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In worse news, I hear Enigma encryption has been cracked!
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Whaaaaa? Now the Nazis will win!
TTFN - Kent
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized a settlement with a Utah-based tech company that got hacked and had the personal info of over a million clients stolen following a series of more than 20 undetected network intrusions. Oh, *that's* why no one fixes anything
"As part of the proposed settlement with the FTC, InfoTrax and Rawlins are prohibited from collecting, selling, sharing, or storing personal information unless they implement an information security program that would address the security failures identified in the complaint."
"Each violation of such an order may result in a civil penalty of up to $42,530." Oh, that's going to hurt.  
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Why did the word "dominatrix" pop into my head, on reading the title of this thread?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Parking meters, cash registers and a professional wrestling video game have fallen foul of a computer glitch related to the Y2K bug. The gift that keeps on giving
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Devs: Solution A will take a month, cost $X and will break in 2020. Solution B will take a year, cost 100 times as much, but will be good forever.
Management: Do A
2020 rolls around
Management: Stupid Devs
(To be fair, a lot of management probably told their customers that everything would break in 2020 and customers said they didn't need their stinking ripoff alternative and are now whining.)
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they should have replace age old systems ....
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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Oh crap, our COBOL guy retired!!
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Ah no, less then 19 years to sort out the next issue!
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Inspired by the computing powers of biological cells, researchers have demonstrated a general-purpose computer that relies on only a handful of chemicals. Smells like someone's cooking up some calculations
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What's next, a Turing Machine made from a deck of cards? That'd be some real Magic, the Gathering.
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Don't all computers rely on only a handful of chemicals?
Take away the box, the stuff that holds it all together, the buses, solder, wires, PCBs, etc. (which the "chemical computer" people don't include in their count), and there ain't a fat lot of variety of substances left.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Quote: It's chemistry, brother, chemistry! There's no help for it, your reverence, you must make way for chemistry.
Everything is chemicals after all (or so say all the chemists - physicists tend to disagree)
And yeah, of course there's an xkcd for that[^].
TTFN - Kent
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Hey, there's no point in quoting Russians when discussing scientific advancements -- they claim they invented everything (as even Star Trek noted).
There's equally no point in quoting Americans, either (as they're even worse).
So Scots, Italians, Englishmen, Poles, and Germans only, please. In that order (the Scottish guy couldn't see all the others, way over there).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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WebAssembly not that popular: Only 1,639 sites of the Top 1 Million use WebAssembly. The other half are demos used in training articles
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Who'd'a'thunk'it?
#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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Yeah, it's not like we had a great example or anything... *cough*Flash*cough*
People never seem to learn, do they?
TTFN - Kent
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Taking "good" as the antonym of "malicious", I can't think of a good use for webassembly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As we look toward a new decade, Mike Loukides considers what the future holds, how we’re going to get there, and what it means for the way the industry is structured. Plumbing the depths of wisdom
(Well, I thought it made sense after reading the article, but then I drink at work.)
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It's a year evenly divisible by 5, so "rethinking programming" it is!
Next year: why <new programming language> will fix all our problems.
In 2022: I have this new way of programming, which is just like using LEGOs....
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Joe Woodbury wrote: It's a year evenly divisible by 5, so "rethinking programming" it is!
Damn!
So I'll have to wait twelve months for the Linux desktop!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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From the article:
We need to rethink the role of the programmer
Look for the industry to become more stratified and specialized.
Uh, that has been happening every year, month, week since the Web appeared.
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This isn’t your typical Threadripper, and it’s really designed for high-end desktop computing and creative tasks. This might rip a few threads
"AMD is including 64 cores, 128 threads, a 2.9GHz base clock with boosts up to 4.3GHz, and 288MB total cache."
Thinking back to my first 1MHz 6502 and whatever that 8088 clock speed was...
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it must really rip off....
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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I can't help but wonder how many apps/drivers can handle 128 threads, and how frequently they crash.
The T'rippy AMD guys must be T'rippin'!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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