Natural selection, those mutations of the virus which survived were ones which didn't kill off their hosts. There are reports that the case mortality rate of Covid in Europe is lower now than it was in March.
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England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data
Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server. *Insert 'Wow... that much?' joke here*
Uncle Sam's legal eagles finally make up their mind on internet giants' Get Out Of Jail Free card – and it's not as bad as you may fear
Re: Different opinions...
It seems designed to get moderation policies pared down to the minimum as otherwise if an example is found of a social network not upholding their policy then they could be sued for it. It also seems to make it harder for social networks to remove posted URLs which point to other social networks or websites.
In other words, would Gab have any problem with this? No, because they don't have any moderation anyway. Would Twitter? Certainly.
Ancient telly borked broadband for entire Welsh village
UK Parliament's human rights committee pushes for better protections of coronavirus contact-tracing data in law
I think Google and Apple are working on Covid apps automatically generated from a relatively simple configuration file, in the hope that England will have one ready by the time the pandemic is over.
We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*
Not content with distorting actual reality, Facebook now wants to build a digital layer for the world
Oracle hosting TikTok US data. '25,000' moderators hired. Code reviews. Trump getting his cut... It's the season finale
Re: Why????
"I said I want a cut of the money to the US government because we made the deal possible."
This means:
Trump said Trump wants a cut of the money to the US government because Trump & friends made the deal possible.
And it's been in the news lately that his campaign has been hemorrhaging money.
Hopefully that makes it a bit clearer what he wants out of this.
Ever found yourself praying to whatever deity runs Microsoft Teams? You're not alone
Oracle's Java 15 rides into town, waving the 'we're number one' flag, demands 25th birthday party
Nvidia says regulators will be 'very supportive' of $40bn Arm buy despite concerns about chip designer's independence
As if you needed another reason not to use Visual Studio, C++ extension for Visual Studio Code is live
Cops called to Singapore golf club after 'wrongdoers' use scripts to book popular timeslots
Re: Is it hacking?
"Directory traversal attack to go up the tree"? If deleting the last part of a pathname off the end of a URL is illegal I think everyone here should be in the clink.
The site should serve a page or serve forbidden or redirect. Anything else like serving files which aren't supposed to be public is even more idiotic than allowing an SQL injection.
Re: Is it hacking?
Then again there was case ages ago where a guy wanted to donate to a charity and used Lynx, the transaction failed, he modified the URL in a pretty standard way to go back, and was arrested for it and I think he lost the case against BT who were managing the website. Can't find a link unfortunately, but it was reported in El Reg.
Vinyl sales top CDs for the first time in decades in America, streaming rules
Re: You are all thieves
It looks like the VHS recording of that Memorex advert was probably not on Scotch VHS tape.
Now that's a somewhat unexpected insider threat: Zoombombings mostly blamed on rogue participants, unique solution offered
Re: Binghamton
As that ever reliable source of knowledge (Wikipedia) says that Binghamton was settled in 1802 and US independence was in 1776, there's only so much that the UK is responsible for. We gave you a bunch of people and one of the commonly-spoken languages, but when a country declares independence it's generally understood to mean they get on with running their own affairs. That's why it's called Independence Day and not Dependence Day.
So if a country which has been independent for 26 years starts doing strange things with suffixes that are enough to make one's eyes bleed that's entirely their prerogative. Who is the rest of the world to intervene in internal matters? Certainly there's the argument that international action should have been taken on humanitarian grounds, but at that point in time the UN wasn't around.
Re: Binghamton
His last name probably came from Bingham, the town, in the UK.
Now how his last name (and the UK place name) Bingham became Binghamton in the US is entirely a US phenomenon, so it falls upon US commentards for an explanation.
All I can suggest is it's a word in US English that somehow got stuck forever in the 18th century, like burglarize, oftentimes, spelunking, and obligated. At least you didn't call it Binghamtonshire, because that would be too silly.
Re: How to make the experience worse than Skype
Thing is, how do you distribute per-person IDs and passwords to people without Zoom accounts (people with accounts can get an automated email). The more people without Zoom accounts that are invited to the meeting, the more tiresome it becomes for all concerned.
It might be easier just to make everyone have a Zoom account, which is where Skype is.
How to make the experience worse than Skype
One low-tech solution would be to assign unique per-person IDs and passcodes so that credential reuse can be easily spotted and banned in one go.
Would those be in addition to the meeting code and password, and Zoom account and password? Sounds pretty terrible.
What a time to be alive: Floating Apple store bobs up in Singapore
I AM ERROR: Tired of chewing up your RAM? Razer tells gamers where to stick its special gum for the RGB crowd
Re: Consumables
Don't eat the drivers that the keyboard tries to install when you plug it in, they'll give you acid indigestion.
I won't be ignored: Google to banish caller roulette with Verified Calls
US senators propose yet another problematic Section 230 shakeup: As long as someone says it on the web, you can't hide it away
Re: "People are...
Missed the edit window... By the way, in case it wasn't clear, I used 'censor' as in the typical US usage of the word, whereas other countries consider removal of hate speech as something which isn't worthy of the word 'censor' because it shouldn't be published in the first place, otherwise the impressionable and nutjobs latch onto it and it brings irreparable damage to society.
Perhaps the US view that any removal of text is censorship therefore hate speech must be published is coming home to roost now.
Re: "People are...
The US constitution does apply to non-US citizen residents, the text itself says it does and repeated precedents have clarified that. Obviously it doesn't apply to non-US citizens outside the US, but if US media corporations based in the US are subject to US law then that affects the service they offer to the rest of the world (e.g. the typical case of "so sorry your past has taught you some lessons that we haven't learnt yet, but we cannot censor hate speech for you").
Open access journals are vanishing from the web, Internet Archive stands ready to fill in the gaps
Classy move: C++ 20 wins final approval in ISO technical ballot, formal publication expected by end of year
Re: Is C++ becoming too large and complex?
C didn't even exist in the 1960s and neither did Pascal! That link was from the 1980s when both were about a decade old and people had worked out each language's weaknesses.
Anyway, I should move on, as you say. Do keep carrying on talking about the 1950s.
Re: "Competent, core language"
Hilarious. Keep on claiming Smalltalk, ALGOL, Simula, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Pascal, Oberon, etc... are all perfectly designed, that C/C++ is terribly flawed beyond redemption, that C/C++ programmers don't know they can shoot themselves in the foot, that real-world usage which is so little it doesn't get all of these languages combined out of the "Others" column means nothing and certainly not languages which are just of academic interest, and that actual real-world usage to solve real-world problems is populism. Just don't do it while I have my morning coffee please.
Re: Is C++ becoming too large and complex?
Pascal came up because you were saying the popularity of C was misplaced. I was trying to get the point across that there was no contemporary competition to C which could do the things C could do. At that time, Pascal was C's supposed competition.
I don't know, if you don't like C++ and even don't like C but cite languages like ALGOL and Pascal in other posts, it seems it's not me who's refusing to move on.
Re: Is C++ becoming too large and complex?
Nope, I was talking just about Pascal.
Apple moved away from a toy language as the moved away from a toy operating system.
The problem is that there is no standard in commercial Pascal implementations, each one solved the many and varied problems in their own way meaning there was no portability, while the language itself remained pristine and unsullied and unusable so the academics were happy.
Meanwhile, in the real world, C and C++ evolved, and all compilers supported the changes (even VC, eventually).
Re: Is C++ becoming too large and complex?
Pascal could manage a glorified bootstrapper with a GUI, which I guess is an improvement in MS-DOS, but Apple moved away from Pascal with the move towards co-operative multitasking and PowerPC.
See also Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language.
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