* Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

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Microsoft will let you pass and fail cert exams at the same time

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Oh, I've got to rummage in the file cabinet this weekend for my old MCSE stuff. Mid/late 1990ies, around NT 4.0... IIRC, I aced the bit about Minesweeper.

South Australian mega-storm blacks out whole state

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Re: Thoughts from the ground

Hang in there, best of luck! Hope the house stays dry.

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Shouldn't that be "the other 4 eyes"?

HP Ink COO: Sorry not sorry we bricked your otherwise totally fine printer cartridges

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Re: I took my home printer to the tip a few weeks ago.

I quite like my current gear (which does include some quite old bits like a HP LaserJet from the mid 1990ies that just works), but yes, "Resented Technology" is a good name for something that definitely is a thing.

DARPA does a podcast

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Re: 2006 wants its technology back, indeed!

Stop whining. It could have been fax-on-demand.

Revealed: The true horror of being a big CEO

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Re: Billy Joel and Sting?

Well, 60 is the new 30.

You know, student loans finally paid off, ready to build your own little home in the suburbs, start a family, etc, etc...

The web is past peak innovation: It's all negative returns from here

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Re: " I don't even want a digital panel. A knob ... is a far more appropriate interface.

Charles, what is it with you and sausages and microwave ovens? I'm starting to sense a theme here.

Redback sinks fangs into Aussie's todger AGAIN... second time in five months

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If humans can live in Australia, surely a Mars colony isn't an impossible dream?

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Re: "All that said, St. Patrick had the right idea."

... and that's how you do marketing!

Smartphone lost on QANTAS 'began hissing, emitting smoke and making orange glow'

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Dinner and a show - add a song-and-dance routine for the finish and we ought to be on a winner here!

Hubble spies on Europa shooting alien juice from its southern pole

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Re: The interstellar war would be very short

Indeed. Apple would give Jeff Goldblum their latest MacBook - clickety, clickety, clickety - done.

Lily Cole: You'd hate me more if Impossible.com were a success

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Yes, but

is it disruptive ?

Elon Musk: I'm gonna turn Mars into a $10bn death-dealing interplanetary gas station

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My question is: will the ships be on autopilot or not?

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Re: Musk seems to be losing it

@h4arm0ny:

All you need is a flag.

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Coat

"Musk sees humans then being able to establish similar facilities in the asteroid belt or on the moons of Jupiter."

Except Europa, of course...

(Mine's the one with the copy of 2010 in the pocket.)

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Re: I think my wife has a scale model of the rocket...

Dr. Barry Kripke would approve...

The wait is over: MoD releases latest issue of Ship Paint Monthly

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"This month's cover features HMS Sutherland ..."

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

What's the centerfold in this issue?

US Labor Dept accuses CIA-backed Palantir of discriminating against Asian engineers

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Well, Tolkien did grow up in and was a part of the British class system.

Self-driving Google car T-boned in California crash

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Re: I was there

Driverless car.

Paperless office.

Tricky.

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Re: Is there a story here?

So you think he should operate the van from the passenger seat?

But seriously, Neanderthals weren't primitive or stupid. Or even that ugly. No idea how their driving skills would have been, though.

Brain plague or estate agents? I know which I'd prefer in Virtual Reality

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Another one for the movie list:

World on a Wire (Welt am Draht, 1973) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Based on the novel 'Simulacron-3' by Daniel F. Galouye. It has VR inside VR. Has aged remarkable well and still is worth watching.

As to the VR-and-porn debate: anyone who lived through the 'cyber sex' hype two decades ago will be very sceptical.

As to VR in general: those who can actually profit from using VR in their work already use it. The gear gets better all the time, but that's about it.

You heard right: Huawei's making phones in Chennai

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Robots are OPEX if you rent/lease them. Just like the company cars.

Heathrow airport and stock exchange throw mystery BSODs

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Silicon Valley’s top exorcist rushed off his feet as Demons infest California

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Suspected Russian DNC hackers brew Mac trojan

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"... a trojan targeting Mac OS X machines in the aerospace sector ...

On average, Macs in the aerospace sector should be somewhat harder targets than others. Different wetware.

I've given up on telling friends and acquaintances of mine that classify themselves as "creatives" and/or work "something in media" about security awareness and malware on Macs. Utterly, totally useless because "there is only malware on Windows computers".

Google rushes in where Akamai fears to tread, shields Krebs after world's-worst DDoS

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Read about it on BB (link below). Apparently insecure IoT devices (are there any other) were used to boost the attack.

http://boingboing.net/2016/09/25/the-democratization-of-censors.html

High rear end winds cause F-35A ground engine fire

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"... excessive blade rubbing ..."

How's it like?

NASA's Europa surprise

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Re: A modern god would text us...

So, not the kind of god you might meet at the check-in for the flight to Oslo?

R2D2 delivery robots to scurry through the streets of San Francisco

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Re: fixed hazards will be the real challenge

Close... Ford Mustang. The other car in the chase is a Dodge Charger.

Now picture them trying to avoid the sortaR2D2s.

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Headmaster

Yes, commas are the worst.

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Kinder SurpriseTM on wheels...

Terry Jones has dementia

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Re: IT angle?

The Pythons thought about AI in the late 1960ies with their New Brain From Curry's sketch. That's IT-angle enough for me. The pint is for Terry J.; he always liked real ale.

Roswell crash theories

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Re: Interesting news

I still say it was a teaser.

Spaaace

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You know, stuff like this kickstarter to release a 40th Anniversary Edition of Voyager's golden Record.

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Spaaace

How about a thread about space, space exploration, space related engineering... for stuff that's interesting, but doesn't make the front page?

And vaguely related fun stuff, maybe.

Space, he called from the kitchen.

And! it! begins! Yahoo! sued! over! ultra-hack! of! 500m! accounts!

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Pass the popcorn, please - this will take some time. And afterwards, Verizon should be able to pick up Yahoo for a song and a dance. If they still want it.

SpaceX: Breach in liquid oxygen tank caused Falcon 9 fireball ... probably

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Re: too technical for me

I'd say the explosion released pretty much the same amount of 'heat and carbon' as a launch would have done. Only in seconds, not in minutes, and while staying put. Possibly less, depending on how much of the fuel was burnt in the explosion. Some of it (from the other tanks) may have been sprayed about before it could ignite.

Days are numbered for the Czech Republic

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Obviously...

TCFKATCR - The Country Formerly Known As The Czech Republic.

Now all they need is a cool symbol.

Smelly toilets, smokers and the Kardashians. Virgin Media staff grill top brass

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Re: Health and Safety

What is it with British plumbing and not having mixer taps?

Lean in and pivot: Even Steve Jobs didn't work alone, startup boy

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"... save the world through IoT ..."

Let"s just say I'm somewhat sceptical.

Also, Batman doesn't work alone. At the very least, there is always Alfred.

Woo hoo, UK.gov has unveiled yet another tech creche – for infosec

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Re: coalition government?

Mix to Pither's sleeping face, waking up, shaking himself in disbelief at finding himself in a beautiful garden, with the sun shining, the birds singing. He is in a deckchair, and his mother, having poured him a jug of iced fruit juice, is gently nudging Pither to wake him.

Mother Come on, dear. Wake up dear.

Pither Mother!

Mother Come on dear.

Pither So, it was all a dream.

Mother No dear, this is the dream, you're still in the cell.

Mix to Pither waking up in the cell. The officer enters carrying a rifle.

Come to think of it, the whole Bexit thing is a bit like having your bicycle pump get caught in your trousers, isn't it?

British unis mull offshore EU campuses in post-Brexit vote panic

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Re: How much more of this...

Too late...

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Re: Hard luck

Not to mention all those weasly Brits studying English, of all subjects...

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Re: Say non to EU funding.

"It's all very well for the French to take a negative attitude towards the British but where would they be now if we hadn't stepped up to the plate in both World Wars?"

That would never have been an issue if you hadn't lost the 100 years war, now would it?

Cosmology is safe and the Universe is one giant version of the Barbican

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Re: barbican?

Totally off topic... I dimly recall visiting London in the early 1980ies. We went to the Barbican Centre (can't remember why) early on a saturday or sunday morning (can't remember why either) and for some reason we walked through a couple of blocks of 'The City' which were totally deserted. I was like in one of those desaster movies where the hero wakes up one day and finds that he is the last man o earth or something.

Jeremy Clarkson and Co. rise to top for Great British Bake Off replacements

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Re: bring back Tomorrow's World

As long as Dabbsy will present it...

Sysadmin gets 5 years for slurping contractor payments to employer

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Re: Love the pussy pass

"And you people wonder why I bitch about feminism."

Nope, your comments make that abundantly clear.

Shopkeeper installs forecourt khazi to counter mystery Dublin dung dumper

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Stavanger golf club, Norway, has a mystery man who keeps shitting in the holes since 2005.

Microsoft: We're hugging trees to save the 'world'

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Iceland. Cold with lots of geothermal power.

Naughty Zuck: Facebook fudged its video ad numbers

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He is not the messiah, he is a very naughty boy.