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Aliens, will they slow down and throw more trash out hence Human 2.0?
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Quote: we just observed a dark, large and elongated object pass between us and the distant star
It's either this[^], or this[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Or the mother ship to this Oumuamua[^].
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Sometimes photos cannot truly capture a scene. How much more epic would that vacation photo of Niagara Falls be if the water were moving? If only people had a video camera handy. Perhaps in their pockets at all times?
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Don't be delusional. Such avant-garde thoughts! 
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Ever stared for a few seconds at a waterfall and then shifting your eyes to a stationary object nearby? It's a cool effect that most people see -- the stationary object moves up!
The same thing happens when biking -- if you watch the road (hopefully you do) and then look at the clouds (assuming there are any) the clouds look like they're receding, assuming they are not already receding, lol.
Poor neurons. Our visual process is a delicate thing!
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot, a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware. Asking for a friend
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This is something of a guess, but in many cases I suspect it is innocently to begin with. It might not be obvious to begin with that what you're doing is illegal. But after a while comes the character test: When you eventually realise that what you're doing is criminal, do you quit (and accept the loss of income and the possible danger to yourself and your family) or stay and enjoy the money?
A very long time ago, I worked for an accountant. He had many interesting clients. One of them had business dealings in Iran. One day the client came in and said to me: "You're a computer guy, aren't you. Would you enjoy going to work in Iran? They are setting up a specialist computer centre and are looking for people to help out there." This was at a time when Iran was relatively favoured by the West but I didn't think that would last, and I turned down the offer. To this day, I wonder what I would have been working on. I don't think it would have been payroll. And yet the offer was perfectly innocent on the surface.
I've heard that similar happens with Indian phone scammer work. People are hired to work in a phone call centre. To begin with, it all seems legit. They think they are working for real companies. But after a few days they come to realise it's all a scam. So do they quit and lose the income, or stay and enjoy the money but suffer the guilt?
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That's an interesting "slippery slope" that I hadn't considered. Thank you.
I suppose that also explains people still working for Facebook? 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I suppose that also explains people still working for Facebook?
Or Google... <gasp> 
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No idea. At all.
But it starts with a friendly conversation. Next thing you know, you hear yourself saying you can provide unhackable (proven by math) communication.
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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Have you ever struggled to understand a codebase that was bigger than you? "Here be dragons"
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It's a pretty good article. The only dubious tip is refactoring something. That's great if there's a good suite of automated tests. If not, you may not have to worry about finding your way around that codebase for much longer.
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I have a legacy code base I'm maintaining now that was deliberately written to be unmaintainable by anyone other than the original author. He even did things that defeat refactoring tools.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I remember reading your posts about it. Truly a miracle of design. 
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Sadly I've reached the age (almost 60) where war story reruns are guaranteed  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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CloudLinux, best known for its CentOS work, is releasing UChecker, its Linux server security scanner. Because it's the Year of Securing Linux
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The article says: The program works with all modern Linux distributions under the GNU General Public License and ...
 ... but not the current LTS release of Ubuntu (20.04LTS).
OK it does appear to work on 18.04LTS, the previous LTS.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Programming language Coq is looking to rebrand due to sounding like the English slang term for a certain male anatomy body part. It should be 'Coqu' as a 'u' usually follows a 'q'
I was going to go with something like:
But the replacement ideas 'Fuq' and 'Diq' didn't focus group well.
or
Coqy McCoqface?
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Coq++ (pronounced c*ck-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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That's it - that's the winner!
TTFN - Kent
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That's funny - when we were looking at Coq about, wow, 10 years ago to do some logic analysis/validation, everyone pronounced it "Coke". Well, I guess we weren't thinking about chicken, wine, garlic, olive oil and bacon, aka coq du vin. If we had, we would have known how to pronounce it.
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"Good evening Mr & Mrs Cox" said the poor sod at parent/teacher interview night.
Problem was, their daughter's name was Helena Dix.
We got to rib him for that one for an entire 'nother year after that.
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Screenshots of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 operating system have appeared online today. Icon hardly wait!
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Is Microsoft stealing from Apple again!?! 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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