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Bernhard Hiller wrote: The early bird catches the worm. He works for the owner of the worm farm, who collects profits while he is still asleep. We need some benighted web journalist to write an article about that.
And another to write an article about how an existing, working process or application is worth two *Great* *New* *Ideas* that are untried and untested.
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I've run across several articles recently where some millennial excitedly tells us "something you didn't know" which ends up being common knowledge to anyone who has cracked a history book.
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Exactly!
I can't wait for one to cobble together an article about taking coals to Newcastle.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: taking coals to Newcastle
Harumph!
Millennials never heard of coal, and they probably couldn't find Newcastle on a map to save their lives.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The software's name is GHIDRA and in technical terms, is a disassembler, a piece of software that breaks down executable files into assembly code that can then be analyzed by humans. "When the monster Ghidra passes, only flaming ruins are left."
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They must be worried about their budget for next year, so they're making sure that malware producers have access to the best tools.
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Remember there's a catch. The tool will send home some information on the programs disassembled and the guy who did that. It also comes with a backdoor such that NSA can get control of that computer easily.
So, effectively, NSA is expanding its base of professional coworkers at virtually no extra costs.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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And when you turn it on itself it is smart enough to say, "It's All Good!" 🤐
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A system that uses a technique called constructive solid geometry (CSG) is allowing MIT researchers to deconstruct objects and turn them into 3D models, thereby allowing them to reverse-engineer complex things. Can it tell me what that IKEA shelf *should* look like?
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An Ikea shelf should look like a cheap lump of contiboard with a cheap, paper, iron-on lipping.
Putting make-up on pigs is not a good item for a list of business objectives.
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After testing 110 smartphones from multiple vendors, the Dutch Consumentenbond not-for-profit organization concluded that the face unlock feature in 42 of them can be circumvented using a high-quality portrait photo of the owner. That sentence is accurate in 5 out of 11 words
The first five - for the nit-picky among us.
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"Stop being as ugly as everyone else who doesn't work for apple!"
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I'm impressed it worked 60% of the time.
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Amherst College have recently introduced a new form of steganography in the domain of machine learning called "training set camouflage." Like those "Magic Eye" posters, but for AI?
I'm not convinced there's that much 'new' here. Maybe just, "machine learning can learn from less obvious data"?
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The trouble is that if this castles-in-the-clouds analyser decides you're a terrorist, you're pretty much buggered.
At least one instance of it will almost certainly be trained to follow the "how to spot a terrorist at US airports" guidance, and you can rest assured that there are people whose bonuses and career advancement depend on the number of terrorists they identify, so will jump at the chance to add decent people to bad-person lists.
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A new project written in Rust aims to make it easier to distribute Python applications as standalone binaries In case your Python isn't rusty enough
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You shouldn't make jokes about Rust.
It's degrading.
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Wave, a startup developing hardware for deep learning in data centers, open sources the decades-old MIPS architecture. Oh good, now I can make my own
I wonder if they accept pull requests?
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This is great, because the name "Wave" has a history of ground-breaking successes, in the computing world!
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Quote: In a letter to investors released after hours Wednesday, Apple blamed factors including a slowing economy in China and fewer carrier subsidies for its weakened revenue projection. The company announced it was lowering revenue guidance for Q1 to $84 billion, down from its previous projection of $89 billion to $93 billion. Apple also lowered its gross margin to about 38 percent from between 38 and 38.5 percent. Apple stock was down 10 percent at Thursday's close. [^].
Cook did not mention the "insanely great" prices of the new fetish/icons, saturation of the smart-phone market, the "ooh shiny" premium users pay for relatively small innovations in new models, the "I can't do that without a ..." premium you pay for external adapters you need, the general lack of innovation in the last two years by Apple, Apple's unwillingness to cut deals with the carriers that give them profit margins equivalent to what they get from competitors, etc. I wonder why ?
For another view of the impact of China's economic downturn and its impact on Apple: [^]
«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
modified 4-Jan-19 5:34am.
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Indeed, and one could mention the rapid growth of in-China companies like Huawei that receive exceptional benefits from being Chinese [^]. Not a level playing field for anything made/owned outside of mainland China.
That's not a comment on the quality and innovations of Huawei in the high-end smart-phone arena: they are competitive !
«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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they make the phones in china and they blame china ..THIS IS MADNESS !!!
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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China's per capita income is significantly less than that of the US. How could they afford an iPhone X? Do they sell for less there?
I also wonder about the impact of China's slowing economy on production.
(FWIW, my Motorola "smartphone" cost $39. It does everything I need it to do, albeit slowly on a relatively small screen. If I upgrade it will be to another cheap Motorola, but I don't yet see the need.)
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