Posts by Paul Herber

Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor

Re: So no risk that ...

Naranga.

Re: So no risk that ...

A universe where there is no colour orange.

Enhanced eh? Maybe it is about to be renamed The Large Hardon Colluder!

Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad

Re: Where's all the Jeff Bezos snark ;)

If Jeff Bezos had any decent snark in him he'd be posting here instead of wasting his time doing whatever he does ...

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

My AI fiendfriend recommends I buy into the Dutch tulip market ...

UK firm bombarded debt-ridden people with 5.5M texts

Re: Porbably outside the remit of ICO, but:

But when all the shenanigans are done and dusted a director with no UK assets sitting on the beach in <insert country name with no extradition treaty here> ....

Re: Porbably outside the remit of ICO, but:

And how about directors not having to live in the UK, and other companies being company directors?

It's shenanigans all the way down.

"within 30 days"

Mmmm, scares me. Teeth? Gummed to death.

Nissan says Oracle PeopleSoft break-in may have spilled payroll records, SSNs

Good old Oracle ...

Oracle are extremely keen to find out who this break-in was by. Actually, the more people involved in the attack the better. Licences ... audits ...

Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands

Re: this shameful administration is relegated to the ash-heap

Yeeeees, oak-ay.

Re: Don't know if it's a shame or a good thing

Was this the bleach that was left over from treating people for Covid?

Re: Don't know if it's a shame or a good thing

What did the Visigoths do for us?

Rūmōneis gaggats ham.

Re: this shameful administration is relegated to the ash-heap

You can't get the wood, you know.

Malaysia ponders regulating management of IP addresses

The IPv6 committee are now working on the design of IPV11.

Posted from IP address تلনふわ

Italy probes AI-fueled price hikes in Microsoft 365

Your non-response is important to us.

Re: As usual, "is committted" = "dang, they got us"

"(*)I know: given enough thrust, pigs fly just fine."

Then there is Parma ham, so double-plus good.

Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light

Re: Seems like this would have limited applications

"phase and polarisation information"

so soon we'll be able to move away from our 300 baud FSK modems tp PSK and MSK, up to, what 1200 baud?

Can't wait.

Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones

Re: Why?

"Jamal Khashoggi"

Didn't the president's brain go missing at about the same time? Later to be found in MbS's pocket.

Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant

Re: Hard to defend a prosecution here ...

When you are caught is it not the norm in these sort of countries just to offer the prosecutors a percentage of the profits?

European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status

Re: gOOD

"any teeth."

Any decision will have to be incisive.

Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars

More chance of that than any f**tball trophy coming home!

Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Re: I see the problem

Clause 23.2 of the official Mornington Crescent rules as of 1996.

Re: Quantum computers revealed to be Schroedinger's Cat.

Is this some sort of Teaser?

Re: Childish - but expected - response from Microsoft

White? I though it it was a more blue colour, azure perhaps.

Re: Quantum computers revealed to be Schroedinger's Cat.

the first useful quantum computer will only work while not being observed by a cat.

basic Python errors

It's not a quantum leap, it's a very naughty girl.

Windows 11 can now turn back the clock when updates go bad

Windows Recovery Environment.

What about when an update to the Windows Recovery Environment goes wrong?

Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028

Re: Just before elections in 2028

"... piss in his coffin"

If that were the No. 1 thing, what would the No. 2 thing be?

Superpositions are the bestest and biglyest postions, but only possible if you are a qualified to be a fully trained Hermitian.

Re: No Such Agency

Do quantum computers rely on Charm quarks ?

There's your problem!

Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'

Re: "his AI coding assistant PoC was conscious – and female."

"quarter century ago!"

Ah, youth!

Red have 3 humps, white have 1 and ros&eacute; have two.

The persistent downvoters here permanently get the hump probably because they never do.

I'm expecting a call from one of my clients soon, the Bacchanalian Culinary Association, the sous chefs are okay, but the chefs themselves are very upset!

As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains

Re: Time (geddit!) for a new Reg unit?

Hold on! Pope first, or Messiah first?

Re: Surprised, but the BBC is still showing the football ...

HydrationCalcination break.

Re: "Burnham has already spoken out against digital ID cards"

The best Marx speech was by Harpo.

Honk, honk.

Maybe Burham shouldn't join any version of the Labour Part that would have him!

Splitter!

Re: Surely it's not that difficult

"except during a full moon"

That way lies lunacy!

The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything

People are not going to be using Google in three years time, my prediction ...

Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon

I foresee a Lunar Mining Corporation, then a Martian Mining Corporation, even a Jupiter Mining Corporation!

That'll dwarf anything on the moon, especially as there is no atmosphere, and it's cold.

Fun.

Microsoft accidentally kills epic Outlook email threads

Re: Vibe coding for the win!

"the letters Q and Z and the number 4"

That's all very well, but in what order?

"The Register asked Microsoft for its take on the matter"

But Microsoft will be unable to reply as Outlook is no longer able to perform any operation relating to email. All functionality is henceforth relegated to your personal AI. Just tell it what to do and where to go to do it.

Telegram founder accuses Meta of sabotaging access in India with BGP hijacks

Re: It's India. Who cares?

Well spoken. Anonymous cowards probably think they are untouchable. They'll be singhing another song one day.

Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance

"we have high opinions of ourselves"

This dictation could be from every multi-billionaire tech-bro.

Microsoft's latest Windows bug belongs in the Recycle Bin

Re: How is this even a thing? Recycle bin has worked fine for years.

Your reply is perfectly cromulent.

Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate

Re: "the age-gated Interwebs"

Somebody has to do the donkey-work.

Re: "the age-gated Interwebs"

You could connect an alternator to that - synchronised to changes in policy and direction.

/politics.

2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud

Re: WOW!

Since when did Hobbits wear shoes?

Re: Funnily enough...

Does the Knox security system involve viagra?

Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles

Re: "this is just how MS Word works"

Ya ere thu palocemin on 'Aloo 'Aloo und Ah clam me buttle af boor.