Posts by cookieMonster

South Korea opens the door for robots to roam among pedestrians

ED-209

Coming to a district near you soon

UK won't rush to regulate AI, says first-ever minister for digital brainboxes

This is so going to bite

the UK in the ass in the not too distant future.

Short term profit addiction will always come before the wellbeing of citizens, especially when the citizens are not US ones.

Giving US companies a free hand is not going to end well for the UK public.

Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie

Boris, yer only man

Seriously, Boris would be brilliant in this

Late Qualcomm cofounder teleports $200M into SETI to bankroll hunt for alien life

Re: Rich guy does good thing

Wonderfully put.

Canonical reveals more details about Ubuntu Core Desktop

Re: (1)Wait...what? and (2) Is it or isn't it?

Happy Birthday Liam, have a few pints, take the test of the day off and forget about computers until tomorrow or Monday.

Teens take a million metaverse Ryanair flights in Roblox

Re: Bathroom?

The jacks

Making the problem go away is not the same thing as fixing it

Re: So, shoot the messenger is still well and alive

Seriously, a thumbs down, for a reference to a comedy where there’s actually an engine warning light scene. WTF???

There are some seriously fucked up humans on this planet, jeeeeezz.

Asshole.

Re: So, shoot the messenger is still well and alive

Reminds me of that scene in Big Bang Theory

Corner cutting of nuclear proportions as duo admit to falsifying safety tests 29 times

Errrr

“….defendants accountable for deliberately attempting to bypass testing protocol…..”

Theres no attempting about it, from the story they’ve done it, multiple times.

Icon, cause.. well you know

Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle

Re: Is it me, or is the reporting sub-par?

You’ll never go far in the civil service with an attitude like that

US government's Login.gov turns frown upside down, now smiles on facial recognition

Re: That's Just Great ... Photo Pleeez

How stupid can the government get?

Extremely stupid, as is reported here almost daily

Fears China could trash Broadcom's VMware nuptials as revenge for sanctions

Without a doubt the Chinese

are assholes, but you have to admire the control they have over the big tech companies when you consider the contempt the same companies have for western countries/governments/laws

Cybercrim claims fresh 23andMe batch takes leaked records to 5 million

You gave your DNA

to a Silicon Valley company????

Ha ha ha ha ha, oh god …..

First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe

Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

EXACTLY, especially the Belgians

UK tribunal agrees with Clearview AI – Brit data regulator has no jurisdiction

LOL

Useless

Bezos' engineers dream of Blue Ring space platform in orbit by 2025

A penis shaped rocket

A blue ring, I’m starting to see a pattern here.

This has Flesh Gordon written all over it

British boffins say aircraft could fly on trash, cutting pollution debt by 80%

Re: Why not just cut out the middle man?

A new boeing 7 moo 7, a modified 737 Max, with a brace of friesians tied to each wing.

So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off

Re: Never forget, when you work for the compnay being bought...

Have a pint, you’re spot on.

Windows 10's latest update issue isn't a bug but a feature – to test your patience

Re: Windows is the best advert for Linux.

One pint for the idea, and i'll offer a few more

BOFH: We've made a big mesh, Boss. That's what you wanted, right?

Gobshite

Nows there's a word you don’t hear enough of these days.

Pint? ,cause its Friday…. Ye gobshite….

/joke icon also /

Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance

Re: Complaint

Is that because he’ll be sent for re-education if he does??

Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion

Re: Video bloggers for Jira

Nail. On. The. Head

Have a second pint, you deserve it.

From chaos to cadence: Celebrating two decades of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday

Getting worse??

From reading through this all I get is an indirect admission that the quality of their product is getting worse. Management have decided (and more or less admitted) there’s not enough will to do it correctly the first time and we’ll fix whatever we fuckup later, if there’s enough pain (for Microsoft)

A $353M question: Did Meta muzzle a VR venture?

Meh

Farcebook, Suckerburg, VR, yoga…..

Whatev….

Bennu unboxing shows ancient asteroid holds carbon and water

They really should

have named it the “OSIRIS-Rex Grab A Sample Mission”

New information physics theory is evidence 'we're living in a simulation,' says author

Bollox

“— and "resembles the process of a computer deleting or compressing waste code to save storage space and optimize power consumption. And as a result supports the idea that we're living in a simulation—“

Proof we are not, name one computer/OS where this actually happens????

In fact in every instance I can think of over the past 50 years its the exact opposite

Microsoft delays debut of IoT security offer due to 'unexpected system challenges'

Re: Where's the dictionary?

I bet the page with “Suckers” is bookmarked thought

City council Oracle megaproject got a code red – and they went live anyway

At this point in time…

You would have thought that after years and years of failure and countless billions wasted, SOMEONE would have figured out that it would be better and cheaper to hire a shed load of developers and build custom solutions

CERN swells storage space beyond 1EB for LHC's latest ion-whacking experiments

Re: Flashback!

I remember an event about 30 years ago, where our “computer room” reached 1 TB of storage. We had champagne and caterers in for the event.

Pint icon, cause we had a load of them.

Scandium-based nuclear clocks promise punctuality for next 300 billion years

Also known as a typical June day in Ireland

Search for phone signal caused oil spill, say Japanese investigators

Re: Wow

Which one?? It’s been happening quite a lot over the past couple of years

Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed

Re: Lost the plot

I have one of those also, runs Haiku like a charm

You shouldn't be able to buy devices that tamper with diesel truck emissions on eBay, says DoJ

Re: This from a country

No, they’re cults

It looks like you’re a developer. Would you like help upgrading Windows 11?

Re: Remove the crap

Ye mad bastard……

Been there, done that.

Have an upvote and a pint

Doom developer John Carmack thinks artificial general intelligence is doable by 2030

Re: Own goal

Now that deserves a pint

No joke: Cloudflare takes aim at Google Fonts with ROFL

Re: An idea

You’re old aren’t you (like more than 23) and you’re obviously not a javascript/web developer.

The Clorox Company admits cyberattack causing 'widescale disruption'

Re: Maybe someday...

Only after a Geneva Convention that lays out all of the various forms of bullshit governments/businesses are not allowed to sprout related to their failures

Australia to build six 'cyber shields' to defend its shores

I’m disappointed

Not one single mention of sharks.

They’ve millions of the things, enough to shield the entire continent.

How typically unimaginative!!!

Gutted!!

Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging

Re: Bigger and bigger

Like in the 80’s/90’s??

Ah, that brings back memories

Britcoin or Britcon? Bank of England grilled on Digital Pound privacy concerns

Re: Colour me sceptical

Take all the time you need, here’s a beer help pass the time

UK civil servants – hopefully including those spending billions on tech – to skill up in STEM

How about

Making them read the Register for 30 mins each morning??

Free, always on the ball, accurate and up to speed in all the latest tech!!!

Got to start somewhere, and this is as good as any “scheme”

Arm IPO kicks off today with CPU slinger valued at $54.5B

Re: British chip designer to trade on Nasdaq only

Probably the most accurate thing I’ve read on the internet this week.

Upvoted, and have a pint

James Webb spies distant exoplanet that could be wet, wild, and Hycean

Re: DMS

Upvote and a pint (DMS free) for you

US amends hypersonic weapons strategy: If you can't zoom with 'em, boom 'em

Hypersonic marketing bollox

IF I was the US (or any nuclear armed country), here’s what my stand would be..

If any country launches a hyper sonic weapon at my country, our response will be immediate and ferocious. I will release enough nuclear weapons to turn your country into a radioactive crater, irrespective of the civilian casualties. Period. You have been warned.

Ransomware attack hits Sri Lanka government, causing data loss

But in fairness the reason they weren’t ready was budget/political not the poor bastards that probably end up getting the blame.

Amazon's three rocket makers insist Project Kuiper will launch on schedule

Wow…

“ Euroconsult World Satellite Business Week SVP for New Glenn at Blue Origin”, now THAT is a title that will impress LinkedIn lusers.

Scientists trace tiny moonquakes to Apollo 17 lander – left over from 1972

I think you may need to add a “this is a fucking joke” tag

Oh oh oh, and a flag. But yeah

Re: El Reg comparators for temperature?

Upvote, that was funny, glad I was not holding my glass if wine when I read it.

Dutch consumer groups sue Google over its entire business model

Re: Waiting for that crippling fine

Yep the Irish DPC is a spineless disgrace.