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Once the province of nation-sponsored hackers, in-memory malware goes mainstream. I'm sure *your* bank will be perfectly safe though
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So if you load a file into registers, rather than disc blocks, it's not a file, any more?
Some might disagree*.
* But all should.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Back in the '90s, while working on VAX/VMS systems, we regularly submitted jobs to a batch queue and one of the first steps in the job was to delete the file itself. At that point, it resided in memory. If someone checked the queue while the job was in operation, they could see what the file was supposed to be, and, if it had never been backed up, then there was no trace of it outside of the copy in memory.
Since we were developers, we generally could get elevated privileges, so it wasn't to hard to have the job submitted as SYSTEM directly, or, start a job that submitted the second job as SYSTEM.. and delete itself of course...
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Google is making it easier to discover VR content spontaneously by bringing WebVR to Chrome. Because someone asked for it?
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Why view information in a 900-byte list, when you can view the same thing with 3 gig of bloat?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So this is the web 2.0 version of a late 90s VRML plugin? 
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 aren't a whole lot of professions whose practitioners go home after work and do more work just for fun, but programming is a world of side projects—the job is the hobby and the hobby is the job. "Everybody's working for the weekend"
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The promises of agile — getting product in front of users faster, embracing requirements changes, choosing and trusting solid contributors — map incredibly well to today’s business environments, where disruptive technology and the ability to quickly capitalize on opportunities either make or break entire verticals. Your daily^H^H^H^H^H weekly dose of buzzwords
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I wish to claim kudos for having been able to read more than one paragraph.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Deciding how to route information fairly and efficiently through a distributed system with no central authority was a priority for the Internet's founders. Full of naughty images and conflicting ideas?
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According to well-placed sources, IBM's Software and Systems unit began a transition similar to the marketing department's upheaval late last year, with remote workers told they would have to move and work at one of a handful of city offices, or find a new job. " The tenants arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives."
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I've had several friends who were unfortunate enough to work for IBM in the past. They all said that "IBM" stands for I've Been Moved. Management regularly forces employees to move so they won't make any friends. It's a ghastly company.
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Don't know the source of the quote, but it reminds me of a scene from "Ice Pirates" (I think that's the name of the movie).
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The dates on all Windows drivers are set to June 21, 2006. The version number increases over time, but the timestamp stays put. "It's an awesome example of something that seems stupid and insignificant turning out to have a profound purpose." - the new Microsoft corporate motto
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That actually makes a lot of sense. Good job M$.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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So simply versioning drivers was too hard? Or having a bit of logic that pushed Microsoft drivers below 3rd party drivers in the case of a tie?
The mind boggles.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Funny blog article.
It's like a "Hey, your company isn't the only one doing stupid stuff. Look at what we did at M$". 
Maybe I really don't want to know all those things that I've always wondered about M$.
It's Sausage-Code. I don't want to know how it got that way.
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sometimes ignorance is a bless  
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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I supposed there are third parties which didn't bother setting the version or did it wrong. There's a lot of defensive stuff like that in Windows.
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So maybe it's time to simply ban bad drivers. Get it right or leave the island.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yes, but what about the computer issue? 
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Quote: ...Intentionally backdating the drivers avoids this problem. It means that if you have a custom manufacturer-provided driver, it will retain priority over the Windows-provided driver.
So that's why there are no complaints about Windows overriding drivers! Sarcasm to 11!
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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The company’s researchers decided to test how AI agents interacted with one another in a series of “social dilemmas.” Oh great, now they're going to get together and plot against us
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No, they will just show you some good popcorn ads.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Insights into technology workers’ salaries and the hiring market. "Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash"
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