* Posts by Aladdin Sane

2731 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2015

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now: Brexit tea towel says it'll just be the gigabit broadband

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Headmaster

Re: pease of mind

You absolute pudding.

Flat Earther and wannabe astronaut killed in homemade rocket

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Obligatory xkcd is obligatory.

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I want to go out of morbid curiosity.

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Gravity's a myth, the earth sucks.

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Re: not linear but curved

Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.

Realme's 5G handset is a bargain at €599 – but it's only for cool young people. Sorry

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Re: can't challenge China

HTC is sort of made in China.

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Facepalm

Re: can't challenge China

Except it is Chinese

This is your last chance, HP. There's no turning back. You take blue poison pill, the story ends. You take the red Xerox pill, you stay in Wonderland

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Re: re: So Xerox is lending money from a bank

It may be accepted by the common folk, but we woz learned better.

If you're struggling to keep new year resolutions, try NGTS-10b, a mere 1,000 LY away. One year is just 18 hrs

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Depends on the relative velocity of the object.

Ofcom measured UK's 5G radiation and found that, no, it won't give you cancer

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Coat

Dangerous levels of EMF

It's unbelievable.

Come on baby light me on fire: McDonald's to sell 'Quarter Pounder' scented candles

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Re: All candles at once

Only if there's a little toy

Your McDonald's demo has expired. For full functionality, please purchase a licence or try another fast-food joint

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The Taint!

Yo, Imma let you finish, but for the 6,000 people still using that app on a daily basis ... we have a question: why?

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Coat

Seems to have put him in his plaice.

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Bro.

The self-disconnecting switch: Ghost in the machine or just a desire to save some cash?

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Re: I don't remember though if it was 2.40 or 1.40

But I do remember that it had a heart of chrome, and a voice like a horny angel.

Galileo got it wrong – official: Jupiter actually wet, not super-dry: 'No one would have guessed that water might be so variable across the planet'

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Sir Pterry used it as well.

#GNUTerryPratchett

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Coat

Re: Eggheads

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb.

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Galileo?

Magnifico.

Smartwatch owners love their calorie-counting gadgets, but they are verrry expensive

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Love my 235. 10 hour battery life and can be charged from a power bank whilst on the hoof as well.

And they said IoT was trash: Sheffield 'smart' bins to start screaming when they haven't been emptied for a fortnight

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Trollface

Re: IoT?

Isn't that just the internet?

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Coat

IoT?

The security will be rubbish.

I'll see myself out.

Fire Brigades Union warns of wonky IT causing dangerous delays in 999 control rooms

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Re: Are capita programmers all MBAs?

Their salespeople promise an amazing product that is impossible to deliver with the actual budget and their developers get screwed.

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Mushroom

Fuck Capita

See title.

Microsoft to bravely defend US democracy for a slack handful of voters in Fulton, Wisconsin

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Re: Put Microsoft in Charge of Voting?

So the choice is evisceration or asphyxiation?

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Vote Cthulhu

Why choose the lesser evil?

Good news: Neural network says 11 asteroids thought to be harmless may hit Earth. Bad news: They are not due to arrive for hundreds of years

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What a bunch

of teases

Call us immediately if your child uses Kali Linux, squawks West Mids Police

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Re: I told my Dad I use Kali

Alas, I did not.

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They're my team mates, so... probably.

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Re: I told my Dad I use Kali

I went to school with a girl called Kali.

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I play rugger with a few of the local plod, I shall now take the piss out of them more than usual.

You'll never select all and mark as read again after this tale of peril... Oh, who are we kidding? Of course you will

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Re: transgenic mice

Which proves once and for all that Pinky is the genius.

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Re: transgenic mice

Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

Dual screens, fast updates, no registry cruft and security in mind: Microsoft gives devs the lowdown on Windows 10X

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Re: Er, who?

How the hell did you infer that from my comment?

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Mushroom

Re: Er, who?

vast majority of that book is symbolic

Whereas the rest of the bible is bullshit.

Ever dream of being an astronaut? Now’s your chance. NASA wants new people for the Moon and Mars

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I might have to watch The Right Stuff tonight. It's that or Space Camp.

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Re: Discrimination

How about US non-humans?

Parks and recreation escalate efforts to take back control of field terrorised by thug geese

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He would have done precisely nothing.

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No luck catching them swans then?

Jeff Bezos: I will depose King Trump

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Headmaster

Re: We are lead by fuckwits

Your comment contains Alanis Morissette levels of irony.

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Re: meat the requirements.

Spam, bacon, sausage and Spam

#GNUTerryJones

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It's time for Revolution 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Facebook loses control of its own Twitter account in hacker attack – and more news

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I thought it was a cricket reference.

Social media notifications of the future: Ranger tagged you in a photo with Tessadora, Wrenlow, Faelina and Graylen

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I am Spartacus

Tech can endure the most inhospitable environments: Space, underwater, down t'pit... even hairdressers

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Re: Might have mentioned this before...

I do hope you refer to that as the Bat Phone

Former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch 'submits himself' for arrest in central London

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Re: Nah

I think we can prove by looking at American history that the hate is very much not equal.

EU tells UK: Cut the BS, sign here, and you can have access to Galileo sat's secure service

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Re: Money

JRM would be happy then.

That's what makes you hackable: Please, baby. Stop using 'onedirection' as a password

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Re: 1-2-3-4-5?

Yeah, that predates my reference by 23 years.

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1-2-3-4-5?

That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!

Google's OpenSK lets you BYOSK – burn your own security key

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Alien

Re: pedantry to Bernard Woolley's standards

You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

Somewhere, Google's financial bods are playing on repeat... What do you want from me? It's not how it used to be...

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Need to get better at Google-fu.