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Yep. Profiling and rethinking the inner loops that are causing your performance bottlenecks will get you far more performance bang for the buck in the long run. I say "rethinking" vs. "rewriting" because sometimes you have to change the actual approach to how you handle something.
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The Cranefly hacking group, aka UNC3524, uses a previously unseen technique of controlling malware on infected devices via Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web server logs. And I thought no one looked at their logs...
It strikes me as a very clever (and of course, evil) way of communicating with your machine.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And I thought no one looked at their logs... Actually they are not looking at their logs, they are looking at yours...
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This is a specific kind of cryptographically obfuscated computer program — that is, a program that is “encrypted” but that you can mail (literally) to someone who can run it on any untrusted computer, using input that the executing party provides. No, it's not just the programs that only work once before crashing
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I see a new generation of malware incoming...
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Pour one out for Lego's impressively capable DIY robots, which will be powering down at the end of the year. Back to building your robots the old fashioned way - cardboard boxes and duct tubes
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R.I.P.
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The survey, published this week, is effectively a straw poll that found 42% of respondents are developing or plan to develop server-side applications using Wasm, while 48% are combining or planning to combine server-side workloads with client-side applications. You know it's accurate, because they queried _93_ people!
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wtf is wasm?
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webassembly
Because running everything in the browser worked so well all the other times it was tried.
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft has issued a workaround for an Outlook bug which was preventing users from signing in. So you (temporarily) need to go back to work
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EU hopes DMA will force Big Tech platforms to break open their walled gardens. "I sentence you to be exposed before your peers. Tear down the wall!"
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I wonder how many things will get worse after this rewriting of the rules...
Don't get me wrong. I welcome they trying it, but I suppose that the politicians will ignore what tech people say and do whatever they want think is better for all.
In other words... a good idea that will get a bad implementation.
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The Fermi Paradox won't go away. It's one of our most compelling thought experiments, and generations of scientists keep wrestling with it. We could offer to blow it up - that might make it more interesting
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An interesting article. But one thing perplexes them:
Quote: What would drive a species to expand continuously? Population growth? Energy needs? Scientific curiosity? Dominion over others? How about seeking opportunity elsewhere, often by escaping oppressive government? That's what did it for North America.
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The cost in resources to start a colony in America was low enough that a private (i.e. non-government) company could attempt it.
If humans were to try interstellar colonization, we would need at least two jumps - to colonise the Solar System (e.g. terraforming Mars) and then a much harder task - crossing interstellar space.
Terraforming Mars would be difficult enough even with the resources of Earth no more than a few months away. An interstellar colony would be entirely on its own, and would require an orders of magnitude larger investment in both time and resources. I don't see any non-government organization building such a colony ship.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Computers occupy entire rooms, so I don't see a private company ever building one. Only a government, and even then maybe only during wartime, could possibly assemble the resources required to build them.
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Absent startling (and easily implemented) breakthroughs in Relativity, I doubt either of us will live long enough to see the beginnings of interstellar colonization. I even doubt that we will live long enough to see the beginnings of interplanetary colonization.
The recourses required to build computers are trivial compared to those required to even reach the Moon. Babbage almost succeeded in the 19th century, after all.
Make no mistake - I would love to see my predictions proved wrong, but I believe that our technology is several generations too young for success.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I agree that it's a long way off, and even then it was over 100 years from Cabot to Jamestown.
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Tell that to SpaceX. The parallels are there - governments paid for the exploration of the western hemisphere and they're largely paying for our initial forays into space. The second wave of people will be those who are trying to get out from under what they consider oppression.
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And I believe that our current technology isn't up to it. There is a huge difference between building a satellite network and building a self-sustaining colony. Remember that the first Europeans in America could at least breathe the air, drink the water, and plant crops.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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They still wouldn't visit. Stellar explosions are best viewed from a safe distance.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The headline sounds like they have actually talked to the aliens, when it simply might be just the vastness of space and the physics of moving fast enough to make visiting another star a feasible. Remember Voyager is 22 light HOURS from Earth and it's been traveling how long?
Galileo already proved the Earth ISN'T the center of the universe so why do these people think that we are so important that any other intelligent life MUST want to come visit us?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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One of the early episodes of ST: The Next Generation explicitly stated this - humanity simply isn't interesting until we can get to the stars on our own.
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Maybe they should start with the question, why don't we visit other stars?
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