Posts by Paul Herber

Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia

Re: More

Replies from anyone named Stan gratefully received.

Re: More

Runcible spoons were invented by Lear Systems with persons like your good self in mind. They were cutting edge technology at the time.

New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut

Re: Why ...

BMW cars ...

Re: "New"

I got a look of approval from the cat after I fed her this morning! That counts for something.

Feline Acceptance Accreditation.

Re: "New"

Thanks for the heads (and nose) up on this.

Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft

A new definition of cut and paste.

Re: "having a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary on the shelf"

“sausage” and “aardvark” it was a proper dictionary

but perhaps not in that order

Re: "having a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary on the shelf"

"The word which I can't remember was a disappointment "

I hope you will not object if I offer you my most enthusiastic contrafribularities.

Here's hoping you were not too anaspeptic.

China claims global chip leadership thanks to new legal definition of 'integrated circuits'

Nobel Prizes should be given to anyone who can spell their own name!

Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict

What's my pH?

It causes so many bodily ailments: water on the brain/knee/elbow/heart/lungs/stomach/liver ... it seems to be dangerous everywhere. Ban it, I say!

Do you know how many people per year die from the effects of Dihydrogen Monoxide (and Oxygen Dihydride)? Thousands upon thousands.

Re: "That incompetent Mayor Mandami is to blame"

Trump Jr. Checkmate.

Can't wait for Trump Tower to go offline or all the Trump Org. files to be released in a public dump.

Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak

and fuzzy logic.

It's a fair cop.

Google Earth's AI makeover survives less than one planetary rotation

I'll raise you a TO-220AB and see how many legs it's got.

Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister

Re: Who would ever consider anything at Meta ...

Like

Kinda like.

NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover

"recycled Moon ... repurposed Mars"

Are Keith and Bruno going to accept this? I think for Keith they might have to dig deep ...

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

Re: “The signal from you is clear: keep going. We intend to,” he wrote...

Your off-beat reply is somewhat off-putting, more an off-the-cuff remark, in an offhand way.

Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook

Air-gapped, yes, no Ethernet cable, only wifi and Bluetooth.

"one of the oldest pieces of security advice in the book"

Rule 1: Don't use intrinsically unsafe operating systems and software.

Rule 2: There is no rule 2.

America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks

Re: Unitree bad

Release the robodog hounds!

Re: Hmmm

Mr Downvoter is right! My substitution would have also converted world to wandld, work to wandk, corpo into candpo and 2 instances of more into mande.

I resign.

But then who doesn't prefer wandk to work?

Re: Unitree bad

Are you saying the software doesn't have a very good pedigree?

Re: I don't care if the USA bans Chinese imports of anything

I was talking about the Romans!

Re: I don't care if the USA bans Chinese imports of anything

USA should ban China exporting missile systems to Iran.

<you and whose Republican People's Liberation Army?>

Re: Hmmm

s/or/and/

FTFY

Re: Hmmm

Fields? Weren't they those things from the olden days where we now have data centres, refuse tips, oil fields and shale mines?

Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees

The redness of Mars is honey! Dried out honey!

Almost time for Icelandic Martian Honey Week.

Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first

Re: working now with trusted partners

Wet string? Luxury!

Britain hopes £7.3M will help electric and hydrogen aircraft take off

£7.3 million! Wow, that'll pay the legal team for 1/2 hour's work defending all the reasons this can't go ahead for all sorts of spurious and specious reasons.

Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude

Re: So...

Why hasn't China renamed the square? If it were renamed to XiPeaceAndProgressSquare then a web search wouldn't show what happened at Tiananmen Square. 33 years ago! How many downvotes will I get from the Chinese censorship brigade?

Google goes it alone with a new cybercrime crew taxonomy

When did MS last play nice with anyone else?

"names that reflect English language idioms, such as “Hurricane” or “Koala” are more appropriate."

Well blow me down if just about every word in English isn't derived from some word or phrase in Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Norman French, French, Dutch, Flemish, German, the Celtic languages, Greek, Hindi, Sanskrit ..

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

Re: 77 MW of IT capacity

Are plans to use the leaf as currency on hold then?

Re: Scunthorpe

"toaster"

Mmmm, toast, hot, buttered toast.

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

Re: Scripture app

Was the data just Numbers ?

Re: And now The Lesson.

Most people agree that Vulnerabilities 7:xx was far better.

Re: Could be worse.

Santa is disl ... disslex .. can't spell, so messages went to emailSatan.com instead.

Re: Register?

If prayer worked it would have been banned centuries/millennia ago.

P.S. who wrote the test spec for this prayer app?

Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions

Trumpovich will go ballistic. Doonbeg will be up for sale tomorrow morning.

Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five

a shed

My neighbour, a Mr Jackson, has two sheds.

Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party

Re: Country of Lords

Plenty of skullduggery.

Re: Sad but not surprising

"One Laptop Per Child"

I'm sure some of the tech-bros now would be thinking along the lines of, yes, that's a fair swap.

LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware

Re: Reasons not to use Windows ...

Though actually may be as low as 616.

Re: CMA (UK)

What about jokes that cause:

coffee -> mouth -> keyboard?

Re: Other monitor manufacturers exist.

Oh for the good old days of Radio Veronica and Noordzee Internationaal.

Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign

Don't ignore the power and persistence of meetings. The day after the heat death of the universe there will be a sales and marketing meeting to discuss how it all went and to find out how customers related to it.

Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100

Can of worms opening time here.

What is "The Real Problem"?