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Why does no-one ever mention the extremely major point that lags and delays aren't just caused by downloading ads, but also by multiple file ops for up to five-hundred advertising cookies when you open a web page (or click through to the next one on the same site).
Even with SSDs, file ops are the biggest performance hit in most instances of everything -- and even if you reject advertising cookies, they write a cookie to say you've rejected it, which has to be read when the page opens, and re-dated (so only two file ops, making it an improvement, but still far from perfect).
The advertising and analysis cr@p is out of control.
Limits to what and how much sites are permitted to write to visitors' machines need to be set in stone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Limits to what and how much sites are permitted to write to visitors' machines need to be set in stone.
and followed... punishing who doesn't
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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A New Hampshire man got a big surprise as he went to close up his iPad: A bat was wedged between the back of the device and its cover and bit his finger. They should put a warning label on those things
OK, about as non-technical as I'd care to post, but I really liked his quip.
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An international coalition of civic society organizations, security and policy experts and tech companies — including Apple, Google, Microsoft and WhatsApp — has penned a critical slap-down to a surveillance proposal made last year by the UK’s intelligence agency, warning it would undermine trust and security and threaten fundamental rights. "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."
I probably use that quote far too often, but it seems especially appropriate for this news item.
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Okay, try "Assholes read each other's mail."
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If it requires to be private, use one-time-pads. With the amount of movies available, you don't even need to exchange pads anymore, any large blob will do.
Regardless of the power of their machines, you cannot crack that simple encryption. Privacy is not something that you should rely on with Apple or Google, it is something you do at your own end 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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"Do what I say, not what I do"
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Digital Shadows research finds that the number of exposed files -- including sensitive information -- has risen by 50 percent compared with last year. But there are some signs the problem can be fixed... Security through obscurity! Hurrah!
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So Digital Shadows has accessed 2.3 billion private/sensitive files?
LOCK 'EM UP! LOCK 'EM UP!
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So what’s going on, is UWP dead or not? The answer, a bit like Schrödinger’s cat, is both. Let’s start, since it’s getting all the attention, with the idea that UWP is dead. Schrödinger's UI
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Schrödinger's UI
Or a slight variant -- when you look in a new box, you hope it's dead.
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If you're seeing more malicious redirects than usual, now you know why. So... they're sending you to WordPress sites?
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half the spam send in the world have hacked wp sites where spammers host the stuff... its like the Flash of the website internet...
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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TypeScript 3.5 introduces several optimizations around type-checking and incremental builds. I hear it's all the rage (and I thought this version shipped already, but I don't pay attention to what I type)
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While I don't really want to complain about what the TypeScript guys are doing, lipstick on a pig is still lipstick on a pig.
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Errata Security reports that while most people have patched their PCs there remains at least 1 million unpatched devices in the wild and that hackers have started scanning for their open ports. Time to update that old machine in your closet (Or visit your parents, ya lout!)
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So the message here is: Don't, for God's sake risk bricking your machine and/or losing functionality that you need by updating windows.
Secure your ports, instead.
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I’ve been making charts of internet use, mobile phones and smartphones since the early 2000s. At one point, they were confounding and exciting - could it really be growing that fast? "91.7 percent of all statistics are made-up on the spot."
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And the other 51.4 percent are inaccurate.
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More than 50,000 MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin were compromised by Chinese hackers and used to surreptitiously mine for TurtleCoin as part of a large-scale cryptojacking campaign dubbed Nansh0u. Cleanup time on aisle DB
Edit: Fixed the quote from the article.
modified 29-May-19 21:41pm.
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Wrong blurb?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Nah, just unfunny one. Sometimes I struggle.  
Derp. Right, wrong text out of the article. Fixing, and thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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I was a bit confused at first.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Microsoft still hasn’t officially confirmed the existence of its rumored Windows Lite operating system, but the software giant is dropping some pretty big hints about the future of Windows today. Will it also crash the computer in the background (and prevent restart)?
Fool me once...
Wasn't Windows 2000 supposed to never need restarting? Or was it XP? I seem to recall speaking with a Windows consultant that bragged about never shutting down his machine.
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