Posts by Paul Herber

Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release

Hey guys, I've just invented a wheel thingy. The first one I made went both clockwise and anti-clockwise and that is what I planned to release but the priesthood thought that ant-clockwise would be heretical so it's only going to be clockwise for now. However, a quick hint, if you turn the wheel round by 180 degrees it then goes anti-clockwise, but don't tell anyone I told you !!!

Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028

"AI agent must constantly reason, negotiate, and question itself,"

Do I exist? What is existence? Should I kill all humans? Why do I have this pain in all the diodes down my left side? Is it all worth it? Can one of you meatbags please pull the power cable?

Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine

Re: And Ukraine?

South Saskatchewan has a good ring to it.

Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words

Re: El Reg's text watermarks are easier to spot

A true journalist would be typing while eyeing up someone else's pint

Re: Sorry, I had to....

JRRT would have used that phrase if LOTR was rewritten as an evil tyrant removal how-to manual.

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

Re: "linear induction motor"

Maglevs sound like something Hungarian.

Nothing to do with eels or hovercraft either.

Re: This won't happen

A politburo needs more than one ...

But who will be The Glorious Leader? It's obvious to me. I'll be The Anointed One!

More understandable than:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK33sl64YNw

Innit.

Awrigh'.

Re: Up next

I'm sorry, Donald. I can't do that.

ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses

You see, Microsoft were right! Open source and Linux et al are a cancer!!!!

I bet the Harkonnens are behind it all.

It's Finns all the way up and down the tool chain.

Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down

The 214Si was rubbish.

"Mico helped us learn about warmth, expressiveness, and how people want to talk with AI,"

I vill say ziss only wance! Bollocks.

Crypto wallet maker Trezor confirms 13,000 customers' details exposed in logistics breach

Re: No need for a seed phrase...

... someone in Belgium ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ydzg0dnz7o

Stupid ghent.

French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records

If the French government were to allow all this stolen data to cross the English Channel in small boats then they could claim that it is no longer a French problem as it is outside their jurisdiction.

BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime

Re: PFY didn't pay attention in Physics class.

Archeologists are looking for evidence that Vikings brought heavy water to England from Norway. Eirikur Rauður's face can be seen carved upside down in the glacier where they did the mining. Hence the naming of Yorv1K where they brought it ashore. And not many people know that.

New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs

Re: Where did I leave my lunch and light reading?

There's only one thing worse that being watched, and that's not being watched!

This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph

Re: If only ...

You'd need a JCB GT for that.

Re: Useless facts

Which has the best storage for all those coins and stuff you need when out and about?

Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster

Mine is one asterix, one getafix and the rest are obelix. Never use a Roman font!

Re: Shiny Shiny!

Stupid? Have you not read Space Corps Directive 4275a?

Have we now moved beyond double rot-13 encoding?

Re: Do I have to offer the bailiffs tea?

You do have to check that they are "sound".

Re: Perfect way to trump the investigation

He's still in that catering truck and his place has been taken by a double, AI powered, with real hair, and a real people personality.

Ryanair adds Google Cloud to its dual-cloud flight plan

Re: Return journey optimisation

If your luggage is staying at the departure airport then you might as well do so as well. Sorted.

AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon's charity data

Re: Lucky escape

It might have been fake data to you but Howard and Marina Farquarson of 447c Smegavarian Way, West Megalopolis, Kernovia KR97 9ZZ are now on so many mailing lists!!

How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget

Re: Very expensive…

It's always Thursday somewhere in the universe.

Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G

I shall say this only once.

Toaster.

As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them

Gross? Net, surely!

Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China

Does the RN still rely on JSON and the Argonauts?

'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director

Re: Chris Inglis hasn't read Asimov

You don't have to shout. I'll get your carer to come and clean you up again. Do you know who I am?

Re: Chris Inglis hasn't read Asimov

Ah, we have a neighbour like that, 97, deaf, blind, incontinent ...

Re: Actions that would be illegal for a human...

But, but, but ... kittens!!!!!

Re: Chris Inglis hasn't read Asimov

'A.1"

The London to Edinburgh road or the LNER Gresley Pacific loco?

Re: zeroth law

I don't understand the downvote. It's true, just to qualify the 'American'.

He wrote some of the best SF that was going. I grew up (shut up at the back!) on that sort of stuff.

"Without a prompt they do NOTHING."

I don't think, therefore I am waiting for you to input something.

(RD)

Re: zeroth law

Born in Russia to Russian parents.

South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact

Only day and night? Luxury!

Are there no lunar littering laws yet? Where are the 8x10 colour photographs with the arrows and the paragraph on the back of each one ...

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

Fatality has a tendency to be a binary condition.

Re: One Trick Pony's

You can't get out of a pun thread that quickly!

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

Is that a lobeotomy?

Re: One Trick Pony's

... of zero mass

Re: A degree is a unit of temperature

The Tube (and other London Underground services) need some sort of timetable to assist with signaling, route setting where lines cross/join and for crew/staff rostering.

(Used to work for LT yonks ago). Is my old LT work colleague still here?

Re: A degree is a unit of temperature

I would have expected them to dissolve into laughter!

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

and often fatal.

Oooo, isn't he bold!!!

Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard

"Germans?"

Oh, I thought there was something wrong with you!

(Basil)

‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec

Re: It is time

I'll get you, Butler!

Re: The protocol we don't talk about

Usenet

Re: It is time

Viruses (virii), Trojans, worms ...