Posts by Paul Herber

Trump's AI E-(I)-O could let feds pick winners and losers

With big-tech in the loop it's more like

E-(I)- (ad) -E-O

Peter Mandelson invited UK PM to meet Palantir's Thiel

I Thiel what you did there.

Prince of Darkness, meet the Prince of Darkness.

But which one is the Prince of Darkness?

Re: Corrupt

He's going to visit Ginger Baker first, who, hopefully, will give him a genuine Glasgow handshake. Even from the grave.

Oh, sorry, Clacton. Thought that was Clapton ... as you were ...

Marvell enters the AI network fray with 102.4 Tbps switch silicon

"102.4 Tbps"

It'll still take a significant time to download/upload an average sized pron collection. Allegedly.

Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones into surveillance devices

How much does Putin trust his henchmen? Answers on a postcard addressed to Joseph Stalin @ ...

Is there a country who wouldn't want to hack Russian phones? I expect the FSB hacks many dissident Russians. And the non-dissidents, just in case.

California passes bill declaring death-by-algorithm to 3D-printed ghost guns

Re: Committee

Sometimes all it takes is just one person.

"... those caught selling non-compliant hardware could face civil penalties of $25,000 per violation."

Looks like they've got them over a barrel.

Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

We could call it The Second Foundation.

Re: Unions

Powerpoint to the people!!!

Dutch cops wrest 17M devices from mystery botnet's clutches

I was awaiting a botnet that did the ironing for you!

Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button

Beige is the new beige. But nobody wants beige any more.

FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right

This is the Voice of America, broadcasting to what remains of free America, from our transmitters in Havana, Tehran, Moscow and Ontario and from the ships, the Mi Amigo and the Ross Revenge, off the coasts of California and Carolina!

Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience

Re: Hmmmm

"15 is one less than 16"

Microsoft bug fix, change the number order ...

0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,16,15 ...

AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims

Re: Shall my question be answered without bias?

I thought Arthur Dent was supposed to be the new Messiah. I'm going to see a Dentist tomorrow. I foresee myself sitting in something like a poetry appreciation chair ...

But I do believe. I strongly believe that I will have to open my wallet and pay a lot of money. That is true faith.

Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula

Re: Enhanced Excel

With Excel that will be a sell-out.

InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows

Well, you wouldn't want these locker doors to be AI powered. Self-satisfied and just ghastly.

Hummmmmmmyummmmmmmah!

Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one

Re: Eyes saw Gothenburg

The bus is perfectly safe, it's the passengers who might have a problem!

Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust

It's the wrong orbit, Gromit!

No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship

Re: Has Navantia heard of damage control?

The sensors are there to stop the hull from being skua'd.

Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer’s bizarre crusade against hyperscalers

Oi caan't read, and Oi caan't wroite

but Oi work with hoiperscalerz

and Oi can droive a traactor!

icon = point of scrumpy fur yuz all.

Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio

Re: Grabbing a few fallen pennies

"Meta ... out of the business"

So, what's the bad news?

"... willing to sacrifice some employee privacy"

willing to sacrifice everyone's privacy

FTFY

Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that'

If the AI mouse were the norm ... and someone then invented the right-click, we would be over the moon! Wow, peace and quiet for a change. Doesn't this make things so nice and simple!

Some research just needs to be locked away in a nice softly padded room.

Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less

Re: brainbox ≠ meatbag

Brainbox was a Dutch band in the 60s/70s.

I don't know of a band called Meatbag though.

That's alright

Us humans value execs less as well, and nothing to do with AI.

Microsoft aims to speed Windows with 'leap forward' in WinUI 3 perf

Re: Win32 is good enough for me.

Pink Floyd

Any Colour You Like

Hollywood A-listers back proposed standard that would pay them when AI uses their likeness or work

Hollywood A-listers back proposed standard

But what about the B-listers?

Are they going to have to toe the line? Hollywood might be their sole income source?

Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads

"What a time to be alive. ®"

Are we? Thank you for letting us know. This is just the sort of reassurance we need these days.

Microsoft makes Copilot easier to summon, harder to ignore in Office

Oy! Deafy! Yes, you at Microsoft! Get a new hearing aid.

macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel

Re: NetBSD

"stagecoach"

One of them thingies with a wheel in all four corners?

HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin

Re: Compare to All-in-One?

I'm very keen on the All-in-Ones. All 3 we have here run Linux very nicely.

I guess the next stage is to stuff the PC into the mouse? Could that work? Hey, marketing!

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon

"Furores are fermenting in the forums"

*undamentally *ed-up with *requently saying *uck-off.

Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere

Network bridge.

Simples.

"... no feathered friend ..."

How about a couple of penguins?

Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy

Re: This is why Trump has no credibility

Daft Vader more like.

"You will toe the line!"

What country is this? China? Iran? North Korea? Russia?

Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

"We would not be at all surprised if soon it went to five."

We would not be at all surprised if soon it went to eleven.

FTFY

IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested

Bill Gates' mother said IBM's busy

Too busy to come to the phone

Bill Gates' mother said IBM's trying to start a new life of its own

Bill Gates' mother said IBM's happy

So why don't you leave them alone?

And the operator said 40 cents more for the next three minutes

IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf

Tell him to put his cards on the table, then drop it.

Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area

Re: 40p per bag seems a bit steep

Toddler sees adult throwing a tantrum, thinks, ah, that's the way to do it in the future.

"Both offenses are punishable by a stern talking to or a weary tsk here in the UK."

Has a good finger-wagging now been removed from the list of options? You see, this has always been my favourite. They never listen to we us users!

Tsk.

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

I get more than enough weird adverts on webpages that may or may not be targetted. The lady's underwear ads are probably because I share an IP address with the wife. Honestly. Ditto with the shoes. I really don't wish to be adding some new thing so I won't be following that link, thank you very much though.

" ... drawing on a fake mustache"

Well that's okay for the girls, but what about the boys?

Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'

Are you suggesting "professionally" is a metaphor for "literally"?

French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency

Re: re-education and rehabilitation rather than prison time.

Words to invoke fear.

La saucisse anglaise.

Re: re-education and rehabilitation rather than prison time.

The ultimate deterrent for a French person - if you do prison time, it's British food, Dutch wine and Norwegian television!!!!

NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again

... and if the chicken is dead?