Posts by TheRealRoland

Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army

Re: No, thank you for the offer ..

"Eh, i always wait until they run out of ammo, then they're easier to maintain."

Happy Skynet Judgment Day

Perfect news for such an occasion...

How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'

Re: We had a similar incident

In the 80s a documentary was made about what can go wrong with lifts...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lift

Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase

You're new around here? The phrase is

"Playmobil, or it didn't happen."

Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons

Re: dies poetae

>regular almost compulsory event in 2970s London

Posted this on a friday afternoon, did ya?

First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online

Re: ROI?

Agile, baby!

AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian

Re: Yes, but....

Case in point: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/03/millennium-tower-san-francisco-keeps-sinking-repair-project-halted/5716514001/

MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, water

Those are some concrete examples of what is what, well-cemented in everyday language.

Sorry, all i could come up with, this early.

"Don't lick the foundation!"

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Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

Re: XP was great

Shirley, 4.1518 hundredweight you mean?

US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers in simulation'

Yes, it wasn't real, but...

Wouldn't it be scary if it was?

Also, so historic Djinns were perhaps proto-AIs? *insert it was aliens meme*

Pixies keep switching off my morning alarm, says Google Pixel owner

Buy that lottery ticket when it happens again ;-)

Marketing company chases Twitter for $7,000 over 'swag gift box for Elon'

Re: Elon

i like wontons.

Fossil brain undoes 350 million years of scientific understanding

Re: Conclusion....

That gas station sushi looks better and better...

James Webb Space Telescope suffers another hitch: Instrument down

Akshually - the AP thought it would have been derogatory -- The French, The Eggheads...

Oh, the Horrors!

San Francisco terminates explosive killer cop bots

I would be scared of that as well, since he's been dead since, what, April 2021? Also, "Air Offense", I would think.

FCC gives SpaceX OK to launch 7.5k Gen2 Starlink satellites

Re: Smaller batches

The article states that the satellites are too heavy to launch - and provides a link to an earlier article that goes into more details. Not every article needs to repeat all details of a previous article.

San Francisco lawmakers approve lethal robots – but they can't carry guns

News article, soon, i'm sure.

"We sent in the robot, armed with guns. Upon entering the premises, we lost contact with the robot, which switched over into its automation mode, and due to a glitch in the programming, fired indiscriminately into the group of hostages. We're looking at additional training for the operators to not have this happen anymore." - spox, SFPD

Intruders get their hands on user data in LastPass incident

Until they're not...

>credentials are safely encrypted

Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot

That's a problem to be sorted out in the second iteration, after this all has been put into place, with 'adequate' testing

"What? Oh that? Wasn't a use case so we didn't test against that. Good, moving on."

The all liquid-cooled colo facility rush has begun

Mandatory scuba classes for new hires?

Feel Luckey, punk? Oculus designer builds VR murder headset

He seems to be in a good head space.

Catching a falling rocket with a helicopter more complex than it sounds, says Rocket Lab

Had to scroll way too far down for this...

@imanidiot - "Probably not. The Corona program catching returning film capsules from spy sats needed the cargo aircraft (They also used C-119s, C-123s and some other aircraft beside Hercs iirc) "

Some nice reading material - https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/corona/StarCatchersWeb.pdf

The National Museum of the US Airforce in Dayton, OH has a nice exhibit about this as well.

Want to crawl inside a nuke plant swinging a hammer? No? Toshiba's inspection bots will do it instead

But will it be able to do the 'Huh... That's funny.' thing, while buzzing around?

Physics Nobel Prize in a superposition between three quantum physicists

Re: Measuring a property does not set it...

You feel you deserved the prize, didn't you?

Ever suspected bankers used WhatsApp comms at work? $1.8b says you're right

This is my surprised and shocked face ->

Girls Who Code books 'banned' in some US classrooms

Funny... The series "Girls who Cook", on the other hand...

No comment... None needed.

Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch

Re: King Andrew in the hot seat

"Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, on this list, with my reputation? What are they thinking?"

Asus packs 12-core Intel i7 into a Raspberry Pi-sized board

Re: Register unit of computing power

*Taps the sign* https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html

Perhaps this is in need of an update?

Microsoft mistakenly rated Chromium, Electron as malware

Re: Mistakenly?

"Nurse! He got to the computer again!"

California to try tackling drought with canal-top solar panels

Re: 372 miles

Psh. Remember what site you're posting on...

https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html

In a time before calculators, going the extra mile at work sometimes didn't add up

Re: £sd

Playmobil or it isn't true!

Oh Deere: Farm hardware jailbroken to run Doom

Re: Remote hacks

https://www.theregister.com/2011/12/22/electronic_sheep/

Burger King just sent spam receipts to customers

Re: Taste test

Can we call this 'B/K testing' going forward?

Garuda Linux 'Talon': Arch, but different. Dare we say it? Better

Re: "What do you want on The Register?...let us know what you'd like to see more of on The Reg"

Perhaps just tell us how you really feel?

Martin Shkreli, out of prison for running a Ponzi scheme, now pushes Web3 thing

Re: "after serving much of his seven-year prison sentence"

"But my heart voted against..." (much of an MP...)

Re: Shame

CEO: "I'll have to confer on this with our janitor, Mr. Shkreli, who definitely is not calling the shots on this."

Microsoft Teams outage widens to take out M365 services, admin center

Re: "I Survived the microsoft teams outage 21 July 2022"

"Well," says the VC, "now that's a much better idea than the lit-up ugly christmas sweater blinking the 'Silent night' song in morse code!"

Walmart-controlled flight booking service suffers substantial data leak

Don't worry. The integration between MS Access and MS Excel is often seamless. These files are just exports of the data to be sent via email to other vendors.

As is tradition.

SCOTUS judges 'doxxed' after overturning Roe v Wade

*guy-wearing-hot-dog-suit.gif*

Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same

Re: What they do

Why are you so obtuse?

Dell's rugged Latitude 5430 laptop is quick and pretty – but also bulky and heavy

*taps the sign*

https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html

Apple's return-to-office plan savaged by staff

SO has to go back 2 days a week to the office. Rule is that manager(s) then also should be in the office. When in the office, the manager(s) all doing off-site lunches, and in general are not available. So... Why again going back to the office needed?

Rocket Lab successfully catches falling rocket booster with a helicopter

Bucket Catchers!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdsn4snbzjo

They have this setup in the United States Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Pretty neat!

FAA to airlines: 5G-sensitive radio altimeters have to go

Re: Qualifying new radar altimeters.

i think it was foreseen, but not addressed because *waving hands*

NASA's modified Boeing 747 SP SOFIA to be grounded for good

Shame, but understandable

Another 747 gone from the skies :-(

Accenture announces 'Accenture Song' – not a tune, but a rebrand

Re: I am disappointed.

Whalesong! WHALESONG!!!!!

Engineers up the torque to get Lucy's solar array latched

Can you imagine what would happen a la SevenEves?

"SevenElons"...

*brr....*

Google tests battery backups, aims to ditch emergency datacenter diesel

YourHome - powered by Google

see title... Because why not branch out into public (or private?...) utilities?

Logitech Lift: Vertical mouse for those with small hands

Biggest problem : dirt magnet

I used a larger one, the Logitech MX Ergo Plus. Nice and heavy design, could tilt to allow for a different angle. Really tried loving it. But in the end, dunno why, had to clean the inside rollers at least once a day. Guess my paws are dirt magnets! So back to the regular mouse it is.