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Comment Re:What makes them Boffins? (Score 2) 15

Hmmm, here in Australia 'boffin' is more or less a term of endearment.

A bunch of clever folks doing intellectual things, for which journalists with no technical background assume is magic.

Even in an ironic sense here "Researchers found 100 vulnerabilities in common Android apps. Those Boffins, how dare they? They could be doing something useful with their time like building AI-powered nukular rockets for Dr Evil."

Comment Re:It is probably true (Score 1) 19

Info from a 'lone gunmen' underground news site:

Dr Scully was let go for being too DEI, I mean sexy.

Special Agent Mulder, well no one has heard from him for a few years since he did a clinical trial of some mind-altering opiates. I believe he lives in California and goes by the name 'Hank'.

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