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NASA has just released a video that strings together an hour of images the spacecraft Cassini captured during its first plunge through the space between Saturn and its rings. Needs some Yakety Sax
But then again, doesn't everything?
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That looked like a B&W version of a bad acid trip.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Elon Musk’s company yesterday outlined its plan to put a network of internet-providing satellites around our planet, stating in a Senate hearing on broadband infrastructure that it wanted to start sending the craft into space in 2019, before the full network came online in 2024. We're going to need a longer cable
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The company’s leading AI experts are working on systems that can read passages of text and answer questions about them. Hopefully they'll have something to help me write a letter soon.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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If they have been testing the "Ask questions" bit in QA for a couple of years, that would explain a lot. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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According to a study released by Madgeburg, Germany-based firm AV-TEST, your AV software may be even more vulnerable to attack than the files it purports to protect. We need antiantiantivirus software, stat!
And of course, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
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Jeeze, will you please stop using quotes that I want to use?!
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It will make a big change to my lifestyle!
TTFN - Kent
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Take this man out and shoot him!
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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 in all that he still doesn't list which 19 programs were tested. He mentions a few of them but how are we to tell if our own favourite AV software has been tested by these people?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Financially-motivated hackers are using SS7 attacks to break into bank accounts. Well, back to telegrams. No one will hack those. STOP
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I looked into this a while back, and actually changed banks because of it.
Now, to log in to my bank account, I have to put my PIN card into a little doohickey, enter my PIN code into the doohickey, and use its back camera to read a 256-colour QR block on the computer screen. The doohickey then calculates a code for me to enter into the web-page.
No personal information at all is transferred during the process, and it'd be a nightmare to crack, even with a man-in-the-middle attack.
So the tech is there, and it's cheap. Nag at your bank until they institute something similar.
Passwords != secure.
Two-factor authentication == asking for trouble.
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That's impressive. Which bank is it?
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Rabobank[^]
It helps if you live in NL.
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Well, that's not far away from the system my bank uses. I have to "put my card into a little doohickey" too, then it either reads some data from a flickering computer screen (which usually fails) or I enter manually long blocks of numbers into that little doohickey, and then it calculates a 4digit transaction number which I have to enter into their webpage. It was some 5 years ago when my bank changed to that system.
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Well, even with the "added bonus" of typing the awkward blocks, you're still far safer with that. Good choice.
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Up to $55,000 in prizes for those who can juice up supercomputer software. Replace it with JavaScript code? (That's what everyone else is doing, *must* be for performance, right?)
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Hey, you've got until 29th June, so it should be easy!
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One issue with old and long running code is that most bugs in the code and the runtime had happened and are fixed and some so called stable build is working.
The NASA had some time ago the problem, that the hardware was defect and no spare parts where available. I think they bought some 40 year old machine on ebay. The seller was shocked and thought he is in the crosshair of some conspiracy. 
Never touch a running system 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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The space shuttle ran on a bunch of 8086's; about 15 years ago they were forced to buy a bunch of old hardware from bulk electronic scrap dealers on fleabay. They only bought them in bulk though, your 30+ year old relic would've been of no interest to them at the time.
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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Reading the comments, I like Ars Technica's voting system.. some posts went negative!
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