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If unimproved humans become redundant is up to how good the improvements are executed; knowing mankind, there will be some 'slight' mistakes. Wouldn't be surprised if they kill themselves 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Okay, so sniffing status for mating/bonding/dominance goes back 400 million years, and programmers are mammals ... even if fully geeked ... and, perhaps, vomeronasally challenged ... that still does not explain Agile: [^]
But, scrum ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
modified 13-Oct-18 9:42am.
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BillWoodruff wrote: But, scrum ?
I smell a pun. 
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Over the past 18 months, Microsoft has been working towards building a digital identity system using blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies. With these identities aims to enhance personal privacy, security, and control. Is that where you use the same user id and password on multiple sites?
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Researchers at Indiana University have confirmed that stringent password policies – aside from being really annoying – actually work. OK, password changed to 83tt3rP@ssw0rd. I'm so safe now.
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That's so safe, I'm going to use it.
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 We should get everyone to use it. We'll all be so secure!
TTFN - Kent
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If I'm correctly understanding what I read there, the benefit is only in that it's an outlier, and 83tt3rP@ssw0rd is only reused less than p4$$W0rd because most sites will let users get away with reusing something shorter. If these boneheads did manage to convince the web to switch to longer PWs, 83tt3rP@ssw0rd would become equally ubiquitous due to reuse.
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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My PW = "Password"... I just need to remember which salt I used
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Shinobi of Query Language
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Cryptocurrency scammers have gotten extra creative and are now hiding mining malware in legitimate updates of Adobe Flash Player. What kind of world are we living in when the hackers don't even bother to install a hacked version of Adobe Flash?
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As if it wasn't hard enough...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Mitchell Baker says firms should hire philosophy and psychology graduates to tackle misinformation I know lots of people in tech, and many of them are human
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Pheromones.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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That recruiting tool was trained with some data: previous applications and their outcomes. Since the people producing those outcomes had a strong bias against women, the Artificial Intelligence learned that a strong bias against women is what it is expected to do.
What a miracle!
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Yes, I'm well aware of that. It's another instance of GIGO.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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It would be reasonable to expect doing nothing to be an easy, simple task for a kernel, but it isn't. "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
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Farm Bitcoins maybe 
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An idle CPU is the devil's playground 
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A new survey of senior IT decision makers at some of the world's largest organizations that still rely on legacy mainframe systems reveals that most want to move away from the technology due to the high cost and inflexibility that it has brought to their business. This survey brought to you by every year since about 1985
And it's about as likely to happen as it did in any of those years
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Are there any reportable cases of major businesses actually reducing the number of mainframes they're using or stopping all together, or is this just a rehash of the last 20+ years of businesses stating they want to but not successfully following through due to various reasons (financial or technical)?
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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I've only ever heard of one or two big companies switching off their mainframe (and one went to SAP of all horrors). Thus my comment about "every year since 1986". I think the writers just dust off this article/survey regularly.
Of course the way it was worded in this one was accurate - they "want" to move off the mainframe. It just ain't going to happen in this lifetime.
TTFN - Kent
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Dan Neely wrote: Are there any reportable cases of major businesses actually reducing the number of mainframes they're using or stopping all together
Company takes well documented, well designed, and well tested legacy system written in COBOL and starts replacing pieces of it, implemented by junior devs, with no consideration of requirements for design changes necessitated by a different programming language and DB architecture, no consideration for documentation, and certainly no testing other than "compare your output with what the legacy system produced" which is actually useful but doesn't cover the majority of scenarios, not to mention edge cases. And after 12 years of so-called development (during which the language, framework, ancillary technologies and 3rd party interfaces have expanded, changed, or gone out of vogue), the legacy system still hasn't been replaced.
Of course this kind of behavior wouldn't be reported.
And no, I'm not making this up. 
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Actually, I was part of a team working for the U.S. Army to rewrite and/or convert all mainframe code to client/server in the late 1990s - Y2K worries basically. Did all MF code at Fort Sill, Fort Leavenworth, and a major part of Fort Benning (watched the base commander actually cut the mainframe plug with a axe for framing).
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Some nice momentum for privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo which has just announced it’s hit 30 million daily searches a year after reaching 20M — a year-on-year increase of 50%. Or about 12.5 minutes of Google's day
Sorry, I feel a little mean-spirited posting this one.
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