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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The problem is, if you are on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Nepal, and want to check your bank account, your proposed authentication system fails.
Not if they have an unbroken audit track from your home to Nepal...which they probably will.
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So what? Most of this is public record.
BTW, when I worked as a contractor briefly for a company, I had access to the entire RNC database without so much as a "please give me access." Granted, the data was slightly stale (from a couple years ago). But sure enough, I was in it, my voting history, my gf was in it, etc.
Marc
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Posted yesterday[^]
On the next page.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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When you begin to boil it down, there are a variety of hidden risks to consider when deciding to build an in-house solution. "The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more"
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In-house (when possible) will still be better than off-the-shelf.
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When properly built and supported, agreed.
We've got six (that I know of) CMS tools currently in use at one customer that I would use as counter-examples, though.
TTFN - Kent
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Better than three off-the-shelf ones I bet.
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As we're talking CMSes, I'm afraid you're definitely right. 
TTFN - Kent
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In-house solutions do require careful selection and grooming of a scapegoat to be used after release.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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As are also numerous risks when buying COTS. The other alternative (contracting the work out), which I was a victim of on the "we're getting rid of our in-house development" and have benefited from on the other end "we just got a contract from company X to do ABC", is one alternative that management likes best because they can insentivize and threaten, depending on the mood of the day, the contractor.
Marc
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This year has made clearer than ever before that this Internet of Things introduces all the vulnerabilities of the digital world into our real world. Who will protect our things?
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You think?
Come ask me, I know what's stupid. IOT is one.
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No one will protect anything, when all the beer is piss warm, all your lights blink on and off and every last speaker plays Rick Astley Captain Hindsight will be there to tell you that you shouldn't have chipped those beer bottles.
While I do like the idea of interconnectivity at home to help big data it will be harder to protect everything the more items you have.
I think the best way would be to have IoTs connected to a controller which is as secured as possibly. Separating items that are critical from the internet and only allowing updates/access manually. But that would take work and most people are against work, if it isn't plug and play it isn't worth buying...
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Laura Jacques and Richard Remde received news of second dog’s birth on Monday morning after paying £67,000 to South Korean cloning firm "They were all beautiful little boys"
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How did two people who seem to have so little sense manage to amass so much money in the first place?
(Before we get two sentimental - they cloned an animal that died of a genetically linked cause using a technique known to increase the risk of tumours... )
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And to think, how that money could have been used to help an orphanage.
Marc
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How can programmers benefit from the “the year of Neural Nets”? It looks like you're trying to write some code. Would you like me to distract you from that?
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For many, messaging app-based chatbots will replace search engines and virtual assistants. And friends. "I can understand how the limited perspective of an unartificial mind might perceive it that way. You'll get used to it."
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One of the excellent features of new Windows devices is that disk encryption is built-in and turned on by default, protecting your data in case your device is lost or stolen. But what is less well-known is that, if you are like most users and login to Windows 10 using your Microsoft account, your computer automatically uploaded a copy of your recovery key – which can be used to unlock your encrypted disk – to Microsoft’s servers, probably without your knowledge and without an option to opt-out. That's OK, we can trust them, right?
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Pro and Enterprise both include device encryption, and they also include BitLocker, which started to become available during Windows Vista, but only for the premium editions.
So... anyone buying Windows 10 Professional must be assumed to be up to no good, right? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I consult on a lot of legacy rescue efforts that will need to involve refactoring, and people in and around those efforts tend to think of “refactor” as “massive cleanup effort.” refactored This needs words the blurb
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One of the things I have learnt in my journey through this industry (which may not be the typical path so should not be considered "evidence") is that source code rots.
In particular it rots when buried - i.e. when nobody is looking at it. A constant cycle of refactoring improves code by basically preventing any of it remaining buried for long enough to rot too badly.
Also - refactoring without testing is a bad idea (I hope commonly accepted as such?) so when you get developers refactoring they usually also add more unit tests. This is a good outcome.
Now I would also caution that there is a form of bias here because when a project is in a state that the project team have had to engage the services of a consultant who has a background in legacy project rescues it stands to reason that those projects will be more of a mess than the average and the less drastic solutions than a "massive cleanup effort" have probably already been tried..?
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Many big tech companies—absent Apple—are throwing weight behind a browser-based world. Right after they make desktop apps obsolete
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And after they stop changing and deprecating all the good ones every five minutes
i cri evry tiem
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Massive database exposed to public, major political data managers deny ownership I'm not sure that's what they mean by "open government"
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