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  1. Re:No Microsoft IDE will ever be as usable as VB6 on Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2019 For Windows and Mac (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    .NET has been cross platform from release 1.0. Microsoft, HP and Intel formally submitted an open specification for the .NET CLI (which is the specification for implementing a .NET runtime for any platform) to ECMA back in 2001. To say there was no cross platform support before .NET core is misleading, the actual wording you've used "officially cross platform" as far as I'm concerned it was officially cross platform when the ECMA-335 standard was first ratified in 2003.

    In terms of actual cross platform support, before .NET Core previous versions of the framework have been available for Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, Mono on Linux and Mac, it's also used in Unity, which based on .NET offered game development for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux, it was also used in Xamarin, which too offers app development for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone.

    Just because there isn't a complete implementation for every platform does not mean it is not cross platform.

    I think you misunderstand what .NET Core is. It's really a reboot of the platform, leaner and more fine tuned for today's requirements, forgoing backwards compatibility with previous versions of the framework.

    There is some effort to consolidate different implementations of the CLI using .NET standard assemblies, but that again is really separate to .NET core as you're supposed to be able to use .NET standard across multiple runtimes which includes but is not exclusive to .NET Core.

  2. What are they open sourcing.. ? on Goldman Sachs Will Open-Source Some Of Its Trading Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a paywall on the article. I'm not sure but perhaps the article is referring to this blog from 2017...

    https://www.goldmansachs.com/c...

    If you read through it, they're open sourcing their plumbing. There's no analytical components listed, just propriety systems they created for which equivalent technologies already exist.

    In any case the access to real time market data is far more valuable than the intellectual property of the software processing it. Companies like Goldman Sachs know that their true advantage is their ability to buy and sell before anyone else has a chance purely because of the physical network connections these sorts of companies enjoy. They could give away all their software, it may allow you to garnish some insights on how they operate but it wouldn't reduce their competitive advantage.

  3. Re:No blockchain assisted code completion? on Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2019 For Windows and Mac (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Re:No Microsoft IDE will ever be as usable as VB6 on Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2019 For Windows and Mac (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    This is absolutely hilarious and total utter BS.... Visual Basic 6 better than Visual Studio and .NET !!?

    And what could you do with VB6? windows apps? Console Apps? Answer: In summary almost nothing,

    OK yes in it's day it was pretty good. At that time, I actually much preferred Delphi, which funnily enough was created by Anders Hejlsberg, the same man that Microsoft recruited to bring us .NET.

    MS .NET is cross platform and you can use it for pretty much any kind of application you can think of.

    There's nothing you could do in VB6 that you can't do better and faster in Visual Studio and .NET. Including multi-dimensional arrays of "database objects" and "true debugging"...

  5. Yes... on Death Metal Music Inspires Joy Not Violence, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The joy of violence!

  6. Why all the fuss? on Google Hired Microworkers To Train Its Controversial Project Maven AI (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sure, the gig economy, paying $1 is definitely wrong, but I don't understand what the big issue about companies like google working with the Defense Department.

    The defence department takes a huge percentage of the US government budget, it's actually a very good thing if that money is spent developing non-offensive technology. Just because the defence department finances a project, doesn't mean its going to end up being used to kill people.

    If it weren't for US defence dollars, the internet wouldn't even exist. There's a substantial amount hypocrisy in play for people working for google... a company that wouldn't exist without the internet protesting against taking defence department dollars.

  7. Re:Good angle though on YouTube Strikes Now Being Used As Scammers' Extortion Tool (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    No matter what the form, extortion is illegal though.

    The first I would do if I was the youtuber would be to report the extortion to the fbi or police. If the youtuber can't get a response from Google I'm sure the FBI would.

  8. Maybe it could, by analysing present day trends and extrapolating on them. And who's to say AI won't be responsible for changing them?

    Statements about technology that include the words "No" and "Never" have often ended seeming silly in hindsight.

  9. As probably do most other VPNs.... on Facebook Pays Teens To Install VPN That Spies On Them (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I've always wondered about the wisdom of people paying for access to VPNs to hide their nefarious activities (mostly downloading GOT). Have these people not heard of man in the middle attacks? By using any VPN aren't you introducing a man in the middle? If you were running a VPN would you not be logging all the activity and thinking of ways of monetising it or gaining other insights?

  10. Microdosing LSD on Study Shows How LSD Interferes With Brain's Signaling (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Reading that makes microdosing LSD sound little less crazy than you many might have thought.

  11. Re:The Free Market has spoken on Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The Free Market will be the death of this planet. All the Free Market is going to do is measure it's demise.

  12. Last Win OS with Windows Media Center on Windows 7 Enters Its Final Year of Free Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I've been using Windows Media Center since the 90s to record free to air tv programs.

    I'm wondering if anyone else out there has used or is using Windows Media Center. If so has anyone found better alternatives?

    Windows 7 was the last OS which came with Windows Media Center, otherwise I'd probably have just upgraded the system.

  13. Re:Use two emails: private & public on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Manage Your Inbox? (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    A good system. I thought of doing the same thing, but then I decided I really don't care who sells me out, or whose data was breached, leaked or copied etc, so I save myself the hassle of opening a new account every time I need to submit an email. I just have a few accounts, the two main ones are:-

    * the decoy account used for anything I don't care about or likely to pull spam
    * the other is your private email account.

    But good on you for having such diligence, I hope you notify these companies when they "sell you out" I bet about 95% of the time they're totally unaware that their emails have been harvested by spammers.

    However there's a flaw in your system, I'm betting if you make the email address that obvious that it is specific to a company, a good hacker will do one of two things... they'll have a script which either removes the email from their spam list or adds a bunch of others guessing your other email accounts. You might want to randomise your email addresses a bit more and record them in a password manager like keepass or lastpass.

  14. This is the moronic credo of the climate science denier that until every possible variable is accounted for that there's doubt and therefore no cause to act. Of course in an infinitely complex analogue system this is impossible, if the same criteria were applied to every other endeavour humanity has undertaken we would still be in the stone age and if we listen to these morons that's exactly where we'll return.

  15. Mammoth Debt... on AT&T Preps For New Layoffs Despite Billions In Tax Breaks and Regulatory Favors (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The poster fails to mention the $180B debt that at & t currently has and that as interest rates rise there's a substantial risk that the company could go bankrupt and need a bail out. They've already publicly committed to reducing their debt load by $20B in 2019. They'll probably need to do a lot more to survive the next big credit crunch.

  16. Office is dead! on Microsoft Is Readying a Consumer Microsoft 365 Subscription Bundle (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Long live office!

  17. Re:Stupid Tax on Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams (sans.edu) · · Score: 1

    So in case you weren't in disbelief that you're actually in direct contact with this world famous woman, or in case you might not be a little incredulous about the possibility you bribe a Canadian official to get her out, presuming you believe all that, they throw in for good measure that she might also like to have sexual relations with you. Seriously?

    This story is either a fabrication, or the scammers are deliberately trying to tip off their own marks. Perhaps as you suggest the scammers are trying to alleviate their consciences by ensuring their marks really deserve to be scammed.

  18. Re:It's not only chips on TSMC, a Company Few Americans Know, is About To Dethrone Intel (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Initially, the engine is likely to be supplied by Rolls-Royce or General Electric that already have products in this class.

    And the most expensive part of the plane will still be made in the US or Britain, as will probably most of the other components that you would attach to these engines.

    And also I fail to see what the C929 has to do with TSMC. Plus Taiwan and China are currently very different places / political bodies.

  19. Research paper suggests this was deliberate on Nigerian Firm Takes Blame For Routing Google Traffic Through China (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This article discusses the following research paper which analyses China's efforts to gain the capabilities that brought google down...

    https://scholarcommons.usf.edu... ....whilst minimising the opportunity of the US and the west to create a similar attack against China.

  20. Re:No such thing as true artificial intelligence on Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Is there a difference between a machine that can mimic intelligence so well that it's indistinguishable from real intelligence? Machine learning has proven it can discover solutions to problems that would have been hard to produce with a first principles approach. A common fallacy with AI is that true AI needn't necessarily be comparable to human intelligence, it will most probably be totally unlike human intelligence. And what do you define as intelligence anyway? A human's ? A dog's? A stick insect? Bacteria? It's totally subjective.

  21. The world without tech developed for the military on In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Well.. if we had a time machine and went applied this logic to retrospectively undevelop all the technology that exists today that was originally created for the military we would missing a lot of really important stuff e.g...

    * Computers
    * The Internet
    * GPS
    * Duct tape
    * Drones
    * Radar
    * Microwave ovens
    etc etc

  22. Re:There's no such thing as a free lunch. on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    And there's no costs involved in mining coal or building a coal fired power plant?

  23. Typical of Trumps America on Face Scanning In US Airports Is Rife With Technical Problems (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    and there were problems 'consistently' matching people from specific age groups and countries."

    So basically the system is ageist and racist

  24. Ad-free for everyone or just iPhones?. on Apple Completes Shazam Acquisition, Will Make App Ad-Free For Everyone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they'll keep supporting Android and whether the android version will be ad-free. Or if they'll remove Spotify integration from Shazam. I don't see this as a "feel good... oh that's great" story for a lot of Shazam's user base. I think this is only good news for the likes of SoundHound and others who will likely see a spike in adoptions as Shazam gets Applefied...

    https://beebom.com/shazam-alte...

  25. Re:Coding error? yeah sure blame the programmer. on Coding Error Sends 2019 Subaru Ascents To the Car Crusher (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    +1 whoever trained the robots made the mistake. It was human error not robotic error, the robot did exactly what it was trained to do. At this stage of the game training a robot is a very exact meticulous process. Something like welding a car involves a process with no variation. The real fun and games will begin when people begin attempting to train artificially intelligent robots to perform tasks which are less exact and more organic in nature.