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Open the pod bay doors please, HAL.
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I'm sorry, I can't do that DaveMark
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Someone has stitched together seven of the Windows SMB exploits leaked by the ShadowBrokers, creating a worm that has been spreading through networks since at least the first week of May. So someone did collect the full set?
OK, seven SMB bugs probably isn't the full set. 
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Americans should be grateful that their government is spending so much of their tax money on protecting them.
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A court in Israel, for instance, has ordered a couple to pay $2,200 for using emojis that "convey great optimism" in a text they sent to landlord Yaniv Dahan. 
Because even a tweet is too long for some people?
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Note that this precedent does not apply to salesmen or marketing morons.
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Never know stupidity so close to me... I need some protective measures...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I think Trump may be infectious, he's spreading stupidity around the planet on a world tour.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It is more than possible - he is here since yesterday...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That's exactly what I was referring to.
Sad.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In the not-so-distant future, next time you want to back up your work to Microsoft’s cloud, you might be storing it on a few snippets of DNA. Well, that's either your backup, or someone forgot to clear out the fridge again
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I can't help but wonder whose @rse the DNA sample was scraped from.
Or is it an AI, using Hitler's DNA?
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The coders of tomorrow may be bug-checking the multiverse. Is a box involved?
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Definite response before reading the article: you code in discrete chunks (or quanta).
Projected response that I will likely give after reading the article (which I might not even bother to read): you code in discrete chunks (or quanta).
Essentially, it won't make a blind bit of difference, unless you use a ridiculously* low-level language.
* "Ridiculously", because you really need the computer to handle such details. Anyone who chooses to do it for himself is cruisin' for a career of sitting a home doing nothing.
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Find integrations and put them to work in minutes with GitHub Marketplace, pair developer tools and fine-grained repository permissions with GitHub Apps, or build the exact tool you need with a new, production-ready version of our GraphQL API. Because every company needs their own marketplace
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Gitwhat?
Github?
Oh, yeah! I remember github!
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Microsoft's researchers have developed a true, near-eye holographic whose optics can fit inside a regular pair of glasses. "It was just a, nothing but a grand illusion."
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The only problem being that the ribbon takes up 30% of the screen, and baby blocks for "recommended product" ads take up just over 83%.
Other than that: Yeah, it's great. You'll love it.
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NT Times: "No, Google’s Not a Bird: Bringing the Internet to Rural India" May 21, 2017: [^]. Note: I am able to view the full article ... without a NY Times sub ... by opening the link in a Chrome incognito window.Quote: In the 70 years since independence, India’s government has done very little to connect Taradand, in Madhya Pradesh State, in central India, to the outside world: The first paved road appeared in 2006. There has never been a single telephone landline. Electricity is available to only half the houses. When Mr. Neti was growing up, if someone in the village needed emergency medical care, farmers tied the patient to a wooden cot and carried him five miles through the forest to the nearest hospital, a journey of four hours.
By comparison, India’s battling telecoms have wired Taradand with breathtaking speed. Two years ago, Mr. Neti counted 1,000 mobile phones in the village, which has a population of 2,500. This tracks with India as a whole; last year it surpassed the United States to become the world’s second-largest market for mobile phones behind only China
Quote: At some point, Mr. Neti discovered that he had become skeptical of nearly everything he had been taught. “I tried to find out if the gods created the earth,” he said. “I found out it was not true. But still I cannot answer the question of who created the earth. But I believe Google contains the answer.”
Technology: socially/politically/economically disruptive ? harbinger of doom for ancient cultures ? catalyst for radical change ? enabler/empowerer ? saviour ?
There was a time in the early so-called "Renaissance" of Europe when rare Chinese items (elaborate silks, porcelain), and scientific equipment and knowledge from the Islamic world and the "eastern Christian world" (i.e. Byzantium), had a profound effect. This is described compellingly by Lisa Jardine in "Worldly Goods" [^].
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Google and Facebook would face the same rules as Comcast and AT&T So I can't tell you where I found this item
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If only I would get some discount...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Scientists believe they may have discovered evidence of a parallel universe that crashed into our own in a galactic impact mirroring a car crash. Is that the one where everyone with a goatee is evil? (Or is that this one?)
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Goatees == evil is a trans-Universal constant. 
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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