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In a recent interview Bjarne Stroustrup advocates learning C++, the language he started to create while a PhD student in 1979. It might just be going somewhere
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Microsoft has already said that .NET Core is the future of .NET, which means if you haven’t started, you’ll need to start migrating your existing .NET Framework applications to .NET Core. I have bad news, and I have good news
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They need to add Visual Fortran support to .Net Core. If they did that, I would brush off my old FORTRAN manuals and have a go.
Note: I was very disappointed when I found out that F# was not a newer version of FORTRAN. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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And Visual Cobol.
And Visual Mumps.
And Visual ...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: you’ll need to start migrating your existing .NET Framework applications to .NET Core.
Not likely. It's unlikely, in my opinion, that .Net will no longer exist on machines. That's a long way out.
New development should be on .Net core but I don't see the need to migrate.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Still waiting for SQL Server Reporting Services support in Core. Without that, we can't even think about porting.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I ran compatibility analyzer on the .net 4.x MVC project I'm currently working on.
~80% compatible with core 3.0 the missing items almost entirely bits of low level aspnet guts that I've no idea what actually do/and thus have no clue how they could be replaced.
Conclusion; a port's not going to happen any time soon...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Amazon- and Google-approved apps turned both voice-controlled devices into "smart spies." Wasn't that the point of these?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Wasn't that the point of these?
Yes, but only as long as they are the only ones making money from you. Third parties spying on you are not good for their business.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft introduced a new range of devices called Secured-core PCs which come with built-in protection against firmware attacks that have been increasingly used by state-sponsored hacking groups. Now taking odds on whether it will be hacked by the end of this year, or next
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now taking odds on whether it will be hacked by the end of this year, or next
I go for blocking the own hardware to the point of forcing you to replace it.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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MIT Review: "Military artificial intelligence can be easily and dangerously fooled: AI warfare is beginning to dominate military strategy in the US and China, but is the technology ready?"Quote: Last March, Chinese researchers announced an ingenious and potentially devastating attack against one of America’s most prized technological assets—a Tesla electric car.
The team, from the security lab of the Chinese tech giant Tencent, demonstrated several ways to fool the AI algorithms on Tesla’s car. By subtly altering the data fed to the car’s sensors, the researchers were able to bamboozle and bewilder the artificial intelligence that runs the vehicle.
In one case, a TV screen contained a hidden pattern that tricked the windshield wipers into activating. In another, lane markings on the road were ever-so-slightly modified to confuse the autonomous driving system so that it drove over them and into the lane for oncoming traffic.
Tesla’s algorithms are normally brilliant at spotting drops of rain on a windshield or following the lines on the road, but they work in a way that’s fundamentally different from human perception. That makes such “deep learning” algorithms, which are rapidly sweeping through different industries for applications such as facial recognition and cancer diagnosis, surprisingly easy to fool if you find their weak points.
Leading a Tesla astray might not seem like a strategic threat to the United States. But what if similar techniques were used to fool attack drones, or software that analyzes satellite images, into seeing things that aren’t there—or not seeing things that are?
[^] Hopefully it will be a lot "smarter" than Google ad-AI that continually tries to sell me Chinese heavy-industry machine-tool-systems.
Note: you may need to register to read this: you get some number of free reads a month, and I'm happy to tell you they do not send sales messages.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Can't we just have an electric car?
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I have a used Tesla I can sell you 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I meant an electric car without all the hackable do hickys.
It seems as soon as we toss out the ICE drive train and replace it with motors, oh then we have to have all this other crap I guess because we can.
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Thanks to the spread of the Internet Of Sh*t Things, there are much simpler vulnerabilities in common infrastructure, without the need to trick "artificial" intelligence.
Just imagine some hacker manipulating the traffic lights in town, giving green light to everyone ...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Rajeev Jayaram wrote: hmm, Die Hard 4.0!
FTFY
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Forget protective covers – there are now skin-like phone cases that respond to being pinched and tickled. I think they found David Cronenberg's phone
Also: Aaaaaaaaaa!
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So we are living in the original Rick and Morty universe then.
Like I sometimes do I originally posted this against the wrong thread - doh!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Thank you, this reduces my confusion greatly
TTFN - Kent
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It’s time for the government to step in and regulate big tech companies, says Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. What could have possibly changed his mind?
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