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Two programmer-musicians wrote every possible MIDI melody in existence to a hard drive, copyrighted the whole thing, and then released it all to the public in an attempt to stop musicians from getting sued. Finally, I can hum Greensleeves without paying royalties (to royalty)
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Quote: this algorithm works at a rate of 300,000 melodies per second.
Indeed, I'm particularly fond of melody 1,547,689,403, that one always makes me cry.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Update: they're being sued by everyone who ever wrote a song.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Now train an AI with the most popular songs ever released (maybe a list of 10,000 or so) to find all the melodies with a similar pattern - voila, you got a hit writing machine. 
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Or the perfect tool for the copyright troll-lawyers.
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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That's pretty much what happens now, without AI.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Losing data to an intruder is not a great look for a law enforcement partner. Good to know that security is so important for them
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ESET researchers uncover a previously unknown security flaw allowing an adversary to decrypt some wireless network packets transmitted by vulnerable devices Time to patch (or it's bork, bork, bork)
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I wondered why there were so many vans with huge, directional antennae parked outside my house.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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McAfee’s chief technology officer warned that it’s time for companies to start worrying about quantum computing attacks that can break common forms of encryption available today, even if quantum computing isn’t going to be practical for a while. Coming soon: McAfee Quantum Edition
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With the amount of hacks and leaks currently, where no money is going, it makes little sense to warn for hypothetical hacks that get a hypothetical budget.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The quantic anti-virus: your computer is now either protected, or not. You'll only know on unboxing the cat.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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And you don’t want to deal with the cat box... 
TTFN - Kent
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But will it work?
You won't know until you install and open it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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*installs quantum nti-virus*
*runs scan*
*scan found no issues, click here to see report*
*observes report*
*has virus*
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Third time's the charm?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Facebook’s BCI research team focuses 2020 efforts on reducing noise in its optical brain sensing system "You'd better start thinking happy thoughts, because the mind behind them is absolutely in charge"
A company definitely on my short-list for, "Who would you least like to have access to a brain-computer interface?"
Now instead of people's "walls" being covered with random turds from their fingertips, it will be every random thought?
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But once they want to start testing, they will surely find a lot of people willing to volunteer 
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now instead of people's "walls" being covered with random turds from their fingertips, it will be every random thought?
Will we notice a difference?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How hard can it be?
Like
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Watching people use social media, that's about the extent of the interaction. 
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When I was young, when people got together, they were laughing together, smiling together, singing together, and chatting.
Today, people google together.
I am not very good at googling on a smartphone. So I sit there, waiting for one of the others looking up from his screen, trying to think of something I could say to make contact, something containg nothing google-able whatsoever. Usually I fail; after one or two sentences I slip in some word or statement that needs to verified against information on internet, and the person I was hoping to have a chat with dives back into the ocean of the internet - usually along with a couple others who have noticed that something was spoken, and what to engage in the competition to be the first to correct, supplement or reject what was uttered, based on undisputable "facts" found somewhere on the net.
More and more, I prefer to be alone by myself, rather than with half a dozen googlers. Then I can at least pick up a good book, or listen to some music that hasn't been on the Top 20 list for at least twenty years, without offending the googlers. I can allow myself periods of wondering, or reflection, rather than "fact finding". I can consider alternative approaches, rather than searching for The Answer.
I was once told that in the philosophy of the Far East, the true value of a statement increased the more different ways it could be interpreted. A deep truth has many meanings - the more meanings, the deeper the truth. The googlers go to the very opposite end: There is one unique Correct Understanding, and that is the one that can be identified as Facts, Undisputable Facts. He who can in the shortest time google enough facts to determine The One Correct Understanding, he is the master. The one most valuable person.
Even though it won't put me in the class of valuable persons, I prefer to allow myself searching of alternative understandings, alternate views. Even if I have to do it alone, by myself, I prefer to do that rather than to be with half a dozen googlers pondering what I could say that would not immediately set them off in a new internet fact search.
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Before we can make anything, we must first dream it. Well-grounded and compelling dreams are often a force for good, as they change people’s perceptions of what is possible and worth working towards. "In the year 3535: ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies"
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tl;dr: I like some stuff, but I don't like some other stuff as much.
That should save everyone an hour of wading through a ramble.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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