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Hmmmmm,
Ostendo primo conditionem hominum extra societatem civilem, quam conditionem appellare liceat statum naturea, aliam non esse quam bellum omnium contra omnes; atque in eo bello jus esse omnibus in omnia.
The next generation exploit shellcode will probably iterate through the current process and WriteProcessMemory all lfence instructions with NOP and proceed to scan for the ntoskrnl.exe entrypoint via the spectre technique. Business as usual... Then in a few months the next MSVC 'chess-move' will be an additional sandbox API...
The modern approach to security mitigations can be described as a game of Whac-A-Mole[^].
We need a new generation of processors... with a dedicated OOB management SoC[^] tasked with 'verified execution flow' on the other main cores.
You could also add DRM, Forced OOB Emergency Updates and a myriad of other management tasks on the SoC.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There's always room for one more switch on the msvc command-line
Three more working in conjunction with each other is even better! Teamwork, Baby!
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There was a one-word difference between sending a test alert and a real one Are you sure you want to create a panic, Yes/No? (defaulting to Yes, of course)
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Great, kids today don't know what Drill is.
Or Vacant, to refer to a post from last week.
This is gonna be fun going forward.
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Great, young "adults" today don't know what "Drill" is.
Or Vacant, to refer to a post from last week.
This is gonna be fun going forward.
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Launch and Lunch do look very similar. Wish I had a lunch button.
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Google today announced a new IT Support Professional Certificate that will help beginners start a new career in 8 to 12 months. The certification is just the latest front in its ongoing war to wrest control of the enterprise away from Microsoft. Beyond, "Just Google the problem?"
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Juuust not to white male republicans though.
Otherwise, sure.
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“Low complexity” hack for Transmission client may work against other clients, too. But the sites hosting torrents would never do anything criminal like this, would they?
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Alibaba has developed an artificial intelligence model that scored better than humans in a Stanford University reading and comprehension test. So get it to write your next SAT for you
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Ha, better than the 40 thieves I guess
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Is that praise for the AI or an indictment of the test?
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The team has created a first-of-its-kind algorithm that can interpret and accurately reproduce images seen or imagined by a person. Yeah, that was a good episode, but I liked "USS Callister" better
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Facebook has long said that it doesn't use location data to make friend suggestions, but that doesn't mean it hasn't thought about using it. It's a conspiracy to get people to clean their lenses
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Seems to me that facebook friend suggestions are mostly based on shared "likes". If you both "like" the same restaurant, you apparently should be friends! (I follow the Formula One news on facebook, which means I get friend suggestions from all over the world.)
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Facebook already knows I'm a member of several vintage photographic groups. Most of my cameras and lenses are used. Their data will be skewed.
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For every old fart like you, there're hundreds of avocado toast eating kids whose only camera is their private fondleslab. You and your weird habits are ignorably low noise in the signal.
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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Think you need a college degree to land a STEM job? Think again. According to new data from the Pew Research Center, some 35 percent of the STEM workforce lacks a bachelor’s or higher-level degree. "I’m self smarted, basically, by myself, basically from nature"
It's a truly inspirational monologue if you get a chance to hear the whole speech.
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Given that I have no idea what STEM means I guess I need to go back to school to learn what it means.
Oh wait. I just learned what it means from Google. The conclusion I draw is that Google easily replaces anything I would have learned going to college, and it's more relevant, targeted to what I want to know when I need to know it, faster, cheaper, and probably more accurate than some musty college professor teaching out of a book he wrote 10 years ago.
[edit]OK, technically Google is just a portal to sites that teach me things. [/edit]
Latest Article - Code Review - What You Can Learn From a Single Line of Code
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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Over the weekend, I actually wondered the direction my life would have taken had I majored in CS. This was 1980 and I quickly realized that my degree would have been obsolete almost as soon as I graduated, except for the Z-80 assembly class I took in 1982 (which pretty much baffled me at the time, but about which I had an epiphany a few months later--in short, everything is pointers. However, my first two professional jobs were writing assembly language, which some C mixed in--C being just a really nice macro-assembler to me.)
It still would have looked better on my resume than a BA in Cinema.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: I quickly realized that my degree would have been obsolete almost as soon as I graduated
It was a very bad course then, 20+ years after graduating I still use what I learned every single day....data abstraction, object orientation, how to develop algorithms. If you think a degree is only there to teach you their chosen language (be it assembler, C, ADA, java etc) then you completely missed the point.
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My first computer course at college was writing FORTRAN on punch cards using a time share on a system a few hundred miles away. There was no data abstraction or object orientation. (The college I went to for the first two years was quite typical. Interestingly, many, if not most, colleagues I've worked with who went to college about the same time--late 70s to the mid-80s--majored in EE or Math.)
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That sounds about right. Many of my coworkers over the years lacked a bachelors and some without even an associates. Most of the upper level developers did have a bachelors or more.
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Technically, I don't have a degree.. I have a 3 year diploma in Business Administration: Electronic Data Processing from Canada - a college of applied arts and technology.
Once I was able to get past the bias of 'you don't have a degree', I was able to show my employer I had the skill set they desired.
After over 30 years as a developer, I've seen that HAVING a degree or graduate degree doesn't mean the person is capable - it means they were able to complete the course load. Unfortunately, I've met a number of people with 'graduate' degrees in computer related fields that do not have critical thinking skills, but they can check a box to say a task is completed!
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