* Posts by Aladdin Sane

2732 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2015

Visa Europe fscks up Friday night with other GDPR: 'God Dammit, Payment Refused'

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The bloody awful Warsaw Concerto.

Send printer ink, please. More again please, and fast. Now send it faster

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Ah, but did you know that you're legally allowed to kill people who don't put a full ream of paper in when the tray is empty?

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You could submit your own witty tale of misadventure.

TSB meltdown latest: Facepalming reaches critical mass as Brits get strangers' bank letters

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Trollface

Hi kids

Today we're going to learn to spell GDPR.

Un-bee-lievable: Two million Swedish bugs stolen in huge sting

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Coat

Sounds like he's a bit of a shit.

Dawn spacecraft to get up-close and personal with dwarf planet Ceres

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Re: Height

28303.9408 Linguine, 429.8245 Double-decker bus, 180.2799 Brontosaurus.

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Re: Point of Order

That's no Death Star.

Wait...

The glorious uncertainty: Backup world is having a GDPR moment

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Terminator

I think that if technology is adapting itself, GDPR will be the least of our worries.

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Trollface

Re: Seems an over complication

Just how strange is this woman?

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Re: Not a problem

those making an honest effort have nothing to fear.

Nurse! My sides!

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Not my field of expertise

But deleting on restore would seem to be the most logical way to go about this. My only question is, once you've "forgotten" about somebody, how do you remember to forget them on a restore?

Britain mulls 'complete shutdown' of 4G net for emergency services

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Re: Still waiting

Surely the staff can then be TUPE'd across again?

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Still waiting

for a big government contract to come in on time and/or under budget.

SpaceX to pick up the space pace with yet another Falcon 9 launch

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They can't recover it. Block 4s were only designed to be reused once, and are unlikely to be able to handle the stress of a second recovery.

Mirror mirror on sea wall, spot those airships, make Kaiser bawl

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Now I want to watch Zeppelin.

RIP to two 'naut legends: A moonwalker and a spacewalker

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Re: Obligatory XKCD

That graph makes me incredibly sad.

Beardy Branson: Wacky hyperloop tube maglev cheaper than railways

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Re: Monorail, monorail, monorail, monorail, monorail, monorail, monorail, monorail

Mono! D'oh!

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His bank balance would say otherwise.

If you have cash to burn, racks to fill, problems to brute-force, Nvidia has an HGX-2 for you

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Re: Hmmmmmmm

It's still Crysis.

Also, will it blend?

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Has anybody seen my friend's white mice, Frankie and Benjy, recently?

BOFH: Their bright orange plumage warns other species, 'Back off! I'm dangerous!'

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Re: Orange you glad

Thatcher's Cheddar Valley is a bright orange colour. Closest thing to scumble I've seen outside of a Pratchett novel.

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Re: self defence against fruit

It was a VERY pointy mango.

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Re: hang on....

You don't?

Can't pay Information Commissioner's fine? No problem! Just liquidate your firm

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FAIL

Re: I'm confused

A fifth off, not of.

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Holmes

I'm shocked.

Shocked I tell you.

Church of England will commune with God for you via Amazon's Echo

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Trollface

Re: The Oh God of IT issues...

Preacher is an Amazon Prime exclusive.

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Re: Makes sense....

Eddie: Hang on!

Rich: What?

Eddie: Although we and the BBC respect people's rights to believe in whatever they wish - because we don't want to get into the shit on this one - we don't actually believe in God, do we?

Rich: No.

Boffins: Michael Jackson's tilt was a criminally smooth trick

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Re: skinny and bulky

Marines would beat crossfitters, because crossfit reps don't count.

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Re: reinforced clown shoes

El Reg has the best Trump icon, simply the finest. CNN will tell you that there is no Trump icon, but that's fake news.

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Which is why abs on skinny guys don't count.

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Annie lost his shit and murdered younglings.

HTC U12+: Like a Pixel without the pratfalls, or eye-watering price tag

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Re: "Like a Pixel without the pratfalls"... and presumably without the updates

I have an HTC10. I wish I didn't.

'Clive, help us,' say empty-handed ZX Spectrum reboot buyers

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For reasons El Reg hasn’t been made aware of, it will also be sent to us

Likely because of the coverage you've provided and there are probably more than a few commentards as signatories.

It could be you: National Lottery hands £16m to England's Jodrell Bank

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Re: Logopolis

Unfortunately, you're not likely to regenerate.

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Re: printed version

I want my paperback paperback paperback paperback paperback paperback paperback book.

I want my paperback paperback paperback paperback paperback paperback paperback book.

El Reg's paperback book.

Blood spilled from another US high school shooting has yet to dry – and video games are already being blamed

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Doesn't mean that you should make it easy for them to do so.

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Re: A well regulated militia

between 500 thousand and 3 million uses of a firearm in the US that save a life or prevent further violence.

Would these uses be necessary if guns weren't readily available?

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Did you even sweat, tho? Plaintiffs told to amend claims in Apple headphones suit

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Re: Simpler solution.

No fruit logo on them - they were PowerBeats.

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Re: Simpler solution.

Personally, I wouldn't rush to bin £100+ of bluetooth earphones.

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The Register asked Apple to comment

Good luck with that.

Flamin' Nora! Brit firefighters tackle blazing fly-tipped boat

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And bodies.

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Are you attempting to explain Sunderland or your birth?

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Re: El Reg

Could take meds by the pint.

Trump’s new ZTE tweets trump old ZTE tweets

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As Tom Clancy put it

"Fuck your buddy"

Brit prosecutors fined £325k after losing unencrypted vids of police interviews

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Re: "lost" - "unencrypted" is worse.

Not forgetting being emasculated after the hanging but before the drawing.

America's forgotten space station and a mission tinged with urine, we salute you

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Re: "Who's the best pilot you ever saw?"

Tim Peake?

Blighty's super-duper F-35B fighter jets are due to arrive in a few weeks

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Re: Have they solved the problem?

Dammit, got ninja'd.

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Re: Have they solved the problem?

That was the Harrier.

Capita cost-cutting on NHS England contract 'put patients at risk' – spending watchdog

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Re: American system of healthcare

Also known as "Fuck the poor".