Posts by Paul Herber

Seville: Famed for blue skies and now Blue Screens of Death

Worst limerick, ever!

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome

Re: DuckDuckGo

You are an individual.

Humanoid robots are still novelty acts, but investment is surging to make them real tomorrow

Re: God would have given all of us two digits instead of five with opposable thumbs

So T. Rex was almost there.

Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here’s how to try it

If the button is not provided then you do not need it.

Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming

AI has made things better, said nobody, ever!

Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year

Re: bringing another safe and reliable travel option to Londoners

That's the point of rails.

Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture

That 300TB is all Never Gonna ...

The ultimate Rick Roll.

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

Saying that makes all other vacuum cleaner companies see red!

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

Re: "Have you used tech to prank colleagues, and gotten away with it?"

"... did not end with summary dismissal."

We need no more reminders of The Ashes please!

AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans

Re: Spelling errors were 1.76x more common in human PRs

Really takes the biscuit.

Re: Accountants

AI accounting software will tell you that 6 x 9 = 42

The very idea make me very depressed.

China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET

"72 terabytes of data"

A small porn collection by modern standards.

NASA tries savin' MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earth

Re: Geeez

Was it a local shop?

Re: "tumbling and off it's predicted trajectory"

Well, I've had two accidents recently, I died in the first one but luckily survived the second!

But now the steaks are higher.

Aliens.

England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion

Re: Waste of time and money?

"but no-one sane writes code on paper."

What, exactly, is wrong with the back of a cigarette packet?

MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian

I bet you can't guess what this does:

Microsoft security update breaks MSMQ on older Win systems

Windows version 22H2 renumbered to H5N1.

US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row

Re: Making a deal with Trump..

"really hot vindaloo"

Making deals is just meat and potatoes to some people.

Re: What's the safe word?

of?

I'll let the missing apostrophes go... I'm kind like that.

Re: “European country”

"Sir Nigel"

Gresley?

Re: Tactical Option?

... he's a very naughty ... ooops, wrong scene.

Re: Tactical Option?

The tat comes from China. Where is the tit?

"that Trump's replacement will be any better."

Jr.

Roomba maker iRobot gets cleaned out in Chapter 11

Do we pre-fir fish puns or tree puns?

The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens

Re: Starlink Collision Avoidance

Mr Muskmate will declare that he has come up with a Starlink Collision Avoidance Methodology. It's an ology, the best ology, and the biggest ology ever!

BOFH: If another meeting is scheduled, someone is going to have a scheduled accident

Sometimes powers users need to be introduced to real power in the form of V x I.

Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion

Re: Genesis?

Just tell it to Foxtrot Off.

US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia

Re: Statement of Vulnerability

Yes, so why do at least 16 down-voters not recognise such in my post? Maybe I'm too much of the heretic instead of the iconoclast.

"It's important ..."

I don't believe you.

Re: Statement of Vulnerability

"don'chya"

I don't recognise that as any form of English. Looks sort of Russian-ish.

Microsoft won't fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say

<byte value=0..255>

HTH

Has anyone tried softsoaping MS?

No? Thought not.

Irish Excel whiz sheets all over the competition in Vegas showdown

Re: Congratulations Diarmuid

That's like the astronomer refusing to have anything to do with the college bar because it didn't have the right optics on the spirits.

Re: Congratulations Diarmuid

Maybe he was trying (and failing, of course) to use the finger as a pointer in Perl ...

Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power

Campbeltown Loch?

NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece

Re: US space ambitions shrinking

Bruno Mars and Whitney Houston?

Back in the 70s it would have been Freddie Mercury and Chicago (Transit Authority)

FTC schools edtech outfit after intruder walked off with 10M student records

Lucky this is the USA because in the UK there could be a finger-wagging and a tut-tutting,

Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever

Size XL. I presume that's American XL. XXXXXL for anyone else.

Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam

Re: Zara may want to have a word or two....

But then the British Operation Pluto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pluto

was an outstanding success!

HSBC partners with Mistral AI as banking giants spend billions looking for LLM boost

Lanky manky yank, Hank, sank dank rank bank tank.

PostHog admits Shai-Hulud 2.0 was its biggest ever security bungle

Shai-Hulud

Shai-Hulud - should definitely be run in a sandbox.

Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant

Perhaps Steve and Alan were created at the same time via quantum entanglement.

Call it the Lexi Paradox.

Could be a PhD there for someone ...

That sort of information probably isn't available in media encyclopaedias (when did I last use that word?) outside the UK. One day there may well be a way for such information to be passed around globally. I foresee a fleet of ships carrying a cargo of last year's books from continent to continent ... how will revel in all that knowledge.

Microsoft wedges tables into Notepad for some reason

Re: Only tables?

How about adding Vi and emacs as well. And a zip/tar/arc/rar etc.

And systemd.

Only tables?

Tables? Tables are a subset of spreadsheets and spreadsheets are just like a database! Might need a kernel in there just for good measure/

Just pottering round some ideas in my head.

Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum

Re: If I were to apply an adjective ....

When it comes to puns; in for a penny, in for a pound.

Rhyme is the key to set AIs free when verse outsmarts security

In case explanation is required:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42908/i-eat-my-peas-with-honey

and

https://allpoetry.com/poem/15195949-The-Poetry-of-Paula-Nancy-Millstone-Jennings-by-Tony1