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.
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
Psst … wanna jailbreak ChatGPT? Thousands of malicious prompts for sale
Saturday 27th January 2024 19:00 GMT 
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
Friday 5th November 2021 04:08 GMT
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
Sunday 31st October 2021 21:34 GMT
"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.
Sunday 31st October 2021 20:37 GMT
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
Microsoft to staff: We remain locked and loaded with US military – and will keep adding voice to AI ethics debate
Amazon's neural net offer to border cops, Waymo charges fares, the first AI portrait sold at auction, and more
Californian chap sets his folks' home on fire by successfully taking out spiders with blowtorch
Facebook can't root out fake news and hate talk, but – oh look – it has software to catch bugs
Amazon is at this point a money-printing cloud machine with a grocery store in the parking lot
Yes, Americans, you can break anti-piracy DRM if you want to repair some of your kit – US govt
Microsoft promises a fix for Windows 10 zip file woes. In November
Friday 26th October 2018 01:07 GMT
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.
Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait
Tuesday 23rd October 2018 23:25 GMT
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!).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
