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Re: IT security report finds 97% have suspicious network activity

19-Mar-20 20:18

Kent Sharkey wrote:
traffic hiding, VPN tunneling, connections to the Tor anonymous network, and network proxying

They can't be very good at their jobs. All they seem to have found is people trying to protect their privacy from @rsehole companies that "analyse" what people are doing with the Internet.

Essentially, what they've discovered is that people don't like being snooped on by companies like them.

As for nasty boys on the Interwebs, just look as any server or router log for any ten minute period of any day, and you'll find "suspicious network activity" in all of them.

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Bohdan Stupak21-Mar-20 5:55

Bohdan Stupak

21-Mar-20 5:55

Quote:
The suspicious network activities revealed in the research by Positive Technologies are traffic hiding, VPN tunneling, connections to the Tor anonymous network, and network proxying.

Is it an example of Newspeak from 1984?

Extending the Reach of Windows ML and DirectML

Kent Sharkey19-Mar-20 10:45

Re: Extending the Reach of Windows ML and DirectML

19-Mar-20 10:45

Windows Developer blog[^]:
Delivering reliable, high-performance results across the breadth of Windows hardware, Windows ML is designed to make ML deployment easier, allowing developers to focus on creating innovative applications.

Now you can make that data entry form artificially intelligent

Edit: fixed the blurb. That's it. Done for the week. 'night all.

modified 19-Mar-20 17:45pm.

Nelek19-Mar-20 11:35

Re: Extending the Reach of Windows ML and DirectML

19-Mar-20 11:35

Was on purpose to repeat the comment?

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Kent Sharkey19-Mar-20 11:43

The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a vaccine

19-Mar-20 11:43

Oh duh. No, thank you.

TTFN - Kent

Kent Sharkey19-Mar-20 10:30

Re: The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a vaccine

19-Mar-20 10:30

CNN[^]:
Summit, IBM's supercomputer equipped with the "brain of AI," ran thousands of simulations to analyze which drug compounds might effectively stop the virus from infecting host cells.

Why does it keep recommending arsenic, cyanide, and gin?

Nelek19-Mar-20 11:34

Re: The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a vaccine

19-Mar-20 11:34

Don't get me wrong... I will be happy if they do find something that helps, but... AI? Again? seriously?

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey19-Mar-20 11:37

Re: The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a vaccine

19-Mar-20 11:37

The good news is that the old-fashioned human way seems to be finding possibles: Coronavirus: Some Clinical Trial Data | In the Pipeline[^] Odd that a malaria drug seems to be effective. Maybe it's telling us to drink more gin?

TTFN - Kent

Nelek19-Mar-20 11:41

Re: The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a vaccine

19-Mar-20 11:41

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Maybe it's telling us to drink more gin?

I think you have been too close to Nagy lately Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

M.D.V.

Mark_Wallace19-Mar-20 22:13

Re: The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a vaccine

19-Mar-20 22:13

The American dick of a writer said:
the original is China Daily, but you’ll have to deal with the little box up in the right corner labled “Xi’s Moments”, where a smiling Xi Jinping urges joint efforts to fight the pandemic

As opposed to putting up with the constant, incessant, self-serving sh1te from a certain-coloured person who lives in a certain-coloured house?

I mean, things like:

Quote:
President Xi backs Italy's fight against COVID-19

and

Quote:
Xi lauds post-90s generation's fight against COVID-19

Highlight really stupid, terrible things for the leader of a country to say, don't they? How awful that people should "have to deal with" grown-up behaviour from politicians.

Forgive me if I don't repeat anything that spewed from the orifice of a certain-coloured person who lives in a certain-coloured house, but I'm actually getting sick of hearing about it myself -- clowns aren't funny when they're costing people their lives.

And how nice to see such mindless political sh1te on what is supposed to be a science-based web-site.

That's another American dick on my "don't read any of this guy's sh1te" list.

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Kaladin20-Mar-20 2:05

Kaladin

20-Mar-20 2:05

This seems like a great application for it: filter out all the chemicals that probably won't work and indicate the ones that they should focus on, as opposed to the alternative of looking through all of them by hand. I'm pretty sure (or at least I hope) that this group isn't the one to blindly take a computer's word and act on it.

Re: The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a vaccine

ZurdoDev20-Mar-20 6:14

ZurdoDev

20-Mar-20 6:14

Nelek wrote:
AI? Again? seriously?

What's your concern?

Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.

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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

Re: The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a vaccine

kalberts20-Mar-20 7:00

kalberts

20-Mar-20 7:00

Everybodys Buzzword Bingo cards have "AI" spread all over. We need others to get ahead with the bingo!

Re: The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a vaccine

Mark_Wallace19-Mar-20 22:26

Microsoft postpones end of support for some Windows 10 1709 versions

19-Mar-20 22:26

Initial assumption:
The corona virus spreads fast, so we need a fast computer to analyse the effects of chemicals on it, because, well, y'know, fast, yeah?

I'm putting that down as a fail right there, but if you insist on defending your idiotically illogical thesis, go ahead -- I'll just sit here and play candy crush.

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Kent Sharkey19-Mar-20 10:30

Re: Microsoft postpones end of support for some Windows 10 1709 versions

19-Mar-20 10:30

ZDNet[^]:
Microsoft is giving customers an additional six months of support for some variants of Windows 10 1709 as a result of the impact of COVID-19 on IT professionals.

There you go: bright side for COVID-19

Nelek19-Mar-20 11:32

Re: Microsoft postpones end of support for some Windows 10 1709 versions

19-Mar-20 11:32

Kent Sharkey wrote:
There you go: bright side for COVID-19

It would be even brighter if the impact was in the update's programmers

M.D.V.

Mark_Wallace19-Mar-20 22:27

Windows Subsystem for Linux is making inroads with developers

19-Mar-20 22:27

So are they saying that one isn't the last-ever windows, but that the next one will be, or what?

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Kent Sharkey19-Mar-20 9:30

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux is making inroads with developers

19-Mar-20 9:30

Ars Technica[^]:
Last week, Microsoft and Canonical (the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution) were scheduled to host a developer conference focused on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) at Microsoft's Redmond campus.

"We are not on a path to win against Linux. We must change some things and we must do it immediately. "

Because I got tired of the Ballmer quote.

Nelek19-Mar-20 11:30

Windows Subsystem for Linux is making inroads with developers... and no-one else

19-Mar-20 11:30

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Because I got tired of the Ballmer quote.

If you can't defeat your enemy, join him?

M.D.V.

Mark_Wallace19-Mar-20 22:46

Let your family know you are in meetings with an IoT Busy light

19-Mar-20 22:46

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, yezonnuh.

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Kent Sharkey19-Mar-20 9:15

Re: Let your family know you are in meetings with an IoT Busy light

19-Mar-20 9:15

Jim Bennett[^]:
One of the upsides of working from home, especially when my 7 year old is off school is that I am available most of the time for the occasional quick cuddle, to laugh at something silly she'd just done or help her with something. One of the downsides is that at any time she could walk in to my office whilst I'm on a call.

Seems like a topical project for folks newly enjoying working from home

Nelek19-Mar-20 11:29

Re: Let your family know you are in meetings with an IoT Busy light

19-Mar-20 11:29

And he needs IoT Bulb for that?

I suppose I am too old fashioned... open door means come in and closed door don not disturb and if it is important, knock first and wait until I say "come in"
And it works even when electricity is gone, go figure.

M.D.V.

Mark_Wallace19-Mar-20 22:39