Posts by Paul Herber

Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker

Re: "Tried to send a frigate… It broke down before it got there." The Navy Lark ?

Trouble is the French subs are left-hand drive and they have that whining gearbox like many Peugeots ...

Well, don't give it root access then!!! Duh!!!

This all sounds a bit medieval, chain mail on a battleship? What's the main armament? A trebuchet?

Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031

Re: RE: Will it work?

Propellant. Reaction mass.

I echo your sentiments.

"sorry Pink Floyd"

Ah, is that because they are obscured by clouds?

Re: RE: Will it work?

No, not seriously. Until the mid-20thC nearly all fission/fusion has taken place in space!

Should have told him they can do that but if the sand is too fine it clogs up the filters and if it's not fine enough it blocks the jets. But if they carry their own special military grade that is just right then all is well. They call it diesel.

Re: Nukes in orbit by 2031?

No NIMBYs, no bat survey, no pretty thatched cottages to be demolished, no road access needed, no seismic assessment, no protesters ...

That's the thing about nuclear scientists/engineers. They are all either splitters or joiners!

Nuclear fusion in space? Are we sure that'll work?

Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems

Re: Users forget

Luxury.

Re: Users forget

Why can't they all share one cell?

"tools for creating tables of figures and forecasts"

Ask Coprolite when this feature will be added to Notepad.

It's already in Linux is Systemd.

Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades

Re: Correction

The door is wide open, there are no guards, and there are no exit fees.

"The company has had a difficult few months in terms of software quality."

Can somebody please ask Microsoft when this will not be the case ...

We don't expect a reply.

Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban

Re: Maine

Clan Kornovii - ruthless.

We should be Sennen them all to jail.

Re: Maine

Do you mean Sicily or the Isles of Scilly? But both are quite valid.

Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband

Re: Consumer protection, lack thereof

Customer gouging and "There's a sucker born every minute" can be a way of life too, and some people will fight tooth and nail to protect that way of life.

Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London

Is this South London's bid to join the New Forest?

Re: Captcha

I never had any problem with that roundabout system (The HW one). Seemed very logical and the traffic flowed.

Re: Video recording needed

"I was fit as fuck"

I suspect you are now as <something else> as fuck.

My 2p.

Apologies to everyone else.

That's the first time I've seen the reverse double-back shunt played in over 15 years!

Well done.

Re: Video recording needed

Did you not get your SSC?

Re: Video recording needed

Loch Ness monster. yeti, cyclists who run red lights, bigfoot, aliens ...

If only there were some way of recording high-quality video ...

Re: Video recording needed

"...cyclists who run red lights..."

On the very rare occasion that I go to that London I have never seen that.

I hope Waymo can fully implement the

"bloody cyclists, pay some f***** road tax, you almost made me drop me phone!"

mode.

UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk

Re: Palantir in Parliament

Palantir => Mordor => Sauron

Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt

Re: How many of those orders will get dropped?

"Thank you, Earthling."

You don't know who I am, do you?

Re: How many of those orders will get dropped?

"Watch this space people."

Missing comma alert! I'll put it .... here ...

Watch this, space people.

Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges

Need some brain-storming sessions down the pub. Let's call them JFDI nights.

You can finally control serial devices from Firefox

"I'll get the straight and crossovers mixed up"

You've got to be very careful of that in some jurisdictions. Loopback can get you a hefty jail sentence ...

P.S. is the loft at the top of the stairway?

If you do sell any then please wait for Request To Send to be set before posting.

NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats

Re: What is the problem, at least for a couple of years.....

Award Recognising Space Exploration's Helpful Operational Leverage Ever!

"'Well, look, being in a NASA lab was once great, but how's the funding going to go in the future?'"

China probably doesn't have this problem. Long term plan. Stick with it.

Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home charged with attempted murder

Re: Intolerable

"We will not tolerate any attempt to change the way <nationality> live and work through fear or violence,"

FTFY

How is that working out?

Re: Guy doesn't like Artificial Intelligence

Here is my entry for the annual El Reg Bad Taste Awards ...

Altman Incineration is the new AI.

Claude Code cache chaos creates quota complaints

Re: At what price point does the shine wear off?

Do you want fries with that?

France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead

Re: "Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein"

I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.

Re: "Consider [the] Foundation’s scorecard of organizations that contribute to the Linux kernel"

Apparently 3 people understood the Schleswig-Holstein question, but 2 of them were mad.

Re: probably nitpicking.

<.. checks records ...> 25 years here.

Re: "Consider [the] Foundation’s scorecard of organizations that contribute to the Linux kernel"

"how are Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein coming along?"

I think the results of the 1920 plebiscite should be in quite soon!

Adobe finally patches PDF pest after months of abuse

Phew! Now we can all relax and go back to assuming that any random PDF we receive is safe and will not compromise any computer.

<sarcasm mode reverts to off 15 seconds after you have read this message>

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

Re: Case of acute cleveritis ?

Well, doesn't that take the pip!

What happens then if you have a password set in your own language, using characters only found in that language.

You then move to a different country and as most of your interaction is in a different language you change your default keyboard.

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job

Re: Business or pleasure?

Were you there for the Spinal Tap concert?

"i got a stern look ... the warm welcome"

A stern look is the closest approximation you may ever get to a warm welcome!

UK to spend £15M on AI-powered crime mapping in knife violence crackdown

Re: Admire

Most people here don't know anyone of the corrupt political class, let alone be close enough to admire them. You have your friends, we have ours.

"£26.25 million this year across 27 forces."

I wonder how many police officers Diane Abbott reckons could be employed for this sum? More than 10,000?

"hyperlocal knife crime pilots"

Is it the knife, the crime or the pilot that is hyperlocal, whatever that is?