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Silence! Cybercrime's Pinky and the Brain have nicked $800k off banks

Wednesday 5th September 2018 12:42 GMT Aladdin Sane

You'd think they'd put the name of the team in the article, not just their aliases.

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Wednesday 5th September 2018 11:57 GMT Aladdin Sane

One is a genius. The other's insane. But which one's which?

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Microsoft sharpens its claws to cut Outlook UI excess, snip Ribbon

Wednesday 5th September 2018 12:39 GMT Aladdin Sane

Still better than Lotus Notes.

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Thunderstruck: Azure Back in Black(out) after High Voltage causes Flick of the Switch

Wednesday 5th September 2018 11:02 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Texas - Europe ?

No, Texas are from Scotland and Europe are from Sweden.

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Wednesday 5th September 2018 11:00 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: 'This, in turn, lead to the problems that plagued Azure service users in Europe'

Sever weather? Is that the kind that cuts things off?

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5G can help us spy on West Midlands with AI CCTV, giggles UK.gov

Tuesday 4th September 2018 13:17 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: "China-style AI-powered CCTV cameras"

It's 12345.

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Anon man suing Google wants crim conviction to be forgotten

Tuesday 4th September 2018 13:11 GMT Aladdin Sane

Seems this guy

might be on a hiding to nothing.

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Google is 20, Chrome is 10, and Microsoft would rather ignore the Nokia deal's 5th birthday

Tuesday 4th September 2018 13:09 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: "Don't be evil" (Terms and Conditions apply)

It's almost as if power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Fast food, slow user – techie tears hair out over crashed drive-thru till

Friday 31st August 2018 15:04 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Do you want fries with that?

I used to work with Henny Penny pressure fryers in a chicken shop in my youth. Fantastic bit of kit. Could cook 4 chickens worth of pieces at a time, dry white toast and coke optional.

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Friday 31st August 2018 10:42 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Do you want fries with that?

"There's a switch at the bottom of the deep fat fryer. Just push your arm all the way in, it won't hurt."

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Friday 31st August 2018 10:38 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Ahhh, memories...

I thought Alt-F4 saved your work?

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We truly live

in an age of wonders.

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Don't let Google dox me on Lumen Database, nameless man begs

Thursday 30th August 2018 08:32 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: The guy might have a point

Bit like that guy from Steps

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Wednesday 29th August 2018 13:12 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Bank Holiday Friday

Though, to be fair, if asked to write the date down withing the first few weeks of the year I get it wrong. On a good New Year's Day I'm incapable of remembering my own name, let alone writing it.

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Wednesday 29th August 2018 09:41 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Also sounds very much like Mr. Gumby

My brain hurts.

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Wednesday 29th August 2018 09:40 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Bank Holiday Friday

Christmas and New Year will never fall on a Friday in the same year.

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Tuesday 28th August 2018 15:17 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Bank Holiday Friday

Make Good Friday great again.

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Tuesday 28th August 2018 15:04 GMT Aladdin Sane

What's the first rule?

Don't piss off the judiciary.

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Voting machine maker claims vote machine hack-fests a 'green light' for foreign hackers

Thursday 30th August 2018 08:27 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: the overall system is actually pretty bulletproof

He shot it.

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Wednesday 29th August 2018 14:23 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Voter ID checks

Are a bad idea

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No, eight characters, some capital letters and numbers is not a good password policy

Wednesday 29th August 2018 10:55 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: pwgen

And now I have to change my password, you bastards.

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Wednesday 29th August 2018 10:54 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: If you're having security issues...

I feel bad for you son.

I got 99 problems but passwords ain't one.

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None too chuffed with your A levels? Hey, why not bludgeon the exam boards with GDPR?

Wednesday 29th August 2018 09:37 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Hmmmm that 49.5% grade back in 1979....

Would probably get you an A today.

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Tuesday 28th August 2018 14:56 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Does the right to be forgotten apply too?

I forget

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Tuesday 28th August 2018 14:44 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: GDPWhuuuut

Yes, but now it's free.

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Tuesday 28th August 2018 11:29 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: FOI...

There's productivity in the public sector?

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Huawei elbows aside Apple to claim number-two phone maker spot

Tuesday 28th August 2018 14:30 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: "a 10% rise in food prices due to the weather"

Food prices 'to rise 5%' because of extreme weather

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Tuesday 28th August 2018 09:52 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: People are just not spending money

You get drunk on coffee?

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Jupiter suffered growing pains before becoming our system's big daddy

Tuesday 28th August 2018 09:42 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: violently compress into a small ball and it would turn into a star

Then as well.

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Tuesday 28th August 2018 09:22 GMT Aladdin Sane

violently compress into a small ball and it would turn into a star

That actually happened 8 years ago.

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Abracadabra! Tales of unexpected sysadmagic and dabbling in dark arts

Friday 24th August 2018 12:36 GMT Aladdin Sane

More productive as well.

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Friday 24th August 2018 10:52 GMT Aladdin Sane

It's your magnetic personality

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UK's info commish is having a howler: Site dies amid 'plagiarised' GDPR book scandal

Friday 24th August 2018 09:10 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Great anonymisation technique.

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to you, pleb.

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Thursday 23rd August 2018 11:29 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Great anonymisation technique.

Thought it was ER?

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Tax the tech giants and ISPs until the bits squeak – Corbyn

Thursday 23rd August 2018 15:05 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: Hmm

If you can't say "Fuck", you can't say "Fuck the government".

Lenny Bruce

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Thursday 23rd August 2018 13:40 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: How 'bout no

Amazon et al pay a fuck tonne of UK taxes & NI, just not necessarily at a corporate level.

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Teardown chaps strip away magic from Magic Leap's nerd goggles

Thursday 23rd August 2018 15:03 GMT Aladdin Sane

There's a reference I wasn't expecting to see today.

Bravo.

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Don't mean to alarm you – but NASA is about to pummel the planet with huge frikkin' space laser

Thursday 23rd August 2018 11:35 GMT Aladdin Sane

That's no moon

It's ICESat-2

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Space, the final Trump-tier: America to beam up $8bn for Space Force

Thursday 23rd August 2018 08:10 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: I don't see why you guys are so dubious about this....

That was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

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Super-mugs: Hackers claim to have snatched 20k customer records from Brit biz Superdrug

Wednesday 22nd August 2018 11:21 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: advised customers to update their ... password ... “on an on-going, frequent basis.”

For a lot of people, "changing" just means incrementing from Password1 to Password2.

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Wednesday 22nd August 2018 10:09 GMT Aladdin Sane

advised customers to update their ... password ... “on an on-going, frequent basis.”

Well that's just fucking stupid.

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London's Gatwick Airport flies back to the future as screens fail

Tuesday 21st August 2018 14:46 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: This is heavy, Doc!

Do you even lift?

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Miss America 'scholarship program' adds Microsoft Azure developer to lineup

Tuesday 21st August 2018 12:28 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: MS DigiGirlz program

It could have been so much worse.

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Connected car data handover headache: There's no quick fix... and it's NOT just Land Rovers

Tuesday 21st August 2018 12:19 GMT Aladdin Sane

Re: NOT TO BE SOLD SEPARATELY

Who hasn't bought a can like that from a fête or tuck shop at any point in their lives? It's more about stopping your local corner shop shops buying multipacks and then selling them separately, reducing the profit of Coca Cola etc.

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