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Oh good! A way to extract CO2 from water and put it back into the atmosphere! And, if we use fossil fuels to power the process, we kill two birds with one stone!
Marc
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The company wants a base "gray phone" model of its Project Ara modular smartphone available by early next year. Lego your phone
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A new WhiteHat Security report takes a deeper look into the security of a number of the most popular programming languages including .Net, Java, ColdFusion, ASP and more. "Security is a process, not a product"
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.NET is not a language. ASP is not a language. How much faith can we have in a report that starts off by getting the basics wrong?
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From here (and now), at least, their site is also so secure that I cannot access it.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I finally managed to access the site and the article seems very, very confused.
It is possible to leave SQL injection attacks in code in most languages, for example, its really a matter of programmer discipline to avoid them. A good example of blaming the wrong tool (we should be blaming the one who wrote the code).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The world’s most powerful companies want you to log in with fingerprints and eyescans. That might bring new meaning to "hacking the password"
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How much will it cost to pay a plastic surgeon to change your fingerprints when a site you logged into gets pwned again?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They can want all they want.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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This is probably the most stupid thing in the world. Or the most sneaky: how many sheeple do you think might have the impression that fingerprints are "secure"? My guess is close to 90%.
The 2 major flaws are:
- Inability to change your fingerprints - so after a database is compromised that's it. You're stuck with 10 chances for life, unless you want to start using your toes or get a finger transplant
- The more scary version: Using your fingerprints as a pass key is worse than tattooing your password on your hand. You're basically making a physical copy of your pass key on everything you ever touch. It's more like writing your password down on everything around you, ever, throughout your entire lifespan. Are you going to keep wearing gloves?
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Data is big business for Microsoft, and the company wants to make it easier for everyone to take advantage of it. Sorry, I can't think of anything funny or insightful, but I thought you should know
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sorry, I can't think of anything funny or insightful, but I thought you should know
Well, there's this:
talk about the company’s vision for bringing big data tools to people who aren’t data scientists. “We want to take an architectural approach that brings together Excel ...
Excel is now a big data tool! 
Marc
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Wrap the fonts up to 128px and the data looks pretty damn big to me.
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Yeah, I noticed that bit about Excel, but I couldn't think of anything funny about combining Hadoop and Excel (other than thinking of combining Hadoop and Excel)
TTFN - Kent
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Big data, with floating-point errors built-in for free.
What could possibly go wrong?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Data is big business for Microsoft, and the company wants to make it easier for everyone to take advantage of it. Sorry, I can't think of anything funny or insightful, but I thought you should know
The rest of the Enterprise crew, not so much.
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The new Google is not the old Google, and people are starting to take notice. "Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent."
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Where did the quote used as a comment come from? Interesting.
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Shakespeare... uhm, ... one of the comedies... Not the Fairy one... uhm. Oh: Much Ado About Nothing[^].
My brain used to be like a colendar: most stuff flows out, leaving the noodles behind. Most of the time I can't remember which dish it's for.
And I think that analogy got away from me.
TTFN - Kent
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"And I think that analogy got away from me."
So far away I think its holidaying in Rio right now.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A working space elevator is still, sadly, not a reality. But sci-fi geeks may be excited to know that some of the most intelligent and imaginative minds on Earth have indeed looked into the logistics of building such a fanciful contraption. "Don't you wanna get higher?"
Boom-shaka-laka!
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Cortana is full of personality (maybe not as much as Arsenio might like you to think), and the developers that built out the assistant's library of responses were sure to build in some good doses of self referential humor. A lot of times what a tool really needs to do to connect with users is put a smile on the user's face. And what's not to love about Clippy? Well played, sirs. Well played.
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