* Posts by cNova

22 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2018

Guess the company: Takes your DNA, blames you when criminals steal it, can’t spot a cyberattack for 5 months

cNova

I predict in a decade or two big corporations will be able to put DNA datafiles in 3D printers and print out copies of people, but as they'll promise to use the technology responsibly, lawmakers and everyone else will be cool with it.

Psst … wanna jailbreak ChatGPT? Thousands of malicious prompts for sale

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FAIL

What's a Crow's Foot Called?

And yet I ask Bing's AI chat searchbot what a crow's foot is called (claw, foot, talon?), and I get a taxonomy lecture on corvids. I rephrase the question and I get a "Duh... I can find no information on that" response.

Shortly thereafter, the FBI informs me I'm no long allowed within 100 feet of aviaries.

A Windows 11 tsunami? No, more of a ripple as Microsoft's latest OS hits 5% PC market

cNova

Re: Hmmmm

I do not foam at the mouth.

cNova

Re: Do I want Win 11?

But.. But.. This new, improved version of Windows is the fastest, most secure Windows ever, and your current version of Windows is now a ticking timebomb of slothful insecurity.

If you upgrade, you'll get new features like parental controls for the Calculator App, a VisualBraille(c) display mode for blind users, a new Comic Sans font with serifs**, and a 'What's New' screen with themes downloadable from the Windows Store.

**Requires an 8 core CPU with 32GB of RAM or 64GB if you wish to use italics.

Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done

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"The Future Ain't What it Used to be."

My science fiction analogy would be Soylent Green. People eating people, while folks asking for decency are bulldozed into garbage trucks. (Or was that last part Rollerball? )

Whatever. I'm getting nostalgic for the dystopias of yore. At least some had flying cars.

cNova

Didn't Second Life have an infestation of giant flying penises once? With Marky Z, I don't think you'll have to worry about a big penis.

cNova

Re: second life vibes

When Second Life was the Next Big Thing, it attracted serious companies as if everyone would need a SL presence to compete in the real world.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-the-last-company-to-pull-out-of-second-life-2009-2

Soon we can watch the VR production of Zuckerberg's original script. Imagine, VRing to a planet where giant snakes poop cocaine which allows one to crumple space, that is, go nowhere without moving; while producing deranged prophesies of mankind's future.

The mind truly boggles...

Web prank horror: Man shot dead while pretending to rob someone at knife-point for a YouTube video

cNova

Re: This is why they should be banned.

So you're saying if one were to see Gordon Ramsay with a knife, it would be their moral obligation to shoot him?

Microsoft to staff: We remain locked and loaded with US military – and will keep adding voice to AI ethics debate

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Re: We can’t expect these new developments to be addressed wisely...

"Ironically, the way the US is most likely to be attacked on its home turf is through cyberwarfare."

A war that doesn't cost a trillion dollar in military hardware is a war that's not worth fighting.

Amazon's neural net offer to border cops, Waymo charges fares, the first AI portrait sold at auction, and more

cNova
Boffin

Elementary School, My Dear Watson

To be fair, Watson can beat cancer patients at chess nearly every time.

Californian chap sets his folks' home on fire by successfully taking out spiders with blowtorch

cNova
Joke

I killed a spider with a blow-torch last night...

...How he got the blow-torch I'll never know.

*rimshot*

Facebook can't root out fake news and hate talk, but – oh look – it has software to catch bugs

cNova
WTF?

For their Mobile App? Seriously?

Needing AI to find and "suggest strategies" to patch bugs in your mobile app isn't something one should brag about.

Amazon is at this point a money-printing cloud machine with a grocery store in the parking lot

cNova

I guess now that they have some pocket change, they won't need desperately to trick me into getting Prime.

Yes, Americans, you can break anti-piracy DRM if you want to repair some of your kit – US govt

cNova

Re: I get it, but isn't it better to vote with your wallet !

Hmmm? Apple in the 70's & early 80's built their cred on being easily expandable/modifiable/repairable. This was perhaps the single biggest advantage the Apple II had over systems from Atari, Commodore, Radio Shack, TI, etc.

Microsoft promises a fix for Windows 10 zip file woes. In November

cNova

My favorite thing about Windows 7 Search...

...Is that even if you turn the option off, specify that it search no locations, and delete that index dbs, the service will still randomly start and churn away on your drive FNAR, it just won't store what it finds (as you've deleted the dbs).

To truly kill it, you have to disable the service, which will either vanish the search box on the Start Menu plus the upper right of Explorer hence making built-in searching impossible; OR it will have no obvious effect other than making search faster and more accurate than with the indexer running.

cNova

It's slippery, yet they've managed to gain traction and run downhill at a rate that puts gravity to shame.

Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait

cNova

Re: I stopped right here...

"QA still exists and is still important, but it performs end-user style 'real world' testing, not programmatic automated testing. This testing has been successful for Bing, improving the team's ability to ship changes without harming overall software quality,"

Yeah, well, Bing aside, they've got it precisely backwards. They should ship software that increases software quality without introducing changes in either UI, functionality or "features", especially when the "features" are less useful than a break-dancing poo emoji, (coming soon, exclusively for enterprise!).

F***=off, Google tells its staff: Any mention of nookie now banned from internal files, URLs

cNova

Call me PC if you will

But I prefer coworkers who don't sound like Lee Ermey from Full Metal Jacket.

A DeepMind library to help build reinforcement learning bots, and how Google's Pixel 3 cameras handle zoom

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Unhappy

Re: The title is too long.

Does this mean Ann-Margret's not coming?

Voyager 1 left the planet 41 years ago – and SpaceX hopes to land on Earth this Saturday

cNova

Re: well

My oldest application still running was:

10 PRINT "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

20 GOTO 10

On my high school's 1970's HP 1000 teletype. That is, unless it's run out of paper by now.

Silent running: Computer sounds are so '90s

cNova

I'm glad I live in the era of silent laser printers that sound nothing like a combination of the Tardis and the squeeky gate on aunt Polly's fence.

Yale Security Fail: 'Unexpected load' caused systems to crash, whacked our Smart Living Home app

cNova

An unexpected load killed my keyboard...

...and my smart bidet died so I wasn't able to wipe my own ass all day.