In other news today...
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Trigger warning: English women
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@coldandtired Ah, you beat @PJH to it this year.
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@dkf In short: While you shouldn't eat raw meat of your freshly-shot deer (only well-done), it's also probably less filled with antibiotics :)
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
I'm puzzled as to how this works, since isn't the penis held erect by blood pressure? All fluids would be been removed, so how was this accomplished?
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@tsaukpaetra it's a mummy, it's like a stuffed animal, but uglier
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra it's a mummy, it's like a stuffed animal, but uglier
So?
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@tsaukpaetra they could have replaced the pressured blood with anything, like cotton or styrofoam balls
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
styrofoam balls
Totally a technology available to them at the time
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@tsaukpaetra the article doesn't say when they did it
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
styrofoam balls
Totally a technology available to them at the time
I doubt they had cotton either.
Mashed-up papyrus, most likely.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
I doubt they had cotton either.
Maybe. Cotton was known in Neolithic times, and was cultivated as early as 3300 BC in the Indus Valley, and perhaps even earlier in Persia. Columbia Encyclopedia says, "It clothed the people of ancient India, Egypt, and China," but it is not clear (from 5 minutes of research on Wikipedia) how ancient "ancient Egypt" was. It wasn't known to the nearby Greeks and Arabs until ~330 BC. (Tutankhamun died about 1323 BC.)
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra the article doesn't say when they did it
Queue joke about exhuming dead people just to post-humously erect a penis.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Cotton was known in Neolithic times
And there are various other plants that produce cotton-like fibres.
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Coming soon to a programming studio near you... JAaaS
It's still early days – Ubisoft is "only starting to pollinate" Commit Assistant to its development teams and, so far, there's no usage data on how much it's impacting game creation. There's also the human factor to account for: Will developers want an AI poking through their code and effectively saying "you're doing it wrong"?
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@izzion It looks like you're missing a few key gameplay mechanics. Would you like help with that?
- Take the additional time and effort to release a functional game
- Leave it as is because you're Ubisoft and it's practically your trademark
- Release them as $20 day-one DLC
Seriously. Please, please, please let the test results manifest as Clippy saying something.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
I think this is the first example of the fallout from repealing net neutrality.
Told you so @boomzilla
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
So tell me again, how hard is it to move to a different state?
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@jbert Or to install DotVPN?
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
@dragoon said in In other news today...:
So tell me again, how hard is it to move to a different state?
I change states quite often...
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@jbert said in In other news today...:
@dragoon said in In other news today...:
So tell me again, how hard is it to move to a different state?
I change states quite often...
From solid to liquid and back to solid again?
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@jbert said in In other news today...:
@dragoon said in In other news today...:
So tell me again, how hard is it to move to a different state?
I change states quite often...
From solid to liquid and back to solid again?
Sometimes. Other times from stupid to skillfull to enlightened to retarded to normal to lambastic and back again.
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@boner It's like a CAPTCHA, but for pedophiles.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Coming soon to a programming studio near you... JAaaS
It's still early days – Ubisoft is "only starting to pollinate" Commit Assistant to its development teams and, so far, there's no usage data on how much it's impacting game creation. There's also the human factor to account for: Will developers want an AI poking through their code and effectively saying "you're doing it wrong"?
Sounds interesting, but what a crap article. It doesn't tell you what the thing is at all. There is some talk of functional testing using AI which sounds fairly normal, get a bot to try your game and look for crashes/it getting suck/inability to reach a goal state etc..
But then it talks about code analysis, so is it a fancy linter as well? Or can it work much deeper and identify really interesting problems like bounding issues caused by gradual loss of precision though a structure?Next up: a car review. It has some wheels, possibly an engine, and it looks awesome! We made a cool video to tell you all about it* (*video is animated and does not show actual car or detail specific car in any way).
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@cursorkeys
I mean, it did specifically call out "La Forge fed Commit Assistant with roughly ten years' worth of code from across Ubisoft's software library, allowing it to learn where mistakes have historically been made, reference any corrections that were applied, and predict when a coder may be about to write a similar bug." Like all such "Artifical Intelligence"s, it's basically a big data pattern matching system. It goes through the mistakes they've made before, and provides a Clippy notice that "hey, dumbass, that's a stupid way to code".
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@polygeekery I would have expected it to be her kid's underwear.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
http://uk.businessinsider.com/facebook-survey-asks-users-about-child-grooming-2018-3
:golfclap:
Are they asking if people would like Facebook to allow predators to use FB chat to groom kids? Or are they asking if their content policy should allow someone to post a screenshot of that convo, to expose the predator?
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PHP is dying, W3Techs confirms it
https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/05/wordpress-now-powers-30-of-websites/
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First tier security research right here...
(all emphasis mine)
The lead:Academics from the University of Michigan have shown that one single malicious car could trick US-based smart traffic control systems into believing an intersection is full and force the traffic control algorithm to alter its normal behavior
But the Michigan research team says the I-SIG system in its current default configuration is vulnerable to basic data spoofing attacks.
The moneyshot quote:
"Based on our analysis, even though the I-SIG system has shown high effectiveness in reducing traffic delay in benign settings, the current algorithm design and configuration choices are highly vulnerable to data spoofing, and even the data from one single attack vehicle is able to manipulate the traffic control to a great extent, causing massive congestion," researchers say.
The buried lede:
It is unclear how a threat actor might use the vulnerabilities discovered by the Michigan research team, as it would take them thousands of malicious cars spread across a city for long periods of time to incur any real economical damages to the local business sector.
Oh, and their analysis was 100% a computer simulation. Using the aforementioned defaults for the simulated I-SIG system. So no live POC at all. Stop the presses! Show stopping bug found in system that has only been deployed to 6 cities, in preliminary rollout / testing phases only! And it's not even real world exploitable! :crowd_running_screaming_in_terror:
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@jbert said in In other news today...:
@dragoon said in In other news today...:
So tell me again, how hard is it to move to a different state?
I change states quite often...
From solid to liquid and back to solid again?
Sometimes. Other times from stupid to skillfull to enlightened to retarded to normal to lambastic and back again.
I do too. Beer to more beer to more beer to more beer to puke to hung over and back again.
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@dcon
#retirementLife
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An interesting bit of news from my neck of the woods.
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Actually from a couple of days ago, but I just saw it today:
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen has discovered the wreck of the USS Lexington, an aircraft carrier sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
It was hopelessly damaged by the IJN during the battle of the Coral Sea. It was sunk by a US Navy destroyer after the surviving crew abandoned ship to prevent its possible capture by the IJN.
Also note, the Lexington that was sunk in 1942 (CV-2) was launched in 1922. It was replaced by a new carrier named Lexington (CV-17), then under construction, when it was launched in early 1943. The newer Lexington was the fifth USN ship to bear the name, and survives as a museum ship in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
http://uk.businessinsider.com/facebook-survey-asks-users-about-child-grooming-2018-3
:golfclap:
https://pics.me.me/why-would-a-rats-should-be-ashamed-fly-land-on-4086963.png
Facebook should make their honeypots less obvious.
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Thanks for your help, Cortana
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@boner That is some epic bowel control.
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@timebandit
I think, at this point, it would be more surprising to read about software that doesn't have a hardcodedNSA access pointpassword in it.
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