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Kent Sharkey wrote: Stop me if you've heard this one before...
Here[^], most recently in May. The 8.1 infection rate was 3-4x lower than the 8.0 rate and 4-5x lower than the 7 infection rate. It's higher still if you compare 8.1-64 to prior x86 versions. The most heavily exploited bug in the report was patched in 2010; which is why, despite all the friction it's causing making patches mandatory is the right move for MS to make in W10.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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I had this thought this past week that we tend to believe that if we are in motion, we are accomplishing something. "We're too busy for test-first"
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Zeno's paradoxes, anyone?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Unfortunately, Microsoft’s new found cross-platform software strategy may be working a bit too well and discouraging OEM’s from examining what minor plans they may have had for Windows phones. "Damned if you do, damned if you don't"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Damned if you do, damned if you don't"
Cursed ? 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Google's mobile OS has come to 'permeate the fabric of our society,' Oracle says. I think there's a different reason that "Java platform 'has suffered more than ever.'"
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Right so Oracle is trying to prove that everything good Google has done with Android goes back to Oracle's greatness and everything bad that has happened to Java has occurred because of Google's evil.
What?!
Uh, maybe Java has taken a beating because no one really likes browser plugins, plus Oracle has failed to make those plugins as safe as they should be. (Definitely!)
And, it is possible that the open-ness that Google committed to with Android has made it extremely successfuly.
Summary: Oracle, you jealous little child. 
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Michael Coates, trust and information security officer at Twitter and global board member of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), suggests encryption gets more credit than it deserves. Fb, jr fubhyqa'g obgure?
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July 29 is not just the day that Windows 10 starts rolling out. It's the day its new unified app store opens to developers, too. "When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping"
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Google researchers say that experts and non-experts go about protecting their digital privacy in very different ways, according to survey results they plan to present at the upcoming Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. I updated my password to 1112, what else do you want me to do?
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Microsoft has just launched a new website to help educate Microsoft Partners about digital marketing. The site, being called “Smart Partner Marketing” features a variety of video courses co-produced by Microsoft and IDC, articles and interactive pages that offer customized advice based on the participant’s certain business statistics such as employee size and marketing experience. Market like Microsoft! Call your customers dinosaurs!
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I'm not following that link, I afraid the bullshit will start dribbling out the bottom of my screens.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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NASA’s Kepler Space telescope science team has just announced the discovery of the most Earth-like planet ever. Meet Kepler 452-b, the very first apparently rocky planet that definitively orbits a sun-like star in the habitable zone. Uhm, I think we know of one a little bit more Earth-like
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I wonder if we will manage to get ther and if yes... how long will it take until we destroy it make it our home as well  
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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1,400 light years away.. unreachable and we don't even know if it still exists (it could have been destroyed 1,300 years ago).
It's things like this that highlight just how technologically primitive we still are
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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In theory if there was a way of getting humans to near-light speed without tearing them apart then time dilation would kick in, so we could get there in a few years or less depending on how fast we could go.
But it still could have been destroyed 1300 years ago. 
Kevin
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Even if we just wanted to communicate with any hypothetical civilisation that could be there, the conversation would be a bit like this:
2016: "Message from Earth. Is there anyone there?"
4816: "Message to Earth: Your message was distorted.. What did you say?"
Or even worse...
4817: ...static
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Things are certainly looking up for space exploration anyway.
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Warp speed !!!! Captains log star date 42563.14 we have reached the Kepler 452-b but we cannot find any monkeys we saw from back home... All we can see are some humanoids... 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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IBM has announced a three-pronged approach aimed at helping developers build and deploy open source cloud apps, including the developerWorks Open platform, the release of 50 projects to open source and partnerships with universities. Open source software: Yay! From IBM: hmmm
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Anyone reliant on Office for their day to day computing just gained two new weapons in their arsenal. How are people supposed to mislike Microsoft now?
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Fan-bloody-tastic!!
Awesome news.
[Edit: just read the comments under the article. Enthusiasm dialled down to 1. Wry amusement dialled up to 8.]
cheers
Chris Maunder
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