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The idea that your everyday, at-home appliances might be quietly monitoring your health sounds, in some regards, like a scenario straight out of Black Mirror. Can they tell I'm tired of doing the dishes by hand then?
At least it's not like that Black Mirror episode with the British Prime Minister.
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They'd tell me I eat cheap meat; but wet catfood is steeply priced in the supermarket. They'd also say there's some serious weird elements in the dishwater, since I used a bowl when emptying the radiator.
Did they use the Initech Jump-to-conclusions-mat?
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It sounds like those spam's about taking your video using your own computer-camera... But can they FOUND my dishwasher?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Maybe they can tell me how healthy I am by looking at me? 
Ambulance personnel: "We just got a call from his neighbors, he's not doing well!"
ER personnel: "OK, oxygen, defibrillator, make some room folks! Did anybody remember to grab his dishwasher?"
Ambulance: "We... Forgot the dishwasher..."
ER: "OK, then there's nothing else we can do for him... Next!"
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An amateur astronomer’s discovery kicked off a Space Age detective story. "I've heard a rumor from Ground Control"
Fortunately, not "returned to Earth" quite yet, but perhaps it's in the cards.
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They should have hired an australian aborigen...
they are really good with boomerangs 
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Sure, you can test GUIs. But it’s not easy, especially for mobile devices. I thought that's what the test monkeys were for?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I thought that's what the test monkeys were for?
Naaaahhhh... 
that's what users are for.
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What a pointless article. The takeaways:
0) UI testing is hard
1) UI testing using image comparison is unreliable.
2) Ship it, and let the users test it (crowd sourcing).
What in that list is even remotely new information?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Google is killing off its Google Play Music in 2020 and transitioning existing customers to its other music service, YouTube Music. At least I've heard of this one before they're cancelling it
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Ramsay can infect air-gapped computers, collect Word, PDF, and ZIP files in a hidden folder, and then wait for exfiltration. Does it also swear a lot (and cook wet scrambled eggs)?
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Quote: Victim receives an email with an attached RTF file
If the victim donwloads and runs the document...
No fvck, Sherlock. 
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It's almost like there's this idea that might somehow stop 99.9% of these attacks. I wonder what it could be? 
TTFN - Kent
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Nelek wrote: Victim receives an email
And that is an air-gapped system how??? Something isn't adding up in that article.
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Jupp... As in many other "articles" lately.
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It should read:
Victim receives an email asking him/her/it to run the enclosed on their air-gapped system, and is stupid enough to do so!
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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So, an 'idiot-gapped' system, then! 
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David O'Neil wrote: And that is an air-gapped system how??? Something isn't adding up in that article.
That's in the article.
ZDNet wrote: Other versions also included a spreader module that appended copies of the Ramsay malware to all PE (portable executable) files found on removable drives and network shares. This is believed to be the mechanism the malware was employing to jump the air gap and reach isolated networks, as users would most likely moved the infected executables between the company's different network layers, and eventually end up on an isolated system.
So, dependant on a sneakernet, after breaching the connected part and running rampant there undetected.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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FTFY
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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Sorry to spoil someone's party, but the ancient and revered "STONED" jumped air gap quite well - especially since almost all PC's were air-gapped at the time.
An infected PC infected the boot sector on (360Kb) floppies. They would infect new systems if they were left in at startup and the system tried to boot from it.
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Epic Games’ Unreal is already one of the most widely used game engines on the planet, utilized by game developers, advertisers and filmmakers alike. Just imagine what Freecell will look like with this!
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Microsoft works on a programming language that could bring it a win with hardware accelerators in Azure AI workloads. Sometimes, you can't see the forest for the new programming languages
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In related news Microsoft hired yet another PhD whose thesis was Yet Another Programming Language.
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My father has always told me:
"The more you want to comprise, the less pressure you can do"
In other words... concentrate in less things at a time and it will be easier to do them.
MS is opening way too many fronts and getting lost, forgetting to do what actually brought them to that position.
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As we’ve mentioned in previous blog posts, the $FAMOUS_COMPANY backend has historically been developed in $UNREMARKABLE_LANGUAGE and architected on top of $PRACTICAL_OPEN_SOURCE_FRAMEWORK. This should save time on future news items
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