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Election Excel blunder declared a 'low point' for Austrian social democracy

It did work for Dubbya.

BOFH: Ah. Company-branded merch. So much better than a bonus

Re: When do people understand that cash rules?

Were you at Dovecliff Grammar too?

It was a simple mistake that could have happened to anyone who wasn't really listening to the teacher properly.

I'm really sorry about that.

Re: Acronym-Ignorant

On the other hand, I was taught English under a system that percieved grammar as a crypto-fascist system to force young minds into a rigid authoritarian mindset.

It drove our French teacher mad as we had no concept of, or the vocabulary of, grammar. It was also a bit of a bastard when I got to Germany where they take their grammar seriously.

We also never learned to avoid creulty to the common comma.

Cheapest, oldest, slowest part fixed very modern Mac

So you knew Ron H. too

Re: Bridge technologies

Sorry for the downvote but you mentioned the Zip drive. I still have nightmares about trying to get my data off the fuckers. It was not a SCSI problem *Rant for 10 minutes* .

Those things cost me more money than my Credit Suisse Investment Counsellor.

Re: Its always the simple things

Please don't feed the Troll, damn Tooooo late

Re: Its always the simple things

Make sure that you invite the local fire fighters round for a barbeque or two.

I've heard that it helps with the insurance claims.

Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby

Re: costs

I bought a bandsaw because I want to make some toys in wood for my niece's children.

I'm in my fourth week of experimentation and the system is still not delivering the the results I'm looking for.

On the plus side, I still have all my fingers, and I am enjoying the learning process.

Sometimes the journey is more valuable than the destination (Grasshopper).

US chip sanctions may push Brazil, others right into China's arms

Re: Lula is bad for business.

Look into why he was released. It turned out the State Department had framed him so that Bolsonara could win.

UK consortium bid for NHS data platform falls at first hurdle

Re: "Unless the conservatives finish hollowing out and selling off the NHS by January 2025"

Are these doctors old enough to have been working before Blair started to to destroy the NHS in earnest?

A lot of experienced doctors left the NHS after his first round of "improvements" and one of them told me that his policies made Thatcher look like a fairy godmother (unless you were a Consultant).

Re: "Unless the conservatives finish hollowing out and selling off the NHS by January 2025"

The power of the Labour movement has always been used to be about the strength of powerless working people in large groups. All that this infighting does is split the large group into multiple small ones, rendering it powerless. It's almost as if Keith is a Tory like His Tonyness stooge. FTFY

What if someone mixed The Sims with ChatGPT bots? It would look like this

Re: Just try it

Sounds like they based it on my last manager

It's this easy to seize control of someone's Nexx 'smart' home plugs, garage doors

You forgot the troll icon.

Smile! UK cops reckon they've ironed out gremlins with real-time facial recog

Where are they getting all the personel?

In most areas there are not enough police resources to show up for a burglary or minor assault.

So, if the FR flags a criminal where are the police people coming from?

Cisco Moscow trashed offices as it quit Putin's putrid pariah state

Re: putin's 3̶ 406 day battle plan for absolute success :))

So it's fine to invade non-neighbouring countries.

Haven't you noticed El Reg is not what it was (British).

ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI

Re: Open or Closed...

Sounds like it was created for HR bods or CEO's

Terran 1, world's first (mostly) 3D printed rocket, lifts off ... and fails to reach orbit

Re: Are we having fun yet?

It's disruptive, so it must be worth Beeeellions

I can't do that, Dave: AI drowns top sci-fi mag with story submissions

Thought it was "There 's a burger bar around the corner where the meat you get is skimpy. That's the way the world will end. Not with a bang but a Wimpy."

Core-JS chief complains open source is broken, no one will pay for it

The poor guy

Oh my god, that all happened to him, the poor guy. Where did you hear this? I missed it on the BBC, can you give us a link because I'm sure the BBC would have reported it.

Smart ovens do really dumb stuff to check for Wi-Fi

Re: Baked

In Germany the AEG acronym was popularly expanded as Auspacken, Einschaten, Gutschein (verbatim as unpack, turn on, refund).

Fat EVs may cause 'more death on our roads' – watchdog

Re: Weight is relative...

Especially if you're wearing stilettos.

Re: More mass = more energy, right?

Where I live in Switzerland, the local area voted to only use hydro (there are a couple of big rivers here). This means that we've been paying a slight premium for our electricity for the last 10 years.My car is a hybrid with roughly 50km electric range. Unless I'm going on holiday or to a distant client with no remote log-in the car is driven purely electricly for 10 months of the year. Due to regenerative braking my alloy rims stay clean and my brake pads last forever(ish). I love the combination of short/long distance practicality.

Re: Weight is relative...

Have you ever heard of regenerative braking?

Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss

Re: What a load of cobblers

If (Doughnut freshly fried)

{

While (not cool enough to to eat without burning mouth)

{

wait 5 seconds

}

eat

If Ask ("Do you have some alcoholic drink to give me?")

{

Reply("Best friend forever")

}

else

{

Reply("Thanks for the doughnut, now fuck off because some of us have work to do and can't get paid for handing out doughnuts and alcohol free drinks all day.")

{

{

else

{

Ask ("Why don't you have proper doughnuts?")

If Ask ("Do you have some alcoholic drink to give me?")

{

Reply("I'll forgive you for the shitty doughnuts.")

}

}

Raspberry Pi hires former spy gadget-maker who baked devices into surveillance ops

Re: It's not gone well for them

Lord of the Files?

Palantir's Covid-era UK health contract extended without competition

Re: I feel all warm and fuzzy now I know the Americans have access to my health data ...

Upvoted because I'm in Switzerland and I feel warm and fuzzy because even though I pay a fortune (£500/month family of 3 with paying all costs up to £2200/year per person and after that 10% of all costs) for my health care, my data is safe.

Should open source sniff the geopolitical wind and ban itself in China and Russia?

Simon just don't drink the kool-aid

Sorry, Simon just stop drinking the kool-aid.

An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while

Re: Inheriting tech teams

Downvote for "world class team" hitting my buzzword bingo parser from 1999

Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch

Re: Bit of a gimmicky letdown with squandered potential

What ever happened to the optimus maximus?

US chip war could hurt the West as Beijing moves to ramp up its own industry

Ha ha

If your company has even seen a dollar from a distance or one of your shareholders is an american citizen then you are subject to american law. Not to mention third party sanctions.

Epson zaps lasers into oblivion, in the name of the environment

Re: Oh sure, inkjets are "green". Pull the other one, it has bells on it.

I'm dreading the day when my Samsung 3010nd dies

Block Fi seeks bankruptcy protection as 'shocking' FTX contagion spreads

Re: Hard Currency

Governments like the Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, Argentinia,Venezuela,US where money is/was simply printed to solve short term problems?

HP Inc to lay off up to 6,000 staff, cut costs by $1.4 billion

Re: I am doing my part

I used to buy HP printers, then I bought Samsung printers. Satisfaction level rose enormously. Now I find that HP has bought the Samsung printer division. I had been wondering why the driver software was getting worse. Who should I buy my printer from in 5 years time (minimum) when my Samsung printer stops working.

Damnation, I just jinxed myself.

Go ahead, be rude. You don't know it now, but it will cost you $350,000

Re: reputation?

AAARR

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

Re: Since there are so many nucelar fans here ...

Ok, as long as it doesn't affect the property values in the neighbourhood worse than the drought and flood erosion.

Re: LNP loosers

Who are the LNP? What are loosers?

Enquiring minds are guessing some sort of colonists.

Re: Clean up

Where did this 700GWH come from?

Apple forgoes cooling systems in M2 MacBook Air

Re: The title is no longer required.

I have an Inspiron from Dell (1520 CORE 2 DUO T7250 from 2007) that still runs win 10 fine. The soft touch yellow coating has degraded and feels digusting tho'.

FYI: BMW puts heated seats, other features behind paywall

FTFY

The mentality we're looking at is exactly what drove people away from buying British cars back in the 1960s (along with absolutely rotten quality) and is a good indicator that the companies in question have been taken over by MBA's

WCL bags UK government framework for 'everything ICT'

There's no way anything could ever go wrong with this. Maybe they could outsource the oversight to WCL too.

Cookie consent crumbles under fresh UK data law proposals

Re: The UK

Switzerland

Consultant plays Metaverse MythBuster. Here's why they're wrong

Meta is dead

McKinsey helped Swiss Air, Enron and Jacob Zuma to where they are today. I hope Meta joins the proud tradition

Police lab wants your happy childhood pictures to train AI to detect child abuse

Re: The great trust pairing

What could go wrong?

There's no CC footage to be abused.

In Australia it's all done the best possible taste.

HPE building its 4th global 'supercomputer factory'

Mike Lynch advises

If I was the last CEO of Cray, I would be moving to a country without an extradition treaty with the USA ASAP.

Mary Coombs, first woman commercial programmer, dies at 93

Re: First time I heard of her -- thanks!

We also had a teacher in '78-'79 who had a degree in computing. She taught maths because in state schools in the East Midlands there was no such thing as computer studies. She was willing to teach us about computing after school but the headmaster believed that "Computers are just a fad, nothing will come of them.", so he wouldn't let us use a classroom after hours. He was such a unremarkable bureaucrat that I can't even remember his name. The school was Wulfric Comprehensive in Burton upon Trent.

Harvard, MIT, Berkeley are still fighting over genome-editing patents. Now another ruling

Re: Here's an idea

FTFY Maybe fix the broken US system where only the rich win

Microsoft details 'planet-scale' AI infrastructure packing 100,000-plus GPUs

That's where all the GPU's have gone

Bastards

Car radios crashed by station broadcasting images with no file extension

Re: HD radio

There are very few excuses for being so egregiously rude to someone based on their nationality (especially when they are self-deprecating). I really hope that you don't have a concrete reason to hate americans (they blew up your family in a drone strike, invaded your country, cancelled Firefly).If not then the smiley after your racist comment is just a get-out clause.

I also didn't have a clue what that was, and am grateful for the previous poster who infomed us all.