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Doctor Who's Under the Lake splits Reg scribes: This Alien homage thing – good or bad?

" allof Apple's parents are valid"

whats an invalid parent - one in a care home?

"She really gets my wrist err… pulse going"

you'll have to wait for the episode "Clara does Dallas" if you want to do that

can I just point out that the corridor chase / shutting door sequence was pinched from Alien3, not from Alien......

AVG to flog your web browsing, search history from mid-October

Re: But what is the alternative?

"there's a Windows version of ClamAV"

Massive resource hog, poor definitions, no real-time scanner

Forget it

Pluto's moon SPLIT OPEN by ancient FROZEN OCEAN

to me that looks like a glacier edge, not a valley

I'd interpret as an ice glacier covering the northern hemisphere with the orange crater as an "ice volcano" source

Russia vows to shame big biz that advertises on pirate sites, and save the internet

I've love to see Putin's definition of "pirate" sites........I'm guessing anything pro-muslim, pro-gay, pro-ukranian, the BBC, ANYTHING from the USA........

Hey techies! Ever wanted to adopt a Congresscritter? Now's your chance

"Congresscritter?"

I never knew there was a name for a pig/skunk/snake chimaera

Junk patent ditched in EAST TEXAS

"filed in 1992, granted in 2001"

nine years! is that typical in the USA?

Slander-as-a-service: Peeple app wants people to rate and review you – whether you like it or not

Re: Montag calling...

hello Guy!

then they'd be tried in their absence - or the company would - and any damages would be enforced through an international warrant.

if my understanding of English law is correct, if the website is visible by users in the UK, then the website has been effectively published in the UK - making the publishers / authors of the site subject to UK legal action. even if they are not resident in the UK.

It doesn't matter where the website is based, or the nationality of the company or people behind it: if its visible in UK, its actionable in the UK, Given the kind of awards UK libel actions attract, they really should think carefully before proceeding.

They look like a pair of Essex blondes anyway - too thick to think over what they're doing

Rampaging fox terrorises rural sports club, victim sustains ‘tweaked groin’

was the fox called Samantha?

Boeing builds British Airways 787 Dreamliner in 4 minutes

Re: You need deep pockets for any class on 787 with BA

but why would anyone want to fly to Austin, direct or otherwise? Its a bit like charging a premium for flying to Skelmersdale...

Massive global cooling process discovered as Paris climate deal looms

Re: VOCs - white paint yellowing

for heavens sake all of you........if you want white gloss that stays white you need a paint that uses white lead as a pigment. Modern titanium oxide paint doesn't cut it

Dear do-gooders, you can't get rid of child labour just by banning it

Re: Left and Right and Politics

"congrats Tim on writing the first article I actually understood"

Is that the first of Tim's articles that you've understood, or the first article you've ever understood?

Maybe the answer will show why many have problems understanding your rants....

feeding boys at school may work, but feeding girls may not - depending on the regional culture.

In many places, educating women is simply not socially acceptable due to tradition, religious stupidity, or male insecurity. Girls are seem as a liability or a disposable resource. Put them out to work, sell them off, traffic them. As early as possible to get them off your hands

No amount of feeding in schools is going to change that - those girls are going to end up in the brothel, or as child brides, whatever happens.I don't know what the answer is.................. Maybe better to legitimise child prostitution - under controlled circumstances - so the authorities can keep tabs on whats happening????? Horrible thought, but better a controlled horror than an uncontrolled one?

Will IT support please come to the ward immediately. Weeeee have a tricky problem

Re: Upgrade on the NHS

its very much a regional issue - some hospital trusts and CCGs are well advanced, others are doing it now - while some are still trying to find the cash......it really does depend on where you live

Re: PC Screen stopped working

that sounds like a call that was published on a support website around ten years ago, can't remember its name now.

However I have had personal experience of such a call while working in the call centre of the muslin computer company midway between blackburn and burnley........yes, that one that went bust

Very very similar call, I was listening in on a Scots techie (doing a quality audit on him) when the caller rang with scanner problems. The call developed almost identically, with the difference that at the end our Scots lad told the caller he was a stupid effing idiot (or words to that effect). I pissed myself laughing, but I had to give the guy a low quality score for the abuse element of the call

bloody keyboards....

a couple of years ago on an NHS Win7 rollout I had a problem where the domain admin password kept getting locked out. One day it amounted to 30 times.........I was calling my colleagues on other sites rude names, while they were cursing me (it was a NHS COIN network, one domain across the whole county, hence if one site was locked out, all were locked out)

Took us three days to realise the problem was a duff batch of keyboards on my site. They were HP keyboards, expensive ones with built-in card readers, but some of them had a moulding fault where the K and I keys were connected with thin piece of moulding flash......so when k was pressed (part of the domain password), so was i. Three attempts and the account locked.

Once I'd taken a scalpel from the surgery and cut all the flash on all the keyboards, normality resumed.

However I never told anyone the cause. I didn't want to look a prat, and I didn't want the local IT support to have anything to pin on us (we were a contract team)

Devious Davros, tricksy Missy and Dalek Clara delight in The Witch's Familiar

Re: Pew pew!!

"Judging by the series trailer, "Goody Twoshoes Oswald" gets mean with an RPG at some stage!"

she must have been watching that last series of Torchwood and got some ideas

I was really hoping this was the episode where Clara becomes trapped in the dalek suit, and becomes the Oswin Oswald hybrid dalek in which she first apppeared.......maybe that will happen in a later episode, thus bringing her plot line full circle and killing her off.

I would make her the hybrid that this series seems to be desiring - and the other daleks hatred of impurity would explain her exiling to the dalek lunatic asylum planet. However....I've a feeling the last episode is going to need a revisit from Matt Smith

NEW ERA for HUMANITY? NASA says something 'major' FOUND ON MARS

is it true NASA have hired David Bowie as a PR agent?

not rocks, but rock snakes. Very sedentary until you shoot at them.

or Mysterons...........

NOxious VW emissions scandal: Car maker warned of cheatware YEARS AGO – reports

Re: Today VW ...

we have a fleet of Citroens and they certainly don't use urea. Mix of C3/C4/C5

Get ready for a grim future where bees have shorter tongues

Bad science

Bumblebee tongue lengths have always been variable.

I can remember as a child 50 years ago being shown by my father how some short-tongued bumblebees would bite into the back of runner and french beans to get at the nectar (so ruining the flower and preventing pollination) while others of apparently the same species would approach from the front and suck.

We sat and watched it happen. Red flowers seemed to be hit more than white ones.....maybe they tasted better???

FYI, my father used to "save" some of the flowers by hand pollinating them with a fine paintbrush, but thats hardly a large scale resolution

It was a phenomenon known to lay people then - where is the news element now?

Tits and ads: Malware-riddled banners stiff X-rated websites

yesterday xHamster had a popup which locked tbe browser until you paid a one bitcoin fine.......usual cleaning techniques removed it quickly enough

Very amateurish attack - just a plain badly written text box (no graphics) which stated it only affected Google Chrome

Hilton hotels in credit-card-stealing malware infection scare

Paris needed more cash in a hurry?

VW’s case of NOxious emissions: a tale of SMOKE and MIRRORS?

three questions

1) does anyone know which engine models are affected?

2) which car models are they in?

3) are these engines used by any other car manufacturers? My understanding is some VW engines plants are joint ventures with other European companies

'Steve Jobs filmmakers opportunistic? Apple, you've got a factory of children making phones'

In that photo Tim Cook looks suspiciously like that dog -loving other gay icon, Paul O'Grady.

Was O'Grady a sperm donor in his youth? The similarity defies belief

Bill Bailey: The man, the musician, the comic, the troll, the legend

Re: "prostrate cancer"

"prostrate cancer prevention"

yeah - it must be one of those lying down diseases

US, China manage to keep a straight face while promising to not hack each other's corps

In other news, Obama announced the first genetically engineered flying pig.......

Official: North America COMPLETELY OUT of new IPv4 addresses

Re: And I still say...

No, I meant exactly what I said. Otherwise I wouldn't have said it.

As for your suggestion that I should metaphorically doff my hat to experts, please don't talk crap. I've known enough experts over the years to know that in many cases their "solutions", however carefully thought out and appraised, have no real-world functionality or viability. As for "consultation"....in this case they obviously failed to consult with the people who have to use it

Re: And I still say...

"So 2001:db8::192:168:1:1/64 is perfectly viable."

until you have to read it out over the phone to someone......at which point it becomes a fuckwit's wet dream

the format is totally totally totally nonsensical, nonintuitive and nonuseable and nonviable

Silly question possibly........but how big a block of addresses did Nokia have? Was that the real reason Microsoft took over the phone division?

"usher in the next phase of the Internet by deploying IPv6 as soon as possible.”"

so when are the ISPs going to force all their clients to use IPv6 capable routers and NICs?

US military personnel investigated for splashing $96,576 on strippers

"The Pentagon contractors in Afghanistan expense child sex slaves"

a statement like that desperately needs some kind of proof......which contractors? Where are the children procured? What evidence have you got? If you think what you say is true, then why have you done nothing about it?

NASA rover coders at Intel's Wind River biz axed – sources

"One of the axed employees..............provided support for the real-time operating system on radiation-hardened processors"

""They have laid off the last engineer who worked on the version of the operating system used on spacecraft.""

"In October last year, Wind River was fined $750,000 for exporting encryption to China, Russia, Israel and other countries."

I hear there are a number of new vacancies in China........hardened ballistic warheads interest anyone?

Asia-focussed Chinese PLA hacking crew surfaces

whats his mobile phone number?

wheres the nearest drone base? expect a surprise "terrorist" explosion in China soon

UK in Frenchy cyber love-in to ward off 'information bomb'

Well....we're supposed to be one of France's major industrial spying targets. So now we're going to allow GCHQ to transfer technology to France so they can spy on us more efficiently.

"*We* were on the frontline covering the little surrender monkey's ar$es."

Actually, "we" were pretty much on the back foot until the yanks arrived and pointed out what dickheads our generals were - and saved our bacon with their superior numbers

Anthropology boffins solve 9,000-year-old headless body cold case

My guess is they cut the head and hands off and ate the rest. Plenty of cannibal tribes in the Americas.

Kept the head as a memoriam to the dead, the hands weren't worth cooking - too bony, not enough flesh

Michigan sues HP after 'botched' $49m upgrade leaves US state in 1960s mainframe hell

Re: Gratuitous: Maybe Carly could ride in on her white horse and get this company better,

Carly's influence must have been bloody disastrous if the company is still suffering the after effects of her rule now. Was she in the pay of the Chinese, deliberately setting out to wreck the business?

To still have fallout ten years after leaving is one heck of a record. The fact the company is still in business indicates that historically it must have been overcharging horribly to generate enough cash to survive ten years of decline. She wrecked that cash stream.

And this woman wants to be President of the western world? The USA may as well declare bankruptcy now

Indianapolis man paints his ball every day – for FORTY YEARS

as its a ball.....does it bounce?

Re: @ Khaptain

"I understand that some people find great joy in looking at painted baseballs"

wheras some find enjoyment in excessive mastication.

Re: @ Khaptain

"I gave up television about 15 years ago."

I take it you gave up humour around the same time? When did you give up on life to become a recluse?

Re: Darwin Awards Equivalant

"Climbing a mounting"

is that to enable horse riding? Or a sexual position?

we all know you're weird anyway, otherwise you wouldn't be anonymous

Adobe patches Flash dirty dozen, ignores 155 in Shockwave shocker

So.....if you install the Shockware player and then the Flash player, are the vulnerabilities in the first negated? Does the order of installation matter?

Apple rains refunds on Peace'd off axed ad-blocker netizens

I suspect that in reality Apple pulled the plug - not the author. The app would have cost them too much money in lost advertising revenue long term.

What is needed now is for someone to reverse engineer it and open-source it - totally piss Apple off

Cisco shocker: Some network switches may ELECTROCUTE you

Re: only for stupid users?

"No, if it needs mounting, I'll look at the mountings and see what I've got that'll fit "

even if it comes with the correct mounting screws?

Whats your middle name - Freddie Fuckwitt?