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I challenge an AI to beat the games my granddaughter invents. (The problem being that a) the rules constantly change to her advantage and b) to win, I must lose.)
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The radio burst studied by the astronomers is the first known example that "repeats" "CQ, this is W9GFO. Is anybody out there?"
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Quote: The flashes and the persistent source must be within 100 light-years of each other
Worst use of the word "pinpointed" ever!
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WOO-HOO!
Now we can make up all kinds of new, stupid, brain-f@rt theories, and state them as if they're absolute fact!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As of January 1, the delivery of ransomware is illegal in California thanks to Senate Bill 1137 going into effect. Well, that should stop them then
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Um, where is it not illegal?
Unless they mean that people who've had their computers compromised, and are unknowingly deploying the cr@p, are now criminals.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Maybe before it was legal to deploy as long as you didn't use it? Possibly a case of the law lagging behind technology.
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the way it works was a poor fit with the existing state extortion statue (and while the feds have the CFAA that's a dumpster fire of a different sort and they generally only go after the biggest offenders anyway), so the law was given a minor update to explicitly state that it's a violation.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Ah. I'm not used to the "this is a state crime and that one's federal" thing you've got going, over there.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Feds cite use of internet-connected cameras to launch botnet attack as proof that better security is needed. And the prize for closing the barn door after the horses have left goes to...
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Automatic IoT patching; does that mean that each and every device gets a (standardized) port trough which we can send codez?
Rly? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Ugh... a project that might actually be useful is offered less than $25,000 (that $25k is the total prize pool including the $3k honorable mentions). The article even says the winners of a previous contest had to fully pay their way to the conference to even have their idea judged. So a possible net positive of (25,000 - (3,000 x HonorableMentions) - TravelCosts) with a possible net negative of TravelCosts.
Meanwhile projects like the TSA Randomizer app that take less than 10 minutes to write and debug pay out 1.4 million. I don't even 
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The open source, multiplatform Gitea project for lightweight code-hosting is written in Go. Now you can be a git on your own network
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This analysis is not perfect, as the comment “that one’s so stupid it underflows and becomes awesome” appears in both lists. "I'm so happy that I can't stop crying"
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Apparently:
"You're an idiot  "
is happy
"You're an idiot."
is sad.
Perhaps the "happy" stats are really measure phoniness and insincerity, while the "sad" stats are measuring directness and honesty.
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Thanks to a collaboration between Kérastase, the professional arm of L'Oreal, and smart technology vendor Withings, you can now have the world's first 'connected hairbrush' and it packs a surprising number of features for a household object that really only has one job. And we have now reached the pinnacle of civilization
It's only down from here, folks
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The pinnacle of human invention was the fork. Everything's gone downhill since.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I had to check the calendar... for a moment I thought it is the 1st of April...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Who would have thought that there were developers in the world who wanted to put sensors into girls' bathrooms?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So much for the IoT joke I've been using for the last couple years. Thanks a lot, L'Oreal.
Now I'll have to mock the SmartPen.
Oh crap, saw one of those the other day.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I installed SQL on Ubuntu a month ago and was very impressed, quick (both installation and performance), small footprint and resource consumption...
All-in-all: impressed...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The idea of HALs isn't a new one - but if MS open sources their DLL to ABI implementation, that should open the door to lots more ports. I would love to see Cinema 4D, for instance, on Linux.
This space for rent
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A new report from IT research and consulting company Osterman Research reveals that employee turnover and attrition is the number one data protection concern for enterprises. "Go ask Alice, I think she'll know"
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69... employee turnover...
I'm sorry, I'll get my coat  On a related note before I go, maybe businesses should properly compensate critical employees so they aren't tempted to get a raise by jumping ship 
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