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Feels like an Inception scenario...
#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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Android smartphones from multiple vendors, including Samsung, Huawei, LG, and Sony are susceptible to an advanced type attack that can alter device settings via a short text message. Sending a bad link is so last week
There's a CP protocol? CodeProject is bigger than I thought!
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So is this finally an admission that Android has malicious settings?
About time, too!
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And such a weirdly simple one at that.
I’m surprised their security thugs researchers hadn’t found it. Of course, they probably don’t spend much time on Android: no one to embarrass.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: they probably don’t spend much time on Android: no one to embarrass.
Or to let them look bad, so they lose customers.
Searching in Android would be like biting the hand that feeds them
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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Zerodium, one of the many “vulnerability brokers” out there, announced a new pricing structure that values Android exploits higher than iOS exploits. Now how I would expect, "supply and demand" to work
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Do you bet that Apple and Microsoft are cooperating in order to pay the extra $$$ for each Android bug?
Kind of revenge for Google's "project zero"
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 Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, or AI2, announced today that its Aristo software scored better than 90% on a multiple-choice test geared for eighth graders, and better than 80% on a test for high school seniors. To celebrate, it's throwing a party while its parents aren't home
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Talk about dumbing down the definition of artificial intelligence.
How about just having a spell checker know the difference between there, their and they're?
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Pretty par for the course these days isn't it? Anything with a 4-part switch statement is getting called AI it seems. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: To celebrate, it's throwing a party while its parents aren't home
Pic or it didn't happen!
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Modern hardware often exposes a number of specialized non-vector instructions that can dramatically improve performance. In this blog post, I’m exploring how we’ve addressed this limitation in .NET Core 3.0. For those who miss #pragma
Will trade for better blurbs.
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Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections. Evilish? Evilesque? Evilicious?
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Good on Brave!
I use their browser[^] on my phones, where you have far less control over what's going on. It works a treat.
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This article aims to provide a high-level overview of expression trees, their use in modeling code operations and runtime code compilation, and how to create and transform them. I think that I shall never see an expression as lovely as a tree
Or something like that.
Oh, and a bunch of other stuff in this month's MSDN magazine (soon to be gone.  ) on F#, quantum computing, even python and VB!
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Great article!
... If you start from the standpoint of someone who uses expression trees (and similar) all the time, and you want to Unlearn how to use them!
I mean, Jeeze! Could they be any more obscure or multi-biguous?
And right from the get-go, too:Quote: An expression in Visual Basic and C# is a piece of code that returns a value when evaluated, for example:
42
"abcd"
True
n
In what universe are those "examples of pieces of code that return values when evaluated"?
If you haven't read the article, just imagine how confusing that kind of misrepresentation would be when explaining stuff that you don't know inside-out (so it isn't obvious to you what they really meant), and, well, just forget the idea of reading it.
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The article was opaque as the code an architecture astronaut wrote years ago trying to use them that neither I nor my coworkers could make heads or tails of.
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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The bug is causing CPU usage to spike for some users, and it's related to SearchUI.exe. On the bright side, the extra fan blowing might help keep you cool
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they must be sucking more of your data or doing crypto mining with your CPU
%SystemRoot%\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchUI.exe
kill it and rename it
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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abmv wrote: %SystemRoot%\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchUI.exe
kill it and rename it
If it sparks up that you need TrustedInstaller rights to rename it, just use Unlocker to do the job.
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ya forgot to mention that.. you need to reassign the rights...to admin and rename.
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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After a tease in March, the USB Implementation Forum has declared that it has completed the USB 4 standard, implementing the USB-C connector, plus 40Gbps speed and other features of Thunderbolt 3. But the good news is that we'll (eventually) be forced to upgrade all our cables (and whatever they're connected to)
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A survey suggests says that in our society of immediacy, our patience runs out within seconds. This is how many seconds. Article too long. I didn't read it, but maybe you can read the headline (and comment)
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Speaking as someone who has an inkling about UX: the conclusions repeated in the article are bollocks.
People don't mind waiting -- really they don't.
What people don't like is being ignored.
Click a link:
0. Nothing happens
1. Nothing happens
2. Nothing happens
3. Nothing happens
3. Nothing happens
Result: Angry and impatient customers.
Click a link:
0. "OK! Working on it!"
1. Nothing happens
2. "Sorry; the Internet is a bit slow, today"
3. Nothing happens
4. "We're still trying -- thanks for being so patient!"
Result: Happy customers.
It's bad enough that too much money is spent on ridiculously unnecessary research; now we have to put up with research from people who don't have a clue what they're researching?
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