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Google researchers have now managed to develop an algorithm capable of erasing watermarks from images automatically, and with impeccable precision – all in the span of a couple of seconds. I'm sure all the stock photos sites are delighted.
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Stock photos will shrink drastically in size.
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Oracle continues to make progress Java EE 8, the enterprise edition for the Java platform, and moving forward it would like to advance Java EE within a more open and collaborative community. Horse, meet barn door
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The InfoWorld headline is even better, right?
Oracle doesn't want Java EE any more; open source community does[^]
You think maybe Oracle took on Java simply so they could sue Google (deep pockets) because they thought a bunch of money was on the table? 
Now Java is just a burden with all them dev-users griping about functionality, support, etc.. 
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It turns out that "But nobody uses Bing!" isn't actually true. It's not the size of the prize that makes you wise, the smarts of the charts is what warms our hearts
Or something like that.
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Last October, a flood of traffic from the Mirai botnet brought down major portions of the internet, blocking access to Amazon, Netflix, and other services for most of the northeastern US. Because 'flipping over the board' is so 20th century
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Shouldn't have used PHP
I have no idea what was used. I was just imagining it being picked up by a frustrated programmer. <tongue-in-cheek>
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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Gone to Silicon Heaven.
Well, it did have "San Francisco or bust" - clearly someone couldn't get to San Francisco so they went for the other option.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The head is being auctioned off, now, on the 'Sons of Ludd' forum on the dark-web; current high-bid from user 'RobbinNedd' is title to 40 acres in Sherwood Forest.
«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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Humans aren't terrible; but a bit realism about human nature would be very beneficial to those dreamers.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It had earlier hitched across the entire of Canada for 26 days and completed a hitchhiking adventure through Germany.
That's a sad statement on Americans. 
Marc
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Why assume it was Americans? It could have been one of those "Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems". Or my ex-son-in-law's dog.
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For a vestige of the past, the password has managed to hold on and remain alive -- even though some of the top people in computing said that it had already died over a decade ago. That's where you threaten to push someone down the stairs if they don't give you their password
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Since it’s reasonable to assume that users protect their devices and close or transfer their accounts when devices are lost or stolen
BS. It's not reasonable to assume that.
But they got one thing right about "push authentication." It just pushes the problem around. So if I lose my device, or it gets stolen, or I just simply think I misplaced it, I need to change all my accounts? Riight. Y'all know how hard that is, trying to get a live person at various institutions.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Y'all know how hard that is, trying to get a live person at various institutions
Oh my gosh. I once had a charge on a particular card that I believed wasn't authorized and was fraud so I quickly tried to contact the card people...
"Please push 1 for another set of menus..."
"Please push 3,5,7 or 8 if you would like to select the original menu..."
"Please push 2 to continue pushing buttons..."
I couldn't get through to an actual person or get the fraud people at all.
There was no menu choice for fraud and this was a major credit card company.
It ended up taking 45 minutes to get a real person and this was in the middle of the business day.
I am no longer a customer of that company.
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Eventually, servers are no longer the best solution to their assigned task, but when they keep chugging along, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" often becomes the replacement guideline. I know an AS/400 or two that could do with a nice retirement
With a good 10# sledgehammer
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Hey, now, stay away from my MicroVAX.
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In November there will be three versions of the world's most popular cryptocurrency. It's almost like developers can't come to a consensus or something
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With more than 2 versions I think they'll have to rename it bytecoin.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's almost like developers can't come to a consensus or something
Welcome to open source. If you don't like something, f**k it!
This'll become a fiasco in the decentralized digital currency world. Not that it isn't a fiasco already.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Welcome to open source. If you don't like something, f**k it!
This'll become a fiasco in the decentralized digital currency world. Not that it isn't a fiasco already.
Monetary theory states that good currencies will drive out bad currencies as soon as the consumer has a choice; and it seems that the prices are still going up.
It is nice to see some panic in the fiasco 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Mandatory xkcd[^]
(I know it is not exactly the same but... you get the point, don't you?)
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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The stable ABI promised for Swift 4 is delayed a year, with string ergonomics also considered for 2018 String Ergonomics? So they don't get word stress issues?
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