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IBM's Watson AI has been a Jeopardy champion and a very creative chef, next up, Watson the weather man. Well, sort of. IBM just announced that it plans to acquire The Weather Company's products and technology, which includes Weather.com and The Weather Underground, all of which will serve as the backbone of the new Watson Internet of Things unit. The Weather Channel isn't part of the deal, but it will license data and analytics from IBM. Hopefully Watson is better at predicting the weather...
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The technology “can trace a person’s hand as he writes in the air and even distinguish between 15 different people through a wall with nearly 90 percent accuracy,” "Pink. They're pink."
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They're not going to be happy until we are all roasted like hotdogs in a microwave.
The people wearing the tinfoil hats, they saw this coming...
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... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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I can't wait for the folks who like to denunciate critical minds with "tinfoil hats"... now suggesting "tinfoil wallpaper".
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Tinfoil wallpaper - what a lovely idea - finally silence those damn cellphones.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Can it identify all 15 people with their right hand going up and down? 
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... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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Ellison claims Oracle's new servers would have stopped Heartbleed in its tracks. Well, all you security guys can go home now. Job's done.
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Thanks Ellison! Now I don't have to worry about software security ever cause he said so. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Ellison claims Oracle's new servers would have stopped Heartbleed in its tracks.
I'd certainly hope servers released this long after heartbleed would have been patched against it. 
Oh wait, he means that if heartbleed was discovered today, his customers would be safe because they spent so much money on overpriced hardware and software licenses that they didn't have any money left in the budget to start building any public facing websites to run on their shiny new moneypits. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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Microsoft unwrapped a smorgasbord of data-related offerings at the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit in Seattle on Wednesday, including the next beta for its flagship database server software and the public beta of its Azure Data Lake Store and Analytics services. The future is cloudy
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There are potentially 13M people having their accounts abused not just on 000webhost, but in all sorts of other places due to password resue and these guys don't seem to give a damn.
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000webhost was breached, original copy that you most likely have was dumped in March.
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The database is selling for upwards of $2,000 right now.
TL;DR - if you use 000webhost, and there's any possibility that you've used the same password elsewhere, your accounts are almost certainly compromised.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Don't care, all I used them for was fake email accounts 
wow m8 gr8 b8 I r8 an 8/8. though it was a little l8 and it seems you h8 f8, it still has that tr8 that makes you acceler8.
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Makes a great Samhain (Halloween) story: [^].
"Mr McKeown has dubbed the idea ‘Preserved Memories’ and claims that people would be able to construct a reality to avoid ever having to say goodbye to loved ones.
'In the future with Preserved Memories, you will never have to experience the loss of a loved one,” he said. “You will be able to add to your family tree and select new family members, including famous faces and legends, all of whom will already know about you.
Using emotion-sensitive human-computer interaction our artificially intelligent participants continue to acquire ongoing knowledge long after their death - they evolve digitally and do not die.
This life form will be up to date and informed of your daily activities through GPS, Wifi, health and fitness tracking, consumer records and much more. They will know if you have passed your exam, driving test, flown on holiday, bought new shoes, ditched your boyfriend. They will know what you tell it on social media and also by the constant tracking that occurs every day.' "
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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That's just dumb. If I had a digital copy of a loved one I wouldn't want them to know everything I do, just as I don't want those living to know everything. I share information on what I do by calling or meeting people and we exchange experiences.
Or will these ghosts communicate between each other and gossip allowing you to gain access to private information from others?
This sounds just like another way to gather more data or justify the data gathering. Thanks but no, I'll just download a chat bot, install on a terminal, name it after someone and hang their picture over the screen. Tada now that person is immortal...
Bleeh.
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That's creepy 
I never finish anyth
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Engineers in Bristol have developed a system that can grab, hold and move small objects without touching them, using "holograms" made of sound waves. OK, back to work on the warp drive, we're almost there.
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And what is the phasers status ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Just finalized the cyclotron. A few more MWe and we're almost there
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Just finalized the pico-cyclotron. A few more MWe and we're almost there!
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Nice to hear that. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey wrote: made of sound waves.
I think with all the bad Hollywood sci-fi movies, people have forgotten that sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space.
Marc
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