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A would-be hacker is able to use Power Query to dynamically launch a remote Dynamic Data Exchange attack into an Excel spreadsheet to actively control the payload. Oh, DDE. I've missed you.
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The update mechanism as it is currently implemented in Microsoft Teams desktop app allows downloading and executing arbitrary files on the system. Oh, that's what it does
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This doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
It's microsoft teams who produce malicious operating systems and office applications, so what do you expect?
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An interesting move considering today's domestic (USA) politics, and international geopolitics: [^] Quote: Last year, the Trump administration spared product categories including Apple’s smartwatch and AirPods wireless earbuds from an initial round of duties. But the administration’s proposal to impose additional tariffs of 25% covering $300 billion in imports from China would affect all of Apple’s major devices, including the Mac, iPhone and iPad.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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And you think it will be a problem?
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Oh, you've got that one. Of course, when I bought My one, I had to pay 30% extra, just to have it imported to me.</fanbois>
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“It’s the keys to the kingdom,” said retired Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, who served on the National Security Council in 2017 and 2018 and discussed strategies to stop the AMD deal with officials at other agencies. “Everything today is built on x86.”
Western civilization replies, "We'd like to announce that we are dropping support for the x86 architecture."
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“I was shocked that in a room full of a couple hundred mostly senior engineers we were being told that we weren’t needed,” said Rabin, who was laid off in 2015.
$9 an hour is a great rate, Qualcomm should outsource the development of 7G cellular technology. Just think of all the money that would save!
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How come you only post articles from US sites that require subscription fees?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: How come you only post articles from US sites that require subscription fees?
Mark, I do that to prevent you from reading them. We can't have you knowing all of the latest news. 
Since you can't read those news articles I'll give you a link to this patent granted last week: High frequency gravitational wave generator so you can help me figure out if this is a real technology. I can't figure out why this patent was granted.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: High frequency gravitational wave generator so you can help me figure out if this is a real technology.
It certainly highlights the idea that patents should not be granted unless a working prototype is presented.
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You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
That's accountants for you: have you ever noticed that the only department that is never outsourced is the accountancy dept?
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OriginalGriff wrote: the only department that is never outsourced is the accountancy dept?
... Which would actually be the easiest and least risk department to outsource.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: OriginalGriff wrote: the only department that is never outsourced is the accountancy dept?
... Which would actually be the easiest and least risk department to outsource.
Not really!
Since accounting departments are entrusted with so many trade secrets, it's the last department you want to outsource, although you might get away with limited outsourcing of some of its lower-level clerical work.
Although I began my career as an accountant, I cringe whenever I see the accountants take over another big company, because the result is almost invariably that the focus shifts to reducing costs at the expense of almost everything else that matters. There is a sound reason that the Chief Financial Officer reports to the Chief Executive Officer. There are exceptions, of course, but it is reasonably safe to say that when an accountant becomes the CEO, the company is probably doomed.
David A. Gray
Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time
Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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David A. Gray wrote: Since accounting departments are entrusted with so many trade secrets, it's the last department you want to outsource
Sure, but there are accountancy guilds that vet and rightfully vouch for their members.David A. Gray wrote: it is reasonably safe to say that when an accountant becomes the CEO, the company is probably doomed
What on Earth are you saying?
"Reasonably", my @rse!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Sure, but there are accountancy guilds that vet and rightfully vouch for their members.
Such guilds exist for lawyers and medical doctors, too, but how much policing do you expect when the wolf is put in charge of the hen house?
Mark_Wallace wrote: Reasonably", my @rse!
I take it that you agree in general. I used the term "reaonably" to compensate for the handful of exceptions to the rule.
David A. Gray
Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time
Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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Human Resources
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You don't need to outsource HR; just get rid of it.
That kind of role would be better embedded within the various teams of an organisation, rather than be a detached department that gets so many things wrong because it doesn't understand the different teams' needs.
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In the oil industry, that is common. The people who invented and perfected the technology were laid off when the price dropped as little. Ironically, they were exactly the people needed to operate the industry through the hard times. Ironically, I did the same job for a former competitor who purchased oil fields from my former employer and Figured out how to operate them economically.
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Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Ive is considered one of the most important people at Apple, responsible for the industrial design and the look and feel of all major Apple products, including the iPhone and the Mac. He had worked at Apple for more than 20 years. Time to queue up my “Apple is doooooooomed” prediction (again)
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finally now we can see apple phones that look like bananas..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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The replacement will make a big splash by changing all the rounded rectangles to sharp-cornered rectangles.
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I heard he is going to work for the local transport department. His first job will probably be to copyright circular manhole covers.
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THE BRITISH ARE LEAVING!!!
Well, that's apple well and truly buggered, then.
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A new experiment from MIT and Brown University researchers have added a capability to their ‘Northstar’ interactive data system that can “instantly generate machine-learning models” to use with their exiting data sets in order to generate useful predictions. Nevermind the AI, I just want that screen
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