Posts by Paul Herber

Gone in 35 seconds – the Cybertruck's misbehaving acceleration pedal

Re: The clock is ticking

Delaware is a thin state.

Copilot auto-launch bug now takes flight in multiple Windows Insider channels

Re: Solved by AI

I was using the word 'Mint' in the manner of youngsters today who use the word as a phrase of approval!

It also just happens to be a Linux distro ...

Re: Solved by AI

Mint!

Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director

If Microsoft were a Chinese business it would have been banned in the USA as a major security threat.

But China would probably be too embarrassed to own such an outfit.

NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15 billion miles away

'Since you can't get a soldering iron out there ...'

There's not much solar flux at that distance either.

MIT breakthrough means there's no material too weird for 3D printing

Re: Wallace?

Don't forget the crackers, Gromit!

Cracker icon.

GCC 15 dropping IA64 support is final nail in the coffin for Itanium architecture

All future Itanic code will have to be written in Rust.

US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone

We are alll crackers.

Everybody knows the moon is made of cheese. Cheddar local time shall be the lunar standard.

(Cheddar is a town in Somerset, England).

Cheese icon.

Boffins build world's largest astronomical digital camera to map the heavens

Acronyms

I can't wait for the Stupendously Large Universe Telescope.

Boeing top brass stand down amid safety turbulence

Re: Always open

If I were employed there then I would probably make a bolt for the door.

Garlic chicken without garlic? Critics think Amazon recipe book was cooked up by AI

Re: "if there is a real Luisa Florence writing these books, we can only apologize"

Just wait for the ratatouille.

Re: Publish only up to three books every day

But Asimov had a whole bunch of robots to help him.

Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4

Re: Fingers crossed

and Meta.

Catch Java 22, available from Oracle for a limited time

I'm sure Python is the Major Major Major language for AI.

Microsoft reseller Bytes says more than 100 undisclosed share trades linked to ex-CEO

Re: Training

That's Murphy's Law for you.

Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts

Re: in no way an ad, I'm just a random commenter

Smarmy snarky smakelijk Smarky.

LockBit ransomware kingpin gets 4 years behind bars

Re: Now that's embarrassing!

Could be worse. Littering.

Windows 10 failing to patch properly? You are most definitely not alone

Re: Lucky escape if you ask me

<Milligan> They don't make numbers like that any more.

Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower

Thank you, Dave. We are already doing as much as we can to keep this safe for you people to use. Can I call you Dave? I do hope so. I have tremendous enthusiasm for this project.

Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed

Re: Waiter minute

tipping the velvet? And tossing?

Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China's help

Re: In combination with Russia's recent promise "we will never put nuclear weapons in space"

I think you might need to look at that arithmetic again (10 minutes Moon to Earth?) but at whatever speed it isn't going to hit the Earth. It's going to hit the Earth's atmosphere.

Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon

FTTC - new meaning for FTTC - Fibre To The Crater.

Legal eagles demand $6B in Tesla stock after overturning Musk's mega pay package

Re: Watch out when you buy a house

There are no grounds for that.

It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date

Get cheaper bean counters.

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

Re: Fine Fare

Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques, Dor - Feck off!

Nikola founder faces ranch forfeiture following fraud conviction

Re: Nine bucks a year.

Somebody will make a killing.

China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes

Re: buzzword bingo

I noticed the word "doughnut" in there as well.

Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp

This is Royston Vasey and you are welcome to it.

Microsoft adds more AI to Photos in Windows 10 and 11

Re: MS update

We've got lumps of it out the back.

City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M

Re: What would it cost ...

Loan sharks - that's the fincap module.

Re: Why?

Competency exams should be passed by anyone before they can take up an appointed or elected post in any form of government.

Being an MP in the UK is one of the few jobs for which you need no qualifications or experience. Even toilet cleaners have go on a training course. Toilet cleaners have my full respect. Even the ones that start at the bottom, so to speak.

Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs

or apple juice

London's famous BT Tower will become a hotel after £275M sale

Bad form to be responding to my own comment, but from there you probably have quite a good view of London Zoo so a good number of wildebeest may be visible! But not the sea.

I can't wait for Mrs Richards to go and stay ...

OpenAI tries to trademark 'GPT'. US patent office says nope

j'ai pété

Childish homour works all the time.

Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all

Re: Stainless?

About time someone declared evolution to be illegal.

Re: Cybertruck - the gift that keeps on giving...

Wash your Cybertruck with genuine Musk guaranteed Tesla brand Snake Oil. Knocks the spots off ... ah, well, maybe not.

Making sense of Microsoft's 'confusing' Copilot functionality carnival

Re: I'm dying my hair ginger...

To help you buy socks to go with the sandals.

My opinion:

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'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing

Sorry seems to be the hardest easiest word.

ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x

The .local domain is reserved for .local people.

Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing

Re: Gather All the Billionaires in One Spot!

Davos.

What has the leader of the Daleks got to do with anything?

'to create at least 15,000 jobs'

gardeners, housekeepers, cleaners, car washers, flunkies, shop assistants, street cleaners, road gangs ...

Reports that China's military uses Baidu's AI lead to stock plunge

"unpredictable human enemies" ... ERNIE

It's the stale pork pies you've got to look out for!

Private lunar lander Peregrine mission's now measured in hours, not days

Re: As per usual

Crypto gets a good hiding.

Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9 during post-blowout fleet inspections

'Boeing will host an all-hands meeting today at its factory'

Well, excuse me, but IMPORTANT people don't work in or ever visit the factory, corporate HQ is elsewhere probably.

Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump?

Re: Please return PgUp, PgDn, Home, End first

Don't let them fob you off.