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Imagine a future where you tap an app on your smartphone to summon a self-driving car. Heard this one already? Okay, what about when your robot car drives into an airless tube hundreds of miles long and careens across country at close to the speed of sound? What's the worst that could^H^H^H^H^H will happen?
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Have you ever seen the commercial where they put a submarine sandwich in a bank vacuum tube? Well, that image comes to mind for me.
The results aren't pretty. 
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Well wouldn't need rescue services. 
Clean up on loop #9.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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What's the speed of sound in an airless tunnel?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Don't you hear the clapping of one hand?
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It's all a conspiracy to asphyxiate those who don't know Physics.
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"Go ahead, make my day"
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And does it make a sound if an unmanned, self-driving car knocks over a tree in a forest?
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The popular Pattern Lock system used to secure millions of Android phones can be cracked within just five attempts – and more complicated patterns are the easiest to crack, security experts reveal. It's still better than some people's passwords
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Quote: By covertly videoing the owner drawing their Pattern Lock shape to unlock their device
Only five? Must not be CSI cameras...
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N_tro_P wrote: One would think though a similar algorithm could determine which numbers you pushed...
Agreed. And then why couldn't they go on to know where your thumbs moved on your onscreen keyboard, also? I would think that would be the next step.
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@raddevus This could interest you, it looks similar to your C'YaPass.
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"Go ahead, make my day"
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den2k88 wrote: This could interest you, it looks similar to your C'YaPass.
Thanks for drawing my attention to this. I appreciate it.
I read the article yesterday because I was a bit concerned.
However, this "hack" is odd. It's more about the motions that your thumb and arm take than anything else.
The C'YaPass grid has more grid elements. That could change things.
Also, wouldn't this mean that they could read your movements of thumbs when typing too?
I'm just not convinced by that study and write-up.
It was also odd that they said that the more complex the pattern the easier it was.
Of course, with C'YaPass, they'd also have to have your site/key (initial hash is generated from the text you choose in that box).
Further, I can still implement a third random hash (selectable by on/off checkbox) that would be stored on the device where you run C'YaPass that would allow you to make your passwords tied to a particular device. That could be a new option that would make it even more secure. Most people wouldn't like that though, because they'd be tied to the device.
Thanks again.
modified 24-Jan-17 11:44am.
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A federal judge in Seattle is set to hear arguments Monday morning from the US Department of Justice as to why he should halt Microsoft’s efforts to allow it to tell users, in most cases, when the government demands customer information. I'm so glad Microsoft is taking a stand against spying on users
Yes, my eyes are rolling with that one.
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Data science skills will become more important for coding as software is 'trained' via AI. You mean all this time I wasn't a software developer?
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Quote: You mean all this time I wasn't a software developer?
Not you. He(the author) wasn't
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Alternative title for the story:
You're No Developer, Unless You've Written Excel VBA. 
It should be the new litmus test for dev skills.
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We got it covered. Developers are already artificially intelligent. 
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Shame it's nonsense.
Once a strong set of AI bases* are set for a given demesne, they can just be applied to problems in that demesne and let loose. There'll be nothing else to do but feed them data, so the AI world will more like the IT world of 30 years ago, back in the days of "Data-entry Technicians", with a handful of universities/companies working on new bases.
OTOH, the idea that AI will be writing "code for any occasion" is simply out of the question, for a long, long, time.
I can see the old adage "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer" getting a lot of use, over the coming years.
* That's the "bases" that's pronounced "baysees".
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Don't you mean:Mark_Wallace wrote: ...set for a given demesnedomain, they can just be applied to problems in that demesnedomain and let loose.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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No, I mean demesne.
Just because the guys who coined the word for computery stuff got the word wrong doesn't mean it's correct.
Domain has to do with dominance, ownership.
A demesne is just a field, so it's the word that's meant (the fact that they're pronounced the same didn't help).
Guys in AI tend to be more knowledgeable about human-language than the average developer, because understanding/parsing/overall use of human language was and is one of the first things studied, for AI (and the English language is probably the one thing most extensively studied for it), whereas the average developer is only interested in computer languages. So we use the correct word.
Plus, the word "domain" has too many "within computing" meanings, these days, so it's far too ambiguous.
It's like "interface" -- For God's sake, guys! Look up a synonym, and use that for whatever *new* thing you're introducing!
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Well...
domain noun
1. a field of action, thought, influence, etc.:
the domain of science.
demense noun
1. possession of land as one's own:
land held in demesne.
(Both from: dictionary.com) looks to me like domain is the appropriate choice in this context.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Oh, come on!
I am so sick of people quoting the bloody useless dictionary.com!
I'm beginning to believe that the site was put together by pranksters.
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I've just checked my copy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English. It gives three more usages of domain (in physics, mathematics, and computing), and one more usage for demense (also related to land).
Is the ODE also put together by pranksters?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That's "ancient demesne" and/or "royal demesne", which have more-or-less the same meaning as "domain", and are thought by some to be a bastardised migration to marry with "domain" (because spelling didn't always have the importance it has, these days, so language drift was even harsher).
Give it up, eh? I've been a linguist for thirty-five years; googling can't match that.
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