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Hackers possibly working for an advanced nation have infected more than 500,000 home and small-office routers around the world with malware that can be used to collect communications, launch attacks on others, and permanently destroy the devices with a single command, researchers at Cisco warned Wednesday. Well, I was thinking of buying a new router anyway...
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So I'm guessing router manufacturers have never watched a movie in their lifetime? Only the idiot antagonists build a single kill switch into every evil scheme/concoction so that the good guys have something to thwart and win in the end. I guess they wanted to try it the other way and give the villains a shot.
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I have no idea what movies the router makers watched, but it's not relevant. The hackers otoh appear to've watched some where the villains pushed a big red button to blow up stuff all over the world and said "I gotta get me some of that"; so they put the brick the router feature into their malware.
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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You've got a full hour until your next meeting. But you probably won't make the most of that time, new research suggests. That explains why I can't get anything done today. I have a meeting on Monday.
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I also know that the end of the day seems to affect my productivity, probably for the same reasons.
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Every time we write about passwords on Lifehacker, a few readers share their secret formula for creating passwords. According to Ryan Merchant, senior manager at the password manager Dashlane, those formulas are easy to hack. So my password 'e=Mc^2' won't save me?
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Lifehacker wrote: “If [a hacker] knows somebody’s ‘base password,’ it’s not that difficult to predict what the variations of that are going to be.”
That is a very big IF, and the amount of variations might be rather a lot if your only way of validating them is a login-page that blocks after three attempts and calls you a bot.
Most passwords are simply leaked from large companies - not stolen by getting the base-password and trying all options.
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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These tricks may be obvious, but at least I'm going to write them down. Because you can never have enough stupid C++ tricks
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Electronic mail is one of “killer apps” of networked computing. "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die"
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You gotta love the Necronomicon! Full of great text.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Autonomous vehicles really don't know how to switch lanes as well as people do. Hopefully not like some of the drivers I've been with
Californian signalling for a lane change: "Hold on."
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The answers to the question "Why are you signalling?"
In Utah: Because I'm changing lanes.
In California: Because I changed lanes.
In Nevada: What's a signal?
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So something like this:
if (GetRandomBool())
{
ChangeLane();
}
else
{
TurnBlinkerOn();
ChangeLane();
}
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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It's more like this
if (model == "BMW")
{
ChangeLane();
}
else
{
TurnBlinkerOn();
ChangeLane();
TurnBlinkerOff();
}
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I think this covers all cases: 
bool Car::TrySwitchLane(Driver const& driver, Direction direction)
{
bool succeeded = false;
if (driver.propertyExists("maniac") || (Model() == "BMW"))
{
SwitchLane(direction);
succeeded = !CrashState();
}
else
{
if (LaneClear(direction)
{
SetBlinkerState(direction);
if (LaneClear(direction))
{
SwitchLane(direction);
succeeded = true;
}
ResetBlinkerState();
}
}
return succeeded;
}
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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At a hearing in the European Parliament today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced a barrage of questions ranging from privacy concerns to the rise of fake news. Seems to be a trend with Facebook
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Subject: ... was mostly a waste of time
Seems to be a trend with Facebook
with many politicians too, regarding the waste of time
The structure of the meeting was a disaster... helping Zuckerberg to avoid the hot topics.
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.
modified 23-May-18 6:01am.
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Industrial robots are typically all about repeating a well-defined task over and over again. Usually, that means performing those tasks a safe distance away from the fragile humans that programmed them. Robot see, robot do
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Cameras—especially phone cameras—are terrible at taking pictures in the dark. The tiny image sensors in most modern cameras can only absorb a small amount of light, which often results in dark, grainy images. "I see you on a dark night"
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Documents obtained by the ACLU of Northern California have shed new light on Rekognition, Amazon’s little-known facial recognition project. People who committed this crime also liked...
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The number of open source components in the codebase of proprietary applications keeps rising and with it the risk of those apps being compromised by attackers leveraging vulnerabilities in them, a recent report has shown. But I thought open source didn't have bugs? (More eyes and all that)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: (More eyes and all that)
I prefer quality over quantity.
But seeing the Q&A lately... it is no wonder... it looks like 90% of the "programmers" in the world just use copy+paste of snippets and modify just the needful to make it "work" (at least in their machines).
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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We use Emscripten to compile Qt into something that runs in a web browser from a web server. Cute
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Cute
Here's a WordPad clone written in C++ converted to WebAssembly:
textedit[^]
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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