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Thanks. Now I'm hungry for a cannoli.
There's the "Astoria Pastry Shop" just around the corner from here.
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Don’t get me wrong. I want to build software I can be proud of. I want to be part of teams that build great products. I aspire to craftsmanship. What I dislike is the word “quality”, and how it tends to polarise conversations. At least during my next code review
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According to reports from Japanese business journal Nikkei and Reuters, Sharp has decided to accept a takeover offer from Foxconn. Playing "hokey-pokey" with press releases
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Google's latest AI is PlaNet, a new deep-learning machine that specializes in figuring out where a photo was taken—using nothing but the image’s pixels. "All I've got is a photograph, but it's not enough"
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PlaNet : Is this mug shot ? with slate ? It must be prison.....
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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There is a new batch of proposals for C++17, published for next weeks ISO C++ Committee meeting. Find all the ways your code will break in the future
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The Apple chief made his case against helping the FBI in a TV interview on ABC News. Uhm, Tim - go ahead and take it down a notch, please?
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Because iTunes, the music/configuration application from Apple is... what exactly? How many people on here have said iTunes is essentially a cancer in and of itself.
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The FBI is more in the wrong than it first appears.
Apple first complied with FBI requests in giving them all the information it could. Two months later, more was demanded from Apple, not because the FBI needed it, but just to see how much abuse they could get away with inflicting on Apple.
Their current demands for Apple are insane, and unless Apple wants to re-categorize iPhones as expensive paperweights, they have to fight back.
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All true. I just think his throwing "cancer" around is a bit much.
TTFN - Kent
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He may have meant the zodiac sign...
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Well... That's OK then. 
TTFN - Kent
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So you say "All true." Even to "Apple first complied with FBI requests in giving them all the information it could. Two months later, more was demanded from Apple, not because the FBI needed it, but just to see how much abuse they could get away with inflicting on Apple."
Please help me out here . . . how do you/he know the additional information wasn't needed? The remainder of the sentence, following 'but', is hardly different than the thoughtless cancer analogy in its desire to raise objections to an event by emotional rather than logical considerations.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The thing is it is an emotional even when people get at your private stuff. It makes me and everyone I know angry. So leaving emotional arguments out of it seems a bit illogical don't you think?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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The FBI and other government agencies have a long history of abusive conduct against businesses (which doesn't get addressed much in relevant current events). Thorough and logical conversations about the issue take a long time (too long for both forum posts and TV interviews, unfortunately).
If you'd like to research the issue yourself, you'd probably come up with the same conclusion as my original post. The fact that the FBI waited so long before demanding the backdoor and the fact that other major technology companies so strongly sided with Apple tells us enough to understand the situation.
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And what about business with a history of abusing their customers? Apple's rather high on this list. The current death-dealing automobile airbags also show how you can trust business to do the right thing. And, of course, big tobacco! My own personal despising of GM for the OnStar they integrated into my Mrs.'s car - which actually is monitoring the vehicle and could be used to stop it at any time - and the microphone can pick up conversations. And their decision (1977 Ford Pinto) to calculate how many dead burned drivers was cheaper, legally, than fixing the deadly flaw. Oh Yes! Business can be trusted to do the right thing if asked nicely!
How long they have demanded the data vs. how long before Apple's denial finally became a court case (and thus Apples source of free publicity)? I can't say I know - but the request probably preceded the publicity. And - had it been complied with quietly, it would mean that the terrorists would still feel secure (mine more of their data) and Apple's secret would still be considered secret.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The FBI request was made publicly two months after the initial incident (on record). Apple's public press release happened after the FBI already took the situation public.
If you don't like a business like Apple, you can usually avoid them / sue them / say bad things about them. It's a lot harder to deal with a misbehaving government agency: Nobody can avoid them, nobody can bankrupt them, and bad press usually accomplishes nothing.
Since the public has a chance to push Congress and/or federal courts to reign in a misbehaving government agency, we should take advantage of it, as these opportunities don't come along often (and disappear fast).
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A while back I did a post called Proper benchmarking to diagnose and solve a .NET serialization bottleneck. "Prepare ship for ludicrous speed!"
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Code execution exploit for just-fixed bug makes encore appearance in Angler. See, Microsoft: people are still developing with Silverlight
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mjg59 | I bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have to[^]
Quote: I maintain an application for bridging various non-Hue lighting systems to something that looks enough like a Hue that an Amazon Echo will still control them. One thing I hadn't really worked on was colour support, so I picked up some cheap bulbs and a bridge. The kit is badged as an iSuper iRainbow001, and it's terrible.
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Anyway. Next step was to start playing with the protocol, which meant finding the device on my network. I checked anything that had picked up a DHCP lease recently and nmapped them. The OS detection reported Linux, which wasn't hugely surprising - there was no GPL notice or source code included with the box, but I'm way past the point of shock at that. It also reported that there was a telnet daemon running. I connected and got a login prompt. And then I typed admin as the username and admin as the password and got a root prompt. So, there's that.
It doesn't get any better from there. This turned out to not just be an Internet of Pwnd Things product, but something capable of Pwning all your other stuff as well. 
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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IoT now reminds me of Internet websites in 90's.. arbitrary "standards", bad implementations and no security.. and animated GIFs, 3D fonts and MIDI music. Because why not? 
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All Software is Legacy[^]
I'm not sure what to pull as a quote, but this is an interesting article from the person crazy enough to take over maintenance of Perl's CGI module two years ago.
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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