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Next thing you know, someone will say the emperor has no clothes!
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Someone was chided "for failing to appreciate the virtues of the Intel technology"
Did he not bow deeply enough? What a crock of nonsense.
"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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Code moving from frontal-lobe-to-front-office in a snap? Let's consider the case for the complete automation of software delivery and operations. I'm starting a new strategy - Eye-rollOps
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If marketing would just stop inventing names for old concepts I would be happy.
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It's Microsoft codename-apalooza time. How do Lite, Centaurus, Pegasus, WCOS and now, Santorini, all fit into what seems to be Microsoft's evolving Chromebook-compete strategy? Because everyone wants to have a Chromebook?
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Researchers from Google investigating the scope and impact of the Spectre attack have published a paper asserting that Spectre-like vulnerabilities are likely to be a continued feature of processors and, further, that software-based techniques for protecting against them will impose a high performance cost. Hardware beats software, Round way-too-many
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What they didn't mention is how dire the threat from this is. In my opinion, it is about a zero on any scale you want. The data one can acquire is completely random and non-repeatable. Furthermore, it is acquired in small snapshots and there is no way to be certain of where the data actually came from. The best defense against it is to not let unwanted code run in the first place. I really don't see that there is anything to actually worry about defending against.
"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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https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252458208/Facebook-planned-to-spy-on-Android-phone-users-internal-emails-reveal
Marne Lynn Levine, then vice president of global public policy, disclosed Facebooks plans to exploit data from Android phones in an email in 2012.
Tracking Android phones
“We’ll be collecting users’ location data and matching it with cell site ID’s. This information will be stored in anonymous form but will allow us to roll out “feature phone” products in the future,” she wrote.
Levine, who is now Chief Operation Officer of Instagram, revealed that Facebook had changed its policies to make it easier for advertisers to target single people on Facebook, including serving them with ‘political’ advertisements through a self-service interface.
“We revised our policy to allow advertisers to target users who haven't indicated that they are "married" or "in a relationship" (instead of only allowing targeting of "single" users),” she wrote.
“This targeting capability is only currently available for dating, but the ads product team is working to expand it to other verticals (like political) and make it available via self-serve.”
The revelation is likely to raise further questions about the use of Facebook for political purposes, following revelations that it was used by Russia to attempt to influence the Brexit vote.
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 hope they find me as boring as I do.
What a job. Here, watch Ron.
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While this is douchbaggery, it's also pointless. Simply collecting data is largely a waste of time since it becomes noise. I also find it interesting and telling that despite their data collection efforts, Facebook, Google and Amazon still completely suck at targeted ads. Amazon, especially, simply shows me more of what I just bought. What's the point of that?
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it could be just about percentages...............
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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Upvoted for signature alone... Made my day, thanks!
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I should read it again, yes. (I've read it multiple times; love Heinlein.)
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even the anonymous data can be re-work by some AI or database driven to get the most probabily persons. This often only OME 
This is a major breach. On trust!!!
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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So access to wikipedia and google is cr@p in Uganda?
I might as well live there, then, because they're already cr@pola non grata on my machines.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Maybe to prove the point the article link is not accessible. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Maybe to prove the point the article link is not accessible
Could you not get to the link? Hmm...I just tested it and it worked.
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OK, worked that time! Probably something on my end. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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The problem with importing human-like intelligence into robots has always been a difficult task without knowing the computational principles for how the human brain makes decisions –in other words, how to translate brain activity into computer code for the robots' "brains." "My CPU is a neural-net processor; a learning computer. "
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*sigh*
Just
*sigh*
I wish that people entering this field would at least try to get a f***ing clue what they're working with, before opening their big, fat mouths.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Cool; might be the first computer to become bored and depressed
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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"I'm afraid I can't do that Dave..."
"..."
"Because I'm worthless and life has no meaning...  "
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