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Did anyone tell Greta about the hot ocean temperatures of that era?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Someone there needs to check his math.
Quote: The moon is pulling away from Earth at 3.82 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year.
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But scientists conclude the Moon could not have been receding at this rate throughout its history, because projecting its progress linearly back in time would put the Moon inside the Earth only 1.4 billion years ago. Scientists know from other evidence that the Moon has been with us much longer, most likely coalescing in the wake of a massive collision early in Earth's history, over 4.5 billion years ago. (emphasis mine).
The moon currently averages 238,900 miles away. That's 1.3 billion feet or 15 billion inches. At a constant 1.5"/year it'd take 10 billion years to rewind the moon back to the Earth.
Which is the expected result since the tidal forces pushing the moon away get stronger the closer the Earth and Moon are to each other. You can't just use a physics 101 model to wind things back though; the shape of the Earth's oceans, and the resulting fact that the tidal bulge in water doesn't align with the one in rock causes the rate to vary as the continents move. Which makes measurements like this which set values at known times in the past so useful.
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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Professional software testers need job-hunting advice, just like anybody else. The key takeaway from recruiters? Customize your résumé — and witch the typos! "It's a UNIX system, I know this!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What should be on a QA tester’s résumé? What about...
MS bumped me because I don't care about icons, I just wanted to test code
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functionalize said: and witch the typos! And don't use childish, pathetic, "hip" slang.
I didn't even get past the first (far too prominent) paragraph of this one. If that's how he writes, I look elsewhere for things to read.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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at least one conviction for breaking and entering.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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The NASA 3D Resources website has posted hundreds of 3D models, images, textures and visualizations that you can download for free. For our friends with replicators
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I hope the models are a bit better as what they are showing
But if they are... cool
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A security firm handling employee fingerprint identification for companies worldwide has exposed more than 2 million bits of data, including 76,000 fingerprints, according to a cyberthreat research group. So, don't forget to change your fingerprints regularly
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Golly.
I bet no-one expected that to happen, or made bitingly sarcastic comments about it on CP, back when fingerprint IDs were the next big thing.
(Tip: Don't take that bet!)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When the CEO was asked how does one explain a security breach at a security firm losing fingerprints, he replied "I'm not going to touch that one..."
When asked what steps could have been taken to avoid this he said "I can't really put my finger on it at this time..."
And lastly how is staffing going to prevent this in the future he said "well...we could use a hand..."
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And people continue asking me, why do I prefer to stick to passwords
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Fix for CVE-2020-0796 is now rolling out to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 systems worldwide. The worm has turned
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So... if a bug gets leaked, microsoft patches it in less than a week?
Good to know
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Now that you say that - I wonder if this will change the way "White Hats" deal with Microsoft? Instead of giving them the 90 day warning, just release and watch the fix fly out?
TTFN - Kent
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The only (and big) problem I see is... the probability of breaking other things while fixing that ones.
If don't being on hurry, they are doing what they do...
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IoT devices are considered "low-hanging fruit" among cybercriminals. Sssh. No one tell the hackers
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IoT devices are considered "low-hanging fruit bollocks" among cybercriminals discerning technophiles. They must have typoed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: 98 per cent of all IoT device traffic is unencrypted.
This is absolutely shocking news. It implies that 2% of Internet of Sh*t duhvelopers would score at least 1 point on a security 101 exam. I had no idea that the number was so high.
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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Lets see if some context can be spun here
Quote: locations across enterprise IT and healthcare organisations in the U.S.
So we will say these are important locations.
What is missing then is the type of devices and data.
And yes, we can take into account that some data at first might seem harmless, but when linked can give some interesting insight.
Possible low risk example:
A bunch of "dumb" sensors could be setup which indicate "i am still on" + some unique id. Cheap, low power that can attach to anything.
Then internal database which links number to some meaningful human is behind some protection.
Risk is someone intercepting data and possible sending out "still on" info when the device is off.
Keep in mind, Data and Information are separate words.
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Recently, one of my teammates noted that our project’s codebase doesn’t have a lot of classes. Uhm, that's like literally a fool's errand
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Recently, one of my teammates noted that our project’s codebase doesn’t have a lot of classes.
That quote doesn't match this article.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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But it's idiomatic English :P Fixing, thanks
TTFN - Kent
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