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3D-printable gels with improved and highly controlled properties can be created by merging micro- and nano-sized networks of the same materials harnessed from seaweed. Great for spreading on your 3D-printed toast
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CoreWCF project is a port of Windows Communication Framework (WCF) to .NET Core. In case you're missing your angle-brackets lately
No thanks to folks that might happen to work near Redmond, WA.
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As developers, the ability to collaborate through video (for example, pair programming, demos, etc.) is an extremely important part of a software workflow, especially for communities and teams that are distributed. Your next pull request can have a trailer
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Microsoft is working on resolving a high-pitched noise issue Windows 10 users hear when using some 5.1 audio configurations after applying recently released cumulative updates. I thought that was just the new startup sound
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CAPTCHAs strengthen the security of online services. But while they do that, there’s a very real cost associated with them. Select all pictures containing stop signs to read this article
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In other words, CAPTCHAs are the perfect compliment to bitcoin mining! Better combine those two somehow!!!
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Ugh. Now I figure someone's going to do it, and we're all doomed.
TTFN - Kent
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If we could make it somehow so that the miners had to pass a CAPTCHA test each loop of the mining operation, or something, it could be a net positive!
"Select each square with fuscia in it" on a black and white photo.
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If they actually worked properly, they wouldn't be so bad. But often they don't, and they're also abused by sites that don't like VPNs because they want to track you or they're built on software developed by cretins who use a blacklist of VPN IP addresses.
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Are you saying that the CAPTCHA itself is somehow a tracking device?
Could you elaborate on that, I'm quite interested to learn how.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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No, I'm saying that many sites that use CAPTCHAs only do so when you access them through a VPN, and the motivation for discouraging use of a VPN can be so that it's easier to track you.
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Greg Utas wrote: No, I'm saying that many sites that use CAPTCHAs only do so when you access them through a VPN, and the motivation for discouraging use of a VPN can be so that it's easier to track you.
It's obviously that and not that by using a VPN you're co-mingling your well behaved activity with that of various malicious idiots running bots, resulting in the VPNs IP address being flagged as high enough risk that all traffic on it is being slammed with a captcha to stop - or at least slow - the botherds.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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They assume the site users are going to are not a waste of time. (Could it be that CAPTCHAs prevent enough people from going to sites that it's a wash?)
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Bruce Schneier explores the potential dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) systems gone rogue in society. "My birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison."
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Another that might fit...
Quote: Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. Skynet fights back
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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And then Skynet East gets into a fight with Skynet West. Skynet North gets distracted with pictures of delidded CPUs and Skynet South gets depressed and offs itself.
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We don't really have that much to fear from AI. If it gets out of control, I'm sure some Russian will be able to hack into it and make it stop. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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People may be reluctant to give their personal information to artificial intelligence (AI) systems even though it is needed by the systems for providing more accurate and personalized services, but a new study reveals that the manner in which the systems ask for information from users can make a difference. "You have 5 seconds to comply. 4. 3. 2. 1. I am now authorized to use physical force! "
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Is there any need on it asking for personal information?
The AI just need a request to Google or FB servers... They have more than we can answer back.
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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Quote: The researchers said that traditional AI dialogues usually offer introductions that frame their role as a helper.
In fact, power users may be put off by the way AIs typically communicate with users, which may seem patronizing to them,
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On the other hand, when an AI system asks users for help, it is seen as social
Nah. Both cases sound like Big Tech begging me for more data to better violate my privacy (see farsebook's abuse of the phone numbers they claimed to only need for account verification purposes for a particularly blatant example); in either approach they can go ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) themselves and die in a magic smoke release.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Dan Neely wrote: Nah. Both cases sound like Big Tech begging me for more data to better violate my privacy (see farsebook's abuse of the phone numbers they claimed to only need for account verification purposes for a particularly blatant example); in either approach they can go [mastadon] themselves and die in a magic smoke release.
This.
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'I got bored sitting at home while retired ... I chose to go back to my roots' He couldn't do that before retiring?
"This is Microsoft's way of giving back to Python." <- I'm sure the Python folk will be delighted and enthusiastic about this.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure the Python folk will be delighted and enthusiastic about this.
Probably the same as linux users are with WSL
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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Wenyan is built on its namesake, Classical Chinese (or Wényán), the written form of Chinese used from the 5th century BCE to the early 20th century. Crouching tuple, hidden debugger
Yeah, yet another programming language used by one person, but it amused me. (Plus, you know - slow news day)
At least it's not Plain English 
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