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Kent Sharkey wrote: Hansel
As I learned actually yesterday playing WWF, "hansel" is word meaning "a gift given for good luck at the beginning of the year or to mark an acquisition or the start of an enterprise."
I guess Scott Hanselman has been a real hansel for Microsoft. 
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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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A new user verification system for phones relies on the unique way a person moves his or her lips Read my lips: let me in
I was thinking of going with "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow", but I'm not sexy enough to make that one work.
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I can just see the first planning session:Fat Manager says: OK, Boys!
Our new project is going to be based on one of my fetishes!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Read my lips: let me in
How about saying "open sesame"? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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So after dentist it is not only two hours without eating but two days without phone?
I may buy it...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I may buy it...
For your kids?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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FAAAARRRKKK OFF!
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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"Artificial Intelligence Study of Human Genome Finds Unknown Human Ancestor; The genetic footprint of a 'ghost population' may match that of a Neanderthal and Denisovan hybrid fossil found in Siberia" [^]
I find this fascinating.
Quote: In this case, machines were set to work analyzing the human genome and predicting human demographics by simulating how our DNA might have evolved over many thousands of possible scenarios of ancient evolution. The program accounted for the structure and evolution of DNA as well as models of human migration and interbreeding to try to fit some of the pieces together in an incredibly complex puzzle.
The researchers trained the computer to analyze eight different models of the most plausible theories of early human evolution across Eurasia. The models came from previous studies that attempted to come up with a scenario that would result in the current picture of the human genome, including its known Neanderthal and Denisovan components.
“With each of these eight models, we calculate over weeks of computations how well they are able to reach the actual, present genetic composition of humans,” Bertranpetit says. “Every time we do a simulation, it's a simulation of a possible path of human evolution, and we have run those simulations thousands of times, and the deep learning algorithms are able to recognize which of the models best suit the data.”
«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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> The researchers trained the computer to analyze eight different models of the most plausible theories of early human evolution across Eurasia.
I wonder if it would be possible to then compute probable evolutionary trends in the future to get an idea of what the human being will evolve to in a few 10's of thousands of years?
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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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@marcclifton That would be fascinating; it's interesting to me to wonder if the "global village" aspect of today's transportation system and infrastructure might enable the rapid world-wide propagation of catastrophic events (plague, etc.) that would lead to evolutionary bottlenecks [^] qualitatively different from those in the past.
«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 9-Feb-19 14:54pm.
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That would require some knowledge of the future environment our species is in to be coded into the model somehow.
Best guess: we are going to become better swimmers.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: Best guess: we are going to become better swimmers.
Kevin Costner saw that a few years ago 
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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Microsoft’s Blue Hat IL presentation from MSRC shows that, in 2017-18, the threat from zero days far exceeds the threat of delaying patches by 30 days. Moreover, the vast majority of zero days are used in targeted attacks, not in public attacks. Windows Update deemed of limited use
Again.
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Not surprising. From the other end their quarterly malware bulletins (generated with what Windows Defender sees in the wild) show an overwhelming preference for old exploits (several month to several years).
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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A malicious spreadsheet has been discovered that builds a PowerShell command from individual pixels in a downloaded image of Mario from Super Mario Bros. When executed, this command will download and install malware such as the GandCrab Ransomware and other malware. They may be horrid and evil, but they're artists
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So, in order to become infected, you have to:
0. Open an e-mail from someone you don't know
1. Open an MS Excel spreadsheet attached to the e-mail
2. Allow the MS Excel spreadsheet attached to the e-mail to run scripts
3. Allow the script that's run by the MS Excel spreadsheet attached to the e-mail to connect to the Internet to download content
4. Be Italian
I strongly advise against all five of those activities.
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A new developer survey about Python reveals the programming language is now used primarily for data analysis, supplanting the previous No. 1 use case, Web development. "And now for something completely different"
Lame blurb yes, but I already have one foot out the door for the week.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Lame blurb yes, but I already have one foot out the door for the week.
You must be using doors wrong, if putting one foot through makes you lame.
Shall I order a user guide for you?
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It's the chain Chris has on my ankle. It's only long enough to let me get one foot out the door, and then I can't walk any further.
TTFN - Kent
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It was Chris who upvoted that, as a thanks for reminding him to shorten the chain.
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A team of researchers at Telecom ParisTech has developed a new method to protect encrypted data against key exposure. "All for one, and one for all"
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Perfect!
Now all we need to do is disperse AIs to control it all, and Bob's your uncle!
Or the Singularity's your daddy; one or the other.
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modified 8-Feb-19 3:58am.
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Whiney beg banner "You're using an ad blocker, what are the consequences"
Me: Faster page load times, improved site performance, protection from third party malware distributers, oh and I never need to dismiss annoying banners more than once *clickety*block*. 
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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Wouldn't that also increase the chances of failure?
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That was one of the things that popped into my head -- what if a single packet fails, and has to be re-sent?
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