Posts by Teiwaz

Accountant falls for sexy Nigerian email scammer, gives her £150k he cheated out of pal

Re: Scam if ever I saw one...

Sometimes you don't go looking for love. Love finds you x

- Could say the same about crabs.

Will AI spell the end of humanity? The tech industry wants you to think so

Seriously

I think we are in danger of bottling in our own potential as a species.

The current civilisation does very little to encourage creativity in the general population, preferring the masses to be consumers foremost to keep the system of profit ticking over.

Set up right, an A.I. based economy could provide a meagre stipend for all out of work humans, but that will not lead us very far in the long term, even a generous stipend so we could spend our entire lives 'on holiday' would quickly doom the race to lethargy and apathy (nice though the idea sounds of always being on holiday). Even concentrating entirely on the 'arts' would not serve us in the long run, we'd end up not knowing how things run.

All these scenarios have of course been played out in Sci-fi over the years, so techies should be aware of the potential problems and pitfalls, but I'd guess we're going to run into them all regardless, cause to many decision makers, those are 'just fiction'.

Clearly we'll need a change to the entire focus of civilisation as these changes come in, but the establishment doesn't like monumental changes in case afterwards they are no longer the establishment or are irrelevant.

AI lawyer: I know how you ruled next summer

Re: Can it please be used as a first step

Letting their bretherin lose their jobs would not go down well with the level of contributions to their re-election campaigns and to hell with its accuracy.

Well, that depends on whether you can attribute any empathy to Politicians for any creatures further down the food chain. If it looks like it may save money and make them look efficient... There's always another herd of CEOs ready to off a generous financial nipple....

Erm, my metaphors got a little jumbled there....mondays...

No matter who becomes US president, America's tech giants are going to be quids in

Neoliberal?

Thatcher?

Somehow I can't equate liberal with Thatcher and gods alone know what the neo prefix is meant to mean (neo from the matrix?). We had 'new' liberals during the 80's, but they were the Liberal party, the SDP, then the Liberal SDP (bit of a separation, courtship and remarriage thing).

Is the 'neoliberal agenda' something to do with UFOs reptiles and aliens?

Re: How do bandits make out?

I have a picture in my head of a couple of bad hombres tongue wrestling. Is this another British usage that doesn't cross the pond very well?

Well, with Trump, there's that promised wall, so supposedly all the 'bad hombres' will be on the other side of it - US tech execs will need that extra cash to pay it's native citizens to manicure their expensive lawns - supposedly also they'll have to make everything on US soil too

Re: Cameroon 38%

Some reason i read that as 'Cameron 38%'* - Wondered what the has-been ex-PM was in the news for now...

* No coffee this morning I ran out - icon - 'cause I'm off to the shops.

What will happen when I'm too old to push? (buttons, that is)

Re: Ne pas pisser

If you've ever taken a piss and hit an electric fence, believe me, you'll never do that again.

When nature's callin', don't be stallin', use your common sense...

...don't whiz on, the electric fence.

- Ren & Stimpy.

Re: Holiday season

All the popular holidays (xmas, easter, halloween) are originally pagan in origin.

Xmas was just rebadged from rebirth of the Sun to birth of the son of god, easter is named for the Hare goddes Eostre (now it's bunnies instead of hares - eggs 'cause it's fertility thing) and halloween for death. Birth, coming into fertility and death and the afterlife.

Love the sign

Being in french, it almost looks poetic.

I wonder if they are aware it resembles the framed and mounted dictates of that horrible woman from Order of the Pheonix - Theresa May - that was it?

Getting older, you loose interest in the passions of your youth or you become more jaded as you've seen it all before several times and the myriad disappointments, merely gritty little niggles at the time become large hills of disinterest and finally the mountains of I can't be bothered anymore, just give a good book and a nice fire.

Then there's Douglas Adams 3 rules on reaction to tech (there might be an undiscovered fourth).

Nintendo's new console-tab

Looks ok

Trailer vids for new devices always make the product look exciting and trendy and above all social.

My experience with the 3DS has not lived up to any of these. Which is fine, I only bought it for Ocarina and the promise of Majora (which was fulfilled - eventually). I only have a handful of games for it - but I've never had a huge catalogue for any Nintendo device - apart from the Gamecube.

I rarely buy into consoles at launch, preferring a wait and see attitude - last console I did buy into at launch was the Dreamcast - maybe I'm just unlucky - my first foray into mobile gaming was the NeoGeo pocket color - which also got withdrawn a few months from purchase.

Whether it'll be another Wii or a Wii-U I wouldn't like to say at this stage.

‘Alan Turing law’ to give posthumous pardons to 59,000 men for 'gross indecency'

Re: Hasn't parliament got more important things to do ?

Clearly not, they haven't been allowed to make any decisions since May took No. 10.

This is just more press manipulation so they can point to it as an example of not being afraid to admit past mistake etc. safe in the knowledge those mistakes are some one elses while sweeping their own well under the carpet when noone is looking...

Re: no restrictions on homosexual behaviour

"Consensual homosexual S&M practices are illegal in the UK."

Slaves... did I say slaves?! - Kids in the Hall Male Slave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpnbTlEd5NM

Re: Warning - Full Rant mode...

..god there are some fucking dickheads on this forum.

...or merely a lot of commenters who've 'lost more faith' than you and are much higher on the cynical scale.

Re: Mumsnet,The Daily Mail and the NSPCC

Are they not part of the modern world then? Sure look like it to me...

I say, are you sure? I thought they were all hangovers from various repressive moralistic and puritan times.

Re: MinTrue

Will people now also be convicted posthumously for what was once not illegal but is now illegal?

Precedent - Oliver Cromwell after his death was tried, convicted, and executed (again) for the execution of the rightful monarch.

...cue the Monty 'Oliver Cromwell Song'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBPf6P332uM

Re: So in a future distopean world

Apology should suffice. Will they start pardoning hanged slaves for running away, burnt heretics for being Protestants?

Protestants, Catholics, Waldensians, Witches, all were roasted at one time or another, depending on Monarch.

Now people are just lightly braised before a beak in court and scorched if the red-tops get incensed with unrighteous indignation and any scars for life are more often mental rather than physical - I believe Turing was chemically sterilised*. The punishments and nature of offenses people find offensive has changed, but the nature of people hasn't one iota (see also *).

* I'm sure there a plenty would suggest it for todays scapegoat deviants.

Meanwhile, in America: Half of adults' faces are in police databases

Re: I'm pessimistic

With internet, the world is becoming a global village — and like in any village, everybody knows who you are and what you are doing, you have no anonymity, and it's impossible to hide.

Everybody will know who you are and what you are doing...And I bet the occasional dangerous lunatic will still be identified and then forgotten about due to bureaucratic bungling - then used as an excuse for the next round of 'let's build a dystopic society'.

The decline of this civilisation (like Rome) cannot come soon enough - maybe the next one will finally get it right eventually.

Kids today are so stupid they fall for security scams more often than greybeards

Re: 'Digital Natives' are totally oblivious to how it works

I'm not a prude, but I still don't feel I had (or have) a decent sex life.

And I had to look up most other references apart from the victorian era ones (bloody hell, who was you grandfather, Methuselah?).

So called sexting may not be 'new' but is certainly easier and more convenient... meanwhile keeping a relationship going seems to increasing in the difficulty curve.

'bum' icon 'cause that's how I feel.

Re: 'Digital Natives' are totally oblivious to how it works

Too busy sexting pictures of themselves to each other I guess. (didn't do that when I were lad)

Scams?

Isn't using Windows, falling for the biggest scam ever?

Trump vs. Clinton III - TPP looks dead, RussiaLeaks confirmed

Politics is dying in favour of...

'Reality' TV.

The Idiocracy is not merely coming, it's here (first post is proof enough, if not merely proof-read enough).

We need a third option on ballot papers 'both candidates to be submitted for psychological evaluation'.

So. What's North Korea really like?

Glad I live in the UK...

..and not in a state that has surveillance and a out of touch head of state busy awarding itself medals and nut-job inward facing government that thinks it's a proud world power and not a wacked-out former entity with fading infrastructure living on fading victory.

Oh, wait now!

Google DeepMind 'learns' the London Underground map to find best route

Re: I don't know how I managed without it

Wonder what would happen if DeepMind was asked the following questions...

Fat chance on any of those questions until it can deduce the existence of rice pudding and income tax without it's new memory 'bank' - shortest distance between two underground stations indeed...

They only want it for some Siri or Cortana like surreptitious data collection reason.

VMS will be ready to run on x86 in 2019!

Re: Woo Hoo!

"JCL is an IBM specific scripting language used by IBM mainframe operating systems."

Used to work on a Bull mainframe system, where a JCL was used and referred to (if generically) as JCL...job control language.

Pound falling, Marmite off the shelves – what the UK needs right now is ... an AI ethics board

Re: I for one welcome our AI overloards

An Ai is unlikely to ignore any ethical programming when a Bankers draught is waved in its direction.

Bet you anything, part of any commitee will want a 'back door' in that too - just to ensure it comes to the 'right' decision.

Queen Lizzie awarded good behaviour medal

Re: The Queen HAS got a criminal record

Des O'Connors greatest hits

That is such a 70's/80's joke - well done.

Missed cue.

This is what passes for publicity by the Buckingham Palace bureaucracy these days?

Obviously one of the younger Royal doxys failed to have a baby on cue so they had to go to plan B and reach for a medal she could qualify to receive and had not yet been awarded.

Couldn't they have had Harry dress up as a Nazi again? As publicity stunts go, this is pretty weak.

UK govt sucks at AI and robots, doesn't use them to its advantage – wait, is that good or bad?

We're not ready

As a species we're not responsible enough to be dabbling in AI yet.

God's forbid we manage to create something self-aware (I'm aware that might be a little advanced for current progress, but as a species we have a tendency to stick our fingers in the electric sockets of the universe and then be surprised when we get shocked).

'Fourth Industrial Revolution' indeed, it'll probably lead to slavery then enslavement.

Re: Memo: From the Office of CyberIntelAIgent Security and Virtual Protection

Where are the Windsors whenever they are needed?

Giving themselves medals for not having gotten a criminal conviction despite the fact that scandal would prevent such a circumstance and they'd never be in a position that desperate.

I wouldn't expect modern thinking from Whitehall, apart from the dogged mindset that if they can read everyones mail then no bad things will happen again ever.

Majority of underage sexting suspects turn out to be underage too

French ...?

All bets are off, 'french beach' topless is practically de rigeur, she'd be due a fine if she were wearing a 'muslim wetsuit' however...

Why '40 year old men' exactly. I'm feeling old, dirty (and under par - (five hours?) doubt I could last any more than ten minutes in that unlikely scenario).

Re: So now if Mr Saville [deceased]

So apparently the serial molester has risen from the dead to continue his opportunistic preying under the guise of charity work...

Sounds like a plot for a B-movie.

I'd guess if it's consensual sexting, merely being investigated, even if a prosecution is not pursued would count as a significant trauma for a young person IMO.

They really need to look at the law again over this, the shadow of victorian morality is still evident.

'Children' should be allowed to make mistakes, and it's society that should ensure they not suffer unduly for those mistakes but learn from them - otherwise what is childhood for, and adults have failed as mentors for the next generation.

Command line coffee machine: Hacker shuns app so he can stay at the keyboard for longer

Re: I feel inadequate

Don't worry, you're probably not missing out just because you don't have two knobs.

Ask a Kangaroo whether this is true......or maybe someone whose 'slept' with a kangaroo....

...ok, I've had too much coffee...I've my cloakroom ticket right here, Miss, no need to fetch the bouncers, and no, those aren't zoo staff chasing me.

Four reasons Pixel turns flagship Android mobe makers into roadkill

I AM STILL RUNNING MAEMO OMG.

Same here. N900 with community testing.

Early indications show UK favouring 'hard Brexit', says expert

Re: "Hard Brexit" vs "Soft Brexit"

Let's rename those to something more meaningful

'uncomfortable morning wood Brexit' and 'flaccid (right at the most inconvenient moment) Brexit'

I think more ably describes things...

Re: "how we label our food"

I dunno, I can eyeball an ounce...

Is that 'an ounce' in terms of 'street trade' merchandise? Good skill, unlikely any weights and measures act is being stringently adhered to.

Re: "Great Repeal Bill"

Given that Pitt the Younger has been dead for over a couple of hundred years it's going to be hard finding a living ancestor to do that.

"Ancestors go back more than one generation. After all, I'm a living ancestor descendant of all my great-great-great-great-great-grandparents."

FTFY - and now you know the why of the witty comment.

Re: I have said it before, I will say it again

She was running false colours in the Remain campaign throughout

Of course... remember, everyone thought Remain was going to be the majority vote, it was a career decision, not a conscience decision on her part, her right-wing police state dreams belief in British sovereignty was aired in a foo-pah early in the campaign (you know the one, about staying in the EU but leaving the ECHR).

...we need a 'witch' logo (or at least a 'Sea Devil' logo) in these times...in the meantime, have a Paris one as a cheer up. (If you are wondering whyI don't know what people see in her either).

What’s that Sooty? You want a girlfriend?

Re: Whut?

"Pandas Monthly"

- Womens Weekly?

"Are you under six years old and less than thirty centimetres tall?"

- No way Soo is under six, she's been claiming that since at least the early eighties...

I dare not watch any further!

You'd have missed a rather good Cilla Black impersonator... and the best bit IMO the dodgy blind date contestants, Butch the dadgy Landaner and the northern snake - and Sweeps totally inappropriate answers that put him out of the running immediately.

- And the main point of the episode where at the end Soo admits there's probably nobody else for her than Sooty.

Classic telly, that for a kids programme, I was surprised to find I enjoyed.

Whut?

But, but, I had a crush on Soo, when I was a 'we nipper'....

We all need to get our first crush where we can...And no, I didn't grow up to be a 'furry'....surprisingly.

Sooty Show Blind date episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO10CNQAsHw

Microsoft will let you pass and fail cert exams at the same time

You've heard of Quantum Computing...

Welcome to quantum certification....you pass and don't pass simultaneously.

Days are numbered for the Czech Republic

Czech Porn?

Hope you have a virus Czecher....

Fine, I'll Czech my ticket at the cloakroom.

UK copyright troll weeps, starts 20-week stretch in the cooler for beating up Uber driver

Replace which 'in' by 'by'...baby...erm...

Should probably be "by" rather than "in"...

"sentenced to 20 weeks in prison in Hammersmith Magistrates' Court"

LoL

Here's how to see Tim Cook or SatNad strut their starkers stuff

Good Grief...

The fall of civilisation cannot come soon enough.

A second dark age might even come as a relief.

Italian scientists use fluorescent box to arouse sexually indifferent men

Confused by article

fluorescent box to arouse sexually indifferent men

- DAMMIT! Thought it was an article on some new console or kewl overexpensive 'light-up the room' gaming rig...

...women? - what are they? Something about dishes I seem to recall.

Conviction by computer: Ministry of Justice wants defendants to plead guilty online

Doomed to be grossly overbudget and fail.

We are told that this all-singing, all-dancing government IT project “will also notify and update victims and witnesses of crime about the cases they're involved in.”

Overhauling a system that's been layered on since the 15th Century would seem to warrant more than a 20 page document.

Nope, not going to happen. Even if it does get delivered for the magistrate courts, it'll fail when they try to apply it to criminal cases as usual not enough thought has gone in as the Gov. thinks it can just apply IT like a nice new cosmetic make-up and the entire system will work more efficiently, be user friendly and make everything bright, shiny and new.

Kind of puts me in mind of the intro to Syndicate Wars, with the chipped individuals vision is all sunshine, cafes and waving policemen when the reality is a broken dystopian future drenched in grimy polluted rain and conviction by algorithm.

'We already do that, we’re just OG* enough to not call it DevOps'

Re: DevOps works... But only if you know how

Great rundown... up until you mentioned Powershell (damn I mentioned it, Jehova, Jehova).

Re: Oh gee

(But why all this sudden concern with the Republic of Ireland?)

- Something to do with dodgy Tax deals?

Re: Oh gee

OG? Wah, someone who never played GTA:SA or has never heard of Rap, maybe...

OG Loc in da house...My brain hit some heavy load average for a couple of seconds to work out RoI though.

Microsoft thinks time crystals may be viable after all

Re: My. Brain. Hurts.

I'm off to weep quietly in the corner with a pile of Trivial Pursuit question cards.

Take the pre-school version, a handful of easy answers might help you feel better. For advanced therapy, I suggest chemical advancement - alcohol is a good chemical - After a bottle or two and having gone through the entire pack - you'll be convinced you're ready for Mastermind or MENSA.

Re: Buh?

"Dabbsie will explain it better - with a bacon sandwich analogy?"

...Provided none of the bacon-holic el-Reg denizons actually eat the analogous bacon sandwich before Dabbsy gets the chance.