* Posts by The Bobster

92 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Oct 2012

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Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter

The Bobster

Re: I have a hammer drill

You should have posted that as Hieronymus Coward

So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?

The Bobster

Re: Buono estente

Scorchio!

Static electricity can be shockingly funny, but the joke's over when a rack goes dark

The Bobster

Re: Shocking experience

Ew! You should have resisted the temptation to post that.

Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense

The Bobster

Re: Payment?

Buzz Aldrin's travel expenses voucher for Apollo 11 trip.

https://x.com/TheRealBuzz/status/626812956148248577

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

The Bobster

Re: Jesus is depicted as looking like ...

<Insert pi joke here>

Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

The Bobster

Re: Where Is That "Someone"? Guess!

But it's so far away!

Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR

The Bobster

Re: "and update the notes so that the team has it before the meeting."

Shaka, when the walls fell.

Look for the label: White House rolls out 'Cyber Trust Mark' for smart devices

The Bobster

Lettuce hope that this is not the case, otherwise it could crash the whole initiative!

Tech support warrior left cosplay battle and Trekked to the office

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Coat

Re: Mr Woof

(a) I read that as "Directed by Reg Barclay"

(b) Just Say No to AI art, kids.

Mine's the one with the Sacred Chalice of Riix in the pocket.

The Bobster

(a) Mr Woof would have been a deeper cut.

(b) "Your current printer configuations are..."

Gowron eyes to camera

"...WITHOUT HONO(U)R!"

Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays

The Bobster

Re: "We'll be in and out within 20 minutes."

"So, what did you guys do with your Tuvix?"

Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

The Bobster

Re: Copilot for Copilot

Coco-no-no more like.

Gang of monkeys escape South Carolina biomedical research facility

The Bobster

Re: Are they certain....

If it was, they would have captured them before they escaped - with a "blowing up Hitler" side-quest.

Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets

The Bobster

Re: Failure in 3,2,1...

CRISECSCE? Snappy

Branded covfefe mugs available in the gift shop.

Beijing claims it's found 'underwater lighthouses' that its foes use for espionage

The Bobster

Re: Does it go ping?

https://soundcloud.com/aragusea/russians-dont-take-a-dump-son-without-a-plan

5 out of 5 pings!

Uncle Sam lends $1.5B to reignite Michigan nuclear plant in 2025

The Bobster

Re: Up and atom!

Jiminy Jillikers!

Kia Niro electric vehicle defies physics with record-breaking 114 million miles on the clock

The Bobster

- She'll fly apart...

- Fly her apart then!

Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union

The Bobster

Re: What's the speed limit?

"How will it deal with crossing the Irish border with MPH on one side & KPH on the other?"

The brains in the ex-Macan dealt with it automagically, switching at the border using, I guess GPS.

Babel fish? We're getting there. Reg reviews the Timekettle X1 AI Interpreter Hub

The Bobster

Interior?

Scorchio!

Study employs large language models to sniff out their own bloopers

The Bobster

Re: Monkeys and Bananas...

Time flies

You can't

They fly too fast

Chinese national cuffed on charges of running 'likely the world's largest botnet ever'

The Bobster

Re: C'mon ElReg

Everyobody in 911 S5 is going to shun Wang, tonite!

Samsung workers treated for exposure to radiation in South Korea

The Bobster

Re: "swollen fingers and red spots"

Wow!

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

Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names

The Bobster

Re: No one ever thinks of the poor Grocer

Presumably Jerry Seinfeld would keep all his lighter's in a european carry-all.

OpenAI slapped with GDPR complaint: How do you correct your work?

The Bobster

Some form of covfefe?

MGM says FTC can't possibly probe its ransomware downfall – watchdog chief Lina Khan was a guest at the time

The Bobster

Dave Snap?

Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources

The Bobster

Re: Irony

Nope

https://www.nationalgrid.com/electricity-transmission/network-and-infrastructure/network-route-maps

Microsoft, OpenAI may be dreaming of $100B 5GW AI 'Stargate' supercomputer

The Bobster

Re: Stargate?

Nomad, Agimus, Daystrom M-5 or, my favourite, Landru.

Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue

The Bobster

Re: lasers?

Only if it uses phased plasma in the 40-watt range.

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

The Bobster

France is Bacon

X reverses course on headlines in article links, kinda

The Bobster

Re: Things Twitter/X is equivalent to in value

Best boss I ever had!

Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished

The Bobster

I wonder what the rate of kidney regrowth was in this hospital after the incident.

Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant

The Bobster

"We are done with random stuff today."

https://64.media.tumblr.com/c33180cf54012ed3f32ec080c06d89a0/6b3f63c7f9262eaa-a1/s540x810/b7b6f3212b8809dc6c451fd62a08a6409d099fe0.gifv

Space Force turns to Falcon Heavy for spaceplane's seventh mission

The Bobster

Re: Must be

Indeed, Jimmy2Cows.

X looks back at year of so-called 'engineering excellence' under Musk

The Bobster

Re: Going Down (in Droopy’s voice)

Monorail!

Japan cruises ahead with drive-thru EV charging trial

The Bobster

Re: Vehicle ID based charging

Indeed. Try doing 50 launch control starts in an EV and see if you even get close to double figures. Here's Road & Track doing that in a 2014 911 Turbo S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DRCTW-Q7o

AI safety guardrails easily thwarted, security study finds

The Bobster

Re: Bollocks

Don't know, but I think I heard them play a session on the John Peel show in the nineties.

Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss

The Bobster

Menagenagerie

Space-induced bone loss?

Moopsie!

World's most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second

The Bobster

Cracking video, thanks for including it @Reg

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's pop artifact stash now heads to a museum

The Bobster

Re: Relics

What would come after the dash...?

Tesla board members to return $735M in compensation settlement

The Bobster

Re: Just a bunch of plain, simple lads

Jumped, eh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX4e81L-J7s

Microsoft puts profanity filter on %@!#ing Teams transcripts

The Bobster

A classic "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" issue.

If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault

The Bobster

Re: Will it make

W oof!

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

The Bobster

Re: no backup strategy, SMH stupidity

Hence the word...sabotage.

Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State

The Bobster

Re: Blast from the Past

...my friends all have Teslas

they don't make the bends.

Child-devouring pothole will never hurt a BMW driver again

The Bobster

Re: They should have called...

Obligatory GreatestGen reference https://greatestgen.fandom.com/wiki/Hole

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

The Bobster

ISAy it's a good job he didn't get run over by a BUS, as he was so important to the organisation.

Anyone want an International Space Station? Slightly used

The Bobster

Re: It's really obvious what to do...

Yes, absolutely, I do indeed concur wholeheartedly!

Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could

The Bobster

Re: Snake Oil Salesman who forgot to move on...

Is there a chance the track could bend?

US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes

The Bobster
Coat

Re: You have no expectation of privacy

France is bacon!

Scientists, why not simply invent a working fusion plant using $50m from Uncle Sam

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Joke

Re: Given the average incandescent bulb is 60W

"Incandescent? I was absolutely livid!"

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