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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: the real war will be between those who control and those who don't want to be controlled...
We've already got that between the media and those who vote "the wrong way" 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Cyber-criminals start attacking servers newly set up online about an hour after they are switched on, suggests research. It doesn't take a thief to catch one?
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At least someone is still watching the BBC 
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[^]Quote: Apple launched a public blog in July to talk about its work, for example, and has allowed its researchers to speak at several conferences on artificial intelligence, including a TED Talk in April by Tom Gruber, co-creator of Apple’s Siri voice assistant, that was posted on YouTube last month.
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Indeed many big tech companies have embraced academia’s relative transparency. They have aggressively recruited top researchers over the years such as Yann LeCun of New York University, who joined Facebook in 2013, and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto, who joined Alphabet’s Google unit in 2013. The companies together also have churned out hundreds of research papers over the past several years.
Apple was slow to follow, AI analysts and leading researchers say. And even since its public embrace of greater transparency, it has published a fraction of its competitors’ research, and its scientists have avoided speaking about Apple-related research at conferences.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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It's not quantity, but quality that matters 
And: it's no use comparing apples to oranges
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Joseph Stalin supposedly said:
"Quantity has a quality all its own"
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Ironic that that man was born in Georgia
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Well... he did have other "qualities".
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Nearly 60 percent of all custom apps are being created outside the IT department. Whoever builds it, supports it?
Yeah, wishful thinking.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: are being created outside the IT department.
No surprise here... Most IT I know are bureaucrats and the best they do is annoy the developers / commissioning engineers with rules / group policies with dubious sense, thinking that everyone in the company have fixed job times, work in a desktop and don't need admin rights to install anything because they know it all better.
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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A few years ago, we were all worried that our jobs were being off-shored to Indian code farms. It seemed like such a good idea to the bean-counters back then - cheap, cheap, cheap and hey! these guys can do anything - we know because they said they can. A few months down the line, the code still doesn't work, the deadlines draw near and we're spending a fortune on contractors to redo the thing from scratch. Oops! Just cost us a fortune, won't be trying that one again.
Having seen citizen code in action, it has similar problems - it rarely works, it doesn't get documented, it's nigh-on maintenance-proof and it's basically a bad idea.
It will be tried. It will fail. We will move on to the next bad idea and forget all about it.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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In other news, it appears that ADT magazine writers have never heard of Excel. 
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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As the newest members of the .NET family, there’s much confusion about .NET Core and .NET Standard and how they differ from the .NET Framework. For those that can't keep the various .NETs straight without a program
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Microsoft will begin rolling out the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on October 17. Here's what to expect. Oh good. We'll finally be able to create stuff on Windows
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Note to me: Do a couple of backups starting in October 13 (just in case)
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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A team of researchers from the U.S. and Italy has built a quantum memory device that is approximately 1000 times smaller than similar devices—small enough to install on a chip. Where do you put the cat?
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I am more worried about the hamsters...
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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Population distribution helps figure out the best way to deliver internet. You are here
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Quote: The team found that 99 percent of the population in those countries lived within 63 km of the nearest city.
Great finding. There are not so many places in the world where the nearest city is farther than 63km/40mls away, and in such far away places hardly anyone lives...
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'Invoking aliens as a potential solution to an ongoing mystery is lazy,' complains science writer "I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
No, they're likely not.
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Are we sure it isn't the microwave oven this time? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Years ago, when Windows was dominant and the smartphone era had yet to arrive, Microsoft was often the epitome of all that is wrong with a powerful company. Still?
or: Again?
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What tends to get overlooked when discussing STEM skills is that we need to teach algorithmic thought in the same way as needing to teach math, not just arithmetic. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don’t teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He’s a grown man, fishing’s not that hard."
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