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It takes a coupe of weeks for the average dev to get up to speed enough to work productively on cyber security, so I don't see what all the fuss and panic is about.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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At Open Source Technology Summit (OSTS) 2019, Josh Triplett, a Principal Engineer at Intel gave an insight into what Intel is contributing to bring the most loved language, Rust to full parity with C. And Python is the new Pascal, VB is the new MUMPS, and Perl is still Perl
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Heh, MUMPS. I've actually got a cert for that around here somewhere.
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You were certified as insane for being willing to use MUMPS? /trollface
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Luckily, the training was online, from home, with General Hospital playing on the other screen. I figured GH was appropriate, considering the main use of the language.
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Security researchers warn that the WS-Discovery protocol is currently being abused for massive DDoS attacks. When the first you hear of a protocol is when the hackers are using it
Hurrah for SOAP. People still find a use for it.
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The company has announced assembly of the first qubit material component of its 12CQ room-temperature qubit processor, touting nanometre precision. Unfortunately, it only works if you install it upside-down
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Cupertino was developing a peer-to-peer walking talkie feature for the iPhone that would allow users to text each other without having a cellular connection. That's a 10-21
Whatever happened to push to talk? It seemed all the rage back in the day.
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The real reason they cancelled it is that too many fanbois complained that it would make them look cheap, and building a system into it to charge three times the price of text messages would have been too much work.
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Kent, Kent, Kent. If you're going to try and sound like a southern Ohioan (like yours truly here), you need up your game with the proper vocabulary and syntax:
"If it ain't busted like it's supposed ta be, why ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) with it?"
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: "If it ain't busted like it's supposed ta be, why [mastadon] with it?"
Boyd? That you, Boyd? Whut you-all doin' heah?
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Dude! Do you live directly north or directly south of the border (aka the Ohio River)?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Well, less'n Harlan's done moved a ways north...
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Just because you've got a device without a manual doesn't mean you need to throw it away. There are plenty of places on the Internet that can help you find its instructions. Because I had to find one over the weekend, and this will save me time, next time.
Sadly, the WiFi on the Sony Clie 50 only seems to be good for syncing data. Thought I might have a new old tool.
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It's amazing some of the manuals you can find. Sometimes they're a PDF containing a scan of a fax of some hand-scrawled notes, but if they tell you what you need to know, who cares?
My favorite is probably the Signetics 25120[^] data sheet, whose origin predates the Internet. Yes, children, there was life and tech before the Internet. Now go out and play and let grandpa take his nap.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Microsoft is running a limited-time promotion for EA and EAS customers which will give them a year of Windows 7 extended security updates for no additional charge. When you wish upon a star, sure does matter who you are
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Microsoft warns the users of Windows 10, version 1703 Enterprise and Education editions to take action since this Windows 10 version will reach end of life on October 9, 2019. "Windows 10 is the last version of Windows"
Last(ish), but 1903 is the latest last version
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I think we must be on windows 50-odd by now, mustn't we?
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Here’s a good reason to turn that frown upside down: Optimistic people live as much as 15% longer than pessimists, according to a new study spanning thousands of people and 3 decades. "Ah, well; who wants to live forever?"
Which must be read in the original Brian Blessed voice. (As everything should)
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Stress kills.
Big news.
200 years ago.
it's nice to see that millennials are finally beginning to catch up.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Stress kills.
I must be immortal  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Quote: Pessimists can learn to become more optimistic with proper guidance.
Write out the following a million times:
"The world is not going to hell in a handcart and I must have more faith in the intellectual and moral superiority of our glorious leaders."
Your life may not be extended but it will certainly feel like it has been!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Tune in next week for more Adventures in Spurious Correlation 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Spurious Correlation
Hardly -- but I suppose that they don't teach about hormones at microsoft.
... Or about writing robust code.
... Or about UX design.
... Or about customer satisfaction.
... Or about proper maintenance and bug fixing.
Oh, you poor thing! You've missed out on so much in life!
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Hey well that may be true, but I'm not on codeproject insulting other people.
So you know, I was raised better than that. So I didn't miss out on everything.
Have a great day, Mark.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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