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Did they watch sonny in iRobot?
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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Despite evolutions in technology, hackers are still using the same old tricks, though sometimes in a more evolved way. If it's already broken into, why fix it?
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The problem: programming languages are created by programmers You can enable "easy mode" on the start screen
aka: the tragedy and horror of "SyntaxError: invalid syntax"
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Imaging someone make a programming language that even a monkey can master it within a day, the next thing I know, he will probably be fired and replaced by a monkey.  That`s why programming language are hard.
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On Error Resume Next
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: The problem: programming languages are created by programmers
Job security.
".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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Quote: The problem: programming languages are created by programmers
Brilliant! Absolutely correct.
They should be created by diary farmers.
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Memory leaks would be a thing of the past - no crying over spilt milk.
OTOH, core dumps would be disgusting. 
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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W∴ Balboos wrote: diary farmers
I honestly didn't know one could farm those! :P
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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What curd I say to that? It's whey beyond my understanding, though I'll still milk this for all it's worth and feel udderly no shame.
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Quote: They should be created by diary farmers.
Why would anyone farm diaries?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Spectre has caused its share of problems, but performance fixes are on the way to Windows 10 users. "Who you gonna call?"
Except for that newest attack, of course.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Spectre has caused its share of problems, but performance fixes are on the way to Windows 10 users.
It has? I haven't heard of a single one. Has anyone heard of it being used in an exploit that has caused problems?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: Has anyone heard of it being used in an exploit that has caused problems?
Only in internet articles, nothing in my social range
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 Nintendo Switch, designed primarily as a gaming device, is slowly starting to become a modder’s dream. Thus becoming their new mobile division
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Riding this wave of the foldables, Lego is now poking fun at the upcoming Galaxy smartphone with a tweet showcasing the “Lego Fold,” — actually the company’s Pop-Up Book set, dressed up in the style of Samsung’s own marketing. Finally, a foldable device I can get behind!
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A new product unveiled Monday by Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity unit, called Backstory, provides the ability to sift through even massive collections of log data, essentially instantaneously using Google’s cloud capabilities. Bring on the haystacks!
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According to the survey from London venture capital firm MMC, 40 percent of European startups that are classified as AI companies don’t actually use artificial intelligence in a way that is “material” to their businesses. I'm surprised it's that high
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Fraud has many different names...
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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Well, yeah, but they're all like totally Agile.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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For too many people, moving the digits around in some variation of Patriots69Lover is their idea of a strong password. So you might expect something complicated like” “ji32k7au4a83” would be a great password. "Even if you're a one-in-a-million kind of guy, there's still 1000 people just like you"
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Obligatory XKCD
On a serious note: There should be a serious discussion about passwords usage and how it is really used and what can we do to make them easier to use.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Researchers say Intel won't be able to use a software mitigation to fully address the problem Spoiler exploits. We never had these problems with 6502s
modified 5-Mar-19 13:53pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: We never had these problems with 6502s
ATMega328s are also invulnerable to that attack.
Get your Arduinos ready to take over the world.
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The story we’re used to hearing is that women get paid less than men. In Google’s case, according to its own internal pay audit, it turned out male-identified Level 4 Software Engineers received less money than women in that same role. That led to Google paying $9.7 million to adjust pay for 10,677 employees. Turnabout is fair play?
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