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sO muso DOESN'T NEED TO FOLD, SINCE THERE ARE STILL PIRATES TO TRACLK.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Following Mark Zuckerberg's apology for millions of Facebook users having their data exploited, Cybersecurity expert, Dr. Daniel Dresner, writes that it isn't the technology we should be worrying about, but the people creating and using these tools instead. Whoever's not in the room when the problem is discovered?
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If we can't blame guns for killing people then we can't blame technology for its misuse.
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In order to compete, businesses will need to get more intelligent on artificial intelligence. "The only winning move is not to play."
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Today we released our first public preview of Blazor, a new experimental .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly. I still think it sounds like a bad 70s metal band
Needs an umlaut though.
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Circle of life => WebForms ( Code behind ) to MVC to Blazer ( Code behind )
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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I really do not understand why people are so against (code-behind)  .
Personally, I believe that Blazor is a relevant experiment and that will prove applicable in the near future.
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I am not against code behind. It has its advantage ( RAD for one ). With web forms testing was bit hard but then again there are patterns for it. Its all horses for courses.
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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If you remember the 70's, you weren't there!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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It's 2018 and developers are finally taking mobile games seriously -- or it's the other way around, depending on whom you ask. For your next trip to the Uncanny Valley
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IBM announced Blockchain Starter Services, Blockchain Acceleration Services and Blockchain Innovation Services at its IBM Think technology conference in Las Vegas this week. If everyone else jumped... oh wait, used that one recently
Just not the old blockchains
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Alphabet’s cybersecurity division Jigsaw released an interesting new project called Outline. If I simplify things quite a lot, it lets anyone create and run a VPN server on DigitalOcean, and then grant your team access to this server. *Some assembly (and fees) required
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A new in-depth investigation shows the company’s disregard for age discrimination laws "Old man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were"
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It would be funny if someone used IBM Watson to prove that the older workers were targeted 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Old man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were"
Okay Kent, 'fess up. How many years is that song older than you?
(very meta of you, BTW )
Software Zen: delete this;
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I’m old enough to have heard it on the radio when it first came out. But probably not, as we never listened to “shakey rock and roll” stations as a child (I would have been 10)
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I’m old enough to have heard it on the radio when it first came out.
Cool; CP hires geezers! 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "OldYoung man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you werewill be"
Fixed for anyone who thinks it can't happen to them.
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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Bitcoin's blockchain can be loaded with sensitive, unlawful or malicious data, raising potential legal problems in most of the world, according to boffins based in Germany.
In a paper [PDF] presented at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security conference on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao – "A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin" – researchers from RWTH Aachen University and Goethe University identified 1,600 files added to the Bitcoin blockchain, 59 of which include links to unlawful images of child exploitation, politically sensitive content, or privacy violations.
You might get sued when having the blockchain on your local disk.
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Implying that using a blockchain can infect your PC? Blockchain data isn't executed, so mallware is just "data".
The paper on which the article is based: "Since all blockchain data is downloaded and persistently stored by users, they are liable for any objectionable content added to the blockchain by others," the paper says.
No, they can't; you cannot be responsible for stuff outside of your sphere of influence. They are assuming you'd be responsible for what you download and store on your machine, but AFAIK, you're not responsible for actions of stuff that you don't download (ie, malware installed via Windows update).
Again, more a piece that tries to influence the image of BitCoin. The fact that you can add data to the chain was already known, that's why 1.4% includes them in the first place.
To hit back at the so-called researchers; I can hide malware in a JPG, which you could accidentally display in a browser. Easily. Not a problem, since the extra payload is not executed by a browser or MSPaint. How does this differ?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: No, they can't; you cannot be responsible for stuff outside of your sphere of influence.
The courts disagree to an extent and, absent other evidence, a jury would probably acquit if the sole objectionable content was something in a block chain. However, a counter argument is that IF you voluntarily downloaded content, you are obligated to know, and are liable for, what that content is.
What I wonder is, say you download an e-currency. You do your due diligence and discover objectionable content, what then is your recourse?
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Dutch courts would not have it.
When downloading a BC, you're not volutarily downloading the "attached data"; you don't know what the attached data is until it is displayed. Also, the reasoning of those idiots would mean that everyone who displays my JPG is a criminal, because they might downloaded illegal content which was hidden in the file.
So no, no court would accept it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: So no, no court would accept it.
I respectfully disagree, at least in regards to US jurisprudence. In most, if not all, jurisdictions in the United States, possession of certain types of things, including some images, is illegal. If a person is charged under these laws, the only legal basis (beyond procedural issues) the judge would have to throw the case out is if the prosecution presents no evidence that the possession is more than entirely passive and limited. Otherwise, if the defendant doesn't otherwise plead guilty, it would go to trial. It is there that a jury may determine that the possession was passive, even if the defendant actively downloaded or acquired the illicit material.
Let's say I buy a car and am shortly thereafter stopped by the police and consent to a search, during which they discover drug paraphernalia. One factor in determining my guilt or innocence in the eyes of the law will be whether I could have known about such material. Were it sitting on the backseat or under a front seat, I'm toast. Were it hidden under the back seat, which would require it's removal to discover, absent other evidence, odds are good that the judge would have thrown the case out, but if not, that I'd be found not-guilty by a jury. Neither assumption, however, is guaranteed.
modified 23-Mar-18 13:06pm.
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Aight, so you disagree.
Since you probably hovered with your mouse over my name, my picture is downloaded. You think I can now sue you?
It's that simple 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Your example makes no sense. Moreover, we (and the article) were discussing criminal law, not civil law.
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