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A well-known computational problem seeks to find the most efficient route for a traveling salesman to visit clients in a number of cities. Seemingly simple, it's actually surprisingly complex and much studied, with implications in fields as wide-ranging as manufacturing and air-traffic control. Physicists to the rescue! (again)
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obXKCD[^]
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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That's the one I was looking for, thank you! 
TTFN - Kent
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It wasn't hard to find, I just had to remember seeing it in the near past and then click back a half dozen times. 
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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The tool was leaked by a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, which has been dumping stolen N.S.A. hacking tools online since last year. Microsoft rolled out a patch for the vulnerability in March, but hackers apparently took advantage of the fact that vulnerable targets — particularly hospitals — had yet to update their systems. Aw.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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So I've been poking around trying to identify the specific security patch Microsoft released in March of this year to fix this problem. So far, I have been unable to do so. Does anyone know how to look at your Windows 7 and Xp machines to verify said patch is in place?
A direct link is more than sufficient.
thx
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Given that both XP and W7 are no longer actively supported, there's a good chance that there is no such update.
--edit;
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-010 - Critical[^]; looks like it's for Vista and upwards.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
modified 13-May-17 9:10am.
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Well - this is what I read:
Microsoft had released a fix for that exploit a month before, in March, in security bulletin MS17-010. That security bulletin only included fixes for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2016.
But in true Microsoft form, they provide the exactly correct information in an unusable form. I've also read that Windows 10 machines were unaffected by WannaCry but the title above would imply otherwise. I admit it's vague.
Time to update all of my VMs.
Okay - more info - a bit more specific, might be useful to some:
Quote: Windows 7:
KB4019264: May Security Monthly Rollup for Windows 7
KB4015552: April Preview of Monthly Rollup for Windows 7
WE RECOMMEND: Click to free scan your PC for malware & improve performance
KB4015549: April Security Monthly Rollup for Windows 7
KB4012215: March Security Monthly Rollup for Windows 7
KB4012212: March Security Only Quality Update for Windows 7
Windows 8.1:
KB4019215: Security Monthly Rollup for Windows 8.1
KB4015553: April Preview of Monthly Rollup for Windows 8.1
KB4015550: April Security Monthly Rollup for Windows 8.1
KB4012216: March Security Monthly Rollup for Windows 8.1
KB4012213: March Security Update for Windows 8.1
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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As long as you've installed the service pack*, W7 is still in support for a bit more than two and a half more years (till Jan 2020[^]).
*and didn't go "LALALALALAICANTHEARGYOULALALALALA" when MS said they'd be dropping support for W7/8.x on processors released after W10 came out; a threat they carried through on a month or two back unless you registry hack around it.
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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The hospitals had ample warning since the Ransom attack on a hospital in Los Angeles many moons ago, but apparently had no strategy in place in case of a similar attack. Time to get out the long knife and start firing incompetent administrators and IT professionals.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Well, if you keep guns in your house and you're burgled...
How lovely that the worst ever cyber attack is the fault of the NSA.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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???? and not Microsoft who elephanted security again? Or the criminals who actually released the attack? How about the people that leaked the classified info? I guess off to the soapbox we go...
Or the administrators that cannot connect the dots? For large organizations there should be a dedicated individual / team who is point on these issues.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: not Microsoft who elephanted security again?
ms was unaware of this weapon, made by the NSA.charlieg wrote: Or the criminals who actually released the attack?
The criminals did not make the weapon, the NSA did. It's highly likely that the kind of person who goes into such criminal endeavours would not be able to make such a weapon.
Etc, to any statement that tries to divert attention away from the fact that this "weapon of mass destruction" was created and "made available" by the very organisation that is supposed to be protecting people from such things.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
No-one tough enough to keep them reined in and under control, that's quis.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The ransomware attack exploited NSA-developed vulnerabilities. It also exploited some people's inability to hear, "don't click the link"
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According to one analysis, TypeScript peaked in late 2012, then developers’ interest remained steady. TypeScript was back on their radar in 2015 and then the real growth happened. You mean people like data types? Huh.
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I'm going to take a wild guess and say what happened with typescripts popularity exploding last year is a little thing called the Angular 2 framework. 
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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Users will no longer be locked into Ubuntu, and they can run multiple Linux distros side by side. "It's a very, very mad world"
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When the South Korean developer of a suite of productivity apps called Hancom Office incorporated an open-source PDF interpreter called Ghostscript into its word-processing software, it was supposed to do one of two things. You mean I have to do more than just include that text in my README?
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If I didn't sign a piece of paper, it's not a contract.
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New research explores the possibilities of using everyday movement to support motion-powered TENG devices. The way some people check their phones, we could power the Bellagio
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I still have my self-winding Seiko, ca 1976. A real ticking one; the grandkids are fascinated.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I love self-winding watches. I owned two self-winding Citizen, but the quality of the modern watches is lower and they lasted a very short time (2 years the first and less than 1 year the second) due to poor components and assembly quality. My dad's Seiko saw the worst punishing use you can think of and it's still up, running and kicking axes.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Quote: "We confirmed that if the mechanical energy is entirely converted into electrical energy, the energy generated by the daily motion of an arm can sufficiently cover the energy consumption of a smart watch and even the stand-by energy consumption of a smart phone."
So it needs 100% efficiency to work... Thermodynamics says NOPE! 
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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Dan Neely wrote: Thermodynamics
details, details... 
"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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