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I don't "believe" anything and frankly don't really care. Just pointing you to info you may or may not have had. Cheers! 
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Just pointing you to info you may or may not have had.
Sorry. I thought you were like the other guy, who is obviously caught up in worshipping some evil deity or other, and believes anything its demons tell him. I hate trying to talk sense to "believers".
I can't open that page, anyway. Security protocols, and all that.
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That's it, this discussion is over, I have already to you I refuse to discuss pink giraffes on this thread, I have no interest in talking about them, certainly not with an 11-items-in-the-10-items-or-fewer-isle person like you!!!1
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Here's the washington post article from which the other site cribbed: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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From the article: America’s main adversaries, including the Soviet Union and China, were never Crypto customers.
And the article is relevant to this discussion because...?
How many times do I have to repeat that there is no f***ing way they could have extracted the information that they are publicising?
It's a scum-level political lie, of the type that is becoming the norm, in Western politics.
I don't know about you, but I don't like being lied to, and I lose more and more trust in people who lie to me, every time they do so.
An office called "The Department of Justice" should be so far above this kind of lying that they can't even see it, down below.
They really should rename themselves "The Ministry of Truth" -- if they were honest, they would.
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Please stop talking about pink giraffes on this thread, it isn't what the forum is for.
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The article: Russia and China never trusted the machines, and did not use them.
You: arguments that prove you wrong right
How many times do people have to lie to you, before you stop trusting their word?
Do you have an "I WANT TO BELIEVE!" poster on your wall?
Believing something just because a proven liar says so is more related to religious fervour than anything else, and you have shown nothing but such religious fervour. You are allowing liars to treat you as an idiot, and they will continue to do so, for as long as you allow it.
And -- here's a great tip for life -- as long as you let bad people treat you like an idiot, the good people will think you're an idiot, too.
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Hard drive manufacturer Seagate promises that HAMR—Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording—hard drives in 18TB and 20TB models will be available in retail channels in 2020. Time for hard drives with frickin' lasers?
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Dunno. Getting an HDD that adds a level of mechanical complexity to the read heads, intentionally adds heat to the system, and can have ultra-slow read/write times doesn't strike me as being the most profitable of acquirements.
So, for me, 'snot hamr time!
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modified 10-Feb-20 2:14am.
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Wouldn't that make this a Laser Disc?
Interesting enough, Sony's MiniDisc recorded using this, and the process itself goes back to the 1950's when RCA patented this for magnetic tape usage
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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She had a computer port surgically embedded in her skull. "Turn on, boot up, jack in"
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MIT Tech wrote: She even played a simple Pac-Man-like computer game piped directly into her brain
They're going to regret having said that, unless they can have a couple of million units ready by Christmas.
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I’ve read a few articles of late that have declared the end of Agile development. Paging Mr. Betteridge
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My kind of guy -- can see more than one side to a story, and knows bugger-all about geography ("Main to California"?)
It's nice to see an article on agile that's neither a rant nor a declaration of eternal love.
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I wonder which Main he's talking about? Most towns have a Main, even the towns in Maine.
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Hopefully not one of the Mains in California, because I don't think recursiveness will help get his meaning across.
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Motherboard driver from Gigabyte was deprecated after being found vulnerable. Backward compatibility deemed dangerous
Sounds like they need a better mechanism to revoke Authenticode signatures
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sounds like they need a better mechanism to revoke Authenticode signatures
Or, as this seems to be once again the case, they need to tell their people not to open e-mails with attachments from unknown parties.
Almost all the scare stories come down to that, these days.
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The majority of source code has a short lifespan (i.e., a few years), and is only ever modified by one person (i.e., 60%). So you're saying we need Tinder for Code?
But you'll still have to write it so you can understand it in six months
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So you're saying we need Tinder for Code?
Likes: linking, compiling & recompiling, models, recursive looping, imperatives, sockets, quick'n'dirty private functions, DDE, event handlers for idempotent functions.
Dislikes: access violation, arguments, conditional statements, reserved characters, negative remarks, delimitations.
Callback if interested.
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Apple has been fined by the French government for its 2017 patch that could slow down iPhone 6, iPhone 7 and iPhone SE units that had a depleted battery, and for not informing users that it was doing so. Because nothing hurts like a fine equivalent to 7 hours of revenue
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I'm sorry but I find this whole thing so pathetic.
Apple, like everyone else, builds on their systems to provide new features that their consumers demand. Or dread. Either way, the phones are asked to do more and more and as they get older the batteries are less and less capable. So Apple introduce a pretty clever system that progressively slows framerate, dims the screen a little, lowers the volume by a big 3dB - all in the name of eking out a little more from the phone instead of having the phones fall over, all four paws in the air, dead.
Their crime isn't slowing down a phone. The crime is "not telling everyone they are trying to quietly, without fuss, without interrupting you, keep you on Facebook or Instagram that few moments longer without bothering to tell you
Which, frankly, is what a good OS does: it handles stuff - the good, the bad, the annoying - in a way you don't notice, and without making a fuss about it.
This is a PR fail by Apple (one of many recently, unfortunately), not a crime that warrants a massive and arbitrary fine.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Even someone who's not an apple fan (c'est moi) finds it very hard to disagree with that.
They made a choice between making the phones become a teensy bit less useful and letting the things become pretty much unusable.
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