Posts by Paul Herber

Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9 during post-blowout fleet inspections

'Boeing will host an all-hands meeting today at its factory'

Well, excuse me, but IMPORTANT people don't work in or ever visit the factory, corporate HQ is elsewhere probably.

Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump?

Re: Please return PgUp, PgDn, Home, End first

Don't let them fob you off.

Driverless cars swerve traffic tickets in California even if they break the law

Re: Just wondering . . .

How can I be breaking the law? This bicycle and the octopus on the back seat are at a depot in orbit around Ganymede. My programmed destination is the sub-basement of The Ice Palace on

Highway 95 in Ushuaia, Belgium. We are awaiting our full complement of lemon-soaked napkins. Oink.

Juno's joyride around Jupiter snaps stellar shots of Io

Eye-oh, Eye-oh, it's off to work we go ...

While you holidayed, Microsoft brought Copilot to mobile devices, again

"A giant dinosaur carrying a cricket bat invading the Sydney Cricket Ground"

I can see nothing in the rules of the summer game that could prevent this.

Crimson Rambler Crocs win by an innings and 65 million runs.

Here's who thinks AI chatbots will eventually be smart enough to be your coworker

Did you get all the shopping I asked for?

Yes, dear.

You didn't go to the pub, did you?

No, dear.

How much shopping did you get?

Three bags full, dear.

I'm looking forward to when an AI chatbot can replace my wife.

You're not going out in that shirt.

Wear a jacket, it's cold outside.

What's that on the bottom of your shoe?

Do you really need all those DIY tools?

You don't buy me enough chocolate!

You're driving too fast.

How many beers have you had so far this week?

Do you even know in which cupboard I keep the dusters?

You didn't brush your hair this morning.

So, quite a simple AI ...

How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip

A few years ago the idea of a processor chip consuming 2kW would have been a good April Fool. Even now I can't get my head around it.

60 years ago Harold Wilson was right, 'the white heat of technology'.Literally, in a figurative way.

Programmable or 'purpose-bound' money is coming, probably as a feature in central bank digital currencies

Re: Doesn't this invert democracy

It's just resting in our account ...

Data loss prevention isn't rocket science, but NASA hasn't made it work in Microsoft 365

Re: Complex Things

And brain surgery. Don't forget brain surgery.

Japanese brewery using generative AI to dream up new beverages

Re: Humans are still worse than AI

'oatmeal stout/porter'

Yes, you are right, and I like both. Maybe my brain is telling me to get some. Maybe?

Re: Humans are still worse than AI

Brussel sprout cider

Porridge flavoured beer

Nesquick styled ale

Strawberry jam flavoured Irn-Bru

Custardy Guiness

I'll stop there.

PLACEHOLDER ONLY Someone please write witty headline here

The buttons with round corners.

Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned

Re: Bullfinch

Something serindipitous?

Privacy crusaders accuse X of ad-targeting that flouts EU rules

What is this X thing?

Interpol moves against human traffickers who enslave people to scam you online

Come to work in Royston Vasey. You'll never leave!

Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970

Re: Wallace

Cheese has cheese mites, and mite is an anagram of time!

Sorted.

Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes

'It ended with a perky "I hope this helps!"'

Is that the way you like it, Mr Beeblebrox?

HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated'

Hated Peripherals, Ink.

My wife used to have an HP printer. With the amount of ink cartridges she got through it would have been cheaper to have taken a taxi to the local print shop! (Only slight exaggeration)

Tech renders iconic rockers Kiss genuinely immortal

Re: Money for nothing

A digital Kiss would be a 1 0ff.

But at least there's only one Star Wars film.

Ah yes, The Immortal Holographic Dopplegangers. I saw them at The Roundhouse, Camden Town, must have been 1973 or so. They were in the audience listening to a decent band.

Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished

Re: A future who me?

In Russia you want all instructions in writing, the important bits need to be bullet points.

Health crusaders prep legal challenge over NHS mega contract with Palantir

Send in a General Administrator to Nominate Data Acquisition Licence Formulation.

AI threatens to automate away the clergy

What's the point of staying up all night arguing about whether there is or isn't a God when the AI just goes and gives you God's telephone number next morning?

Lenovo's USB-C Power Banks pack more heat than expected

As Lithium is/was used in thermonuclear devices, very appropriate.With this one simple hack you become the owner of a fusion bomb.

Revival of Medley/Interlisp: Elegant weapon for a more civilized age sharpened up again

Re: lore

Loads of Insidious Superfluous Parentheses

AI copyright row deepens: Stability VP quits in protest over 'fair use' excuse

Re: training generative AI models on copyrighted works is 'fair use'

Muckey Mouse? Yes, you'll have the copyright holders of 'Hello! Hello!' first in the queueueueue.

Scientists use Raspberry Pi tech to protect NASA telescope data

Re: I'm reminded of early space exploration

Better to use lead then instead of graphite, and it'll be weightless !!! In spaaaace.

Re: "we insured the scientific returns of superBIT against a loss event that came true"

With management the only plan is to pass the blame when it goes wrong.

You get a Copilot, and you get a Copilot – Microsoft now the Copilot company

I think I'm feeling very depressed.

Musk thinks X marks the spot for Grok AI engine based on social network

Re: Musk vs Heinlein

Muskie wants Twitter, sorry, X, to be Ubikuitous.

My old work colleague, Emmet, just totally groks grockles.

King Charles III signs off on UK Online Safety Act, with unenforceable spying clause

Re: Seems you can fool most of the people

Well, lock up the unicorns in that case.

Larry Ale-ison institute invests in Oxford pub linked to Tolkien, CS Lewis

Re: Licensing authorities should regularly inspect it

1. You enjoyed that pint 10% more than standard. That'll cost you extra.

2. Pints must be drunk in one go, sipping your beer slows down your next purchase. That'll cost you extra.

3. Your pint glass stuck to at least one beer mat. That'll cost you extra.

4. Half-pints actually cost us more than serving you a full pint. That'll cost you extra.

5. Discussion of other beers/pubs is forbidden. That'll cost you extra.

6. You have not eaten the minimum required number of peanuts/cheesy wotsits/pork scratchings per pint. That'll cost you extra.

7. You have eaten more than the maximum required number of peanuts/cheesy wotsits/pork scratchings per pint. That'll cost you extra.

8. You made an enquiry about how many peanuts/cheesy wotsits/pork scratchings should be consumed per pint. That'll cost you extra.

9. You have tasted your drink companion's beer. That'll cost you extra.

10. Your drinking companion tasted your beer. That'll cost you extra.

11. More than one beer mat was used to stop the table from rocking on the uneven floor. That'll cost you extra.

Drop beer. Drop table.

Error 0, beer not found.

The problem with Jon Stewart is that Apple appears to have cancelled his show

Well, doesn't that take the biscuit.

Buyer's remorse haunts 3 in 5 business software purchases

Re: Typo fixed: Oracleham.

Brumacle?

X marks the bot: Musk thinks spammers won't pay $1 a year

Re: Elmo just desperately needs the money.

With the number of goons even an ex-POTUS has around I'm surprised he hasn't fallen in the water.

Swedish tech biz aims to sail past traffic woes on electric hydrofoils

'the Stockholm trials won’t be undertaken until Spring 2024'

Any trials before the spring might require ice skates rather than a hydrofoil.

Beethoven and Brahms move audience members to synchronization symphony

Re: Other sharing

Needs an icon

Tweaked Space Shuttle Main Engine gets ready for final testing

" to be dumped into the ocean during launch, along with the rest of the core stage."

Are you the type of person who picks up any rubbish you seeing while walking on the beach? Well, you may as well stop bothering.

NASA can dump it quicker that you can pick it up.

X Social Media sues Twitter 2.0 over alphabet soup branding

Re: X social media

It's a mere actually, not a lake.

Pedant? Moi?

Scandium-based nuclear clocks promise punctuality for next 300 billion years

Re: That oh $*** moment

Here it is now coming round the corner, just behind the one that is only 9511 years late.

Re: one clock

You're driving much too fast.

Re: Clock speed variations

I set my watch when I'm down the pub. Every evening the landlord calls out "time gentlemen, please" and he gets the response "11 o'clock". Good enough for me. Oo, is there time for another?

NASA delays already-late $1B Psyche probe's visit to metal-rich asteroid

Re: "The asteroid is made up of a mixture of rock and metal"

'smooth jazz'

Nice.

Bermuda, your data, Google's gonna take your US data

Re: How fast can 294,911 Brontosauruses talk to one another?

Is this the internet backbone?

Switch to hit the fan as BT begins prep ahead of analog phone sunset

Re: “Roads? Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads” (Doc Brown)

That's back to the past.

OSIRIS-REx successfully delivers NASA's first asteroid sample

Re: I for one,...

Asteroid Over Lords = AOL.