I mean, why should people have to buy V-Buck from Fortnite and go through Fortnite's storefront to get cosmetic items. Fortnite will most assuredly provide options for third parties to sell items to Fortnite users directly and bypass the V-Buck tax, right? Otherwise they might be holding a monopoly on access to the valuable market of Fortnite players!

From the 'Awesome Falsehood' list -- https://github.com/kdeldycke/a...

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"Web Bluetooth - Allows websites to connect to nearby Bluetooth LE devices."

I have to admit, this sounds like a really, really bad idea on the face of it. I can appreciate that it certainly opens up some interesting potential functionality, but I doubt OS security models are up to this. That is, even if the web browser is sandboxed, if a website can connect to Bluetooth devices outside of the security sandbox, then the OS should put the Bluetooth device in them same sandbox as well.

I certainly wouldn't want to use a Bluetooth LE keyboard with a web browser if a website might be able to directly connect to the keyboard.

Someone just got lazy and copy and pasted some copies of the same galaxies in the background image rather than creating them all individually.

It’s a Zen Buddhist noir romance comedy murder mystery koan.

Also the movie version of “Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead”

Plus: Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Undead

Now, when there is a security breach, there will be one standard format of personal data for criminal and intelligence agencies to process. This will streamline the process of mass identity theft and dissident profiling and improve efficiency.

The new DTP standard will no doubt include a recommended machine learning front-end to easily allow organizations to slurp up people's information in a standardized way, correlate identities across different services, and target them with advertising, thus improving advertising revenue. When users allow the 'share my data with 3rd parties' option, now there will be a standard format for the data to be shared, allowing a greater proliferation of services ready to consume it.

(Yes, this is mild sarcasm.)

You know, "This one weird trick can save you from silent career killers! Just sign up for our seminar, hire our career coach, etc. to learn more."

Definitely can ruin your life.

Yeah. I think it's not so much just the 20 years, it's just that I remember how *cool* everything felt when slashdot was new, and in comparison everything really feels old now.

Insofar as the Intel Compute Card was a solution looking for a problem, this might be a problem it could be a solution for, though a little more heavy-weight then just taking a SD card or USB stick.

I'll be shocked when I can believe the virtual reality business is a real thing instead of just hype.

The Mythical Man Month - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Death March (2nd Edition) - Edward Yourdon

>> Their goal was to make a system capable of mimicking the knowledge and intuition of human security analysts so that attacks can be detected in real time.

Did they manage to avoid mimicking all the foolishness and gullibility of human security analysts, too?

>> The platform can go through millions of events per day and can make an increasingly better evaluation of whether they are anomalous, malicious or benign.

So, based on this, it sounds like the 'quality' of the service depends on parsing data supplied by (hostile) outside sources. If the system cannot tell when people are deliberately poisoning its knowledge base with feints and false messages, then what? Human supervision? If it needs human security analysts anyways, how much does it gain?

Speaking of IPv6 'features' - was any solution to IPv6 multihoming actually rolled out?

Using sodium ions?

So, they would be (re)charged with "a salt in battery"?

A system needs to be able to remember what it is supposed to forget in order to make sure it is forgotten.

Imagine a waiter robot that is supposed to go into a room and make sure it gets everyone's order:
a) Enters room, goes from person to person, asks drink preferences.
b) John Doe tells robot: "I don't want you to track my preferences. Forget everything about me!"
c) Robot obeys and continues on.
d) Prior to exiting the room, the robot verifies it has gotten everyone's preferences.
e) Robot sees John Doe. Robot has no record of John Doe because it has forgotten everything about John Doe. The robot must get the preferences of everyone in the room.
f) Robot asks John Doe for his drink preferences.
g) Goto b).

The systems have to remember that they aren't allowed to (re)learn the data that they are supposed to have forgotten, which means they cannot completely forget things - the information is always there.