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A look at the ENIAC Operating Manual, published 75 years ago this month, reveals just how difficult it was to program the world's first electronic general-purpose computer and how frustrating it must have been for its programmers. Because you never know when you might have to maintain one
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Which switchy thing opens youtube?
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At least they had documentation!
Latest Article - A 4-Stack rPI Cluster with WiFi-Ethernet Bridging
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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For one reason or another security never really gets the importance it deserves. "Warriors, come out to play-ay."
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Why exactly is it that people who sit behind computers all day like to call themselves warriors?
I'm pretty certain that Freud isn't involved.
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Ugh. My normal response to someone trying to force gamified crap down my throat is to decide I want to play a different game - called "can I break the system by ing with it"; but in this case it'd play right into the 's hands. The only winning move appears to be not to play at all.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Starting as early as next year, NASA will make the International Space Station available to space tourists and other business ventures. Does that include a continental breakfast?
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The article quoted: $22,500 for access to supplies, an additional $11,250 for stuff like water, oxygen, and use of the toilet So, even if you've won the lottery, sooner or later you'll have to take a Heechee ship out.
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Microsoft wants more hackers participation in finding flaws in its flagship cloud service, Microsoft Azure. It's expensive. Please send cheque or money-order to...
Yeah, I know. Not that expensive, but it was the only "flaw" I could think of.
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Azure is from Microsoft. How much is that flaw worth?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Boom. The budget for paying people is now empty. Don't spend it all in one place
TTFN - Kent
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You type, hacker deciphers, your password is doomed. My password is tap-tap-tap tap tap-tap
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One more tap and it would be secure.
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What they mean is that if you used a precision-engineered robot finger to tap with total consistency of force, attack angle, etc, a pair of mics could figure it out.
So just use two different fingers (like most people do already), and/or tap each cahracter harder/softer/quicker/slower/differently in general (like most people do already).
But telling people that wouldn't make it scary, now, would it?
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A new extortion scam campaign is underway that is targeting websites owners and stating that if they do not make a payment, the attacker will ruin their site's reputation and get them blacklisted for spam. I've been damaging CP's reputation for years now
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Golly, it would probably take all of an hour to fix that, by sending copies of the threats to various ISPs, etc.
By the time it's happened a dozen times, that hour would reduce to the time it takes to fill out a form.
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Awww, I feel so poorly for them
TTFN - Kent
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It was China Telecom, again. The same ISP accused last year of "hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries." It doesn't normally? (I'm not good at that geography stuff)
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I'm having trouble figuring out who doesn't understand OSPF -- China Telecom or ZDNet.
Probably both.
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Google's big outage also blocked access to the tools Google needed to fix it. It's clouds all the way down
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Looks like a case of putting all your baskets in one egg.
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Goohle are worried that a couple of thousand dedicated and motivated developers will build a new and much better phone OS in record time, eh?
I confess that it would be nice to use a phone OS that isn't entirely dedicated to spying on me. My android OS and apps are pretty much crippled because I have to disable so much, to stop google's spying.
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