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Google emails users: "the following apps may no longer be able to access your data." They've run out of their own apps to shut down?
Yes, that's also the featured comment, but I came up with it independently.
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Slap on some solar panels and a control board and it flies for a half-second. Then we mount the autocannon on it for real fun!
Black Mirror as documentary, part B.
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Nuthin' special.
Doctor Doom had these in the 1960s.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The software update was supposed to improve safety after the jets were grounded worldwide following two fatal crashes. Who needs tests when you can just keep poking at the code until the planes stop crashing
We're Agile!
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Quote: Boeing has traced the issue to a microprocessor and how the chip handles data
Is that the new way of saying 'we found a bug in the code'?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I know I blame Intel whenever a bug is found in my code. 
TTFN - Kent
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The old 'It's a hardware problem' defense, a classic from way back.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Quote: Pilots testing the MCAS update in a simulator, however, found that it took them too long to recover the airplane if the software was trying to avoid a stall
My god, how hard is it to have a button that says "screw you, MCAS, give me control?" OK, yet another button, but there must be other alternatives equally simple. But what do I know?
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: But what do I know?
More than some Boeing engineers, apparently. 
TTFN - Kent
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From my understanding there is a switch/toggle to turn off MCAS.
The problem is that if you switch off MCAS while the trim is down the only way to retrim the aircraft is with the trim wheel, as using the trim switches on the yoke switch MCAS back on. That means if you switch off MCAS when the aircraft is in a dive you have 250+ turns of that wheel to make before the trim is back to its neutral position.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Also, the higher the airspeed, the more difficult it is to move that wheel. Based on multiple news reports, at any rate.
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They'll find a missing hyphen in the code.
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The goal of this post is to explore some concrete applications of this strange new operator and its associated counterpart, the operator== (yes it has been changed, for the better!), all while providing some guidelines for its use in everyday code. And I think it's gonna be a long, long time before I use this one
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I'm not the programmer they think I am at home... ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Actually, this is pretty cool. <=>!!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites. It’s great for security—but not so great for your privacy. You had me at Google and 'dark side'
They have cookies!
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In the days of ReCaptcha mk 1 (type out the non-words written in illegible text) I used to think that it was the worst thing ever.
Then came ReCaptcha mk 2 (tick the pictures which have x in them, even though they arguably all do or don't) I was forced to update that opinion.
Now we have one that assumes that anyone with a Google account is human and anyone without one is not and I sense that I'll soon be updating that opinion again.
Taking something awful and successfully making it worse with every single iteration is clearly a skill of sorts, but it's not one that should be inflicted upon the public.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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So just block the recaptcha servers altogether.
Sites will rethink things, once they see their revenues dropping because the recaptcha script is not letting anyone in.
Thinking something is bad doesn't change it. You have to put your money where your mouth is.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I hate google captcha now. I will hate it even more in the future I guess...
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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I don't use reCaptcha on my website anymore. Tried https://hcaptcha.com/ instead. Working pretty well so far and I even have some additional income, haha.
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The technology, known as Jetson, uses laser vibrometry to identify surface movement on the skin caused by a heartbeat, and it works from 200 meters away. "I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart."
Do a bit of exercise, and be identified as someone else?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Do a bit of exercise, and be identified as someone else?
Ever been hooked up to a heart-monitor that beeps? Ever noticed it beep faster, depending on who enters? 
According to the article, this new "password-killer app" has a 95% success rate under ideal circumstances. They claim it to be unique, but how unique is it exactly, given the amount of people on the planet? As unique as a GUID?
That information is lacking; is it based on the 9-year old magnetometer[^]?
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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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: " has a 95% success rate under ideal circumstances
a 95% in ALL conditions would still be too low to be a password-killer app.
You get ill, you need to access something after doing sports... and you can't access anything... screw that.
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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will renaming things change its history .. will one day microsoft change its name to azure (formerly Microsoft)
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Paint It Blue and Throw It in the Sea...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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