* Posts by TimMaher

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How to track equipped cars via exploitable e-ink platemaker

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Stick them on a Tesla.

Just saying.

Microsoft boosts Azure networking, storage with composable infra grab

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Re: "composable infrastructure"

I was about to write that.

Have a beer.

2002 video streaming patent holder sues Amazon and Twitch

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BSD

The name tells you all you need to know.

Second-hand and refurbished phone market takes flight amid inflation hike

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Re: Bum

Or put it in your preferred trouser pocket and call it from your desk phone.

I had a friend who used to do that.

This is the end, Windows 7 and 8 friends: Microsoft drops support this week

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Re: Gentoo

I run BOINC projects while playing Eve Online.

That works.

Larry Ellison mea culpa as traffic cop stops Big Red boss on own island

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Orange Corvette

Should have bought a red one.

Python Package Index found stuffed with AWS keys and malware

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Re: I haef the solution

Is that why “app” takes up most of the word “Apple”?

Here's how to remotely take over a Ferrari...account, that is

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Any word about Volvo?

Asking for a friend.

JP Morgan must face suit from Ray-Ban maker after crooks drained $272m from accounts

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After the boys of Summer have gone.

“You got that hair slicked back and those

Wayfarers on, baby”

Just love the lyrics.

Mine’s the one with the Ray-Bans in the pocket.

Twitter data dump: 200m+ account database now free to download

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Database cleaned up.

It wasn’t de-duplication. It was bot removal.

Dell said to be planning purge of Chinese chips from products by 2024

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Made in China.

The best chips are made in Belgium, as any fuwel know.

The Guardian ransomware attack hits week two as staff told to work from home

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Re: Ich bin ein Berliner

Does that mean that you are a doughnut?

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Yes, but what is really frightening is...

... Geordie Greig has joined the Independent.

FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty on eight charges

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Re: never trust a skinny cook.

William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet.

Rate of disruptive tech and science discoveries has slowed over the decades, claims study

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Hallelujah!

It’s raining shit! Hallelujah! It’s raining shit!

Mine has an umbrella in the pocket.

Palantir's Covid-era UK health contract extended without competition

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What’s that, coming over the hill?

Is it Palantir? Is it Palantir?

This stinks in so many ways and is slimy to the touch.

Salesforce to chop 10% of workforce in $1.4 billion restructuring blueprint

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Does this mean...

... that house prices in San Francisco are about to fall?

Cops chase Tesla driver 'dozing' with Autopilot on

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Re: Bendix

I thought they made dishwashers?

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Beat me to it.

I hadnt read this far (see my quote). I’ll get my coat.

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Re: "dark corner”

But fully autonomous means that you can “rock” while driving.

Nexperia calls in the lawyers to save Welsh chip fab deal

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Akin Gump

Forrest surely?

FTFY

Don't lock the datacenter door, said the boss. The builders need access and what could possibly go wrong?

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Re: Datacenter door?

Especially those new Dyson cleaners with the 32amp commando plugs.

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Re: “Hurricane Holding”

The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey.

Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free

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Re:- paid for e-mail and own domain(s)

I do that for precisely all of those reasons.

Have a festive beer.——->

Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too

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Re: Fiat

Small, 500cc Italian car that doesn’t drive very well and breaks down frequently?

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Re: Idiot bucket.

And, when that’s full you have to take it outside and empty it into your “idiot skip”.

And, when that’s full....

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“I second that motion”

So... it’s a “number two”.

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Re: Nothing new under the Sun

... and don’t forget the Darien scheme. A note for our Scottish readers.

TikTok confirms it tracked journalists' locations as part of leak investigation

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Re: Park duck pond.

Made me come over all warm by remembering “The Ipcress File”.

Mine’s the one with the Minox in the pocket.

When we asked how you crashed the system we wanted an explanation not a demonstration

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Re: layout

Hence TL;DR.

When ERP projects go bad: Surrey County Council's £30m ditch SAP effort delayed again

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Re: Runnymede

At least you live in Surrey.

The county council HQ is still in Kingston, which has been part of London for years.

Corporate execs: Get back, get back, to the office where you once belonged

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Re: complete mystery.

Jacob Rees-Mogg.

SEC charges crew of social media influencers with $100m fraud

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Re: prior to beer o’clock.

It’s always beer o’clock somewhere.

Ericsson sells Russian network support biz to local managers

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Re: Badgers

Should have tried beavers.

Brilliant in all other respects though.

Have a pint. From the Black Isle Brewery.

To protect its cloud, Microsoft bans crypto mining from its online services

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Re:- tulip bulbs

I’ll take a cart load in exchange for an FTX share.

Rivian abandons electric van partnership with Mercedes-Benz

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Re: DeLorean.

Does that mean that Rivian is going back to the future?

New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is

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Re: adn

Error #1066. Unknown keyword or expression.

UK arrests five for selling 'dodgy' point of sale software

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Fujitsu/ICL

Could just have been crap code. Horizon anyone?

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BITD

When I were a “college boy”, mates and I would sometimes volunteer to do click tests for our local Investigations Unit.

We did a popular pub/club in South West London once.

When the analysis was done, the IU discovered that they an extra cash till.

Nice.

Server installer fails to spot STOP button – because he wasn't an archaeologist

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Re: DoE

That would have been the MoW then or perhaps the MoPBW?

Boss installed software from behind the Iron Curtain, techies ended up Putin things back together

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Re:- someone at the door

Don’t worry. It’s only Julia.

Look like Bane, spend like Batman with Dyson's $949 headphones

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Re:- suck.

“Suck Samantha, suck! Blow is just a figure of speech.”

Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest

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Re:- your mother

But what will she upgrade to? Grandma, Great Grandma?

Rights groups threaten legal action over NHS data pilot based on Palantir tech

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Re: WEF

Surely you meant WTF?

FTFY.

Startup raises $30 million for wireless power delivery system

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Pringles can.

Depends on the flavour. But, anyway, you have to eat them all first.

Mine’s the one with bacon flavoured creppies in the pocket.

Rackspace rocked by ‘security incident’ that has taken out hosted Exchange services

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Re: Returns to sender

“I gave a letter to the postman,

He put it his sack.

Bright and early next morning,

He brought my letter back.

She wrote upon it:

Return to sender, address unknown.

No such number, no such zone.

We had a quarrel, a lover's spat

I write I'm sorry but my letter keeps coming back.

So then I dropped it in the mailbox

And sent it special D.

Bright and early next morning

It came right back to me.

She wrote upon it:

Return to sender, address unknown.

No such person, no such zone.

This time I'm gonna take it myself

And put it right in her hand.

And if it comes back the very next day

Then I'll understand the writing on it

Return to sender, address unknown.

No such number, no such zone.”

Thanks Elvis. Still alive you know.

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Re: Irish

There you are @displacement. Is it yourself?

Coat because it’s green.

AMD says transistor tech will keep Moore’s law alive for 6 to 8 years

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Papermaster

Shouldn’t he be working for HP?

Man wins court case against employer that fired him for not liking boozy, forced 'fun' culture

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Re: "Six Sigma”

I’d forgotten about that rubbish, for over a decade, until this article brought it all back into terrifying focus.

Sick Sigma. Agghhh!!!!

How not to test a new system: push a button and wait to see what happens

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Re: “eerie quiet”

Question “What is the worst sound in a server room?”

Answer “No sound at all! “

Copyright me about 1995