It's 2016 and COMPILERS ARE STILL STUPID

Just analysing a device driver for hardware few months old... as usual, it's as bloated as a week-old dead pig overall but then I come across pieces like this:

shl ecx, 4
mov edx, ecx
shr ecx, 2
xor eax, eax
rep stosd
mov ecx, edx
and ecx, 3
rep stosb

:facepalm:

>>13
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Windows, is in fact, NSA/Windows, or as I've recently taken to calling it, NSA plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning NSA system made useful by the NSA servers, remote control utilities and vital "telemetery" components comprising a full OS as defined by NSA.

Many computer users run a modified version of the NSA system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of NSA which is widely used today is often called Windows, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the NSA system, developed by NSA and Microsoft.

There really is a Windows, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Windows is the GUI: the program in the system that receives instructions from NSA servers to manage and survey the programs you run. The GUI is an essential part of on operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete surveillance system. Windows is normally used in combination with the NSA surveillance system: the whole system is basically NSA with Windows added, or NSA/Windows. All the so-called Windows systems are really NSA/Windows surveillance systems!