Posts by Paul Herber

Arrr! Can a sailor's marlinspike fix a busted backplane?

Re: Schoolboy error

" ... mission of mercy to our sister site ..."

I was expecting fancy dress as a nun!

Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032

I can't fathom that out.

Tesla's numbers disappoint again ... and the crowd goes wild ... again

Hover mouse over icon.

If the regulations at home are too restrictive then why doesn't he release his FSD in some location where restrictions are less and peoples' lives are less important than corporate profits, like Texas.

Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands

Re: What's in a name...

Er, yes, I know, I didn't make up those names!

Re: The German Ocean

Dogginger

Re: Another bit of grift by the Trump Administration?

Make America Great Atlas

Copyright me @2025

Re: What's in a name...

He would adore to have a country named after himself. How about Muscovy or Moscovia, or even Moskoviya, some variant on Muskovia?

Microsoft admits January's Windows Update broke USB Digital to Audio Convertor

Audiophiles? USB? USB with that genuine valve sound. That's USB-Class-A.

Astronomers red-faced after mistaking Musk's Tesla Roadster for asteroid

Re: Tesla roadster launched on SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy mission.

Or did the howls of protest come from those who realised that Columbia was the source of their favourite marching powder ?

Re: Most importantly

.. on the passenger seat of the Ford Prefect parked outside the nearest bar.

Re: Tesla roadster launched on SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy mission.

We need twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was

South Carolina's abandoned nuclear reactors positioned to fuel the AI datacenter boom

"... no corrosion other than surface rust ..."

Scientists, engineers and chemists report a small amount of surface rust but accountants, lawyers and PR report that there is none.

Who wins?

BOFH: How to innosplain your way through an audit

Re: Compiling a list of assets

RJ45 cables come in various colour codings: red, blue, grey, yellow, green .. only the spooks know which colour cable does what with your data !!!

I never use green, for obvious reasons.

Re: Compiling a list of assets

I can see it generating code that is born to run.

Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

Re: Where Is That "Someone"? Guess!

Send for Tintin and Snowy. But not Captain Haddock, I never did like Captain Haddock.

Musk torches $500B Stargate AI plan, Altman strikes back

Re: I think I'll wait

Seven and a half million years later ...

Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing

Re: Step 1

... extend ...

AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads

Re: SEP

For the people who have never understood why cyclists, wheelchair users, electric buggies, pedestrians, guide dogs for the blind, horse riders etc don't have to pay road tax. No such thing as road tax! Vehicle Excise Duty.

But I always look out for the trolls when crossing a bridge!

Re: Surrey, NW London ?

An AI has worked out that the River Mole can be used for tunnelling. Clever old AI!

Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users

Re: Opt out of support

Install Linux.

Re: "an ever-lengthening list of known issues, many of which remain unmitigated or unresolved"

I love my brick!

How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish

Re: which way is NATO moving?

"His vanity knows no bounds."

Muskie: Hey, what about me?

What happens when the Trump and Musk ego fields overlap?

Re: What a load of bollocks

"Russia is a lump of land."

Jailer: We've got lumps of it round the back.

"Sweden, like its compatriot Finland, has an extensive history of being a small nation reliant on its own resources, yet capable of rebuffing Russian intentions. "

Finland has a slightly more complicated and contentious historical relationship with Russia.

Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior

Re: Sage Copilot’s accuracy, security and trust have been prioritized every step of the way

"a soupçon of synergies."

That's a keeper.

Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings

Re: UAC?

The popup colours are different.

Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI

AI version:

Apple has apologised to the BBC and others, deeply and humbly, for any ... sorry, I can't keep a straight face ...

Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products

The only way to make myself secure is to ... kill all humans!

Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory

Re: I wish these...people...would leave Tolkien alone.

All the legal people are descended from orcs or Sauron himself.

Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR

Re: "So ......."

... like ...

So many words HR have never heard of: pity, remorse, apology, shame, happy, competence ...

Re: "So ......."

Well, basically ...

Price-fixing-as-a-service: The claim against healthcare cost-cruncher MultiPlan

Re: Algorithms for collusion

Hey, mega-corporations are people too!

NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack

Re: Shame

Russian goons have reported that it has fallen in the water.

Re: Kaliningrad

and Brittany can become the new Little Britain.

Blue Origin gives up on New Glenn lift-off, 2 hours into launch window

But I expect Leon is rubbing his hands with glee!

Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

Re: Rocks

Hey, let's get another rock, then we can fight about which rock is best!

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

Re: Well I like it

+1

P

Trump China tariffs to 'overshadow' the 'progress' of AI PCs

Re: I'm not complaining

Now now.

Microsoft trims jobs as new year begins

Re: "At Microsoft, we focus on high-performance talent"

That high-performance talent they are focused on are all working elsewhere!

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

Sudetenland?

Re: Voting is for losers

The Handmaid's Tale.

Re: Why is anyone taking him seriously?

"Why is anyone taking him seriously? "

Because he is MEGA. Make Elon Great Again.

" .. in Lombardy"

She's only doing so to become more poplar.

Re: A week is a long time in politics…

Democracy? Voting is for losers!

Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google

Bingle

Bungle

Goobing

Gobling

Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators

Re: Possible reasons for invasions not causing language changes in Britain

Ambulance - Ambiwlans

Senate - Senadd

Not what you meant? Oh.

Encryption backdoor debate 'done and dusted,' former White House tech advisor says

Re: Madness

Would you get it into your head that there are some people on this planet who think the laws of mathematics, physics etc are optional.

25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then

Re: And for other reasons

"you didn't just randomly update untested or even tested stuff whenever you got the urge to take a piss"

Remind us who you work for now!