Posts by Paul Herber

Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential

Applicants needn't worry. No actual knowledge of AI or anything even vaguely technical is needed for this job. Might even be advantageous to not even speak English.

But you can expect to be recruited by some AI organisation very promptly with a salary 10x what the government can offer you.

Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too

In this country we are even helping the zebra crossings!

"throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus"

Does Zuck know what a bus is?

Anyway, into Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B you go.

Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR

I expect she is making plans for him ...

McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI'

Re: So firms being "on the road to ROI"

Republic Of Ireland is a long way away, all the way to Tipperary.

Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia

Re: At work ...

5tr0n6, 5}-{lr13'/.

I got involved with Isis, Then I moved on to CP/M but later on I bought a 2nd-hand Intel MDS and Isis-II was back in my life. I actually managed to rent it out as well and made some good money on that.

Isis - goddess of Intel blue boxes.

Oooo, beware, your password can become infected with West Nile virus, and many will show no symptoms!

Re: Does Anyone Remember The (paper-based) Game Hangman?

More like a farce than a force!

Re: Does Anyone Remember The (paper-based) Game Hangman?

How the smeg did you know that?

There's no reason why you can't have more than one password manager!

Re: Most important detail

What's wrong with back-to-front and then inside-out?

Re: Most important detail

'Old' and 'period' obviously not of similar meaning here. This not a Jane Austen scenario. Use some sense.

Incontinence pads may be substituted for period pads.

Goodbye to sensibility here.

Mine's the one with the sick bag in the pocket.

Re: At work ...

Saves you having to change it every weak.

"piss corridors."

Good moaning! I speak good Fronch.

EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters

So, if you live in an area with a majority working class people, or non-white, or already have a coal-fired power station, or oil drilling, or coal/shale mines, or a nasty chemical works, your life is going to become more shit than you thought possible!

Australia’s record industry won’t chart tunes recorded in the key of AI

Re: The AI shit isn't even worth pirating...

A pint?

How many drummers have they lost in the last 4 months in unexplained circumstances?

Microsoft breaks WPF printing with .NET update

Simple workaround ...

download some version of Linux onto a memory stick, shove it in your USB port, reboot and run from USB. You don't even need to install!

You should see your Windows stuff in its partition, find your file(s), print (unless you have used some weird and wonderful proprietary format).

You may as well install while you are at it though. See how quickly Linux starts up!

So Easy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtOL_2e0004&list=RDWtOL_2e0004&start_radio=1

(Subtitles in Vietnamese are just a courtesy, of course!)

You don't want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine

So why is it not 3 years late and 400% over budget?

Hold on, maybe it is ...

Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot

Roundup used to be used in gardens, not to kill bugs though.

AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones

Ali Baba Express, all 40 thieves in one pot!

Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring

Re: Life in the fast lane

Yeah, er, hi, well, so, right ...

Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch

Re: Wi-Fi 7 Compatibility Headaches

"... test this stuff ..."

You are funny!

Microsoft lets you swap New Outlook's looks with the face of Outlook Classic

For how long?

Going in 3 .... 2 ..... 1 .....

Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it

Re: Could have been worse

A GEM!

You missed bits, you know, like the interesting bit with the lemon.

US claims 15 of the world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations

"world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations"

I read that as "world's top 20 hyperscale detention locations"

AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice

Re: "the company has a policy which they actually followed"

"trivial or ridiculous policies"

or Space Corps Directives as some people know them.

Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced

Re: How far can this go?

When a Shared Drive becomes a Shard Drive.

Re: Most Valuable Professional (MVP)

That would give away the game that they are no longer valued in quite the same way.

Re: Thank you!

You've got 7 patches to apply first, but then you could try Skypeing a chum and ask them where the thing has moved to.

It's amazing how often you still see references to ICQ numbers and Skype usernames, especially in online forums. How many businesses would give their employees' right arms for a market position like that, only to go and drop it for whatever reason.

Flock surveillance backlash mounts as fiendish Halloween plans circulate

Re: They should have set up in the UK

"Flock surveillance"

I've heard about watching paint dry, but watching wallpaper?

Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release

Re: Coprolite?

If you pay for updates then it's the only way to get a fee cease.

Re: Okay, great

Error 42: missing penguin.

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 !!!

Passport out-of-control at French airport

"special airport" "special room"

Needs "special" software ... in the pejorative sense of special, of course!

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.