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Yes, you read that headline correctly, Microsoft has just released a security program for Linux. The one thing Linux users have been demanding: an antivirus from Microsoft
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I wonder how many things will it break if you install it.  
I do say it as a joke, but it wouldn't surprise me any little if you post a news about it in the next weeks
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Probably just like on Windows: not much will outright break, but everything will grind to a slow crawl as Defender decides it needs 87% of your compute resources for several minutes at a time 
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Funny. One major reason why I hav thrown out everything else, is that I never saw that kind of behaviour with Defender. I did with several others, though. Including the one we use at work. And the one we used before that, at work.
We had one that made noone work late hours on Thursdays: Every Thursday at 5pm, a total virus scan on all disks were started, which caused every single operation that had a timeout to time out. I never knew why they didn't rather run it at 10pm or 2am. Maybe everybody was happy to have a good excuse for not working late on Thursdays.
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To be fair, I use Defender on my various home computers and it doesn't cause me any problems there. It's only my work laptop(s) that have seen Defender wage prolonged battles for CPU dominance. I use a lot of the same software on my home computers as I do on my work laptop (since I develop software for fun as well as for profit!), so it must be something in the way my company sets Defender's configuration that makes it act like that.
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Microsoft acknowledged a new known issue leading to Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) critical system process crashes and forced reboots on some Windows 10 devices. Please forgive me for repeating myself
At least it feels that way, but they do seem to be finding new ways to bork their users daily.
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Don't worry, the executives will handle this by complaining about Apple.
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It's just the latest entry in the growing list of computers on wheels Brings new meaning to "system crash"
Or "race condition"
I'm sure y'all will have many, many more to follow.
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Geronimo Villanueva, a planetary scientist from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland has created stunning simulations of what sunsets would look like on a variety of planets. Because just describing what the planets look like is getting old?
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Maybe I'm just hard to please, but I found these quite disappointing. I would've thought they'd show the sun setting on the horizon (OK, a small problem for Uranus), as well the sun's relative size.
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Greg Utas wrote: , but I found these quite disappointing. I would've thought they'd show the sun setting on the horizon
I was thinking the same 
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It's a good idea, but the article shows a group of politicians making the announcement. It's difficult to think of a group that is singularly less qualified to opine on finances.
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Greg Utas wrote: It's difficult to think of a group that is singularly less qualified to opine on finances.
While they seem to be good at running countries into the ground, they seem to do pretty well with their personal finances.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yes, but other people don't have political favors to trade and aren't able to use what would be considered insider information for anyone else.
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Isn't that what they're gonna teach? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Depends if they teach "embezzlement", "overbilling", "graft" and "patronage", among other things.
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Sounds absurd. And telling time will now be pushed to Grade 3.
Studies and actual experience have found that formal education before age 7 is largely a waste of time.
(And while purely anecdotal, I used to read computer programming books to my kids. None of them are interested in computer programming.)
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Pretty sure if I read typical programming books when I was 5, I'd be sweeping floors or stocking shelves today. 
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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Maybe relevant: JavaScript for Babies (Code Babies) Board book.
There is actually a series of these books - HTML for Babies, CSS for Babies, ... - all with lots of bright colors. Babies love them.
But I really hope that when they grow up to be old enough to use it, all of JavaScript, HTML and CSS belong to computer history.
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NASA now lets you label images snapped by its Curiosity rover to help it and future Mars missions navigate the Red Planet’s surface. Do I get the keys to the rover?
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It uses an iPhone now, which has proven problematic.
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Artificial intelligence systems have become increasingly well-adapted to a host of basic board games. Now, DeepMind is hoping to teach agents the art of collaboration using Diplomacy. Great: teach the AI how to be manipulative back-stabbers.
I *sucked* at that game - just not heartless enough for diplomacy, I guess.
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I ported a framework for Diplomacy bots[^] to RSC. There's a very impressive bot by the name of Albert, so it'll be interesting to see what comes of this. The bot's author said he used Monte Carlo methods to determine its orders (moves), which (unless something has changed) is also how most bridge programs handle card play.
Short of using natural language, there needs to be a formal language to express things that typically arise during negotiations, and a group defined one for use by these bots. I thought about writing a bot but didn't want to get sidetracked. But I did manage to win back-to-back online games as Austria over 20 years ago. 🗡🗡
EDIT: So far, they've used "no press" games, which have no communication between players. This is a far cry from the real thing, although there are some move conventions for proposing alliances.
modified 23-Jun-20 18:10pm.
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Back in March, we reported that Microsoft was getting ready to kill off Skype for Windows 10. This week, it’s finally happening. Because it's been so long since the last Skype rewrite
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