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Step 1. review any and all history lessons.
Worded, aka Secret Word or Phrase, passwords have been used for a long time. At least ancient Egypt as far as I know.
Then the referral lock is added. "You visually know me Jimmy Two Fingers, I am vouching for this guy Andy Quick Draw."
Step 2. Read imaginative literature, aka Comics.
Biometrics is horrendous. We leak it all over the place. Plus changes are inevitable, unless you program a flawed system system which we have now. Face recognition and voice duped by twins. Eye scanners hacked with long lens camera and 1$ curved plastic.
Take Wolverine. A masterfully constructed killing machine.
But did that consider that he leaves his blood all over the place.
If the copyright lawyers were involved, they would have locked him down ages ago until they had a way to put a patent on his blood thus making if difficult for anyone else to copy and sell. They did that as well I think on follow up X-weapons. But we can't risk the first lesson, general consumer protection needs to be on stage 3 the first time round.
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Ironically, the article swings from strong (2FA) authentication back to weak authentication as it addresses biometrics, and calls it "the next step".
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Ask anyone which professional skill is most in demand right now, and they’ll likely say coding. But ask LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, and he’ll give you a different answer. It's the gap between emails from LinkedIn in your Inbox
Yeah, yet another, "soft skills" push. You'd think the message would have reached colleges by now.
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I've heard this for 30 years, apparently it's not that big of a deal...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer will disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 by default. TL-whatnow?
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Run C# scripts from the .NET CLI, define NuGet packages inline and edit/debug them in VS Code - all of that with full language services support from OmniSharp. But is it as powerful as batch language?
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I think a tool that would allow you to write/run a c# script would be pretty cool. I would think it would compile the script on the fly and execute it just like any other c# code.
c:\program files\dotscript\dotscript.exe "\\machine\path\file.cs"
The dotscript utility would look for an optional file.cs.config file (in the specified path) that would provide script-specific parameters to "file.cs" (to avoid the quagmire of command line parameters that powershell has. Essentially, each script would be completely self-contained. It would be a thing of beauty, AND could be cross-platform, AND the programmer could use any CLR-compliant .Net language he prefers.
I suppose the only down-side is that the utility itslef would have to be a native C++ app in order to be truly cross platform...
".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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The highly popular PHP 5.x branch will stop receiving security updates at the end of the year. Even more horrifying: 78.9 percent of all Internet sites today run on PHP.
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One of the most sizable commitments yet to building out the talent-scarce AI field Rarely is the question asked: Are... is our AI learning?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Are... is our AI learning? I hope not from us (at least not from all)
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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That's a really good point. If it (AI) gets to the point that it soaks up information like a sponge we will have to be very careful about who and what it learns from.
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The charmingly outdated media player Winamp is being reinvented as a platform-agnostic audio mobile app that brings together all your music, podcasts, and streaming services to a single location. Keep your llamas indoors for safety!
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They've been saying that for years, but so far nothing has happened...
I've been using version 5.666 (the version of the beast!) ever since Winamp closed their doors.
Looking really forward to version 5.667 though
Also, have an upvote for mentioning Winamp
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I use 5.666 too and have yet to find a reason for a newer version.
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Me neither, but at least it'd mean they're back in business
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We are also waiting on the imminent release of the next version of Animal Crossing[^], hopefully on the Nintendo Switch.
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Same here. Plays my music just fine. Streaming is nice sort of - I like Spotify when I'm in the car...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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outdated? All right then. I will happily stick with old stuff since the "modern" alternatives are so horrendous. The music player on iOS is horrific. I would love to have WinAmp for iOS if it at least has a resemblance to its former self.
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Mixnode allows you to think of all the web pages, images, videos, PDF files, and other resources on the web as rows in a database table; a giant database table with trillions of rows that you can query using the standard Structured Query Language (SQL). So, rather than running web crawlers/scrapers you can write simple queries in a familiar language to retrieve all sorts of interesting information from this table of live data.
Closed beta, so no idea how it works, but figured at least some people here would be interested in taking a look.
That said because we all know the importance of a snarky tagline for insider stories...
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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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Official details about Microsoft's supposed work on making Windows 10 'modern' and more modular in nature have been scant, but a flurry of documents and insider reports over the last year have given us some idea about where the company plans to take its OS, and how those plans might relate to the fabled Andromeda. Or maybe Windows Core is like .NET Core: designed to run on Linux?
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The last paragraph:Quote: This would include devices running Core OS, which may lead one to wonder what specific benefits the Windows.Core platform might provide to developers in order to tempt them away from the universality of Windows.Universal. I am led to wonder why the article does not attempt a hypothetical answer to this question.
The article does mention the long rumored Andromeda double-screen device: I've always wanted a PDA in that form-factor.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or maybe Windows Core is like .NET Core: designed to run on Linux? Nope. Designed to run you insane.
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didn't they try this couple of years back and it resulted in windows 8 heee...
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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Among the 30 million users impacted, 14 million had their names, contact details and sensitive information such as their gender, relationship status and recent location check-ins exposed. The hackers might end up out of work if Facebook keeps just releasing the data like this.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: sensitive information such as their gender, relationship status
Really? You sex is now "sensitive information"? And are these people aware that marriage and divorce records are public?
Also curious if the alarmists ever heard of a big book with most everyone's phone number and address in it.
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