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While the overarching point of Google's evilitude is tough to argue with.
McAfee is nutter than squirrel droppings, so I can't work up much interest in anything he's got to say.
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Don’t look now, but Microsoft’s cloud services appear to be catching up to Amazon and Google in the quickly evolving battle to supply companies with cloud computing services, a survey of CIOs by the research firm Pacific Crest Securities has found. "Forget the night - live with us in forests of azure"
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Also interesting is their non-Windows focus on Azure.
I just received an invite though the University to Quote: Cloud computing (Azure) training by Microsoft Research
Highlights:
- Most of the training uses Open Source platforms (e.g. Python, R, JavaScript, Java) - see details below.
- You can do all the training from a Mac/Linux laptop: there is no need to have Windows.
Not interested in going though.
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I'm actually right this very second (give or take this procrastination) pricing out Amazon vs Azure and it's eye opening seeing the price difference.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Details!
Or at least a thumbnail summary, please.
TTFN - Kent
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Bandwidth costs for a CDN is over twice as expensive on Amazon than on Azure, and when adding costs you need to ensure you factor things like load balancers, backups, DNS etc.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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System Monitor (Sysmon) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log. Oh look: a new toy from the Sysinternals folk
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Been testing it out since last night.
It sure can fill a log file quick with all options enabled depending on how active a machine is.
The next step is to sort thru everything it logs.
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That deserves a post in the Free Tools forum, doesn't it?
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Hey, web developer dudes and dudettes: What's your favorite programming language? Is it CSS? Is it JavaScript? Is it PHP, HTML5, or something else? Why choose? A new programming language developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University is all of those and more—one of the world's first "polyglot" programming languages. Because everyone knows you only need one language to accomplish all programming goals
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Motherboard wrote: In any case, Aldrich says that Wyvern can automatically tell what language a person is programming in, based solely on the type of data that's being manipulated. That means that if the language detects you're editing a database, for instance, it'll automatically assume you're using SQL.
So, it doesn't roll all those languages into one; it guesses what language you want to use.
..and if it is "SQL", then why am I programming in SQL and not in this "Wyvern" language?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Sounds like yet another tool to promote bad programming practices. No, thanks.
But let me know when they use it to implement its compiler.
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Ranjan.D wrote: Here's a github link
I won't go near the stuff.
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This[^] is the only Wyvern that turns me on.
/ravi
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Old is Gold  I prefer this Wyvern.
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package wyvern.tools.types;
import wyvern.tools.typedAST.extensions.TSLBlock;
import wyvern.tools.typedAST.interfaces.TypedAST;
import wyvern.tools.types.extensions.SpliceType;
import wyvern.tools.types.extensions.TypeInv;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.*;
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Let me paraphrase:
One language to rule them all, One language to find them,
One language to spy on them all and in the darkness - of NSA basement - bind them. 
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[potshots]
Sigh. Looking at the code on GitHub, I note, without much surprise, that CMU's Wyvern, like so many other open source projects, doesn't comment its code either. Pathetic, especially if they are expecting this to be something more than an "I'm bored, where was that article Kent mentioned" novelty-yawner.
Is the CMU reference supposed to carry some "ooh, this must be high quality code as the result of high quality thinking" weight to it? It's no wonder our schools suck.
[/potshots]
Marc
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The machines are taking over. Or they will, if we keep teaching machines to think for themselves. And we can't seem to stop. It's all fun-and-games until it takes over
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I read that as "Machine learning goes opera". 
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Having been looking at the state-of-the-art in Natural Language Processing, we are a loooong ways away from machine learning. I'd say we need another 10-20 years of serious work in tools that can extract true meaning and create reasonable ontologies before anything interesting happens in this field.
Marc
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Some ISP servers used to manage routers provisioned to customers can be hacked from the Internet, researchers from Check Point said Free insecurity with every subscription
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"Robotic helpers? Scientists tout cheap robot that assembles itself" Reuters By Richard Valdmanis [^].
"BOSTON (Reuters) - Scientists say they have developed a low-cost robot prototype made from paper and children's trinkets that can assemble itself and perform a task without human help."
"The team's robot prototype borrows mechanical principles from the ancient Japanese paper-folding art of origami, as well as from Shrinky Dinks - plastic children's toys that shrink into predictable shapes when heated."
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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Software is hard to develop for many reasons: We must figure out what to do, do it, and ensure that we have done it correctly. "You know what happens when you assume, don't you?"
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