Posts by Paul Herber

BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime

Re: PFY didn't pay attention in Physics class.

Archeologists are looking for evidence that Vikings brought heavy water to England from Norway. Eirikur Rauður's face can be seen carved upside down in the glacier where they did the mining. Hence the naming of Yorv1K where they brought it ashore. And not many people know that.

New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs

Re: Where did I leave my lunch and light reading?

There's only one thing worse that being watched, and that's not being watched!

This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph

Re: If only ...

You'd need a JCB GT for that.

Re: Useless facts

Which has the best storage for all those coins and stuff you need when out and about?

Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster

Mine is one asterix, one getafix and the rest are obelix. Never use a Roman font!

Re: Shiny Shiny!

Stupid? Have you not read Space Corps Directive 4275a?

Have we now moved beyond double rot-13 encoding?

Re: Do I have to offer the bailiffs tea?

You do have to check that they are "sound".

Re: Perfect way to trump the investigation

He's still in that catering truck and his place has been taken by a double, AI powered, with real hair, and a real people personality.

Ryanair adds Google Cloud to its dual-cloud flight plan

Re: Return journey optimisation

If your luggage is staying at the departure airport then you might as well do so as well. Sorted.

AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon's charity data

Re: Lucky escape

It might have been fake data to you but Howard and Marina Farquarson of 447c Smegavarian Way, West Megalopolis, Kernovia KR97 9ZZ are now on so many mailing lists!!

How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget

Re: Very expensive…

It's always Thursday somewhere in the universe.

Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G

I shall say this only once.

Toaster.

As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them

Gross? Net, surely!

Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China

Does the RN still rely on JSON and the Argonauts?

'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director

Re: Chris Inglis hasn't read Asimov

You don't have to shout. I'll get your carer to come and clean you up again. Do you know who I am?

Re: Chris Inglis hasn't read Asimov

Ah, we have a neighbour like that, 97, deaf, blind, incontinent ...

Re: Actions that would be illegal for a human...

But, but, but ... kittens!!!!!

Re: Chris Inglis hasn't read Asimov

'A.1"

The London to Edinburgh road or the LNER Gresley Pacific loco?

Re: zeroth law

I don't understand the downvote. It's true, just to qualify the 'American'.

He wrote some of the best SF that was going. I grew up (shut up at the back!) on that sort of stuff.

"Without a prompt they do NOTHING."

I don't think, therefore I am waiting for you to input something.

(RD)

Re: zeroth law

Born in Russia to Russian parents.

South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact

Only day and night? Luxury!

Are there no lunar littering laws yet? Where are the 8x10 colour photographs with the arrows and the paragraph on the back of each one ...

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

Fatality has a tendency to be a binary condition.

Re: One Trick Pony's

You can't get out of a pun thread that quickly!

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

Is that a lobeotomy?

Re: One Trick Pony's

... of zero mass

Re: A degree is a unit of temperature

The Tube (and other London Underground services) need some sort of timetable to assist with signaling, route setting where lines cross/join and for crew/staff rostering.

(Used to work for LT yonks ago). Is my old LT work colleague still here?

Re: A degree is a unit of temperature

I would have expected them to dissolve into laughter!

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

and often fatal.

Oooo, isn't he bold!!!

Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard

"Germans?"

Oh, I thought there was something wrong with you!

(Basil)

‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec

Re: It is time

I'll get you, Butler!

Re: The protocol we don't talk about

Usenet

Re: It is time

Viruses (virii), Trojans, worms ...

IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in

Re: Providing Negative Incentives and then Clutching Pearls: However could this have been avoided ?

You have an extraneous " in your xkcd URL

"a marketing and SEO company"

Critical infrastructure then.

/sarcasm

Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out

"Seems backwards to do it that way."

Welcome to Microsoft's world ...

Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas

Re: competition for scarce development land

"It took me two days to drive across my ranch!"

Yes, I used to have a car like that.

Re: Two words . . .

Fire is Swedish for "four". Four upvotes!

Re: " and releases no discharge into the surrounding waterway"

Sarcasm? In Texas???

Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year

Who'd have thought that naming a sports car range after a flower would work?

Petunia? Daisy? ...

Re: 1,500 light years away

We could always send Marvin out to stop it.

They're now hoping power will last until the universe ends at the Gib Gnab.

Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars

"Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars"

President Xi pledges to give China a virtual monopoly over the rest of the planet once the US eejits have bankrupted themselves.

Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia

Reminds me of the joke about getting to the facial injuries section of the hospital, down the corridor, turn left and follow your nose.

Icon = eye injury

Re: "the soldering had been done with a hot spoon."

I suspect he knows how to get hold of the "special stuff".

Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller

Re: Image recognition

"white with no logo"

You're no fun any more!

Re: Image recognition

Get the AI to determine the colour of the lorry, whether its a red lorry or a yellow lorry ...