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That is the San Graal for MS. No provable bug 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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A variant of the Power Worm ransomware is infecting computers, encrypting their data files, and throwing away the encryption key, all because of an error in the malware's programming. Do they offer a rebate on the ransom then?
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Lovely. Buggy malware, and they only accept BitCoin for the ransom. Hah, what uses the inventors of BitCoin never dreamed of.
Marc
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What is great now, it is that all ransomware will have to prove that they didn't discard the key before getting paid. 
The business model is getting fun.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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AIUI most of them do let you have a few files for free to prove they can get your stuff back. If you can figure out how to buy a bitcoin before their deadline runs out anyway.  
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The Internet was supposed to democratize and open up information, commerce and communication. But so far, the spoils are going to a relative few. Sadly, I'm not one of them
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Same as online sex I'd say.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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The emergence, by mergers, acquisitions, ruthless business competition, of "super-sites" and "online super-stores:" isn't this just the latest variation on the old theme of "mom and pop local ... fill in the blank ..." replaced by ... fill in the blank ... ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Coding bootcamps have been so successful that observers have wondered whether these programs are beginning to replace traditional college computer science degrees. As we all know, a 12 week stint will teach you everything you need to know about programming
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I do Excel sheets with formulas, I am a programmer 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Only if managers hire such inexperienced drones.
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Heck, life should replace college degrees. Every 10 years, you should earn a new degree automatically.
Marc
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I get more degrees in the summer.
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Marc Clifton wrote: you should earn a new degree automatically
I have been getting the third degree more than once every ten years.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I'd really like to see some first-person accounts by people who've attended various boot-camps about what the experience was like, how they evaluate what (if anything) they learned from it.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I really wish they'd've shown a longer period for CS degree rates. The big peak around 02-03 corresponds to people who entered CS programs near the peak of y2k and the dotcom bubble, with the slump afterwards fitting with the dot bomb and resulting job shortage. Going back into the 90s would be helpful to see if the period approaching the peak was steady growth or stablish feeding into the bubble peak. On the other end, talking about the situation today while only having data going to 2012 tends to hurt your credibility. 2013 data should have been available for a while, and I'd be surprised if 2014 data hadn't been finalized by now too.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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In a spot of bad news for privacy advocates, the FCC explained today that it will not force websites to accept "Do Not Track" requests, which are used to ask websites to not follow visitors around the web through advertising networks and analytics services. Maybe they should add another checkbox for, "Pretty please, with sugar on top?"
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It would be unenforcable anyway. How can a company prove they're not doing it?
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I've always thought this DNT idiocy was "invented" to catch gullible punters anyway.
Unenforceable, useless, etc. isn't even a consideration. It's more like: "Oh so you don't want any spam? Well ... just for that we'll FOCUS ON YOU, now we 'know' who to target!" Same reason (in reverse) add-blockers are actually to add-agency's betterment - they need not pay for those ads to "customers" who'd most likely see it as negative advertising.
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That's ok; Privacy Badger[^] detects any 3rd party that's trying to track me and completely blocks them for doing so. 
At home anyway; I ran into a bunch of weirdness with random stuff being missing on pages at work. I'm tentatively blaming their security proxy since it wouldn't be the first time they horked stuff up.  I'm still using disconnect there; but a decent amount of crap isn't coming through even with it and ABP turned off. No clue if the stuff going missing even when I'm not filtering is being intentionally blocked, or if is more evidence of bluecoat being a steaming POS but I'm not complaining either way.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Interesting!
Scientists on the verge of finding Queen Nefertiti's secret tomb: Heat detectors pick up chamber that could be secret room at the center of archaeologists sensational claims
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New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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Exactly and he certainly had his share of toys buried with him.
Will the secret chamber expose the real Tut? What was he really into? 
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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Is that where the grain was stored? 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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