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Why don't they focus on fixing things instead of screwing everything even more?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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This means PCs will use Windows Hello face authentication, fingerprints, or a PIN code.
Isn't a PIN just a numerical password ? 
Personally, I'm all for this, I'm dead tired of changing passwords, forgetting them and using the "I forgot my password" button.
I'd rather be phishing!
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That's the part that I could never figure out (we were using PINs for a while, now just my fingerprint all the time). How is a 6-digit PIN more secure than a decent password?
TTFN - Kent
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TheVerge wrote: Microsoft argues that a PIN code is far more secure than a password, even if it seems more simple to use a four-digit code. This is thanks to unknown variables and the fact that the code is stored on a device and not shared online.
A decent password that is stored on a device and not shared online might be better; but they're "crusading" against the password - they can't do that by suggesting a password on a device.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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"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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Maximilien wrote: I'm dead tired of changing passwords, forgetting them and using the "I forgot my password" button.
That's what post-it notes were made for!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I am not against them bringing that, if you want to use, use it.
But hey... what if I DO want to have a password? Why can't I have it?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Well, the advantage of password is that one can change it at any moment if there is a need (e.g. it's beliefed to be leaked).
On the other hand, one maybe will be required to do a plastic surgery if one's facial data is leaked, otherwise he/she could be doomed on-line. That is a problem ...
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France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by the US, which argues that it unfairly targets American tech giants. Or because of
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Pauvre, pauvre pussychats.
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In retaliation, US should tax French Fries... 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That would lead to the opposite case of a few years ago when they were free-dom fries.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: free-dom fries
Bluddy right!
He was guilty, so he should have fried!
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Unfortunately France knows the US is blowing smoke because they don't actually make anything anybody wants. I don't ever remember buying anything or using anything that was made in France. Maybe they'll tax restaurants serving French style cuisine, French's mustard...or threaten to send over Paris Hilton.
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International Business Machines Corp. on Wednesday threw its support behind enacting a new policy to limit liability protections enjoyed by internet platforms such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. If you can't beat 'em, get the government to do it
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Whilst he is absolutely and completely right in what he says (in public), I can't help but think that maybe it's just a teensy-weensy bit possible that it's a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't worry. The Courts will question the motivation, even if the actual outcome will be both legal and sensible.
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Inheritance is one of the pillar of OOP. However, in the real world, most classes are not designed to be properly inheritable. "Our lips are sealed"
Oh, I remember those arguments. I guess people will still be having this one when I'm buried.
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I dread to think how bitchy this guy will get when he learns the word "interface".
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What's so dumb about this argument, and the parallel--make all data private--is that it assumes that whoever uses the class knows nothing about it and, apparently, barely knows how to read, let alone do programming.
Recently, I added extra [C++] code just so I could isolate an implementation in a file for the simple reason that it and it alone used some really big header files. However, to make things simple I violated some of the precious rules of OOP purists. It honestly bugged me for a second, but then I figured if someone takes advantage of this, and ignored my comment in the code, they're an idiot and deserve the sky falling on them.
Going back to .NET, the number of sealed classes irritated me. Instead of, for example, having a map of X, you have to have a map of Y, each of which contains an X, which you then make public because it's too damn irritating to create methods for all of it's methods and that ONE extra thing you need. In the end, you arguably make worse code so the purists can sit on their clouds and pat themselves on the back. (Yeah, this happens with C++ STL, but it's not as bad.)
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Sometimes, you can use extension methods to add functionality. Sometimes, you can even find the source code to the object and modify it so that it's more usable. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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that's unusually reasonable of you  upvoted.
more seriously, when you get to open-source stuff using frameWorks that incorporate other frameworks ... you may, theoretically, have all the code available, but, good luck finding the particular needle in a particular haystack that just made your code bleed.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I've had to write extension methods for my own classes - mostly to avoid regression testing chores (since the class itself didn't change, I was golden).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I like Extension Methods mucho, although I am still reluctant to write them for basic Types.
And, a library of these methods could help contribute to the quest for continuing employment, after the client realizes they need to buy them from you in order to get the feature they didn't pay you for to work ... because they weren't in the spec 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I love these all-or-nothing arguments. Actually I don’t.
Why not, instead of making a
statement that actively attacks the principles of object oriented development, he writes an article articulating issues in inheritance and outlines best practices to make things better. Or chooses a language that doesn’t allow inheritance.
Or stops writing things just to get page views.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Or stops writing things just to get page views.
Again, the effort to get rid of Kent!
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