* Posts by Fungus Bob

1347 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2014

Amazon straightens up its IoT house, complete with virtual Alexa, ahead of Las Vegas shindig

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Trollface

Re: Smart toilet seats

Right now its still shit...

Absolutely smashing: Musk shows off Tesla's 'bulletproof' low-poly pickup, hilarity ensues

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Optimus Prime had a BM...

Moby or not Moby. That is the question: Docker devs debate fate of unloved rebranding

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Coat

Re: Not everyone can be the Prince of Whales

Only in the mourning...

Five new players – including Blue Origin and SpaceX – are now in NASA's race to send landers to the Moon

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Re: Pittsburg, Colorado, Houston, Texas, California

"How is an entire state developing Moon landers without an actual company or other entity to organize that ?"

Flash mob...

Welcome to cultured meat – not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter

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Re: Upvote... but.

Why synthetic meat?

Angry vegans, that's why.

White Screen of Death: Admins up in arms after experimental Google emission borks Chrome

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Trollface

Re: So what are you going to do about it? Replace Chrome with Edge?????

Nah, go back to good ol' IE6

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Re: It bit me!!!

They're all snakes.

The silence of the racks is deafening, production gear has gone dark – so which wire do we cut?

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Re: The big red button

Why would you want to remember that?

What a boar! Wild pigs snort and snuffle €20k worth of marching powder stashed in Tuscan forest

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Re: This is just the street dealers trying to get out of their debt to their supplier....

Then you die.

Facebook iOS app silently turns on your phone camera. Ah, relax – it's just a bug, lol!?

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Re: Which is it

The VP of Integrity is a mythological creature and reports to the Lichen Covered Three Toed Sloth of Change.

Uber CEO compares pedestrian death to murder of Saudi journalist, saying all should be forgiven

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Re: It's not unexpected, though

THUMWHERE, THUMWHERE! Be conthithtent with the lithp!

What's that, Skippy? A sad-faced Microsoft engineer has arrived with an axe? Skippy?

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Facepalm

Re: Skippy-speak

if only we could train management...

Bloodhound rocket car target of 550mph put on ice after engine overheat

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Re: what's the big deal about 1000 mph?

The Origin of the Urban Legend:

http://www.the-clearing.org/Jato/rockit.htm

All bets are Hoff: DXC exec is standing for Brexit Party in UK General Election

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Coat

Re: Obligatory

Perhaps the Stone Age flint mines in Worthing have been replaced by Stoned Age irony mines...

California’s Attorney General joins the long list of people who have had it with Facebook

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Re: Facebook use case

No, it abuses you

Chrome OS: Yo dawg, I heard you like desktops so we put a workspace in your workspace

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Re: Huh? I've dual-booted every Chromebook I've had without any disassembly

Not all chromebooks have SeaBIOS.

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Re: I wonder if Google

Nope, you're still stuck in ChromeOS but now with a nag screen about security. To properly unlock a Chromebook you need to dis-assemble it, remove the write protect screw and re-assemble it.. This allows you to reflash the BIOS so you can install the OS of your choice.

PSA: Turning off silent macros in Office for Mac leaves users wide open to silent macro attacks

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Re: just how fragmented is the code base?

Let's see, we have an office "suite" that started out as 3 separate applications that got duct taped together 3 decades ago and have been updated numerous times, had other things shoehorned in, got ported to different operating systems, been relentlessly hacked, whacked and patched so much that the whole thing is now only held together by unicorn farts and happythoughts.

Cambridge boffins and Google unveil open-source OpenTitan chip – because you never know who you can trust

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Coat

Re: I don't know

"But can you trust the RoT itself?"

Once the RoT sets in...

Imagine OLE reinvented for the web and that's 90% of Microsoft's Fluid Framework: We dig into O365 collaborative tech

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Re: Which one didn't have security issues?

Microsoft Bob... oh, wait, that's not an OLE thingybob...

Heads up from Internet of S*!# land: Best Buy's Insignia 'smart' home gear will become very dumb this Wednesday

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Re: We shouldn't have skipped the time when it was the Intranet of Things

XKCD is God (?)

Remember the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman crossing the street? The AI had no clue about jaywalkers

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Re: "Fall Creators Update"

Cars already crawl in populated areas...

Leeds IT bloke pleads guilty to hacking Jet2 CEO's email account

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No, you're not.

Not just adhesive, but alcohol-resistant adhesive: Well done, Apple. Airpods Pro repairability is a zero

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the AirPod let out an audible scream

The Babel Fish inside it died.

US Air Force inks deal with Raytheon on Windows 10 (and other) support for ARSE

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Re: Next

is the optional ARSE Combined Re-Arming Control Kit

Like the Death Star on Endor, JEDI created a ton of fallout and stormy weather in cloud market

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Dark Star!

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Facepalm

Re: Nope (space hunter)

Nope, I'll admit to watching it too.

We're late and we're unreliable but we won't invalidate your warranty: We're engineers!

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Re: The system is designed around failure and blame

Plumbing is witchcraft...

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Trollface

I can think of nothing more inappropriate than Dabbsy's Bog

Hey Cortana... I mean Google: Microsoft's ex-digital assistant boss to take the reins at G Suite

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Re: Profound impact on the lives of people?

I'd rather not be impacted.

I see your blue passport and raise you a green number plate: UK mulls rewards scheme for zero-emission vehicles

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Trollface

Re: The opposite of high-viz

White would be racist...

Trend Micro would like you to fall in line and become a victim of Cloud Conformity

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Devil

Shirley....

...if cloud configurations are standardized then wouldn't hacking them also get standardized?

Junior minister says gov.UK considering facial recognition to verify age of p0rn-watchers

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Re: Sorry Mods...

Everything...

What the &*%* did you just $#*&!*# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat

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Happy

Re: I know it's possible to have fun ...

sounds like fun here

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

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Re: and other decay products.

So that's why my compost heap is haunted...

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

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Re: Goodenough is still working

If I'm still around in 2040, the only thing I'll be protesting is the mush they feed me in the nursing home.

Twitter: No, really, we're very sorry we sold your security info for a boatload of cash

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Re: Meteor, smoking crater, Twitter HQ.

They smoke too much.

Cosmo Communicator: More phone than the Gemini, more pocket computer than phone

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Trollface

Re: Tempting

But will Crysis run on it?

Now that's integrity: Bloke sinks 7 beers, turns himself in. Cops weren't looking for him

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Re: Don't drink Budweiser.

Don't go to Park County, Texas where you can get thrown in jail without a breathalyzer test.

Imagine if Facebook could read your mind: Er, I have some bad news for you...

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Re: Facebook can have them

Mine would make their AI go blind.

And mad.

700km on a single charge: Mercedes says it's in it for the long run

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Unhappy

Re: type of differential

Sadly, Traction Lok (tm) was optional, not standard.

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

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Re: Dry run?

Hey, when you're worse than North Korea...

Time for another cuppa then? Tea-drinkers have better brains, say boffins with even better brains

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Re: PEBKAC

Queen Anne's gallon.

Eco-activists arrested by Brit cops after threatening to close Heathrow with drones

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Re: The thought processes

Well, they do seem to have gross incompetence going for them....

Be still, our drinking hearts: Help Reg name whisky beast conjured by Swedish distillers and AI blendbot

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Business PC sales up as suits flee looming end of support for Windows 7

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Windows

Re: Not only am I going to continue using Windows 7 on my main PC...

Boredom, maybe...

Lab grown stem cells emit brain waves like newborns – and boffins build robot worm to slither through heads

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Re: Growing Brains in jars

"My concern and I suspect of regulators will be the consequences of it getting stuck and not being able to be removed. I suspect it will have to have a tether on its tail to enable a manual withdrawal."

I've had a stroke. No way I'd want a damn wire making another blockage. And, besides, tPA works.

Zapped from the Play store: Another developer gets no sense from Google, appeals to the public

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Re: The Register has asked Google to comment...

There are no human beings at Google.

A carbon-nanotube RISC-V CPU blinks into life. Boffins hold their breath awaiting first sign of life... 'Hello world!'

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Trollface

Re: Well this has got to be one of the most puerile comments threads I've seen on the Register .

CNT agree more...