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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have come up with a way to add touch controls to any object, no matter what shape or material it is. The system is called Electrick, and it uses a software algorithm to read the press of your finger by measuring changes in the flow of electricity across a conductive surface. Type by running your fingers through your hair!
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So you could use your missus as a keyboard -- but be a bit careful around the caps-lock key.
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Good job keeping clean snark on that one! You are a better man than I...
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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It certainly does have the required prerequisites for being moved to the Soapbox.
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IBM, the company that just weeks ago said it was doing away with its work-from-home policy, is now preaching the benefits of telecommuting to customers. Do as we say, not as we do
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Telecommuting is fantastic. Just make sure you're at the office when you do it. 
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You can always go into the office and remote to your home computer and work on personal projects.
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Roland M Smith wrote: You can always go into the office and remote to your home computer and work on personal projects.
I would, except the Internet connection at the office is so crappy it's not worth it.
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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A couple comments:
I was once interviewed for a position in Albany, near the airport, which would have meant a 50-60 minute commute, so that I could remote in to the main offices in Rochester. On site in Albany was a requirement. 
"There is only one recipe I know for success, particularly when we are in as much of a battle with Microsoft and the West Coast companies as we are, and that is by bringing great people with the right skills, give them the right tools, give them a mission, make sure they can analyze their results, put them in really creative inspiring locations and set them free," IBM marketing head Michelle Peluso said at the time.
OK, I work as a contractor at an office with great people that are actually quite skilled. That in itself is surprising and pleasing.
What is not surprising, and definitely a disappointment, is that everyone works in their cube, like an island unto themselves, and management has not the vision to gently nudge people to share the different skills that they have. Any synergy is completely lost.
As far as tooling, we all use 5 year old PC's (I know, there are many of you that use worse) that are crippled under the likes of VS2015/2017 -- trying to develop an ASP.NET/Razor application is a painful experience to say the least. On boot (15 minutes, waiting for all the security crap to load) and the minimum RAM footprint is 2.3GB, on and 8GB machine.
Mission? How can you have mission when nobody knows what anybody else's skills are or what they actually do every day? But there sure is a lot of keyboard clatter going on. How can you have a sense of mission when the walls are decorated with pictures of the great sales agents, and there's no recognition of the IT people that play a part in making those sales happen?
Creative inspiring locations? Cubicles are not creative inspiring locations, even on a rainy day. Oh sure, you might be able to get a loaner POS laptop and remote in to your POS desktop and work near a window.
Heck, the keyboard was so crappy on my machine I brought in my keyboard from home. Another person has to seat their VGA cable "just so" otherwise one of the color channels doesn't connect. Breathe on it and it goes green.
Then there's the guy who occasionally walks the cubicle maze bouncing a tennis ball on the recycled used tire rubber carpeting.
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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Ah then there is the other option where the company has embraced open plan office (you can squeeze a lot more of us drones into a smaller area with open plan) to enhance the interactivity between teams and generate a creative synergy.
Be bloody thankful for your cube, I live on a bench with 10 other people of various technical persuasion and absolutely no manners. There are 60 of those benches per floor.
There are a bunch of them that enjoy telling jokes and I've seen them in tears roaring with laughter 15 ft from where I am trying to work.
Across the aisle there is a lady with a sewer mouth, astonishing to have f*** this and f*** that shouted from a petite little asian lady.
I do NOT like my work environment - the pay on the other hand...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Possible solution:
0. Buy a new washing machine (bonus: you get kudos from whoever has to do the washing!)
1. Cut away one side of the box
2. Take it to work
3. Put it on your desk
Instant cubicle!
(I do provide a more expensive version, which includes soundproofing -- send your credit card details for more info)
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Google, never one to compete in a market with a single product, is apparently hard at work on a third operating system after Android and Chrome OS. Someone defines "wild new look" differently than I do
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"Fuchsia"?
"Magenta"?
Mind, I suppose it makes sense that a Californian company would try to corner the gayphone market.
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Maybe it'll be based on FreeBSD. That'll be a big change from Linux.
Ooo. Oooo. No. Resurrect Coherent!
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If I recall correctly, some of the old BeOS guys are working on this, so it could have good heritage.
It's nice to see new O/S development going on for a change - I simply cannot accept that Windows/Linux is as good as it can get.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Someone defines "wild new look" differently than I do
It's still a rectangular fondleslab?
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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Google Project Zero's security researchers have discovered another critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows operating system, claiming that it is something truly bad. "Nice army base here, Colonel. We wouldn't want anything to happen to it."
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But for sure it is not Windows 10, only those old editions already out of use...
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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Microsoft has released a patch: Microsoft Security Advisory 4022344[^]
It is really bad:
Quote: The update addresses a vulnerability that could allow remote code execution if the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine scans a specially crafted file. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code in the security context of the LocalSystem account and take control of the system.
It shows again that exploiting virus scanners is the best way to infect a system beacuse those are running with high privileges.
[EDIT]
See also 1252 - MsMpEng: Remotely Exploitable Type Confusion in Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server, SCEP, Microsoft Security Essentials, and more. - project-zero - Monorail[^]:
Quote: On workstations, attackers can access mpengine by sending emails to users (reading the email or opening attachments is not necessary), visiting links in a web browser, instant messaging and so on.
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Vulnerabilities in MsMpEng are among the most severe possible in Windows, due to the privilege, accessibility, and ubiquity of the service.
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Buckaroo uses Facebook's Buck build system, and has its own curated repository of packages as well Just the thing that those, "rewrite everything myself" folk have been demanding
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Dr Tromer, of Tel Aviv university, his colleague Roei Schuster and Vitaly Shmatikov of Cornell have worked out how those leaks can identify the film you are watching—even if they cannot directly observe the stream of bits delivering it, or obtain access to the device on which you are watching it.
The TL;DR for the attack is that it floods your wifi with traffic and uses variations in its latency to estimate the sizes of the variable bit rate data packets that Netflix/etc are sending. It then uses a neural network to get a 99% match with a few minutes of data collection on any videos that it's previously recorded the data sizes of.
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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Jeeze, it would be simpler to set up a telescope across the road!
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Far Side
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Dunno about that. Tricking you into loading hostile JS seems easier than traveling to wherever you live and trying to find a spot I can watch you without being seen...
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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