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So you ran away? Or did you mean warranty?
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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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"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Mozilla used to be our bulwark against the the closure of the web. Can it muster a defense again? This news item looks best at 1024x768 in Netscape Navigator 4.0
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The Russian president warned that artificial intelligence offers ‘colossal opportunities’ as well as dangers But some people do
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North Korea ‘low on our list of concerns’ says Tesla boss following Putin’s statement that whoever leads in AI will rule world. OK, Elon, we get it: you don't like AI
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I think it will be different than previous wars...
In past war was about controlling resources between those who already had a lot, but with AI resources will be divide in a more business like way and the real war will be between those who control and those who don't want to be controlled...
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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that will be only the first AI war...
the second one will be probably machines trying to defeat that pest of humanity and humans fighting to avoid extinction.
And yes... I know this is not possible blah blah, only films blah blah...
To answer that I only have a quote (don't remember who said it):
What today is written as science fiction will (or can) be reminded as history in the future.
M.D.V. 
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Sounds like something Arthur C. Clarke would say...
#SupportHeForShe
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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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: the real war will be between those who control and those who don't want to be controlled...
We've already got that between the media and those who vote "the wrong way" 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Cyber-criminals start attacking servers newly set up online about an hour after they are switched on, suggests research. It doesn't take a thief to catch one?
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At least someone is still watching the BBC 
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[^]Quote: Apple launched a public blog in July to talk about its work, for example, and has allowed its researchers to speak at several conferences on artificial intelligence, including a TED Talk in April by Tom Gruber, co-creator of Apple’s Siri voice assistant, that was posted on YouTube last month.
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Indeed many big tech companies have embraced academia’s relative transparency. They have aggressively recruited top researchers over the years such as Yann LeCun of New York University, who joined Facebook in 2013, and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto, who joined Alphabet’s Google unit in 2013. The companies together also have churned out hundreds of research papers over the past several years.
Apple was slow to follow, AI analysts and leading researchers say. And even since its public embrace of greater transparency, it has published a fraction of its competitors’ research, and its scientists have avoided speaking about Apple-related research at conferences.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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It's not quantity, but quality that matters 
And: it's no use comparing apples to oranges
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Joseph Stalin supposedly said:
"Quantity has a quality all its own"
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Ironic that that man was born in Georgia
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Well... he did have other "qualities".
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Nearly 60 percent of all custom apps are being created outside the IT department. Whoever builds it, supports it?
Yeah, wishful thinking.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: are being created outside the IT department.
No surprise here... Most IT I know are bureaucrats and the best they do is annoy the developers / commissioning engineers with rules / group policies with dubious sense, thinking that everyone in the company have fixed job times, work in a desktop and don't need admin rights to install anything because they know it all better.
M.D.V.
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A few years ago, we were all worried that our jobs were being off-shored to Indian code farms. It seemed like such a good idea to the bean-counters back then - cheap, cheap, cheap and hey! these guys can do anything - we know because they said they can. A few months down the line, the code still doesn't work, the deadlines draw near and we're spending a fortune on contractors to redo the thing from scratch. Oops! Just cost us a fortune, won't be trying that one again.
Having seen citizen code in action, it has similar problems - it rarely works, it doesn't get documented, it's nigh-on maintenance-proof and it's basically a bad idea.
It will be tried. It will fail. We will move on to the next bad idea and forget all about it.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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In other news, it appears that ADT magazine writers have never heard of Excel. 
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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As the newest members of the .NET family, there’s much confusion about .NET Core and .NET Standard and how they differ from the .NET Framework. For those that can't keep the various .NETs straight without a program
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Microsoft will begin rolling out the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on October 17. Here's what to expect. Oh good. We'll finally be able to create stuff on Windows
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Note to me: Do a couple of backups starting in October 13 (just in case)
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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