Posts by PB90210

Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data

Re: "...damage to national security...."

You missed the 'aircraft carrier' came without aircraft

Re: Imagine if he'd hoovered up millions for useless PPE, or....

IIRC she was inflaming at a time of an inflammatory situation... namely Southport

BOFH: Rerouting responsibility via firewall configs

Re: The BOFH is back to his true form

That assumes the sensors were actually connected... far simpler to leave the visible ones disconnected

Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough

https://ernie.virtualcolossus.co.uk/ernie.html

US auditors beg Pentagon to pay attention to latest report about IT system flaws

Re: The one place DOGE is needed

Gotta pay for the Don Day parade somehow...

ChatGPT users wake to find it's even more wrong, slower than usual

Re: It appears OpenAI services are experiencing a variety of issues.

Max Headroom...

Re: Magic 8 Ball is Broken

Could it be that they are starting to comply with copyright takedowns, so are stuck with out of date info?

Someone asked it "why are you lying"?

UK bets big (and small) on nuclear as datacenter demand expected to climb

Re: Finally

Except Sizewell is fairly low lying and in an area that suffers from coastal erosion... though we don't have that many tsunamis, so that's alright...

Sushi, anyone?

Re: You know it's a load of horsehit

"energy so cheap they wouldn't need to meter it"... the promise when Calder Hall was first opened

Google outfoxed by crafty squatters in $1B London HQ's rooftop garden

Re: 3 years

Difficult to get a car, Jaguar or otherwise, up to the top floor...

Re: Fox News

A quick squirt of Lynx Africa would scare off most things

Chap claims Atari 2600 'absolutely wrecked' ChatGPT at chess

Re: Old News

I think 'teaching' it Rock-Paper-Scissors was a good gag.

"You go first"...

Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

Re: Not unexpected

Muskie's voting status is 'it's complicated'... there's a complete Wiki article on the subject... suffice to say his vote swings both ways

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_Elon_Musk

Re: It's hilarious....

She must be bulimic from having to constantly regurgitate all that bile. Previous press secretaries lasted just a few weeks spouting his version of the truth before giving up and being escorted to a darkened room in a padded jacket

Techie traced cables from basement to maternity ward and onto a roof, before a car crash revealed the problem

Re: At my last place....

Fault Clear: snow on aerial

X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

Re: Would Elon do that?

<klaxon>

According to QI series P, 'Parts', the pope only craps in the woods...

'The Pope is not a Roman Catholic. The religious leader who officially uses the title of "Pope" is the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria. His official title is "Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy See of Saint Mark the Apostle". '

What will UK government workers do with an extra 26 minutes a day?

Re: Mountains of AI-generated corporate BS!

Copilot, please summarise this week-long email thread... Copilot?... Copilot?... Copilot?

<no reply as the results are zero, zilch, nada...>

Copilot saves 206 minutes, but then the user spends 180 mins verifying the results... total 26 mins saved

Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options

Re: Everything is old is new is old is new again

The Fiat 500X, the size of a small SUV!

Re: Pointless

Notepad's big failing was that it assumed DOS formatting and would display everything allononelineifithadLinuxorMac line endings (solution: open in Wordpad if Notepad++ not available)

Wordpad's RTF was handy for annotating log files to highlight the errors or for creating quick'n'dirty documents that could be loaded without waiting 5mins for Word to load

Mysterious leaker GangExposed outs Conti kingpins in massive ransomware data dump

Re: Avoid Moscow and check your windows

I once came across an NHS site that listed 'never events', medical incidents that should never have accrued. Alongside the 'normal' ones like wrong limbs operated on, wrong injections and the like, were a couple of 'fallen from window' events!

Luckily it appears not to have reached the epidemic levels found in Moscow's hospitals and care homes, and hopefully this isn't another symptom of misplaced cutbacks of vital services in the NHS

Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage

Re: Total amount the claimant received:

£250 from 'You've Been Framed'

Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor

I suppose in the early days of Blue Peter there wouldn't have been a lot of ND filter available and they would have been forced to use one of Valerie Singleton's nylons instead

"Nurse, the pills, quickly!"

(why did autocorrect so easily suggest 'Valerie Singleton'?)

Re: It happens to the best of us.

"uncooked toast"

Do you have the recipe?

I once bought an ice cube tray that included a "serving suggestion" on the label! (I have the image backed up somewhere... somewhere)

Trump can bluster and bluff all he wants, but iPhone manufacturing isn't coming to the US

Re: But surely, Apples are a grocery.

He has already had a go at Walmart to "suck it up" because they are insisting on passing on the extra cost to the consumer...

Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'

Re: The Orange Idiot is making it up as he goes

If all else fails he can always declare bankruptcy...

User unboxed a PC so badly it 'broke' and only a nail file could fix it

Re: In denial

I was on a train and looked up at the dot matrix display at the end of the carriage... one half was clear, the other was blurred and unreadable.

It then occurred to me that it was a kind of parallax effect caused by a pole between me and the display... each eye was seeing only half of the display and my left eye had seriously changed, and until that point I hadn't noticed

Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good'

Re: Joint banks

Try asking the banks to stop merging...

I once moved some savings from Abbey National to the Alliance and Leicester for extra security, in case either went bust... a couple of months later they merged

Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America

Hey DoGE... wanna save $175bn+...

Re: useless

Even if the military infrastructure is hardened against EMP the civilian infrastructure is going to be toast

Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn

Re: "Nobody gets treated worse than I do online. Nobody"

Someone has been posting fake images of him as the Pope and as a muscle-bound he-man... someone needs to prosecute that person asap!

Re: Critical speech

You could have more fun with the trial of the orange one versus the Vatican and God...

Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things

what?!?

"Gemini is pretty good at telling you when you're wrong,"

Sounds like marriage... even when you think you're right, you're wrong

Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload

Re: Just one thing

The pre-passenger tramways of the Industrial Revolution used horses/manpower/gravity to haul trucks...

Even the knocker uppers needed a knocker upper

T'were difficult times to be a sagger maker's bottom knocker

Re: Whoops

Only Superman wears his pants on the outside!

(so confusing getting changed in a tiny phone booth)

Re: Whoops

And swede/turnip

Had a northern colleague who hated 'swede' but after moving to London discovered 'swede' was really orange rather than white/purple and turnip was white/purple rather than orange

(left-pondian: swede or Swedish turnip is a rutabaga)

Re: Surely simpler to stick with correct English

My 'local' became an ex-local when they stopped selling bottles of Budvar at the insistence of Bud!

(I always got a headache drinking that slopwater)

Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'

Re: Looking forward to the wrongful dismissal case

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-illegal-immigrant/

His brother said it as a joke

(that fact check was 8 years before the Grauniad piece)

How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world'

Re: Utopia

You would have thought the inevitable doctor's appointment post-it stuck on the board would have fixed the problem with waiting lists...

Dilettante dev wrote rubbish, left no logs, and had no idea why his app wasn't working

Re: Divers log

Same here (until retirement). I worked a 'nine day fortnight' based on a 35hr week and HR insisted on decimal hours on the timesheet. Bank Holidays and leave days were different amounts and booking everything could be a nightmare... luckily my hours were (generally) standard, so I could book a month or so ahead and make changes where necessary

(others worked different patterns, like a straight 35hr week)

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

Re: And then there was 2

Big problem at the moment is that the VP takes over!...

<Shudder>

As US scientists flee Trump, MP urges Britain to do more to nab them

Re: Hmm

"Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width!"

(60s sitcom)

BOFH: HR tries to think appy thoughts

Big problem... government/industry mandated audits that the company relies on to do business

Re: Gamification

Go One, Go One, Go One...

(Mrs Doyle)

We had 'wellness' but it was outsourced to a site that had T&Cs that allowed it to keep you employers informed of all your troubles, foibles and kinks

Somehow I never felt the need to sign up <twitch twitch>

Nip chip smugglers by building trackers into GPUs, US Senator suggests

"Such a kill switch would enable the US government not just to punish those caught circumventing export controls"... or just the victims of another orange tantrum

People find amazing ways to break computers. Cats are even more creative

Re: Cats and keyboards

"Like adding ribbons"

Try context-sensitive ribbons/toolbars...

You discover a wonderfully useful function but it was buried 3 levels down and you can't remember the steps you took to find it and, no matter how hard you try, you never come across it again... did I imagine it?