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In a case of convenience for users trumping security, Starbucks has been storing the passwords for its mobile-payment app, along with geolocation data, in clear text. Have we learned nothing?
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Clearly the answer is no.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Have we learned nothing?
I have. If I want a better cup of coffee and quality snacks I will go elsewhere.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I'll have a Venti half-caf mocha latte, heavy on the whip and 100,000 passwords, please.
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"If I want a better cup of coffee"
I've avoided Starbucks for years on that basis alone.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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"There's always a better cup of coffee." -- Qui-Gon Jinn
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Security updates for Windows XP will end this April, but updated antimalware signatures for the operating system will continue for another year. Don't kill it, and they will stay
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InfoWorld's 2014 Technology of the Year Award winners recognize the best tools and technologies for developers, IT pros, and businesses. Getting ahead of ourselves, aren't we?
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We are thrilled to announce version 2.0 of the PDB Project extension on the Visual Studio Gallery. PDB Project, as the name suggests, takes the information contained in a .pdb file to create a C++ project. I can't imagine ever needing this, but I imagine it would be useful if you did.
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so does that mean that if you get ahold of a PDB file for some program you can get the (some what) source code using this program ?
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'Swhat it sounds like, yes. I'm too lazy to download and try though. I thought maybe some of the burly-C++-types might be interested though
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TTFN - Kent
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While there's no way to gauge the accuracy of Murtazin's claim without confirmation from Microsoft or one of its hardware partners, the company did reportedly invest more than $1 billion on smartphone research and development in 2010. Money can't buy love, but it can rent a substitute
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I believe Microsoft would have more market share with the windows phone before the Last Quarter this year.
Abisoye Falabi
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Nearly three years ago, the Federal Trade Commission began an investigation into Apple’s marketing of in-app purchases to children. The issue was that when users entered their iTunes password in the App Store, iOS wouldn't ask for the password again for 15 minutes—enabling the easy purchase of virtual items, particularly by kids. Earlier this year, Ars reported an instance where a five-year-old ran up a $2,500 charge. I guess now kids will have to memorize Dad's password, rather than just asking for it every 15 minutes
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Hiring by IT services firms dominated job gains in 2013. I'm shocked. SHOCKED!
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Creating snippets is already supported but the process is manual and somewhat laborious. We decide to make it easier, and have put together a new extension for Visual Studio 2013 to visually create and edit snippets. A little snippet, a little tuck, and work's done!
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OK, maybe the word "dead" is pretty harsh, but let's face the facts for a moment. "It's just pining for the fjords"
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Actually, though his quoted source is garbage, in Feb'2013, Microsoft has confirmed that XNA is in fact dead.
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The closest link I can come up with, after an admittedly brief search, is this[^].
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A site search for any Microsoft.com pages gave out nada, not a single hint that they are planning to abandon XNA: Search[^]
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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