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MS: Die! Die! Why won't you die?
W7: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh...
W7: Beneath this mask there is an idea. And ideas are bulletproof.
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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It's the last one without OEM spyware.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Computers may not have feelings, but humans do. Test managers often have to address team conflicts and other personal issues that get in the way of bug fixing. Lie down on the couch and tell me about your bugs
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From article: Quote: engineers knew the Shuttles were doomed but were too afraid to say anything to management
This is a bald faced lie. The Thiokol engineers were extremely concerned about the O-Ring and said exactly that to management. This was communicated to NASA, which got upset. A subsequent call without engineers was held and the engineers ignored. This was the fault of management, not the engineers.
Edit: In my experience, most engineering failures are due to management deliberately and knowingly ignoring the engineers (designers and just about everyone.) When I read of data breaches, I all but guarantee that IT repeatedly sent emails which were ignored.
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Researchers at the University of Texas discovered they could determine what Zoom participants are typing in private side chats during Zoom meetings. It seems I type :shrug: a lot
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Have they done an analysis of, um, other body parts?
Quote: In a controlled setting, with specific chairs, keyboards and webcam, Jadiwala said he achieved an accuracy rate of 75 percent. However, in uncontrolled environments, accuracy dropped to only one out of every five words being correctly identified.
In other words, it doesn't actually work, but it made a headline!
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We haven't been able to talk to Voyager 2 since before the pandemic. It added, "And I'm not coming back until you sort things out."
It's respecting physical distancing
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Without being snarky, was "hello" actually sent back? What was?
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I'm assuming just an ACK:
Quote: On Oct. 29, mission operators sent a series of commands to NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft for the first time since mid-March. The spacecraft has been flying solo while the 70-meter-wide (230-foot-wide) radio antenna used to talk to it has been offline for repairs and upgrades. Voyager 2 returned a signal confirming it had received the "call" and executed the commands without issue.
TTFN - Kent
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Same thing happened to me when I put the trickle charger on my winter car and after a few hours turned the key.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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It is interesting that the age of the probe is roughly the age of retro hardware that is currently popular (mostly in emulation).
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Many organisations still haven't applied security patches issued years ago, putting them at risk from common cyber attacks. But they're collector's items - they're still in the original package!
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Forcing malware developers to do regression testing.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Getting budget to upgrade software is a major sticking point from what I've seen. This is true even for 'free' open source software: Just like pay-for software, it still needs testing, possibly documentation changes, possibly user re-training, significant employee time for the testing and rollout. It's costly and potentially problematic.
It would be an exaggeration to say that many businesses carry out real risk analyses (instead of gut feeling) but there really is a trade off between risk of attack versus risk of the upgrade itself. Businesses as whole tend to be risk-averse and so it is perhaps not surprising that many opt (more or less by default) to not patch unless and until there's a demonstrable reason to do so. This may not be wise but it is how things are.
P.S. And a lesson as to why over-eager patching is a bad idea: The Insider News -
Windows 10 bug: Certificates lost after feature upgrade? We're working on fix, says Microsoft[^]
modified 4-Nov-20 0:32am.
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"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
You do understand what bugs are?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Hah, one person's bug is another person's feature. 
More seriously, the existence of a bug does not mean that software is actually broken for every user.
Bug (not necessarily equal to) broke.
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Abuse packet sizes to fool vulnerable application-level gateways Malicious JavaScript is redundant
Too many moving parts for me to follow this one (or as they put it, "The technique is non-obvious"), but it sounds clever. I still think there are easier ways to hack folks.
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Microsoft confirms that upgrading to a newer version of Windows 10 sometimes results in lost certificates. Certificates? We don't need any farging certificates, do we? Ooops.
Sounds like self-caused by bad updates, but...yeesh. Maybe reject to update if the updated certs aren't available?
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That confirmation can't be true; it's not gibberish.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Maybe reject to update if the updated certs aren't available?
That will presuppose common sense and we know that's not that common... specially at some companies' departments 
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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Quantum computers are not yet creating business value, but CIOs should nonetheless lose no time in getting involved. Two bit states ought to be enough for everyone!
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The CIO's are in pursuit of Schrödinger's Dollar - they better be careful!
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David O'Neil wrote: The CIO's are in pursuit of Schrödinger's Dollar - they better be careful!
Isn't it Schrödinger who should be careful? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: David O'Neil wrote: The CIO's are in pursuit of Schrödinger's Dollar - they better be careful!
Isn't it Schrödinger who should be careful?
I suppose it depends on how good their lawyers are?  
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Two bit states ought to be enough for everyone!
Given the way the world economy is going, we'll all be living in a two bit state soon enough.
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