* Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

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Skype now translates in real-time into seven languages

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Re: 2010 called...

Did you warn them?

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/2009_called.png

Norway cops, Europol, throw cage over RAT

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Nice to see them doing something useful.

Put your private parts on display if you want to keep earning a living

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Re: @Peter2, re Heater under the desk. - @Shadow Systems

"hairy" - FTFY

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Re: Not all you need - Today, a Leica still costs roughly a working man annual salary.

"A working photojournalist won't be using a Leica."

Yes, they still do. At least the SLRs. Because once you've got all the lenses in your kit you need, you can keep using them for the rest of your life.

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Re: On the other hand ...

@Jake

What kind of darkroom are we talking, mate?

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Re: HR is not for Humans.

"I am not a resource, I am a free man!"

"Hahahaha!"

Serving up IT on a silver platter, also known as ITSM

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Change

a few words and this article could have been written ten years ago. Change a few more, twenty years. And so on. Dialing back some thirty years: "Where's the beef?" (Oh, right, I keep forgetting, the 'tennies' are all vegan...)

Full of fear at work: Blame the boss, or yourself?

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Was the article written out of fear of not aquiring enough clients to stay in business?

RBS and Natwest online banking goes titsup

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Re: Again?

"...isn't it about time they were properly spanked for this crap?"

My guess is that would be rather an incentive than a threat to some of them (nudge nudge, wink wink..)

NASA books space shuttle delivery truck

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Re: Barf

Didn"y your mom tell you? Always be nice to the man who signs your paycheck.

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Re: BOR-4

Yup. Same problem, same parameters ➡ similar solution (no surprise there).

I am worried a bit about the folding wings, though. Doesn't that mean there is a gap in the heat shield? (Yes, I'm aware it's there by design and they will have taken the problems into account. But still, the only parts that really can't fail are the parts you don't incorporate into the design.)

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Pint

@phuzz

Thanks for the link and the info! Have a pint, an UV and a nice weekend.

Att: Windows Phone owners: Win 10 Mobile has been spotted and it wants your phone

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What took you so long?

Russian Pastafarian wins right to bear colander

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Re: Meaballs through the looking glass

They did not forget - they were downsized.

Ground control to Major Tim! Brit's spacewalk halted after NASA 'naut takes unexpected leak

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This has been discussed at lenth (and competent) in the comments on the article announcing the Two-Tim-spacewalk a couple of days ago.

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Re: Re: 2 points

Well, it was a long time ago, in a far away - no, cancel that...

Anyway, it's comforting to know I'm not alone.

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2 points

1 Re picture illustrating article: these kind of selfies are totally acceptable

2 Does anyone else remember the (very) short lived TV programme 'Space Cops'; specifically the episode about the faulty spacesuits?

The Bong Diaries, Pt.94: Bowie, Martha... and where's my knighthood?

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Re: Shirley

"Or have I missed something?"

The joke, perchance?

Hot Swedish nurses in charity calendar rumpus

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Well played El Reg, well played...

Hi, compsci undergrad. See that AI robot over there? It's your advisor

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"once it's developed, students can choose to talk to it for simple or routine questions, or to complement a meeting with a person".

So far that's nothing you couldn't achieve with a FAQ list and some additional brochures. ELIZA reloaded? Oh, "cognitive advisers", right. Don't get me wrong - I really welcome research in this field. I'm just tired of having every little step announced as a revolutionary breakthrough. But then, that's the kind of blurb AI has been spewing since the 1950ies...

IDC's abacus fiddlers say a third of all IT spend goes on cloud

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Define 'cloud'

As everybody seems to have their own definition*, statistics like these are meaningless.

* how about 'any bit of IT gear that can get connected directly or indirectly to the internet'?

Stop, look, listen: Don't be 2016's DevOps roadkill – here's how to survive

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Another day,

another DevOps piece on El Reg...

French say 'Non, merci' to encryption backdoors

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Nope, Callmedave will rather push for Britain to leave the EU than side with the Dutch and the [insert term of choice] French.

Apple's anti-malware Gatekeeper still useless: Security bloke reveals lingering holes

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Historical side note / fun fact: the Great Wall of China (which you can't see from the moon, BTW) didn't work out as planned because after spending A LOT on the wall itself, they didn't pay the gatekeepers properly, who consequently were easily bribed.

Forget the drones, Amazon preps its own cargo container ship operation out of China

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So this will improve Amazon's logistics chain and be a method to gain information on the competition at the same time.

Late night server rebuild led to 'nightmares about mutilated corpses'

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Re: Who should I cover?

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/2009_called.png

FTC apologizes for leaking attendee details … to privacy conference

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Oops..

...move along now, nothing to see here...

Cloud Security Alliance says infosec wonks would pay $1m ransoms

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Well, it's not an SI unit, but arguably it is THE unit.

Investor to AT&T – give us a peek at your NSA data dealings

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That's possibly the first action by an 'activist investor' I can applaud.

Never mind the patent trolls. Here's a riddle: What about the inventors?

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Re: So, what's the invention shown in the image?

I think it is some sort of fallout shelter (from the cold war days), probably a portable one. Somehow I have the feeling I've seen this before in the early 1980ies. Anyway, it reminds me of the 'Protect & Survive' brochures from that era.

The guy in the picture is not using a mobile phone, he is just waiting for the blast wave miraculously missing him, and the fallout settling.

Nest thermostat owners out in the cold after software update cockup

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Re: Can one experience schadenfreude...

Tautology alert!

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Re: DevOps for the win

I'd say agile - as in running around the house to get warm...

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Re: the internet isn't the problem

Nobody said the internet was the problem. And I'd say everyone here knows about crappy code, one way or another.

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If that's the solution, I want my problem back.

BlackBerry baffled by Dutch cops' phone encryption cracked brag

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https://xkcd.com/538/

Stephen Hawking reckons he's cracked the black hole paradox

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Re: Hairy black holes?

Yeah, the standard seems to be slipping. Or improving. Hard to tell untill we open the box.

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Re: So what is it?

I am NOT changeing the lightbulb again just because you want to go to red alert!

Petit a petit, l’oiseau fait son nid: AWS to open data center in Montreal

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Re: Sigh ...

"Take off, hosers!"

How to build the next $1bn tech unicorn: Get into ransomware

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And while we're at it, let's ban cows, shall we? After all, cows kill more people than sharks each year.

Power plants, utilities 'just hanging right off the internet's tubes'

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Convenience (and cost cutting) will trump security every bloody time.

Probe launched after mischiefmaker invades US spyboss's Verizon broadband account

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A bit of both, maybe? Too stupid to be scared...

Er, what sort of Docker experience were you expecting?

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%

what are the absolute numbers?

Nimbus Data settles lawsuit, moves to LA, promises new products

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Easy. Someone gets out of the shower and explains that everything was just a bad dream...

Learn you Func Prog on five minute quick!

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FUNCOBOL

sounds like, well, fun!

Engineer's bosses gave him printout of his Yahoo IMs. Euro court says it's OK

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Re: Separate work from private life!

@Kernel - why do you assume an 'off the record' warning would not be followed by an official warning (or several) before any action was taken?

Australia considers mass herpes release for population control

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So, Magikarp is triumphant at last. ..

Brit 'naut Peake gears up for spacewalk

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Re: Spare Parts...

I suppose this will get worse once IKEA gets into the market.

We know this isn't about PRISM, Matt Warman MP. But do you?

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Re: I wish I could remember names

"I do wonder what ol' Charlie boy has on Mr Warman..."

He doesn't have to have anything on Warman - he can offer him a hit of the most potent drug there is: Power.

Whatever Android-ChromeOS mashup looks like, it's gotta be better looking than this

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Re: Then there's that EULA...

Prog Rock just isn't Rock.

And I'll just stick with Red Star OS.

"Some people may find it intrusive - we like to think we care..."

2015's horror PC market dropped nine per cent

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Re: Wearing mine as I write.

See also

www.xkcd.com/1039