Posts by NickTheGeek

Intel updates mysterious 'software-defined silicon' code in the Linux kernel

Dystopian thoughts...Who can beat me (with ideas, I mean...)?

"Your car is in rescue mode due to your recent posts in anti-Oceania Government chat rooms abroad. You can only follow one of the preset paths to one of the nearest police stations for an informative chat."

"Your car runs in rescue mode due to your Vaccine Pass expiration. The nearest vaccination point is 0.6 km from your actual position (6 min on feet, based on your walking speed profiled data). Follow the map that was sent to your mobile phone."

"The number you dialed is associated with an expired Vaccine Pass. Please try again later."

"Sorry, Winston. Your mobile phone hasn't been authorized to film the police officers' actions during this protest".

...etc...

Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language

The name is "coq"!

Accept it or suck it!

Enough with PC BS.

Single-line software bug causes fledgling YAM cryptocurrency to implode just two days after launch

Re: Who didn't bother to test their code?

So, an infinite "goto" after printing one line, right?

And you think nobody can break your code?

If you put your code in a file (i.e. infinite.bas), and run it directly with a BASIC interpreter (i.e. yabasic), and without messing with STDOUT, it MIGHT be so. For example:

yabasic infinite.bas

But consider running it in another way. As you can see, there is no "hello" message and I can even replace your message with mine:

perl -e 'open(README, "yabasic infinite.bas |"); close(README); print "1:0 for me! :-) \n"; while(1){}'

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

BADmond, Lords of The Bings, BotNet Framework, Bucksingham Palace, Big Glue, Racket Science,...

BADmond, Lords of The Bings, BotNet Framework, Bucksingham Palace, Big Glue, Racket Science, EEE-PissSee, MorphoSoft, VaccineSoft, Build Gates, Billy the Bid, BidOne (see the italian translation...),...

I had many other ideas but were already written by other people. :-)

But you dont't really need to call Microsoft. Your Windows PC has been doing it on regular basis.

DeepNude's makers tried to deep-six their pervy AI app. Web creeps have other ideas: Cracked copies shared online as code decompiled

What about antisocial networks and Internet round-up engines?

With all the respect to Andrew Ng, but I don't think this is "one of the most disgusting applications of AI". It might be discusting, OK, and also stupid, infantile, pervert and so on, but, personally, I find, by several orders of magnitude, more disgusting - and also dangerous - those criminal activities performed by some anti-social networks and Internet round-up engines which use AI to profile all the earth's population and trade those data. They also use the data to control and manipulate elections, political issues, they bring instabilities (political, economical, etc) throughout the world. Because of their round-ups people also remain without medical insurance (because they or their family members are profiled as ill or genetically predisposed for a serious illness, and therefore not profitable for insurance companies), house loan, without job,...People *DIE* because of that digital round-ups! And not because of fake nudity. And that's what we need to condemn and to stop, in the first place! Right now!

Worried about Brexit food shortages? North Korean haute couture has just the thing

Brextarvation

Well, the Brexiled people won't stay hungry. May (yes, she!) may make a good soup (what was that old proverb about chickens, I don't remember any more?). Johnson might be tasty grilled. Farage might be good as stew. Etc.

And now a little more serious (but not less dramatic) comment: You know that kind of medical doctors that always make bad health status predictions? If you die, everybody will say they are good doctors to make diagnosis. And if you happen to survive, they will be praised as wonderworkers. Υou face all the possible negative predictions now. After Brexit the things are probably going to be somewhat bad, maybe also very bad, I don't know, but not worse than that. So you'll praise tour wonderworking polititians who saved you from disasters.

And to mention the Godwin's law, too, and also the "Reductio ad Hitlerum", remember the nazi propaganda strategy when Russians were destroying the Reich from the east? The nazis spread the "fake news" about two big cities fallen in Russians' hands, and then, after a day or two, from the radio they tell the people not to believe to that propaganda. "Yes, we've temporary lost one of those two cities, and we are working on getting it back, but that story about the other city is completely false, don't trust the enemy propaganda!". And that kind of story was repeated several times. You, Brexiled people, are getting your share of nazi-like propaganda now... :-)

But beware...you'll be also faced with the austerity-related fairy tales, in order to continue the erosion of workers' and citizens' rights...

Already seen in several other EU states...

Brextarvation

Well, the Brexiled people won't stay hungry. May (yes, she!) may make a good soup (what was that old proverb about chickens, I don't remember any more?). Johnson might be tasty grilled. Farage might be good as stew. Etc.

And now a little more serious (but not less dramatic) comment: You know that kind of medical doctors that always make bad health status predictions? If you die, everybody will say they are good doctors to make diagnosis. And if you happen to survive, they will be praised as wonderworkers. Υou face all the possible negative predictions now. After Brexit the things are probably going to be somewhat bad, maybe also very bad, I don't know, but not worse than that. So you'll praise tour wonderworking polititians who saved you from disasters.

And to mention the Godwin's law, too, and also the "Reductio ad Hitlerum", remember the nazi propaganda strategy when Russians were destroying the Reich from the east? The nazis spread the "fake news" about two big cities fallen in Russians' hands, and then, after a day or two, from the radio they tell the people not to believe to that propaganda. "Yes, we've temporary lost one of those two cities, and we are working on getting it back, but that story about the other city is completely false, don't trust the enemy propaganda!". And that kind of story was repeated several times. You, Brexiled people, are getting your share of nazi-like propaganda now... :-)