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A denial of service flaw found in the way recent Linux kernels handle TCP networking can be exploited by remote attackers to trigger a kernel panic in vulnerable systems. Netflix and patch
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Is this the bitchy-finger-pointy thing that the tech world has become, now?
"You can't say we're bad, because look at them!"
Remind me to think twice about working for netflix. Any company that follows google's example is probably best avoided.
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Facebook today said that its in-development global cryptocurrency, called Libra, will launch next year alongside the underlying blockchain-based network that will support it. Today you will meet a tall stranger bearing fake money. He will sell your private information to others.
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I wonder how much they'll charge subscribers for telling them how many coins everyone has, alongside their purchasing history.
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Not having access to Facebook because you have the wrong opinions is so last year. Not being able to buy anything because you have the wrong opinions is where it's at.
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I'm waiting for the Google currency. I wonder how many ads you will have to watch before making a transaction.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Samsung has advised owners of its latest TVs to run regular virus scans. Remember when the worst thing about your TV was sitting too close?
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I have a Sony Android-based TV. I suppose it needs to be virus checked as well, but since there's no storage, and the OS is most likely built into a ROM or something, how do you even do a virus check?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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u can check on the sony support website, normally if there are any udpates etc..
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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Yeah, I'm not into that at all...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Do the malware checkers block soaps?
If so, I'm buying a Samsung TV.
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Now there's an idea for malware - reading the "favorite channels" list, and allowing the victim to play anything but his/her favorites.
:evil grin:
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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Official development targets for Java 13 include improvements to garbage collection, application class-data sharing, and text blocks Surely there's someone excited about this?
And yes, I surely called you Shirley.
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Hold on!
There's a version higher than Java 8?
Why have they bothered?
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I guess they had more C# features to copy?
TTFN - Kent
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They're never going to succede with java unless they introduce new icons. They could really take a clue from Micrsoft in that regard.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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AIs that were given a “social” drive and rewarded for influence learned to cooperate Now they know how to gang up on us
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Good news is good news.
... Even if it's over fifteen years old...
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Trained on tens of thousands of program examples, SketchAdapt learns how to compose short, high-level programs, while letting a second set of algorithms find the right sub-programs to fill in the details. They've automated copy/paste?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They've automated copy/paste?
Egg-f***ing-sackerly.
Another article I'm not going to bother to read, because where did the code examples come from, and how were they trimmed and massaged to get results that look "good"?
It will likely be a lot of years before something like this is done seriously and professionally.
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If they're trained on samples generated by humans, all we're going to end up with is with something like Windows.
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Randomness sits at the heart of everything we do online. Many encryption algorithms depend upon randomly generated numbers to work, and that’s just one example of many. But how random is random? 4d6, pick the best 3
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Oh come on!
I'm not even going to bother reading the article, because Computers Cannot Generate Random Numbers!
That's lesson one of programming class 000; it's burned into your brain before you even think of taking class 101.
Computers Don't Do Random!
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Apparently these efforts use various physical sources for random numbers. This project apparently aggregates these. However, I recently read an article which pointed out that over-randomizing and/or using too many sources often leads to less randomization, not more.
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I can well believe that. Adding more "randomising factors" just makes the process more complicated -- but it's still a process, and therefore not random.
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