Posts by Fr. Ted Crilly

OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!

And they expect us to believe them?

British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases

Re: Now make it legal for drones

Breaking (in) and Entering. Burglary

BOFH: Eight pints of a lager and a management breakthrough

Don't just stand there doing something, think!

Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam

The Mrs Doyle is strong in this one....

Concorde at 50: Twice the speed of sound, twice the economic trouble

Ropy?

Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

Brace yourself Rodney....

BOFH: Every computer system eventually serves ads

Re: the Board members says. "That's from Hitchhiker's Guide."

Try and find the BBC radio full cast with sound effects Lord of the rings ;-)

Probably not the best security in the world: Carlsberg wristbands spill visitor pics

Hahaha, my first thought that, and here you are beating me to it...

UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work

Re: Just for the record

Porridge, I Claudius, Secret Army. Steptoe & Son...

Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back

Re: Shit show likely

Bofors Archer is the correct medicine ...

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

Re: "I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed,"

10- 20 million, tops...

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

and they've gone and done it

A fridge door with Genuine People Personality...

Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble

Decent...

Should be the Green Bastard though...

User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis

Re: Idiots are not always wrong

yes Yes, Mr Wentworth just told you to say it...

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

Re: Audio

Brother seem to have the 'you can't see me without a ton of swearing' problems sorted.

At home Chrome, android, Mint all found the Laser printer via the router just fine without intervention...

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

Hack your battery power tool batteries to work on them, surprisingly many home hand vacuums seem to happily run on '20v' type packs the electronics quite un phased by the additional voltage above the nominal '12' volts packs they were designed for.

Admittedly the 3 i've done for friends and the one I 'got at' a home are a limited population ymmv. These days getting hold of a 3d printed battery socket/connector and scabbing it on the unit will be a bit untidy but hey working again. Even her indoors approves of my ham fisted efforts...

NATO's battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existential

Madame President

! we must not allow a exploring quantum computing and autonomous systems powered by cloud architectures that evolves gap!

Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI

Brood Darkbulb...

MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian

Re: @Long John Silver - Are MI6 and MI5 trustworthy?

'And kind old King George

Sent Mother a note

When he heard that Father was gone

It was, I recall

In the form of a scroll

With gold leaf and all

And I found it one day

In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away

And my eyes still grow damp to remember

His Majesty signed

With his own rubber stamp'....

Re: The Battlefield of Tomorrow being AIMastered and Altered Today via SMARTR Play and 0Days

The prose did i must admit give me an impression of Sowell without the detail and ref's

The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years

Re: disco ball

' Prayer Fans '

Thanks Fred....

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

Re: Mental Illness

The diodes again?

Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling

Re: WTF?

an argument?

Mr Baike's free but he's a little bit conciliatory... Ah yes, try Mr. Barnard, room 12

We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares

Re: So....

fokin'... well Dee-Dee managed it and made his own craft from a fridge box lifted from the bin shed.

DragonFire laser to be fitted to Royal Navy ships after acing drone-zapping trials

Re: power cost

Only you can remove them from my hovercraft first.

So in that case...

We need an HMS Shark wot for the lasers n all.

Bossware booms as bots determine whether you're doing a good job

RD250 exhaust ports, I once rebuilt a two channel Farnell bench psu into half the enclosure because one side had expired emphatically, over the course of a multi day teams conference while wfh ...

Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas

Wanky...

Russia’s first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut

Re: Absolute Verisimilitude

Where is the half eaten kebab gently spilling the elephant leg meat by product on the ground, while grimly being clutched in a wayward hand...

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart

Re: More to come

'TicketBastard'... Nice one Centurion, like it, like it...

Louvre's pathetic passwords belong in a museum, just not that one

Re: Pterry

See, the Chinese Courts were Merciless about it...

UK military looking for tactical comms, systems suppliers in deal worth up to £9.6B

Re: Project Cassandra

Hate to admit it but yes...

Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software

Re: And who would guess ...

'B' arkers

Re: McKinsey - proud to "share values" with Enron and the opioid pushers

"A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

Cybercrooks team up with organized crime to steal pricey cargo

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Poor old Feech Lamana eh...

From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world

Re: Thanks Paul

And that, would be an ecumenical matter...

Re: Remember Dark Star

Not that again! bomb 20 please return to the bomb bay and await further deployment...

Microsoft gives Windows 11 a fresh Start – here's how to get it

Re: Hold that thar pig steady

"He got a real purty mouth ain’t he"

OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race

Re: A New New deal ?

Privatise the profits, publicise the debts...

Ex-CISA head thinks AI might fix code so fast we won't need security teams

Re: Perhaps a bit overoptimistic

Nominative determination at work again -Trump's nominee for the job Sean Plankey

High-stakes poker scam used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and special glasses

" "I'm losin' my balls over here. This fuckin' moron's playing Hazel!"

Clippy rises from the dead in major update to Copilot and its voice interface

Re: Yellow blob

Is that, chocolate on your forehead?

Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company

Re: However...

Medical version.

Don't just stand there doing something, think!

Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle

Should have kept Bock's Car as well then.

Hacked Ford screens put anti-RTO slogan above CEO’s face

Re: When you work for the man, you work for the man

3 hours, you need to work on that and get it down to a solid 15 mins, then you can zone out for the rest of the day.

Campaigners urge UK PM Starmer to dump digital ID wheeze before it's announced

Re: Anonymous ID cards

Careful with that dangerously sensible idea...

Re: Prophetic

+++ this

Re: Prophetic

Off to your local paid avoidance zone then for a less connected life.

UK may already be at war with Russia, ex-MI5 head suggests

Re: Russia is the one responsible

Trying to get on the winning side again he is...

Many employees are using AI to create 'workslop,' Stanford study says

Re: Humans will be humans

And digital watches are still a pretty neat idea...