Posts by Paul Herber

Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates

Re: Sure

Shirley in security services? Is she related to Rachel in accounts?

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon

Re: Supersonic flight without an audible sonic boom should obviously be allowed

Ah, so that's why it's called the Mexican Wave.

Re: It'll still take ages to...

Is this why the threat actors always follow a script?

<Exit stage left>

America’s consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown

Re: The only way to stop this...

Using an ad-blocker makes you an activist. This will be marked in your personal records and used against you.

Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb

Lawyers = activists

judges = activists

foreigners = activists

immigrants = activists

anyone who doesn't own a Meta account = activists

VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals

We checked the IP address of the buyer (127.0.0.1) and they seemed to come back as okay.

US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

"in the English syllabus are replaced by things like Conan Doyle's "

more Scots Irish than English I think.

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

Re: Hey, Clippy

Powerpup:

https://images.app.goo.gl/FAFtr5VUREQygsNz5

Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet

Re: 37.85G ISO

Does Linux contain worms?

Re: 37.85G ISO

1.44M 3.5 inch floppies

Luxury. We used to dream of 125kbyte floppies.

India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease

Re: Call me an old reactionary

Use of spyware might start being used to protect against foreign interference and organised crime, but then spreads, sometimes quite quickly, to maybe possible terrorists, opposition parties, green organisations, foreign-owned companies, foreign embassies, protest groups, newspaper owners, media companies, LGB*** groups, theatre companies, anyone with a different religion to me, anyone with dual nationality, foreigners in general, child molesters, litter louts, anyone with a tattoo, motorcyclists, that uncle who looks at me in an odd way, my legal team, my accountant, all my family ...

Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all – at least for consumers

Re: Passkeys on a PC

A Personal PIN Number.

Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025

Re: Oh noes!

'Venus'

He's got it, yeah baby he's got ...

Re: I'm not a statistician, but....

After a quick analysis I have determined the correct units are Welsh apatosaurs per Belgian swimming pool cubed.

Well, it could be, if you don't have a sense of humour ...

Re: Oh noes!

He could form a band, Supertrump. Crisis? What crisis?

"Ain't Nobody but Me" - all about you know who.

CCCP

Copyright Chinese Communist Party.

Techie solved supposed software problem by waving his arms in the air

Re: Phonetic Alphabets

Amor pasti kornovii est virtus.

Re: Phonetic Alphabets

A for 'orses

B for chicken

C for miles

D for mation

E for ho

F for vescent

...

Gneiss? That's for lava bread, surely.

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

Where I live there is a Costa and a Cafe Nero and a load of lovely independents. Why do so many people use Costa et al.

OpenAI pulls plug on ChatGPT smarmbot that praised user for ditching psychiatric meds

I hate sycophants. In fact I hate all grey mentally ill AIs with big ears!

Ghost in the shell script: Boffins reckon they can catch bugs before programs run

Shell programming checks - apply Occam's razor.

I'll clam up now.

After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade

S'nowt to see here.

What the **** did you put in that code? The client thinks it's a cyberattack

There's a PhD ready and waiting for you if you add a comment "Well, that's very odd. Why does that happen?"

Re: Most inappropriate message

I have someone using Outlook that is bringing up

"INVALID CREDENTIALS INTERACTION REQUIRED"

WTF does that mean?

Would a 2lb club hammer help?

"Anonymous European Developer"

I was hoping for a(n)

"Anonymous Regomised Software Engineer"

DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI

Re: So how long will it take

Well, I tell you that I heard that 22/7 is a vulgar fraction. And they teach that to my kids in school? How dare they! I want good clean fractions.

Re: Definition of math advancement

and the statistics profs were trying to work out in which half.

Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

Re: If M$ pull C++ support

Green crayon is for people in the sub class.

Re: Shouldn't have been unexpectected.

'... this kind of thing ...'

Down with this kind of thing!

Techie diagnosed hardware fault by checking customer's coffee

Re: Extensions to extensions to extensions

'...musicians were all a bit low key...'

I C what you did there.

Re: UAV vs Kettle Army Tan ks (UK) have tea making electric connection.

UK ones also have an Eddie The Shipboard Computer just to help make the tea.

a stimulating beverage

'a stimulating beverage'

Beverage - there's a word to instill fear into anyone with educated taste buds.

AI-driven 20-ft robots coming for construction workers' jobs

Re: Hmmm

When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Especially that 6 foot tall pink nail wearing clothes.

NTT creates a drone that triggers and catches lightning – then keeps flying

Sharwoods. Mmmm, mango chutney.

Re: Good to go, again

I'm sure the idea has some potential.

Re: Bolt from Heaven

You have obviously Thort about this.

'... a current that flowed through the wire and peaked at over 2,000 volts. ...;

Watt are we to think about this abuse of units? How many Welsh swimming pools is this?

More power to their elbow.

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

Re: Dementia

I have a suspicion he has no idea what is going on!

Re: Dementia

There are billions of people around the world who think Trump is suffering dementia and aren't convinced he'll be able to survive his full term.

Boeing offloads some software businesses to private equiteer Thoma Bravo

Airbus? Ilyushin? Tupolev?

Microsoft rated this bug as low exploitability. Miscreants weaponized it in just 8 days

Only 8 days.

NTLM - Never Too Late, Microsoft

HP settles fake discount lawsuit for just $4M. Don’t expect much of a payout

You'll probably find in the small print that they were on sale at that price at Great Smeggings tyre emporium (open

for pre-ordered tyres only from 1.15 to 1.45 the 5th Thursday of the month, unless there is a r in the month (or day)).

Oracle hopes talk of cloud data theft dies off. CISA just resurrected it for Easter

Big red flag.

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

Re: Countermeasures?

Someone once tried to convince me that the action of stripping electrons from a cathode was actually a form of atomic energy so should be banned.

So there.

Re: Marketing

Courses in market segmentation are required.