Posts by Paul Herber

Lawyer's Microsoft email snafu goes from $1.75M lawsuit to Ctrl+Alt+Settle

Re: Typical lawyering

Won't somebody think of the money!

Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests

I'm boared.

After injecting pop-up ads for Bing into Windows, Microsoft now bends to Europe on links

Desperate.

Silicon Valley billionaires secretly buy up land for new California city

Just build a Perkins AFB next to Travis AFB and people will be able to buy stuff to build their own homes.

Profits just keep rolling in at T-Mobile US. So only thing to do is axe 5,000 workers

Re: The ManSpeak / PR Department Seems To Be Fully Staffed

5am? Loser! Get out of here!

I like the cut of your GPT-jib.

Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users

I think it's vitally important to backup my swap file every 5 minutes, just in case.

That's made we wonder when it was that the entire interwebs thingy capacity was only 110 GB?

High severity vuln in WinRAR could allow code to run when files are opened

Re: Yes, but...

I prevent bugs like that by always looping to infinity -1.

Brainwaves rock! Scientists decode Pink Floyd tune straight from the noggin

Re: Visceral response

PF's Echoes is one of them.

Re: patterns with regression-based decoding models.

PF were around long before prog. Psychedelia was their first genre. Not that anyone had "genres" in those days, but that was their thing. That was the bag they were into, man.

ISP's ads 'misleadingly implied' existence of 6G, says watchdog

In theory packet delivery could use any of the Mustelidae.

It's spelled weasel but pronounced wisel.

Re: Let them be misleading

I've just tapped into a special service called 11G.

Cruise self-driving taxi gets wheels stuck in wet cement

Re: "We apologize to those who were impacted"

All rumours to the contrary will be squashed.

Never mind room temperature, LK-99 slammed as 'not a superconductor at all'

Re: Purest Green

This small thermistor is close to the critical temperature, but that large one is far away from the critical temperature.

Is this one of those "that's very odd" moments?

Two US Navy sailors charged with giving Chinese spies secret military info

Re: Does the US pay that badly?

'I want my wife and pets taken care of'

Have no fear, all your relatives will 'be taken care of' ...

Airbus to help with International Space Station replacement

Re: There's air

That's RyanNoAir.

Re: Hilton in Spaaaaace

ITYM NoAirB'n'B.

Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space

Re: Reset?

Not the sort of strobe that Disco Stu (see above) would recognise!

Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

Re: Spluttering performance while producing random data

cos someone had to say it.

Re: Spluttering performance while producing random data

it's the tip of the iceberg.

My wife suggests VIM and AJAX.

Hong Kong High Court declines to force Big Tech to ban protest song

Power ballads corrupt; absolute power ballads corrupt absolutely

Arc: A radical fresh take on the web browser

Astronomy picture of the day website

Gosh, I remember websites looking like that back in the days of Mosaic and Netscape Navigator. Sigh.

On the record: Apple bags patent for iDevice to play LPs

Re: Sooo....

The stylus has elliptical corners.

Re: All together now. "I hear the sound....of distant drums"

There are a couple of technologies that solve that problem, cassette and 8-track ...

Aliens crash landed on Earth – and Uncle Sam is covering it up, this guy tells Congress

Re: The big witness

Those sort of things never happened in Sunningdale, you know!

Cigna sued for using software to deny healthcare insurance claims

Re: I hope we all felt that one in our guts

'What cruel god is this, that plays with us so?'

The US dollar.

Netflix offers up to $900,000 for AI product manager while actors strike for protection

Re: A what?

Don't worry, the dross created by marketing gimboids will be the next target of AI.

Twitter name and blue bird logo to be 'blowtorched' off company branding

Re: "This is an X Twitter"

It has (almost) ceased to be.

BT and OneWeb deliver internet to rock in Bristol Channel – population 28

Re: PTP

Too much chance of it being snagged by a wayward boat anchor?

World's most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it's sillier than it seems

Yes, we do, and what about this wheel thingy. Sounds terribly exciting!

Unidentified object on Australian beach may be part of Indian rocket launcher

Re: Uncontrolled reentry?

Doesn't look like a floaty-float-float thing, looks more like a sinky-sink-sink metal object.

Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200

'Tom Cruise dumped four consequentive motorcycles off a cliff'

An AI might have got that as 'four consequentive motorcycles dumped Tom Cruise off a cliff'

Re: It's the public face of a long established trend: blatant, unrestrained greed

Admin here, I have given you a bit more quota. And, I'm not going to charge you for it. Not yet anyway. I'll do that later just when you are least expecting it and want to use any more of your quota. Reading the first word of this text implies your agreement with this.

P.S. your use of the word 'quota' is telling me that you are a fluent Latin speaker, how vulgar is irrelevant here, so I have changed your default language in all the apps on your computer and phone to Medieval Latin. Again, no charge.

Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change

Re: Just stop now

'Having been involved in product naming, it takes 2 years or so to clear all the legal hurdles, including a 6 month wait period when your new funky name can be challenged by those who care about such stuff.'

If you'd been in marketing as long as I have you'd have realised the most important thing to decide is what colour it's going to be.

Re: The Microsoft credo

Needs a colon ...

Microsoft Entrails:

Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform

Re: Hmm

Hey! OED. We have a new usage of the word 'funny' to go in the dictionary.

I'd put Amazon in the Super Massive category, not just Very Large ...

Microsoft puts out Outlook fire, says everything's fine with Teams malware flaw

Re: They call it Monday

They call it stormy Monday

But Tuesday's just as bad

Lamborghini's last remaining pure gas guzzlers are all spoken for

Re: Lamborghini going EV ?

Are they cheaper there than at Waitrose?

Mozilla Developer Network adds AI Help that does the opposite

Re: Now there is an AI Help (Beta) tab

At least the comma after "Therefore" is correct.

Mine's a mug of lukewarm water and a handful of gravel. No sugar please and one lump of milk.

Florida man (not that one) sold $100M-plus in counterfeit network gear

So many people will fail to understand what this is all about. Including Alice.

' However, it wasn't until last June (2021) that Aksoy was arrested and charged'

Why wait 7 years to arrest him when some heinous crime like, say, littering will get you arrested immediately?

Hong Kong tries to outlaw uploads of unofficial and anti-Beijing anthem

Send officials links to the song disguised as something else. Let's call it rickshaw rolling.

James Webb smells someone having barbecue in galaxy 12 billion light years away

Re: The start of life?

12 billion light years ... start walking.

Where there's a barbecue there must be some ...