hilton

Re: Why?

"Why does this need to connect with the car systems?...The basic idea of a HUD is good, just cut out all the other crap."

This my HUD...

Oo- cool! What does it display?

Er, nothing...

Rupert Murdoch says Google is worse than the NSA

hplasm
Mushroom

Anyone can play!

Murdoch is worse than ebola.

See- easy.

What happens in Europe, doesn't stay in Europe: US giants accused of breaking EU privacy pact

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Coat

AOL, Adobe, Salesforce, Datalogix, Marketo, BlueKai, Criteo, Merkle and others

Are Merkle spying on Merkel?

Snowden on NSA's MonsterMind TERROR: It may trigger cyberwar

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Re: Well if you do wnat to orchestrate a DoS get the US Govt to organize it.

Where DoS == Denial of Sanity.

Clock ticking for Surface 3 as Microsoft preps for globo-launch

hplasm
Meh

Re: "Surface is a B2B machine"

I did say 'box to bin'.

I didn't say I'd buy one of these.

I'm not that daft.

hplasm
Mushroom

Re: Surface

"Our CEO, CIO and a whole bunch of senior execs have been given a device and they love them."

This explains why the banking sector is covered in its own shit.

hplasm
Windows

Re: "Surface is a B2B machine"

" I certainly don't feel so stupid that I couldn't get some use out of it."

But stupid enough to want to pay for one?

hplasm
Devil

"Surface is a B2B machine"

Box to bin?

Fanfare of trumpets as LOHAN reveals mission patch

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Get them

into the Shop... with more stuff too!

Twitter can trigger psychosis in users

hplasm
Happy

Re: How many doctors does it take to change a twitter user?

"> A study ... based on the case ... the five doctors wrote."

Isn't William Hartnell dead now?

hplasm
Boffin

Twitter worse than Cannabis!!

Mrs C did not have a history of psychosis in her family history and her occasional marijuana use was found to have not contributed to the condition.

Microsoft throws old versions of Internet Explorer under the bus

hplasm
Devil

Re: Product to Service

"Office? Exchange?"

He did say 'popular products'

CIA infosec guru: US govt must buy all zero-days and set them free

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"There are only two industries that have no liability problems he said – religion and software-

– and this needs to change for the coding community."

Change for both would be even better

African samba queen: Don't cut off pirates' net connections – cut off their FINGERS

hplasm
Joke

Re: Lost in Translation

Easier- Kill the artists. The more their work is 'pirated', the sooner they are killed. Soon the problem will solve itself!

New iGasm: Apple to unveil not one but TWO iPhone 6 models on 9 Sept

hplasm
Alert

Re: Sept 9 is day Mao died

"... and consigned 10's of millions of fellow Chinese to death by starvation and worse in the glorious name of a broken ideology."

Wow.

Apple have a lot to answer for...

BAD VIBES: High-speed video camera records your voice from trash

hplasm
Boffin

Re: Er....

"There was an interesting bug found in the US embassy in Moscow and to this day nobody knows hw it works!!!"

Would that be the one with the tuned microwave cavity with a diaphragm that was vibrated by sound?

I think they did figure it out fairly quickly- after it was discovered, which took years...

END your Macbook SHAME: Convert it into a Microsoft SURFACE

hplasm
WTF?

Re: Cheaper still

"A 4 notepad and a Parker pen?"

Or throw your macbook under a bus...

YOYOY?

Robot cars to hit Blighty in 2015

hplasm
Devil

Re: I want both

"I wonder how automated cars will handle..."

Better than most drivers, probably- certainly better than most RWD drivers in ice...

Warm, perhaps ALIEN LIFE-bearing water gushers FOUND ON MOON of Saturn

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WTF?

Re: Think electricity....are we allowed to in public ? ? ?

"Basically everything we know is baloney."

that seems apparent.

Bitcoin on ATM? Pfft! We play Doom on ours

hplasm
Coat

Re: Kinda neat...

Or NatWest Bank...

Microsoft bakes a bigger Pi to cook Windows slabs

hplasm
Devil

Re: Huh?

"Comes with a windows license"

Included in boxes of cereals (serials?) next...

'Blow it up': Plods pop round for chat with Commonwealth Games tweeter

hplasm
FAIL

Perhaps-

some of them are practicing to jump ship to the Met if Scotland goes it alone?

Sysadmin Day 2014: Quick, there's still time to get the beers in

hplasm
Pint

This-

For all.

Hapopy SysAdminDay!

FRIKKIN' LASERS could REPLACE fibre-optic comms cables

hplasm

Re: Why?

Misdirection.

This is prototype 'confinement beam' tech.

It's Transporter trans-physics 101,Cap'n!

Microsoft: We're making ONE TRUE WINDOWS to rule us all

hplasm
Meh

Re: The Plan

"The future does not look to bright."

Not for MS it doesn't...

Captain Kirk sets phaser to SLAUGHTER after trying new Facebook app

hplasm
Coat

"Khaaaaaan-

-'t see a use for this app!"

Nadella: Apps must run on ALL WINDOWS – PCs, slabs and mobes

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Meh

"...developers are targeting not just Windows Phone customers..."

"... with their apps, but the entire Windows installed base of 3.2 billion users."

How many of which run the crappy app UI?

I don't think so...

UK government officially adopts Open Document Format

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Coat

Re: Better but still a bit of a pigs ear

"...ditch paper shaped shit altogether."

But it's self-wiping!

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And so begins-

The Enlightenment.

About bloody time too.

Report: American tech firms charge Britons a thumping nationality tax

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Unhappy

Re: I think...

Many moons ago on a trip to the US, a friend of mine was outraged by the $ price of trainers being half of what he had just paid in £.

The trainers were made in the UK (those were the days) just around the corner from his house.

Not impressed- considering they had to be sent over the pond...

Unbridled BONKING and rampant ROGERING at YOUR office!

hplasm
Happy

"No if only I could use that just once in our call logging system!"

You can- but only once...

CERN data explains how Higgs heavies other matter

hplasm
Boffin

"...the outcomes of 20.3 inverse femtobarns"

Marvelous banter!

Microsoft: OK, Office 365 sellers – you can be customers' 'first contact'

hplasm
Devil

In other news-

Microsoft aquires a bargepole.

Space geeks' resurrected NASA Sun probe ISEE-3 now on collision course with THE MOON

hplasm
Happy

Scotty?

His ashes are in space- possibly clogging up satellite thrusters...

Read the proposed US ASTEROIDS Act to green-light mining IN SPAAAACE

hplasm
Pirate

Space Pirates?

I'm in!

Royal Navy parks 470 double-decker buses on Queen Elizabeth

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Re: Exact Change

Mary Whitehouse. Experience.

possibly both...

hplasm
Pint

Re: Exact Change

Trojan Buses.

That will keep them guessing.

But- a bottle of Islay Malt!

Sacrilege!

</You Poured it On a Fish?>

UK Xmas 2014: Go to shops a normal human, walk out a glasshole

hplasm
Devil

What to get?

Violence magnet Glasses or Blue Expensive Doorwedge?

Tricky...

Windows users: You get a patch! And you get a patch! And you get a patch! Everybody gets...

hplasm
Meh

Re: Virgin Media better warn their users then..

Sounds more like BT...

Goldilocks Gliese planets don't actually exist

hplasm
Coat

They did exist-

But the Bebo Blast blew then up!