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The Future of Life Institute has awarded the money to 37 research teams that will be tasked with researching a range of topics related to the oncoming advancements of artificial intelligence, or AI, the organization announced on Wednesday. The funds come partly from the $10 million investment famed tech entrepreneur Elon Musk provided the group in January to determine the risks associated with AI.
Come with me if you want to live
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Oh, that blurb is brilliant, sir. Totally stolen for tomorrow's newsletter.
TTFN - Kent
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Haha, nothing beats the Terminator!
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With the launch of Windows 10, anyone who walks into your house and gets your Wi-Fi password for their PC could potentially let all their friends onto your network, thanks to a new feature that has ignited controversy online. "It's a feature, not a flaw"
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Use MAC/IP filtering to hold the creeps at bay
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Mac filtering is as trivial to defeat as the latched screen door on the front of your home. As a security feature it's even worse; because no one thinks that the screen door will keep attackers out. The MAC address is transmitted in the clear even on encrypted networks; any attacking program will capture and begin spoofing it with the first packet they sniff.
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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Okay, that's a point. But what about the device name, for example, "Florian-PC", is it transmitted in the clear as well? Because the software of my router only accepts the MAC if the name of the device matches the one stored with the filter.
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Nope. That's transmitted in the clear[^] too.
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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OK, I see. Hey, thanks for providing the info!
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Windows honcho Terry Myerson just provided details about the Windows 10 rollout. Here's the translation of his 'Softie speak. Patches? Oh, we won't need any patches.
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Woody Leonhard wrote:
"Volume licensing customers will be able to download Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education on Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) starting on August 1."
Which gives Microsoft a month to iron out the big problems with the release, using consumers as cannon fodder -- as expected.
Strange calendar he's using there - how is there a month between 29th July and 1st August?
"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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As part of this new commitment to clarity, Redmond has released WorldWide Telescope to the Open Source community, with the code now available via GitHub. There you go: now you can update it with 'corrections' (and aliens!)
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Can programming code ever be considered a beautiful endeavour? I think that I shall never see, a B-Tree as beautiful as a tree
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"Beauty may be only skin deep, but ugliness goes clear to the core."
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
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
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Indeed, see my post on Tetris as a C++ metaprogram below
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Which only goes to prove that just because you can do a thing it doesn't follow that you should or must do a thing.
But it does highlight the capabilities of metaprogramming.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
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
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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A version of Tetris implemented using C++ template metaprogramming that runs as fricking compile-time.
This is just wrong on so many levels (and speeds up slightly after each).
Super Template Tetris[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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kill it before it lays eggs
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"Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing it does not necessarily follow that we must do that thing."
- Federation President, at the peace conference (ST6 - The Undiscovered Country)
Marc
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Why?!?!!?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Because they can, I guess.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I like it
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What fun!
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
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
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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It's not the first "floating" display that uses lasers to create a hologram-like image, but a team of Japanese researchers say their so-called Fairy Lights are a more practical solution than some of the alternatives. Now without burning the user!
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One step closer to the holodeck and Minuet.
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