Posts by Paul Herber

Gmail celebrates 22 years by finally letting users change their addresses

Wey aye man, but can ye nae mak it a wee tad more specific?

Re: off to the side

Not as embarrassing as having the same name as, say, a BBC newsreader or a BBC Radio 1 DJ.

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban

They would identify the requesting account, the code could then be typed into the target account.

Many other organisations are very capable of providing a 6-digit code that is valid for the next 15 minutes ...

Artemis II countdown begins as NASA prepares for crewed Moon flyby

Re: "We will ... talk to our astronauts while they're on the far side of the Moon."

I'm sure suitable people are in his phone contact list.

Re: All rather disappointing

Warning: sarcasm mode will turn off automatically in 15 minutes.

Re: "We will ... talk to our astronauts while they're on the far side of the Moon."

Hands up who has a wife who talks to them from 3 rooms away!

Sigh.

Re: Send Trump to the moon instead

Shouldn't there be an extra charge for a seat with a view?

Re: Send Trump to the moon instead

Donald Trump = Luna romp DDT

I hope they have done more testing than Microsoft seem to do these days.

Just saying.

Humanoid robots one tiny step closer to exterminating autoworkers' jobs

Re: Chaotic Shop Floors

" ... others are not ... "

TF for Sainsbury's. Keeps the chaos out of Waitrose.

AI will write code, but prepare to babysit it – and be sure you speak its language

Re: Of course I want to fire all of the developer!

Fatal error: Error 0 on line 0. No fault found.

Bees and hummingbirds aren't just buzzing – they're sipping trace booze

Wasps have yet to learn about football tribalism!

Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession

Re: Chinese models aren't too bad, unless...

This the heaviest "whataboutism" post I have seen for a long time.

To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer

Re: Given the Windows' BSOD is rather familar

"... if you had a rock solid OS ..."

Hmmm, is such a thing available to us mere mortals? If it is then why isn't everybody using it?

Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization

I've heard he is a bit of a gent.

Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs

Re: Is it time to ditch FireFox?

I find FF crashes (or goes extremely slowly) when I use Google Street View for too long (2secs to several minutes, it varies).

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

Re: Ha ha ha ha ha

Now, you've got no evidence of that !!!!!!

Re: Ha ha ha ha ha

Hi there, do you think President Trump wants some toast? Nice hot buttered toast?

YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply

Re: C64

Chuck Norris called it Fistics.

Have you been involved in a collision with a lunar object recently that wasn't your fault? Did you create a pothole on the moon more than 37 feet in diameter?

Well, that's your problem, not ours. The Clangers will be along soon to put you in the soup. Bye!

AI agents are 'gullible' and easy to turn into your minions

Re: Duplicate?

But there are comments against much of the source code - DNA - Do Not Adjust

When it comes to catastrophic space weather, the UK is holding a cocktail umbrella

Re: Standard response

"... over a larger area than Trump ..."

Wow, that's the size of three major continents in standard EL Reg units. Do we need a new unit of area? The Trump = 3 major land masses.

(This new unit will be for when the size of Belgium is no longer adequate.) Sorry, Belgium

Re: Standard response

I say, you seem to know what's going on. Do you want to chair this inquiry?

Re: Tinfoil hats for everyone

The coded message (by Blowers) will be along the lines of this on Test Match Special :

" ... and I think I can see three pigeons just land on the outfield ..."

Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics'

Re: A Terawatt of compute.. In Space.

Excellent!

Become a member of the Sydney Harbour Bridge Club. It's all jokers.

Re: Yeah.... right...

Monorails is an anagram of "I no morals".

Re: Peak Musk...

Sorry, more like Red Dwarf. If you want Talkie Toaster in this universe .... ahhhhhhh!

CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge

Re: Science needs better funding and higher policy urgency

Draw the scatter plots in green crayon but do one line in orange, you can call it the Trump Bozo.

Re: Science needs better funding and higher policy urgency

'Six years of construction downtime'

Have you seen the predicted timeline for fixing the potholes in the roads?

Re: Problem Solving, the CERN way!

What is wrong with you all !!!!! Where are all the apostrophe pedants giving me a good ticking off for my Higg's !!!

Slackers.

Re: Science needs better funding and higher policy urgency

Now, if you were to tell politicians there was a problem with finding rare hardons they would have been all over it!!

Re: Problem Solving, the CERN way!

I predict they will find a Higg's BosOnOff binary digit.

Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat

Well, I'm incompetent but I identify as malicious. Or is it the other way round?

PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI

Re: It’s almost poetic

hey, there are limits, you know!

Re: The Richardson Gang & The Kray Twins

Well doesn't that take the biscuit!!

Re: It is not about AI!

fewer

Re: It’s almost poetic

As any fule mathematician know, if you differentiate a consultant you get 0.

Re: Required to use AI at work? AI can fix that!

"using AI to automate tiresome, pointless, and irksome tasks"

like replying to emails from the bosses ...

On The Buses> I'll get you, Butler!

Fiber on the surface of the moon could help detect moonquakes

Re: Hmm ... that first paper title

Surely you've heard of remote sensing ?

Re: Find Life on the Moon?

I think The Clangers are effectively "of no fixed abode" as far as Earth is concerned. I can't see them getting a signing certificate for those drivers.

I sense a FLOP, Fibre Lunar On Premises.

(No more contrived that many other acronyms)

Google offers ‘vibe design’ tool that you can shout at to create a UI

Re: What you want your users to feel

I do wonder what your first language is. I have my thoughts, but it is a language without the phrase "sense of humour" !!!

Re: You can speak directly to your canvas

'Where's my other ear?'

Eagles -> Peaceful Easy Feeling.

(I've been wanting to use this as the answer to this question for nigh on 50 years!)

Microsoft startup credits are the gift that keeps on billing unsuspecting users

MS, bait, switch. Gotcha.

Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots

Re: One way to cut the demand in half

An Elon designed robot wouldn't go out in the rain, even if it were coded in Rust!

Veil is an anagram of evil. Serendipity in an Elon related message?

Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary

Arthur IDent> Well I quite liked it actually.