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Microsoft today announced the launch of a new offering for its mission-critical Azure Government cloud targeted at government customers and partners that regularly work with top-secret classified data. It's the same cloud, but with a "Private, don't look" label on it
This isn't going to end well, is it?
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If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear. 
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"Having nothing to hide" is very much culturally dependent. MS insists on (rather conservative) US morals and social norms restricting whatever they store in their cloud. Material perfectly acceptable in the culture of the owner has been forbidden by MS, even when protected by a password limiting general access.
For the cases I know of, the MS censorship has related to photos. I see no reason why it should equally well apply to textual expressions.
I am reluctant to hire an apartment from a landlord telling me which are appropriate thoughts and ideas to have within the apartment.
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True, but this is secret government data, some of which will be far worse than anything that other customers would store. But it'll be encrypted, so MSFT won't know the contents, and other customers could do the same. Anyone putting sensitive stuff in the cloud, unencrypted, is asking for the big one.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This isn't going to end well, is it?
Who knows... maybe when they endly slip-up in such a situation, they will find common sense again and start testing things before rolling out?   
M.D.V. 
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I am of the firm belief that the upper echelons of government should not be allowed to read buzzword tech articles. They see "cloud", I see "someone elses hard drive".
I'm sure MS will do their best to protect the TS data. And we'll get an apology when it inevitably leaks or is lost.
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Starting in December 2020, we will be delivering .NET Core updates on Windows via Microsoft Update. Surprising those of us (i.e. me) that thought they already were
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Starting in December 2020, we will be delivering .NET Core updates on Windows via Microsoft Update.
I thought there was going to be a break-time for Christmas...  
But... MS keeping their word? That would have been a surprise and a pretty nice Christmas present
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A Cayman Islands-based investment fund has exposed its entire backups to the internet after failing to properly configure a secure Microsoft Azure blob. It's a sad day when the personal details of rich people get leaked, isn't it?
Sorry, it's just the schadenfreude talking
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sorry, it's just the schadenfreude talking
If only rich people were involved... OK.
But in some of those cases it might be including average Joe's data because he trusted his savings to a not so trustful funds manager.
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A second type of quantum device performed a calculation impossible for a traditional computer "Shine on you crazy diamond"
Is it just me, or is the term "quantum supremacy" feel like the plot from a Bond movie?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is it just me, or is the term "quantum supremacy" feel like the plot from a Bond movie?
Or Jason Bourne[^]
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GitHub released its annual Octoverse report today, revealing trends in one of the largest developer communities on the planet, including a spike in open source project activity following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. If you don't check it in, it doesn't count?
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Typescript isn't even a f*ckin language.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - 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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Micro Magic's new CPU offers decent performance with record-breaking efficiency. So I can run DOOM more efficiently now?
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Microsoft is also trying to figure out how to keep Windows Insiders on the latest version of its frequent preview releases. They're going to keep pushing Cortana until someone figures out a use for it
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another reason to disable it
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Let’s find out more about how AI is influencing and making its mark in the custom software development process. Never a substitute for NI
Or CS (Common Sense in this case, but Computer Science as well)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Never a substitute for NI
Natural Idiocy?
At least the AI can be improved with time... although I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.
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JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language even though it started off as a side-kick to Java. Traditional gift is silver, in case you're shopping for bullets
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An international team of astronomers called the Gaia Collaboration has released a new, updated catalog from the Gaia astronomical satellite. Printing costs will be astronomical!
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Microsoft is using AI to accelerate pull requests — the feature that lets developers tell others about changes they’ve made to code — toward completion by reminding authors to engage with their overdue requests. Now instead of your inbox being pull of pull request notices, now it will also be full of nudges to remind you about those notices
Also... AI... right.
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So now... devs will be even more "stressed" with accepting other peoples changes? That will probably decrease the "check up" of what is being changed
In other words... if you pull too much, things tend to break[^]?
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Marketing guru: What does this do?
Developer: If pull request has taken longer than x days, it nags the person responsible.
Guru: Claim it's AI and we have a product! (Oh, and write a white paper showing that nagging, I mean the AI, works!)
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ControlFlag is a new tool that can autonomously detect errors in code. That's a funny spelling of 'debugger'
yadda yadda machine learning blah de blah pixie dust foo farrala bing magic bong
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