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...the screen turned blue. 
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Israeli researcher Mordechai Guri has discovered a new method to exfiltrate data from air-gapped systems using the LED indicators on network cards. Beware of hackers that you let change the firmware on your network cards
Is that blurb a little awkward to read? Maybe I need an editor...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Beware of hackers that you let change the firmware on your network cards
Exactly!
Quote from the article: The attack begins with planting on the target computer malware that contains a modified version of the firmware for the network card.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The first rule of security:
If a "black hat" has physical access to your system, your system is insecure.
The second rule of security:
If a "black hat" has access to your system's firmware, your system is insecure.
A manufacturer of secure devices will require that firmware updates be signed by the manufacturer, and design their devices so that they will only load properly-signed firmware updates.
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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When it comes to health issues, not all forms of being sedentary are equal. As we know - people only use one or the other
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I know people using their computer with a TV instead of a monitor... does it count?  
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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Twice the dementia! 
TTFN - Kent
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Python's still #1, but employers love to see SQL skills It's IEEE, so you know it's almost as random as the other lists
RFC 1149.5 compliant, I'm sure.
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It doesn't give a lot of confidence when you mouse-over Python and see "C is used to write software where ..."
Similarly for C++, C and Java. The description for SQL seems right, but that's about where I stopped.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Quote: we also ran into the problem that different browsers could produce slightly different results, thanks to variations in floating-point implementations! (This problem of different implementations giving different results was largely solved by the IEEE-754 standard for floating-point numbers, so it would be interesting to go back and find out which browser versions are noncompliant. But for now let’s just all agree to not run any, say, nuclear reactors with a Web app, okay?)
Oh for ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) s sake!
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
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Before the internet, developer software included a lot of printed manuals. It's a development platform, AND something for your workout
Just remember to get someone to spot you when lifting.
Because C++ programmers are known for their lifting prowess.
I might still have a few of those manuals somewhere here.
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I will say the Microsoft C 5.1 library reference manual was excellent. It was a half height 3 ring binder so the function reference pages laid flat on your desk. Mine vanished somewhere along the way, but I still have my the book from my COBOL class.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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The printed manuals for OpenVMS weighed in at somewhere over 100 lbs.
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The former Twitter head of security also says Twitter prioritizes user growth over reducing spam. Was this whistleblower watching from across the street, or he just happened to be walking past their headquarters
I mean, it's kind of obvious, right?
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Microsoft is apparently planning to name the next version of Windows 11 (22H2) the “2022 Update.” "And that has made all the difference"
Deck chairs
Titanic
(OK, not Titanic. How about "rearranging deck chairs on the SS New Icon"?
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Are they calling it the "2022 Update" because it is 20-22% working?
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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You win the replies for the week 
TTFN - Kent
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No, because they updated between 20 and 22% of the Icons to the newest style. 2% of the proposed updates are still stuck in QA limbo*.
* a crack(head) team of managers are all vigorously shaking magic 8 balls trying to get identical results to make the final approval/rejection decision. 
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
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A pair of researchers at MIT have found evidence suggesting that a new kind of computer could be built based on liquid crystals rather than silicon. Computer and display in one? 0.7734!
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Developers are straining under the demands of ‘You build it, you run it,’ and operators are feeling more pressure too. Is it time for development and operations to be separated once again? It's a NOOP job
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Hehehe, management demanded we jack of all trades and master of none; their wish is granted
I do not do ops; just like I don't do management.
I'm paid for R&D, to write code. Not to talk to some customer that has has firewall set wrong or gets a ton of virus-warnings in a server log. I'm not a helpdesk, aight? Not even for customers that invest a lot.
If you need to be a jack of all trades, than you can accept the management-job too. I won't.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"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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What are you, a mind reader or something?!
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In other news, the Earth is spherical.
Specialization is a hallmark of economic progress. DevOps proponents are ignorant of this simple fact, preferring to have jacks-of-all-trades who are masters of none. Is it because they think it builds character? Then let them clean toilets on the side.
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Greg Utas wrote: Then let them clean toilets on the side.
I've had the misfortune to work under so-called managers who should have been assigned to clean toilets as their primary job.
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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I suspect most of us have suffered that.
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