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Decentralized networking could bring the internet to those who need it most—rural communities and disaster victims. I thought that was the point?
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Google will stop its long-standing practice of scanning the contents of individual Gmail users for advertising purposes, according to a report from the Financial Times. Instead, they'll just peek every now and again
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A proposed new branch of the US military would protect Americans from space threats "Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?"
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Spandex producers are celebrating.
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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We enlisted a leading security researcher to test if Microsoft's newest, locked down version of Windows 10 is protected against all "known" kinds of ransomware, as the company claims. But that's three hours of security!
Yes, that autoplay video is mighty-dog irritating. I think ZDNet might be on probation...
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Was that before or after leaking the 32 TB of source codes?
I would like to know about the results of the same test next month...
M.D.V. 
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Since its original debut with the Windows 10 November 2015 update, Windows.UI.Composition has been empowering developers to build fast, beautiful, sweet user interfaces in UWP and has been providing enhancements with every subsequent Windows release. Composition? Is that for grammar assignments?
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Q: How many UWP developers can fit on the head of a pin?
A: All of them. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Carousel effects, 2D warping of images, windows floating in space...all very fun to look at, all very useless unless you're creating the next Minority Report movie.
Marc
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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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Or building UI interfaces for HoloLens
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Or building UI interfaces for HoloLens
Point taken. 
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
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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In a proof-of-concept study, North Carolina State University engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that has the potential to rival the effectiveness of existing power wearable electronic devices using body heat as the only source of energy. "A T-1000. Advanced prototype. A mimetic polyalloy."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "A T-1000. Advanced prototype. A mimetic polyalloy."
You have confused films
Kent Sharkey wrote: electronic devices using body heat as the only source of energy.
Who said that Matrix was all crap?
M.D.V.
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Yeah, I was going with the flexible bit. They said they already had the Matrix batteries, but only rigid before this.
TTFN - Kent
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The Central Intelligence Agency admitted this week that it had been compromised for months in 2013 by a network of high-tech snack thieves. Sweet!
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Fire them?
What a lack of foresight!
Give them a pay raise and a more interesting job. Those guys obviously have potential! 
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Oh, for Pete's sake!
Which moron decided that the machines should work like that? That's like designing cash dispensers that decide "you can have the money" if they can't contact your bank for approval ... 
I'd suggest that the CIA considers charging the vending machine designers for the cost of the investigation...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'd suggest that the CIA considers charging the vending machine designers for the cost of the investigation...
I think they already have done that... or frozen their bank accounts, or hacked their production, or...  
M.D.V.
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This goes on more than you think. Many e-commerce systems rely on an element of trust. For example do you really think Tesco checks every transaction? However many hundreds of thousands they get every second? Some systems are designed to batch process payments that fall within a given threshold. This snack machine will probably be holding onto the transaction and will process it when the connection comes back. This decision is a balance of the risk of potentially losing 50p for a Mars bar vs the machine being out of action or considered "unreliable" if the network is temporarily down.
There was a similar scam recently where crooks would buy high-value luxury items from airplanes while in flight. As there is no way of maintaining a proper connection while the plane was in the air there is no way to live-verify the cards mid-flight so (as above) the system pends the transaction to be processed when it does have a connection and gives the customer the benefit of the doubt. Obviously when the customer is a crook with a cancelled card or not enough funds the system fails, but it's all about the balance of the potential for fraud vs lost genuine sales.
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It's not just the candy machines. Despite being the canonical example of a race condition that can be fixed with locks in CS 101; ATMs and most other financial events are handled using a transnational eventually consistent model. If you do a stupid and overspend your account they'll get their money back eventually (with a wopping fine to improve the bottom line); and in the mean time avoiding friction from tech glitches is considered more important to the customer experience.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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I wouldn't say disconnecting a cable is exactly "high-tech".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It is if you plug it back in when you are done!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wow.
Some people...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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What would Felix Leiter say?
Did they at least get a Quantum of Solace from their ill-gotten gains?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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