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Security researchers at Appsecure found a way to access anyone's Tinder account via their phone number. No one knows my phone number, right? Uh, asking for a friend.
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Remember: forewarned is forearmed " In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love."
Hmm. Mini-theme today.
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I find one sentence in the article to be really true
Article says: In other words: a little more conversation and a little more action please.
But not only in AI topic, i.e. genetic experiments and other "revolutionary" technologies.
I am not against the progress, but I am afraid that something will explode in our nose.
I don't know whose quote is but...
Someone wrote (aprox): My biggest fear is that humanity is increasing knowledge at the cost or reducing wisdom
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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The initiative joins Hot Wheels and Monster High lessons to bring coding to 10 million kids by 2020. "Math class is tough"
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I can see the code now.
string g = string.Empty;
If that was for the Ken doll then I guess it would be for the "eunuchs" operating system.
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Most people aren't capable of writing anything more the trivial code. I believe that percentage is even higher for kids. Yes, you have child prodigies in every field, but they are the exception which proves the rule.
I also wonder if this is even good for kids' brain development. (We have a very weird society which extends childhood and accelerates it at the same time.)
PS. Another problem is that effective coding first requires development of logical thinking, independent of "code logic". I think it far more effective teaching kids general problem solving before heading down the narrower discipline of coding.
modified 21-Feb-18 19:21pm.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: PS. Another problem is that effective coding first requires development of logical thinking, independent of "code logic". I think it far more effective teaching kids general problem solving before heading down the narrower discipline of coding.
Totally agree with you.
The problem is... there is a big % of population who lack of any kind of logic.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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The flaw in question relates to the SvcMoveFileInheritSecurity remote procedure call (RPC), which if exploited, can lead to an arbitrary file being assigned an arbitrary security descriptor, that can potentially lead to elevation of privilege. Not a dupe - honest
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first read that as "not a dope", hmmm, maybe not a Freudian reading... 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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No matter what anyone tells you, we’re not ready for the massive societal upheavals on the way. Aren't you doing that now?
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Updated: Researchers have discovered that Tesla's AWS cloud systems were compromised for the purpose of cryptojacking. See, they can make money after all!
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I'm still waiting for someone to carjack the tesla thats in orbit.
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This is possible via a new feature added to recent versions of Microsoft Word that allows users to embed Internet videos inside Word files without having to inject the actual video file inside the document itself. Malware using Word documents?! Well, that's a first.
First million, anyway.
Maybe.
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When I heard the iPhoneX was in trouble, my first thought was, oh crap, what does apple do for an encore if the main performance flopped? What will they call it? They will have to distance themselves from all this bad press. That may not be possible.
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Let's all keep in mind that the author (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols) is a long time Linux zealot who has claimed each and every year for at least the last decade as the year of Linux on the desktop.
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Recently I decided to learn COBOL, for no other reason than the fact that there are a lot of mainframe installations out there and it’s the mainstay language for many of them. This article brought to you by the 1960s
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I fell asleep before finishing a code example...
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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Thanks for the link,'Gold Mine'.
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I did some Cobol a few years back.
No thanks. Not again.
"Quote: t’s a beautiful, expressive language that was cool then and is very cool now.
LMAO. It's one thing to "learn" Cobol to write a quick hello world app. It's another to write/read/maintain Cobol applications of years of code.
modified 21-Feb-18 0:59am.
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In college, from 1982 to 1985, we had to learn COBOL; 3 semesters of it. At the time, it was still the powerhouse business language. We also learned BASIC, PASCAL, VAX Assembler and RPG. Of all of these, the only one I absolutely DON'T want to ever work in is RPG.
So.. come exam time, we had to hand write - on paper with pencil - our COBOL programs with program controlled pagination.
Can you imagine the horror if today's college students were told to hand write an application; no typing it in, no Intellisense, no debugging... just write it out by hand. And that means no insertions of lines for logic you forgot to add, unless of course, you want to rewrite the entire page.
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I did it in all my exams barring one. Paper and copiative paper - the copy would remain to us to transfer on PC, debug it and send it back fully working in order to have our tests evaluated.
And I'm talking about 2007-2012.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Tim Carmichael wrote: So.. come exam time, we had to hand write - on paper with pencil - our COBOL programs with program controlled pagination.
Can you imagine the horror if today's college students were told to hand write an application; no typing it in, no Intellisense, no debugging... just write it out by hand. And that means no insertions of lines for logic you forgot to add, unless of course, you want to rewrite the entire page.
Same for me, only difference... luckily for me was C, not COBOL
Even more luckily... next semester was Visual C++ and we did have computers in the exam.
(Timeline 1998 - 2001)
M.D.V. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This article brought to you by the 1960s
Is that the name of some new drug? You'd need to be higher than a kite to think this was a good idea. 
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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