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They claim they have the biggest database to check for leaked emails or passwords. I thought the biggest / better was the haveibeenpwned...
Is that only marketing or do you trust them?
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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And those will continue until storing passwords in cleartext is forbidden by law. But since there's no incentive, no company will.
That's what elections are for. And we choose to allow business to ignore basic security.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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According to new reports, Microsoft has shocked and enraged long-term users of its Hotmail and Outlook email services by sending out messages warning users that they are nearing their storage limit. You mean those storage limits are actually limits?
That's it - going to aol.com!
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Google wants researchers, vendors to stop making attacks easy "Patches, I'm dependin' on you"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Google wants researchers, vendors to stop making attacks easy I suppose that they don't want to share the data...
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Today we are going to show you how to get started parsing Command Line arguments, following on from our series on .NET 5. Because Windows UI apps are just so last century
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It’s curious that they don’t use that as a sample, but probably yet another example of two teams at the company not knowing what the other has done.
TTFN - Kent
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Or two teams not knowing the other exists.
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Remote working poses various different challenges, but a new report seems to suggest that those aged 55 and over are coping with the practice better than their younger peers. "Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance."
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When the original Game Boy arrived, so did hundreds of accessories designed to improve its gameplay experience, including oversized lenses to help magnify its small screen. But how do I put a quarter into it?
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But... will it run doom?
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As lawmakers consider regulating use of personal data a survey from Entrust shows a muddled understanding of what is at stake. That's just what people without the SSN of 042-42-4242 think
And if you don't believe me, I'll post my banking information to prove it!
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"Dammit, not again"
- Arthur Dent
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A new method significantly reduces the amount of memory needed for brain simulations, freeing some AI models from the need for a supercomputer. "More BRAINS!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A new method significantly reduces the amount of memory needed for brain simulations, They have probably had a look to some places in the internet or TV programs...
even an spectrum 128k could be enough to simulate the brains of some of those people
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With .NET 6 previews starting right around the corner, it is time to start getting excited for the new .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) that was announced at BUILD 2020. "Hey, it's okay, it's okay, you're welcome"
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I was working on a scenario that involved multiple components, where success is defined as “completes within 30 seconds”. The team that was responsible for the component that initiated the scenario had a number of quality metrics covering this scenario, each one focusing on a particular variation. Some of the metrics for a particular variation showed that the scenario was succeeding at a rate of 100%. On the other hand, my metrics for the component that completed the scenario showed that the scenario was failing miserably for the same variation on a certain category of systems.
So I took a closer look at the two sets of metrics to see why there was such a huge discrepancy.
Who tests the testers?
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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Possibly unrelated...
A colleague : Your process failed last night but reported success.
Me : No it didn't, it successfully reported* that it could not continue, which is success, not failure.
* In the the log, which they are too lazy to check.
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I'm dealing with the opposite annoyance. My Veam backups are succeeding but reporting an error a few times/month. Something on my NAS is touching a temp file at precisely the wrong moment causing Veam to get an IO error and send off an email; a short time later it's able to clean up after itself because when I check in the morning everything is fine.
Setting it to not send errors at all isn't an option because my NAS is close to full, and I need to manually clean up old backups periodically so it has room to work. And there doesn't appear to be an option to either pause the error sending for a few minutes of retry, or to send a follow up it worked this time message if it encountered an initial error.
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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Same logic but negated:
My alma mater was running an old Univac 1100 mainframe running EXEC8 (this is long ago). We submitted batch jobs as punched card decks. For student accounts, jobs were limited to 15 seconds of CPU time; if this limit was exceeded, an exception handler wrote an entry into the error log of the job before aborting it.
To run longer jobs, you had to close the error log file early in the job. When the exception handler for 'CPU quota exceeded' tried to write to the (closed) log file, the handler crashed, and failed to abort the job. So the job completed successfully, although exceeding its CPU quota.
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