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A group of researchers has found a way to hack directly into the tiny computer that controls your monitor without getting into your actual computer, and both see the pixels displayed on the monitor—effectively spying on you—and also manipulate the pixels to display different images. "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture."
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I wondered how that 'adult' screen-saver got there 
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I have no doubt they could do interesting things with the chip on the monitor, but I'm skeptical of how they get to it. I have a feeling there's a big "Magic Happens" in the steps.
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Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web project on August 6th, 1991. The gift for the 25th is traditionally silver, but I couldn't think of a joke about that
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Perhaps: How many times was its RAID re-silvered? Or at least, attempted to be?
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Microsoft only started rolling out Windows 10's Anniversary Update this week, but it's already discussing future updates for the operating system. Two more chances to ignore Windows 10 next year!
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My prediction is:
Update 1: they will now force you to log into the microsoft account cloud. Personal user accounts will be forbidden.
Update 2: remaining personalization setting will be removed and you will be forced to do everything through the microsoft store. Users who do not run Candy Crush will be scrutinized to see why they are dissidents.
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Basildane wrote: Update 1: they will now force you to log into the microsoft account cloud. Personal user accounts will be forbidden.
Plausible, really possible...
But if yes... then bye bye microsoft
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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IBM's response to RFI (request for information) on AI from the White House (the one in Washington, D.C.): [^].
A wonderland of bright shiny goodness stretching beyond the horizon perhaps even farther than the lines of the unemployed queued to apply for benefits ?
cheers, Bill
p.s. actually, a fairly interesting high-altitude view.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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FossHub serves up MBR-compromising versions of Audacity and Classic Shell | ZDNet[^]
I want to meet whoever did this with an AK-47 aimed right at their head.
Some people are ba*****s and need to be [REDACTED].
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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And therein lies the danger of every open-source repository, including NuGet.
Our IDE and build environments are setup to automatically download the latest updates. Sure, we get to choose whether to update, but how many devs actually check the code changes (not the changelog) carefully? It on;y takes a few devs to not bother, and a sneaky bastard to replace a common download, and you have infected apps everywhere.
The system needs to be safer and account for these possibilities.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Nonethless, I haven't seen in linked here before.
Entertaining question on Stack Overflow from Alan Kay, relating to inventions in computing since 1980. Its amazing how many times he elicits a response of "No, we had that at PARC in the 1970s".
To a (much lesser) extent, I feel this frequently myself - younger dev's frequently attempt to introduce me to a "new paradigm" which sounds suspiciously like a refinement of an old paradigm. A case in point being "Behavior Driven Development", which just seems like Domain-Based Design, which in turn is basically doing OOP. OK, there are refinements, like the use of TDD type disciplines, but even that has very early roots (as pointed out in the responses).
(Edit: and the all important link[^]).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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At one exhibit, titled “Realtime Crowd Insights,” a small camera scanned the room, while a monitor displayed the captured image. Every five seconds, a new image would appear with data annotated for each face — an assigned serial number, gender, estimated age, and any emotions detected in the facial expression. So it can detect eye rolling and face palms?
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They're reading facial expressions of the audience? From the title, I expected it to be some kind of lie detector for the candidate or warning system when they evade questions.
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I'd pay for that, but the poor thing would probably break down all the time from excessive use. 
TTFN - Kent
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That'd be too easy, it'd only have to detect moving lips.
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I will go you one better, a telepathic lie detector for politicians, if there is a heart beat the bastard is thinking a lie!
I'm convinced they can talk themselves into believing their own lies.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Actually, that's remarkably easy for all of us, sadly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: Bedoya also pointed out that Microsoft’s marketing did not seem to match the consent policy. “It’s difficult to envision how companies will obtain consent from people in large crowds or rallies.”
Did anyone read the terms and conditions you had to agree to when buying a ticket to the RNC or DNC? 
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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I wonder if it can detect hand gestures. n|m
"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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jeron1 wrote: n|m
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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If I wrote software which randomly decided between "bored" and "that guy is so full of himself", I suspect it would do amazingly well.
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Once deprived of sunlight, the thin atmosphere condenses on the moon's surface. Hold your breath until sunrise
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