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Golly. Another phenomenally uninsightful piece from dicey insights.
Dicey Insights wrote: About 50 percent of the security respondents believe that company leadership views their role as maintenance. Only 23 percent reported that security is viewed as an innovation center
Now, there may be those who wonder why this is.
And the truth can finally be known...
There is a big difference, O Best Beloved, between looking after security and innovating new products.
I'd love to see if anyone at dicey actually has any press creds, or experience in real journalism.
Or any insights into anything.
Nah, scratch that last one. I already know.
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Unity, a leading maker of game development tools, announced today that it’s created a new, unprecedented type of video game that’s designed not to be played by humans, but by artificial intelligence. Oh great. Now the AI are coming for my play time
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Glad to see they've finally recognized the buying power of the A.I. cohort.
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The question has to be asked:
For whom is this of interest, and why?
Will they release movies of AIs running around a tower, or something?
Here's an AI game-playing benchmarking tool for you: Any Fruggin' Game at All!
Make 'em all play the same game, and they'll all make the same mistakes when released into the wild; and without variety in training regimes, you'll have a hard time finding what's causing problems.
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IE10 will soon exit support, leaving many Windows users without any security or non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options, or online technical content. Just in time to tell them to stop upgrading to IE11 (and Edge)
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This will have the expected result on my lifestyle.
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Oh wow, didn't realise this was a thing still. All our clients are business and no IE10 use in the last 3 years.
Hang on a minute. Are these the same locked down Windows 7 computers which don't have critical update patches!?
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No, they're locked down server or Win8 embedded boxes. I suspect 99% of them either already have Chrome or Firefox installed, or are blocked from the web entirely. What shocks me is that MS didn't force the issue on them years ago so they could stop having to waste money patching IE10. 
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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There’s more to serverless than just functions. The coming year will see more projects and products that show us just how useful this new option can be across all of IT. Because those servers just cost a lot of money, amirite?
Alternate:
Oh look: a new silver bullet!
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To go serverless:
1) buy a server.
2) pretend it's not a server.
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3: ???
4: Profit!
TTFN - Kent
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It's only because there's no room for growth in brainless.
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Quote: Why serverless is set to grow in 2019
They will grow, then shrink, then grow, then shrink.
Because auto scaling. 
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Just two teams of sophisticated cybercriminals appear to have been behind $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency thefts from online exchanges in recent years. "There is no honor among thieves"
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I'll bet the phrase "quit while you're ahead" won't enter their heads, right up until the day after they're caught.
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The importance of data privacy is more evident than ever on today’s National Data Privacy Day, created to raise awareness of privacy and data protection best practices. Sorry I didn't leak any information to you on Data Privacy Day
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When you sign up for this, why do they ask for your mother's maiden name, your credit card details, your first pet's name, etc?
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C++ modules are slated to be the biggest change in C++ since its inception. Above my pay-grade, but seems like some might be interested
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Above my pay-grade, but seems like some might be interested
I'm going to patent it, even though I have nothing to do with C#, and despite the fact that C# isn't the first language to use such constructs.
Then I'm going to patent the For loop.
I shouldn't have read that article about apple and swift. I am soooooo pissed off, right now.
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Quote: Top-down isolation - The “importer” of a module cannot affect the content of the module being imported. The state of the compiler (preprocessor) in the importing source has no bearing on the processing of the imported code.
Shared libraries already do that.
Quote: Bottom-up isolation - The content of a module does not affect the state of the preprocessor in the importing code.
Shared libraries already do that.
Quote: Lateral isolation - If two modules are imported by the same file, there is no “cross-talk” between them. The ordering of the import statements is insignificant.
Shared libraries already do that.
Quote: Physical encapsulation - Only entities which are explicitly declared as exported by a module will be visible to consumers. Non-exported entities within a module will not affect name lookup in other modules (barring some possible strangeness with ADL. Long story…)
Shared libraries already do that.
The only thing needed would be something to mark in shared libraries the layout of a class so that it becomes possible to instance objects from library defined classes without jumping through hoops.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Somehow, in my few decades of working with C++ I have never seen a need for something like this. Everything I have read about it makes it seem like a solution in search of a problem.
"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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Imagine a world where smartphones, laptops, wearables, and other electronics are powered without batteries. Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have taken a step in that direction, with the first fully flexible device that can convert energy from Wi-Fi signals into electricity that could power electronics. Paging Mr. Tesla
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If you set up a portable hotspot on your phone; would you in essence be creating a "perpetual energy machine" ?
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MadMyche wrote: If you set up a portable hotspot on your phone; would you in essence be creating a "perpetual energy machine" ?
With the amount of advertising through mobile networks, these days, it would certainly be a perpetual bullsh1t machine.
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God forbid that MIT should know anything about the law of diminishing returns.
Scenario 1, Device-based:
0. Devices expend energy to send wifi signals
1. Devices absorb wifi energy from devices
Result: Everything stops, because you can't absorb more energy than is produced.
Scenario 2, Transmitter-based:
0. Devices absorb wifi energy from cell towers/whetever
1. Some little piece of sh1t finds a way to monetise this, even though no more wifi energy is being expended than previously
2. People start to pay 500x more than charging batteries costs
Note that there is extremely pertinent precedent for scenario 2 -- you young-'uns can look up the history of the SMS, to see it.
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