Aladdin Sane • User • The Register Forums

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

Tuesday 30th April 2019 08:36 GMT Aladdin Sane

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

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Ok Google, please ignore this free tax filing code so we can keep on screwing America

Monday 29th April 2019 08:57 GMT Aladdin Sane

Scumbags.

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Out-of-office email ping-pong fills server after server over festive break

Monday 29th April 2019 08:39 GMT Aladdin Sane

After this debacle, do you think he used findtherapist.com?

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Owner of Smuggler's Inn B&B ordered to put up a sign warning guests not to cross into Canada

Friday 26th April 2019 14:59 GMT Aladdin Sane

Yes. Also, Google is a thing.

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BOFH: It's not just an awesome app, it'll look great on my Insta. . a. a. AAAARRRRRGGH

Friday 26th April 2019 14:19 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: I think I met him

I think that was delicately put for a commentard.

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IT sales star wins $660k lawsuit against Oracle in Qatar – but can't collect because the Oracle he sued suddenly vanished

Thursday 25th April 2019 14:58 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: It's a tricky one...

The Prophet Hicks had it right.

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Wednesday 24th April 2019 12:48 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: first rate arse licking

It's because they send their crotch goblins to be educated at English public schools, and a lot of them then go on to places like Sandhurst.

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Wednesday 24th April 2019 10:09 GMT Aladdin Sane

Is this a new low or just par for the course?

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The peelable, foldable phone has become the great white whale of tech

Wednesday 24th April 2019 11:02 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Good reasonable and balanced.

Plus, LG and Sony are both dying to have a big win in mobile phones.

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High Court confirms the way UK banned GSM gateways was illegal

Wednesday 24th April 2019 08:47 GMT Aladdin Sane

You're implying that ministers are people, which I'm not sure is true.

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Wednesday 24th April 2019 08:46 GMT Aladdin Sane

End to end encryption is still traceable, it's just harder to see the content. The boys and girls at Cheltenham spend a lot of time analysing the meta data, building a picture of the network etc.

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Not another pro-Brexit demo... though easy to confuse: Each Union Jack marks a pile of poo

Tuesday 23rd April 2019 14:27 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Liz Hurley?

Clone?

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Tuesday 23rd April 2019 13:09 GMT Aladdin Sane

As a youth, I remember occasionally seeing the sign "If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweet and wipe the seat" when visiting friends or relatives. Tempted to put it up in my office.

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Tesla touts totally safe, not at all worrying self-driving cars – this time using custom chips

Tuesday 23rd April 2019 13:55 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: I Call Shotgun!

Squirrel!

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Tuesday 23rd April 2019 13:52 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: less accidents

Fewer.

Can we have a Stannis icon for this sort of thing?

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Cheapskate Brits appear to love their Poundland MVNOs as UK's big four snubbed in survey again

Tuesday 23rd April 2019 11:13 GMT Aladdin Sane

Doesn't actually say if their network offering is any good though.

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Surprising absolutely no one at all, Samsung's folding-screen phones knackered within days

Thursday 18th April 2019 14:36 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: There's a clue here

So, gaffer tape?

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Yes, I may have advised 'some' investors to flog their Autonomy shares, analyst tells High Court

Thursday 18th April 2019 13:43 GMT Aladdin Sane

Popcorn anybody?

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I've had it with these mother-fscking slaps on this mother-fscking plane: Flight fight sparks legal brouhaha over mid-air co-ords

Wednesday 17th April 2019 22:20 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Is there hope for Civilisation?

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Wednesday 17th April 2019 11:23 GMT Aladdin Sane

Executive Decision

Notable for Seagal actually dying in a film.

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UK watchdog slaps 'misleading' Voda ad: Gigafast... maybe so – but not for £23

Wednesday 17th April 2019 14:46 GMT Aladdin Sane

The web page must not continue to appear in the form complained of. We told Vodafone Ltd not to imply that a package capable of achieving 1Gbps was available for £23 a month

So, once again, no meaningful penalty?

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Ozzy app maker cancels hump day: We've tripled profits! scream slackers

Wednesday 17th April 2019 14:20 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: So let's see here

Australia hasn't lost a war against cassowaries.

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Wednesday 17th April 2019 13:46 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: So let's see here

And Emus.

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Cyber-sec biz Fortinet coughs up $545,000 after 'flogging' rebadged Chinese kit to Uncle Sam – but why so low? We may be able to explain

Wednesday 17th April 2019 09:23 GMT Aladdin Sane

For the CCR reference--->

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Starz, meet the Streisand Effect. Cable telly giant apologizes for demented DMCA Twitter takedown spree

Wednesday 17th April 2019 08:54 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: American Gods

Do they end up in Oregon?

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Tuesday 16th April 2019 14:23 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: American Gods

I thought it was the sequel to Drop the Dead Donkey?

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Google Fiber experiment ends with Choc Factory paying Louisville $3.8m to clean up its mess

Wednesday 17th April 2019 08:53 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: the condition of both Google's cables.

Standards tend to be pretty high here, this isn't the Metro. Either way, have one of these as a token of reconciliation---->

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Tuesday 16th April 2019 14:54 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: the condition of both Google's cables.

That would be "Googles'". Good god man, learn what apostrophes mean.

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Six foot blunder: UK funeral firm fined for fallacious phone calls

Wednesday 17th April 2019 08:50 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: I just popped by to say "Thanks",

If fallacious is the plural, what's the singular?

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Tuesday 16th April 2019 14:49 GMT Aladdin Sane

Avalon: "We bought the numbers from a third-party lead provider."

ICO: "Tough shit."

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Israeli Moon probe crashes at the last minute but SpaceX scores with Falcon Heavy launch

Monday 15th April 2019 09:26 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: crashed minutes before landing?

BSOD in space.

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London's Metropolitan Police arrest Julian Assange

Monday 15th April 2019 09:10 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Hooray!

Distributed Denial of Assange?

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Friday 12th April 2019 23:35 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: This is a bizarre comedy of epic proportions , worthy of a Greek or Operatic Comedy-Tragedy

He's been a prisoner of his own ego, nothing else.

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Friday 12th April 2019 00:21 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Does he yet have a ticket to the USA ?

Considering the, let's call it "muzzle velocity" required, he'd probably burn up way before he reached the top of the atmosphere, assuming we're doing a sub-orbital lob.

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Thursday 11th April 2019 14:10 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Does he yet have a ticket to the USA ?

Are any of the more mathematically minded commentards able to calculate the required velocity and trajectory required to launch Mr Assange across the pond? Survivability is optional.

Please show your workings.

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Thursday 11th April 2019 11:07 GMT Aladdin Sane

How's Danny John-Jules involved?

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Thursday 11th April 2019 10:04 GMT Aladdin Sane

The charge hasn't been dropped, merely put on ice until the pastey sod came out of his den.

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