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OK, so we've been through the naming and shaming of companies that allow easy security breaches, and laws set in place in Europe, at least, have set protocols and given an iron gauntlet to those who investigate breaches, but it's perfectly clear that the hackings ain't ever going to stop -- all we can do is stop all but the most dedicated hackers.
I can't find anything that says this breach was helped by poor security practices or incompetence, so this is the work of one of "the most dedicated". Bad luck.
However, rolling out the "let's suck up to the huge data-slurpers" bull about multi-factor authentication is no help (you want multi-factor? Use two passwords -- trust technology that works, not the word of data-slurpers).In the last paragraph of the article, itproportal finally wrote wrote something useful: Consumers are advised to use a password manager
However, showing a lack of common sense that verges on the criminal, it did not advise anyone to change their passwords.
Nor did it mention the biblical-level advice on password security:
Check on haveibeenpwned, to see if your passwords for important things have been hacked, then change them regardless.
Let's be honest, you could replace the entire article with that sentence, and it would be more useful.
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Based on new research Google is accused of using deceptive design and misleading information, which results in users accepting to be constantly tracked Did they find out by Googling themselves?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: accused of using deceptive design and misleading information, which results in
If they (and I mean not only Google) would start to speak crystal clear and easy to understand, then many people would still ignore it because:
1) it is for free
2) it would show how stupid and naive they have been until now
[EDIT:] spelling
M.D.V. 
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modified 4-Feb-19 8:43am.
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I don't believe a word of it.
Google is our friend.
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The strangest new feature is that you can now launch and run regular Win32 apps—2D apps built for the desktop—in the Windows Mixed Reality environment that's used for both virtual reality headsets and the HoloLens augmented reality headset. The feature that no one would think to ask for is finally available
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The feature that no one would think to ask for is finally available
Welcome to the "collateral effects" of a every day worse product / process.
I bet they will try to sell it as a cool "feature" that was thought from the very beginning
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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In other news, bugs in microsoft software are enjoying long and happy lives, and are even marrying and having children.
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[^] Appl says FB slurping selfie-land teenagers' iPhone iWhatever is not okay: okay ?Quote: Apple, too, has benefited from just doing business with the biggest privacy offenders in the tech sector. Despite Cook’s claim in Brussels that the “stockpiles of personal data serve only to enrich the companies that collect them,” Apple does lots of deals with those companies. Safari, the web browser that comes with every iPhone, is set up by default to route web searches through Google. For this privilege, Google reportedly paid Apple $9 billion in 2018, and as much as $12 billion this year. All those searches help funnel out enormous volumes of data on Apple’s users, from which Google extracts huge profits. Apple might not be directly responsible for the questionable use of that data by Google, but it facilitates the activity by making Google its default search engine, enriching itself substantially in the process.
"What goes around comes around" is like so analog.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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It's gotta be an overwhelming gob of cats and other mundaine crap. I mean really.
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A new report on global AI patents and publications has offered an interesting snapshot of the current boom—including the uneven way it is being commercialized. Big AI is watching (and identifying with 72% accuracy)
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The article could have been interesting if it had said more than it already said in the title.
E.g. things like the number of AI patents taken out by known patent trolls could be interesting (but not necessarily good for my blood pressure).
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The MSX computer standard was big in both Japan and Brazil. But despite a sizable cult, it may be the most obscure part of Microsoft’s history. Here’s why. No, not that one. The other one. No, the other-other one.
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Jesus wept, what a suck-up! Is he hoping that Bill Gates will give him some of his millions?
The suck-up wrote: These days, Microsoft gets a lot of credit for its extremely diverse approach to its products.
Yeah, sure!
You want this button to be visible when you edit a document? F*** you! We say that you have to use the effluent interface, and exactly the way we want it!The suck-up wrote: Rather than trying to force you to use its platform, as it might have done in the past
W! T! F!???
The suck-up wrote: Sony’s first experience with video games, decades before it became Microsoft’s chief rival in the home console world
Sony is ms' rival in the console market?
Bwah-hah-haaaa!
That's like saying that Saturn is the Earth's rival in solar-system volume.
So, interesting material, ruined by suck-up-isms.
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Nicknamed the "replicator" by the inventors—after the Star Trek device that can materialize any object on demand—the 3-D-printer can create objects that are smoother, more flexible and more complex than what is possible with traditional 3-D-printers. "Tea. Hot. Earl Grey" Hmph. I'm not impressed yet.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Tea. Hot. Earl Grey" Hmph. I'm not impressed yet.
I wouldn't be very impressed if it plonked that nancy-boy, perfumed cr@p in front of me.
Give me coffee or give me... Um... A different coffee!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Tea. Hot. Earl Grey"
Surely it was "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."?
And even that wasn't great - the computer couldn't remember which type of tea he always had, or work out that nobody ever ordered "Tea. Earl Grey. Tepid.". 
"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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TypeScript 3.3 is a smaller release than usual and contains no breaking changes, so it should be easy to upgrade if you’re on an older version. "In order to create a better union"
It might make more sense once you see the new features. Either way, my brain is on the fritz and can't come up with anything better right now.
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I think that this is particularly relevant[^].
Mind you, I only think that because I don't give a bugger about typescript, and don't want to delve into its depths to find something to pick on.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: contains no breaking changes
That's a whole lot of wishful thinking right there. I'm sure SOMETHING in the release is broken.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The one I like a lot is using declarations. This allows a local to automatically be disposed at the end of the block. In case you plan on using them
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This allows a local to automatically be disposed at the end of the block.
Did they mistakenly use the sales pitch meant for mafia real-estate investors?
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Hackers are realising that it’s easier to defraud someone if you’re using a legitimate email address, rather than creating one yourself. With that in mind, they’re increasingly using compromised emails to attack unsuspecting victims. This blurb is from me - honest (and you've just won $3million!)
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itproportal wrote: attackers are actually using real, stolen email addresses
Well, if you don't want your e-mail address to be stolen, keep it in a front trouser pocket, and if you're walking through a dodgy area, keep your hand in your pocket.
I got that advice from a genuine, nicked several times, pickpocket, and I give it today, because there is nothing whatsoever to be gained from repeating the same bloody things over and over again about e-mail security.
Now everyone just go off and check on the haveibeenpwned site, then change your e-mail password regardless.
Oh, bugger. I repeated it.
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Are we all addicted to the Internet? Maybe. The latest Digital 2019 report, from Hootsuite and We Are Social, shows we’re spending on average 6 hours and 42 minutes online each day. Half of that is spent on mobile devices. Who you calling crazy?
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I'm much closer to 10... and feel absolutely insane...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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