* Posts by Aladdin Sane

2732 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2015

Onestream slammed for 'slamming' vulnerable and elderly folk: That's £35k to Ofcom, please

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Re: The money, due within 20 working days, goes to the Treasury

But it's not being split, it's going to the Treasury.

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Mushroom

The money, due within 20 working days, goes to the Treasury

Nothing for their victims then? A pox upon their house.

US Embassy in London files extradition request for ex-Autonomy boss over HPE fraud charges

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Re: Mike's on a European Vacation

Hey! Tuesday! Pig 'N A Poke!

Mine's the one with salt and holy water in the pocket.

RISC-V business: Tech foundation moving to Switzerland because of geopolitical concerns

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Re: What About World War 3?

As Uncle Joe said, "Quantity has a quality of its own."

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Re: Of the reasons to move, the flag is a big plus.

Nah, my room's padded an I get given a great jacket with lots of buckles.

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Of the reasons to move, the flag is a big plus.

Christmas in tatters for Nottinghamshire tots after mayor tells them Santa's too busy

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Re: The reason why is the interesting questionm, surely.

Deprive those kids of a valuable opportunity for self-discovery and critical thinking by slowly working out for themselves that their parents and society have been lying to them.

Plenty of opportunities for that to happen.

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I've checked my contract

There ain't no sanity clause.

Xerox: Prepare to say cyan-ara, HP Inc. We're no paper tiger. We're really very serious about that hostile takeover

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Pint

Don't think I've seen El Reg use a Mad Men pic before

In the words of Bertram Cooper, 'Bravo'.

Totally Sardonic Bank: Well, it must be, to have a TITSUP* the same week as THAT report

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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Otto von Bismarck

Second time lucky: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation

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Re: Stating the obvious

Except that if the slippery little bugger hadn't holed up in the embassy, there's every chance that the evidence wouldn't have weakened and the case may have made it to court. Now we'll simply never know.

Bloodhound gang hits 1,010kph, retreats to lab to work on smashing the land speed record

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Trollface

Re: Minor nitpick

All speed is relative.

Astroboffins capture video of Mercury passing across the Sun's surface

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Pint

Set the controls

for the heart of the sun.

ZTE Nubia Z20: It's £499. It's a great phone. Buy it. Or don't. We don't care

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Re: I am from Gdańsk and I beg for help

Or a 3rd placed rugby team.

The UK's Civil Aviation Authority asked drone orgs to email fliers' data in an Excel spreadsheet

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Re: loophole?

Sure that should be five mini lion drones that come together to form one super-bot?

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Obligatory xkcd is obligatory.

FYI, we're now in the timeline where Facebook decides who is and isn't a politician on its 2bn-plus-person network

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Re: three character limit

WTF

Remember the 1980s? Oversized shoulder pads, Metal Mickey and... sticky keyboards?

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Trollface

Re: Been there...

So left pondians are 1 key short of a keyboard? Makes sense.

BOFH: Judge us not by the size of our database, but the size of our augmented reality

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"What about Internet of Things?"

"That's what our users call eBay."

Bravo

We read the Brexit copyright notices so you don't have to… No more IP freely, ta very much

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Re: locked basement of your local library

Not in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard"?

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TL; DR

We're fucked

Scariest thing about Halloween? HMRC and Defra systems still a risk to post-Brexit borders

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TL; DR

We're fucked.

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

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Matthew 14:25?

I've always preferred Ezekiel 25:17.

I can't believe you've done this: Cisco.com asks visitors to explain to IT why they have broken the website

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Re: Like rain on your wedding day

What we've got here is failure to communicate,

Father of Unix Ken Thompson checkmated: Old eight-char password is finally cracked

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Practising your shuffling skills makes populating the universe less likely.

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Only if you walk without rhythm.

UK ads watchdog bans Burger King Twitter jibe for condoning chucking milkshakes at politicians

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Re: This was actually genius..

You could've just put 'their' and not been a dick.

That time Windows got blindsided by a ball of plasma, 150 million kilometres away

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Re: The Benefits of Stygian Offices

Hi Richmond

HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some

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How does this compare to other printer manufacturers?

Justice served: There is no escape from the long server log of the law

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Re: Surely...

Be sure to search for BHX, not BHM.

A peeling solution to pothole has split the community... Yeah, they stuck a banana tree in it

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Re: Council..

I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those pesky kids.

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Re: Council..

I recently spent 19hrs and 18min running through the Chilterns. Very nice it was.

Geo-boffins drill into dino-killing asteroid crater, discover extinction involves bad smells, chilly weather, no broadband internet...

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Re: Fahrenheit?

We need more of this sort of thread.

The time a Commodore CDTV disc proved its worth as something other than a coaster

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Re: One wonders

If it was, it might have been some sort of record.

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Trollface

Re: BAUD

But how do you pronounce 'Thawed'?

It's a God-awful smell affair.... is there life on Mars? Rocks ruled out as source of mystery methane on Red Planet

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Facepalm

Re: Tautology alert!

I think my keyboard may need testing.

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Re: I think its probably more likely to be geological

Careful, he has a razor and he's not afraid to use it.

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Re: Tautology alert!

I do hope it's been PAT tasted.

Here's to beer, without which we'd never have the audacity to Google an error message at 3am

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Re: Coding under the influence

Back when I was in a band, we always played better after a beer.

Revealed: Milky Way's shocking cannibalistic dark past – it gobbled a whole dwarf eons ago

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Re: we live in a simulated Universe

Apparently there's a god-mode where the respawn time is 72 hours with no loss of XP.

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Re: we live in a simulated Universe

Respawn time is ridiculous.

Rise of the Machines hair-raiser: The day IBM's Dot Matrix turned

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Re: Let's face it, who amongst us hasn't lost a tie to the...

You come from the John Virgo school of waistcoat wearing?

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Re: Let's face it, who amongst us hasn't lost a tie to the...

What sort of commoner doesn't have a tie clip?

'We've done it, we've wasted further time!' Judge raps HP over Mike Lynch court scrutiny

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Only if there are grounds for an appeal.

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The reason for that is because they ask for everything to be explained so that precise details are entered into the court records.

It's Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Tech industry speaks its brains on Brexit-monger's victory

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TL; DR

We're fucked.

When you play the game of Big Spendy Thrones, nobody wins – your crap chair just goes missing

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I'm Brian, and so's my wife.

Bad news: Earth is not going to be walloped by asteroid 2006 QV89. Good news: Boffins have lost sight of it, so all hope is not yet lost

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Depending on the metal content, might turn up at a scrap merchant.

Oh, lovely, a bipartisan election hack alert law bill for Mitch McConnell to feed into the shredder

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Obligatory xkcd

I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue

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Facepalm

Reminds me of when I was at school, and idiots thought that if a document showed in their taskbar that it was saved.