* Posts by Aladdin Sane

2727 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2015

UK Parliament roars: Oi! Zuck! Get in here for a grilling – or you'll get a Tower of London tour

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Re: Which amendment?

How about Queenie from Blackadder II?

Grab your lamp, you've pulled: Brits punt life-saving gravity-powered light

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Some people just want to see the world burn. Which an electric light would help to prevent.

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Pint

As always

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Bill Gates declined offer to serve as Donald Trump's science advisor

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It's because he's scrawny. Scrawny people age quicker. Thinning hair aside, us huskier folk look younger.

if dev == woman then dont_be(asshole): Stack Overflow tries again to be more friendly to non-male non-pasty coders

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Re: equal opportunity offender

Googling for code examples won't take you to the examples of people being dicks. Search through the tags and find the lowest voted comments/responses/questions, and that's where the dirt is.

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Re: Non-pasty

Well Cornish lads are fishermen

And Cornish lads are miners too

But when the fish and tin are gone

what are the Cornish boys to do?

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Re: Non-pasty

Nah, we're too busy wrecking.

Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain

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Intrepid is my favourite part of visiting NYC.

More Brits have access to 1Gbps speeds than those failing to muster 10Mbps – Ofcom report

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To be fair, The Beatles have no future in show business and guitar groups are on the way out.

Javid's in, Rudd's out: UK Home Sec quits over immigration targets scandal

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Headmaster

Re: Being pedantic:

Since we're being pedants, you should really use the pedant icon--->

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Re: "In the world of technology policy, Rudd will be remembered"

BoJo anybody?

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Re: So who's Javid?

“You know, there’s a handful of people that run everything. That’s a fact, I’m not some conspiracy nut. A handful, very small, elite run and own these corporations, which include the mainstream media. I have this feeling that whoever’s elected president… when you win, you go into this smoky room with the twelve industrialists capitalists scum-fucks who got you in there. And a big guy with a cigar goes: ‘Roll the film.’ And it’s a shot of the Kennedy Assassination from an angle you’ve never seen before. It looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll. Then the screen comes up, and they go to the new president: ‘Any questions?’”

- Bill Hicks, Rant in E-Minor (1993)

I believe the Home Office orientation briefings are something like that, except they show the new appointee their and their family's entire internet history.

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Trollface

Re: Jeremy C

We've already got Hammond and May, why not Clarkson?

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Re: Fuckety bye...

Do you want to be Malcolm Tucker or the poor schmuck in charge of the Home Office?

Mannequin Skywalker takes high ground on Bezos-backed rocket

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Mannequin Skywalker

Nice Clerks 2 reference.

Newsworthy Brit bank TSB is looking for a head of infrastructure

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Re: I'll take it

They'll deposit in a TSB account. They can't get to it, you can't get to it, but other people can.

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Re: If their application process is anything to go by ...

So that Microsoft can get their slice of the pie.

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From BBC's Business Live feed:

Before TSB entered its week of computer chaos, it could have done with some advice from a man once described as an “integration guru” in a national newspaper.

That man led the integration of Bradford & Bingley with Abbey and Alliance & Leicester a few years ago, including migrating thousands of customers to a single computer system.

Indeed the "guru" presumably learned some lessons from what was a pretty challenging experience, prompting years of customer complaints.

Who was he? Step forward Paul Pester, current chief executive at TSB who has been criticised for fumbling the ball over this week's IT disaster.

BOFH: Guys? Guys? We need blockchain... can you install blockchain?

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Re: Blockchain is the new XML

And since it was in the '90s, roughly double that figure to account for inflation.

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Re: Does it even lift?

Bro

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Re: Blockchain for sale

I bid the empty can of Monster on my desk. If you're willing to wait, you can have the filtered contents too.

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Re: Weight lifting

All of it.

Brit MPs brand Facebook a 'great vampire squid' out for cash

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"morality free zone"

My irony-meter has overloaded.

Avengers: Infinity War: More Marvel-ous moolah for comic film-erverse, probably

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Re: These are just videogames...

Just I prefer to play with myself.

FTFY

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Re: Miserable old git

Not just you, but you are definitely in a minority.

Windrush immigration papers scandal is a big fat GDPR fail for UK.gov

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Re: How is it?

Because when they do it right, it isn't news.

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Re: Heads->roll.

This is the civil service, more likely to be a knighthood and a pension.

There's just one month left 'til the big day: May 25... but don't panic!

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Bonus points

for a lilac towel.

Blighty stuffs itself in Galileo airlock and dares Europe to pull the lever

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The cake is a lie.

The tech you're reading these words on – you have two Dundee uni boffins to thank for that

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Isn't that review graded 1-5?

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Pint

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Russians poised to fire intercontinental ballistic missile... into space with Sentinel-3 sat on board

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Re: Launch partner?

You can buy a Kindle copy

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Re: Launch partner?

The northerly latitude of Plesetsk is beneficial for polar orbits.

Yahoo! fined! $35m! for! covering! up! massive! IT! security! screwup!

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Coat

Isn't it a brand of milkshake?

Good news: AI could solve the pension crisis – by triggering a nuclear apocalypse by 2040

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I wish they would stop promising us nuclear armageddon.

Such a bunch of teases.

State spy agencies 'outsource surveillance' to foreign partners – campaign group

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Re: Anyone who read up on the history...

Hell, just read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy.

Astroboffins discover the stink of eggy farts wafting from Uranus

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Trollface

Re: so how many other planets smell of gone off food?

Well, your mum's planet sized.

Reg writer Richard went to the cupboard, seeking a Windows Phone...

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Re: Still used on TV

Commercial deals for things like that are often written before the pilot is produced, which can be a year or two before the program actually hits our screens.

Amazon, LG Electronics turned my vape into an exploding bomb, says burned bloke in lawsuit

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Re: Modded?

I doubt they were sold by Amazon, probably sold through Amazon.

Sysadmin unplugged wrong server, ran away, hoped nobody noticed

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Re: its like the leads at the back of my desk at work.

I've got a theory that it's a demon.

Tech bribes: What's the WORST one you've ever been offered?

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Coat

Re: Fleet

Your approach seems a bit scatty.

Mine's the one with one cup in the pocket.

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Re: So corrupt.....

I thought that was a salary?

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I pretend to work. My employer pretends to pay me.

Close enough?

Planned European death ray may not need Brit boffinry brain-picking

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Re: Coherent beam combining

It does work, I have proof.

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Re: Coherent beam combining

I'm more worried about a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port.

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Lucasfilm defines the blaster as "ranged energized particle weaponry".

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Coherent beam combining

Say, 8 beams located around the edge of a recessed dish?

LESTER gets ready to trundle: The Register's beer-bot has a name

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symbol attached to the PFY

Does it say "kick me"?

Machines learned to assemble IKEA’s semi-disposable furniture

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Re: Not the real world

Upvoted just for "Krypton factor".

Musk: I want to retrieve rockets with big Falcon party balloons

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Old news

They did it in 2010.