* Posts by Aladdin Sane

2732 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2015

Brexit: UK will be disconnected from EU databases after 2020

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Re: Co-incy-dink

Is English not your first language?

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Re: Tory Unity

Strength through unity! Unity through faith!

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Re: Tory Unity

Unified through knifing each other in the back.

Does anybody else think that snivelling little shit Gove is a dead-ringer for Gollum?

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TL;DR

We're fucked.

Michael Howard: Embrace of open source is destroying 'artificial definitions' of legacy vendors

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Re: Figuratively unbelievable

Is this Little Bobby Tables?

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Re: Something of the night

It's not like El Reg would do a bait and switch with their headlines, is it?

Open the pod bay doors: Voice of HAL 9000 Douglas Rain dies at 90

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Re: One of the iconic voices...

The force be strong with this'un.

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I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

France: Let's make the internet safer. America, Russia, China: Let's go with 'no' on that

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Re: Freedom or Saftey

Depends on the friend.

Scam or stunt? It's looking like the latter... Xiaomi so sorry for £1 smartphone 'promo'

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Have you read any of the articles involving the ASA here?

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On that note, have you seen the twitter rant about Postman Pat?

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Why? Nobody bought a ticket.

Huawei Mate 20 Pro: If you can stomach the nagware and price, it may be Droid of the Year

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Coat

Re: Face-ID

Can't beat a discrete finger.

Townsfolk left deeply unsatisfied by Bury St Edmunds' 'twig' of a Christmas tree

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I blame Brexit and the bloody awful Warsaw Concerto.

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The tree's not small,

It's just far away.

Can your rival fix it as fast? turns out to be ten-million-dollar question for plucky support guy

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Re: Interrupt service routines.

Million-to-one shots work 9 times out of 10.

Obligatory Sir Pterry icon request.

Dell upping its margins again: Precision 5530 laptop will sting you for $13m. Yep, six zeroes

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But can it run Crysis?

Astroboffins spot one of the oldest, coolest stars in the universe lurking in the Milky Way

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …”

— Isaac Asimov (probably not)

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Earth is the only place known to have heavy metal.

Generals gather in their masses...

The PCIe bus is coming, and everybody's jumping... New York to San Francisco, an NVMe disco

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Re: That headline.

I've just relived my spotty youth by listening to the Vengaboys Xmas Party Album (only Vengaboys album free on Amazon Prime Music*).

*Other streaming services are available

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Pint

That headline.

Damn you.

Imperial bringing in budget holograms to teach students

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Re: Not a holagram after all

He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer.

Without him life would be much grimmer.

He's handsome, trim, and no-one slimmer.

He will never need a zimmer.

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So, it's not a hologram?

Which scientist should be on the new £50 note? El Reg weighs in – and you should vote, too

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Re: How about John Snow?

He knows nothing.

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Re: What, no Barnes Wallis?

Absolute grand slam of an idea.

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Re: I'll back a winner

He was given a tour of the TNG set, and when he passed the warp core, he said "I'm working on that."

Now Europe wants a four-million-quid AI-powered lie detector at border checkpoints

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Joke

Re: Good luck!

So it WILL keep out the criminal element then?

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Re: Good luck!

People with ASD who don't make eye contact. Or make too much eye contact.

Seagate HAMRs out a roadmap for future hard drive recording tech

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Headmaster

Re: Awesome!

You loose data on a drive, only to lose it later.

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100TB

That's a lot of smut.

Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again

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Re: accused of cowardice

Tanya Kirbuk: Tell me, Dr. Floyd, what has happened to American bravery?

Dr. Heywood Floyd: [testy] It's alive and well, thank you. What happened to Russian common sense?

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Re: The same people

Ah, the Dilbert principle.

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I can't get the sensor to fit

Hit it until it does.

Boom! Just like that the eSIM market emerges – and jolly useful it is too

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300MB for £6 a day

Bit steep.

This revolution will not be televised – but it will be sanctioned: Googlers walk out over 'sex pest' executive scandals

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Re: Googlers walk out over 'sex pest' executive scandals

Might be cheaper, but doesn't make it right.

Bomb squad descends on suspicious package to find something much more dangerous – a Journey cassette

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Re: Before Steve Perry

And now I'm going to watch BASEketball after work.

Shift-work: Keyboards heaped in a field push North Yorks council's fly-tipping buttons

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Re: Missed one!

Maybe they could Insert that at the End?

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Re: Identifying the original owners...

Mine's Password123, and so's my wife's.

Pirate radio = drug dealing and municipal broadband is anti-competitive censorship

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Re: Cunksplaining why Americans pay too much for zeros and ones.

It's the only bit that didn't have me reaching for a sedative.

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Re: Cunksplaining why Americans pay too much for zeros and ones.

Internet's an American invention old bean. You seem to be conflating it with the World Wide Web, which is just a small part of the internet.

iPhone XR guts reveal sizzle of the XS without the excessive price tag

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With the 6T, OnePlus hopes to shed 'cheeky upstart' tag and launch assault on flagships

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Re: No waterproofing?

My contactless debit card died after a particularly damp journey up and down Snowdon. Thankfully the chip continued to work. Galaxy S9 survived absolutely fine.

Official: IBM to gobble Red Hat for $34bn – yes, the enterprise Linux biz

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Purple and ancient.

Barney the fucking dinosaur.

Leaked memo: No internet until you clean your bathroom, Ecuador told Julian Assange

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Re: Really? Are El Reg user handles really getting that hard to find?

I don't think whipping him is the answer.

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Could be worse, you could have an obsession with toast.

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Re: So in other words

It's seen as bad form to boot people out after granting asylum.

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Re: Why would he leave?

People pay to live in central London so that they can enjoy all that central London has to offer. Assange currently enjoys the same walls 24 hours a day.

The new Huawei is going upmarket, but the old Huawei still threatens

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Re: We don't need no steenkin privacy

Has the electoral register ceased to exist all of a sudden?

Virgin Media? More like Virgin Meltdown: Brit broadband ISP falls over amid power drama

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Headmaster

Re: Should they email you notices

Less people would be likely swamp their customer lines to find out what is wrong.

Fewer.

I find your lack of faith disturbing, IBM: Big Blue fires photon torpedo at Pentagon JEDI cloud contract

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Re: You can cross the streams but...

Once voted best reason to get lost in space.