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The botched rollout of last fall's Windows 10 feature upgrade means the upcoming release of its successor could cause trouble for users not ready to update their computers again so soon. It's Continuous Delivery of patches!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's Continuous Delivery of patches!
And they seem to be improperly controlled and delivered via a very slow (and yet unsteady) means.
So the best description for them is "out-of-control donkey patches".
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Continuous Delivery
Oh, now I have an idea for a best-selling new paradigm:
"From Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery to Continuous Failure".
That's the future.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: "From Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery to Continuous Failure".
That's the future.
Future? It's happening right now!  Continuously!
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A new computer program that spots when information in a quantum computer is escaping to unwanted states will give users of this promising technology the ability to check its reliability without any technical knowledge for the first time. That's what happens if you don't use a water-proof box for your cat
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The article says: Taking advantage of the behaviour of quantum systems, such as existing in multiple different states at the same time, this radical form of computing is designed to process data in all of those states simultaneously, lending it a huge advantage over conventional computing.
The trouble is that no-one has yet been able to give me a good explanation of why it's an advantage.
Maybe it's true, and maybe it's not --- oh, bugger, I'm quantumming my thinking patterns, again!
But the tl;dr is that someone has brilliantly come up with a conventional program that will check every yes/no/dunno quantum state to ensure that it's correct (because half the time they're incorrect, which means that the whole thing is bollocks, but let's not go there, for now).
A corollary effect of this is that quantum "programs" will run slower than conventional programs -- but there's still no guarantee that all the bad states will be caught, so although it's slower, you can't trust its results.
It's safe to say that it needs work.
Whether or not it's worth working on is another matter. I would be nice if it were, but I have serious reservations.
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that will be interesting...
if (pointer)
{
delete pointer;
pointer = NULL;
}
getting in the if with a exiting / living state of the pointer and then trying to delete the non existing / dead version of the quantum pointer...  
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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Companies are turning to artificial intelligence to plug the gaps. Add AI to the mix and that could go to 100%
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Yes, because low importance stuff like security is best left to the most ineffective "brains" on the planet.
Guys who've spent half their lives learning are best placed sweeping the floors around the AI servers.
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Blast released 10 times more energy than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades"
And meteors over populated areas.
Or really big ones.
And nukes. Almost forgot about them.
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According to the APIHNA World Dictionary (the only dictionary you can trust), the definition of "a near miss" is "a hit".
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Eight out of the top ten vulnerabilities exploited by cybercriminals as part of phishing, exploit kits, or remote access trojan (RAT) attacks during 2018 targeted Microsoft's software products, continuing a trend started in 2017. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."
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Nonsense.
How, for example, can phishing be targeting "Microsoft's software products"?
I wasn't aware that ms owned e-mail and all e-mail clients/web interfaces.
ms is cr@p, these days, that's a fact, but bullfacts don't do a lot for the credibility of those who use them.
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Support for other programming languages to be added in future releases. Use it before the cat does
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ZDNet only publishes scare stories -- and I agree that the idea of google owning users' sandboxes is pretty bloody scary.
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The company today revealed Stadia, the evolution of its efforts to make digital, on-demand video games reliable and viable. "Games people play in the middle of the night"
"Stadia will be able to stream games in 4K, 60FPS." Assuming you have fiber?
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I can hardly wait to continue to ignore it.
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That sounds... familiar for some reason
TTFN - Kent
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Just ignore it.
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"If I promise you the Moon and the Stars, would you believe it"
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: "If I promised you the Moon and the Stars, would you believe it hand over every possible scrap of personal data, so that I can use it to abuse you and everyone you know with unwanted advertising?"
Typo corrected.
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But that doesn't fit the meter. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Meter?
Feh!
Free verse is the medium of all the lazy good poets, these days!
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Java SE 12 is here and even though it’s not an LTS release, it definitely brings some important features to the table. Let’s have a look at the highlights of this new release. I can hardly wait to continue to ignore it
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When anyone mentions a java machine, the last thing I think of is sitting down and coding.
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