Posts by phils

AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios

Is the White House the home of the WOPR now?

Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown

Re: How many outages is that now?

I'm still at Hanlon's razor. Assuming stupidity, not malice.

DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage

Re: “The quantum computer [..] is temporarily unavailable"

It was noticing the difference that caused it to be unavailable.

Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off

A colleague was lifting a floor tile next to one of our racks and somehow managed to hot the power button on the rack UPS with the corner of the tile. He couldn't have possibly hit it that accurately if he'd been trying to press it with the tile. It's not been quite 20 years yet but he'll still be told to be careful with the tiles any time he goes in there for years to come.

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it

Re: How fat is Kim Jong Un essay question.

Unless it happened in MASH I'm out.

Retailer Co-op: Attackers snatched all 6.5M member records

Re: Where's the GDPR fines in all of this?

Presumably the fines in this case would affect the dividend paid to the members who are the victims of the breach?

Norwegian lotto mistakenly told thousands they were filthy rich after math error

Re: Incorrect rollover cap

Euromillions is not the same lottery as Eurojackpot.

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

I assume someone had their fanny kicked for that mistake.

Credible nerd says stop using atop, doesn't say why, everyone panics

Re: Respect has been lost

OverDAtop

Elon Musk's X Corp faces $61M lawsuit over unpaid tech tabs

Re: Keep it up, Musk

Works on contingency? No, money down!

Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec

Re: Yankee employment conditions go home!

Except they're regressing instead of developing.

AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care

Re: A cynic's sarcasm might help

Are you saying amanfromMars isn't an LLM?

The months and days before and after CrowdStrike's fatal Friday

Re: So, Kurtz was at McAffee when they bugged ?

If he brings Pokemon down he might face some real consequences.

Microsoft CEO of AI: Your online content is 'freeware' fodder for training models

Re: If AI is allowed to scrape...

It should be getting stuck trying to identify which photograph has buses in it instead of that stopping me from visiting these sites.

I told Halle Berry where to go during a programming gig in LA

It was in Coventry?

Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher

Re: P. T Barnum?

The birth rate has increased massively since he "said" that.

Tesla decimates staff amid ongoing performance woe

Re: Decimated

Superfluou's?

US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone

Re: Time for change

I'll be sticking to Greenwich Moon Time.

Simulation reveals all Japanese will have the same surname by 2531

Re: "He then assumed a constant growth rate"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6LOWKVq5sQ

VMware urges emergency action to blunt hypervisor flaws

Re: Remove USB devices

The real fix is to install the patches, the workaround is for those who can't update for some reason.

Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks

Re: Being polite is great

I like the jumping frog fee.

https://27bslash6.com/bob.html

NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too

AT&T management

Wondering if they can pin their issues on the sun.

Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages

Read the end of that title as "cause nuclear" at first and was very confused.

Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

Re: Sucks to be a medieval tech company

Zoom ordering people back in to the office was a particular peak of this genre for me. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66432173

NHS in Wales bets big on Microsoft with deal worth nearly half a billion

Re: How does anyone not see this as being an obscene amount of money?

"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money"

How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer

Re: A 1980s minicomputer at the bottom of a mine ?

Cheep though.

Kyndryl bags short-lived HMRC mainframe contract

Looking forward to the article in 5 years that this contract is still running.

Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

Re: Good encryption by default

And they won't tell you their debit card PIN either.

Hacktivists attack Japanese government over Fukushima wastewater release

Do they want Godzillas?

Because that's how you get homeopathic Godzillas.

False negative stretched routine software installation into four days of frustration

Everybody else just ignored or clicked close on the Install Failed message? (If it even showed one without the verbose logging enabled)

Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time

Putting this story next to the sponsored one below was a little on the nose.

"Squaring the circle of sustainable transformation

The right partner can help CIOs maintain the delicate balance of innovation and sustainability"

Metaverse? Apple thinks $3,500 AR ski goggles are the betterverse

Re: For sure, this time!

Have any of those been since Steve Jobs died? He could have painted his crap white, stuck a logo on it and convinced some people to buy it.

That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse

Re: TBFOOTYSPHTOBKJIC vs managers

They seem to be TBFOOTYSPHTOBKJICPHOBIC

Alien rock causes cosmic disturbance in New Jersey home

Re: Farcelink

Joni Mitchell wasn't it? Along with a lot of other covers before America did it.

Re: Manna from Heaven

At the rate of one born every minute I think the scams must be close to catching up by now.

Turing Award goes to Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of the Ethernet

"South Ayrshire Golf club owner loses 2020 presidential election" was also a good one

BOFH: I care a lot ... about onion bhajis

Re: Bhajis?

And yet Bhindi Bhaji and the other Vindaloovians despise all humans.

BOFH: The PFY has won an award … for outstanding service?

Re: Extra Mileage, Extra Fun

Knew a Northern Irish guy called Mark (with a K) who would regularly get things sent to Mork Widdakay.

PC tech turns doctor to diagnose PC's constant crashes as a case of arthritis

Re: This sounds familiar....

Bloody internet, nothing but repeats.

How not to test a new system: push a button and wait to see what happens

Re: Alternative Lesson: "Never turn anything off if..."

And the credit card it's billed to expired since last month's payment.

Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce

Re: ... the constituents can remove their MP. if that MP happens to be the PM...well :-)

The petition process can only take start though if the MP in question has been one of

convicted of an offence and received a custodial sentence (including a suspended sentence) or ordered to be detained, other than solely under mental health legislation

Or

barred from the House of Commons for 10 sitting days or 14 calendar days

Or

convicted of providing false or misleading information for allowance claims under the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009.

I've had it with these motherflipping eggs on this motherflipping train

Re: Eggs on a train?

They need to get ova it.

WPA2 KRACK attack smacks Wi-Fi security: Fundamental crypto crapto

Re: Get ready for sensationalism...

Once they realise it involves nonces they're definitely going to go crazy.

It's official: Users navigate flat UI designs 22 per cent slower

Wasn't this already known?

This was taught as if it was already a fact in courses I did about 25 and again 15 years ago. Was it just fashionable or was the old logic thought to be wrong?

Norway Quizwall experiment ends with more quizzing than commenting

Perhaps they want just as many walls but smaller ones.

Hell desk to user: 'I know you're wrong. I wrote the software. And the protocol it runs on'

Not exactly IT but a pretty good analogy to a lot of IT jobs.

Damian Green now heads up UK Cabinet Office

Damian Green?

I thought he was one of the ones Grant Shapps made up.

Cabinet Office minister Gummer loses seat as Tory gamble backfires

Not sure if a typo or truth

"Gummer was one of the most high-profile Tory causalities of the poll"

Wow, look out, hackers: Trump to order 60-day cybersecurity probe

Re: Time for a Great Firewall

The beauty of that is you don't even need to ban them all, just don't allow any 1s or 0s on the internet and the rest of the problem should go away.

Computerised stock management? Nah, let’s use walkie-talkies

And for the large mug who owns the company?