Posts by Aladdin Sane

The ultimate full English breakfast – have your SAY

WTF is a barmcake?

NASA lights humongous rocket that goes nowhere ... until 2019

Re: RS-25 turbo pump

At the rate the four SLS core stage engines consume propellants, they could drain a family swimming pool in 1 minute.

Google is a thing.

Re: Rocket powered car

Exposure to DHMO has a 97% observed mortality rate.

Re: Rocket powered car

And will it be covered by the congestion charge?

Alexa, why aren't you working? No – I didn't say twerking. I, oh God...

Re: About as reliable.....

Alexa will give people the clap?

Re: Bah!

But can Alexa install microwave ovens?

House fire, walk with me: Kodipocalypse now includes conflagration

Re: Will these boxes also....

Good AIDS or bad AIDS?

Re: Mine runs perfectly safely on a Raspberry Pi

Home taping is killing music!

Microsoft ctrl-Zs 'killing' Paint, by which we mean offering naff app through Windows Store

Can we replace Siri

With Clippy?

Snopes.com asks for bailout amid dispute over who runs the site and collects ad dollars

Re: The Guarding Dark

I didn't want to upset the dwarves.

The Guarding Dark

His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes

Brits must now register virtually all new drones and undergo safety tests

Re: Sorry HMG, the horse has bolted a long time ago

Obligatory XKCD.

Re: using a canon

Ask Johann Pachelbel.

What sort of silicon brain do you need for artificial intelligence?

Re: Squirrel Counter-Measures

So that's what the swallow was laden with.

Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10

Reasons it should stay

This.

And this.

They say we're too mean to Microsoft. Well, how about this... Redmond just had a stonking year. And only 8% tax. Whee!

Re: Hmm..

Not quite. It's a share buyback, so the volume of shares on the market decreases but the company's market capitalisation stays the same, therefore the value of repurchased shares is redistributed amongst the outstanding shares and the people who sold their shares get a nice cash lump.

Re: Taxed on sales

Like VAT?

Re: Stinking vs Stonking

Thank you for reminding me of this

Re: Tax rebates?

They're legally obligated to their shareholders to apply for the tax rebate.

I've got a verbal govt contract for Hyperloop, claims His Muskiness

Re: Please complete this sentence Elon:

It's more a Shelbyville idea.

User filed fake trouble tickets to take helpful sysadmin to lunches

Re: gives said bored housewife the bill.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Re: I've seen this plot before.

It involved a hard drive.

I've seen this plot before.

In a special interest movie. That I was watching for research.

US Homeland Sec boss has snazzy new laptop bomb scanning tech – but admits he doesn't know what it's called

Re: Nerd?

On my first reading I assumed it was done in a light-hearted fashion.

CT

Counter Terrorism.

Truck spills slimy load all over Oregon road – drivers slip in eel slick

Everyone who understood the first comment, read the second one in the voice of Teal'c.

What's worse is that I now say it how he says it.

Indeed

Grow a spine

Stop all news – it's time for us plebs to be told about BBC paycheques!

Re: More high earning radio stars than tv.

The timeframe covered would also include his work on Top Gear.

Re: We’re now managing a situation we didn’t want

If Casualty wanted more realism, half the staff should quit every year.

Re: We’re now managing a situation we didn’t want

Bit harsh. The BBC employs some fine actors...

Re: What's interesting

Top Gear IS produced by the BBC.

In other news, seems like Wiki are begging again.

What's interesting

Is the people not listed - Matt LeBlanc isn't on the list, which suggests he's paid by the commercial arm, BBC Worldwide.

.. ..-. / -.-- --- ..- / -.-. .- -. / .-. . .- -.. / - .... .. ... then a US Navy fondleslab just put you out of a job

Re: Clacks

All messages will start with GNU Terry Pratchett.

Security robot falls into pond after failing to spot stairs or water

Fracking toasters

Anybody else think the top LED slot looks Cylonesque?

Re: Once it is able

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Disneyland to become wretched hive of scum and villainy

Re: In theory, sounds like a great place!

That's Darth Binks to you.

SeaWorld?

Seriously?

John McAfee plans to destroy Google. Details? Ummm...

Ad supported or freemium?

Re: I hope he manages to pull it off.

That would currently be the EU.

Re: We are not numbers. I'm not a statistic

John McAfee hasn't been involved with the shiteware that bears his name since 1994, and sold his last stock in the company in 1996. Since 2010, the company has been owned by Intel.

UK regulator set to ban ads depicting bumbling manchildren

As the late, great Bill Hicks said

"By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...kill yourself. Thank you."

Re: Aren't ads supposed to entertain?

No, they're meant to sell you a product/service.

Re: This is a good thing

Women are under-represented in STEM careers. Showing girls playing with stereotypically boys toys (Lego and Meccano for example) can encourage them to work in fields that aren't traditionally seen as feminine. Same goes for boys who may want to work in traditionally female dominated fields.

One-quarter of UK.gov IT projects at high risk of failure

At least it's not a piss up in a brewery.

Linus Torvalds may have damned systemd with faint praise

Re: Women Linux Lord ?

Down with this sort of thing

Re: Women Linux Lord ?

You could submit shite kernel code to Linus

Set your alarms for 2.40am UTC – so you can watch Unix time hit 1,500,000,000

Re: If you've mastered that sort of power plant the universe is, indeed, yours.

EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.

Hey, remember that monkey selfie copyright drama a few years ago? Get this – It's just hit the US appeals courts

Re: To quote...

Can't argue with that (since I want to keep my arms attached).