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Wha? Even before a Hololens sequel could grace Microsoft's stage at MWC, the company has revived the Kinect, but in a buttoned-downed business sense. Dance if you want your data returned
OK, the 'patient falls' use-case is great, but I'm blanking on any other worthwhile 'enterprise' use.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: OK, the 'patient falls' use-case is great, but I'm blanking on any other worthwhile 'enterprise' use.
Gesture driven presentations immediately occurs to me.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Next major update for Windows will introduce Windows Sandbox. It is temporary lightweight virtual machine that allow users and developers to run programs in isolation. This blog post is overview of Windows Sandbox with focus on developers. Just use it before the cat does
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What is Windows Sandbox About half as useful and usable as other sandboxes?
I mean, they do have a rep to maintain.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The ISO C++ committee has wrapped up its winter meeting in Hawaii that also served as the last meeting for approving new features for the upcoming C++20 revision to the C++ programming language. Soon to be ignored by a compiler near you
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and by programmers everywhere.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Yes, somehow networking is pushed off.
Idiots. The lot of them.
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A team of particle physicists wanted “to unveil the deepest secrets of the Universe—and of Swedish cuisine.” So, naturally, they built a Swedish meatball collider. Maybe now we can find the Higg's beefon
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Just see the result of other kind of collisions watch[^]
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I'm disappointed none of the involved were willing to admit that they did it with the hope of winning an IgNobel prize.
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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Math lovers uncovered something strange going on with the number 998,001. Fun with maths: Part 998001
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I love the way they use the catch-all mathematicians' answer to the question "What did you spend the grant money on, and why shouldn't we sue for its return?"Kent Sharkey wrote: Cryptography and cybersecurity!
Trump card played!
Give us more money!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I found another strange one; divide 1234567890 by 1 and you get a number with all the digits!
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That actually is somewhat interesting. I wonder how much grant money that cost to come up with.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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The internet’s address book keeper has warned of an “ongoing and significant risk” to key parts of the domain name system infrastructure, following months of increased attacks. I guess it's back to just typing IP addresses
Not looking forward to the switch to IPv6 in that case.
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Intel's director of its neuromorphic computing initiative, Mike Davies, chided Facebook's Yann LeCun at an industry conference for failing to appreciate the virtues of the Intel technology. He derided the deep learning approach of LeCun and others as failing to truly add up to "learning." Switch statements aren't learning? I guess I learned something.
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Next thing you know, someone will say the emperor has no clothes!
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Someone was chided "for failing to appreciate the virtues of the Intel technology"
Did he not bow deeply enough? What a crock of nonsense.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Code moving from frontal-lobe-to-front-office in a snap? Let's consider the case for the complete automation of software delivery and operations. I'm starting a new strategy - Eye-rollOps
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If marketing would just stop inventing names for old concepts I would be happy.
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It's Microsoft codename-apalooza time. How do Lite, Centaurus, Pegasus, WCOS and now, Santorini, all fit into what seems to be Microsoft's evolving Chromebook-compete strategy? Because everyone wants to have a Chromebook?
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Researchers from Google investigating the scope and impact of the Spectre attack have published a paper asserting that Spectre-like vulnerabilities are likely to be a continued feature of processors and, further, that software-based techniques for protecting against them will impose a high performance cost. Hardware beats software, Round way-too-many
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What they didn't mention is how dire the threat from this is. In my opinion, it is about a zero on any scale you want. The data one can acquire is completely random and non-repeatable. Furthermore, it is acquired in small snapshots and there is no way to be certain of where the data actually came from. The best defense against it is to not let unwanted code run in the first place. I really don't see that there is anything to actually worry about defending against.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252458208/Facebook-planned-to-spy-on-Android-phone-users-internal-emails-reveal
Marne Lynn Levine, then vice president of global public policy, disclosed Facebooks plans to exploit data from Android phones in an email in 2012.
Tracking Android phones
“We’ll be collecting users’ location data and matching it with cell site ID’s. This information will be stored in anonymous form but will allow us to roll out “feature phone” products in the future,” she wrote.
Levine, who is now Chief Operation Officer of Instagram, revealed that Facebook had changed its policies to make it easier for advertisers to target single people on Facebook, including serving them with ‘political’ advertisements through a self-service interface.
“We revised our policy to allow advertisers to target users who haven't indicated that they are "married" or "in a relationship" (instead of only allowing targeting of "single" users),” she wrote.
“This targeting capability is only currently available for dating, but the ads product team is working to expand it to other verticals (like political) and make it available via self-serve.”
The revelation is likely to raise further questions about the use of Facebook for political purposes, following revelations that it was used by Russia to attempt to influence the Brexit vote.
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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I hope they find me as boring as I do.
What a job. Here, watch Ron.
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