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Kryptowire, a security company that has developed an automated mobile vulnerability discovery and exploit generation engine and is a participant in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) mobile security research and development program, has revealed a total of 146 new vulnerabilities impacting Android device users. Well that saves users a lot of time
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Call me conspiracionist, paranoiac or whatever... but MS got a huge project for the government (don't recall if DHS or Pentagon) and now a "colleague" company finds a lot of vulnerabilities in the OS of the company that loves to find and publish bugs in Windows?
Coincidence? 
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This lets Google contest a controversial ruling that could deal a major blow to software development by establishing that companies can deny access to basic code elements through copyright law. I {Go} can't {Go} imagine {Go} what {Go} Google {Go} will {Go} do {Go} if {Go} it {Go} loses
I know - rewrite everything in C#!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I know - rewrite everything in C#!
Let's hope... Although if they use VB they will be safe, because noone will for sure try to copy it or claim they copied from
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The claim here is that Google violated Oracle's copyright by using the same API surface in their (Google's) java library/sdk thus obviating the need to use Oracle's. It's a little bit like saying two CPU manufacturers producing the same but competing cpus (ala Intel and AMD) can't have the same pin-outs thus making it impossible to swap an AMD cpu for an Intel one or vice-versa.
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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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An engineer has developed a computer program that can, in her words, “remove the water” from an underwater photograph. The result is a “physically accurate” image with all of the vibrance, saturation and color of a regular landscape photo. Won't the fish suffocate?
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Amazing! 
/ravi
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Innovative chip from Graphcore could push AI applications to greater heights. Code and chips beats code
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Google is sometimes hands-on under the hood, and investigators want to know more. Bias isn't evil, is it?
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Python 2 may be reaching end of life, but old Python 2 code will remain around for years to come. If it ain't broke, wait until they break it for you
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Travelers should use only AC charging ports, use USB no-data cables, or "USB condom" devices. Every time you're plugging in, you're plugging in to everyone else that's plugged in
Or something like that
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Almost the same as the AIDS wave in the 80ies and sex with strangers, but not that funny...  
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Old news, see the post by Ravi from 14 nov 
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Bloomberg article (includes video story - watch instead of read).
Nat Friedman[^], CEO GitHub, goes to arctic to "[deposit] 6,000 of the most popular open source projects."
They'll be safe for at least 1,000 years and possibly up to 2,000. 
They are stored not on magnetic or optical media but,
"...data is stored on a reel of film coated with oxide powder. The information can still be read by a computer or if need be, by a human with a magnifying glass." 
Bloomberg - Open Source Code Will Survive the Apocalypse in an Arctic Cave[^]
I'm sure my projects are included. 
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Seeds - Check
DNA - Check
Open Source software - ?WTF
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
JaxCoder.com
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Fewer bugs at those temperatures 
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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I sure hope it's protected by laser mounted sharks!
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I am afraid you may have to make do with mutated ill tempered sea bass.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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raddevus wrote: They'll be safe for at least 1,000 years and possibly up to 2,000. 
Or for about 50-100 years because the ice caps will have melted by then and it'll all sink into the ocean.
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Impossible though, it's a hoax so it can't have real world consequences 
Also, why do I really want to play Horizon: Zero Dawn? 
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The implication being that 1000 to 2000 years after an apocalypse any survivors will have re-invented the wheel with enough knowledge to create the technology that can read this stuff. And care. Riiight.
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Do you mean that they'll no longer be interested in cat videos? 
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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Marc Clifton wrote: The implication being that 1000 to 2000 years after an apocalypse any survivors will have re-invented the wheel with enough knowledge to create the technology that can read this stuff. And care. Riiight.
Exactly! I will be busy with more important stuff, like trying to make a sandwich. 
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