Posts by Paul Herber

Dear Stupid, I write with news I did not check the content of the [Name] field before sending this letter

Us subscribers to "Telephone Pole Number Spotters Weekly" declare this to be the next *Me Too* moment.

Tesla faked self-driving demo, Autopilot engineer testifies

Re: Obligatory Pratchett reference

Only in Korea.

'We've asked Elluswamy and Tesla for comment but haven't heard back.'

Have you tried tweeting them?

Of course U2 is one of Bill Gates' favorite bands

I'd have though SAHB (with or without Alex) would have been his cup of tea.

The balmy equator of Mars looks rich in opal-bound water

Opal fruits, made to make your mouth water.

Citizen Coder? Happiness Concierge? Here come 2023's business cards

Re: "Directors"

Team Executive Sales Counter Operatives

Re: You are Steve Bong

Only one shed?????

Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too

Re: Cash is king

I've been told the Legally Exchangable Accessible Finance is going to really pick up in the spring!

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Galactic anti-nuclei travelers could help illuminate dark matter

The nuclear physics you *can* discuss between meals.

Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech

Do you want a 5-minute argument or just continue indefinitly?

New SI prefixes clear the way for quettabytes of storage

Re: Yottabyte?

Quettabyte would make a good name for a cafe in the area known as Quetta Park just south of Fleet, Hampshire.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison

Re: A CEO being held accountable?

'... kept her out of pokey.'

But I thought she was pregnant again. Oh, I see, yes.

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

Re: The app doesn't make RPC calls?

Yeah, but, that a Remote Function Call, different kettle o'fish.

Hey, GitHub, can you create an array compare function without breaking the GPL?

Re: Copilot Request......

Nobody is looking properly at my previous comment.

Re: Copilot Request......

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Re: Hey, Github!

How about "What ho!, Github"?

Re: Copilot Request......

How do you know my Facebook password?

Twitter, Musk, and a week of bad decisions

Re: I deleted Twitter months ago

I've considered opening a few fake accounts, just to make a point.

Oh, look: More malware in the Google Play store

Re: I bet you can't even list apps by publisher

How does that help though? They look as legitimate as any other app dev.

Microsoft feels the need, the need for speed in Teams

Re: Well, every little bit helps

So, I gather Teams doesn't exactly Zoom along ...

Re: Ditch

'they'll need to pay for a Zoom licence'

Why? I use Zoom for charity committee meetings, we don't pay. We have to restart the connection every 40 minutes, no big deal.

Double-check demand payment emails from law firms: Convincing fakes surface

Crimson King

King Crimson - it's the 21st century, it's enough to make you paranoid, not schizoid!

Martian microbes could survive up to 280 million years buried underground

Re: "could not survive dormant for the estimated 2 to 2.5 billion years"

There's (probably) not enought water on Mars for any equivalent to Davy Jones and his locker.

Re: "could not survive dormant for the estimated 2 to 2.5 billion years"

Here I am quietly contemplating the meaning of life for 280 million years and everything seems just fine, but at 280 million years and one day, which happened to be a Monday Thursday, it all seems a bit pointless.

Re: "could not survive dormant for the estimated 2 to 2.5 billion years"

Don't talk to me about life on Mars!

Boffins shatter data transmission speed record

'1.8 petabits per second'

Yes, well, that reminds me of the time when I had a problem getting the built-in serial port on an 8048 family chip to work over 1km of twisted pair at 300b/s.

Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce

Re: Please help me here

' it's bloody well tech!'

Now, I've warned you before, don't call me techy!

Re: Please help me here

'black+white coffee'

coffee cannot be black and white at the same time (except Schroedinger's coffee)

Xi Jinping hails 'improved cyber ecology', says state to direct strategic tech research

The speech also included a pledge to reunify (peacefully) with Taiwan Manchester, which would give China access to world-leading tech, but did not rule out forceful reunification

People still seem to think their fancy cars are fully self-driving

Re: Perhaps...

pesky employees who want things like sleep, and sick leave, and pensions pay

He's only gone and done it. Ex-Register vulture elected to board of .uk registry

But we don't want to wait almost 1000 years for this to come about.

Good news for UK tech contractors as govt repeals IR35 tax rules

Re: Wake me up

But the cheese is good.

Amazon accused of singling out, harassing union organizers

Re: The Commons

Hence the troll.

Re: "what staff can and can't do in break rooms and other non-work areas"

$5? I can do it for $4.50 with free postage.

Re: The Commons

An Amazon-Meta merger?

Emissions-slashing hybrid trains to hit tracks in Europe

Re: Wow thats new

Oooo, can't wait for the first report of a fusion-powered loco. Maybe 30 years away?

US accident investigators want alcohol breathalyzers in all new vehicles

one in three traffic fatalities on US roads involve alcohol

'one in three traffic fatalities on US roads involve alcohol '

which means that two out of three accidents were caused by sober drivers! We need a minimum intake requirement. Hic. Need a troll icon as well.

Tesla Megapack battery ignites at substation after less than 6 months

Re: Look to Dinorwig

I'd suggest not mass populating much of California in the first place, starting n hundred years ago.

In Rust We Trust: Microsoft Azure CTO shuns C and C++

Re: Rust fixed that for you

The PHB has had it with C and C++ because he never could write anything that compiled.

FTFY

Queen's shooting star was actually meteor, not SpaceX junk

Re: Thats Pretty Close

'Southern Canada'

Is this a new country? Are you declaring independence? I think you'll be a bit late to get an invitation to Westminster Abbey!"

Rare hexagonal diamond formed by crash of dwarf planet and asteroid, scientists believe

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Mohs scale up to 11?

Demand for software experts pushes tech salaries higher in UK

Re: Over in the US, analysts at RBC Capital Markets!?

Move the border a few miles south. Vermont can become South Quebec and North Dakota can become South Manitoba.

'Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells'

Well, I didn't vote for you!

Re: Over in the US, analysts at RBC Capital Markets!?

RBC might have an office in the USA!

Chinese researchers make car glide 35mm above ground in maglev test

I'd like to see a maglev train run from pole-to-pole.

Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch

Re: She was a good one

'when it comes to meat the French have a dozen subtle degrees between raw and barely warm'

As I found out a few weeks ago when a slight misunderstanding about which beef was au point. Still, nice to find out that it is possible for steak to be more chilled than the Sancerre.

NASA sees our space future as both government and privately run

Re: WHY GO? Are you insane... MURICAN BLOWHARD IS AT STAKE!

Some people need access to the GREEN CRAYON key.

Chances good for NASA Artemis SLS Moon launch on Saturday

Re: Massive Moon Rocket

MMRA

Make Mars Rusty Again

Re: Sausage Rolls.....

Hope you don't all end up with heavy nose bleeds after your "special" sausage rolls!

Former Microsoft UX boss doesn't like the Windows 11 Start menu either

"to make 'S' and 't' align beautifully for the word 'Start'"

Well, that's just fine and dandy for English, but what about the rest of the universe?