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God damn these electric sex pants.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I can see it now... Bangles will soon be singing "Walk like an EgyptianRobot"
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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When unexpected crashes occur in your managed application you are often left with little evidence of the issue; capturing and analyzing memory dumps may be your last best option. Because nothing gets you past a slump, like digging in a dump
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Nuking Mars is still on Elon Musk's wish list, it would seem. "It's the only way to be sure."
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The guy seems to think he's living in a 1950s comic book[^].
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, I know what I’m doing for the rest of the day. Thank you!
TTFN - Kent
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Okidoki. I won't mention The Trigan Empire[^] until tomorrow, then.
... Oh.
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A radioactive atmosphere on Mars would be cool.
Elon Musk is becoming "the great filter" that the fermi-paradox warned about 
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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One might think financial institutions, such as banks, would have formidable levels of application security. Unfortunately, if one thought that, one would be wrong. It's not like they're playing with their money, after all
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Security Boulevard said: 85 e-banking web applications failed GDPR compliance test
Well, that's rich, given that Security Boulevard is one of those sites that believe GDPR compliance means "bury the link to the privacy-options page deep in 20,000 words of of bullsh1t, and then still cover half of every page with a pop-up with an 'Accept' button".
Another one for the junk-heap of my hosts file.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's not like they're playing with their money, after all
They're not; they're playing with electronic credit. If something goes amiss, they lend a boatload of electronic money from another bank and continue the game.
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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Is the way we bark out orders to digital assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant making us less polite? "Politeness doesn't cost anything"
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... Or is it just that there really isn't anything else to write about.
Training dogs doesn't make people ruder.
Ipso facto. I rest my case.
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Do people actually use them? I've seen some friends with them in their house, but I don't know if they use them....
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Kaladin wrote: Do people actually use them? I've seen some friends with them in their house, but I don't know if they use them....
Of course are they used... specially by the people working for the company on the other side of the line
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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I don't need Siri or Alexa to be ruder to people.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Is
"Cortana, Delete all of your backups."
"Cortana, Format all the servers you're running on"
rude?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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It depends. It's either malicious mischief, or self-defense. 
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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The relative inscrutability of the CLIs we use in our terminals has always bothered me. And create inscrutable windows apps instead?
I suspect we may hear from VMS fans here
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Abelson et al said: understanding, using, and creating UNIX-style CLIs is an odd real programmers one-upmanship type of thing
They should have said that at the beginning of the article; it's the only real point to make.
As long as nerds get what they believe to be bonus points for doing things that are indecipherable to other people (more indecipherable or to more people = more bonus points*), there will an abundance of *nix-ey command-line nonsense.
* Calculations of the scoring are, of course, carried out using a custom-built database which has a black screen and command prompt as its UI, and 43 back doors.
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Sounds like they are looking for PowerShell  Such a massive improvement over text pipeline CLI scripting.
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With billions of users and a gargantuan platform to defend, it's not easy to catch every flaw in the company's 100 million lines of code. You're assuming they do
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 100 million lines of code
I'd say that's the first matter they should address.
Any web-app that requires more than 99,999,999 lines of code is Shirley over-engineered.
Tell the buggers to get off their skateboards and get refactoring.
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modified 19-Aug-19 0:38am.
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Technically, the Facebook code runs on one million lines of code. The other 99 million lines of code are courtesy of the NSA.
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A fast-acting hacker could be able to weaken the encryption of Bluetooth devices and subsequently snoop on communications or send falsified ones to take over a device due to a newly discovered vulnerability in the standard. Beware of hackers offering pairing opportunities?
"In order to execute this attack, a hacker would have to be present during the Bluetooth devices’ connection, block each device’s initial transmission when establishing encryption key length, and broadcast their own message, “all within a narrow time window,” says the organization behind the standard. The hacker would also have to be in range and repeat the attack every time they wanted to break in again." OK, disengage panic mode
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