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For the first time, scientists have engineered and switched on a working neural net that allows biological and silicon-based artificial brain cells to communicate back and forth. And the quality of discourse on the internet increases
At least better than most of Twitter, anyway.
It is kind of a mind-boggling development though.
Possibly literally.
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I said the other day that I like the quote "What today is written as science-fiction, might tomorrow be read as a reportage in a newspaper"
And there are many, many really good books with very plausible outcomes in this topic (and others related to this forum) and most of them don't end good for us.
But instead of slowing down and think more before giving a step, we still try it even harder in our arrogance.
What can go wrong?
M.D.V. 
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modified 27-Feb-20 13:16pm.
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Communication isn't the big problem; it's just getting ones and zeroes to transfer. The bigger problem is accessing the network, because hardware implants will not be popular (or trusted, most likely), despite lots of people saying they'd like that kind of thing -- and after the first few people to go through the (BRAIN!) surgery discover that they might have to have (BRAIN!) surgery lots more times, because microsoul forgot to add a feature or to close a security hole, the allure will reduce even further.
Magno-whatzit headsets? Forget it. They won't get used.
I postulated back in the '80s that plants (as in house plants) wouldn't complain about having bits and bobs of tech inserted (or grown) into them, and are sensitive to atmospheric chemicals (a trait that can be augmented/modified), so the heavy network work could be handled by your aspidistra in the corner, while all you have to do is smell funny (which most people can manage, even without non-intrusive modification).
It never caught on, though, because the tech wasn't available to do, well, any of it at all, not even the smallest part of it.
I hate it when people tell me "We can't do it!"; I much prefer "We're working on it!"
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Here is our annual list of technological advances that we believe will make a real difference in solving important problems. "Break on through to the other side"
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"Unhackable internet"
But is that really the issue? There may be some high tech hackers who tap into the backbones or even the last mile, but phishing seems much easier and more productive.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: but phishing seems much easier and more productive.
Yes, I agree with you.
The weakest part of the security chain in technology is mostly the same... the person using it.
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Absolutely.
It's only "researchers" and the US government who do any actual hacking; everything else is phishing bait.
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Believe it or not, Microsoft is readying its Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection for Linux servers. Yes, you read that right: Linux servers. I'm sure all those Linux users will love to install software from Microsoft
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I'm holding out for facebook security services.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I'm holding out for facebook security services.
I think they would try really hard to do a good product. After all, they do want to secure your data as much as possible, so they are the only ones having access to it and this is good for their business.
M.D.V.
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So it will be secure from everyone but them and those whom they sell it to (i.e. anyone and everyone)?
Privacy doesn't get more private than that.
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We were speaking about security, not privacy  
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A study of the re-use of code from over twenty thousand Java projects on GitHub discovered that almost 30% of them might be involved in potential code borrowing and almost 10% of them could potentially violate original licenses. I was going to give it back!
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So how does this affect my plan to put every permutation of every possible line of code on a hard drive, and release it into the public domain?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: almost 30% of them might be involved in potential code borrowing and almost 10% of them could potentially violate original licenses.
Only? 
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Google's TCMalloc can be used as a replacement for C and C++ default memory allocators to provide greater efficiency at scale and better support for parallelism, says Google. Does it automatically insert ads into your heap?
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All your register are belong to us.
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Since the Google coding standard forbids using exceptions, I wonder what it does when the heap runs out of memory...
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Two programmer-musicians wrote every possible MIDI melody in existence to a hard drive, copyrighted the whole thing, and then released it all to the public in an attempt to stop musicians from getting sued. Finally, I can hum Greensleeves without paying royalties (to royalty)
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Quote: this algorithm works at a rate of 300,000 melodies per second.
Indeed, I'm particularly fond of melody 1,547,689,403, that one always makes me cry.
"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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Update: they're being sued by everyone who ever wrote a song.
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Now train an AI with the most popular songs ever released (maybe a list of 10,000 or so) to find all the melodies with a similar pattern - voila, you got a hit writing machine.
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Or the perfect tool for the copyright troll-lawyers.
M.D.V. 
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That's pretty much what happens now, without AI.
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Losing data to an intruder is not a great look for a law enforcement partner. Good to know that security is so important for them
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