* Posts by Inventor of the Marmite Laser

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'Our way or the highway' warranty scams shot down by US watchdog: It's OK to use unofficial parts to repair your gear

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Will no one think of the printers?

Shirley, the attitude of "you'll use ONLY our ink and we've chipped the cartriďges to make damn sure" comes under just this heading

Microsoft Office 365 and Azure Active Directory go TITSUP*

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Orifice shagged?

Great! Now I might get some real work done

*Thunk* No worries, the UPS should spin up. Oh cool, it's in bypass mode

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Re: Creative Purchase Orders

Made a note of that. I'm sure it'll strike a cord somewhere and stave off future problems, so long as I can be sharp about it.

Elon Musk's mighty erection fires sperm at orbiting space station

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@TRT: Puts new meaning to bungee jumping

2001: A Space Odyssey has haunted pop culture with anxiety about rogue AIs for half a century

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Re: In dreams...

And re-reading 2065

Amazon warns you have 30 days before Music Storage files bloodbath

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Re: Aaaahhhh... the Cloud...

Wherein Cuckoo Land lies

Adobe: New Unified Customer Profile will personalise ads as never before

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Adobe dons dirty mackintosh

Stalks people.

Gets its face punched in

More ad-versarial tech: Mozilla to pop limited ad blocker into Firefox

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Re: Adblocking is stealing

Would you pay to receive unfranked mail that turned out to be marketing crud? Ditto accepting collect phone calls from marketers? For those with metered Internet, ads ARE stealing.

Uber's disturbing fatal self-driving car crash, a new common sense challenge for AI, and Facebook's evil algorithms

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WTF?

Why didn't the woman see an approaching car, which was traveling <40 mph with headlights on

Ànd wait till the road was clear before crossing

User asked why CTRL-ALT-DEL restarted PC instead of opening apps

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All together now:

640k ought to be enough for everybody

Windows 10 to force you to use Edge, even if it isn't default browser

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Re: Dear Microsoft

An acrostic, if I am not mistaken

Fancy a viaduct? We have a wrought Victorian iron marvel to sell you

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And for one that is still in use

How about the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct - Taken a boat over that a couple of times and walked across a few more, for good measure. A truly impressive thing.

Intel: Our next chips won't have data leak flaws we told you totally not to worry about

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So

How do I go about getting replacements out of Intel for the Intel chipped PCs I own that have manufacturer built-in faults

Sacked saleswoman told to pay Intel £45k after losing discrim case

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Re: Its the 360 thing

It's funny, isn't it, that àn employee can be asked for some kind of reference for a colleague and be expected to give an objective assessment, yet if that company's HR department is approached for a reference, all they will do is to confirm so and so worked there from ddd to ddd, for fear of being sued for giving a degrading opinion.

Stephen Hawking dies, aged 76

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That's a bummer of a way to start a Wednesday

What a guy!

Hope the new radio continuation of Hitchhikers goes well. He now knows whether 42 is the right answer

Android P will hear no evil, see no evil, support evil notches

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Parkin

Mmmmm

Will the defendant please rise? Utah State Bar hunts for sender of topless email

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Well

That raised a titter

UK data watchdog's inaugural tech strategy was written with... *drumroll* Word 2010

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Not so much about keeping up with the cutting edge

More like one of the last iterations of Word, or indeed Orifice, that is actually anywhere near as usable as 2003 version.

'Quantum supremacy will soon be ours!', says Google as it reveals 72-qubit quantum chip

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The three states of Schnroedingers Cat

Alive

Dead

Bloody Furious

UK watchdog Ofcom tells broadband firms: '30 days to sort your speeds'

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Wasn't there a similar opinion once upon a time?

640k ought to be enough for everyone

Vatican sets up dedicated exorcism training course

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Re: Need their contact info ...

Would an old demon get a succubus pass?

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Re: Does this course incur a fee?

Anyone else wanting to launch a frightfully clever pun: please only spook when you are spooken to.

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@sisk

Which, of course, begs the question: are there any Jewish ghosts and, if so, what does the Pope suggests one does about them?

Batteries are so heavy, said user. If I take it out, will this thing work?

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Re: Food and booze

Divide by cucumber error

Reboot universe

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@ Aladdin Sane

"Anthill Inside"

With very fond memories of Mr Pratchett. You are missed!

BOFH: We want you to know you have our full support

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The Pointy Haired Bosses of a company with thigh I am familiar

...are positively wetting themselves in excitement over "Digitization" and having multiple orgasms over what they vcould do "on the Internet"

Having had the misfortune to experience both their internet and intranet, this article is far, far too close to that grim reality.

I bet Hell has a portal "designed" by the same team of cretins

Talk about a hot mic: Dodgy Pixel mobe audio lands Google in court

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essential features like Google Assistant and voice calling were useless

Google Assistant essential? Voice I can understand, but Google Ass? Seriously?

Are you taking the peacock? United Airlines deny flight to 'emotional support' bird

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Re: My stock comment now

You've witnessed someone with a bit of pluck?

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Eee awww eee awww

eee awwwtn't have said that

Windows Defender will strap pushy scareware to its ass-kicker machine

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OK

So that's no more Windows10 upgrade messages, then?

The Zuck promises to give you more local news – and so save the world

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You can't light a fire with Faecebook

But I don't mind trying

Dodgy parking firms to be denied access to Brit driver database

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@big_D

Private tickets ain't fines

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Ignore is a big risk nowadays

Check out the many comments on Pepipoo regarding cases lost simply because the tickets and followup letters were ignored. Cases robustly refuted and, if necessary, robustly defended, usually succeed.

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Nope

Thay know a car with a given registration number exists but not to to whom it belongs at any given moment. That is why the parking companies are obliged to ask the DVLA for the keeper's details for each and every single ticket.

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@M_W - ANPR is not an answer

Have a rummage around on the Pepipoo forums for ANPR related threads. As well as plenty of systemic failures, you may also find things from parking companie's boneheaded belief their systems are infallible all the way to doctored photos and evidential pictures of signs (but taken in different car parks). You really couldn't make some of it up.

Electronic voting box makers want kit stripped from eBay – and out of hackers' hands

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Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity

TalkTalk starts offering punters choice to shift-shift to O2

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Despicable company.

You mean they have improved?

'The capacitors exploded, showering the lab in flaming confetti'

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One more kaboom

Does any one remember the onl ISC 3651 desktop colour computer? One of the very first dsktop colour computers, it was an 8080 based machine offering a stunning 127 x 127 charagter based graphics capability.

It also had a power supply section designed by someone who thought it was a good idea to use el cheapo electrolytice capacitors, and that it would be great to have the rectified mains feed on a track running between the legs of one of those capacitors.

All went well until the inevitable day said capacitor gave up the ghost and pissed electolyte onto the PCB, straignt between the track and the ground pin of the capacitor.

Didn't 'arf make a big hole in the PCB.

Job ad for designer proves its point with MS Paint shocker

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Re: Polygraph Examiner

What other pseudo-science do they use there? Graphology? Lay Lines? Crystals? Dowsers? Tea-leave readers? Trump?

Smut site fingered as 'source' of a million US net neutrality comments

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Ah, America

Land of the Vested Interest

FCC drops idiotic plans to downgrade entire nation's internet speeds

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Ah, America. Land of the

Vested interest

Wanna motivate staff to be more secure? Don't bother bribing 'em

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@Anon2

Could be, could be. Is yours owned by a French multinational with a big Digitise push?

Microsoft patched more Malware Protection Engine bugs last week

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How long

Before there's a megapatch and they call it Windows11?

BOFH: Buttock And Departmental Defence ... As A Service

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Re: And nobody checked

Will we ever get to the bottom of it? - Just arseking

Butcher breaks out of own freezer using black pudding

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Re: Tastes like chicken...

Stop hamming it up

UK.gov puts Suffolk 7-year-old's submarine design into production

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Subby McSubface

If Australian animals don't poison you or eat you, they'll BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSE

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Pint

Re: Fascinating

@noodle: "slap ...... with a clue bat" - nice. I may quote you once or thrice.

EEk! Mobe network's customer services down for more than 24 hours

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Re: <Smug Mode Activated>

@DJV. I can offer a fully supported pair of bean cans and a length of string

Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

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Dear Intel

You owe me five laptops and one desktop.

Please.

'Twas the night before Y2K and a grinch stole the IT department's overtime payout

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Merry Christmas everyone

And an utterly preposterous* New Year

Cheers

*like "propserous" but a lot funnier

PS - WHERE WAS THE BOFH final episode?