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Hmmmm. You've just given me some food for thought.
From memory, lasers that are above a certain limit of power can do funky things to the air they travel in. Wonder if you could aim a stupid powerful one at a mirror and have the altered air damage the surface, at which point you could reduce power and go-for-gold. Yep, looks like a winner - Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy seems to rely on the phenomenon I was thinking of - namely the ability to create a super-heated plasma from the air by laser-pumping.
Hitting the surface of a laptop-drive with an HV source (think taser) is fun. It leaves the surface rough to the touch since the glass fractures from the tremendous localised heat.
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...or a mirror?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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In a series of matches streamed on YouTube and Twitch, AI players beat the humans 10 games in a row. In the final match, pro player Grzegorz “MaNa” Komincz was able to snatch a single victory for humanity. Zergs leading the Zergs
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Yeah, well, I'd kick their digital @rses in a singing-in-the-shower competition!
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modified 24-Jan-19 20:43pm.
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Growing up, my little sister would invite us to play "The Lava Game." Only my sister knew where the lava was at any given time and by extremely deep strategy and tactics and just good game play, it was never where she was. I challenge an AI to beat that game.
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That reminds me of someone...
Oh yeah.
My rotten sod of a sister.
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as someone already pointed out in a previous related news...
Teaching the computers how to beat our asses... what could be wrong?
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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The database included highly sensitive financial data on customers who have taken out loans with U.S. banks What's the worst that could happen?
oy
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in the companies defense they just forgot to put a password on the database. Passwords are a fairly new concept right up there with block chain. Totally understandable.
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TechCrunch wrote: TechCrunch has learned that the vendor is New York-based company OpticsML. Efforts to reach the company were unsuccessful. Its website is offline and its phone number was disconnected from service.
Why would they need a web-site, now that they're stinking rich from all the commission they got from "users" of the data?
And their new phone number has a 689 country code.
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Today we asked the Supreme Court of the United States to review our long-running copyright dispute with Oracle over the use of software interfaces. The outcome will have a far-reaching impact on innovation across the computer industry. Melodramatic company is melodramatic
(and probably more than a little hypocritical)
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Quote: The outcome will have a far-reaching impact on innovation across the computer industry
Translation: "The outcome will affect how much money we owe Oracle."
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We're so lucky that Big Brother Kim Jong Un google is there to look after our every need!
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Hmm, so is the full name "Kim Google Un" or "Kim Jong Google"?
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Being ready for a job change is smart planning, and it's never too early to start. Here are things to consider if you're planning a move (or a move is being planned for you). Because if you fail to plan... I forget where I was going with this one.
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I am planning... my retirement.
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Lucky man! I'm still at the dreaming about my retirement stage
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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So, the tl;dr is:
0. Keep a spylog, so you can sue your employer
1. Spend half your time on social media
2. Screw your employer for as much expensive training as possible
3. Make sure you screw every penny you can out of them when you leave
He gave the article the wrong title. It should have been:
Your Guide to being the Perfect Employee/Colleague
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This article is for informational, educational, and/or entertainment purposes only. Neither this nor other articles here constitute legal advice or the creation, implication, or confirmation of an attorney-client relationship. For actual legal advice, consult with an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction.
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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Unionization isn't a new idea for the game development industry, but it is a particularly hot and contentious topic right now. "It ain't quite this simple, so I better explain just why you got to ride on the union train."
"Look for
the union label
when you are blasting
those zergs..."
(and yes, I probably could have re-used the "now you have two problems" quote)
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My heart breaks every time I see game developers walking our of their offices, their bodies so battered they have a hard time getting into their cars and driving their condos where they struggle to move the mice on their gaming rigs.
On the other hand, they'll now be able to stand up straight in the unemployment line.
modified 24-Jan-19 16:29pm.
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Nearly half?
So not a majority.
POINT OF ORDER, MISTER CHAIRMAN!
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When C# 7.0 introduced pattern matching we said that we expected to add more patterns in more places in the future. That time has come! We’re adding what we call recursive patterns, as well as a more compact expression form of switch statements called (you guessed it!) switch expressions. 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.'
Yes, I know these aren't regex (thank DOG)
modified 24-Jan-19 15:13pm.
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