Re: What was the quote from Star Trek?
'Your plastic pal who's fun to be with'
Posts by Fr. Ted Crilly
723 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jan 2010
Chinese carmaker Chery using DeepSeek-driven humanoid robots as showroom sales staff
AI-driven 20-ft robots coming for construction workers' jobs
Tuesday 29th April 2025 13:39 GMT 
Bah... it won't end well
However, several of the Labors being used in Tokyo, specifically those built by Shinohara Heavy Industries, suddenly activate and go haywire, even while unpiloted. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's (TMPD) 2nd Special Vehicles Section (SV2) is assigned to help neutralize the malfunctioning Labors, but only the SV2's Division II is on duty around-the-clock (with Division I already on training duties elsewhere).
Isao Ohta knows what to do about it...
Need a Linux admin? Ask a hair stylist to introduce you to a worried mother
The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive
Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right
Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home
Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney
Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition
Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder
iRobot may be iDead in iYear
UK must pay cyber pros more than its Prime Minister, top civil servant says
Wednesday 12th March 2025 10:40 GMT
why that's...
Humphrey:
But the whole idea is... it it it it it... It's... It strikes at the very roots of... It's the beginning of the end! The thin end of the wedge! A Bennite solution! Where will it end? The abolition of the monarchy?
Hacker:
Don't be absurd, Humphrey.
Humphrey:
There is no reason to change the system which has worked so well in the past.
Hacker:
But it hasn't.
Humphrey:
But we've got to give the present system a fair trial.
Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats
Worry not. China's on the line saying AGI still a long way off
DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures'
Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?
Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech
Monday 24th February 2025 12:26 GMT
Re: I dont know, this seems pretty simple to me...
Brace yourself now...
Ode to a Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning
In the sultry swamp of sweaty pits,
A putrid glob did congeal,
A muculent mound of malodorous green,
Its sickly scent did it unseal.
The sun's blazing wrath did scorch the Earth,
Yet in my fetid hollow it hid,
This loathsome lump of emerald woe,
Like a festering secret amid.
Oh, revolting mass of viscous slime,
Your oozing form doth repulse,
A horrid blob, of rancid hue,
You make my stomach convulse...
*heave, boak*
Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it
AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds
Wednesday 12th February 2025 14:20 GMT
I say!
"The Maythorn Way is a concept or term that may refer to various things depending on the context, but it is not widely recognized in popular culture or literature. It could potentially relate to a specific philosophy, a method of living, or a particular approach to a subject. If you have a specific context in mind, such as a book, a philosophy, or a community practice, please provide more details, and I would be happy to help clarify!"
Sir Humphrey would be proud of that...
Microsoft 365 price rises are coming – pay up or opt out (if you can find the button)
Huawei revenue growing fast, suggesting China's scoffing at sanctions
Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two?
You know something's wrong when Clippy fills you with nostalgia for simpler times
Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why
Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough
Privacy Commissioner warns the ‘John Smiths’ of the world can acquire ‘digital doppelgangers’
Ontario responds to Trump tariff by pitching Starlink deal into the trash
Googlers asked if they'd like to bury themselves next to Stadia, Chromecast, DropCam
Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032
White House asks millions of govt workers if they would be so kind as to fork right off
UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project
Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim
Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?
This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service
Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition
Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home
Thursday 16th January 2025 10:27 GMT
Re: Just a thought
To which my first thought would be 'yes that's quite possible, second thought is then why haven't corporate already done it?
So you mr manager are just giving it the ruthless sounding flannel OR you are reducing shareholder value by keeping the onshore staff against business reason. And why would that be the case Mr Lumbergh...
Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week
Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics
Techie fluked a fix and found himself the abusive boss's best friend
Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control
Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays
Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine
Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies
Thursday 12th December 2024 15:14 GMT
“Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven’t made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.” “Buzz them?” Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him. “Yeah,” said Ford, “they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one’s ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.”
Biting the hand that feeds IT
