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Our local TelCo is floating plans to have AI agents in all calls which you can summon by saying "Hello Magenta" which is supposed to help you with matters. I just hope we are not so far up idiocracy creek that people can't vote with their wallet (and law suits, come to think of this). Not long...

That may be the goal for some companies involved. Because parents are the administrators, and administrators must be trusted to do "the right thing". So, with great sadness, it will be decided that nobody can be the admin on their own system because you can not be trusted. Microsoft is trying...

You need to use the units from TheRegister, like double decker busses, brontosaurus, hedgehogs per fortnight, speed of an unmolested sheep in vacuum, ... And can we toss these imperials and farenheits onto the midden of history? They make no sense.

It looks to be more than that. Knock yourself out :cool:

Playing quake in my university time, I always had the suspicion that some players had this game hardwired into their brains...

Every time someone changes the meaning of a word or phrase my ears prick up. I got the first tipoff when the first oil crisis hit (you know, riding your bike on the highway, no cars except flashing blue were allowed). Suddenly the oil exporting countries were refered to as oil producing, which...

George Orwell was on to something. Who would have known?

We have a saying about this. When "the children" are mentioned by lobbyists or law makers, put firmly one hand on your rights and one on your wallet.

Sometimes the cure turns out to be worse than the illness. What is peddled as an alternative to established parties over here is not a new set of ideas in any way, they just went into hiding for the last 80 years. Doing nothing is not the way to go, but be careful what you do. Not looking at the...

I'd like to know what Theo had to say to such a request, if it was anything beyond that.

Maybe it's a ring. 122

It was hard to decide who to cheer for.

Indeed. This reminds me of one of the first DVD drives I had. It had a jumper sticking out trough a hole which would cause problems if you would slide it into a box from the front. The circuit board was visible and the jumper was labeled "RC enable". Pulled it, slid it in and was a happy camper.

Wasn't there some kind of "obscene pr0n" ban which was shelved after people started to flock to the police stations with suitcases and kept asking the constables if this exhibit A was illegal or legal to own after that deadline? DDOS by porn? Best thing is to follow such laws, badly. Like...

I think you all try to solve this with the wrong tools. You try to use sense when it is about law and lawyers. As long as we can weasel out of this in any way, do that and don't change a line. As long as the web page says f.e. "No account required to download and install, we don't provide any...

I had once the chance to work with Fortran on a Cray, and the debugger was absolute gold. Old f77 and before were really constrained when it came to flexibility, as there was no dynamic memory to have. You just make the arrays big enough. How it is today? I would need to check.

Maybe it is sufficient and much easier to move the post box of the foundation to, say, Geneva?

Sure, but in many a case where I see a goto I see that it is not needed and, in fact, produce worse code. There are places a goto is the only way, but it is a tool. You can not hand any tool to everybody and expect them to be equally skilled with that. I usually explain different ways to do...

A certain scene from Kentucky Fried Movie comes to mind... But make that hat green for example and I'd wear it.

Complexety invites in bugs, that goes for complex plans, complex algorithms and complex control flow. I have seen code ridden with a plaque of gotos, where the flow graph (in pencil on a chain printer stack of dead trees) looked like your 3yo threw spaghetti on the wall. Finding out why that...