Posts by Aladdin Sane

UK privacy watchdog to fine Facebook 18 mins of profit (£500,000) for Cambridge Analytica

Re: Income Vs Profit

Net income is synonymous with profit before tax(es). If they'd used revenue then you'd be correct with your pedantry.

Former wig-wearing Twitterphobe replaces Hancock as UK.gov's Secretary of Fun

Re: Brexiteers jump ship

Not Clarkson?

Leatherbound analogue password manager: For the hipster who doesn't mind losing everything

Re: What can you trust?

Did it include all the usernames and passwords that should not be given to your wife?

Open plan offices flop – you talk less, IM more, if forced to flee a cubicle

Re: Hard to Hear

You should get better headphones - mine go all the way to 11.

Yes, Assange, we'll still nick you for skipping bail, rules court

Re: Schrödinger's Embassy

He hasn't been locked up. He's free to leave the embassy at any time. He's just too much of a pussy to face the consequences of his actions.

Security guard cost bank millions by hitting emergency Off button

Re: Big Red Buttons are irresistible!

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry." ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

Obligatory request for a Sir Pterry icon.

Bill Clinton's cyber-attack novel: The airport haxploit-blockbuster you knew it would be

Re: Would you be able to resist

Didn't Robert Harris already do that?

Re: Thanks for the time saver

Stephen Fry described DVC as "loose stool water".

Re: "high political office"

All I'm saying is that he didn't inhale.

Widower

I bet Hillary gave him some shit for that.

IBM wins five-year whole-of-government deal with Australia

quantum blockchain innovation revolution

Bingo!

Budget hotel chain, UK political party, Monzo Bank, Patreon caught in Typeform database hack

Re: Billing.

Official Monster Raving Loony Party.

Phishing attacks to commence

in 3...2...1...

Who fancies a six-core, 128GB RAM, 8TB NVMe … laptop?

Re: What does it run?

I asked the question as the comment wasn't clear whether it was an increase or decrease, and companies have been caught charging for Linux in the past. Fuck knows why I got downvoted.

Re: What does it run?

Charging for Linux? Or is that a price reduction?

Bankrupt Aussie Hells Angel scoops £750k lottery jackpot

Re: Tautology?

Diplomatic bag?

Re: Huh?

That's how they got Capone.

Call your MEP! Wikipedia blacks out for European YouTube vote

The people who run Wikipedia

appear to be bell ends.

'Coding' cockup blamed for NHS cough-up of confidential info against patients' wishes

Re: "Coding error"

Shit rolls downhill.

Re: "Coding error"

3 years isn't a coding error, it's fucking negligence (and not by the poor code monkey).

Assuming the login details on each card are unique and never reused.

For fuck's sake.

Git365. Git for Teams. Quatermass and the Git Pit. GitHub simply won't do now Microsoft has it

After hours

Git pub? For once let's not hope for a lock in.

A special version for IBM execs

Git to da choppah!

We're no strangers to hubs.

UK Home Office sheds 70 staff on delayed 4G upgrade to Emergency Services Network

the leaders have decided that the team, which currently numbers 340, could be smaller

0 leaders will be removed.

CIMON says: Say hello to your new AI pal-bot, space station 'nauts

Re: Is NASA sending 5-year old austronauts now?

No, just a glowing red lens.

Drug cops stopped techie's upgrade to question him for hours. About everything

Re: Collective of IT managers?

Pretty sure it's a crash of IT managers. Or possibly a BSOD.

IBM memo to staff: Our CEO Ginni is visiting so please 'act normally!'

Re: I'm thinking about the edge cases in this memo

Risk?

Re: We expect 100% occupancy during the visit

How about using #occupyaustin on the social media platform of your choice to make sure as many people show up as possible?

EU court: No, expat Frenchman can't trademark France.com

Re: Nope, it is not

He's not trademarking France, he's trademarking france.com, which is quite different.

Re: anglican.

If only they had access to an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent being.

UK Minister of Fun Matt Hancock opens London infosec upstart creche

Lorca

Is from the mirror universe.

Big Blue's Summit super sits, aptly, at the peak of official Top500 beast list

Can it run

Crysis?

GDPR forgive us, it's been one month since you were enforced…

Re: And once again...

I do hope you're not including the USA as "English native-speakers".

Re: And once again...

What the fuck is GDRP?

Chrome sends old Macs on permanent Safari: Browser bricks itself

Are you saying it's rubber dog shit?

Software changed the world, then died on the first of the month

Worked fine in dev

Ops problem now

Qualcomm still serious about Windows 10 on Arm: Engineers work on '12W' Snapdragon 1000

Re: That would fly!

Until it crashes.

Re: Targeting Win-10-nic is a mistake

I thought it was a beatnik reference. I'm only 34. Fuck I feel old.

Great news, cask beer fans: UK shortage of CO2 menaces fizzy crap taking up tap space

Re: Bravo madam!

You can always spoil your ballot.

Re: Kronenbourg 1664

Non, je ne regrette rien.

Atari accuses El Reg of professional trolling and making stuff up. Welp, here's the interview tape for you to decide...

Re: You Just Need to Have Faith

Are you implying that the weak piss water they sell on the wrong side of the pond is beer?

Mine's the one with the bottle of Doom Bar in the pocket.

Norwegian tourist board says it can't a-fjord the bad publicity from 'Land of Chlamydia' posters

Re: Norwegians seem like uncouth, lewd, sex-mad infectious people

FTFY

BOFH: Is everybody ready for the meeting? Grab a crayon – let's get technical

Re: obligitory

I think you'll find it's LUsers*

*Local Users

I voted for Cthulhu. Why vote for the lesser evil?

Have YOU had your breakfast pint? Boffins confirm cheeky daily tipple is good for you

Re: A breakfast pint?

AM or PM?

Re: "...increased risk of mortality.."

Observed death rate is c.93%.

Dixons Carphone profits drop 24% amid hack 'n' high street struggles

Re: why don't they (...) die at last?!

I've looked very carefully and am completely unable to spot whatever point it is that you're making.

Re: Shoes & Handbags

That really depends on the High Street.