Posts by Paul Herber

Woman sues McDonald's for $14 after cheeseburger ad did exactly what it's designed to

Re: Can I make a suggestion?

Give her a voucher, for use in Burger King.

Hey, AI software developers, you are taking Unicode into account, right ... right?

Thorn (Þ, þ) and Eth (Ð, ð) are in Icelandic (and Eth is in Faroese), not Norwegian. (sorry to be a pedant).

84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement

'the tank's restoration had been his "life's work." '

It's a beautiful tank!

What is your greatest weakness? The definitive list of the many kinds of interviewer you will meet in Hell

Re: ...weakness?

The usual management thing of 'not invented here'

Good news: Jeff Bezos went to space. Bad news: He's back

Pointy stick?

(This was from before the days of warfare involving soft fruit)

There were many jealous people when it was announced that one of the super-rich owned two rocks!

Who needs two rocks?

Our Friends Electric: A pair of alternative options for getting around town

Re: The door

It counted as a motorcycle (motorcycle + sidecar combo).

Not only is Hubble back online after outage, it's already taking photos of the cosmos

Re: Life without the shuttle

'Good hardware can do a lot without humans in the picture.'

You have an appointment with Lord Bender at 2.30 this afternoon.

Happy 'Freedom Day': Stats suggest many in England don't want it or think it's a terrible idea

Re: SNAFU

In some countries if it's not illegal then it must be compulsory, or is it the other way round?

Re: Well?

If this *were* Facebook. I hang my head in shame!

Re: Well?

If this was Facebook it would have been posted as a selfie with the OP next to a well, in imminent danger of falling down said well. Cliffs, bridges, high buildings, aircraft are also available.

This page has been deliberately left blank

You are just cowed by your true overlords to the north, Judith of Durham and her mate, Geordie Girl. Xenophobes have their own anthem - World of our Own.

Britney Houston

Great Britney

Britney To The Church On Time

...

Support the Hayling Island Popular Front !

Buyer of $28m Blue Origin space ticket has a scheduling conflict – so this teen will go instead

Blue Origin Ticket

Blue Origin Ticket

Anyone interested?

This may be of interest to one of you. A friend of mine has a ticket

for a flight on Blue Origin. He paid $28 million, but he didn't

realise when he bought it that it was going to be the same day as his

Covid 19 postponed wedding. If you are interested, he is looking for

someone to take his place.

It's at Pontypridd Registry Office, at 4.30pm. The Bride's name is

Megan, she's 29, about 5'4", quite pretty, has her own income and

is a really good cook.

<paraphrased from a rugby ticket joke>

This is the data watchdog! Surrender your Matt Hancock smoochy-kiss pics right now!

Re: Would they have bothered ...

Let's say I visited some government building for some legitimate purpose, used the facilities but forgot to do up my fly on the way out, this was caught on the CCTV and a picture of me with my fly undone was released by person unknown to an astonished public. Would I be happy?

UK's biggest trade union takes aim at Amazon over 'price gouging' allegations

respect for ...

a union exec whose statement is not :

blah blah blah ... my members ... blah blah blah

tsoHost pleads for 'patience and understanding' as sites borked, support sinkholed

I used to use them years ago and they were very good, but my websites were up and down like the proverbial for ages, so glad I moved away.

UK govt draws a blank over vaccine certification app – no really, the report is half-empty

I'm an optimist, I see the report as being half-full.

Google killed desktop Drive and replaced it with two apps. Now it’s killing those, and Drive for desktop is returning

'Google is infamous for killing products swiftly and without mercy. Resurrecting them because the initial culling didn’t work well is a new one though. Innovative.'

I think this is the most innovative business process to come out of Silicon Valley for a generation!

Twitter U-turns after conferring society's highest honor – a blue check mark – on very obvious bot accounts

Re: World Bollard Association

Well, bite my shiny metal bollard.

Oracle files $7m copyright claim against NEC's US limb over 'unreported royalties' from database distribution

Voltaire, is that you?

$7 million? I'm surprised Oracle lawyers can get themselves out of bed in the morning for a measly $7 million?

New mystery AWS product 'Infinidash' goes viral — despite being entirely fictional

The story is actually true, but the title of the product has been misspelled to bamboozle us, it's actually:

Infinidosh

Amazon plan to own all the world's money. If you want some then you'll have to rent it from them.

Re: To Infinidash --

Good news, everybody!

Boffins boast of 'slidetronics' breakthrough enabling binary switch just two atoms thick

Re: Switching?

[4] can adverts be attached to the switch?

Developing for Windows 11: Like developing for Windows 10, but with rounded corners?

could be, I'm just winging it here!

but now it's a penguin-pig.

What you need to know about Microsoft Windows 11: It will run Android apps

Windows

Windows for Workgroups 10.11

Hungover Brits declare full English breakfast the solution to all their ills

I do not understand how prawn vindaloo failed to get into that list!

UK urged to choo-choo-choose hydrogen-powered trains in pursuit of carbon-neutral economic growth

Re: Oh great!

Put a tiger in your tank!

Capita scores half a billion pound outsourcing contract, but refuses to name (or shame?) lucky 'European telco' customer

Re: Strange...

el-regional, shirley.

<company> deny they have a contract with Capita. <company> shares double in value overnight.

Boffins show sleight-of-hand tricks to Corvids, find they are smarter than people

Jay Leno, Jan Raven, Sheryl Crow, Homer Jay Simpson ...

they walk among us.

Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language

Re: Vin

Commentardes eunt domus.

Door-opening insect mega-swarm emerges in Eastern US, descends on Washington DC

Re: Ursine omitance

https://larsonluvr.tumblr.com/post/52791492909/gary-larson

Chinese app binned by Beijing after asking what day it is on anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre

Re: Is Barbra Streisand known in China ?

Apparently Winne-the-Pooh's birthday is 4th June! Need to celebrate!

Now that Trump is useless to Zuckerberg, ex-president is exiled from Facebook for two years, possibly indefinitely

I read that as

"Now that Trump is useless to Zoidberg"

Hey, we all like Zoidberg, doesn't everybody like Zoidberg? Oh.

Microsoft Irish subsidiary makes $314.73bn profit

Re: Microsoft is good at abusing boundaries...

Bermudan Screen Of Death

Virgin Galactic declares May day for next test space flight

May day, May day

Ascension Sunday, Ascension Sunday. Shrove Tuesday is just so wrong for a spaceship launch.

Beyond video to interactive, personalised content: BBC is experimenting with rebuilding its iPlayer in WebAssembly

user gets rich experience

Auntie Beeb using Wasm to help spread some wealth around. We'd all like to trouser a bit more of the Wasm wedge!

Microsoft sheds some light on perplexing Outlook blank email incident: Word was to blame

s/pencil/wax crayon/

Oops, says Manchester City Council after thousands of number plates exposed in parking ticket spreadsheet

Re: MC1192

I think it's a 16-pin DIP 4 bit data buffer with enables.

Not keen on a 5G mast in your street? At least it'd be harder for crackpots to burn down 'a flying cell tower in orbit'

Crackpots or Teapots

Flying Teapots in orbit - Radio Gnome 5G Invisible

Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur 'genocide' debate after DDoS smashes ISP offline

Re: Not a bot

The Great Walloon of China, there is always some minority that needs to be repressed.

Ransomware crooks who broke into Merseyrail used director's email address to brag about it – report

Maybe they infiltrated MerseyRail with a sleeper.

Microsoft joins Bytecode Alliance to advance WebAssembly – aka the thing that lets you run compiled C/C++/Rust code in browsers

Are you saying Alphabet and Betaware are the same outfit?

Re: And so the cycle turns ...

I've just invented Cobolnetes, runs Cobol source code via an interpreter in a sandbox. The only security problem is when the cat needs to use the sandbox at the same time, you get resource sharing conflicts. Data can escape via LCOTB accesses (Letting Cat Out The Bag).

First Coinbase, now Basecamp: Should workplaces ban political talk on internal corporate platforms?

Re: Well done Basecamp

You're either with us or against us. Where have we heard that before?