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Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do

I keep myself aloaf from such temptations.

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’

Catch the AI wave

From the country that brought you Hokusai and Fukushima, you'd think they'd be more careful of the damage waves can do; deliberately seeking them out...

Leave that to the California techbros who imagine they are surferdudes; and remember that everything going wrong in "Return To The Forbidden Planet" started with "Wipeout".

AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped

70 percent of audience members had raised their hands.

We have an audience who paid a stupid amount to attend a talk fest (the sort of thing that could, on the face of it, be equally functional if run as a free webinar).

No, you at An Event. The added value of attending something like that is to be SEEN to be attending, by the other attendees and, if you are lucky, by the bloke on stage. Even better, by the cameras! You are trying to be part of the In Crowd.

One thing you are NOT going to be doing is be caught booing - or be spotted not putting your hand up when asked if you had a positive RoI: "Did you see Fred from NearlyMegaCorp had his hand down? Loooosser! Should we sell his stock?"

$4,000 price of admission

This is just squeezing more cash out of the gullible before it all pops.

Then again, it's going to be cheaper than attending the football World Cup and about as useful in the grand scheme of things, so what the heck.

White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record

But DJT Heinlein audiobooks

In particular, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

Put the bit about lobbing rocks from Moon to Earth, with precision, onto a loop[1]. Two days later, NASA will have full DoD funding for a moonbase. Plus a few targeting telescopes[2].

[1] but bleep out the actual targets used in the book, of course

[2] "They are cunning devils, Sir, and have hidden their launch sites from everything but far infrared and gamma, Sir. No, no, it only *looks* like the telescopes are pointing the wrong way, we have to measure the cosmic sources to eliminate their fingerprints, you know, like that CSI show, Sir."

Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo

54 minutes of Totality

Jammy buggers.

We go haring around the planet, hoping for about 7 minutes (and without cloud), that lot get almost an hour when they're out on a Works jolly!

Re: What counts as an eclipse?

No.

There have to be at least three bodies is involved - one of which the observer is on, watching the other two move into line.

Just to be weird, a solar eclipse is "just" a transit of the Moon across the Sun (from our p.o.v.) but the other one is a transit of the Earth across the Sun from the p.o.v. of the Moon - and we happen to be looking *away* from it! And as everything is from the Human perspective, we decided to call that a Lunar eclipse, when to the Selenites it is just that big bugger getting in the way again.

Yahoo! Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one

Three Pillars

Of the obvious!

The things that can go phut the hardest are the things you want to be able to work around.

Good to know they did Systems 101, that is more than some manage.

AI agents found vulns in this popular Linux and Unix print server

Re: "This" has always been my issue with CUPS on Linux...

> why that would need CUPS

Because CUPS, with its drivers and filters installed, provides a conversion to PDF, a single path that all the desktop programs can use. They *could* all implement PDF/Postscript generation without calling CUPS but from their p.o.v. that is duplicated effort. And if you've installed all the office-style apps, having a default CUPS installed, even without a physical printer, isn't a killer overhead.

Re: Oh no!

The third one will amaze you!!!

When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

The "old west" had more bowler hats than ten gallons, so they probably were still using the English they brought over as well.

Re: kph ?

kinky people here

No units, no tattling

If an AI agent screws up while running your business, there's nobody to sue

Re: Bias will come from the training

> the AI that was trained to look for ... on ... scans

Does anyone gave a citation for this?

Not because I disbelieve but because I want to have some solid citations to wave at people (my fave story - purely from number of time retold) comes from the late 1970s/earliest 1980s, pre-WWW so of course has no "reliable"[1] citations.

[1] reliable == "I googled for it and nothing came up, you liar"

How Nvidia learned to embrace the light in its quest for scale

Copper is cheap

That is one of those relative measurements, isn't it.

(Looks at copper-covered aluminium jumper wires that won't solder to PCBs and copper-coloured steel ones that keep getting stuck to magnets)

AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup

Decomposition

"Write me a web server" - <<too vague, decompose and try again>>

"Write me a HTTP parser, a file fetcher, an HTTP responder" - <<better, but decompose some more, please>>

...

"Write me a function to open the file whose name is the RHS of the URL" - <<hmm, bit more detail please, don't want to disappoint you>>

"Write a line that goes 'f = fopen(url_rhs); oh FFS I'll do it myself!" - <<hmmph, please yourself. Humans, they don't know what they want>>

Netflix – yes, Netflix – jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

Perfect for the American release versions

Another step in the path to the perfect American cinema experience, as promised in Gremlins 2: "screening tonight, Casablanca - in color and with a happy ending!"

Trump wants to take a battle axe to CISA again and slash $707M from budget

To say that he is working for the Russians is giving him too much credit for understanding international relations.

He is doing all this for his own glory (as he perceives it): note the part about "target the President".

Get rid of "duplication at State and Federal levels" and if anything goes wrong it is the States' fault, not the Federal President's: he "enabled" them and they fluffed it.

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

Re: "too complicated for them to use"

> Tabular display and input of data is

What the office computers[1] used to HAVE to use on big blackboards stretched across the long wall of the room, as they calculated forecasts by hand - and had a team one blackboard behind double-checking their work!

Small businesses could make do with a drafting table and a long sheet of paper (and the Finance Officers had actual contact with all the numbers as they wrote them down, allowing them to spot anomalies because they were unconsciously running validation rules that nobody bothers to encode into Excel).

Mechanising those blackboards on VDUs, for use by the people who had been trained in the old ways, was a boon.

But now everyone and their gerbil[2] has spreadsheets on their laptops, with naff all training ("Why pay for training, it is INTUITIVE!"), sticking religiously to the same UI, when it has been removed from necessity (on the blackboards, that UI *is* the internal mechanism) is just - weird. If not outright doolally.

It is no wonder that people use spreadsheets as databases - the first thing you had to do on the blackboards was manually copy the input figures from a pile of paperwork into relevant columns (the ones that were painted permanently on the walls). So you "save time" by typing them directly into your laptop spreadsheet. Then add in the emails, 'cos you have all that extra space without sellotaping pages over the door. And so it goes. But, of course, on the biggest blackboards, it wasn't the spreadsheet computers who copied those columns, they had juniors who fetched the data for them. A function that was forgotten when VisiCalc came along (not that I blame them, the Apple ][ was good but had its limits). Nowadays, you can write a macro that fetches from your database, but by the time your business *has* a database, things are getting so built up and complex[3] you may as well just paste your numbers in directly...

[1] men in suits, as the business world didn't trust women to do arithmetic, unlike the sciences

[2] dogs being too sensible

[3] if every user *did* know how to organise their own databases, keeping track of who is storing what and where becomes a nightmare - and then the "database guys" insist that they keep the single source of truth, even though (if they are any bleeping good at their job) they are properly positioned to read simple text files, that Fred can understand and update, into cleverer formats for bulk processing! You do *not* need everybody who owns some data to learn how to use that ruddy database frontend - oh, look, the simple frontend is now a familiar spreadsheet interface - aaaaaarrrrrrggghhhhh!!!!!

Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

Re: MicroSlop

Comstock - spawning a golden age of "man walks into a drugstore" jokes that confuse the youngsters.

Similar nonsense over here did mean we got "House of Fun" by Madness, which was nice.

US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks

Re: Interesting

But schtupid*

* this communication brought to you from beautiful downtown Burbank

Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

Artemis seems closer to Thunderbird 3 than 5 - especially as 3 has had unfortunate comms problems.

Perhaps if we threatened to send the Microsoft Outlook team up the mountain to fix their problem, as Brains needed to, they'd take the need for reliability more seriously.

Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands

A parser referred to as "tree-sitter"

Ah, isn't that a parser that has been written using tree-sitter, rather than a parser that is *called* tree-sitter?

So do we know the name of the parser? Or just that the name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'."

Don't open that WhatsApp message, Microsoft warns

Re: Upvoted!

Didn't you know? He's a liquid!

(See also We all float down here - but don't think too much in the results of combining the two - icky!)

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system

Substantial risk that Anthropic could attempt to disable its technology

Substantial risk that the owner of ANY service run on Somebody Else's Computer could attempt to disable it. Or Yet Another Somebody could attempt to disable it, or interrupt the communication to it.

So unless the DoW intends to fill its nuclear powered warships with GPUs/NPUs/TPUs/CPUs (and a couple sticks of DDR5, if they can afford it)...

Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid

Disney faked the lemmings footage

But now we see it happening for real!

"Our competitors *say* they are doing X, we *must* do X"

"Hey, you know we talked about maybe doing X and the CEO went wild and told everyone we are doing X? Well, now those guys are doing X, perhaps we really ought to do it now?"

"We do X! Where we lead, everyone else folloooooooooooowssssssss!" (Thud)

Raspberry Pi leans into semiconductors as sales climb – especially in US and China

Re: Not too worried here.

> something I want might count as a revolution ... I'd like an SBC that can run off a battery productively.

Well, it all depends what you mean by "productively" - and why you are discounting so many extant 'phones and laptops as SBCs! 8Especially the less-repairable units, which definitely had it all on one circuit board, as you found out when a socket got bent!)

We've had Palm Pilots and the Psions - they waned in the face of the smartphone - which you could program yourself. The trouble is, the current crop of smartphones are far, far more of a pain to program yourself than the older devices; perhaps what you are looking for is a "back to the '90s" in the same vein that R'Pi took us back to the '80s?!

If you can "make do" with an SBC that doesn't have gigabytes of RAM (though they can have loads of SD storage) there are battery-powered SBCs all over the place, for a variety of prices (more if you willing to make the box yourself). For ready-made, have a look at M5Stack Cardputer or Tab 5. The Picocalc has a better keyboard, or try their DevTerm with a bigger Pi inside. Maybe look at a HackRF and tweak that (expensive way of doing it, if you don't want any of the SDR stuff, but - what do you want your SBC to be able to do?)

If you had more of an idea of what you mean by "an SBC (run of a battery)" and, most importantly, what "productively" is supposed to mean, why it is different to using a smartphone, then we can explore more of the devices that are (have been recently) available - or identify the gap in the market!

Re: Not too worried here.

> Not sure what "full support" means

More than one OS release before it is orphaned! Well, for "full" OS releases for the foreseeable future, backed up by a history of supplying same - without orphaning the older SBCs as soon as the next model comes along. Official recognition of multiple OSes. Recognising the existence of and encouraging third-party add-ons. Supporting user forums, teaching materials (with the Foundation and the manufacturing sides working together).

> cheap SBC for desktop use, Pi is a great product ... many of us are still hoping that volume and targeted specing brings prices down and allows Linux-based SBCs to take up more utility functions

The various models of R'Pi aren't providing Linux-based SBCs to do utility functions? You mean, like all the utility functions that are discussed in forums (including The Register comments), the MagPi magazine etc?

Such as sitting in the heads of biped robots, alongside motor driver boards; in wheeled robots, running ROS; providing IP cameras with local storage and a bit of processing (motion triggering), for wildlife or security; to run BirdNET Pi and alert when interesting things happen in the garden; running DNS filtering and ad-blocking with Pi-Hole; running a NAS; running a PVR for Freeview telly using the official TV tuner HAT; displaying fun plasma patterns on an LED HAT; playing radio streams from the Internet; playing (badly) synth tunes with Sonic Pi and a touch keyboard HAT (Pimoroni have had some great HATs iver the years and I'm a sucker for a gadget). Those are just the things done, so far, with R'Pis in Corner Mansions: haven't (yet) got around to plugging in an SDR and joining the UK meteor-watch group, or building a cabinet for playing retro video games, or monitoring and graphing the heat distribution in the wife's composting bin (that is one I've promised her).

Thinking about it, aside from checking acquired kit is working, I don't recall *ever* using an R'Pi as a desktop PC. Shame, 'cos I got a monitor with a HDMI lead all ready to plug in, and I even have an official touchscreen in a nice case.

> Raspberry's vision already sparked one major paradigm shift.

A "paradigm shift" that went all the way back to the UK in the 1980s when we could get home microcomputers that were accessible (from the p.o.v. of the bits&bobs, not the price!), could be easily programmed by youngsters, had interesting I/O and lots of published, shared, projects on how to do fun things with them.

The biggest change that R'Pi did was going back to "the kids can gave a computer" with, to help lessen the anxiety and allow more than just the middle-class swotty kids to have one, an OS on SD (so you can screw up and not worry - our '80s boxes had to make do with ROMs!) and a *starting* price that doesn't break the bank. This was all discussed in the years & demos that led up to the R'Pi 1 being released.

> They launched countless careers and startups by giving the curious more room to tinker.

As they planned to, precisely as the '80s boxes did for that generation - R'Pi brought back what had been lost.

Re: Not too worried here.

> The Pi was already getting a bit pricey for a lot of use cases

Do you mean that you are finding equivalents, with full support, at lower cost - or are you just looking at the prices of the top-end R'Pi models - and are those the ones that are correctly sized for your use-cases?

> Just adding more RAM is an evolution, not a revolution

Does anybody *want* a revolution? That would tend to risk the whole "it can still do everything it always could, but now also..." aspect.

Enthusiasts and hobbyists

In these parts are buying (and using!) way more RP2xxx microcontrollers (on breakouts and boards from a variety of vendors) than we are R'Pi SBCs. Especially if you discount the SBCs that were bought second-hand.

And we benefit from the support that R'Pi put into the tools for the MCU, just as we do the software that runs on the SBCs.

Contracts are in C++26 despite disagreement over their value

Re: The different C++ languages

> How big is a 'char' in C++?

That is fully defined by "look it up in your compiler manual" and "taking into account your target architecture" :-) As it should be (see also "what size is a pointer in C?")

OR as it has been with C, by rapping you over the knuckles for not using the int16_t etc types, which *are* all well defined.

Re: Virtual functions

> I would be surprised if very many contemporary software engineering syllabi deal with programming language semantics at all, let alone weakest precondition semantics which "contracts" presumably mirrors.

Ask them to justify their "loop invariant" and watch the eyes: "rabbit in the headlights" or glazed incomprehension, bad. All too common, but bad.

It is my understanding that the issues are with the implementation, not the concept of contracts: putting it into the rest of C++, including sticking to the promise that, if you choose not to use it, your code does not pay a penalty. Even if some of the code you drag in from a third-party decides to use it*.

assert() is the greatest thing in K&R and every improvement on that is (should be!) a joy.

* even the old point about whether you need to add a compiler flag to support dynamic_cast<> everywhere can be more than a minor niggle

Play the ostrich

As I no longer have to look at other people's efforts, I shall happily continue to write C++ code using only the bits that I understand* and can draw out a quick low-level "what it looks like in memory" diagram.

Including a note on which loops can allocate memory (hint: not during any inner loops that are chewing numbers, looking at certain people whose insistence that four levels of nested templates and a few "auto" declarations are better than any typedef).

* which does still increase over time, although these days the time balance between reading about the latest "modern C++" versus getting the blinkies to actually do useful work within the constraints of the microcontroller tends towards the latter. Static reflection sounds interesting... scroll, scroll, past the list of document changes...

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

Re: Don't forget...

Yup. My SourceForge login still works and the poisoned installers debacle is long behind us now (and compared to this year's litany of Github gaffs...)

Plus using good old Subversion seems to limit the AI "pull request" slop.

The first thing vibe coding builds is confidence it will help you succeed

> vibe-read

Brilliant. I am so nicking that.

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

> It’s not so much that the AI are sycophants, it is more that... I had a chat with an AI about this, and the replies appear to confirm this thesis... You feel affirmed

The AI confirmed you are right? You are right in that the AI isn't just being sycophantic by, um, confirming you are right.

> Then off down the rabbit hole you go.

Did you at least bring back some carrots?

To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer

Why would a BSOD from Windows 98 be on show?

A copy of Windows 98 that has been kept up to date with modern hardware?

It is a cruel demonstration that, as has long been suspected, Microsoft keep all the good stuff for their own staff to use whilst they foist Windows 11 on all of us.

Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession

But then demand unaccountable control of them

> This individual views the lack of transparency by US commercial AI companies as a problem. "They say it's an existential threat but then demand unaccountable control of them?"

They built the LLM, they run the service - why shouldn't they have control over the LLM without being "accountable" to a random person?

Like every other business, Anthropic are accountable to their shareholders (and the law of the land*); if you don't like the new paint job on the product, maybe the product isn't being aimed at you?

You don't like the service, you go elsewhere - oh, look, he did exactly that. Problem solved. Anthropic lost his subscription - and his 7 friends - but in doing so, maybe they gained 80 corporate customers who are quite happy their marketing team are being blocked from spending their time discussing Broadway musicals.

* go careful there, if you raise the biggest objection, how these companies sourced the materials to build the LLMs, if you win you'll get 'em shut down (if not by order, the cost of continuing will be too high) and then lose all access, filtered or not. El Reg readers may applaud that result, but this guy wants to use Anthropic's stuff.

China's not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country

Re: Wrong headline

It certainly does read like that, just going from the start of the article:

> NeurIPS therefore believes it can’t accept submissions from any SDN or affiliates

So, US company doesn't want some people to contribute (or isn't prepared to take any risks over, especially as the SDN sanctions appear to be concerned with financial transactions, bank accounts and the like); followed by

> CCF’s statement accuses NeurIPS of violating ... and calls on the org to “immediately correct its erroneous practices, and restore equal rights for submissions and academic exchange to all institutions"

Which, taking ONLY the information as presented, does almost sound reasonable and matches your description: don't arbitrarily stop people attending, you naughty US conference, or we will retaliate:

> The federation called on all Chinese computer scientists to boycott

An overreaction? Was the NeurIPS refusal an overreaction (or overzealous)? In the current climate everybody is looking for ways they've been slighted and to which they can overreact. And both sides involved are looking over their shoulder in case Beloved Leader takes offence.

But whether either side's behaviour is an overreaction or not depends upon knowledge of what the “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” (SDNs) list actually contains (i.e. do the "entities" listed *really* block any significant number of Chinese attending? Does it block *any* of them?) and the full extent of the sanctions that being on the SDN actually authorises. The lazy person's quick reference isn't useful and cross-referencing all the entities is a job for an investigative reporter to report on. Oh, and let us not ignore that the current US administration is not going to be averse to weaponising the SDN (look what it did to one of its own); have they? Yet?

What we *do* get is a reminder that Chinese presentations have occured before (not really news to anyone, so - just a reminder!) and that not all conference presentations are whitewashed (again, not news). Although conference presentations *can* be unflattering, presentations are *also* used, by all sides, to boast about how fantastic their capabilities are. These aren't particularly useful or interesting presentations to attend, like any marketing guff, but not sending any delegates (by dropping string hints that delegates should not go) means losing those as well. Which neither side's leadership is fond of losing.

BUT then we leap to a conclusion I'm not totally convinced by (and AC is obviously not convinced by):

> CCF clearly doesn’t want presentations of that sort at NeurIPS

which is "backed up by" the Manus story - although that is about actual assets leaving China, to go under US control, and we know that anything going the other way is treated with similar ire by the US, so that is your day-to-day tit-for-tat between the two countries: nothing out of the ordinary. The only immediate link to the NeurIPS story being "AI", by which criterion you can link pretty much any two stories about China/US - or even just any two Register articles - these days: "AI" seems to be mentioned in pretty much everything! A direct comparison between the Manus and NeurIPS stories would hold weight if there was a claim that Beijing was concerned over their speakers defecting (i.e. losing assets to the West).

Does either side come out smelling like roses?

Do we even gave enough information presented in TFA to draw a solid conclusion either way?

Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys

Yesterday, finding keys put into source code

Today, finding keys pushed to your PC inside the web page.

What will tomorrow, bring? Keys emailed out to all of us at the bottom of the next marketing missive?

Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours

What kind of Californian is awake and pounding code at 5 a.m?

How are Musk's employes at X getting on three years later?

Musk's Hotel California erected at Twitter HQ, as some offices converted into bedrooms

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

Re: Not the same, but ...

Reading that, I had a happy daydream that a serious manager would be called in to see the state of the kit and then channel his inner Crowley (talking to the houseplants): walk the offending salesman past all of his colleagues in every sales office "say goodbye, he just couldn't cut it".

HR probably wouldn't allow these days.

Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda

Software-defined car

Wow! So I can make it do a Batmobile and convert into motorbike mode when traffic gets heavy?

> customize the many interior displays with their preferred themes or apps created by third-party developers

Oh. You mean - run the infotainment on an open OS, say, Android, and let us choose the podcast app? Ok, I guess, ho hum.

Actually, I *would* like some customisation over the display of our car's dashboard. Nothing too dramatic, don't want to be able to delete the "check engine" icon. But it would be really good to change all the "dials" into, well, dials, with a needle and some fixed gradations. And change the revs into a dial, so it doesn't catch the attention as it flickers from 1.9 to 2.0 (oh, some units would be good as well) but *did* catch the eye if it shot from 2.0 to 5.0! And free up 50% of the dashboard area by simply removing the picture of a car from the dead centre: what, you think we'd forget we were driving a car and start grabbing for the steam relief valve? It isn't even used as an information display! Yes, the headlights in the picture come on - and so do the little green and blue indicators! Doors not secure? The picture is replaced by a (smaller) diagram! Ok, ok, but could we use that space for anything more useful? YES! Like an odometer with legible digits!

Hmm.

The phrase is clearly wildly grandiose, utterly awful salesspeech but...

Could I have a "software defined car", please?

Datacenter batteries are selling years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic

Automotive production switched to datacentre

Yay let's make the switch to electric cars more expensive. We were starting to see, at the level of our smaller local dealerships, EVs that were just EVs, eschewing all the "premium features" crap and getting to a reasonable price.

Now we may be seeing AI barn building pushing up the price of another consumer product. And this time, the output from those barns is going to include - bleeping useless "premium features" to go into the vehicles they've just overpriced! Share and Enjoy.

NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers

Re: Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase?

Top speed* of 0.15C, or approx. 45,000 km/s, with a fuel reserve for 48 hours of thrust (from that URL; going to assume it means "thrust" when it says "flight" otherwise the 96 hour life support is a bit strange - you only get the full 96 if you touch down somewhere?).

Take G = 10 m/s^2, so 48 hours at 1G gets you approximately 173,000 m/s aka 173 km/s. So to reach 45,000 km/s in 48 hours you are getting, um, 260 G out of your four fusion engines?! OR if that fuel can get you there and back, so you use only one quarter for the acceleration phase (plus another quarter to decelerate back to 0 relative speed, the other half to make the return trip) and you are pulling 1040 G!

Hmmm, meaty soup (too squishy for salsa).

* presumably as measured relative to its initial velocity on the hurtling Moon

HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops in bid for small biz

Re: At least it's less likely to infest every workplace

Is that a brand spanking new 32GB HP, purchased in the last week or so, one of the new models being discussed here? Or, like mine, a 32GB machine that was bought six or more months ago, before the current price rises really took off?

And, especially in the former case, do you have a specific, job-related requirement, for needing that much RAM, one that the business will make a profit on, or did they just give you something that will never be used for more than posting on The Register and just shrug off the extra cost?

Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics'

Starboard bough?

Send a pruning crew to the arboretum get Uhura out of that tree!

Re: Peak Musk...

I have some spring-loaded piranha*, we can build on that.

* for when the trapdoor over the pool opens but the chair doesn't tip backwards; you see the look of relief and then - twaaang! It's such a giggle.