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The biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple's TouchID using easy everyday means. A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s secured with TouchID. This demonstrates – again – that fingerprint biometrics is unsuitable as access control method and should be avoided. If you see someone photographing your fingerprints, keep them away from your iPhone
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Microsoft is pushing ahead with a Windows strategy that would have a unified code base that runs from smartphones to servers I bet you thought I was going to do, "And in the darkness bind them" didn't you?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I bet you thought I was going to do, "And in the daorkness bind them" didn't you?
FTFY
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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From a slightly less snarkastic point of view that my last post, is this a round about way of saying that Win9/WP9 will be full of breaking API changes again in order to merge the two codebases more thoroughly?
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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Seems a reasonable interpretation. Or at least a "portable" subset that limits you to phone-grade capabilities.
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TTFN - Kent
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.net added a portable subset in 4.0. I spent a morning playing with them in an attempt to get a code analysis tool that only worked with them running; but the code in question broke in too many places due IIRC to dependencies not in the portable subset to make it a plausible effort without major refactoring: Some of it was on my round tuit enhancement list; but a lot of other stuff would've needed major changes to be made. AFAIK the biggest breaking changes MS would need to greatly merge development would be in the metro UI classes being different between device types.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/gg597391%28v=vs.100%29.aspx[^]
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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A group of LinkedIn users are suing the social networking site for allegedly hacking into their email accounts. In a complaint filed in a San Jose federal court this week, the users accuse LinkedIn of accessing their email so the company can mine out a list of contacts and send spam-like emails. The suit claims that "Linkedln is able to download these addresses without requesting the password for the external email accounts or obtaining users' consent." "Relationships matter"
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Activate your MSDN Benefits, create and deploy a Windows Azure Web Site or Windows Azure Virtual Machine, and we’ll automatically enroll you in the sweepstakes draw and if you are lucky you might drive away in your very own 2013 Aston Martin V8 Vantage. Microsoft would reeeeeeeaaaaalllly be happy if you tried Azure
Seems a no-brainer if you have an MSDN subscription.
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For Microsoft, Windows Vista took priority over Mobile. Years later, Steve Ballmer regrets that decision. How did that Vista thing turn out?
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Power Tools are a set of enhancements, tools, and command-line utilities that increase productivity of Team Foundation Server scenarios. Dribs and drabs for your check-ins and outs
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A collection of resources Works for older "kids" too
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Does Google have a search monopoly, or is Microsoft in denial that no one prefers Bing? Chutzpah (noun, informal): shameless audacity; impudence.
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I only use Bing; never that other company.
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Like iOS 6.1 before it, the latest version of iOS has shipped with a security loophole. The iOS 7 update, rolled out yesterday, allows users to bypass an iPhone or iPad lockscreen with a tricky maneuver that offers access to a user's photos, email, text messages, Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter accounts. Think different bugs
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I guess it is a pretty standard thing that they have this 'bypass the lockscreen' bug - Is it the third or already the fourth time they have this one sneaking into their glossy system?
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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The Minnowboard: More expensive, more powerful, more open. I could be wrong, but it looks like you could run Windows on it (or at least walk it)
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I don't see how something that costs nearly 6x as much is really a competitor. It seems like a lot of the draw to the Raspberry Pi was the price. 
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They're really pushing the openness, but I don't really see that either. The Pi is pretty well documented IMO. The only real benefit that I can see is that it's an Atom, rather than an ARM chip, so x86 code will work on it.
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In addition to that, it seems like you can connect a SATA HDD to it, which I actually prefer over SDCards.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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Aliens do exist and have been found living in the clouds above the Peak District, according to new claims by scientists. Hopefully there were no probes involved in his research
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Excellently refuted in The Guardian[^] earlier this week.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Beta developers like the thrust of iOS 7 and see a platform that gives them a chance to refresh their value to users Flat doesn't mean you can't be funky
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In an aggressive move to compete with Microsoft, Google today made document editing software QuickOffice free for iOS and Android. The professional version of the software, which previously called $19.99, allows users to edit Microsoft Office documents on their mobile devices. Be prepared for adverts in your presentations
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On Thursday, Microsoft will try to explain what being a "devices and services" company means for a company that most people think of as a software company first and foremost — and the world’s largest software maker, at that. Ignore those two parts of the company that make all the money, we'd like to sell you a Surface and SharePoint subscription.
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Just as Apple's iPhone 5S is about get into the hands of consumers, hackers offer a growing bounty to whoever hacks Apple's fingerprint scanner. Give a finger, take a finger
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