* Posts by hplasm

5621 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009

BOFH: The Boss is right, the applications of AI are truly staggering

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Holmes

*** PURDEY SUSPECTS ***

Air vents close...

(wheres the bowlet hat icon?)

CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

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Devil

Re: House of cards

"And again, as I said above, why on earth is anything important not running on BSD"

Because it's all running on BSOD?

Adobe users just now getting upset over content scanning allowance in Terms of Use

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Meh

Re: When wil people learn?

"If your business model doesn't have enough money in it to host your own data, that's a sign it's not viable."

"If your business model doesn't have enough money in it to host your own data, that's a sign that you can't afford to host it in the cloud - not for long, anyway.

More layoffs at Microsoft: What's really going on here?

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Happy

Re: Truss

Lettuce pray it continues then!

Dell to color-code staff based on how hybrid they really are in RTO push

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Flame

Re: An alternative.

"A suit for those who always go into work"

It's usually the Suits who are rarely in the office - and have a very limited online presence when WFH.

Just sayin'

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Devil

"I'd say the company really cheaped out by not installing hardwired networking."

You can lead an office drone to a network point, but you can't make the lazy fuccers use it.

They'd rather moan about Bad WiFi than plug in the network lead in front of them on the desk.

However I can't say I'm surprised, when there's no way to connect said cable without a "docking station*" that weighs ten times more than their laptop - which they would have to carry around -

But They won't plug in the provided docking station that is right in front of them either...

sigh

* Said docking station/brick does make a good cluebat, so there's that.

Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director

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Meh

Re: Sure

" I'm a pathetic loser who can't come up with a valid counterargument, so I'm going to throw a tantrum like a bratty toddler and call people names!"

Confession is good for the soul, they say.

Good for you.

Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes

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Big Brother

Re: Great news

Treadmills for the great unwashed...

A knotty problem: Boffins working on fuel-efficient trajectories for space travel

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Boffin

< 12

(letters...)

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Happy

Re: What does good enough look like?

"If some X-wing fighter is on your tail and you are trying to figure out how to minimize fuel consumption, you are either very talented or very dead."

But what if you are on the Kessel run, with only enough fuel for 11 parsecs, eh?

Want to keep Windows 10 secure? This is how much Microsoft will charge you

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Windows

The number must go up.

Rge Cash must flow!

/House Redmond

Dell promises 'every PC is going to be an AI PC' whether you like it or not

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Terminator

Re: Every PC is going to be an AI PC

Just wait till you try yanking a ram stick out and it starts singing 'Daisy, Daisy'...

Aircraft rivet hole issues cause delays to Boeing 737 Max deliveries

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Devil

Re: >but the problem may also exist in 737s already being used by airlines

"At least as far as we know faults with MS software has never caused loss of life.."

That's covered in the EULA,,,

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Facepalm

Re: MBA Influences on Quality

"By the end of the day, Alan had kick all the consultants off site."

And now he parades them around on TV instead, for big wads of cash.

Windows 11 24H2 is coming so we can all shut up about Windows 12 for another year

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Facepalm

Re: Bought a new PC

"What’s the prob?!

You'll find out when it *won't* run Win12 for some odd reasom to do with hardware...

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Meh

Re: Meh

"The joke has long since become a dead horse"

Which joke - Windows 10, 11 or 12?

BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required

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Happy

Re: Plagiarism?

"Buy my Book!"

Are you affiliated with Kamuicosplay on YT?

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Thumb Up

Re: I guess the truth hurts.

Pipedream also supplied the spreadsheet / wordprovessor on the good old Z88 laptopoid.

You don't get what you don't pay for, but nobody is paid enough to be abused

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Facepalm

Re: Resilience and redundancy

Redundancy:

Two lines (minimum) *tick*

Different geographic routing - North, South *tick*

Completely separate suppliers. *errr*

oops

US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft

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Facepalm

Re: WHAT GOES UP...

"Then what? The effect of a dirty bomb?"

Unike the 528 atmospheric a-bomb tests since WW2 you mean?

Explains all the damn muties running around I suppose...

Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware'

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Devil

Re: That sounds about right...WP for Windows was great big steaming pile of expletive deleted. My

Windows aini't done 'ril WPwon't run...

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

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Facepalm

O- the irony

VPNs are increasingly necessary today, not just for bypassing region restrictions, but to bypass restrictions on free speech in authoritarian regimes.

TwitX has bocome an authoritarian regimes - with 'free speech' for sale

CERN experiment proves gravity pulls antimatter the way Einstein predicted

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Coat

we've only made enough antimatter ...

Hence the need for ever better and more efficient lightbulbs!

Aliens crash landed on Earth – and Uncle Sam is covering it up, this guy tells Congress

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Mushroom

Re: Not impossible, just ludicrously unlikely

"There is an alternative: ..."

Now I understand the permise behind Datk Star.

And it's mission...

Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

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Coat

Re: I Will Not See You Monday

next Tuesday! "I WILL NOT SEE YOU MONDAY!" See You Next Tuesday! !"

/oblig

BOFH: Lies, damned lies, and standards

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Coat

Re: Association of Servicepeople for Software and Hardware Over the Lifetime of Equipment.

But there is:

Bishop Grossteste University - Lincoln

( the other is, apparently in the Albert hall, and not as big? )

Turning a computer off, then on again, never goes wrong. Right?

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Linux

Re: PC Engineers...

"SCO Unix box dies if power is cut without proper shutdown?"

Just like the SCO court case...

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Alert

Re: Reminds me of an old (early '80s) AI koan ...

"I've seen that on poor written software, but have not seen such a thing from a Microsoft service yet."

** pleonasm analysis failed successfully- tautology detected**

MIT discovery suggests a new class of superconductors

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Devil

Re: Knok-nock, Neo

"Unless of course our all seeing all knowing entity really isn't that interested in the minute its creation/simulation."

Perhaps he/she/they just bought the kit?

hplasm
Boffin

Re: Occhialini's continuum of materials

"The finest cloths from the furthest of places. Please see also our cornucopia of textures."

Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson

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Coat

Re: Unique keys

Er,

/Voosh? /wush? /Worcest?

Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State

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Alert

Re: Its demographics

"cost of ownership".

I think Mercedes have possibly lowered the cost of 'rental' for their cars - at least in the UK they seem to be the new Boy Racer Chavmobiles.

BMW must be losing street cred...

A toast to being in the right place at the right time

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Devil

Re: He's toast

I made a kipper vindaloo* - and microwaved it at work...

The Owner's PA loved the scent and wanted some if I made it again.

I did not do that again, though.

Me, a Smeghead* ----------->

(it was nice!)

BOFH: Good news, everyone – we're in the sausage business

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Coat

Re: gigaspandrels

"frictionless sharing".

er...lube?

Metal-rich stars inhibit chances of life on their planets

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Boffin

However...

Would a lifeform that sprang up on such a planet not develop to relish the high UV sunlight; adapt and thrive - the crux of Darwinism to local conditions?

"It's life, Jim - but not as we know it..."

UK government scraps smart motorway plans, cites high costs and low public confidence

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Thumb Up

Re: The existing ones don't even meet the spec

^^^This!^^^

Uptime guarantees don't apply when you turn a machine off, then on again, to 'fix' it

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Happy

Re: Well

"Yes - it goes - 'blub blub blub bloop grr grr blub...' "

Japanese outfit's private Moon mission enters Lunar orbit

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Thumb Up

Re: Wish there were more info on the transfer orbit

Nice explanation!

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Terminator

Re: Japanese transformable robot on the Moon

"Transformers - Robots in disguise"

That also hum when they are bored of waiting for the call to robot apocalypse...

eek :)

Bing AI feels like ChatGPT stuffed into a suit – not the future

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Facepalm

Bing will become mainstream...

...just after flamethowers become the preferred replacement for hairdryers.

Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you

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Devil

Or - anything from Microsoft that "Just Worked" tm

Any thing from Microsoft that Just... Worked - is released

If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone

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Terminator

Re: Just set the entire moon to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC +0) ...

COME ON, COHAAGEN! GIVE THESE PEOPLE AIR!

Icon because..

Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed

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Happy

Re: F.O.R.D

You forgot - The Ford Onion

NASA: Yup, thousand-pound meteorite exploded over Texas

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Coat

Re: TM-1

Which one? TMA-1 or the Apollo site...

UK prepares to go it alone on post-Brexit science plan

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Facepalm

What a bunch...

... of fucking gonks.

That is all.

( may apply to any past, present or future government types, anywhere )

Ring system discovered around dwarf planet Quaoar leaves astronomers puzzled

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Happy

Re: Obviously

Haldeman Collapsar.

We've found the way out of this game!

/if only

BOFH: Generating a report the Director can show the Board – THIS is what AI was made for

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Terminator

Re: bang up to date

Erm... the two are not exclusive... not any more...

[:] *>

Wyoming's would-be ban on sale of electric vehicles veers off road

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Happy

Re: I just had to do it...

Battery powered horses?