* Posts by Aladdin Sane

2731 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2015

Banhammer Republic: Trump declares national emergency, starts ball rolling to boot Huawei out of ALL US networks

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He's a pillock.

Silence of the vans: Uber adds 'Plz STFU, driver' button to app for posh passengers using Black

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I didn't want to be a barber. I wanted to be... a lumberjack!

Microsoft goes to great lengths to polish Azure Active Directory's password policies

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Kept on summoning Cthulhu whenever I entered my password.

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Flame

Back in a bit

I'm off to follow instructions and set fire to all my accounts.

Supreme Court says secret UK spy court's judgments can be overruled after all

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Coat

Re: Thank you ...

Howzat?!

Legal bombs fall on TurboTax maker Intuit for 'hiding' free service from search engines

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Re: Dear USians

Very much intended. The absolute fucking shambles that is Brexit makes it difficult to claim the high ground here, no matter which side of the debate you're on.

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Dear USians

Your country is slowly fucking itself to death. I respectfully* request that you revoke your independence and let our government ruin you instead.

*not really.

Your FREE end-of-the-world guide: What happens when a sun like ours runs out of fuel

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Can't it happen any sooner?

California court sentences ex-Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain to five years in clink for fraud

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I dunno, it was useful in breaking the FIFA corruption case. But I'll admit that's a rare example.

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IANAL, and I haven't seen the exact details of this, but something seems seriously fishy here.

Talk about a ticket to ride... London rail passengers hear pr0n grunts over PA system

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Headmaster

Re: Evidence

Alanis Morissette levels of irony here.

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That's more of a Shelbyville idea.

Here's what Autonomy told its salesmen they were allowed to do

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Re: It begins with H and ends with E and is 8 letters long:

Bet you're fun at parties.

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Anybody else tired of popcorn yet?

Essex named sexiest British accent followed closely by, um, Glaswegian

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Headmaster

Re: Your ears / brain needs to be attuned to accents to notice the subtitles.

Ireland is British in so far as it's part of the British Isles.

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Re: I have a theory

Bunnies! Bunnies! It must be bunnies!

Or maybe midgets.

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Re: Gloucestershire

I'll think you'll find that it was filmed in Wells (with the cathedral digitally removed), but it's set in the fictional village of Sanford, Gloucestershire.

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Gloucestershire

No luck catching them swans then?

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Re: Essex?

We know people from Essex can't/don't count.

Home Office cops an earful for emergency network feck-ups - £3bn overbudget and 3 years late

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Mushroom

And nobody involved is going to be held responsible when people die because of this.

Autonomy's one-time US sales chief can't remember if he took part in grand jury hearing

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Somebody's going to get screwed anyway.

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Re: Who needs a soap opera...

IF HPE get their way, it'll be a cliff hanging.

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Coat

Re: pig in a poke

Did they buy it in the heat of the moment?

Mine's the one with the holy oil.

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IANAL, but HPE really aren't looking good here, neither is the US legal system.

Techie with outdated documentation gets his step count in searching for non-existent cabinet

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Four weeks to complete a five minute job

Capita?

US minister invokes Maggie Thatcher, says she would have halted Huawei 5G rollout

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Re: Minister????

Hacker: Who else is in this department?

Sir Humphrey: Well briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under Secretary of State, known as the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private Secretary. I too have a Principal Private Secretary and he is the Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, 87 Under Secretaries and 219 Assistant Secretaries. Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain Private Secretaries, and the Prime Minister will be appointing two Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own Parliamentary Private Secretary.

Hacker: Can they all type?

Sir Humphrey: None of us can type. Mrs Mackay types: she's the secretary.

Minister: Pity, we could have opened an agency.

Sir Humphrey: Very droll, Minister.

Hacker: I suppose they all say that, do they?

Sir Humphrey: Certainly not, Minister. Not quite all...

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I'll campaign for election with that as my only election pledge.

I can't say Mike Lynch knew about Autonomy dodginess, star witness tells High Court

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Re: Popcorn!

1 dollar, and that's cutting me own throat.

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Popcorn!

Get it whilst it's hot!

Zavvi tells customers: You've won VIP tickets to Champions League final! And you've won tickets, and you've won tickets, and you, and...

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Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

Veteran vulture Andrew Orlowski is offski after 19 years at The Register

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Splitter!

Portal to 'HELL' cracks open in street – oh sorry, it's just another pothole

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Still Rea of the year.

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Re: Warning - tory bashing.

To tick all the boxes you need to blame the bloody awful Warsaw Concerto.

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Re: Warning - tory bashing.

In Yeovil they've managed to combine the two to hilarious* effect.

*not really.

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Devil

Was the driver living easy, living free?

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Paris Hilton

Re: Insurance get out of jail free card

Wouldn't it the exact opposite?

Paris because she's no angel.

US foreign minister Mike Pompeo to give UK a bollocking over Huawei 5G plans

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Mushroom

Good old fashioned protectionism, pure and simple.

HPE court witness subjected to own LinkedIn page

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It gets better and better.

We regret to inform you the massive asteroid NASA's all excited about probably won't hit Earth

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Re: Landing robots

How about 3 or more probes with a really large net spread between them?

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Headmaster

Downvoted just because the line breaks made that painful to read.

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Named after the SG-1 villain it would seem.

What a meth: Elderly Melbourne couple sign for 20kg shipment of drugs, say cops

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Meth will have a similar effect.

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Vision dream of passion.

May Day! PM sacks UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson for Huawei 5G green-light 'leak'

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Re: Not Good Enough

He was Chief Whip, so a Sir Francis Urquhart wannabe.

Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks over Ecuador embassy bail-jumping

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Oh dear, what a pity, never mind.

Boeing boss denies reports 737 Max safety systems weren't active

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Re: Here's a Thought...

The best American pilot was excluded from the space program due to lack of a university education.

Pssst.... build your own machine learning computer, it's cheaper and even faster than using GPUs on cloud

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Re: But can it run Crysis?

Both?

Both.

Both is good.

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Coat

But can it run Crysis?

America's anti-hacking laws are so loose, even Donald Trump Jr broke them. So, what do we do about it?

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Strangely true. A lot of very successful people apparently exhibit psychopathic tendencies (not necessarily being full blown psychopaths however).