Posts by Paul Herber

The National Museum of Computing reboots Bletchley Park's H Block

Both, and one would not have understood the other!

Mind you, I can imagine a consultancy recommending the use of Vim and Ajax and maybe that super package, Brillo, to clean up your software.

You could have had discussions about the merits or otherwise of Vim and Ajax!

O2's AI granny knits tall tales to waste scam callers' time

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do.

And we are back at HAL.

Here's how a Trump presidency could change the tech industry

Re: Believe me

s/tech/tetch/

s/winning/whining/

Starlink finally files proper paperwork to operate in India

'benefits of Muskband'

Back in the early 70s we had the Expanding Head Band. Nowadays it's more likely to be the Expanding Waist Band.

Air National Guardsman gets 15 years after splashing classified docs on Discord

Re: First mistake

I'm not arguing anything, just playing with words.

Yours truly

Youf A. Misms

Re: 'culling the weak minded'

Someone has to say it ...

They'd be trumped up charges.

Re: First mistake

If the room contains a bath then it's a bathroom. If it contains a toilet then it is a toilet. If it contains a chair then you can call it a restroom. If there is a place for powder puffs then you may call it a powder room. If there is a tin can in the corner then it's a can. If John lives in the room then it's a john. If it's wet underfoot then it's the bog. 100 years ago it was called the privy (councilors not allowed). In bits of London it was the khazi. We are all washed down the lavatory. Or the loo. But don't go to the washroom, That's where the washing machine might be kept. I wash me hands of the lot of ye!

SpaceX plans next Starship flight just days from now

Re: FAA to be rejigged?

"The USA has a long delay between the election and presidential inauguration. "

"It's a big country"

Яussia has nєvєr had a proыєm шith this! So manч morє timє zonєs!

Re: FAA to be rejigged?

or for the downvoters we can call them Starship Troopers. Just vote Yes.

Re: FAA to be rejigged?

He'll be needing to start his own private army as well, let's call them the Elon Musketeers.

Microsoft rolls out AI-enabled Notepad to Windows Insiders

Re: I tried running Notepad++ once...

Try using --Notepad++. You'll never see any improvements.

Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets

Accountants: won. Everyone else: lost.

Want advice from UK government website about tax 'n' stuff? Talk to the chatbot

I don't have time to be on the phone, I've got IMPORTANT stuff to do, so I'll use my chatbot to talk to the government chatbot.

(I mistyped one of those as chatboy. I'll get myself a chatgirl then. Premium rate AI phone lines?)

Ongoing typosquatting campaign impersonates hundreds of popular npm packages

I thonk the polocemon from Hallo, Hallo is invalved hore sumwhire.

Former Facebook lobbyist joins UK comms regulator as non-exec director

Committee meeting ...

Chair: Any conflicts of interest?

Everyone: <raises hand>

Chair: Jolly good. Next item ... expenses ...

Microsoft has reached $1M giveaway levels of desperation to attract users to Bing

Bing. This is what happens when you let Marketing run your business.

s/run/ruin/

Amazon's nuclear datacenter dreams stall as watchdog rejects power deal

Re: fusion

Do Amazon sell anything suitable?

Windows 11 continues to creep up behind Windows 10

I love my brick in a sock!

<icon="ouch">

The hunt is on for the scum who stole Britain's largest inflatable planetarium

I hope it's not dumped near an airport. The security guys will blow it up.

Is Microsoft's AI Copilot? CoPilot? Co-pilot? MVP creates site to help get it right

Re: Microsoft MVP Loryan Strant

Sauron, is that you?

Re: Microsoft MVP Loryan Strant

I would be loth to do anything suggested by someone named Loryan!

Re: How do you pronounce Azure

Knowing MS they'll create 3 new products all with the same name, rename each one to something even more carpy, then drop them all like a hot potato.

Re: How do you pronounce Azure

Coprolite.

Re: Exactly what we need

Random.

Softbank CEO says 'super AI' will arrive in 2035 and cost $9T

'insane on alliteration'

With an LLM let's make that illiteration.

Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Ah, Putin's Special Financial Operation.

That's "Special" in the pejorative sense.

At least I could use Google to check the spelling of that.

BOFH: The Boss pulled the plug on our AI, so we pulled the pin on him

Re: Paper jam

The printer is now toast. Mmmmm, toast!

Re: Russia.

No Sacha windows?

Re: Sun

Luxury.

There has to be some sort of fall out after these incidents.

$180 for an overpriced, dubious SSD drive? Maybe don't join the USB Club

Re: Clubbable, as in seals.

There used to be a phrase "There's one born every minute". Seems like they are breeding. These are the people who are so surprised when they find they've been scammed.

China’s Spamouflage cranks up trolling of US Senator Rubio as election day looms

Re: Spamouflage

Was he caught in a honey-trap?

Gary Marcus proposes generative AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley

Re: Riposte to your riposte ... recurse HERE --->

'European privacy? Amusing. Receive a parcel from the EU and you have to offer up everything but your inside leg measurement, all of which goes on the paperwork and label. European privacy my arse.'

Can you cite a source for this and show us your training data?

Re: Boycotting

Yes, and chocolate. Better than our beer, and chocolate. How dare they!

Just a joke. Being a silly brugge.

Boycotting

I've been boycotting North Korea, Iran, Chad and Belgium for a few years. Have they taken any notice?

Re: In other news (waiting for it to be covered by the Reg)

'sabotaging'

Doing something to clog up the works.

Samsung releases 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for testing in beefy AI systems

Re: Mild OCD

In today's society you have to be more tolerant of non-binaries. This all started in the 60s with the first TTL tri-state buffers.

Many things happened in the 60s. With or without the apostrophe.

'42.5 Gbps per pin of performance that promises a potential 1.36 TBps '

These numbers have gone beyond anything I can get my head around.

Norway datacenter dumps diesel diet, goes veggie with biofuel backup

Re: Can someone please explain

Er, I'm not being dismissive of anything. Just pointing out that famine is 'normal' somewhere on this planet and has been for all the time we have been here. It has never been a good time to be a rich and powerful owner of two rocks.

Re: Can someone please explain

Has there ever been a time when there hasn't been a global food shortage?

Will there ever be a time when there will not be a global food shortage?

Humans will procreate.

NASA's Europa Clipper leaves for Jupiter's moon atop Falcon Heavy

I'm sure the booster fully understands the importance of the mission.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot wobbles like Jell-o, according to Hubble snaps

Re: It's been picking up broadcasts of Trumpjibberjabber

The Jupitereans can obviously control their weather and it's ridiculous to even think about suggesting otherwise.

That's not a red spot, it's a giant coiled-up red tie!

Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact 'mitigated'

What is the latest version of Eudora? Or Endora as a friend of mine used to call it.l

Re: Intternationalisation!

That word has been adjectivicationised.

The .io domain isn't going anywhere anytime soon amid treaty

what about scratch.io

Why pretend. Iona.

Re: What about Farmer McDonald's website?

baaa.

Re: Leverage

Didn't he used to play on the right-wing for Barcelona FC?

There is a satellite of Jupiter looking out for a TLD ...