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Boffins at the University of Michigan in the US and Zhejiang University in China want to highlight how bespectacled video conferencing participants are inadvertently revealing sensitive on-screen information via reflections in their eyeglasses. Another reason to avoid Zoom meetings
""Our models and experimental results in a controlled lab setting show it is possible to reconstruct and recognize with over 75 percent accuracy on-screen texts that have heights as small as 10 mm with a 720p webcam." That corresponds to 28 pt, a font size commonly used for headings and small headlines." <- Time to stop working on your headlines during that team meeting?
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It's far more interesting to see what porn they like.
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ENHANCE
so from that maths I take it that 8k stream you can get the reflection from eyeballs?
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Canva Visual Worksuite consists of several tools, many of which are new: Docs, Whiteboards, Presentations, Social Media, Video, Print, and Websites. "He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes"
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I got the idea to do something like that many years ago!
But then, with the amount of energy and dedication that characterize me those last 10 to 20 years... I did f*** all!   
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The awards are in their 32nd year and "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.” Because who doesn't want to study constipated scorpions?
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I loved the winner for literature - lawyers can't write worth an ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif)
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In Norway, the state administration 40-50 years ago hired one language expert (Finn Erik Vinje, but I guess his name not well known in English speaking countries) as a language consultant for the specific purpose of making more readable the Norwegian laws, documents from the state administration, and other public institutions. He was the primary language consultant for the language revision of the Norwegian Constitution. (For you USAians: Here, we do not make 'amendments' to our constitution, but make changes and additions to the original text, so we can update the language even of the Constitution!) For many years, he was also a language consultant for the Norwegian State Broadcasting (NRK). His approach to language is strongly based on the real-life everyday use, with an emphasis on simplification, clarification, direct and easily understood phrasings, forming a school for those who has followed him after he retired (he is born in 1936)
After Vinje started his work revising Norwegian laws, they actually became readable. Nowadays, more or less anyone with a reasonable mastery of Norwegian can look up all Norwegian laws on Internet and understand what they say. Of course, there are specific legal terms not common in everyday use, but many new laws start out with a section defining the meaning of a bunch of terms.
Obviously, some terms are still open to interpretation - terms like 'severe' or 'significant'. You may have to consult a lawyer to tell you whether your possible crime (or disagreement with your neighbor) is likely to be considered severe or significant. At least, you understand what you have to ask the lawyer about!
Individual lawyers may of course still write in a terrible language (at the risk of being ridiculed in media - that happens quite often, by a tradition at least fifty years old  ). There is no doubt that the rewording of a great majority of the laws, and of documents published by official institutions, has a strong effect even on old style writing lawyers.
I haven't heard much about similar efforts in other countries / languages but would like to hear about it! I guess that rewriting the US Constitution to a language that can easily be understood by twelve year old US kids would be met with snarles and frowning .
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trønderen wrote: I guess that rewriting the US Constitution to a language that can easily be understood by twelve year old US kids would be met with snarles and frowning
The US Constitution is actually reasonably clear as long as you take into consideration late 1700s language idioms. Some parts, like Article 1, Section 1 are very clear even today.
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
This is the statement that seems to give our politicians so much trouble and is the source of several recent US Supreme Court decisions overturning Executive Branch policies.
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How do you get consent from the scorpion to remove its tail in the first place?
Quote: constipation caused by the voluntary loss of a tail can affect the mating prospects of certain scorpions
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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That's next year's study
TTFN - Kent
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A.Team's annual Tech Work Report highlights the struggles tech companies are facing in hiring, onboarding, and dealing with hybrid-working models. To code monkey, or not to code monkey...
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the interview loops and whiteboard tests of a hiring cycle,
or to get butts in seats of a sea of recruiter chaff
and by hiring, not complete the app. That is the question.
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just one urksome for me:
Quote: Earlier this year, major tech companies including Apple and Meta announced that they would not require college degrees for certain positions, typically positions that are more difficult to fill. These positions include software engineers, technical support, and quality engineers.
this puzzled me, I've had a annoyance with the term engineering and software for some time, so clicking through the source they provided, it only IBM offering specific Software engineer apprentice which is a bit differnt then a mid or senior role, but then article talking about "Highly skilled", so didnt fit their naritive I guess. Still props for hiring junior/apperntice roles without collage requirement.
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maze3 wrote: apperntice
maze3 wrote: collage
I can see why being uneducated is so important to you. lol...
#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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Hey, don't dis a degree in Collage
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Is it that we're becoming a rarity, or is it that we won't work for :peanuts:
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An ongoing malvertising campaign is injecting ads in the Microsoft Edge News Feed to redirect potential victims to websites pushing tech support scams. Never trust the news!
Myself completely included, of course.
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Not just Edge's news feeds, but also Edge's notification feature. I regularly clean out notifications that claim your McAfee license has expired (on machines that have never had McAfee installed).
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That's just how good the McAfee antivirus is - it can find viruses while still remaining on the store shelf! 
TTFN - Kent
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Thanks Kent. I needed a good laugh on a Friday afternoon. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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Since MS got rid of their QA people, what's wrong with others offering it to you? They are just going out of their way to give you a service. 
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If you don't want to wait to be officially updated through Windows Update, you can get it right now through the official channels via Microsoft, and enjoy all of the new features. Be the first on your block to not be able to find any new features!
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note that the article does not mention the requirement for a late-model hardware (2.0) TPM.
that, i think, may lead to gnashing of teeth.
Maybe i'm so behind the times i haven't heard of an MS sanctioned way around that ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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BillWoodruff wrote: i haven't heard of an MS sanctioned way around that? [TPM 2.0 requirement]
No, MS still requires TPM 2.0.
Personally, the supposed extra security provided by TPM is not enough of a reason to reformat and reinstall everything on my computer, from the O/S up. I'm quite happy with Win10 in its nonsecure mode, and have no reason to change it at the moment.
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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Thanks, Daniel,
If installing Win 11 would require reinstalling all my apps, that means bill will never go there.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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