* Posts by BoldMan

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Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle

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Re: Experts

High six!

It is 2023 and Excel's reign of date terror might finally be at an end

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Joke

Re: While we're bashing Excel...

Engineer: The glass is the wrong size.

UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims

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Re: How is Fujitsu not in the dock?

Maybe it was the transaction logs that were faulty and were causing the discrepancies?

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Re: The Crown Prosecution Service bares equal culpability

The Post Office is its own prosecuting authority so the CPS did not have a say in the matter. This power needs to be stripped from the PO as it has been shown now that they cannot be trusted with it.

Even with the little faith I have in the CPS I don't think they would have kept prosecuting these cases.

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His promises are worth as much as his future in British Politics.

Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks

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Re: There's no point.

I never get these messages (checks browser add-ons... Ghostery, Privacy Badger, AdBlock Plus) nah, never see them...

Feds, you'll need a warrant for that cellphone border search

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Re: I think I get it...

Two wrongs don't make a right, just because our Border Police act like fascist thugs cannot be used to excuse other countries Border Police to also behave like fascist thugs.

Twitter now worth just a third of what Musk paid for it

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Re: The Seething is Real

> [person we previously all worshipped for building electric cars, LEO satellite internet, SpaceX, etc.]

if you previously worshipped him for this then you were as gullible as the fools who invested in this debacle!

Labyrinth of 371 legacy systems hindered hospital's IT meltdown recovery

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Funny how this reminds me of the RBS debacle a few years back...

What's inside a tech freelancer's backpack? That's right, EVERYTHING

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Re: unpacking order...

You mean gaffer tape?

Is Chrome really secretly stalking you across Google sites using per-install ID numbers? We reveal the truth

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X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett

Shouldn't Uber freeze app accounts to prevent spread of coronavirus by drivers and fares? Oh, OK, it already is

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Re: Well whaddya know

EVERY strain of flu is potentially lethal so there is no change there.

Artful prankster creates Google Maps traffic jams by walking a cartful of old phones around Berlin

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Re: Ingenious

I prefer the German version and I don't even speak German! Saw her at the one concert she did in UK at that time at the Drury Lane theatre, it was magic!

Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program

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Re: Major Review

...and fast track grants and funding to their girlfirends/ex-girlfriends/boyfirends/ex-boyfriends/favourite brown envelope supplier...

Good folk of Forfar: Alan Hattel would like you all to know he's not dead despite what it says on his tombstone

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My mother was from Forfar (managed to escape to England to marry my Father) and the bridie is the best thing in Forfar by a long way!

Boeing aircraft sales slump to historic lows after 737 Max annus horribilis

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Re: It's not just the 737...

No the entire purpose of procurement of military hardware is to support your friend's companies with the plan that you get a nice directorship when you retire from the military.

London's Westminster Council wins appeal against phonebooth-cum-massive-digital-advert

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Re: Where?

Excellent pedantry!

You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched

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I thought the ship was called the Rocinante...

Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of millions of Brits' medical data

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Re: Once again. It is not *their* data to sell.

GDPR is NOT an EU law, its a British law in the British law statute books. It will continue to operate even if we leave the EU until some weasel government repeals it in a few years time on order from their US masters.

Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff

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Re: I claim the right to the name starchild

Or Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick

123-Reg is at it again: Registrar charges chap for domains he didn’t order – and didn't want

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"Customers of 123-Reg..."

Why does 123-Reg still have customers? This shower of shite should not have any customers left after their ongoing incompetence!

Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup

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Re: What?

This seems to be a common thing with IoT devices, the need to 'phone home' all the time. Where is the 'smart house' that was described decades ago which manages itself without having to report everything back to a central server?

Oh yes of course, if you don't collect reams of your customers data you can't monetise it... surveillance capitalism at work!

Now just fuck off! Glad you failed and boo hoo to the mugs who spent money on a stupid piece of technology.

It will never be safe to turn off your computer: Prankster harnesses the power of Windows 95 to torment fellow students

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Re: sad mac

Don't forget the trick of switching the left and right mouse buttons over...

Thunderbolts and lightning very, very frightening as loo shatters, embedding porcelain shards in wall

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Makes me think of Blaster Bates and the shower of shite over Cheshire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOwven0Rt94&feature=youtu.be&t=70

Jeff Bezos feels a tap on the shoulder. Ahem, Mr Amazon, care to explain how Capital One's AWS S3 buckets got hacked?

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Re: Remember - Cloud computing

Try explaining that to the Board Members who'd rather be playing golf than actually doing some work to understand the business they are in charge of.

Equifax to world+dog: If we give you this $700m, can you pleeeeease stop suing us about that mega-hack thing?

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Re: In a perfect world...

We, ie the public, are not their customers, we are their product, therefore if we get harmed they don't give a shit.

However you were correct, none of their customers were harmed - their customers are the banks and financial businesses that use their credit check services.

From Red Planet to deep into the red: Suicidal extrovert magnet Mars One finally implodes

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Ahh but is there Life on Mars?

Nothing 'unites teams' like a good relocation, eh Vodafone?

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Re: Aye Right

Plus it is allowing some of their people to escape from Bracknell, a service to humanity if ever I saw one!

Come mobile users, gather round and learn how to add up

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Well if he used JS to perform the calculation he was lucky he got 4 and not 4.000000000001 - JS does not always do sums well :(

Awkward... Revealed Facebook emails show plans for data slurping, selling access to addicts' info, crafty PR spinning

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Re: Riddle me this?

A friend of mine who used to be in advertising summed it up as such - I think he was paraphrasing somebody else though -

"We know that 50% of the money we spend is wasted, but we don't know WHICH 50%"

Its probably more than 50% now, but that is the way the ad industry works.

Giraffe hacks printers worldwide to promote God-awful YouTuber. Did we read that one right?

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Re: Babysitters are for babies

Looks like the juvenile sock puppets have arrived in force - how many posters in this thread joined in the last 2 days? :)

Support whizz 'fixes' screeching laptop with a single click... by closing 'malware-y' browser tab

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My PC was making an irritating noise the other day, so I closed the browser tab that was playing the Chris Evans Breakfast show and the irritating noise miraculously stopped...

Big data at sea: How the Royal Navy charts the world's oceans

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I remember doing that for Seismic surveys back in my days of being a Geophysicist - scalpels and sticky tape, high tech stuff!!!

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Re: Bah!

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!!

Scumbag who phoned in a Call of Duty 'swatting' that ended in death pleads guilty to dozens of criminal charges

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Re: Throw the book at him

@Ian Emery

"You omitted to add that the Police involved had genuine reasons to suspect he was wearing a suicide vest; that they were on high alert after several suicide bombings, and he RAN when approached."

HE WAS NOT CHALLENGED BY POLICE, HE RAN BECAUSE THE TRAIN WAS IN THE STATION AND HE WANTED TO CATCH IT!!

It was a case of mistaken identity and in the paranoia of that time no checks were made and they executed him once he was on the tube train. All the suspicious behaviours attitude to him by the police (eg getting off a bus to go into a tube station and then getting on a different bus because the tube station was closed) were later shown to be perfectly reasonable behaviour.

Try reading the bloody facts before spouting nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes

'Blockchain SAVED my Quango'

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Blockchain

Blockchain

Blockchain

see, nothing happ... aaaggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Which scientist should be on the new £50 note? El Reg weighs in – and you should vote, too

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No James Clarke Maxwell?

Much more important than any of these computery boffins!

Apple boss decries 'data industrial complex' while pocketing, er, billions to hook Google into iOS

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Re: Tim Cook - seperated at birth ...

Which one is Lily Savage at the weekends?

It only took Oz govt transformation bods 6 months and $700k to report that blockchain ain't worth the effort

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This article reminded me that I haven't seen any reposts from The Conversation masquerading as articles on ElReg for a while - thank god!

With sorry Soyuz stuffed, who's going to run NASA's space station taxi service now?

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Re: No worries

Or use the space elevator in the new version of Thunderbird 5

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave me tea... pigs-in-blankets-flavoured tea

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Re: Tea

those who insist on drinking EG should be removed from the gene pool forthwith.

FTFY

World's largest CCTV maker leaves at least 9 million cameras open to public viewing

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Re: sure no one is watching

So they . aren't listening or watching but they are using your pwned device to spam, DDoS and attack other devices...

Ever used an airport lounge printer? You probably don't know how blabby they can be

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Thumbs up (all 16) for the header pic!

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!

The Reg chats with Voyager Imaging Team member Dr Garry E Hunt

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Back in 1981, I was studying astrophysics at Queen Mary College and was editor of the in-house magazine called "h-bar by two". We had Patrick Moore as a guest lecturer for the introductory Astronomy course and on this occasion he'd just got back fro Pasadena from covering the Saturn fly by. Being a cheeky scrote I asked him if he'd write something for my magazine about the new discoveries. His response was "Find me an office, a typewriter and a cup of coffee - I've got an hour to spare before the lecture". Lo and behold 45 mins later he handed me 5 sheets of double-spaced A4 with a superb summary of what had happened. I asked him to autograph it and I still have it almost 40 years later :) Great bloke and a great time to be in astronomy!

Sysadmin misses out on paycheck after student test runs amok

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Re: Gabrielle Drake

Gabrielle Drake never wore a string vest - those were the uniforms for the Skydiver submarine and ALL the female operatives had a vest underneath. Purple wigs and silver mini-skirts were Moonbase uniforms. The future Mrs Michael Caine was also a Moonbase operative in a purple wig.

However, Gabrielle Drake in the movie Au Pair Girls... now you are talking.. .well drooling actually!

New MeX-Files: The curious case of an evacuated US solar lab, the FBI – and bananas conspiracy theories

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They've obviously found the sixth infinity stone...

Do not adjust your set, er, browser: This is our new page-one design

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Opt out not working...

I've tried clicking the opt out button and nothing changes.

I've tried manually adding the test_redesign cookie and setting its value to "off_2018" but still getting the new design...

Neutron star crash in a galaxy far, far... far away spews 'faster than light' radio signal jets at Earth

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Re: Hope it's true

Relativity is a lot more than just e = mc ** 2 !

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