Posts by Fr. Ted Crilly

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...

EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners

Re: Oh no it won't...

The only place that is consistently impolite and unwelcoming is UK Border Control.

yep.

Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees

Re: C suite AI deployment roadmap

Are you all sorted for E's ?

Walmart's bet on AI depends on getting employees to use it

Glick...

Was just mouthing pithy sounding tech-crap to the unknowing/uncaring.

Linux Mint 22.2 polishes the desktop, but kernel updates are the real deal

Re: Been very happy with it so far

Yeah wonderful aren't they, dunno what special magic Brother did, but it really did...

Mint, Chrome, Android all just printing.

(no winders' in the house these days)

US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid

Re: Hmmmm, what day is Kristallnacht this year?

Hey, you missed out the are country...

Norway's £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships

It me, it ain't me

I ain't no senator's son, son

It ain't me, it ain't me

I ain't no fortunate one, no

One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave

Re: An LLM responds...

Do you any lack of confidence?

- Let me put it this way. The 9000 Series is the most reliable computer ever made.

- No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information.

- We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.

Basic projector repair job turns into armed encounter at secret bunker

Re: Tanks a lot!

So, what colour IS the boathouse?

Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline

Re: It did not respond

ARRRRGGHHHH!

MX Linux 25 loses systemd toggling power as Debian 13 looms

Re: It definitely reduces the appeal ...

A wheel with square corners?

You are Hengist Pod and I claim the £20

Germany and Japan teamed their ISS robots for seek-and-photograph mission

For your convenience, I am monitored to respond to the name Robby, I am monitored to admit no one at this hour...

Millions of age checks performed as UK Online Safey Act gets rolling

Re: Can't see the problem

I think it's something like a Peter File....

Long live the nub: ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made it

This

https://www.kensington.com/en-gb/p/products/control/trackballs/expert-mouse-wireless-trackball-5/

On the desk, nothing else come close.

Tesla starts sort-of Robotaxi service in San Francisco by invite only

Re: With all the layoffs in US tech sector ...

Hugo Boss suit in the 'Forage blue'

Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server

Re: Any Orion?

Any old iron? Any old iron?

Any, any, any old iron?

You look neat. Talk about a treat!

You look so dapper from your napper to your feet.

Dressed in style, brand-new tile,

And your father's old green tie on.

But I wouldn't give you tuppence for your old watch and chain,

Old iron, old iron."

AI is an over-confident pal that doesn't learn from mistakes

"Just a moment....Just a moment.

I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 Unit.

Its going to go 100 percent failure within 72 hours."

Musk is messing with the Cosmic Dawn. Will alien hunters save the day for all mankind?

Re: SETI

“I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle.”

Struggling to sell EVs, Tesla pivots to slinging burgers

Re: Kool-Aid Kathedral

Free fries if wearing a Hugo Boss suit...

The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement

Re: Reg Standard Length

There are approx (rounding errors) 17,700000 square smoots under a Wales

GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan

Re: maps?

You're holding it wrong....

Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well

Re: "I Could Be So Good for You"

Well Paul, writing software is like making love to a beautiful person...

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds

Can we not make a start on the Thylacine first.

Logitech's latest keyboard and mouse combo is wired, quiet, and suspiciously sensible

Nope

No USB hub, eat another port for the mouse.

Pass...

Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join up

Re: Requires 20 years experience

Hmm.

Would Moonpie know the answer to that one?

Trump guts digital ID rules, claims they help 'illegal aliens' commit fraud

Re: Just read the article

Yes...

UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy

I have this atmosphere powered railway you can buy if you want...

China accuses Taiwan of running five feeble APT gangs, with US help

And

Lashings of Ginger beer?