Posts by Paul Herber

Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI?

"if your title starts with a C"

Cleaner, caretaker, car wash operative, cab driver, car park attendant, Christmas shop window decorator, crane operator, Covid tester, commodity trader, call centre operative, car salesman, catering assistant, corpse washer ...

No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize El Reg, others in search results

Re: "No more fake news"

Ooo, isn't he bold!

Latest Windows patches cause false alarm error to appear in event viewer

Re: Boundary issues

More likely to be just Al, not AI.

Al all alone. Always. Alive, Alliterative.

Trump does a 180 on Intel chief following White House meeting

Re: "It isn't known what the Intel chief said to change Trump's mind,"...

Silicon chip inside your head is set to overload.

On Monday.

Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch

Re: Was this written by an AI?

'There also frequently missing small 'glue' words.'

Ahem!

Re: "Include every damned language, tool, protocol, mathematical technique..."

Ah, so you're a COBOL expert with Y2K experience.

Humans make better content cops than AI, but cost 40x more

'To keep toxic content from damaging brands, both people and machines have a place'

There are so many damaging brands these days, and many create toxic content. Do we need to keep any of this?

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest is back for 2024

' "make moon" (on a Debian machine).

Am I missing something ?'

with code obfuscation - the dark side ...

Trump calls for Intel CEO's head over alleged China links

What's more important - freedom or money?

Re: Who?

Tan? Maybe they should ask him to nail his colours to the mast.

Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft

Tarriffs.

Tony Blair Institute: UK needs bit barns to lead in AI deployment, not training

Tony Blair without the AI is just Tony Blr. Blr, a most appropriate sound.

Microsoft gives in to Chromebook bullies and drops Windows 11 SE

Re: "recommend transitioning to a device that supports another edition of Windows 11"

s/not knowing any different/not knowing any better/

FTFY

Re: "recommend transitioning to a device that supports another edition of Windows 11"

Windows 11 SEP

I've heard a thing about businesses that have a long-term plan, and stick with it. The sort of business that gives you real confidence. The sort of business that I'd like to deal with.

CISA roasts unnamed critical national infrastructure body for shoddy security hygiene

Obligatory HHGTTG:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9792236-the-numbers-he-said-are-awful-he-resumed-his-search

Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI

// The next (:-3 lines are :-) kinda, like, just totally bogus enhanced ;-0 dude

Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved

Results depend upon whether the cat is watching or just asleep. As cats sleep more as they age I would expect the results of the experiment to slowly change over time, until the cat dies and a new young cat takes its place, whereupon the experimenters will look at the data and have kittens!

I'm convinced fur balls are a fundamental part of the structure of the universe so what do I know.

Wasp nest at US nuclear site tests ten times over safe radiation limit

Re: Airborne defences enabled

Just put them on a no-fly list.

Trump officials float plan for Americans to share their medical data more freely

Re: Give My Medical Data to Trump ???

s/nose/arse/

Linux kernel 6.16 lands without any headline features but 38M lines of code

Re: "world's most famous Finn"

So would Neil, but this area is getting a bit crowded now ...

Microsoft bolts Copilot Mode onto Edge to chase AI-browser crowd

'Edge, order two tons of creamed corn...'

and deliver it to some random address in Nevada, send the bill to somebody else in Casablanca, then delete all trace of this transaction and discussion.

Aeroflot aeroflops over 'IT issues' after attackers claim year-long compromise

Re: .. and there is that other problem.

Yes, that's why I said he thought it a good idea as well!

Re: .. and there is that other problem.

" .. people keep falling out of windows."

That's what communist governments are for, to give you a helping hand when you need it. And Putin and his henchmen think it a good idea as well.

Intel cutting cutting-edge node funds would mean no more Moore's Law

Re: The PRC will have a well defined goal...

Chinese chips will soon be outperforming US chips (soon to be renamed as fries for all the use they'll be).

Come the day when the US wants powerful Chinese chips. Sorry, me old mates, remember 2025? Too many military uses. And that will be that. Game over. Geniuses didn't see that coming.

Back then Intel were in their salad days. About time we had Cole's Law.

Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything

The Accounts dept. have determined that the finalised budget can't be ready before Friday, December 2, 292,277,026,596 AD.

Re: Can't Someone Plan Ahead?

By then there will no longer be kernel support for anything older than 42000 core 4096-bit processors, but that will be just to keep a few grey-beards happy.

Meta joins Google in ragequitting EU political ads over onerous regulations

<sarcasm>

What's the point of being a billionaire if you can't buy a few politicians/governments/countries!

</sarcasm>

Microsoft walks us through Copilot Search with a domain it doesn't even own

Re: "it refused to comment"

All the normal borkzilla.* domains are available ...

How to host a Linux-powered local dev site in Windows

I think this is a bit OTT for many situations. Wampserver is possibly good enough for many devs.

OpenAI sweet-talks Oracle into another 4.5GW worth of Stargate datacenters, assuming the check clears

Re: My imagination ...

And you see that bunch of placard-bearing protestors? That's just a few pull-up resistors.

Struggling to sell EVs, Tesla pivots to slinging burgers

West Hollywood? Isn't that also known as Stormy Daniels City?

Microsoft patches under-attack SharePoint 2019 and SE

Yes, I have, and a cat, but that was a genuine typo (r and t are next each other on my kbd.)

The Kia has gone.

Imagine a car manufacturer saying

"If you own a <car brand> assume anyone can open any of the doors at any time. Do not leave your cat unattended."

Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor

Re: Optimising the placement of deckchairs

' Bayesian '

I'd be careful about using that name, Titanic, Bayesian, both ended up at the bottom of the sea.

Former Google DeepMind engineer behind Simular says other AI agents are doing it wrong

Re: Are paying customer asking for this?

How often did Schrödinger buy cat litter? Does that tell us anything useful? No.

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it

Re: north korea knows you are a coward

' ... it’s better for landlords.'

You just want us all working at the pub!

Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion

Ah, you are Norman Wisdom and I claim my horde of Viking invaders.

God dag til dig.

Re: Oh dear, what a shame...

The wonderful nation of Ironorestaria would make a great part of the USA. I wonder if they speak English like wot I do?

Re: Environmental red tape

Well, Paul is here and I don't want it. Give it all back to Peter as far as I'm concerned.

Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate

Re: What about the mighty intellects in the Houses of Parliament?

The toilet cleaners? Yes, I have great faith in them to do their job properly.

' technical experts in government '

Hey, Burt, they're talking about you again!

Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops' 1,000 facial recognition arrests

Re: What could possibly go wrong?

' from near London to near Birmingham. '

Ask Easyjet if this place is one and the same.

Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles

Re: oddly

' ... the other star can be a white dwarf.'

It is a white dwarf but identifies as a red dwarf.

UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites

' ... is likely to be awarded to Wallace & Gromit Enterprises ... '

I can see how this will work. I'm buying shares in sticky cheese, wool and de-orbit-o-matic vending machines.

Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far

Well doesn't that take the biscuit..

P.S. does anyone know what became of Royal Scot biscuits? They were good dunkers.

Can it work out how to make tea?

14-hour+ global blackout at Ingram Micro halts customer orders

'We apologize for the inconvenience'. Hold on, if this really is God's final message ...