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Quote: The removal of all influence of Kent Beck on software practices
God yes. I've been preaching that for years. Sadly, my followers are few (if any) and I keep being excommunicated from their temples.
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One misstep from developers at Starbucks left exposed an API key that could be used by an attacker to access internal systems and manipulate the list of authorized users. In their defense, it was spelled, "Pinky"
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To be fair, the kind of fanbois who would want to hack starbucks probably don't know how to spell API (unless they've given a slide-show presentation about them).
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First day back from break.
Quote: API key that could be used by an attacker to access internal systems
My first few thoughts were "well that can't be right? You would have to be on the internal network to access those, right?"
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2019 is almost over. Let’s reflect on how C++ changed during this time! year++;
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Kent Sharkey wrote: year++;
I was expecting a sharp comment.
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YearsRemainingAliveOnThisPlanet -- 
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Piet is an esoteric programming language where the programs are encoded as images and resemble abstract paintings. I know a program when I see it?
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If you click through to the dev's site[^], it's an interesting read about his designing/implementing it.
Mind you, the only reason I clicked through was to find if any public money had been involved, so I could bitch about it, so it spoiled my fun when I found out it was a hobby piece.
[clutching at straws mode]
But it's Pieter Mondrian, not Piet!*[clutching at straws mode]
* I live near a small town called Drachten, and was delighted to find that the Dr8888 (Dutch/Frisian pronunciation "Drachten") museum had several Rinsema originals, because he lived there, and met up with lots of his dada peers (including Mondrian) there.
Not exactly what I was expecting in cattle country.
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They have developed a Pedestrian Audio Warning System (PAWS) that seeks to alert headphone wearers of the threat posed by passing vehicles. Or... you know... you could just pay attention to your surroundings?
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Short of loud screams of "LOOK OUT!" or similar, any warnings would soon hit mental ignore lists, so would have no effect at all.
Electric shocks, on the other hand, would be much more fun to implement and test.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or... you know... you could just pay attention to your surroundings?
Exactly.
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On Monday, Microsoft announced that it had taken control of 50 domains associated with a hackers believed to be operating out of North Korea. I guess this means I have to get a new email provider?
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"The precedent has been set, your Honor. US corporations now have the right to seize any domain that they believe will help their interests, no matter who owns the domain, and under which international jurisdiction the owner falls!"
I think we can assume that the owner of hornmail.com broke no North Korean laws by owning the domain, so this is certainly a case of unjustifiable interference on foreign soil.
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So following the law and going to court and presenting your case of unlawful and illegal behavior by a third party and having an independent court agree with you is somehow "unjustifiable interference on foreign soil"? Their may have been no North Korean laws broken (which I doubt is the case and also which I doubt you know anything about NK laws), but there certainly were US Laws broken.
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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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Now, I know that plankies have a hard time understanding things like this, but I don't live in the US, so I don't GAF about US laws.
Just because something is law in the US (or China, or Iran, or North Korea, or any other country) does not mean that everyone in every country has to follow it.
The US courts can do what they like to support US greed, but they should not be allowed to affect lawful actions in other countries.
So yes, allowing a US corporation to steal a lawfully registered domain name is unjustifiable interference on foreign soil.
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Their actions weren't performed in NK, they were performed in the US, so by US law their actions are governed. Hence by US law they can be punished by US law and have whatever "property" is held by US corporations seized (the domains were registered by US corps). This is also supported by international law. So it is justified and right and lawful to seize criminal property and interfere with criminal activities.
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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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Then charges should be taken out against them for any crimes they actually committed, and, at worst, the domain names should be blocked or confiscated.
I cannot see any legal grounds for taking legally paid-for domain registrations away from a foreign national and giving them to US corporations.
If you believe that to be ethical or a valid judicial dispensation, you are mistaken.
What it is is part of the slippery slope of handing the dispensing of justice over to US corporations -- essentially putting them above the law by allowing them to profit from crimes.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: What it is is part of the slippery slope of handing the dispensing of justice over to US corporations -- essentially putting them above the law by allowing them to profit from crimes.
I agree with that. Maybe is should have been seized by the US Gov't, but something tells me you wouldn't be happy with that either.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Then charges should be taken out against them for any crimes they actually committed, and, at worst, the domain names should be blocked or confiscated.
But that is exactly what was done. Only it was civil charges and a civil confiscation under the law.
#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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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Maybe is should have been seized by the US Gov't, but something tells me you wouldn't be happy with that either.
That would have been fine; it's the courts' job to afford such protection.
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A persistent question over the past several years is which managed service providers were affected by APT10, the tenacious Chinese hacking group that has plundered organizations for three years. They do say that cloud computing is convenient for everyone
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The NCSC writes: "MSPs who are unwilling to work closely with customers or unwilling to share information with you should be treated with extreme caution."
Markie writes: "MSPs who are unwilling to work closely with customers or unwilling to share information with you should be treated with extreme caution avoided like the plague."
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Quote: Each chip was then fully programmed to perform a range of demonstrations which utilize the entanglement. The flagship demonstration was a two-chip teleportation experiment, whereby the individual quantum state of a particle is transmitted across the two chips after a quantum measurement is performed. This measurement utilizes the strange behavior of quantum physics, which simultaneously collapses the entanglement link and transfers the particle state to another particle already on the receiver chip.
Information teleported between two computer chips for the first time[^]
Wifi is on its way out!
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Beam me up Scotty
Did a little mechanic work today.
Put a rear end in a recliner!
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Quote: The team reported a teleportation success rate of 91 percent
Me? I'll wait a bit longer! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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