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A well-rounded article. 
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Workfront's annual State of Work report reveals a huge productivity gap. Sorry to interrupt your day with this
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Top domain name registrars NetworkSolutions.com, Register.com and Web.com are asking customers to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion in August 2019 in which customer account information was accessed. Who secures the network security companies?
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So many SB-style responses come to mind, particularly regarding a particular cybersecurity advisor nomination some 2 years and 10 months ago. 
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In total, we tracked six security vulnerabilities affecting jQuery across all of its releases to date, four of which are medium severity Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities, one is a medium severity Prototype Pollution vulnerability, and lastly, one is a low Denial of Service vulnerability. Yay for helpful, shared standard libraries!
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Almost 84% of all websites may be using jQuery, most of those are probably not using XSS and are therefore NOT impacted by these vulnerabilities.
This article is a bit like saying, "guns exist so you'll probably get shot". In other words no "real world" statistics to back up the attention-grabbing headline fluff.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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99% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
".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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We’re excited to share an important milestone in the journey, introducing the preview release of Microsoft Q&A - the place to get answers to all your technical questions on Microsoft products and services. For all your questions, like: "Why? Why? Why?"
So much better than their old forums: these ones have tags!
Here's a Q for them to A: "So, are you going to move all the valuable answers over to the new system?"
(Trick question. There weren't that many valuable answers over on the old system.)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There weren't that many valuable answers over on the old system.
That is so true. I've never found one, and the intelligence factor is severely limited I've noticed, both of the Q'er and the forum design itself. I wonder when Google will start indexing the new Q&A forum? I wonder if it'll stop creating copies of the post you're replying to with its 100's of lines of code drivel that people insist on posting? I wonder if a new forum will result in brighter lights shining in the answers? Ah, but my wonderment is short-lived, replaced with "I really don't care."
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Will there be a bridge available so that I can utilize the old MS News Group, like I did back with Outlook Express?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Yeah, good luck with that one. I’m pretty sure the number of folk at the company that know what NNTP is are few & far between.
TTFN - Kent
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Messagetap monitored telco's network for messages sent between high-value targets. Time for third thoughts about SMS authentication
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A little over 21 million login credentials stolen from Fortune 500 companies have been found in various places on the dark web, many of them already cracked and available in plaintext form. Hopefully: you are not here
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I suppose is time to revisit "haveibeenpwnd"
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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Artificial intelligence is likely to change how every job is performed, eliminating work related to repetitive tasks but increasing the need for creative thinkers, according to a new study. Because that's the one thing IBM knows a lot about: creativity
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because that's the one thing IBM knows a lot about: creativity
According to another previous post by you about them... they are pretty good at it.
They are still finding new, very creative ways to screw it up  
M.D.V.
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Confidence in our power over machines also makes us guilty of hoping to bend reality to our code "I'll just put this code in here as a temporary fix."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "I'll just put this code in here as a temporary fix."
which is the source of my most hated explanation when asking for something about legacy things:
"historically grown"   (probably a bad translation of the german expression "historisch gewachsen")
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Just leave alone for now and we will take care of that later
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Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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RIPE, which manages IP address distribution for a large part of the world, has updated its address space chart showing how many addresses are left. It is clear that unless something unexpected happens RIPE will run out of addresses in November. again/still
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There really are no more IPv4 addresses
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RIPE, which manages IP address distribution
I had firstly read R.I.P.4 and thought... how appropriate  
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What lessons can we learn from old code that becomes unkillable? Fortunately, it's not capable of eating brains
Apologies a'plenty for posting an item from Medium. I really don't like their policies on that sign-up popup. But I figured this was appropriate for the season.
Also, so I could mea culpa - parts of an Access e-commerce app I worked on may still be in use by two governments around the world. Sorry to any Canadians or Bermudans that bought a government document a few decades ago.
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MS Access is the program that re-aimed my career from Systems Engineer to Application Development 20 years ago.
Where I was at the time was a company that used Access (97) for a lot of the department tasks; and building off of these small apps taught me a lot of VBA. VBA led me to Classic ASP. Classic ASP led me to C#. And yes I migrated from Access to SQL.
Another side effect of using VBA within Access was that I became well versed in using ADO and Stored Procedures. I have very little use for Entity Framework because of it
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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The Google-owned AI lab’s more sophisticated software, still called AlphaStar, is now grandmaster level in the real-time strategy game, capable of besting 99.8 percent of all human players in competition. The one thing we want AI to know: how to do a Zerg rush
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The one thing we want AI to know: how to do a Zerg rush
Einstein already told it...
Quote: Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity, but I am not sure about the first one.
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