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New Report: AI just like five year-olds! 
TTFN - Kent
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Didn't Calvin & Hobbes have a special term for that? (Or was that an artifact of translation?)
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Improve the game? Describe 'improve'!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Describe 'improve'!
Horsies!! 
TTFN - Kent
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It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the first of two RCs before the official release in November. It's go-live! It's GO-LIVE! {insert lightning and thunder here}
I've got a hunch you can call me Igor.
That's eye-gor. 
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A team of astronomers has announced that they have found what may be evidence of life on Venus. The planet has a venereal disease?
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We're heading for Venus and still we stand tall...'Cause maybe they've seen us and welcome us all, yea
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Same evidence as on other planets in our solar system.
Still, I wonder, are there political parties on Venus? If life there, would it be democrat or republican for the narrow mind of our binary "thinkers"?
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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 for "binary thinkers". For politics, it means choosing (hat tip to South Park) a Giant Douche or a Turd Sandwich.
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Enterprise provider Oracle is said to have won the bidding war for the U.S. operations of TikTok, a chase in which Microsoft was booted out earlier today. If you’re wondering what the kids are doing these days, think Oracle!
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Well, the goal was to destroy TikTok and Oracle does outdo Microsoft in the department
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I can hardly wait to see how long before they start trying to charge for support contracts (and per-core pricing for videos)
TTFN - Kent
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That only in the case that it ends being purchased. I am not that sure yet.
And I stop here before I get into soapbox material.
M.D.V. 
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To boost efficiency in typical households—where people forget to take wet clothes out of washing machines, retrieve hot food from microwaves and turn off dripping faucets—Cornell University researchers have developed a single device that can track 17 types of appliances using vibrations. If the house is rocking, time to check the washing machine
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As it would not be enough with all those spies smart assistants that only have a microphone...
I wonder how many time will elapse until it is misused.
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Nelek wrote: misused
Someone shares your vibration data online? That would be embarrassing.  
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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If embarrasment was the worst what could happen... I would not give a crap about it.
The Insider News[^] and more that are still to come.
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The FCC authorized Microsoft to perform proof-of-concept demonstrations of a service that would connect its cloud computing service Azure with a ground station the company proposed to build. "Satellite's gone up to the skies. Things like that drive me out of my mind."
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I am just wondering... does any of those companies / governments ever clean up the orbits from their previous stuff?
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International guidelines - enforced by the regulators who have to sign off on launches - require operators of anything launched in the last few years to include the ability to either de-orbit (for low earth orbit payloads) or send the satellite into a graveyard orbit (for geosynchronous or other higher orbit payloads) at end of life. For many sats in LEO this can be done passively via atmospheric drag within the IIRC 5 year timeframe (if drag can do this fast enough or need to budget a de-orbit burn depends on their altitude and cross sectional density); GEO sats need to reserve enough maneuvering propellant to lift themselves up to a graveyard orbit several hundred km above their operational orbit.
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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Thanks for the info.
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Some industry experts argue that the time has come for business users to be able to steer their own destinies when it comes to application development. If everyone's a developer, no one's a developer?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Some industry experts argue that the time has come for business users to be able to steer their own destinies when it comes to application development.
Let me guess... those "experts" are the ones from marketing / sales?
If it still is difficult for us to build the bridge between what it is supposed to be said in the specifications and what the computer does... I don't want to imagine what that "steering their own destinies" would end to 
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Quote: Some industry experts argue that the time has come for business users to tell developer to just shut up and give them what they imagine; nothing is impossible!
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