Posts by Paul Herber

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

Re: Well, we have 2038 to look forward to

2038? Much too far into the future!

A New Year's gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don't work

Re: still included with Windows 11

Those 600k files are all different. These 600k files are all the same.

And obviously Mint 22 is twice as good as Win 11 !

Second Jeju Air 737-800 experiences mechanical issues following deadly crash

Re: all airports will need to rethink their design

"Gatwick would be ideal for housing"

The only reason people want to live in that area is to be able to work at the airport or one of the nearby support businesses.

Re: re: end of Gatport Airwick runway

The road from Reigate used to head straight south across the runway and there were traffic lights to stop traffic when there was a plane movement. Late 50s/early 60s?

This is a flight by Ambidextrous Airlines and you are welcome to it.

As if Heathrow and the M25 car park is any better!

Or, if attempting a similar landing at Southampton it could take out a goodly part of Eastleigh ...

Parker Solar Probe sends a "Still Alive" tone back to Earth

Distances in leagues, fuel volume in firkins, temperature in Fahrenheit, time in fortnights.

Just wait until Farage makes this official Reform Party policy.

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

SvarDOS and 42

SvarDOS should be the answer to something ...

Biden’s antitrust crackdown on tech M&As may linger into Trump’s reign

Re: Need a full ban on M&A

Won't somebody think of the money!

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

Re: A quote

You read them as a kid, but now you are a Bigman ...

"one hyperbolic billionaire"

Hyperbolics sums it up perfectly.

Watchdog deep-sixes job ad that was actually pay-to-play training course

Yes, but it's pronounced wiesels.

US airspace closures, lack of answers deepen East Coast drone mystery

Re: Observations

Are drones appearing in the sky around the figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work

Re: Paper trails...

D'uh.

Scumbag gets 30 years in the clink for running CSAM dark-web chatrooms, abusing kids

A few hundred years ago this would also have been the punishment for:

homosexuals, trans-genders, witches, apple fanbois, heretics, tax evaders, people who looked at the king in the wrong way, systemd proponents, motorcyclists, gypsies, ladies who wear trousers, you ...

systemd begrudgingly drops a safety net while a challenger appears, GNU Shepherd 1.0

I like your sense of tumour.

American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy

Re: Minority Report

"Drones rounding you up are next. I've said it before, but replacing eye balls will be a valuable commodity soon."

An AI transcript of the above:

Drone surrounding Europe are next. I've said it before, but replacing my balls will be a valuable commodity soon.

Windows 11 24H2 rolls out to more devices – with a growing list of known issues

Re: gamers face black screens

XYZZY

Paul@Linux:~$

OpenAI to charge $200 per month for ChatGPT Pro

Re: Return of the World Wide Wait...

Seven and a half million years later ...

Microsoft says premature patch could make Windows Recall forget how to work

Re: DNA

Zebra crossings will mean nothing to many readers, and they will stand no chance with pelican crossings. Then we get to the Belisha Beacons, which are only a few minutes drive away from the Brecon Beacons.

Is Wishbone Ash's song "Ballad of the Beacons" about the Belisha or Brecon ones?

We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build ML agents that respond like specific people

Re: so ...

I foresee an AI to help you choose your new top-of-the-range kitchen appliances ...

let's call it Brains for Smeg.

Re: VAR

Football? Football? On which site do you think you are commenting? This is El-Reg. Nobody here knows a thing about football!

Sounds ghastly.

Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium

I hope the diamonds that were used for testing were checked before use. What if The Ancients had already used that diamond to store Ultimate Truths, or some aliens using it to store the original design plans for the universe. These plans have to kept somewhere.

Yup, half of that thought-leader crap on LinkedIn is indeed AI scribbled

Re: "Thought Leader"

Can you sign off pay rises?

No.

Can you instigate disciplinary proceedings?

No.

Can you sign time sheets?

No.

Well, **** off then and think on that.

Security? We've heard of it: How Microsoft plans to better defend Windows

Hotpatch Desiato: spending a year dead for tax reasons until someone comes along and presses the reset switch.

Microsoft pulls text recognition from Photos app preview

Re: So for the photo app

REDMONDITES EUNT DOMUS

EU buyers still shunning pure electric vehicles, prefer hybrids

Thinks ... Father Ted episode ...

Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info

Re: The Only Way to Keep Your Personal Data Safe

' is to never give it up'

or let them down ...

Re: C:\README.TXT

So what is wrong with the locked filing cabinet in a disused toilet etc etc ...

Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government

Re: "Maintain a list of your subscriptions, user IDs and passwords"

RyanAir will charge corkage. For both ends.

Re: "Maintain a list of your subscriptions, user IDs and passwords"

'respiring and circulating blood'

RyanAir charge extra for that.

Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator

Re: @Cliffwilliams44 - Blinded by Ideology!

"Batley Townswomens' Guild" if you don't mind.

Who are you and where do you come from? Us Pythonists (True Believers Division) need to know.

It's handbags at dawn!

Trump's pick to run the FCC has told us what he plans: TikTok ban, space broadband, and Section 230 reform

Your biscuit is only half-baked.

We have downvoters! Well, doesn't that take the biscuit.

Even a packet of Carr's Table Water Crackers would be better.

NASA wants ideas on how to haul injured moonwalkers

Re: Jet Pack

Lunahelicopter.

Re: Giant Steps Are What You Take?

'sag'

aloo or bhaji?

LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance

Supercomputers

How does a standard modern PC compare with the original Cray 1?

Trump appoints Musk associate Brendan Carr as FCC chair

You cannot buy better!

Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they?

Re: Passkeys have been destroyed by Google

The real Hotblack Desiato doesn't get up in the morning awake from the dead for £5.00

Re: Passkeys have been destroyed by Google

Could be worse. Could be black text on a black background with a black button that gives you options in black text to vary the intensity from very black to very, very, very, very, very dark blue.

But I could never get that depressed.

Just use the equivalent for PASSW0RD in some other language, like Faroese. But then if you are Faroese then English is a foreign language so that's ok then.

I can see both the pros and cons of multi-factor authentication, but not just 1 method. Years ago I had a certain Paypal account that was assigned to my then home phone landline number. I moved house and lost the phone number but forgot to change this on the Paypal account beforehand. 100% my fault. Luckily there is only a small sum in the account but I have now lost access to it.

But I am in now fear of losing my mobile phone as that is the 2FA method for many things

Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink at any price

Re: Have an upvote

Would it make any difference if we were to mention the Neville Shunt Reverse Timetable Dichotomy?

Swiss cheesed off as postal service used to spread malware

Re: QR codes

Quite Rightly.

NASA and Microsoft intro Earth Copilot to tame satellite data overload

Copilot? What's in all that data?

Copilot: My God, it's full of stars!

Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again

Make Algol Great Again.

As if it ever was!

Re: C Tones

C sharp or D flat?

Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework

Re: Is this news ?

I haven't been out on a Bender for a long long time.