* Posts by Paul Herber

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Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases

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Re: Spin The Moon, Please

There is one building (natural or artificial is indeterminable at present). It is a shop. It is a local shop.

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I might not have a degree or masters or anything in astrophysics but if that asteroid did hit the moon then it would change its orbit. It might only change it temporarily by the size of a gnat's todger but it would change it!

Google outfoxed by crafty squatters in $1B London HQ's rooftop garden

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Pint

Badger. Mmmmm. Beeer. Mmmmm.

Cranborne Poacher tonight.

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Surely the teachers get a pretty decent salary these days.

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Re: Fox's or Fox'es?

If they learn to fly then they could migrate.

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On the roof it can be a drag and drop hunt.

Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame

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Coat

Re: And so starts the rule of the Orange King

If these cars start causing problems then they should be arrested and charged.

BT won't budge over pay hike for manager grade employees

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Re: Its multi-year plan to shed up to 55,000 jobs

Is there a Mr Jackson who has been told to shed himself twice?

£127M wasted on failed UK nuclear cleanup plan

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Re: Live to Fight Another Day

Wonderful story, but did morale improve?

Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack

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Re: Zelenskyy sure seems to hold a lot of cards

Ace reply!

Just 15 buyers are in charge of £14B in UK central government tech spending

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Perhaps we can discuss this over a series of lunch and dinner meetings next month. Maldives or Bahamas? Send me the flight tickets and hotel bookings and I'll be there.

Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff

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Coat

'fluctuations' - is this Trump discussing the Chinese again?

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'must cause some consternation at Microsoft.'

I don't why they should act all surprised. Plenty of people would have told them exactly what would happen, but these people have been deemed to be non-team players, don't have the vision, don't have the correct mind-set, stick-in-the-muds ...

More layoffs at Microsoft as axe falls in Washington

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Windows team

But is that the Team Pro, Team Personal, Team Executive, Team 365, Team Pro 365, Team Online, Team Online 365, Team Online 365 Pro, Team Pro 365 Online?

IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight

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Fortnight?

Fortnight? What's that in standard El Reg units? Ah yes, Two sennights. Now I understand.

Aussie businesses now have to fess up when they pay off ransomware crims

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' ... a fine equal to 60 penalty units, which is currently AUS $19,800 ($12,700) ... '

Small change compared with the legal/accounting/management/technical costs of compliance.

Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud

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Re: Excellent news!

If your horoscope didn't predict this then you are reading the wrong horoscope.

Next week there will be an alignment of 27 severely obese people along the ley line between Belfast and Lille which will cause severe gravitational waves beyond Uranus.

China to visit Earth’s ‘quasi-moon’ and bring a chunk of it back home

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Re: I think we could beat them to Mars and bag some rocks.

Proper job

Mmmm, good beer.

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Re: A diameter of just 40 to 100 meters*

" * insert obligatory "gas or electric?" here. "

You need to know the diameter and altitude to work out your parking orbit.

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China definitely needs to plant a flag there.

Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users

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If I were seeking a new enterprise I'd be starting a business named The Chamaelioid Pilchard.

Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz

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Re: Innocent Meta

An AI would attribute that quote to Marx Zuckerburg.

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Re: Just for the record. . .

and doesn't publish that recitation for profit.

TeleMessage security SNAFU worsens as 60 government staffers exposed

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El Reg.

AI ain't B2B if OpenAI is to be believed

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A variation on the core dump?

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Re: "astrological readings"

Best thing with astrology, take the pisc.

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Well that proves it is making things up. It was instant coffee.

Cybercrime is 'orders of magnitude' larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor

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attribute, not contribute.

I'll ignore the its. One has to.

AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro

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A of AROS

So, if the A of AROS is the initial of AROS ...

China finds a previously unknown microbe on its space station

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'wibbly wobbly, gummy food products'

Now you know why many American food products are banned in some countries!

Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates

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Re: Why the stupid and pointless geography lesson?

We're going to Armorica in a few weeks time. A place to enjoy!

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Re: Sure

Shirley in security services? Is she related to Rachel in accounts?

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon

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Re: Supersonic flight without an audible sonic boom should obviously be allowed

Ah, so that's why it's called the Mexican Wave.

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Re: It'll still take ages to...

Is this why the threat actors always follow a script?

<Exit stage left>

America’s consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown

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Re: The only way to stop this...

Using an ad-blocker makes you an activist. This will be marked in your personal records and used against you.

Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb

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Lawyers = activists

judges = activists

foreigners = activists

immigrants = activists

anyone who doesn't own a Meta account = activists

VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals

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We checked the IP address of the buyer (127.0.0.1) and they seemed to come back as okay.

US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

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"in the English syllabus are replaced by things like Conan Doyle's "

more Scots Irish than English I think.

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

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Re: Hey, Clippy

Powerpup:

https://images.app.goo.gl/FAFtr5VUREQygsNz5

Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet

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Re: 37.85G ISO

Does Linux contain worms?

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Re: 37.85G ISO

1.44M 3.5 inch floppies

Luxury. We used to dream of 125kbyte floppies.

India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease

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Big Brother

Re: Call me an old reactionary

Use of spyware might start being used to protect against foreign interference and organised crime, but then spreads, sometimes quite quickly, to maybe possible terrorists, opposition parties, green organisations, foreign-owned companies, foreign embassies, protest groups, newspaper owners, media companies, LGB*** groups, theatre companies, anyone with a different religion to me, anyone with dual nationality, foreigners in general, child molesters, litter louts, anyone with a tattoo, motorcyclists, that uncle who looks at me in an odd way, my legal team, my accountant, all my family ...

Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all - at least for consumers

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Re: Passkeys on a PC

A Personal PIN Number.

Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025

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Re: Oh noes!

'Venus'

He's got it, yeah baby he's got ...

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Re: I'm not a statistician, but....

After a quick analysis I have determined the correct units are Welsh apatosaurs per Belgian swimming pool cubed.

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Well, it could be, if you don't have a sense of humour ...

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Re: Oh noes!

He could form a band, Supertrump. Crisis? What crisis?

"Ain't Nobody but Me" - all about you know who.

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CCCP

Copyright Chinese Communist Party.

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