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Analysts reviewed 13 million security incidents and found that end-of-life versions of Linux distributions were at the biggest risk. Hacking: it's not (just) for Windows
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Who'd have thought that having hundreds of different distributions of an OS would cause a problem?
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It’s unclear if CEO still thinks company can achieve Level 5 by year’s end. He's just noticing that now?
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When Elon "I will overhype anything that might make me money" Musk is skeptical, that's saying something. (Though avoiding getting sued into oblivion is one incentive.)
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I suppose that’s better than crashing into them while they’re getting someone, but how is it making that kind of a mistake?
TTFN - Kent
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They do need to disable that. It’s not something that can be solved on the shared roads, IMO. Especially not by him (or a team he has sway on)
TTFN - Kent
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More than half of users polled will actually update to Windows 11 right away, despite the wave of denial online. "Thank you, sir! May I have another?"
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I think I will wait to SP 1 or 2 as always...
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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So here come the marketing surveys. This stuff is not for us developers, it's for the masses of uninformed people.
Just for giggles I went out to Microsoft to locate the utility to tell me if my laptop will run Windows 11.
"Coming soon"
The fact that Windows 11 requires UEFI and TPM gives me a sick feeling.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote:
The fact that Windows 11 requires UEFI and TPM gives me a sick feeling.
Why? I find, that it makes easier the decission of ignoring it for a while  
M.D.V.
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Prior to UEFI, I could easily image a drive using a disk duplicator. No longer. Worse, no one has a single repository of how to make it work with backups. I went through 4 backup companies before just giving up and re-installing Windows. The support was worse than Microsoft's and Microsoft's universally SUCKS.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Prior to UEFI, I could easily image a drive using a disk duplicator
I have always done it, and hope they really are not that dumb to block it.
M.D.V.
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This was pre-Christmas 2020 or 2019, I forget. Maybe it's been improved. I understand the need for UEFI, but honestly, the biggest problem with PC security are not root kits - it's Microsoft.
Root kits are such a small attack vector compared to the blatant incompetence of Microsoft to secure their OS. I only need to cite the recent reports of installing mouse software as a vector to fully privileged access of a machine.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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People love the rounded corners of Windows 11, but fewer people discuss its rounded sounds. Just wait until you hear what they did with the wah-wah pedal
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It's all thanks to more well rounded code and developers! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: more well rounded ... developers
COVID pounds, because they don't even have to walk to the car to go to work...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Normally I'm grumpy if an "article" turns out to just be a wrapper for a video. But that "article" is mostly worthless without a video/audio file attached. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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
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From Ken Thompson[^] at his Turing Award Lecture in August 1984.
This short lecture (3 pages) may explain why it is virtually impossible to secure systems.
[-- Includes C code examples and is very short but the author really makes a solid point. --]
Especially interesting in this time of open-source.
Reflections on Trusting Trust[^] (acm.org is Association for Computing Machinery)
subtitle To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses. Perhaps It IS more Important to trust the people who wrote the software.
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Is it just me or are the figures in that paper numbered incorrectly?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Is it just me or are the figures in that paper numbered incorrectly?
Security breach! Trojan horse! 
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To mark the rover’s ninth year on Mars, NASA has created a 360-degree tour of Curiosity’s current home on Mount Sharp. "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids"
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Amazing shots.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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