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If your app handles user data, then secure authentication should be one of your primary concerns. Identity management is a hard thing to do well, involving encryption, reset mechanisms, and other security measures. It's better than an unencrypted password column
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's better than an unencrypted password column
But not by much:
Quote: In December, a sample app implementation for Microsoft Passport was published up on GitHub to demonstrate how this entire process works, including both the client and the server pieces. However, keep in mind that this Microsoft Passport sample is greatly simplified. It is not secure enough for a production environment
Oh Elephant! That's not going to end well.
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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We've previously wondered when Apple would join virtually everybody else in tech and start thinking seriously about creating a VR product. Mental note: invest in anti-nausea pills
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Microsoft previews Azure Stack, a private cloud configuration which is actually public Azure in a box. Then you can tell people to get off of it
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If I recall correctly you need something like a 1400 CPU server farm...so it will be a pretty big (and hot) box.
Basically this is for large companies naive enough to think that hosting their own servers will keep the spooks out of the data.
It won't.
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Now Azure private cloud make sense. It was so illusion
Wonde Tadesse
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More clouds in the Azure sky.
Storm is coming.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Wow! So if I have four servers to host my system, now I can complicate it over by adding the Azure Stack layer...fascinating...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Quote: Ars Technica[^]
Going forward, the company says that using the latest generation processors will always require the latest generation operating system
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The company's official reason for this change is a little opaque
That gives still over a year to learn linux.
Quote: As an example today, Windows 7 has no built-in support for USB 3, and downgrading a Windows 10 system to Windows 7 may, without additional drivers, mean sacrificing USB 3 support.
Drivers are out there...
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft and their threats.
They used to be nice to us.
I wonder what ultimately they're going to do to y'all once they feel they have sufficient victims to loose a few when they drop the bomb.
My windows 10 technical preview sat dormant on a forsaken laptop here in the shop.
I was Tib-ing (Acronis backup) my dev laptop so I grabbed the win 10 TP laptop and when I started it I was presented with:
c:\windows\system32\winload.exe is expired.
Ah ha.
That's a way to hook you into recurring revenue now huh.
I'll see my way out....
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In other news, David Bowie is dead[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Damm... I knew I had read something about, but I saw the other message a bit newer about the list of processors and thought... this is my opportunity
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: That gives still over a year to learn linux.
Already started. Bought a new laptop about a month ago. Day one, wiped the OS and installed Mint, and have been slowly learning my way around it.
And with JetBrains announcing a new C# IDE in the works, about the only thing I'll need a dedicated Win box for in the future might be the occasional game.
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When it comes to programming, our assumptions give us blind spots. "You know what happens when you assume, right?"
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Like the assumption that the customer is always right? 
Marc
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DARPA: Today’s best brain-computer interface systems are like two supercomputers trying to talk to each other using an old 300-baud modem You want me to plug that cable in WHERE?
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Starting today, Windows Insiders will get access to a new commitment option in Cortana for Windows 10. Hey Cortana: MYOB
*Totally* not like they were complaining about with Google. *TOTally* not like that at all.
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Quote: You can also disable this feature if you don't want Cortana scanning your email for phrases.
By "feature" they mean Cortana as a whole, right?
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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That would be my guess (and solution) too.
TTFN - Kent
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The secret to devops success begins with an open, flexible, and lazy approach to systems and code. Well, I've got the lazy down. Do I really need to work on the other eight?
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Indeed, as they say, "laziness pays off immediately".
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When the USA Freedom Act passed last June, it put an end to the country’s National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance program in which it collected millions of phone records of citizens’ calls over 14 years.
But the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) believes that isn’t enough to protect people’s privacy, because those records still exist in various NSA databases. The non-profit is calling on a secret court to consider ways to delete this trove of data without destroying evidence that proves the NSA snooped on citizens. EFF: Protecting your past, present and future.
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Good luck with that.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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Sprint cuts customer service jobs, says customers won’t notice a difference | Ars Technica[^]
No comment needed, the mockery writes itself.
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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There problem wasn't/isn't the number of customer service agents, it's the service...it sucks!
People are going to other carriers because they have better plans and better service...period!
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