* Posts by Fungus Bob

1347 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2014

Grad sends warning to manager: Be nice to our kit and it'll be nice to you

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That depends...

Are you freaked out?

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I used to carry an old bone in my toolbox just to freak people out.

Click this link and you can get The Register banned in China

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Re: Just to be helpful:

"he absolutely loathes the reference"

Sounds like the authoritarian supremo needs a hug. Or cookies and warm milk. Or a nap.

First low-frequency fast radio burst to grace our skies detected at last

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Boffin

It's.....

......a cosmic fart squeezed through a magnetic sphincter

Politicians fume after Amazon's face-recog AI fingers dozens of them as suspected crooks

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Re: Only 28?

They were.

BBC websites down tools and head outside into the sun for a while

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Re: Scary (kids today!)

"Scotland/Wales/Ireland all seemed to have chose the same mid-grey shirts!"

Maybe it has something to do with 'damp' being a color in those places...

Oh, excuse me, that should have been 'colour'.

Ecuador's Prez talking to UK about Assange's six-year London Embassy stay – reports

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Re: Preferred Option

It would be more entertaining if Benny Hill did a re-enactment of the whole thing...

Quantum, Linux and Dynamics: That's the week at Microsoft, not a '70s prog rock band

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Wait a minute...

When did MS reinforce the traffic cone?

What if tech moguls brewed real ale?

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FaceBock

Makes you want to take all your clothes off and have a rectal exam and not care afterwards.

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Re: Under a mile away so will be there anyway...

no shit...

No one wants new phones – it's chips that keep Samsung chugging

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Re: What else IS there?

What else IS there, you ask? The answer is obvious - sex toys!

Spidey sense is literally tingling! Arachnids detect Earth's electric field, use it to fly away

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Re: Taranado

Substitute Tara Reid for the tarantulas and you might just have a winner.

Hardware rumours, goat-spanking search engines and plenty of Azure. It's last week in Redmond

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No, if I turned into a paperclip I would not be immutable. I am a fungi, I have always been a fungi and I always will be a fungi!

Sueball claims Apple broke hacking laws with iOS batt throttling code

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Gimp

Re: doodle on a stick

They've already got that. It's called an iPhone...

Euro bank regulator: Don't follow the crowd. Stay off the cloud

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"How do you funge something, anyway?"

With a hot funge sundae (?)

Thunderbird gets its EFAIL patch

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Re: and find it hard to beat

The same can be said about erectile dysfunction.

United States, you have 2 months to sort Privacy Shield ... or data deal is for the bin – Eurocrats

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Re: Competent...

Sure they do. They're in Narnia next to the talking beavers.

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Newsflash!

The US government has been completely dysfunctional for decades.

IBM fired me because I'm not a millennial, says axed cloud sales star in age discrim court row

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She should be careful what she wishes for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTvGr8WUzYs

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Perhaps they should get rid of the fuddy duddys in charge...

They grow up so fast: Spam magnet Hotmail turned 22 today

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Re: Where did we all go wrong..?

Dumping FidoNet for the iddernets.

Abandoning the Gopher protocol.

Taking Twitter seriously.

Four US govt agencies poke probe in Facebook following more 'oops, we spilled your data' shocks

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Re: The End of the Beginning?

When it comes to Facebook, there is no such thing as 'harsher than necessary'.

Dell is still a work in progress as it seeks to dominate all data

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Re: Dominate Data?

Wrong Larry. It's the one at Alphabet Dell envys.

Bankrupt Aussie Hells Angel scoops £750k lottery jackpot

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Re: Police are said to have flagged the win as suspicious.

Someone has to...

Git365. Git for Teams. Quatermass and the Git Pit. GitHub simply won't do now Microsoft has it

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Re: Trolling for comments

I think JDX needs a hug...

The butterfly defect: MacBook keys wrecked by single grain of sand

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Devil

Re: Apple are shit nowadays

"Good shit is good shit (and isn’t shite)."

At last, someone around here knows his shit!

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Coat

Re: Apple are shit nowadays

"For that one need engineers who know how to build shit."

But building shit *is* the problem...

Google kills AdWords!

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Re: That's nice.

Yeah, but now they're back and going to eat your BRAINZZZZ

Uncle Sam is shocked, SHOCKED to find dark-web bazaars trading drugs, weapons, etc

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Re: So wrong

"(I prolly die before I put myself in that group) "

Smart move, even the US government can't successfully prosecute the dead.

Microsoft has another crack at fixing Chrome problems in Windows 10

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Windows

Re: It's incredible to me ...

To be honest, it is a *very* narrow defile - lateral movement (to competitor's software) is impossible...

GitLab's move off Azure to Google cloud totally unrelated to Microsoft's GitHub acquisition. Yep

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All this talk of Gits and no one mentioned...

Gitarzan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=293Irm-vxtE

Get a grip, literally: Clumsy robots can't nab humans' jobs just yet

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But it may poop itself.

UK Foreign Office offers Assange a doctor if he leaves Ecuador embassy

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Well, England *is* south of the Antonine Wall...

NASA eggheads draw up blueprints for spotting, surviving asteroid hits

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Re: Chicken Little

Moving the Earth the plot of the movie 'Gorath'. Yes, it has an overabundance of cheeeez...

https://classicscifi.blogspot.com/2010/06/gorath.html

Big Cable unplugs Cali's draft net neutrality protections yet AGAIN

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Facepalm

Not silly at all - it is important to slow down the legislative process. We have enough bad laws as it is, if you go and make the process efficient we'd have several orders of magnitude more bad laws.

AT&T sends in startup shill to shake up Cali's net neutrality safeguards

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For some reason I thought of this when I looked at the article picture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNk6-0rDdto

Microsoft Azure Europe embraced the other GDPR: Generally Down, Possibly Recovering

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Re: More Microsoft CloudFog

"you've got to wonder, how many *if any*, senior executives jumping on the Cloud conveyor belt, planned for..."

Planned? You have some rather strange ideas about life in the corporate world...

How to stealthily poison neural network chips in the supply chain

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Although, if one applies Buffalo sauce to the chicken it tastes like a fire-breathing dragon...

Now Microsoft ports Windows 10, Linux to homegrown CPU design

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Re: Application Support?

All I need is Edlin.

Developer’s code worked, but not in the right century

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"why in the blue blazes would a supermarket have its own date format?"

Can't answer that but I once worked at an electronic component distributor where the IT "guru" wrote an inventory control program in RPG II that lacked units of measure. So when you saw that you had 647 of something you had no idea if it was pieces, feet, spools, gallons, pallets or some other weird measure.

... Aaaand that's a fifth Brit Army Watchkeeper drone to crash in Wales

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Re: what are they doing?

"Are they using these to spy on Brits?"

They're using them to spy on *sheep*.

The eyes have it: 'DeepFakes' bogus AI-meddled videos outed by unblinking gaze

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No, we're saying they're real creepy.

Relax. It's OK, folks, the US government isn't going to try to take back control of the internet

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Devil

Re: But then who will protect the internet from the US government?

Ted Cruz. Once he get control of the internets, everyone outside of Texas will make an even better replacement that routes around the old one. You can do things like that when you're a superhero that flys around on the back of a yuuuge eagle. Unless the new Ted Cruz coloring book is full of lies...

http://www.coloringbook.com/ted-cruz-saves-america-coloring-book.aspx

Microsoft loves Linux so much its R Open install script rm'd /bin/sh

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Re: Demonstration of Incompetence

"We expect business grads to know about standard deviation for most roles, is it really so much to ask for them to learn something about networking and systems if they're going to work in IT?"

You have some rather strange ideas about life in the corporate world...

Budget Surface 'spotted' in Microsoft's crystal ball

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Re: RT reborn?

"Windows S is a mode now"

Next you'll be telling us that New Jersey is a State of Mind...

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Re: "four hours fewer of battery life"?

"Is it their intention to develop an even thinner device with no battery (life) whatsoever?"

I hear they're exploring the possibility of using flattened sheets of pulp made from trees.

Woman sues NASA for ownership of vial of space dust

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Re: no

"I wonder where the line is drawn."

Where it is always drawn - in the sand...

British egg producers saddened by Google salad emoji update

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Re: More inclusive?

"Of course, people with disabilities have to be helped, that is another matter."

And this is what Google is doing. Vegans are unable to see why nobody wants to be part of their sad, malnourished minority.

PETA calls for fish friendly Swedish street signage

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Re: Undermining Themselves

"The radicals are like squirrels. Not too bright, but they never, ever, EVER give up and sooner or later they simply wear you down."

Squirrels don't wear me down - if they don't go away soon, they die.

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Re: They're about as interested in animal rights as [insert topical comparison here]

...I am in exploring vegan diet options.