Posts by FredTheBaddy

Google aims disrupto-tronic ray at intercoms. Yes, intercoms

Re: something new and shiny

go hungry cos I spent all the money on dumb google toys!

Will AI spell the end of humanity? The tech industry wants you to think so

"Clever AI will create tremendous wealth"

Is Donald Trump now ghostwriting for El Reg?

Nest offers its thermostat in three new pretty colors!

The software learns to filter out persistent uninteresting motion – like a branch moving in the wind

1) Cut down leafy branch

2) Hide behind branch and shuffle slowly towards front door....

"Til Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane"

Microbes that laugh at antibiotics: UK sinks £4.5m into China-Brit kill team

"Antibiotics are no longer routinely given ..."

I wish that were true. When my 3 year old had a possible infection the doctor prescribed antibiotics because "it would take about 5 days for the results of the urine test to come back - however - if you're worried you can go to A&E and they'll do a urine test and give you the result straight away".

In other words, the antibiotics were entirely unnecessary, being prescribed purely because the doctor's surgery couldn't do something as basic as a urine test.

Database man flown to Hong Kong to install forgotten patch spends week in pub

"since replaced by a dull McAirport"

A £21bn McAirport, built on an artificial island.

Wish I had been able to fly into Kai Tak back in the day but alas I were but a boy.

You say I mustn’t write down my password? Let me make a note of that

Clear Desk Policy

Far from a thing of the past, is a requirement under ISO27001.