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Kent Sharkey wrote: I expect a virtual lawsuit approaching
Using Skype or Teams?  
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An August Beyond Identity report takes a look at people's password protection habits as well as their tendencies to guess other folk's passwords. Are they the "password123" type, or the "BigBoss1978" type?
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Why try to guess? Just have a look to the post-it below the keyboard...
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It has been 12 years since Barbara Liskov won a Turing Award for her contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, and these days the creator of the CLU programming language continues to work on some interesting problems. There is no substitution
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Development is and will always remain interesting...
It's the amount of bullsh1t that cames with it what makes it be so frustrating.
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Makeup carefully applied to the forehead, cheeks, and nose may help you evade facial recognition systems, judging from these computer scientists' experimental work. It's a good thing these systems aren't used for anything critical, like identifying terrorists and criminals
"It was only able to correctly identify participants with no makeup on at all 47.57 per cent of the time, and when cosmetics were applied randomly it dropped down to 33.73 per cent, according to the paper."
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I shouldn't. I really, really shouldn't. But if you are going to fake out AI facial recognition systems, you need to make the makeup look like this.
(Please don't ban me!)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It was only able to correctly identify participants with no makeup on at all 47.57 per cent of the time,
But it will be considered a total success and be applied to security programs...
Poor you, if you are a false positive.
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Don't worry. They will weed out the false positives with a lie detector test. 
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Cost of a Computer Every Year Since 1970
I could argue with some of the choices, but in general - a good review of how far we've come in one working lifetime.
I also note that during most of that time the computer I wanted, not necessarily the one I needed, always cost between US$ 2,500 to 3,500. 
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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How can you tell when a non-technical person is tasked with writing an article? When you see them claim that switching to 64 bit from 32 bit improves performance by 2x...
2003
Notable computer: Apple Power Mac G5
Price tag: $1,999
Inflation adjusted price: $2,968
At the time of its release, the Power Mac G5 was the most powerful Macintosh computer. It was the first personal computer to utilize 64-bit processing, allowing users to run tasks twice as fast as was possible with 32-bit architecture, the standard at the time.
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Bigger mistakes in half the time.
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Hi, Dan,
Interesting: back in the daze when the latest ooh-shiny computer appeared, and, i fantasized about having one, the new beast was almost always 2-3k US$ more than i could afford, or justify spending.
These daze, it's more peripheral devices that i fantasize about, like a very high-end monitor, like an Eizo ColorEdge, with built-in colorimetric calibration, and full coverage of Adobe RGB SRGB, and CMYK, gamuts; or, an NAS loaded with 16 tb.s of top-end storage. A motherboard with >= 4 M2 slots, and 2 tb. cards in each, and a top-end CPU, 64 gigs of ram, etc.
i admit the big iPad models intrigue me, but, when i think of having one, i immediately imagine i took it outside the house, and it got broken, and i couldn't afford to fix it. And, i ain't never going back to Mac OS.
But now, out-to-pasture as i am, my fantasies are much more about having a 20+ VVS star-sapphire to design a ring for, or a visit to the ruins of Gobelki-Tepi [^] 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I, for one, am deeply offended that the TRS-80 line of computers was not represented in this list!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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IMAO, even for its own time, the TRS-80's nickname (Trash-80) was well-earned. I remember using one to collect data from a piece of lab. equipment back in the day. It produced so much electrical interference that it interfered with the measurements being taken (!). We eventually solved the problem by using opto-isolators on the lines leading from the equipment to the TRS-80, and moving the computer far enough away that radiated interference was no longer a factor.
The Commodore PET (of similar vintage, also not mentioned) benefited from having a metal case which trapped most of the RFI.
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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Negotiating for the salary you deserve is one of the trickier (and emotionally fraught) parts of your career. "I demand the sum... OF 1 MILLION DOLLARS"
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Here's $5 and a T-Shirt and you can write snark.
Kent: I'll take it!
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Definitely! 
TTFN - Kent
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With the Grammarly Software Developers Kit, developers can integrate real-time writing assistance into their apps with a few lines of code. Avoid passive voice in that next bug report
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Microsoft first warned the end was nigh some years ago, but the reality is here: SP3 for SQL Server 2016 is to be the last, the service pack beloved by administrators around the world killed off in favour of a "Modern Servicing Model." No more waiting for SP3 before installing?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: No more waiting for SP3 before installing?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Windows administrators report wide-scale network printing problems after installing this week's September 2021 Patch Tuesday security updates. But of course they do
Not a big enough font for my 
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It is getting so common that even joking about it is getting boring 
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Microsoft Silverlight, now only supported in the legacy Internet Explorer, goes completely end of life on 12 October – but an open-source project called OpenSilver has appeared to convert Silverlight projects to WebAssembly. Migrate your code from a dead platform, or to an imitation of that dead platform
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Most Americans don't believe their personal information is secure online and aren't satisfied with the federal government's efforts to protect it, according to a poll. But...why?
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