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Who would have thought that there were developers in the world who wanted to put sensors into girls' bathrooms?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So much for the IoT joke I've been using for the last couple years. Thanks a lot, L'Oreal.
Now I'll have to mock the SmartPen.
Oh crap, saw one of those the other day.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I installed SQL on Ubuntu a month ago and was very impressed, quick (both installation and performance), small footprint and resource consumption...
All-in-all: impressed...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The idea of HALs isn't a new one - but if MS open sources their DLL to ABI implementation, that should open the door to lots more ports. I would love to see Cinema 4D, for instance, on Linux.
This space for rent
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A new report from IT research and consulting company Osterman Research reveals that employee turnover and attrition is the number one data protection concern for enterprises. "Go ask Alice, I think she'll know"
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69... employee turnover...
I'm sorry, I'll get my coat  On a related note before I go, maybe businesses should properly compensate critical employees so they aren't tempted to get a raise by jumping ship 
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Yes, companies would focus on their employees. Because all the large databreaches were caused by employees, one way or the other. Storing passwords in clear text is not the problem, it's the employee 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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TLDR; Yes. But its successor is still called JavaScript, except when it isn’t. Pick your favourite line from the Parrot Sketch. I'm too lazy to copy and paste today.
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In a cruel twist of fate, enterprise IT teams tasked with creating the organization's custom software and integrating off-the-shelf applications often must use fractured, unintegrated tools. As a VS user, I am confused by this, but YMMV
I am a sheltered little kitten after all.
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Tech pros need a fresh style to grab the attention of recruiters and hiring managers who are tired of reading the same old stuff. Print it on 'greenery' coloured paper rather than canary yellow?
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Switcher Trojan reroutes your DNS to hand attackers information about every activity which takes place on the infected router. I'll give them points for this clever idea
But they should still locked in a room filled with Samsung Note 7 phones
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Ten out of ten for creativity, minus ten million for being total bastards and f***-ups.
I'd definitely support a death penalty for such hackers. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Quote: Google had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.
What do they expect google to say? The crap is coming from the LeetFreeApppz.cn store, not Google Play; so Google can't stop its distribution. They also can't modify future versions of android not to be able to log into routers; and even if they could it wouldn't do any good for all the existing phones running older versions....
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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At issue is the fact that the company has a patented method of preventing the potentially distracting app from being used in a vehicle, but has failed to implement it. Not going to make light of this one
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I can't say much that isn't fit for the SB, but in this day in age nobody can make any product because it's always the product makers being held responsible for the stupidity of some people. I suppose the world will be better off if humanity never makes anything and never advances... even a hammer is dangerous if you throw it from a moving vehicle. Let's start suing the company that makes hammers now.
Personal responsibility... it's dying. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Well, it's unlikely to be the family but the lawyers for the insurance company.
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And oral sex while driving has the very same distracting effect, let's ban oral sex! Also daydreaming while driving, let's ban it altogether.
Let's make self-driving cars, so that when a glitch / hack / service failure comes there will be either half a world blocked or a catastrophe with hundreds of deaths. But no more personal responsibilty, yay!
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: And oral sex while driving has the very same distracting effect, let's ban oral sex! Also daydreaming while driving, let's ban it altogether.
The highway code (or the equivalent) of most countries already has a "general caution requirement" - even if something is not explicitly banned, a driver must drive in a cautious manner, so as to avoid accidents.
Given the fact that the driver was charged with manslaughter, the Texan authorities apparently agree that using FaceTime while driving constitutes reckless driving.
den2k88 wrote: Let's make self-driving cars
If self-driving cars are ever built that rely on "cloud processing" (a very bad idea, IMO), I would expect a service failure to lead to the car coming safely to a stop, while indicating a "hazard". Exactly what a human driver would do, if faced with a major engine problem.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I would expect a service failure to lead to the car coming safely to a stop, while indicating a "hazard". Exactly what a human driver would do, if faced with a major engine problem
It would work if
1) All the cars on the road share the same one service provider - otherwise one goes down but the others have to manage several cars with sudden stops among others that are going normally;
2) All the cars have properly implemented safety firmware that doesn't glitch, ever: the one car with faulty firmware becomes totally unpredictable and hampers the previsions of the other functioning cars;
3) Situation is safe enough: curving at high speed even the communication tolerances become death traps;
4) There is a 100% internet coverage with the smallest possible maximum lags. Good luck with that, most first world countries don't even have 100% phone lines and GSM coverage.
All those without considering the malicious variants, with virus incoulated in cars through the various apps that will inevitably be installed and communication protocol bugs. That would open the way to disastrous incidents.
By the way, let's say that every car is perfect and they do all stop when the service goes down. Add a dozen of people with manual driving vehicles and a penchant for armed robbery + a stuck traffic and Police forces cars blocked in the massive jam. And think of the ambulances completely stuck and with no way of getting out since the cars will be automated and without manual control - there cannot be manual control on an automated car or it would completely trump its usefulness by adding a human and as such unpredictable variable, the infamous "personal responsibility".
Self driving car will probably be the most dangerous thing ever invented after the nuke, and would open the way to a whole new branch of criminal activities...
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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- Note that I did say that "cloud-based" automatic driving is IMO a very bad idea.
- I agree with most of your points, with a few exceptions:
den2k88 wrote: ...Police forces cars blocked in the massive jam. And think of the ambulances completely stuck...
Even today, emergency vehicles are allowed to break traffic laws during an emergency (e.g. driving on the verge, running red lights, etc.). I expect that Police cars and ambulances will be some of the (very) few cars legally fitted with manual drive.
den2k88 wrote: ...people with manual driving vehicles and a penchant for armed robbery...
At best, they would be able to drive as fast as the Police vehicles. At worst, as they are unauthorized to drive on the verge, etc., the usual traffic cameras will record their car license numbers. I expect that the Police would be waiting for them at home before they could get there. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The law in the UK is simple: While driving, you're not allowed to do anything else -- not eat, not drink, not use comms, not change the radio station (or sing along), and not even talk to passengers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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With identical performance to Skylake, Intel brings desktop performance to a standstill. Or is it just pining for a lake in Oregon?
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Or a fjord of a lake in Oregon...
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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