Posts by Paul Herber

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Re: Stop burning Teslas!

Noel takes that on stage with him.

Re: Vehicle odometry, ..

You are using litres and kilometers, which is probably actually illegal in parts (or all) of the USA. Check the temperature gauges aren't also set to Celcius.

Re: [somebody] bought a used 2020 Model Y Tesla

Does Johnny Cash own a Tesla?

Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes

'Markmonitor is a domain management and security outfit.'

When a business does well, it's a company, organisation, business etc, when it does bad, it's an outfit.

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

Re: Who's the boss?

A fondant fancy? Mmmmm. Yum.

Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite

Ported

to a new platform.

Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails

Re: self-enshittification?

'my enshittification manual'

Copyright Apple, Inc. 2025

Re: How do you do, fellow kids?

New balls please.

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

Re: Duh! Who Says Privacy Depends On Huge Internet Service Providers?

Well, I certainly wouldn't have admitted that in a public forum, but there you go. Hope the lifestyle comes together for you soon.

Re: Duh! Who Says Privacy Depends On Huge Internet Service Providers?

Well, I have thought long and hard about this and here is my response, encrypted, of course ...

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I hope you all agree with item 3.

Re: It makes me wonder ...

I Wanda ...

" ... two impossible things .. "

Must be time for breakfast at Milliways.

AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary

Re: " What has AI ever done "

Pontiuth Piwate ith here doing the downvoting.

Re: AI

Maybe El Reg needs a couple of new rules:

a. Only one Anonymous Coward post per day

b. You can't post anonymously and downvote!

Re: AI

" .. an old dressing gown."

Who are you and what have you done with Arthur Dent?

M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired'

Re: Just the Whitehouse testing the M365 'kill switch'.

What's this all about then?

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

Re: The Swamp

Oooo, downvoter is here. Time to bring on the seamers.

Re: The Swamp

But the USA is master and current owner of the wrong 'un.

NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid

Re: Our moon has protected us

That was Lennon's sole.

Re: Our moon has protected us

'Dinosaurs evolve slower than rapid breeding mammals'

Except, please read The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert Bakker.

Re: Our moon has protected us

'... resulted in fish walking out of the sea to become us'

Hmmm, I don't really know where to start with this ...!

Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system

Re: Or ...

The two systems should be run in parallel for at least 25 years.

There's always someone to sponge off others and cream off the profits.

Seven chief consultants, seven technologies.

Re: Government and IT systems

Worst haiku posted here - ever!

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

I bought a copy of New Scientist (a UK-based science news journal) yesterday. One of the lead topics is;

Where does the anus come from?

My instant thought was New York, but currently living in Florida and Washington DC.

Retirement funds reportedly raided after unexplained portal probes and data theft

' A fund named “Rest” '

I do hope the CFO of this outfit is an ex-Catholic priest called Father Ted.

North Korea’s fake tech workers now targeting European employers

Re: Video-Conferencing Avatars

Hold on, Animal wasn't in Sesame Street! What a flipping muppet I am!

Re: Video-Conferencing Avatars

I am definitely an Animal.

Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden

... which explains why up until now they have been trying to sound like they are senior management!

Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own

Re: been on many courses where the trainer has no answers

" ... quoting Laminitus .. "

There are so many better known Greek philosophers ...

Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal

Re: "xAI and X's futures are intertwined."

xQuantum xEntanglement.

China cracks down on personal information collection. No, seriously

Re: How many trillions?

"... for JAL internal use ..."

For internal or external use only. Do not use for any other purpose.

Re: Come work for Japan Airlines, the pay is good, but...

Is that the plane's nosecone or the engine nacelles (which sort of sounds like a nasal related word)?

Mobile ad world drama: AppLovin not lovin' short seller assault claiming fraud

More like from the 60s. Groovy man!

Dig that AppLovin Spoonful.

A new definition of the word 'ethical'.

If we make money then it must be good, yeah?

Yeah!

Security shop pwns ransomware gang, passes insider info to authorities

Re: They did lots of "hash-cracking"

Who was the druggy in Happy Days? I bet it was Ralph.

There are 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial

Re: Employment

Oracle goon squad - he's fallen in the water!

US Army’s laser obsession continues with yet another drone-zapper deal

Re: zoolander

20kW helps.

NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat

Re: Good

" ... filled entirely with white men heads to the stars to propagate humanity ..."

Good luck with that.

Biology 101.

HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional

Gloria sic in paper tray.

Curious tale of two HR tech unicorns, alleged espionage, and claims of a spy hiding in a bathroom

Re: locked himself in a bathroom

He might even get time off in loo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyORbG3I5Ys

France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke

Re: les queer studies?

You seem to know more about it that 99% of the other folks here!

Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash

Re: US trying to push other countries around?

Excuse me, but in the UK we they are arseholes.

Need cash? Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans

Re: If the orange eejit gets a whiff of this...

I expect he'll want to put tariffs on all incoming traffic on 127.0.0.1

iRobot may be iDead in iYear

Re: Question

I say, civilisation is saved. Tiffin is still sacrosanct at MI5.

DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs

Re: Valued Veterans

How can they see them in action when they can no longer afford a newspaper or TV?

Official HP toner not official enough after dodgy update, say users

Year 2035 update:

The latest software update now detects and prevents the use of non-HP paper. HPE have invested heavily in paper mills and forests and re-quire each printer user to use reams of paper!

We call this kernel saunters: How Apple rearranged its XNU core with exclaves

Re: 100s of years?

Leonardo found an old papyrus describing the Romans using kernel jails at their research centres in Carthage and Arles. They stole the idea from the Etruscans.