Posts by Aladdin Sane

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, look out for must-have toys that are 'easily hacked' ♪

Re: No electronic gizmos this Christmas

You are Uncle Fester, AICMFP.

"While it may be technically possible for someone other than the intended user to connect to the toys La la la la we can't hear you"

BlackBerry Motion: The Phone That Won't Die

Re: Demanding apps to test battery life

Do people still play Pokémon Go?

Mm, sacrilicious: Greggs advent calendar features sausage roll in a manger

Nah, there's definitive proof that Greggs exists.

Teensy weensy space shuttle flies and lands

Re: How many flights?

I prefer this.

Re: encountering just 1.5 times Earth gravity

Terribly sorry, misread your comment.

<block quote>"The design also means that the Dream Chaser can return to terra firma while encountering just 1.5 times Earth gravity."</block quote>

So it does say how it happens.

Re: encountering just 1.5 times Earth gravity

It means that it is subjected to acceleration equal to no more than 1.5G.

Munich council: To hell with Linux, we're going full Windows in 2020

Re: "Users were unhappy"

Users are always unhappy. It's a default state of being.

Ride-share upstart 'Fasten' revealed as Hive of insecurity

Re: TAXI !!!!

His stuffed what?

Tesla buys robot maker. Hang on, isn't that your sci-fi bogeyman, Elon?

Obligatory XKCD.

Also in the news

Tesla rebrand to Cyberdyne Systems.

User asked help desk to debug a Post-it Note that survived a reboot

Re: Why do you guys marry, anyway?

Because we run out of other things to talk about.

Re: RE: You can never under estimate how stupid some people can be.

If you make something idiot proof, they make a better idiot.

'Sticky runway' closes Canadian airport

They say they're very sorry

And nothing like this has ever happened to them before

Irish priests told to stop bashing bishops

Re: Mutants should expect to be mated with a sibling.

So, a bit like Bridgwater then?

Re: no helpline required

BURN THE HERETIC

KILL THE MUTANT

PURGE THE UNCLEAN

Re: Boo!

Careful now

NASA reconfirms 2019 will see first launch of Space Launch System

Re: Kerbal

I hope it's more successful than my typical KSP launch.

Give us a bloody PIN: MPs grill BBC bosses over subscriber access

Re: News

I thought that was Damien Day?

Re: News

Labour claim the BBC is biased towards the Conservatives.

The Conservatives claim the BBC is biased towards Labour.

If you're annoying both sides, it's a fair indicator you're playing it down the middle.

Carphone Warehouse given a stern talking to for 'misleading' radio ad

"must not use the ad again"

So no meaningful punishment then?

Paradise Papers reveal Apple moved bits of biz offshore

Re: I wonder why they haven't done either of those things?

Alas, I fear the reasons for that may be beyond the understanding of us mere mortals.

EU was trying to steal tax dollars meant for Uncle Sam

Bullshit.

Lord of the Rings TV show shopped around Hollywood

Why not

Put the money towards developing The Watch?

Obligatory request for Sir Pterry icon.

Re: I always thought...

Don't give Southern Rail any ideas.

Look out, Pepe: Martha Lane Fox has a plan

Re: @judekay

In the Friday quiz at work, I once set the following question:

13. Provide the English antonyms for the following words:

a. ALWAYS -

b. COMING -

c. FROM -

d. TAKE -

e. ME -

f. DOWN -

Re: This is a foxtastic idea!

You forgot the neckerchief and woggle.

Re: @judekay

It did give us a great alternative 2012 Olympic logo (that was broadcast on BBC1 no less)

Londoners: Ready to swap your GP for an NHS vid doc app?

"your electronic record continues to be safely held in the NHS IT system"

My sides! They are splitting!

Maybe the app could teach me how to do my own sutures?

Pixel-style display woes on your shiny new X? Perfectly normal, says Apple

Re: 'image persistence' or 'burn-in'

I thought this was the ancient git?---->

Guy Glitchy: Villagers torch Openreach effigy

Re: That's the price you pay...

Depends on your feelings about Tiverton.

Re: An absolute disgrace

OP may've meant that Openreach is a stunt.

Re: Grater London

Sounds a bit cheesy to me.

Re: Lewes is the most fun

The good folk of Cornwall have been known to rip them out of the ground, as happened at Levant Mine.

OK, we admit it. Under the hood, the iPhone X is a feat of engineering

Re: 2208x1242 panel downscaled to 1080x1920

XY to YX. Just why?

2208x1242 panel downscaled to 1080x1920

*twitch*

Giza geezers' muon-geyser visor reveals Great Pyramid's hidden void surpriser

Isn't there an X-Men film about this?

El Reg assesses crypto of UK banks: Who gets to wear the dunce cap?

Banks websites aren't as secure as they could be

Water is wet, bears shit in woods.

KFC turns Japanese bath tubs into party buckets

Re: Difficult to phrase this

Wubba lubba dub dub!

Landlubber northern council shores up against boat-tipping

Re: Vocabulary

Rural youth in the UK have been known to share the same habit.

Re: "In boat heaven"

There's no red port left.

Re: t'pain

Like a boss.

Surely they should give them some leeway?

39 episodes of 'CSI' used to build AI's natural language model

Re: "I'll create a GUI interface...

At least it's not the 2 people, 1 keyboard from NCIS.

Re: Why not a 70's Brit cop show?

Or Life on Mars?

"Don't move, you're surrounded by armed bastards!"

Re: CSI is Natural language????

Yeeeeeeeaaaaahhhh!!!

Competition law could help solve data-slurping monopolies, peers told

Re: House of Lords should be like jury service.

Have you met the average voter? Did you wash your hands afterwards?

Re: House of Lords ...

We do have a written constitution, it's just in several parts.

Having the upper house as unelected is advantageous. Most politicians only think as far ahead as the next election. Having the Lords appointed in the way that it is helps to keep it separate from that sort of short term thinking. The majority of members of the House of Lords have been appointed usually because they have had successful careers in valuable sectors of the British economy, or because they have made a valuable contribution to public life. The same cannot be said of the Commons.

Punctual as ever, Equifax starts snail-mailing affected Brits about mega-breach

offered a free comprehensive ID protection service

Because people are going to trust these fuckers again?!