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But, will it blend melt?
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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A security researcher is urging owners of Western Digital MyCloud NAS devices to update the firmware of their portable hard-drives to fix a series of important security bugs he reported to the vendor, among which there is an easy exploitable and wormable hardcoded (backdoor) account. Because *no one* ever finds out about back doors
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Understanding the basics of software architecture is more important than ever before, given the distributed nature of the software systems we’re now building, and the distributed nature of the teams building them. "Once the design is in place, there's just the trivial matter of writing the code."
Attributed (when I heard it) to Rumbaugh, but I kind of doubt it.
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That was a very useful article
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Researchers have developed a method to deposit tiny amounts of energetic materials (explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics) using the same technology as an inkjet printer. Just the thing for your next explosive short story
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Instruments in smart phones such as the accelerometer, gyroscope and proximity sensors represent a potential security vulnerability, according to researchers. Sounds like they just pressed '3', now feels like a '9', now they've dropped it
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MyLiFi is a lamp that provides a secure, wireless, radiowave-free internet connection to nearby devices, all through the data-transferring power of LEDs. Whoa, man. Look at the strobes!
Yeah, "invisible LEDs". I'm betting on headache-inducing flickers.
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Morse Code or Semaphore anybody?
And I'm sure that some enterprising AD Service will figure out a way to subliminally advertise by finding some weakness in this.
Nevermind that it was reported a year or so ago that a way to breach air-gaps is by utilizing the existing LED's on a computer.
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Mr Wizard did this couple of decades ago.
Can You Send Sound On A Light Beam? (Mr. Wizard) - YouTube
Granted with sound, but the principal is the same.
Out of all the things I could remember, like where my keys are this is what my brain finds useful..
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Programmers complain about readability and talk about bad code and unclean code, and the difficulties they run into trying to understand and maintain that code. What do we mean by readability? What makes code unreadable? Uhm, what it says on the label?
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GeForce NOW service will allow gamers to connect to their library of games from many of the top digital stores including Uplay PC, Ubisoft’s PC games portal. With a high-speed internet connection, gamers can enjoy games streaming at 1080p resolution and up to 120 frames per second. Is Solitaire supported?
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No GPU can handle Solitaire.
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Welcome to the brave new world of outcome-driven development. Here, “done” means delivering measurable value, not simply completing user stories. "Of course I was done like a dinner."
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SD Times: Here, “done” means delivering measurable value, not simply completing user stories.
It builds, I'm done!
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As if the Meltdown and Spectre bug affecting millions of processors was not bad enough, the patches designed to mitigate the problems are introducing issues of their own. I guess this might be late news for some of you (sorry), but maybe it will save some
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What are you assuming people already know? Simple enough
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The machine learning systems that were being fed the Barnes’ collection made observations that might never have come from humans. Oh great, now the AI are coming for the tinfoil crowd's jobs
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The following is a true story. Or maybe it’s just based on a true story. Perhaps it’s not true at all. In case you need a new hobby
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Google has published details about a new coding technique created by the company's engineers that any developer can deploy and prevent Spectre attacks. Time to rewrite everything
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A minority of people are genuinely turned on by intelligence, according to new psychology research. "I know you're here, because I can smell your brains."
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Are we saying that if someone's main strength was that he'd always been "like really smart", he'd be pretty damned irresistible?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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It’s been just two days since The Register first reported that all Intel x86-64x processors were subject to a severe security vulnerability, and already Intel has been hit with at least three separate class action lawsuits related to the vulnerability. Only three?
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You'd think there would be at least 86.
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Microsoft rushed to get an emergency fix out to Windows 10 users, promising that Windows 7 and 8 users will be patched in the near future. The company has also released a PowerShell script that lets users check whether they have protection in place. Find out before someone finds out for you
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