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Joe Woodbury wrote: Your example makes no sense. It does, you're failure to understand the link is probably based on you not reading my prior post in this thread, or not understanding what was written.
Doesn't matter if it is criminal or civil law; law is based on logic. Logic states I can hide an illegal payload in a JPG. One which is on your computer, so you are liable for it by your own words.
Also, people will still accept a 100$ bill if it has the picture of a swastika on it. It may be illegal, but ownership doesn't make liable for the sentiment of the author.
More examples? You bring your MP3-player to North Korea, and one of the tracks contained meta-data (from a another user where you copied the file from illegaly) that breach their law about their great leader. Should you be executed? According to you, yes.
At which point point does the argument posed become rediculous enough? It is third-party data that you cannot verify or clear before downloading.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Perhaps when their own "profile" gets "block chained" by a 3rd party, they'll be less blase.
Permanent bathroom graffiti.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Pressing a button appears easy, but the brain needs a probabilistic internal model to control a press. A new theory exposes significant improvements to button design that help gamers and musicians. boop
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With modern programming languages and proof technology, developers can make use of formal methods at various levels, ranging from enforcement of safe language features to proof of compliance with formally specified requirements. "Proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing"
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First you have to prove to me that the proof "technologies" work.
Second, you have to prove to me that your proof is correct. Given that (last time I checked) proofs only really work with functional programming languages, and you have to use CoQ to write the proofs, and it's so arcane...
tl;dr - who tests the testers?
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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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Marc Clifton wrote: tl;dr - who tests the testers? The developer. Final proof on paper with a pencil, validated by a coworker.
..and it's no reason to delay the deadline ofcourse
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Except "proving" software works ultimately fails because it assumes that the conditions of the proof are constrained. Further, even if it operates properly within the constraints, it doesn't establish that the design is valid or usable.
Unfortunately, far too much automated testing essentially takes this approach and fails to test paths which may cause failure. For example, if the specification states that the user shall enter upper case letters, what happens when they don't? Or what if they enter Cyrillic upper-case letters?
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Google is working on blockchain-related technology to support its cloud business and head off competition from emerging startups that use the heavily-hyped technology to operate online in new ways, according to people familiar with the situation. "If all the other kids jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?"
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Google is working on....everything!!!
Latest Article - Contextual Data Explorer
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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If you're bucking for a new job that requires cloud security skills, here are the five technical certifications most likely to get you noticed, along with a bunch more money. "No one knows the lonely one whose head's in the clouds "
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For one brief shining moment, Yahoo was the king of all it surveyed. To some (small) value of glory
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I predict Facebook is next. Not because of the recent data gossip, but because trendy things tend to rise fast and fall even faster; especially with young people.
The article says that that Alibaba is a 160 billion dollar company; in fact it is currently a 500 billion dollar company. And Yahoo owned 16% of it before the merger with AOL, leaving the 1 billion dollar Alibaba investment worth 75 billion to current shareholders. One of few things they did well.
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Do developers have an adequate understanding of the ethical considerations of their work? "Grub first, then ethics"
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Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) users looking for a lightweight version control experience integrated into Windows File Explorer will be happy to see the latest release of the TFVC Windows Shell Extension. For those missing TortoiseSVN
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These different styles have different design preferences. Tools on the engineering side tend to be more careful in their design, which often makes them somewhat less “innovative.” Tools on the wizarding side tends to emphasize terseness. I just don't look good in one of those pointy hats with stars on them
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It's betting that more ads next to music videos will get you to subscribe. Frustrating people until they pay you to go away? My new business model!
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Backdoor allows attacker to recover private keys stored on Ledger hardware wallets. Mental note: get 15-year old to test software in future
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At least it wasn't a 14 year old, that would have been embarrassing. I can't even find the hidden doors in Mario games, my hats off to this 15 year old.
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Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey apparently has big visions for bitcoin, commenting in a recent interview with The Times that he believes that the cryptocurrency will become the world’s single currency within 10 years. Demonstrating that Twitter wasn't his only bad idea
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Yeah, that's going to be an interesting hurdle for them to try to fix.
People ruin everything, don't they?
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: People ruin everything, don't they? In a former life when I was in IT my motto was "The network would be perfect if not for the users."
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I wouldn't worry about the blockchain size. When it gets too big to be truly distributed then we'll just have a few nodes instead managed by bigger firms. If it gets bigger still then each country will have a single node to manage the transactions. When it's centralised like that and in a single place it's easier to manage. When it gets bigger still Google will probably just look after the whole thing, and you'll just need to hope that anything you want to buy on-line aligns with their left-wing liberal politics or else the transaction will be denied due to unacceptable user policies.
Yep, it's the future.
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Dorsey is a smart guy, which makes his assertion baffling. He did say that BitCoin would need modifications for his vision to be realized, but then it wouldn't be BitCoin.
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