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Imagine having millions of nanobots in your brain that constantly remind you to log into Google+. That seems to be the vision of Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil, who tells The Wall Street Journal that by the 2030s we’ll have “millions, billions of blood cell-sized computers in our bloodstream… keeping us healthy, augmenting our immune system, also going into the brain and putting our neocortex onto the cloud.” Would that be USB, HDMI, or RJ-11?
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You will be assimilated!
Resistance is futile!
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I'll hook him up to power now if he likes.
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A few Amperes at a some kiloVolts?
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Over my dead (prolly) body.
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Agreed.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Would that be USB, HDMI, or RJ-11?
ICU-2035 link, part of the matrix! 
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Why bother with Googles' cloud when NSA would like us to directly connect with their cloud?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: “millions, billions of blood cell-sized computers in our bloodstream
Coming from a man whose estimations actually made him "millions, billions".
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April 1st isn't for another couple months.
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: also going into the brain and putting our neocortex onto the cloud
Put your dirty mind in the cloud, and have it datamined for personal advertising 
..so this is what telepathy looks like.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, sponsors a lot of technology through grants to universities and private labs, with projects running the gamut from robots to electroencephalography caps, to software and new programming languages. A lot of that knowledge is open source, but it hasn't always been easy to access. Today, DARPA has responded to requests from the research and development community by publishing the DARPA Open Catalog, a website that aggregates source code and other data for all public DARPA-funded projects. This should save a bit of time on that whole 'global conquest' thing
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The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 release, along with Visual Studio 2013, introduces innovative features to increase developer productivity and application performance. Additionally, it provides new features for improving the UX of consuming .NET NuGet packages, which is important because NuGet is a primary delivery vehicle for .NET Framework libraries. In case you were looking for a reason to upgrade (also: the rest of this month's MSDN Magazine)
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The new version adds support for the Firefox SocialAPI, improves TLS support and makes many other improvements. Because you totally need Facebook with you everywhere while you browse (other fixes seem nice though)
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Good for another month, the deal can earn you a hefty amount of store credit but naturally imposes certain conditions. Could, as in: if it works, if you want it, and if you live in US or Canada (sorry otherwise)
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You want to use SQLite in your Windows Phone, Windows Store and/or .Net 4.5 project, but you are not sure which distribution DLL to use and whether you need to create your own managed wrapper for each of these targets? Don’t search any longer: MS Open Tech has you covered. Here is an open source Portable Class Library for SQLite available as a NuGet Package (and source code) for you. It's the little things that make me happy
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This challenge appeared on an internal alias dedicated to C++. It was issued by Mike Vine, a developer here at Microsoft who agreed to let us share it with the mighty Visual C++ blog readers Today's homework assignment
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Hmmmm,
Extremely easy... the call to the VirtualAlloc function[^] is using external input from
InternalImageData->memoryType; You could easily allocate executable memory (Memory Protection Constants)[^]. The sample application then calls DebugPrintDimensions() which will return
m_imageData->GetWidth() and
m_imageData->GetHeight() which would be the local shell code entry point.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Web attack uses malware encoded as images and delivered through iframe injection in a way that escapes easy detection While I think this (and the malware's author) are vile, you have to applaud his creativity
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Hi,
This is not new. The PNG image format specifies sections that can be used for embedded file (text) descriptions.
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/png-1.2-pdg.html#C.Anc-text[^]
Plenty of room in there for shell code. Your other Insider News post titled 'Challenge – Vulnerable Code' would have been a little more interesting if the author would have used an existing image format such as PNG for storing his shell code.
Security products should consider scanning these sections in PNG images.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I recently had the chance to talk with Eric Lippert, who works as an architect on the C# analysis team at Coverity, a company that analyzes C# source code and looks for known defects. Prior to joining Coverity, Lippert's known for his work with the Microsoft language team, where he worked on design and implementation of the C# language for 16 years. I still think they should have gone with "Deep C"
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It's a little brief, but interesting. Did I miss the practical tips that the sub-header promised?
I like the equality semantics in C#. I've found it to be flexible. I don't see a problem here. Rudimentary testing will pick up problems.
I think this is more of a veiled ad for the analysis tools mentioned in the article.
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I agree with tgrt. It doesn't really seem like there's anything new here. All the information on C# Lippert provides is common knowlege and it always comes back to Coverity's own testing products.
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Ballmer ascended the throne of Microsoft in January of 2000. When he took over as CEO for Bill Gates, Microsoft was bringing in US$21 billion in revenue and the company’s stock had just hit an all-time high of $51.87 a share in September 1999. The Windows desktop OS was atop the personal computing market, and Internet Explorer was the leading Web browser by a mile. What Ballmer did right....and what he did oh so wrong...
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