Posts by Paul Herber

NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again

Re: exoplanets

Is his name Algy?

Well I still pronounce it JIF even though it's written on the bottle as CIF.

Re: Cleared orbit

... of zero mass.

Re: Cleared orbit

English used to have eth, thorn and (still has) ae and oe dipthongs.

I think naming planets, moons etc. after the world's top snooker players is a wonderful idea.

Then we can all play intergalactic bar billiards!

Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root

Re: Ten lines?

I think a maximum source text line length is something that should definitely be on the cards.

UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit

Badge, Is this a Cream revival?

Re: Just plain carelessness on the part of DWP

Don't worry, In the future an AI will be involved and this AI will help prevent any documents going to the wrong recipients.

37th April is National No Sarcasm Day.

IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability

Shirley Bob's companion should be Alice but spelled AIice.

Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers

Re: State sanctioned robbery

Definitely Πi²

The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown

F.A.B.

Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis

Re: The free ride is nearly over for so-called AI.

You are all freeloaders!

I'm not.

US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit

Is the US prison work system no longer up to the job?

All you need are more poor people, unemployed, homeless. But build the gulags ... prisons first!

Re: If this is applicable...

Tell youngsters that this is the correct place to use the word 'literally'.

ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival's booty as 7.5M emails surface

Re: I’ll add that to my really long list

Best not to go out your front door either. And as for those back doors! You never know who might have installed that back door!

DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs

"... they'll run on a toaster"

What about a talkie toaster?

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule

"trading standards"

Socialism!

Re: Now what comes after terra?

Just about average for an extraterrestrial porn collection, apparently.

American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir

Re: Farm Safety

"... gov fund relief ..."

Socialism.

Re: Eeeeedjuts!

D'uh! Money!!

AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues

"AI bats away ping-pong challenge"

AI prompt> Should I challenge AI at ping-pong at home or away?

France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records

Re: Living and working in France...

"the fonctionnaire on the other end of the phone only spoke French."

The fonctionnaire on the other end of the phone would never admit that they spoke anything other than French.

Re: Living and working in France...

Ah, my mistake. I thought we were talking about Russia!

Does the database differentiate between René Artois and his identical twin brother?

Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it

Not only is there no such process but nobody is allowed to tell anyone else when pages need to be removed or updated. There might even be pages that have old superseded names for the PM and head of the Foreign Office!

Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive

"to make encrypted mails more readable on clients that don't support encryption."

decryption, shirley.

NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing

Re: spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing

"so.... it's cold outside and there's no kind of atmosphere ...."

Smeg make good fridges ... and toasters ...

Re: In the spirit of international cooperation (yeah as if this will happen)

There might well be an ISO standard, but it's metric, so guess which country doesn't accept it!

Executive Order, or Space Corps Directive.

The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping

Cockroach Labs and Aerospike, start at the bottom and get worse!

You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house

Re: Youtuber makes clickbait video

but Tuesday's just as bad.

Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break

I hear the music industry had an over-quota of contract lawyers. Burnum and Fleecum have a reputation to keep up. Otherwise just walk away.

Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise

I'm pasta caring.

"an agentic OAuth tangle"

I'm at the stage now where this is just word salad to me.

Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker

Re: "Tried to send a frigate… It broke down before it got there." The Navy Lark ?

Trouble is the French subs are left-hand drive and they have that whining gearbox like many Peugeots ...

Well, don't give it root access then!!! Duh!!!

This all sounds a bit medieval, chain mail on a battleship? What's the main armament? A trebuchet?

Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031

Re: RE: Will it work?

Propellant. Reaction mass.

I echo your sentiments.

Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems

Re: Users forget

Luxury.

Re: Users forget

Why can't they all share one cell?

"tools for creating tables of figures and forecasts"

Ask Coprolite when this feature will be added to Notepad.

It's already in Linux is Systemd.

Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades

Re: Correction

The door is wide open, there are no guards, and there are no exit fees.

"The company has had a difficult few months in terms of software quality."

Can somebody please ask Microsoft when this will not be the case ...

We don't expect a reply.

Loud, power hungry – opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban

Re: Maine

Clan Kornovii - ruthless.

We should be Sennen them all to jail.

Re: Maine

Do you mean Sicily or the Isles of Scilly? But both are quite valid.

Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband

Re: Consumer protection, lack thereof

Customer gouging and "There's a sucker born every minute" can be a way of life too, and some people will fight tooth and nail to protect that way of life.

Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London

Is this South London's bid to join the New Forest?

Re: Captcha

I never had any problem with that roundabout system (The HW one). Seemed very logical and the traffic flowed.