Posts by RT Harrison

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

Re: Humans

The dee dars* are going to think you are some posh wanker from down south if you do that.

*dee dars - Affectionate term for Sheffield locals for how they sound when speaking.

US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space

Never admit you know something until it is confirmed by the general public.

'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost

Re: a risk assessment has been carried out and it was deemed safe to hold the meeting

They probably do risk assessments on the use of paper. You can get nasty hurty paper cuts if you don't hold the paperwork correctly.

Re: Working differently

Reminds me of the Morcambe and Wise sketch where Eric Morcambe is explaining to Andre Previn that he is "playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order."

Morecambe and Wise - Andre Previn

DoorDash sued for allegedly branding customer a fraudster after delivery photo query

A quick internet search revealed where their registered office is. Using Google Street View shows it is just a regular office building that obviously contains other companies. Use nycompanyregistry.com to find the info, their own website doesn't list it.

Your company isn't special, you may have a shark tank investor, Mark Cuban, but he will just be in it for a large return on investment.

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

Re: Nah.

That one wasn't found.

I'm using Dr Mike Pound's (Nottingham Uni) python script to check these.

Re: Nah.

According to 'Have I Been Pwned':

4r5t6y7u was found with 6353 occurrences (hash: 2A80F07093F548A117B164334C085CF8B7CF6EAB)

AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads

Any road/street adopted by the council under a Section 38 agreement is a highway. They are maintained by the Highways Department of your local council.

Private shared roads will not be covered, those roads will be maintained by the local residents that are served by that private shared road.

Reddit rolls out AI-powered 'Answers' search feature, redditors don't rejoice

In before it turns into a sweary, racist bot that suggests you remove yourself from the gene pool and also suggests links to NSFW reddits.

Feature phones all the rage as parents try to shield kids from harm

Re: Great news!

Skibidyphone

Ohiophone

Rizzphone

Sigmaphone

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

Re: Any publicity...

The corollary to Rule 34 is that if there isn't pr0n of it there soon will be.

Boeing's Starliner set for extended stay at the ISS as engineers on Earth try to recreate thruster issues

Re: IT Crowd Solution

It's not how hard you hit it, it is where you hit it that matters,

Police allege 'evil twin' of in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal passenger's credentials

Re: "on condition he restrict his use of the internet"

He lives in Australia not the American mid-west... Oh wait...

From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What's up with the Kaspersky US ban?

Re: Apple fixes two flaws used to attack Kaspersky employees ;)

Hiding inside Kaspersky's network for 3-4 years. ;)

Command senior chief busted for secretly setting up Wi-Fi on US Navy combat ship

That's the "E4 Mafia", that doesn't exist. Honest. They don't strategically transfer equipment to an alternate location because they don't exist, obviously.

Zuckerberg hunkers down in Hawaii to wait out apocalypse

Why build one when you can have a second constructed.

Apple becomes the latest company to ban ChatGPT for internal use

Re: utopia > dystopia

Where are they? They are nowhere.

Professor freezes student grades after ChatGPT claimed AI wrote their papers

Use a content versioning system.

Submit the repository if your work is questioned so that the history can be analysed.

Re: A simple solution

Use a content versioning system. Submit the repository if your work is questioned so that the history of the document can be analysed.