* Posts by Crisp

2852 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2012

The Sun will blow up into a huge, glowing bubble of gas during its death

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40,000 Kelvin

So shorts and tshirt weather?

Zombie Cambridge Analytica told 'death' can't save it from the law

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Innocent men don't run from the police

And it looks very suspicious to a jury.

We just wanna torque: Spinning transfer boffins say torque memory near

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Re: You mean like Dead or Alive?

You spin me right round baby, right round.

UK Parliament roars: Oi! Zuck! Get in here for a grilling – or you'll get a Tower of London tour

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"no matter how much money you have, you are still bound by each country's laws"

[Citation Needed]

Mannequin Skywalker takes high ground on Bezos-backed rocket

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Colonel, you better have a look at this radar

I don't know, sir, but it looks like a giant...

‘I broke The Pentagon’s secure messaging system – and won an award for it!’

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The Left Switch.

I feel like the three sounds I heard could be explained by an initial erroneous flipping of a switch on the right followed by a hasty, corrective flipping of the requested switch.

TSB boss: We know everything's working, you just can't see that

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Who'd've thought cash doesn't behave quite like electrons?

First, let us consider the scenario where we have a perfectly spherical ball of cash in a vacuum...

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And the farce continues

The "It's all ITs fault, honest" excuse was wearing thin last week.

UK gov grilled over massive exposure to struggling outsourcer Capita

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"Much hilarity ensued"

I guess it must be funny if it's not happening to you and it's not your money that's getting wasted.

Petty PETA rapped by judges over monkey selfie copyright stunt

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PETA, the same guys that employed Rodney Coronado.

It's funny how they have the word ethical in their name.

UK consumer help bloke Martin Lewis is suing Facebook over fake ads

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I hope he wins.

And I hope he gets a settlement that reflects how much money Facebook are making from fraudulent ads.

Australian Feds cuff woman who used BTC to buy drugs on dark web

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Boffin

Re: I am reminded...

"How does either black hat prove that they are indeed 'trustworthy' black hats?"

There is no honour amongst thieves.

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Re: They can´t sniff out crime on the dark web

Assume that there is a back door on every exit node. I'm sure you'd be able to sniff something from the packets as they whizzed by.

US, UK cyber cops warn Russians are rooting around in your routers

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Are Russians taking a proper gander at my router?

It makes a change from the Chinese.

France building encrypted messaging app for politicians

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An app with a limited number of users will get less scrutiny from most security experts.

Except from "interested computer professionals", who you can bet will be scrutinizing it for every vulnerability it has.

Donkey Wrong: Arcade legend Billy Mitchell booted from record books amid MAME row

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Looks like they've got him over a barrel for monkeying with his scores.

I'll go...

How life started on Earth: Sulfur dioxide builds up, volcanoes blow, job done – boffins

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Re: Earth has 800,000 cubic miles of Uranium with 4.4 billion year half life....

Which bit of the above post is supposed to make sense?

Birds can feel Earth's magnetic fields? Yeah, that might fly. Bioboffins find vital sense proteins

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Re: Magnetic Puns?

They are the best. Bar none.

I'm sure someone else can horseshoe one more in.

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I hear ornithologists are all a twitter about this.

It's certainly a feather in Atticus Pinzón-Rodríguez's cap.

My PC makes ‘negative energy waves’, said user, then demanded fix

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Boffin

Negative energy waves

Clearly an inexperienced technician.

All he needed to do was reverse the polarity. Ticket closed.

Britain's 4G is slower than Armenia's

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Re: Crusty old kit.

My GPS tracker doesn't really need any more than 2G.

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

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Re: a new site built directly on a flood plain

That's free water cooling. A cost saving right there!

UK regulator bans slasher-flick parody ad for OnePlus 5 mobe

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Re: Have you ever seen Thomas the Tank Engine?

Did you see the episode where Annie and Clarabel get smashed from behind?

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Re: chop his wheel off

No, I think you're thinking of Candle Cove.

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Have you ever seen Thomas the Tank Engine?

Henry gets walled up inside a tunnel.

While he's still alive!

Law's changed, now cough up: Uncle Sam serves Microsoft fresh warrant for Irish emails

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"Our rules prevent us from doing something!"

"Ok! Let's quickly change them to allow us to do what we wanted to do anyway."

"What should I do with this shed load of unintended consequences?"

Mozilla rejects your reality and substitutes its own … browser for VR and AR goggles

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Anything has to be an improvement on the Samsung VR browser

I want massive widescreen browsing!

Need a needle in an artery? Move over, doc, there's an app for that

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No point having doctors struggling in vein.

I'm going.

Wanna work for El Reg? Developers needed for headline-writing AI bots

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I was just going to repurpose the software I wrote for the Daily Mail

El Reg readers like stories about Princess Diana right?

Let's go to Mars, dude: Euro space parachute passes maiden test

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Surely you'd throw a descent party?

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough

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Re: THE CAKE IS A LIE

Cake is a made up drug.

Boffins stalk house-hunting bees, find colony behaves kind of like a human brain

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Re: A sting operation?

Looks like a honey trap to me.

Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage

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Too Little Too Late

Zuckerberg has already made off like a bandit.

NASA fungus problem puts theory of 'Martian mushrooms' on toast

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Re: Suggested title...

There's not mushroom for puns in The Register.

Europe plans special tax for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon

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I'm not sure that targeting specific companies is the way forward.

Tightening up existing legislation to effect a situation where it's more advantageous for all companies to pay their tax should be the way forward I think.

Currently the rules rewards companies that game the system and avoid paying their fair share.

Senate mulls offensive AI, new training tools and now Chinese faceswaps Trump

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Trump Deepfake

Now that mental image is firmly lodged in your brain, I'll be on my way!

UK peers: Is this what you call governance of facial recog tech? A 'few scattered papers'!

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Boffin

Re: Fight back

I am fighting back. Every 3 months I smack myself in the face with a frying pan.

US Navy gives Lockheed Martin $150m big frickin' laser cannon contract

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Mushroom

Now, prepare to witness the firepower

of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battleship!

Boffins baffled as AI training leaks secrets to canny thieves

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Alert

Sir! It's the machines!

They're remembering!

Inviting nearby exoplanet revealed as radiation-baked hell

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Re: Need I finish the book?

It turns out, he really is his father.

The Great Bulgarian Streaming Scam may well have been scummy, but Spotify got paid

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Payola

Streamed over and over.

A dog DNA database? You must be barking

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These criminal mutts are going to be hounded by the police.

Australia joins the 'decrypt it or we'll legislate' club

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There needs to be a measure of transparency here

If a service I'm using has its encryption compromised, then as a consumer I have a right to know.

This job Win-blows! Microsoft made me pull '75-hour weeks' in a shopping mall kiosk

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Wait... What?

"By law, workers classified as managers and other professional salaried staff are exempt from mandatory overtime pay and breaks"

Is there a reason why this is?

Personally, I'd never work for a for-profit company for free. It's unethical.

Capita data centres hit by buttload of outages

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Re: Data centres...

Oh gods! Water load of puns!

Ayyy-EYE! Google code 'predicts heart disease' by eyeballing retinas

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Re: 'The level of accuracy is similar to drawing blood to measure cholesterol levels.'

I read that as "Eat all the bacon you like."

Reinforcement learning woes, robot doggos, Amazon's homegrown AI chips, and more

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I've seen that Black Mirror documentary

It does not end well for the humans.

Yorkshire cops have begun using on-the-spot fingerprint scanners

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Prints "are automatically deleted from the device once they have been checked"

I'm not falling for that lie twice!

Game of Thrones showrunners to make Star Wars flicks

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The possibility of successfully navigating a field of this hype is approximately 3,720 to 1.

It took us less than 30 seconds to find banned 'deepfake' AI smut on the internet

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The Running Man is now reality.

A click here, and a click there... And it looks like Ben Richards is dead.