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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or is that an 'em-dash'?
Um, no, they're hyphens[^].
But what is the frugging point?
If I see a hyphen in a statement, I will automatically think that the value of one variable is being subtracted from the value of another, and will be looking for where the result is to be stored.
Talk about utterly useless and confusing "improvements"!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Especially since int res=var1-var2; is valid Java.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Especially since int res=var1-var2; is valid Java.
The problem couldn't be demonstrated more clearly.
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That has to be one of the more idiotic ideas I have read of in a very long time.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Oracle's not managing the language well, IMO.
TTFN - Kent
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They are if they want it to die.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Just over 15 years after the first reported incident of phishing, new research suggests tech companies could be doing more to protect users from the threat of scams. However, greater awareness of the issue is also needed among individuals and organizations. Because they haven't figured out how to remotely slap users' hands?
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Well, the way to train users not to open malicious e-mails is by labelling 80% of them as SPAM.
Then, if they open one of the other 20%, because they trust that you are looking after them, it's their fault for getting infected, not yours.
You want to stop e-mail scams?
0. Set the default option for opening e-mails to plain text.
1. PUT UP A F***ING BIG NOTICE ON EVERY WALL, telling people to not open e-mails that they're not expecting.
There you go: 99% of the hacking problems solved, before they even begin.
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But the email said I had won a holiday!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Visual Studio receives over 500 feature suggestions from customers every month on the Developer Community website. Closed, as it is not a new icon request
Run on, running joke, run on (yes, I'm ashamed)
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Want to use the GNOME or KDE Linux desktops on your virtual reality headset? A new open-source project aims to let you play games and use your Linux desktop with your VR head-mounted display. Experience the console just like you were living in it!
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Sadella said: OK, brethren, the new way of the future is coming upon us, so it is so. We must be stopping be making desktop and laptop windows interfacements to be more likened unto telephone of the mobile variety interfacements, but more like unto interfacements wherein and whereunder you are moving your head and the interfacement is respondering.
This will be ultimate perfection for the desktop and laptop interfacement, with very, very bigger icons!
Oh, joy.
I can't wait.
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Over the course of a month and a half, “Kova,” real name Rana Mahal, convinced at least 25 people to join a game studio that was not a registered company, and develop a video game to which he did not own the rights, in exchange for no pay. You can fool some of the people some of the time (at least for six weeks)
NSFW warning: as you might expect in an article about developers and these kind of events, naughty words are spoken.
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Fake news, obviously.
Wait for the tweets.
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You did verify that your paychecks are clearing, right?
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A cyber analytics firm has discovered several instances of enterprise software that collected and sent information home, a behavior which could lead to exposure of sensitive enterprise data. ERP, phone home
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What, are they saying that cloud solutions might not be the bastion of security and vanguard of new tech that they were sold as?
Are they idiots, or what?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Are they idiots, or what?
Do you really need to ask that?
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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They fire off a flare of warning and then don't inform you of who the culprits are. That qualifies as entirely useless and a waste of time to read.
This is not aimed at you Kent. It's at the authors of that and those that fired off the flare.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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'Struth, and I had the same complaints. I finally dug around to find the actual report[^], and it wasn't that much more helpful. Just an advert with hand-wavy warnings, that only they can save you from. Buggers. 
TTFN - Kent
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As end of support for the still-popular Windows 7 draws near, risks of unpatched operating systems are likely to be a significant security concern in the near future. If it ain't broke, keep using it until it gets hacked?
I'm assuming a lot of those are in closets/attached to some hardware not attached to the internet.
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Time and time and time again it has been proven that the biggest IT security risk is people.
The OS doesn't make a blind bit of difference, if some idiot decides to open a nasty attachment in an e-mail -- which is how the by-far (up around wishful SLA percentage figures) hugest number of infections is caused.
All this BS about patching is a bloody joke, to anyone who knows anything at all about security.
It's users who need educating, not OSes that need "updating" to ever more unusable versions (hey, winio, guess whom I'm looking at!).
And it's antivirus apps that need to be supported and kept up to the latest versions, not icons and emoji collections.
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We have several still going here and no interest in replacing them. They work fine just as they are. One key factor to that : windows updates were disabled a long time ago.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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The 2.80 release is dedicated to everyone who has contributed to Blender. To the tirelessly devoted developers. To the artists inspiring them with demos. To the documentation writers. To the Blender Cloud subscribers. To the bug reporters. To the designers. To the Code Quest supporters. To the donators and to the members of the Development Fund. Blender is made by you. Thanks! Major release from them. I was waiting for this one. For Animation fans.
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