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The tech companies deal with (and compromise themselves for) governments who issue death threats to Assange and those he works with.
I'd cut him some slack for playing hardball (and not hold my breath for a more ethical group to rise up and also do the public favors for free).
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It looks that way, but further comment isn't possible without knowing what the demands are.
E.g. Don't screw us over by helping the feds take out charges against us for handing you the data would be a perfectly reasonable demand.
Since no reason has been given for the companies' reluctance to say what the demands are, it's possible that they're all perfectly reasonable.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'll guess that WikiLeaks suddenly realized that they could be subject to civil lawsuits and/or criminal prosecution by simply relaying this information.
"Here, let me show you how to break into your house."
"Hello, police, someone just broke into my house."
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Google has developed and open-sourced a new JPEG algorithm that reduces file size by about 35 percent—or alternatively, image quality can be significantly improved while keeping file size constant. I'll save so much space after my cat pictures shrink!
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Scientists at Oxford say they've invented an artificial intelligence system that can lip-read better than humans. "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"
And that's on BBC lips too.
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Quote: As it keeps watching TV, it will learn What could possibly go wrong?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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ISPs that want the federal government to eliminate broadband privacy rules say that your Web browsing and app usage data should not be classified as "sensitive" information. How about, "delicate"? "tactful"? "defensive"?
Now everyone will know of my Neopets addiction.
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Worth a fortune... This is what you are looking for!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Repeating my comment on Ars itself: I invite any ISP executive who actually believes this to start publishing every detail of his browsing history in real time.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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"Dark Matter Did Not Dominate Early Galaxies:
A new study finds the mysterious substance was at most a minor constituent of large galaxies in the early universe" [^]
Scientific American, March 17. Note: I am able to access this article without a paid subscription; but, I am using a VPN right now, connecting through a US server.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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And here I thought this was going to be a post about this.
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
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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HackerRank finds that bootcamps and other alternatives to four-year degrees are now seen as viable. Maybe if they added, "Must be able to Google for one's self" to the requirements?
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Culture and complexity still keep developers and operations managers apart. You know what would make it faster? If everyone did all the jobs.
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Windows 7 is supported until 2020, and Windows 8.1 will get updates until 2023, right? Not if you're trying to run those older Windows versions on new hardware, as some frustrated customers discovered this week. "No soup for you!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "No soup for you!" Oh no, the Soup Nazi?! [^]
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So if you want to block winio automatic updates, just get your machine to pretend it's got a 9th-gen CPU.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Some users have reported that one of this week's Windows 10 updates crippled their PCs, according to a thread on Reddit. And the band played on
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And that is different to any other week when a different group suffer the same problem?
You need to make sure you keep up with your sacrifices to the great update god to stay in their favour.
In vino veritas
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leon de boer wrote: And that is different to any other week when a different group suffer the same problem? so true...
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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Phew, dodged the bullet!
Updated yesterday and still fine!
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First thing I did, killed the Update service.
Oh yeah, I'm actually using W10 on a laptop I recently purchased.
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
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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I don't know why people keep complaining about the best windows ever.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The only sensible option if you are required to use Windows 10 is a LTSB version.
I know it is only an option of you have SA or in Education, but it's the only way to go.
You do have some drawbacks (if you consider then as drawbacks, I don't):
No Windows Store (only a private store if at all)
No Built-in UWP Apps (Apps via side-loading, and this is only possible if the app has an "offline" licensing model)
No Edge (is that really a draw-back?)
Full control of updates and Telemetry
I'll let you decide...
Cheers
Phil
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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New research is turning on its head the idea that legacy systems -- such as Cobol and Fortran -- are more secure because hackers are unfamiliar with the technology. "Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance"
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I suspect it's more that there are many layers to actually get to the COBOL systems.
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