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Well, I will start telling Alexa, "Alexa, will you please tell those elephanters in Amazon to ship me a box of detergent?"
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To help get bugs in front of the right Firefox engineers quickly, we developed BugBug, a machine learning tool that automatically assigns a product and component for each new untriaged bug. Closed: Works as designed (done!)
Or perhaps a random choice between that and "Closed: Duplicate", "Closed: Not enough info", and "Closed: didn't feel like fixing"?
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On Wednesday, researchers disclosed several serious design flaws in WPA3 that shattered that myth and raised troubling new questions about the future of wireless security, particularly among low-cost Internet-of-things devices. Time to switch back to WEP - that way there's no way you think you're secure
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I've never been a big fan of wireless (which is why my entire house is hard-wired with Cat-6). I have a wireless AP, but it's on its own subdomain, and the devices connected to it cannot access the wired subdomain.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Researchers have found that the HTML feature called hyperlink auditing, or pings, is being used to perform DDoS attacks against various sites. How nice that most of the browsers don't let you disable this 'feature'
Edit: fixed link
modified 11-Apr-19 15:33pm.
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I think your hyperlink was edited -- I get a 404.
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Buggah. Thanks, fixed.
TTFN - Kent
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Wouldn't it be nice if it were demonstrated to google how this works, hard and often?
It would certainly cause a performance boost, if a thousandth of the data that zooms around the interwebs solely to serve their data-slurping were no longer an advantage to them.
Mind you, they'd only find another method of "information gathering", which would probably burn out even more wires.
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The VAST majority of the "data" zooming around the internet is your favorite pastime (other than posting on CP): PR0N.
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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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Hey, it's only you who gets deluged with ads for pron -- because all these ad companies have been minutely studying your browsing habits!
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LOL
#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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Déjà vu moment... I think it was only a few days ago when a News item was posted and I made a comment about this attribute was an invitation for nefarious purposes.
Maybe the EU or some other powerful regulative entity can augment the GPDR to also require site owners to get permission to use PING-backs as they do for dropping cookies.
Maybe I should just install a copy of NCSA Mosaic to browse the net
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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The idea of using machine learning to teach programs how to automatically write or modify code has always been tempting for computer scientists. Are they starting it with VB, or Pascal?
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The nonprofit was asked to remove archives of all books, TV, cartoons, and more by the EU I don't know - it included links to Grateful Dead stuff. Seems pretty legit.
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It doesn't seem very democratic.
We should have a referendum on which sites to take down, because when a referendum gives a decision, that decision is followed, even if it means turning a first-world country into a third-world country.
One vote here for facebook.
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One vote here for "Mark_Wallace".
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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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Young people should not be allowed to be that clever!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Unfortunately, young people are the only ones who are that clever. 
Arthur C Clarke considered any physical scientist over 30 :elderly". By that standard, I am superannuated. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Well, yes, Rimbaud never banged out a decent line of verse past the age of 19 and most of us can comfort ourselves with the knowledge that we haven't done so, either.
Ah, youth! I remember it in parts. It was definitely wasted on me when I was young.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I think Andrew Wiles was 30+ when he cracked the holy grail of mathematics.
FLT. Fermat's last theorem
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Arthur C Clarke considered any physical scientist over 30 :elderly"
Sure, but he changed his mind when he reached 31.
A lot of young people say a lot of stupid things. Strangely, that doesn't mean they should be quoted as trusted sources.
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Two points:
- Arthur C Clarke was never a physical scientist (or any sort of scientist)
- He said that when he himself was well over 30
His observation was, for the most part, accurate. That does not mean that physical scientists over the age of 30 can do no useful work. For example, they can expand on the brilliant idea they had when they were younger, as many scientists have been known to do.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Did you think through that utter garbage, before you let it spew out of your mouth.
Here's two points right back atcha:
0. You don't become less intelligent or creative, as you get older. The very idea that you do is utterly ridiculous. Who would have thought that there could be cretins who think that the brain stops working at 30?
1. You gain knowledge and experience as you get older, so you can put your undiminished intelligence to even greater practical use.
Please do not reply if you are going to continue to make ageist statements. You have already pissed me off enough with the ones you have made.
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For some things, knowledge is the best
For other things, wisdom
I think the best is the mix, young people with the knowledge and the ability to learn fast and grown people with the wisdom and the ability to keep focus in what is important.
If the members are really willing to learn from each other, such a team can do almost anything
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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