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Upon signing up, soldier gets handed an iPod.
"Where's my gun?"
"We no longer use guns; we dox the enemy!"
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A couple of Gartner analysts have recently claimed that Windows is "collapsing"—that it's too big, too sprawling, and too old to allow rapid development and significant new features. From the archives—One PC user ponders switching sides as Windows seems to lose its "wow."
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What a load of whiny crap. The most laughable moment is when he writes "organizations like Gartner depend on trolling to drum up business" without any self awareness.
I've used Macs many times over my career and if Windows apps "suck", then there aren't many printable words left to describe Mac apps. Abominations may be one, but most my words are much harsher. And the worse offender really is Apple.
Another silly moment is his examples of API inconsistencies, most, if not all, of which are documented. If this is what's tripping him up, I advise him to find another profession. (If he wants to gripe, at least unload more on DirectX and the grotesqueness of COM. On the other hand, there is nothing more "fun" than porting an app to Linux/Apple/BSD and eliminating features because there is no support for them.)
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Deep learning has been at the forefront of the so called AI revolution for quite a few years now, and many people had believed that it is the silver bullet that will take us to the world of wonders of technological singularity Memories made in the coldest winter
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The Git community has disclosed an industry-wide security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user operates in a malicious repository. Git 2.17.1 and Git for Windows 2.17.1 (2) were released and include this fix.
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Have they yet announced the June 2018 Git Security Vulnerability?
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Users of the NPM JavaScript package manager were greeted by a weird error yesterday evening, as their consoles and applications spewed a message of "ERR! 418 I'm a teapot" whenever they tried to update or install a new JavaScript/Node.js package. JavaScript developers from all over the world received the error, and not just in certain geographical regions.
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Sean Ewington wrote: "ERR! 418 I'm a teapot"
Shouldn't this apply only in tea-drinking countries? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Thankfully JavaScript has never been my cup of tea.
/ravi
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The Wall Street Journal has learned that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating claims that Intel's large-scale layoffs discriminated against older employees. Workers claim Intel was getting rid of older staff.
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If these companies are making bank off of our data and aren’t even managing to keep it safe, shouldn’t we at least get a small cut of the action? 26-year old Londoner Oli Frost thinks so, which is why he put all of his Facebook data up for sale on eBay last weekend. “I realized that I’d been selling my data for free for ages, and decided it was time to cash in.”
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The most surprising result of the benchmark is that LuaJIT’s FFI is substantially faster than C. It’s about 25% faster than a native C function call to a shared object function. How could a weakly and dynamically typed scripting language come out ahead on a benchmark? Is this accurate?
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RTFA (Read The Full/Fine Article). He makes an interesting case.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Data brokers in Vermont will now have to register as such with the state; they must take standard security measures and notify authorities of security breaches (no, they weren’t before); and using their data for criminal purposes like fraud is now its own actionable offense. If it’s as successful, other states may soon imitate it.
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I do wonder if Vermont has the infrastructure in place to handle all one of the registrations. Or none? Can their system handle null records?
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Hi, I wrote my new favorite hash table. This article begins, "Hi, I wrote my new favorite hash table."
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Message Removed
modified 31-May-18 10:35am.
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Message Removed
modified 31-May-18 10:35am.
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has dramatically changed the development opportunities on Windows, and has become very popular. Eventually the Linux subsystem will be all that's left of Windows. Maybe a legacy support module on the side. - phantomfive
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Here’s a casualty of the cashless society you might not have previously thought of: the humble street performer. For the loser now will be later to win
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Next, tax authorities will want to get those payment data...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: Next, tax authorities will want to get those payment data...
What exactly is wrong with this?
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As Europe's sweeping new privacy law went into effect on Friday, California voters may get to decide on strict privacy laws for their state. In California, an initiative expected on November's ballot would be one of the broadest online privacy regulations in the U.S.
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A proposed class action lawsuit alleging Facebook’s ad placement tools facilitate discrimination against older job-seekers has been expanded to identify additional companies, further widening the latest front in claims that candidates are being filtered out by gender, geography, race and age. The social media platform enables companies to illegally focus on younger candidates, according to an expanded class action.
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Budding authors face a minefield when it comes to publishing their work. For a large fee, as much as $3,000, they can make their work available to anyone who wants to read it. Or they can avoid the fee and have readers pay the publisher instead. Academics share machine-learning research freely. Taxpayers should not have to pay twice to read our findings
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