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Oh! Well, hmmm... 
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Using a word processor is handy until you start to wonder why exactly half of your project is underlined with red squiggly lines. No! Me rit gudderest
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No, I just ignore the grammatical suggestions.
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
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No, no, that's not what's doing it.
It's site admins who insist that the wrong way is the right way. 
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No, I never get red squiggly lines anymore. I've been using the Add to Dictionary button for years because I'm a better speller than Clippy.
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So I do. But when writing texts in a different language, or texts containing two languages, things become ugly again: you have to tell Word which language to use for which paragraph also...
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Tom Kratman ran into a squiggly line problem the other day when Word somehow managed to start using the French dictionary, instead of the English. Suddenly, nothing was spelled correctly. 
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That's because the French can't spell! They throw lots of extra letters into every word just to confuse the issue as a cover for the fact they don't actually know how spell!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Due to years of using MS Word, I now just sort of type something slightly like the word that I intend and right-click a lot. I think of it as the written version of mumbling.
Thanks MS Word.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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My writing is already atrocious. It couldn't get any worse. 
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I find that Word appears to want to dumb-down everything I write. In addition, it's grammar rules are based on the American version of English even when I set UK English as my default.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Extended version of famous spell checking poem .Original at )[^]
Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar
I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.
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The developer of a very popular Google Chrome extension has regained access over his tool after an unknown hacker had managed to hijack his developer account and push a malicious version that contained adware. No one using Chrome would ever see an advertisement otherwise
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With so many different ways to spread malware and virus, this really should be all honest developer's worst nightmare come true.
They are still trying to determine what the malicious code inserted by the hacker is actually doing. Reading the developer's timeline of events[^], it seems unlikely that the purpose of this was simply to serve adware.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Not sure I understand HOW this happened. When I push a code release to the public, I have to physically insert my smart card containing my developer's keys in order to sign the code for release. The keys are literally in a safe the rest of the time. You can't copy them to a remote hacker. They can't be stolen unless someone gained physical access to my office and had my PIN as well.
I never used chrome but aren't their plugin's signed?
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As it seems... not
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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IT has some sort of signing, which's why the first step was to pwn the developers account, but 2 factor protection (eg your card) is optional. I'm not 100% sure if that means the attacker just needed a google account password or if the attacker needed to steal a singing key off the devs computer after hacking it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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This fall, the agency will have a grand ol’ time with one such object called 2012 TC4, which will whizz past us at a comfortable distance of about 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers) at its absolute closest. Because then we'll have an open shot when the UFO shows up
Have pew-pew, will travel
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That's a comfortable distance?! Geosync satellites are at 22,000 miles. This thing is passing by at less than a quarter than distance.
I don't feel comfortable.
(I wonder what the margin-of-error is for that 4200 miles firgure...)
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The uncertainly is all the other direction. That article's pulling from a different source than the one I'm looking at. JPL Small-Body Database Browser[^] I believe the numbers are from the center of the Earth since that's the natural point for an orbital calculation and subtracting off 4k miles for the radius gives the reported 4200 mile minimum.
Close approach data is: Min 8.80453517512432e-05 AU, nominal 0.000596663929512258 AU, max 0.00164202117532665 AU. In terms of distance from the surface of the earth, these numbers work out as 4200 miles minimum, 51k most likely, 148k max.
The range is so wide because we've only got a single set of observations from 2012 before it got too far away to see anymore. Once it gets close enough to spot again the min/max will tighten greatly as the interval being used to calculate goes from days/weeks/months(?) to years long.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Peter Levine, a general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, believes that cloud computing is soon going to take a back seat to edge computing — and we will very quickly see the majority of processing taking place at the device level. "The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
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As I sit here surrounded by 6 office tower blocks at least 50 stories high I think there must be a sh*t load of processing power sitting idle at 2 am.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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"Edge", as in the cloud's silver lining?
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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The two systems mentioned (Greenfield and Azure stack) are absolutely not "Edge" computing - mobile phones and smaller smart devices are what we are thinking instead.
Things like cameras with built in AI for facial recognition and the like doing the hard work of that but then handing off the data back to the cloud for subsequent processing - I don't foresee data not acquired by the "edge" devices being sent to them for processing though. (?)
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I am the fringe, and I don't want no clouds pushed over here !
I will never own a car again (promise), but if I did, the last thing I would want it to do would be for it to be communing with other cars to engage in "machine learning." Nor would I want my "smart house" sharing its sensor data with other smart houses in the area (what a lure for hackers).
Bad enough I have to turn off Win 10 from making my boxen into P2P servers rendering parts of itself to unknown digital denizens.
"Communal bandwidth ?" Maybe ... if.
Oh, yeah, more servers, more cores, less latency, more years to live-stream your own vegetation before death, lower birth rates, climate change, higher resolution, richer rich, poorer poor, no more jobs ... tabloid tweet reality ... terrorism ... apocalypse ... yada, yada, yada ...
Telemetry: just say: "no !"
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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