Posts by Ken Shabby

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon

That was a Basil Brush, “Boom! Boom!”

Everyone's deploying AI, but no one's securing it – what could go wrong?

Re: A candle shop's AI chatbot

Just don’t ask for billhooks, though that is maybe what you will get.

Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice'

Re: Only on comms?

Surely for Septics they would be ‘boil in the bog’ rations

CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost

Re: Odd how what was "nonsense" is now fact.

Science moves in mysterious ways

Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways

You can’t make egg drop soup without…

Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower

Wai Lin: Exactly what kind of banking do you specialize in, Mr. Bond?

James Bond: Hostile take-overs.

Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency

Re: We're sure that this contract is being let in pure transparency and sunlight.

Hunt, Lunt and Cunningham

British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack

Re: Fortnum & Mason

Has Tiddles tried the Pate de mous(s)e

Meta blames Trump tariffs for ballooning AI infra bills

Re: Waste disposal and processing

Don’t bother asking if I give a shit.

How Amazon red-teamed Alexa+ to keep your kids from ordering 50 pizzas

Re: Four sides

I hear they make great doorstops

Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot

Re: You know that bit in The Meaning Of Life...

Better… Better get a bucket

What the **** did you put in that code? The client thinks it's a cyberattack

Re: Be careful where you type

Always a good game, search the tickets for some choice words.

When the inevitable happens and they get consumed by an LLM, there could be some interesting responses.

NTT creates a drone that triggers and catches lightning – then keeps flying

What could the “Donald” be a measure of? Asking for a friend.

Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet

Re: Robots used internally in Tesla factories.

Are you sure it wasn’t Ruperts?

US to slap up to 3,521% tariffs on SE Asian solar imports – especially you, Cambodia

Re: Just waiting for the first...

The smell, it smells like… idiocy

Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back

As in “Be careful with that X Eugene”?

It takes one click to join Uber One, but quitting might need 32 actions

Re: Not just in the US

Try applying for rental property in Australia, they want more info than a OSA application. Given the quality of the websites, not confident of their ability to treat it with all the confidentiality one should expect. You have no choice.

Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops

Well done.

Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft

Re: An OS so bad...

Sorry Dave, “Something went wrong!”

Introducing Windows on arm. And by arm, we mean wrist

At least he didn’t keep it bottled up

NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid

Re: Mmmmmm. . . dinosaur. . .

First catch your crocodile…

UK govt data people not 'technical,' says ex-Downing St data science head

Re: Not technical?

Is it tattooed on the back of your neck?

Tech support session saved files, but probably ended a marriage

Re: Business partner porn...

Difficult to use a mouse with boxing gloves on.

UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

Re: Wrong question

It’s a fair cop, but society is to blame.

Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat

Re: They're already

Don’t forget the stored program digital computer.

BOFH: Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?

Re: Schrödinger's firmware situation

Then 4 more busses arrive, together, with no one to get on them.

Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again

Re: Glue?

Or shit to an army blanket.

VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway

Re: In-house mouse.

Or Breakfast of Champions, apparently these assholes look like this *

Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied

Re: Not just MS

Trick used by the big outsourced consulting firms to blame the product and not their incompetence for missing a deadline.

User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse

Re: they were "hovering" it a few mm above the surface.

I reckon I’d do the same

We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is

Re: Congrats

By God sir, that explains a lot.

Starliner astronauts' stay drags on as Crew-10 launch scrubs

Re: And all because

In slang, "boing" can refer to the sudden appearance of an erection, often used in a lighthearted or humorous way to describe male arousal. It can also be used in fandom slang, particularly in the context of anime and comics, to announce the presence of large, pert breasts.

Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital

Re: Big deal...

Gives the Tin Man a hope

Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

Re: Horses for courses

Who is number 1.

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

Re: At the Printer Manufacturers' Association Roundtable

Does pigment contain oink?

Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender

It's a fair cop, but society's to blame

Payday from hell as several British banks report major outages

Re: Making changes

They probably didn’t want to get in between an Exec and his bonus

Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel

Where’s my flying car?

Untrained techie botched a big hardware sale by breaking client's ERP

Something I have uttered a few times, “You told them what?”

IBM Consulting workers told management wants to 'more closely align pay, performance'

What’s a bonus?

Time to make C the COBOL of this century

Re: COBOL rules

I enhanced a compiler, do they call me Ken the compiler man?

I implement a virtual machine, do they call me Ken the virtual machine man?

You write the one lousy COBOL program…

Re: C is the new COBOL

I liked PL/1 sort of C with a bit of COBOL thrown in. Multics was written in it and and we owe many of today’s OS concepts to it.

There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032

Spectrum Is Brown

Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze

Re: Take a tip from a…

Make that a hairy arsed old hippy

International Space Station's out-of-this-world selfie booth turns 15

Re: Not required on voyage

‘I just going outside, and may be some time"

Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber

The Chasi

Carry on up the Cyber

Feds want devs to stop coding 'unforgivable' buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Re: FFI Libraries

Unfortunately, not “Stack OverFlow101”

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

Re: Be seen to be doing something

They just love the high vis and hard hat. Makes them look like complete twats, but nobody tell them ‘cos it’s just effing hilarious

RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101

Re: Computers in the 1960/70s

Tom Kilburn taught CS101 for me, some great asides, a legend. If I remember correctly, he said the last time he saw a working Williams~Kilburn tube was in Russia, no further details added

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

Re: Florida's name

And as we all know, Wang cares