* Posts by KittenHuffer

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Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

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Re: FTFY

Do we argue over the colour of Unicorns?

Do we discuss how hairy Cyclops were?

In that case why are we worried about the hair and eye colour of another fictional character?

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The Noodly Appendages of the FSM shall protect me from your wrathful down votes!

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When will New Mexico ....

.... be renamed New America?!?

And since Trump was born in Queens will New York be renamed Producer of Trumps?!?

Legacy systems running UK's collector are taxing – in more ways than one

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I remember hearing a story about a thinktank in the Thatcher era (can't verify it so it's probably not true) but the idea was that someone in the thinktank suggested exactly that .... A flat rate of tax on EVERY pound you earn. No NI, no VAT, and none of the other hidden taxes, just a flat rate on everything. And the reason they were given why it would never happen was due to the 750,000 (parasitic) gummint workers that work for all the gummint departments that administer all of these 'additional' taxes. In a country with 'simple' tax laws there was no excuse to employ these people, so they'd all end up unemployed.

But I think it was probably more the fact that in a 'simple' tax regime there would be no way for rich people to hide their money, and they wouldn't end up paying less tax than the poor people!

I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried?

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Re: Backing up the Internet

That's close to ten times the bandwidth of the same van on the M25!

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I have only 2 instances.

One I was directly involved in, where the HD in a PDP11-73 decided to turn up it's toes between completing the backup and verifying the backup. DEC were called to replace the drive and get us to the point of attempting the restore. The monthly full system restore went fine ....... then the unverified backup from the night of the crash also went fine! No data lost, full restore acheived!

And the one I was only indirectly involved in. A system crashed and it was then discovered that due to 'an unpublished Oracle issue' the last good backup was 6 weeks old. And it was necessary for everyone to scramble to reinput 6 weeks worth of worth. My involvement was that even though my team were scabbling to help with the problem I was the only member of the team that was not only not involved in the scrabble, but had not actually been told that there was an issue to scrabble about! To this day I believe that this happened because my mangler correctly assessed that I would be the one person to stand up in a meeting and say 'the Emperor has no clothes' concerning the reason that was given that there were no recent backup.

Robot dogs learn bomb disposal tricks in trials

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Re: IED disposal

WOOF! WOOF! BARK!

US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme

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Joke

Just remember

There will be a 25% tariff on any monies that are recovered and returned!

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Re: unauthorized damage to a protected computer

What? Like those websites that 'experienced a sophisticated hack' ...... when someone edited the URL?!?

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Up shit Geek ....

.... without a paddle!

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Beware of Geeks ....

.... bearing gifts!

Privacy Commissioner warns the ‘John Smiths’ of the world can acquire ‘digital doppelgangers’

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Re: It doesn't help

I thought they were all named Doug Kinney!

Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032

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Re: Bruce, and Billy Bob too

Which is why we only managed to spot it as it was moving AWAY from the Earth!

WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff

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Re: Idle hands - but whose?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Trump tells Musk to 'go get' Starliner astronauts

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Re: Suspicious

Do you not understand the concept of risk? NASA never said that the capsule was not fine, they said that the risk of a failure during the capsule return was too high to be acceptable. That too high level may have only been 1%, but with the lives of two astronauts on the line they decided that it was too high.

The chances were that the capsule would return safely, and it did, but there was an unacceptable risk involved. So the fact that the capsule made it back is no reason for their decision to be wrong.

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Now if you wish to argue this further either please stop posting as AC, cos if you continue then everyone will just assume that you are a troll.

Astronomers red-faced after mistaking Musk's Tesla Roadster for asteroid

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I think .....

..... that they probably identified it as a Tesla faster than a self-driving Tesla would have been able to!

User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?

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Re: Please, please, please....

House's Law: Everybody Lies!

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Re: One of my cousins ...

I'd have gone all "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

And then given them the bill to replace the equipment that they had borrowed!

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Re: "only replaced the motherboard."

A tale only improved by playing a Hammond organ at the same time!

Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two?

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Prisoner's Dilemma!

We either stand together ...... or one of us can become the Orange One's favoured bitch!

BOFH: How to innosplain your way through an audit

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Devil

I'm confused!

">whirrrrr< >thump< >thump< >thump!<"

I thought that was standard procedure for dealing with the the auditors themselves!

--------> Most auditors I've met!

Court rules FISA Section 702 surveillance of US resident was unconstitutional

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Joke

Re: Wasn't the FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation

They had thirty eight thousand men

They marched them up to the top of the hill

Then they marched them down again

And when they were good they were good

And when they were bad they were bad

And when they were only half way good

They were neither good nor bad!

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

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Do they not have a 'Reject' button as part of the code review process?

NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life

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Re: Metorites

For all we know, 3.7 billion years ago a predecessor to oumuamua arrived at Earth and kick started the whole 'life' thing in our solar system.

There is certainly some conjecture to suggest that this is a viable option.

And the evidence that simple life can survive a vacuum for periods of time supports this.

UK tax collector's phone service 'deliberately' bad to push users online, say MPs

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Re: The delays are deliberate

You do realise that you've just cost the job of an HMRC employee?!? They told each employee a different time limit, so they could track which one(s) of them leaked! The one that was told precisely 30 minutes is now in a meeting with their boss trying to explain!

Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?

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You hit that one out of the park!

Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight

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Been there! Bodged that!

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Re: Not "Fixing", Exactly

Pity they weren't writing the backups to CD ..... then along with the Dooo da looo music you could have have the image of a burning fuse CD!

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Re: Not "Fixing", Exactly

Are you sure you're not just paraphrasing parts of the script of Brazil?!?

SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero

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We need to find the idspispopd code for the Universe!

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Re: caused the ship to RUD

To RUD, or not to RUD, that is the explosion!

Whether it is better in the sky to lose

The bits and piece to explosive disassembly

For them to land in a sea ocean of troubles

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I forget the rest!

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Re: Looking to the Future -- The Limits of "Move Fast and Break Things"

You do know that FTL is not a thing (yet)?!?

Our current best guess at how the Universe works (GR) says that it is not a thing, and none of our observations of the Universe have given the slightest hint that it is a thing.

Technical note: Matter has been observed travelling FTL when compared to most of the Universe. But this matter was very close to a black hole and was the result of some pretty serious frame dragging by the black hole.

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

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Re: Bang goes social media

Actually I'd have said that was a great gain!

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I'm quite happy for them to know that my real identity is Keir Starmer!

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Headmaster

Re: Here we go again...

What a lot of people don't know is that Canute (or Cnut) was actually trying to show his courtiers that he wasn't all powerful.

So many people believe that he thought he was all powerful, and that he thought that this gave him to power to stop the tides.

---------> I still think he looks like Mark Labbett!

Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing

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They need ....

.... to sack all the beancounting manglers and replace them with engineers .... and then take decades getting a new set of products designed and built .... to get back the reputation that they had before.

But I can't see that happening, certainly not in my lifetime.

It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board

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I get the feeling that many non-UK websites may end up geofencing the UK so as to not have to worry about this legislation. And the UK websites will end up closing down.

Guess I'm gonna have to start using my VPNs geolocation changing facility, and start visiting non-UK websites.

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Is TheReg having to go through this BS as well?

They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file

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Re: How much ink?

I make it 12.5 pages per second!

You could just have 60 printers to spread the load!

Pastor's divine 'dream' crypto scheme indicted by Uncle Sam

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Re: BitCoin drive

Quick! Call Angus Lennie!

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Re: " launch his own cryptocurrency"

Jesus! I thought that sort of thing only happened at Easter!

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Re: " launch his own cryptocurrency"

Crypto is not dead ..... it just smells that way!

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Re: When running a Ponzi scheme ....

Unfortunately, he was in the business of washing people's souls ..... not their money!

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When running a Ponzi scheme ....

.... you have to know when to stop scheming and start running!

Cos at some point someone IS going to figure out what you're doing. And if you are still around at that time then the long arm of the law will eventually catch up with you. You have to pick the right time to take your ill gotten gains and disappear into the wind.

------------> Hanging around for just a bit more is what turns smart criminals into dumb jailbirds!

Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist

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From experience I can tell you that there is no fsck up like an NHS fsck up!

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I have been in the situation of trying to understand Oracle restore, and get it working for a system migration ...... and I'd rather have been in the Dentist's chair .... having root canal work .... without anaesthetic!

----------> The icon for root canal work!

Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

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Re: Distraction tactics—that's all

It is a FACT that 50% of people are of below average intelligence!

Unfortunately, if we could somehow remove that 50% from the population there would still be 50% that were of below average intelligence!

-------> it's true but it's also still a joke! Or should it be that it's a joke but it's also still true?

Blue Origin postpones New Glenn's maiden flight to January 12

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I can see there is no point in giving you the reason why the comments are disabled.

Please continue to live in your little Troll land, and leave the rest of us alone.

BOFH: Forecasting and the fine art of desktop upgrades

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I've had to suffer a hardware buy that was the other way around!

We had to buy kit that was then stacked up for two years before being deployed. And this was at the time of the 486, when twelve months meant that you got twice the power or half the price!

Guess it's what you could expect when w**king for the New Hardware Stupidity!

Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error

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Childcatcher

But for being 10p overdrawn you accrue charges of £9,999.90!

--------> The last getup I saw a decent banker wearing!

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