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Google today announced a fun update to Google Maps that’ll allow you to virtually visit a dozen additional planets and moons in our solar system. But y'all can't get there from here
Unless you have a handy rocket.
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The researchers found that projects with automated pull requests made 60 percent more of the necessary upgrades than projects that didn't use incentives. If the code wants to fix itself, it can go right ahead
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Today, physicists and astronomers around the world are announcing a whole new kind of gravitational wave signal at a National Science Foundation press conference in Washington, DC. "There is no gravity, the Earth sucks"
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We are not used to the idea of machines making ethical decisions, but the day when they will routinely do this - by themselves - is fast approaching. So how, asks the BBC's David Edmonds, will we teach them to do the right thing? Right after we teach humans ethics?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Right after we teach humans ethics?
Jeremy Falcon
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Right after we teach humans ethics?
Yup
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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A crippling flaw in a widely used code library has fatally undermined the security of millions of encryption keys used in some of the highest-stakes settings, including national identity cards, software- and application-signing, and trusted platform modules protecting government and corporate computers.
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While costs and times vary for each vulnerable key, the worst case for a 2048-bit one would require no more than 17 days and $40,300 using a 1,000-instance machine on Amazon Web Service and $76 and 45 minutes to factorize an affected 1024-bit key.
The cryptoworld's horrible Monday continues...
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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Yeah, digging into that now. Maybe I should have wired my house....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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They should write the follow-up article:
"Wi-fi 'puts you at risk of hacks'"
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With step by step instructions 
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Would you ride in a car that was prepared to kill you? An “ethical knob” could let the owners of self-driving cars choose their car’s ethical setting. You could set the car to sacrifice you for the survival of others, or even to always sacrifice others to save you. "Battle speed!... Attack speed!... Ramming speed!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Battle speed!... Attack speed!... Ramming speed!"
Ludicrous speed?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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A number of years ago, a co-workers parents were travelling down the road when an oncoming vehicle drifted across the middle and into their lane.
The father turned the vehicle we was driving to take the brunt of the hit; he was killed, his wife had both legs broken and was in the hospital for months.
I would say he chose the 'ethical knob'.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: I would say he chose the 'ethical knob'.
I know of no ethical system that requires you to place yourself in mortal danger in order to save someone else from their mistake. It is much more likely IMO that under pressure, he reacted in precisely the wrong way.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I believe he meant that the father positioned the car so that his family doesn't get hit and he was instead. That's his ethical knob.
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It may be what he meant, but it's not what he wrote.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Will Microsoft’s quantum computing technology be a hardware division unto itself, like Xbox, or something that the company offers to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), like its traditional Windows business for PCs? They'll put two cats in the box!
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Organizations tend to have a very predictable approach to security: reactive. "We're shakin' up those building blocks, going deeper into that box"
Extra-special deepish cut for those who like to identify the songs we use sometimes. (Hi Lisa!)
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Despite the rise of AI-powered digital assistants such as Amazon's Echo, artificial intelligence still has a ways to go. I'm leaning somewhere between 'no' and 'not a chance'
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In this post I am going to be looking at all the C# source code on GitHub and what we can find out from it. "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from."
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Relax - I forgot that all of Matt Warren's posts get slurped up onto this site.
TTFN - Kent
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Regulator says Microsoft doesn't offer enough information to enable informed consent. I guess they need to put a finger in the privacy holes?
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