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Quote: It’s no bigger than a drinking glass, and it fits easily in the palm of the hand. It resembles a pepper grinder—or perhaps a hand grenade.
The Holy Hand Calculator of Lichtenstein? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I remember drooling over the ads in SciAm in the mid-60s.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I've used one of these and boy oh boy are they well made and a treat to hold and operate.
Dad inherited his father's one.
Thanks for the link,  I'll bet Dad didn't know about the link to the Nazis either.
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In 2013 James Howells of Newport, Wales mistakenly tossed his hard drive into the trash, and the next day his wife took it to the local landfill. ohnosecond (noun): The fraction of time between making a mistake and realizing it.
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But you don't understand crypto.
(When all else fails, go with the canned response.)
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Better salaries score highly - but money isn't everything. It's ping-pong tables, isn't it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's ping-pong tables, isn't it?
More the kind of team that you would use the tables with.
We had ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) , a barbeque and a dartboard hidden in a closet of the kitchen in a previous company. We had spontaneous dart games after lunch, we stayed after hours and grilled something, made LAN parties in the meeting room (even with the director of the branch location)... there was a really cool working clima, you could hear laughs several times a day...
that were good days... even when my payment was way less than now.
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?
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At the Analytical Chem Lab I worked at, we generally played four handed cribbage in the afternoons; or euchre or pinochle
Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine - via Walt Kelly)
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Management has to learn to treat us like the gods we are.
".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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#realJSOP wrote: Management has to learn to treat us like the gods we are.
It would be good enough if some of them treat us just as normal people... 
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?
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Already have a ping pong table, but I am a one person shop....
So Wednesday I am having a pinball (real, not virtual) machine delivered. Rental agreement, I will get a different machine every two months. Employee wellness program!
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A bug in the ubiquitous Log4j library can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on any system that uses Log4j to write logs. Does yours? Write once, hack everywhere
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Alerted by Eddy V's post[^], I checked my server. No exposure there. But within hours the Apache logs showed attempted exploits.
Zero day? More like -1 day!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: No exposure there. But within hours the Apache logs showed attempted exploits.
As always... once it hits the news then a bunch of wannabe bad boys try to exploit the hell out of it before lazy people patch it (and that when there already is a fix for it)
M.D.V.
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Is Log4net also affected since it is a direct .NET port of Log4j?
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Looking at the vulnerability notice[^], I'd assume not (as it seems to be specific to JNDI), but as I am not a lawyer, I'd watch this issue[^] to confirm.
TTFN - Kent
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The new Vulnerable and Malicious Driver Reporting Center is supposed to help the company defend Windows users. All of them?
"potentially" anyway
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GitHub is inviting developers to take part in a technology preview of improved code search, which it describes as "way more than grep," the Linux command-line search utility. "Keeps me searching for a heart of gold, and I'm getting old"
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Microsoft is sponsoring an esports competition with prizes totaling $10,000. The game? Well, it’s not exactly a game — it’s Microsoft Excel. People just watch that for the crashes
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A Google Play Games app will be available in 2022, built by Google to allow games from Google Play to run on Windows laptops, tablets, and PCs. So I can finally play Candy Crush (in the native resolution)?
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"The Internet is on Fire"[^]
Computer security experts around the world are racing to patch one of the worst software vulnerabilities discovered in years
(I'm not sure if I'm even supposed to post here, but it's 12 hours old and I didn't see it here. I hope I'm not stepping on your toes Kent)
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 11-Dec-21 0:12am.
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Toes definitely not stepped on - I like it when others post news (especially on my day off )
It is Kent-with-a-t, though
TTFN - Kent
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Whoops, sorry about that, Kent.
Real programmers use butterflies
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