* Posts by ap011013

17 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Aug 2015

Elon Musk's latest brainfart is to turn Tesla cars into AWS on wheels

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SETI@rest

The Search for Extra Tesla Income…..

Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change

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Entra = renta

Surely a typo…

Renta AD

Renta CDN

Renta Backup or Renta Ghost

Smugglers busted sneaking tech into China

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A lot of cache

…going to waist.

Smart ovens do really dumb stuff to check for Wi-Fi

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The only ping…

The only ping I want my microwave to do is the audible one when the job it’s done. Not one that is heard in another continent or gets trapped in the wrong Pi-Hole.

To build a better quantum computer, look into a black hole, says professor Brian Cox

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Input Input Input!

What If the logical conclusion of a quantum computer is a black hole as it endeavours to consume data…

Feature bloat: Psychology boffins find people tend to add elements to solve a problem rather than take things away

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Problem reframed..

I have a pile of free bricks and happy to supply the demand of the other 59% for 9 cents each!

BBC picks SiFive RISC-V chip for Doctor Who programming-for-kids kit – with Jodie Whittaker narrating

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180nm...

Very Tardis like - Bigger(TM) Inside

Oh crap: UK's digital overlords moot new rules to help telcos lay fibre in sewer pipes

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Our fibre through your fibre

Nevermind the crosstalk...

Official: Voyager 2 is now an interstellar spacecraft

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Pale Blue Dot

An amazing achievement. It reminded me of the Pale Blue Dot image of Earth taken in the 1990s from Voyager 1 that inspired Carl Sagan's "The Pale Blue Dot" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8

Reg man 0: Japanese electronic toilet 1

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Chevron 7 locked

Unscheduled offworld activation - ewwwww.....

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

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So long... and fangs for all the killerbytes

Groan... thud...

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Welcome to the visual dictionary...

Today's word is "contrived"

The following phrase will help you remember both spelling and meaning;

Cobra

On

New

Thinkpad

Really

Is

VEry

Dubious

*The above phrase is also contrived

**Neither Cobra or Thinkpad were hurt in the taking of this picture as neither were present

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Anguis is that you? I hear you're legless down at the bar...

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Begone sibilant sock of venom!

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You just just can't get the staff...

Helpdesk? I've been waiting *ages* to get through. I have a problem entering my password. It's "Asclepius" you say.....

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New password policy - One byte long

err... where's the mouse gone...

Get whimsical and win a Western Digital Black 6TB hard drive

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MY GOD, It's full of stars! - King Kong meets A Space Odyssey

Okay - throw me a bone..... movie stars, most likely!