Posts by Ken Shabby

Elon Musk's X to challenge Australian content takedown orders in court

Re: Boeing

Flying car parachute, going cheap, only one owner.

Mine’s the one with the bolt spanner in the pocket.

Microsoft claims it didn't mean to inject Copilot into Windows Server 2022 this week

Usually one would apply Hanlons’s razor but suggest Grey’s law might apply here.

Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it

Someone spat on a wall and it hatched

UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch

Spin

£0.5 million sounds so much less than £500,000

US government excoriates Microsoft for 'avoidable errors' but keeps paying for its products

Re: The problem is

Don't be silly, we all know it was Al Gore.

UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

Re: The Unacceptable

The plural is a five letter word.

Sleuths who cracked Zodiac Killer's cipher thank the crowd

Confession

"All right, it's a fair cop, but society is to blame"

Do not touch that computer. Not even while wearing gloves. It is a biohazard

Re: Burned Cow Bones

Work at a coal mine, it comes out your arse.

BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who

Re: Exterminaaaate!

Elevate, Elevate

Re: AI Doctor

I was behind the sofa for a good few of those

Garlic chicken without garlic? Critics think Amazon recipe book was cooked up by AI

Strawberry Tart

Well it’s got some rat in it (3, rather a lot really)

Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems

Re: Different groups

I thought you said “Fozzie Bear”, “Wocka, wocka”

Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship

Re: Basically

Just saw an article in the Sydney Saturday Herald

“Elon’s case of premature congratulation”

'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city

Depends where you spread the butter

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

Each McDonalds creates about 50 jobs, 25 heart surgeons and 25 dentists.

The S in IoT stands for security. You'll never secure all the Things

Re: Internet of Things (IoT) devices

A shit-ton of that about, and it ain’t all IOT

UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings

They use Oracle?

Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon

Guess we get to detect when someone drops a Clanger

It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date

Former Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen argued daylight saving faded curtains and confused milking cows.

And to think you can compare floats for equality

And not being able cater character encodings that are not ASCII

Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp

Ned Kelly had the best idea, apart from the eye slit, a bit of a design issue, they have long claws,

What makes a hard error hard? Microsoft vet tells all

I see this all the time, the ubiquitous "Something went wrong" no stack, not allowed 'cos security. Seems general, not any particular company.

Peregrine bows out with a bang as SLIM aims for Moon's rocky runway

Re: UTC

Simple innit, with one you get sunburnt and the other radiation sickness, but not necessarily at the same time.

First functional graphene semiconductor could power future chips

Re: Outstanding

What have the Ramans ever done for us ?

‘I needed antihistamine tablets every time I opened the computers’

Re: These stories are crazy

Put a bin next to it?

China bans export of rare earth processing kit

Re: Rare

That's wy they are called rare.

BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required

Re: Three point one pints please

Is insulting to cats.

Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency

Re: If you aren't full of shrapnel you will probably suffocate

Elevate! Elavate!

PLACEHOLDER ONLY Someone please write witty headline here

I’ve seen my own code appear with someone else’s name on it, sort of flattered and a little pissed off at the same time. Internal performance measuring software.

England's village green hydrogen dream in tatters

Re: Just trying to work out which Led Zeppelin album to put on

"Dazed and Confused", definitely

What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck

Re: I

I always imagined him as a bloke, you learn something new every day.

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

I predicted it 1st

Blockchain is found to have use after all

NASA's Psyche spacecraft beams back a 'Hello' from 10 million miles away

Re: Fabulous, but…

Breaking news: They just got rid of it!

US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft

Re: Quantum slipstream

I prefer Hardtofindium, very popular in this manor squire

BOFH: Monitor mount moans end in Beancounter beatdown

Quasi walks into a pub for a pint. Someone asks the barman "whose that? " "Not sure" reply's the barman "but his face rings a bell "

Russian Nauka module plays leak-a-boo with International Space Station

Re: Russian Nauka module plays leak-a-boo with International Space Station

Could have been worse, what if they blew a seal?

Police ignored the laws of datacenter climate control

In my teens, I worked at a petrol station that had a car wash. Seen a nice sports car (well think it was an MG), get a new go faster stripe, perfectly front to back, over the top, from his Ariel or a previous user’s.

Yes, Singapore immigration plans to scan your face instead of your passport

Re: Facial recognition

Sir, is that a durian you are carrying or has a rat crawled up your arse, and died?

Lyft driver takes off with cat, global search ensues

Re: That's criminal

Because it wasn’t the Furari he ordered

CERN experiment proves gravity pulls antimatter the way Einstein predicted

Mind over Mater

Mind / Matter = We don't mind and you don't matter

No, no, no! Disco joke hit bum note in the rehab center

Re: Could be worse, of course

Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there.

Rick Wakeman.

Re: poor taste

The Rolling Stones, Sister Morphine.

Airport chaos as eGates down for the count across UK

Tourists

But apart from the foreign exchange and creating new jobs, what have the Tourists ever done for us?

Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss

I misread that as “Degenerative Dick Disease”, good to hear they have a potential cure

BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year

Re: Rolled My Own....Yup...Please Decrypt!

Drop your panties, Sir William, I cannot wait ‘till lunchtime.

Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure

Supersize me

Would you like oxygen with that?

I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation

Re: Bad storage joke

Did you hear about the infinite storage hard drive?

No, probably because they're still formatting it.

Re: Outlook...

Many a micomangler has told me to sort my desk. I told them it is sorted, a heap sort.

Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster

Re: Trade Opportunity?

It’s actually quite palatable, I had to try it, well because it’s Japan. That and a litre can of Kirin from a vending machine used to cheer me up for some reason.