* Posts by tony2heads

1344 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Apr 2010

Those IT gadget freebies you picked up this year? They make AWFUL Christmas presents

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Coat

Evil green liquid

Sounds like absinthe. Watch out for the hallucinations (from the wormwood content).

Remember what they say: absinthe makes the heart grow fonder

Camera company, huh? Snap's nerd goggles look destined for landfill

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Estimating that the number is 250,000, that's over $30m worth of stock.

The stock is worth approximately $0 if nobody wants it.

AI bot rips off human eyes, easily cracks web CAPTCHA codes. Ouch

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Terminator

Re: Success rate of 89.9%?

Are you a AI system then?

Samsung to let proper Linux distros run on Galaxy smartmobes

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Query

Is this more than Lil'Debi

NYC cops say they can't reveal figures on cash seized from people – the database is too shoddy

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WTF?

Only in america

Cops steal more than the burglars

Argh, my loafer just fell down the rope ladder! Yes, I'm in the Microsoft treehouse

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@phuzz

No, beancounters suck all the available energy of everything around them, so the air gets cold

Neutron stars shower gold on universe in big bang, felt on Earth as 100-second grav wave

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Smash neutron stars together

That's how you get Heavy Metal, man

Outlook, Office 2007 slowly taken behind the shed, shots heard

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Picture

Should be Old Yeller (the dog from the movie).

Had been useful but now liable to be infected.

Dome, sweet dome: UAE mulls Martian city here on Earth ahead of Red Planet colonization

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Coat

Re: Mars-like conditions?

Put it on the Antarctica, that would be more realistic.

Icon; not a coat but a snorkel parka

Ex-EDS bod at DXC Technologies? Sign up to new pension scheme - or else...

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@Dominion

As a rough guess I would suggest that unless you plan to stay there another 20 years you go for the final salary pension.

You pension is (for most people) there for a LONG time.

Oracle 'systematically denies' its sales reps their commissions, forces them to work to pay off 'debts', court told

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Devil

Oracle is clearly run by Darth Vader

"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further"

Icon: Oracle management

75 years ago, one Allied radar techie changed the course of WW2

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Heroes

I suspect that - like Jack Nissenthal - a lot of the real heroes who made a difference in WW2 hardly got a mention (never mind a medal)

Russia's answer to Buckminster Fuller has a buttload of CGI and he's not afraid to use it

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balance on the median

That makes no sense at all.

What you should go for would be a personal ekranoplan

Petition calls for Adobe Flash to survive as open source zombie

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Is that Gnu Gnash that you are referring to

Crims snatch 5.5 million social security numbers from Kansas govt box

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"Kansas has no data breach notification laws"

What century do they live in? From some of their education I would guess the 14th (obviously before the Renaissance)

systemd'oh! DNS lib underscore bug bites everyone's favorite init tool, blanks Netflix

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Re: Alternate

Many more are available

What is this – some kind of flashy, 3-bit consumer SSD? Eh, Seagate?

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Re: Endurance v reliability

As Dr Tyrell says to Roy Batty: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long

Watson AI panned, 5¼ years of sales decline ... Does IBM now stand for Inferior Biz Model?

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Re: Eat this, Dorothy Dietrich

I really think that a CEO's pay should be directly connected to growth in income of the firm.

If it grows 10% the pay should grow 10%, and if it drops 10% their pay should drop 10%.

And if they drive it to bankruptcy - NO PAY.

As the meerkats say - simples.

UK.gov embraces Oracle's cloud: Pragmatism or defeatism?

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WTF?

Re: Cluebat required

Is sensitive Home Office data allowed to be outside the UK??

Good news: Samsung's Tizen no longer worst code ever. Bad news: It's still pretty awful

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Megaphone

What Would Linus Say!

They need a leader like Linus Torvalds who will take no crap code, and will let then know it VERY LOUD

Is this a hotdog? What it takes for an AI to answer that might surprise you

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Re: This isn't AI...

Some dogs have that problem.

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As Rene Magritte might say

Ceci n'est pas un hotdog

It is just a 2-D representation of the obnoxious foodstuff

On the couch with an AI robo-doc asking me personal questions

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Joke

Off home

See you later alligator

While USA is distracted by its President's antics, China is busy breaking another fusion record

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@bombastic

As you seem to have some knowledge: why have the polywell designs I have seen on based on a cube, rather than on a dodecahedron or an icosahedron?

Tape lives! The tape archive bit bucket is becoming bottomless

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Don't bother with the 'compressed'

A lot of stuff for long-term (i.e. tape) storage would be compressed before it go to the tape drive

German e-gov protocol carries ancient vulns

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is this only in the Java version?

There are other implementations of the OSCI-Transport library (.NET and maybe others)

Are they vulnerable too?

Former GDS head Mike Bracken quits Co-op

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Devil

Re: Huge payoff for Mike...

Could be worse: 1010011010

HMS Windows XP: Britain's newest warship running Swiss Cheese OS

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Alert

@Ben1892

It could have been worse: it could have been Vista

Icon: all hands to the pumps - you may need it

What? What? Which? Former broadband minister Ed Vaizey dismisses report

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RFC 1149

She will need to check there are no peregrine falcons around

SpaceX nails two launches and barge landings in one weekend

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Coat

heavy metal asteroid

can we name it Led Zeppelin?

Men charged with theft of free newspapers

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1 per user

Would it have been OK if they had taken the string from the bundles and tipped them into a wheelbarrow?

I suspect that the real story was that they were trying to censor something in the paper.

PLATO mission to find alien life is given the thumbs up

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Re: But... Ming's warning...

I'll see your Ming and raise you a Reaper

Debian 9 feels like home with security upgrades and a flaming vulpine warming your toes

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firefox

It a nickname for the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) not a burning fox. It is related to the raccoon

Conservative manifesto disappears offline – then mysteriously reappears

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fossils?

more like Coelacanths. They were long thought to be extinct, but still lurk in dark places

White House sicko sent down for 20 years after sexting underage girls

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Surely he should know the old phrase

“Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.”

As a defence he should claim that he knew it was not a 14 year old girl, but a cop.

Dell BIOS update borks PCs

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So to get zero stars

Wipe out the entire human race and turn planet earth to a blackened cinder?

Bloke charged under UK terror law for refusing to cough up passwords

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Coat

Outside the local Cop Shop

Did he get the flowers and board games there?

Unpaid tech contractor: 'I have to support my family. I have no money for medicines'

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New Icon please

I suggest this before, but I want a 'Scumbag Corporation' icon (perhaps the Scumbag Steve hat)

How would you pronounce 'Cyxtera'?

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Re: Cyst -Era or Cist-Era

On reflection I think my first suggestion is the better

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Cyst -Era or Cist-Era

An age of pust-filled sacks, of the time of ancient coffins

Mastercard launches card that replaces PIN with fingerprint sensor

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Problem

How about thieves making fingerprints from photos of your hand or any item you have touched when making a purchase?

Back to the future: Honda's new electric car can go an incredible 80 miles!

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80 miles

That would be aiming at the little old lady going to the shops.

Considering the age distribution in the Japanese population, that might be a viable market.

Broadband providers almost double prices after deals end

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Unhappy

Re: upto..Xmbps

translate 'up to' to 'no more than'. It never means anything else.

Customer satisfaction is our highest priority… OK, maybe second-highest… or third...

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I remember this one; what ever were they trying to get me to do?

Error 503 Service Unavailable

Service Unavailable

Guru Meditation:

XID: 1521634984

Varnish cache server

I had a small pot of varnish in the shed, but could not find the cache server anywhere on the board.

Device spend will rise 2% to $600bn in 2017, say techno-seers

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Re: Ah yes - Gartner

Gartner forecasts are less reliable than Old Moore's Almanac

Wet, wild Mars stripped off by hot young star, left barren and red faced

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Boffin

Re: iron-nickel core

Doesn't have to be iron-nickel to get a magnetic field.

The huge magnetosphere of Jupiter (about 20,000 times stronger than earth's) is probably generated from liquid metallic hydrogen (under the high pressure in the core)

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

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Re: How about the jobs that those robots create ?

I think you mean a Butlerian Jihad.

Microsoft wants screaming Windows fans, not just users

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Wrong picture

If I think of screaming windows users, the image I get is like the picture by Edvard Munch

Trump's America looks like a lousy launchpad, so can you dig Darwin?

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Why not Equador

As far as launch sites go, why not Ecuador:

- on the equator

- plenty of high ground (=less air to go through)

- has petrochemical industry

- US $ as currency

also note: Chimborazo is the furthest point on the earth's surface from the centre of the earth (not Everest , because of the equatorial bulge)

I've Been Moved: IBMers in same division slapped with 2nd redundo scheme in 2 months

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Operation Baccarat

Sounding more like Russian Roulette for IBMers. If you were spared the first time, there is the next chamber ready