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"ET Phone Home!"
#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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Looks like Braille, but for a blind guy who can read something 16' off the ground! Bizarre.
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Braille characters are two by three dots wide; these are four by eight, so it won't fit - two by two and two thirds characters. There is some spacing between character cells, both horizontally and vertically; these have neither.
There are Braille extensions to two by four cells, e.g. on most newer electronic braille terminals. The two bottom (extra) dots usually indicate highlighted text (underscore, italics), or uppercase / numeral (which in pure 6-dot braille is done with prefix characters) - or, in some parts of the world knowing other letters than a-z, for extended character sets. (No, it is not ISO 8859- or UTF8-coded!) If you view the four by eight panels as two by two braille characters, the rather heavy use of the bottom two dots makes it unlikely that this is the correct interpretation.
I guess I ought to make an attempt to decode it as braille, but I would have to search up each dot pattern in a printout of the braille "alphabet". I know it from experience to be a tedious task. The probability of it really being braille is so low that I don't think it is worth the effort.
(On the other hand: I guess that quite a few CP readers have been using, or at least have seen, those Western Digital "My Book" external disks, in the old days when the disks gave off so much heat that the cabinet needed ventilation holes. Not many customers have discovered that those holes are dots and dashes according to the Morse code!)
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So it's probably not braille.
trønderen wrote: The probability of it really being braille is so low that I don't think it is worth the effort.
I agree.
trønderen wrote: (On the other hand: I guess that quite a few CP readers have been using, or at least have seen, those Western Digital "My Book" external disks, in the old days when the disks gave off so much heat that the cabinet needed ventilation holes. Not many customers have discovered that those holes are dots and dashes according to the Morse code!)
I am rather proud to say that I did notice this on the one that I handled. 
So we still don't know what the Victoria dot pattern indicates. I did a cursory DDG search but found nothing. Of course, it might help if I was to contact TFL/London Underground.
** edit **
I see that historical Victoria Line station artists liked dot-related patterns: Going Underground - A story of visiting all 270 London Underground Stations: Victoria Line Motifs[^] (but still no explanation of this dot pattern here).
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With the upcoming Windows 10 21H1 feature update being a minor release with few improvements, Microsoft will likely include all of the new features they have introduced in Insider builds in Windows 10 21H2. "I ain't gonna play Sun City"
City/valley, whatever (and yeah, I'll have it the day of, most likely)
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Of all the things in Windows that could have done with updating of the UI, I really don't think that Disk Management was one of them.
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yeah, it's boring stuff; but it's part of MS's slow running (started all the way back in Win8) to redesign all the old control panel applets to use the current OS style and be touch friendly.
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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But don't worry, say Python maintainers, attackers can only stall your machine even though technically it is remotely exploitable. No one expected that
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Python is listed in GTFOBins. There is a disclaimer at the top stating 'this is not a list of exploits' but rather a list of binaries that can be abused on 'misconfigured systems'. But there are dozens of Linux distros that are configured by default with suid and sudoers. Especially firewall appliances.
Seems like nobody realizes that Linux is swiss cheese[^].
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Incredible footage of NASA’s latest descent to the Red Planet Good lander, bad cameraman
All that shaky cam footage - was it filmed by Peter Jackson?
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Oh, oy. Yeah, I forgot those (and the Bourne films). It's an epidemic! Too many lattes in Hollywood?
TTFN - Kent
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In my opinion, Bourne did it well. That Bond film, on the other hand.... I think directors learned their lesson afterwards, but I haven't gone to the movies much since then so I'm not sure. I pray they have.
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Earth makes a tiny seismic rumble every 26 seconds. Clear out, it's going to blow!
And for the keen-eyed (you know who you are). Yes, yes, yes, but I didn't see it then, so it's "news to me". {insert mirthless chuckle}
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After 4.23*1018 km on the odometer, the Earth is way overdue for a tune-up. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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And the funky sound will probably go away as soon as they take it into the shop. 
TTFN - Kent
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She's been leaking oil for several thousand years. Surely she's running low by now. 
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It's a heart beat.
Something big.
It's sleeping.
For now.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Might be right; earth's inner core may be the cause.
But we won't find out until scientists stop it from happening.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"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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Gestation has finished and it's going to hatch soon?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The feature uses a Machine Learning model to make suggestions based on the text typed by the user. De{tab}^H^H^HDe{esc}ar Si{tab}^H^H^HSir...
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An IBM guy told, long ago (i.e. pre-Internet - no URL to back it up), from the early days of DB2: If a deadlock occurred and your transaction was selected as a victim to break it, once the other transactions were complete, the system would attempt to redo your transaction by repeating your keystrokes, echoing the keystrokes on your screen exactly as you had typed them, so that if the redo failed, you could see exactly how far it (successfully) got, and you could continue from there.
This was meant to be an aid to the user. But the computer operators got so annoyed by seeing their own typing errors and corrections being displayed "for anyone to see" that they screamed in protest, and IBM had to remove the "positive feedback".
(Remember than in the 1980s, business correspondence was still made on Selectrics and Remingtons. Every typo had to be corrected with white ink or correction tape, and might be visible as a defect, although corrected, in the letter that was sent out. So secretaries took pride in perfect typing; any typo was a shame. Nowadays ... For a few years, I had a keyboard counting my keystrokes. Quite often, when I wrote plain text, such as documentation, the text file might grow by twenty thousand characters, yet the keystroke counter had increased by forty or fifty thousand keystrokes. I never understood why  )
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This past October, we notified you that we were going to improve the Windows update history experience, particularly with regard to release notes. Those who do not study their Windows Update history are doomed to repeat installing the patches
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