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And just above this article... "Face masks are one of the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19, but their growing adoption is having a second, unintended effect: breaking facial recognition algorithms."
2025 Terminator: "Sir, state your identity."
Me: "Puts on face mask."
2025 Terminator: "Hold up, where did he go!?"
I think we're good for now 
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has announced a plan to make a quantum internet it says is virtually unhackable. Why not just paint a big target on it while you're at it?
Or are they calling it unhackable with sarcasm?
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Nothing is unhackable.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Well they did say virtually. 
"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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or are they calling it unhackable with sarcasm?
I don't think they are using sarcasm... that would imply some intelligence and I abandoned trying to find some in the politicians some time ago 
Sarcasm would be more like...
Someone said: a plan to make a quantum internet it says is virtually unhackable.
until the next moment they look at it, then it will have a security hole bigger than the Mount Everest.
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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Obligatory Dilbert.
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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There will stil be someone who leaves their password on a post-it.
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The latest member of the Power Platform family of tools brings business data into Teams collaborations Because I know how much you all enjoy low-code
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Microsoft used its recent Inspire partner event to rename the Common Data Service tools that support, manage, and work with Common Data Model entities to Dataflex Pro
MS renamed CDS to Dataflex Pro. It will get a new name soon as Dataflex is a trademark owned by DataAccess. This shows how much homework MS did in announcing this.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Why am I not surprised?
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft publishes an “End of Service” date for each version of Windows 10. While you might think you can hold onto your version of Win10 until that date, Microsoft starts pushing you onto the next version four months early. That takes a big bite out of the promised 18-month lifespan. Because the end is always nigh
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Kent Sharkey wrote: “End of Service” date
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
--Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft starts pushing you onto the next version four months early.
Of course... they do need to make the beta tests with the users before trying to have a working version for the deadline
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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Search should be a commodity, a feature that should be as easy as possible to integrate. For the next time someone tells you, "Search me"
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Thank you for sharing this. This could be useful to me in my next project as I was looking at SQL full text search indexing but this could be easier. 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Interesting it mentions Lucene but not the obvious inspiration which is a product called Solr.
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MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset that trained AI systems to potentially describe people using racist, misogynistic, and other problematic terms. So people will have to train the AI by hand again
Hi, Tay
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Twenty-five years on from the date the famous “.mp3” filename was chosen, we take a look back at how it came to be, and why it took over the world. As a gift, may I suggest a new audio format?
I was thinking of going with 'Because some llamas deserve it', but that might be too obscure and/or not appropriate?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: that might be too obscure
It's only been seven years since we last whipped the llama's ass. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Front-end developers will soon have a new PowerToys tool to help quickly identify the color of images on screen. Well, that's it. Sorry, Linux, game over
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Source code from exposed repositories of dozens of companies across various fields of activity (tech, finance, retail, food, eCommerce, manufacturing) is publicly available as a result of misconfigurations in their infrastructure. Does this count as 'open-source'? (Or just 'opened source'?)
"Kottmann believes there are thousands of companies that expose proprietary code by failing to properly secure SonarQube installations."
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We’d assume at this point that every smartphone user knows that their touchscreen is one of the nastiest devices they own. Coming soon: headphones that don't need a head
Or keyboards that don't use keys?
Powercords without power?
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the current world climate with the coronavirus pandemic leading to illnesses that could potentially kill people Ah, to be young and dumb. If it wasn't for that darned coronavirus, we'd all live forever. And heaven forbid you touch anyone with your filthy fingers!
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But...
touchscreen and not touch
is always false!
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