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It's hyper-cool but I rather suspect that a classic pin table would have cost less than 15,000 Lego bricks.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Microsoft Principal Software Engineer Adam Tuliper explains the .NET Standard, a formal specification of .NET APIs that are intended to be available on all .NET implementations in order to establish greater uniformity in the .NET ecosystem. .NET Standard, not to be confused with standard .NET (or .NET Core, .NET Dry, or .NET menthol)
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t this moment there’s a proposal to add standardized 2D graphics support to C++, known as P0267 or simply IO2D. It hasn’t been published as TS yet and there’s some controversy around it, but still, the proposal was proven to be implementable on different platforms and the reference implementation is available for test usage. See C draw. Draw C, draw
OK, it's C++. Whatevs, that didn't work into the rhyming scheme
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Sounds like a terrible idea. Create a whole different standard if you want that. You could even call it OpenGL or something like that.
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I disagree, this could really help. College courses can use it to teach basic graphic principles without tying to a particular vendor or implementation. Useful for basic output such as graphs. I don't believe it is intended for use in production graphical applications - simply to allow basic graphics to be available on most platforms.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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CodeAI is able to predict new defects in code and suggest simple fixes for the issue. Does it include the option, "throw this out and start again?"
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A survey compiled last month at the RSA security conference reveals that most companies are still behind with proper security practices, and some of them even intentionally ignore security flaws for various reasons ranging from lack of time to lack of know-how. "For the want of a nail the shoe was lost"
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Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering have invented FontCode, a new way to embed hidden information in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing, or perturbing, the shapes of fonts in text. I'm using it right now
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"
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Interesting.
But you don't really need all of that to send information over plain text. You can use any shape, length or time delay for encoding information. An alternative approach without inventing anything new would be to encode information using font kerning[^] using the standard CSS letter-spacing[^] property. For avoiding really long-distance kerning you could encode as binary–coded ternary[^].
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Academics long ago figured out how to hide information in plain text. Some even manage to hide it so well, nobody understands more than the words.
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Two ears and a tail for that one
TTFN - Kent
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A new exploit allows hackers to spoof two-factor authentication requests by sending a user to a fake login page and then stealing the username, password, and session cookie. I have a new idea to stop hackers - it's called a 'password bat'
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This definitely falls into the "no sh*t Sherlock" area as well as the "welcome to the 1990s".
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rather that linkedin can be hijacked using cookie stealing?
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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Researcher Amanda D. Hanford at Pennsylvania State University has created a real cloaking device that can route sound waves around an object, making it invisible to some sensing techniques. But I can see it, right there in the photo!
Oh. "a sonic cloak". Sounds better.
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Quote: This means the new material would be invisible to sonar. Fish everywhere are rejoicing!
"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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Call me when they've developed a sonic distruptor; I've always wanted a Kilngon hand weapon.
Ad astra - both ways!
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Wouldn't that routing cause the sound wave to take longer to get to the destination? Thus any variation in the sound could not only be readily detected, but the shape of the object determined.
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Thinking about it, you appear to be correct.
If the original wave is a single frequency, the cloaking device would have to adjust the path of the sound by full wavelengths in order to avoid interference patterns when the sound is recombined. You might be able to do this for one frequency, but how do you deal with frequency hopping?
Ad astra - both ways!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Oh. "a sonic cloak". Sounds better.
I see what you did there.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft’s had a variety of weird and wonderful consumer devices over the years that haven’t gone so well. "He no longer denies all the failures of the modern man"
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In an advisory to employees, IBM global chief Information security officer Shamla Naidoo said the company “is expanding the practise of prohibiting data transfer to all removable portable storage devices (eg: USB, SD card, flash drive).” And I had just bought a new Zip drive cartridge
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Quote: UPDATE: Since publishing this story we've heard whispers that IBM has taken note of staff objections to the removable storage ban, especially when doing software updates, and is considering making a few exemptions.
At least IBMs leadership is faster to begin backing off when people start pointing out not being able to do their jobs.
A decade ago when the DoD did the same, it took them months to begin a partial back off.
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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Microsoft is testing a new cross-platform 'cloud clipboard' in its latest preview of Windows 10 'Redstone 5,' along with updates to Sets, Notepad and more. Bandwidth be damned!
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