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Quote: We are the Borg Microsoft. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Several tech firms have opted to block EU residents from using their services because of concerns they are not compliant with a shake-up to the 28-nation bloc's data privacy laws. There's still plenty of time to work on that, isn't there?
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A “horrible mistake” from 1997, the Java object serialization capability for encoding objects has serious security issues I'm sure that won't break anyone's code
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The work comes from researchers at Cornell University, Google Jigsaw, and Wikimedia, who teamed up to create software that scans a conversation for verbal ticks and predicts whether it will end acrimoniously or amiably. "I know you are, but what am I?"
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Windows 10 users over the past two days have begun reporting serious glitches after updating to the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. At least it's not a BSOD?
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BSOD - Black Screen Of Death?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have a dell that has only 28 Gigabytes on the SSD, and have unloaded a lot of programs and user files off the SSD. Still the C drive has only a couple of gigs free. New installation is requiring a ridiculous amount of storage. Wants an additional 3 GB. How ridiculous.
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I have a dell that has only 28 Gigabytes on the SSD, and have unloaded a lot of programs and user files off the SSD. Still the C drive has only a couple of gigs free. New installation is requiring a ridiculous amount of storage. Wants an additional 3 GB. How ridiculous.
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I have a dell that has only 28 Gigabytes on the SSD, and have unloaded a lot of programs and user files off the SSD. Still the C drive has only a couple of gigs free. New installation is requiring a ridiculous amount of storage. Wants an additional 3 GB. How ridiculous.
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Researchers created a technology that could lead to new devices for faster, more reliable ultra-broad bandwidth transfers. For the first time, researchers demonstrated how electrical fields boost the non-linear optical effects of graphene. The list of things graphene "might" do is longer than the bug list for Windows
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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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