* Posts by Paul Herber

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Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory

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Trollface

Re: I wish these...people...would leave Tolkien alone.

All the legal people are descended from orcs or Sauron himself.

Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR

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Re: "So ......."

... like ...

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So many words HR have never heard of: pity, remorse, apology, shame, happy, competence ...

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Re: "So ......."

Well, basically ...

Price-fixing-as-a-service: The claim against healthcare cost-cruncher MultiPlan

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Devil

Re: Algorithms for collusion

Hey, mega-corporations are people too!

NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack

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Re: Shame

Russian goons have reported that it has fallen in the water.

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Re: Kaliningrad

and Brittany can become the new Little Britain.

Blue Origin gives up on New Glenn lift-off, 2 hours into launch window

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But I expect Leon is rubbing his hands with glee!

Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

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Re: Rocks

Hey, let's get another rock, then we can fight about which rock is best!

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

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Re: Well I like it

+1

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Trump China tariffs to 'overshadow' the 'progress' of AI PCs

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Re: I'm not complaining

Now now.

Microsoft trims jobs as new year begins

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Re: "At Microsoft, we focus on high-performance talent"

That high-performance talent they are focused on are all working elsewhere!

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

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Trollface

Sudetenland?

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Re: Voting is for losers

The Handmaid's Tale.

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Re: Why is anyone taking him seriously?

"Why is anyone taking him seriously? "

Because he is MEGA. Make Elon Great Again.

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Coat

" .. in Lombardy"

She's only doing so to become more poplar.

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Big Brother

Re: A week is a long time in politics…

Democracy? Voting is for losers!

Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google

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FAIL

Bingle

Bungle

Goobing

Gobling

Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators

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Re: Possible reasons for invasions not causing language changes in Britain

Ambulance - Ambiwlans

Senate - Senadd

Not what you meant? Oh.

Encryption backdoor debate 'done and dusted,' former White House tech advisor says

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Re: Madness

Would you get it into your head that there are some people on this planet who think the laws of mathematics, physics etc are optional.

25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then

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Holmes

Re: And for other reasons

"you didn't just randomly update untested or even tested stuff whenever you got the urge to take a piss"

Remind us who you work for now!

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Re: Well, we have 2038 to look forward to

2038? Much too far into the future!

A New Year's gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don't work

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Re: still included with Windows 11

Those 600k files are all different. These 600k files are all the same.

And obviously Mint 22 is twice as good as Win 11 !

Second Jeju Air 737-800 experiences mechanical issues following deadly crash

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Re: all airports will need to rethink their design

"Gatwick would be ideal for housing"

The only reason people want to live in that area is to be able to work at the airport or one of the nearby support businesses.

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Re: re: end of Gatport Airwick runway

The road from Reigate used to head straight south across the runway and there were traffic lights to stop traffic when there was a plane movement. Late 50s/early 60s?

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This is a flight by Ambidextrous Airlines and you are welcome to it.

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As if Heathrow and the M25 car park is any better!

Or, if attempting a similar landing at Southampton it could take out a goodly part of Eastleigh ...

Parker Solar Probe sends a "Still Alive" tone back to Earth

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Megaphone

Distances in leagues, fuel volume in firkins, temperature in Fahrenheit, time in fortnights.

Just wait until Farage makes this official Reform Party policy.

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

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SvarDOS and 42

SvarDOS should be the answer to something ...

Biden’s antitrust crackdown on tech M&As may linger into Trump’s reign

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Holmes

Re: Need a full ban on M&A

Won't somebody think of the money!

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

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Re: A quote

You read them as a kid, but now you are a Bigman ...

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"one hyperbolic billionaire"

Hyperbolics sums it up perfectly.

Watchdog deep-sixes job ad that was actually pay-to-play training course

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Yes, but it's pronounced wiesels.

US airspace closures, lack of answers deepen East Coast drone mystery

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Alien

Re: Observations

Are drones appearing in the sky around the figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work

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Re: Paper trails...

D'uh.

Scumbag gets 30 years in the clink for running CSAM dark-web chatrooms, abusing kids

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A few hundred years ago this would also have been the punishment for:

homosexuals, trans-genders, witches, apple fanbois, heretics, tax evaders, people who looked at the king in the wrong way, systemd proponents, motorcyclists, gypsies, ladies who wear trousers, you ...

systemd begrudgingly drops a safety net while a challenger appears, GNU Shepherd 1.0

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I like your sense of tumour.

American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy

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Re: Minority Report

"Drones rounding you up are next. I've said it before, but replacing eye balls will be a valuable commodity soon."

An AI transcript of the above:

Drone surrounding Europe are next. I've said it before, but replacing my balls will be a valuable commodity soon.

OpenAI to charge $200 per month for ChatGPT Pro

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Re: More Automatic e-books

Nice one, Cyril.

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Re: More Automatic e-books

I wrote a book once. It was green!

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Re: Return of the World Wide Wait...

Seven and a half million years later ...

Windows 11 24H2 rolls out to more devices – with a growing list of known issues

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Re: gamers face black screens

XYZZY

Paul@Linux:~$

Microsoft says premature patch could make Windows Recall forget how to work

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Re: DNA

Zebra crossings will mean nothing to many readers, and they will stand no chance with pelican crossings. Then we get to the Belisha Beacons, which are only a few minutes drive away from the Brecon Beacons.

Is Wishbone Ash's song "Ballad of the Beacons" about the Belisha or Brecon ones?

We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build ML agents that respond like specific people

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Re: so ...

I foresee an AI to help you choose your new top-of-the-range kitchen appliances ...

let's call it Brains for Smeg.

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Re: VAR

Football? Football? On which site do you think you are commenting? This is El-Reg. Nobody here knows a thing about football!

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Sounds ghastly.

Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium

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Alien

I hope the diamonds that were used for testing were checked before use. What if The Ancients had already used that diamond to store Ultimate Truths, or some aliens using it to store the original design plans for the universe. These plans have to kept somewhere.

Yup, half of that thought-leader crap on LinkedIn is indeed AI scribbled

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Re: "Thought Leader"

Can you sign off pay rises?

No.

Can you instigate disciplinary proceedings?

No.

Can you sign time sheets?

No.

Well, **** off then and think on that.

Security? We've heard of it: How Microsoft plans to better defend Windows

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Hotpatch Desiato: spending a year dead for tax reasons until someone comes along and presses the reset switch.

Microsoft pulls text recognition from Photos app preview

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Re: So for the photo app

REDMONDITES EUNT DOMUS

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