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Facial recognition systems don't want you to stop and think about them. This is what happens when someone does. "You see, the brain itself feels no pain if that concerns you, Clarice."
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I firmly believe that the best way to truly learn a technology is to build something with it, so I decided to take a deep dive and build a web application with all of these technologies together. 53 min read, FYI.
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Amazon will close its domestic e-commerce marketplace business in China, effective from July 18. The company will keep running other business sections in China, including Amazon Web Services, Kindle e-books, and cross-border operations. And the panda helps itself to another victory bamboo.
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Car API startup Smartcar claims that its competitor Otonomo copy-and-pasted Smartcar’s API documentation, allegedly plagiarizing it extensively to the point of including the original’s typos and randomly generated strings of code. They say copying typos is the highest form of flattery.
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Once upon a time; in the time of paper maps, cartographers would intentionally add "features" to their maps to prove copyright infringement.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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The European Parliament voted last week to interconnect a series of border-control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a gigantic, biometrics-tracking, searchable database of EU and non-EU citizens. EU knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.
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How is this going to work with GDPR?
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They'll just apply the Golden Rule. The govts have all the gold, so they get to make the rules however they like. 
If you don't like it, they'll just brand you a terrorist and revoke your citizenship. 
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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Sounds like they have not watched Battlestar Galactica(the noughties version), connect the networks and it'll end in tears.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Two of the Google employees who helped organize last November’s walkout say they have faced retaliation for their role in the protest. Google denies the claims
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The NCSC's first 'UK cyber survey' published alongside global password risk list My password is "OneTwoThreeFourFiveSixSevenEightNineTenEleven" and then my heart burns because I didn't write the twelve.
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The only shock to me on this list was that superman and batman were listed under "Fictional characters".
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Just add "!2" so it's super secure
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They revealed more passwords than Facebook
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Microsoft Research has introduced a new open source programming language called Bosque that aspires to be simple and easy to understand by embracing algebraic operations and shunning techniques that create complexity. Here's that regularized programming you wanted. Bish, bash, er, Bosque.
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Well at least that article explains what Bosque's designer was trying to do, if still not at a level that I can actually see how it's doing stuff differently than other languages. 
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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Was "Giant Waste of Time" already taken?
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Mozilla this week announced a project called WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) to standardize how WebAssembly code interacts with operating systems. One binary to rule them all.
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Based on reviewing evidence from numerous large software projects using C and C++, I think we need to be migrating our industry to memory safe by default languages (such as Rust and Swift). Perhaps we cannot be saved.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Perhaps we cannot be saved.
Or we don't want
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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Funny. In order to work, Rush and Swift have to do that "memory unsafe" stuff for us. 
#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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Rossi Lorathio Adams II could face two decades in prison. A jury found him guilty Thursday of hiring the intruder to break into the house in Cedar Rapids in 2017 to force the transfer of an internet domain at gunpoint "Dagnabbit, I said the .COM, not the .NET!"
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It's always fascinating, in a morbid sort of way, to see what crimes technology inspires.
Latest Article - A 4-Stack rPI Cluster with WiFi-Ethernet Bridging
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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The source code of every Infocom text adventure game has been uploaded to code-sharing repository GitHub, allowing savvy programmers to examine and build upon some of the most beloved works of digital storytelling to date. Yes, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Zork are both included.
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Here's some of the source from Zork (from nrooms.c):
switch (ri - newrms + 1) {
case 1: goto L38000;
case 2: goto L39000;
case 3: goto L40000;
case 4: goto L41000;
case 5: goto L42000;
case 6: goto L43000;
case 7: goto L44000;
case 8: goto L45000;
case 9: goto L46000;
case 10: goto L47000;
case 11: goto L48000;
case 12: goto L49000;
case 13: goto L50000;
case 14: goto L51000;
case 15: goto L52000;
case 16: goto L53000;
case 17: goto L54000;
case 18: goto L55000;
case 19: goto L56000;
case 20: goto L57000;
case 21: goto L58000;
case 22: goto L59000;
case 23: goto L60000;
}
A bit further down:
L47000:
if (prsvec_1.prsa != vindex_1.lookw) {
return ret_val;
}
i = 704;
i__1 = objcts_1.olnt;
for (j = 1; j <= i__1; ++j) {
if (qhere_(j, play_1.here) && j != oindex_1.rbeam) {
goto L47200;
}
All you gotta do is follow the bouncing goto! 
So now I know why when I started learning to program people were saying:
Eschew goto!!!
Well, I'm sure there was some reason for this type of coding which is lost to history.
It made it look as if there was no way to call a subroutine (function) or something.
Maybe this is related to the code being ported from another system which did not have a way to call functions??
modified 23-Apr-19 8:27am.
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