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I'm all for automation replacing such mindless jobs, as long as the benefits of such don't concentrate at the top of the pile. We're going to have to do a rethink at some point, or civil unrest is sure to follow.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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160 terabytes per second ... okay [^].
Definitely another sign of the imminent apocalypse.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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KITT-like auto-cruise and auto-steer are equal parts mesmerizing and disturbing. I trust all software. I just don't trust the developers that made it.
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Some of the most critical business systems run by US government agencies are older than many of the IT people who support them, written in mainframe assembler code or COBOL. If it ain't broke put more money into it.
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No matter how many times we tell you to change your passwords and make it anything but your birthday, “123456,” or “password,” many still aren’t taking the efforts to make their accounts more secure. So Microsoft is actively doing something about it by banning weak passwords entirely. Y-you're stupidly easy-to-guess.
modified 27-May-16 9:15am.
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I like my computers like I like my women - easy to get into.
".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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And they are, hence the problem.
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You must have some badass cases of virii...
#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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The link seems to be confused. Instead of www.http://, it should probably start with http://www.! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I don't know how I managed that, but I did. All fixed.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Sean Ewington wrote: All fixed.
Are you sure? The link looks even worse now:
http:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I fixed the news item at the source, and in classic fashion, forgot about the forum post. Now fixed.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Ish.
The main link still has the trailing "bbc.com" link on the end.
The "new window" part still has both that and the spurious "http//" at the beginning.
Current:
<a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/05/26/microsoft-banning-stupidly-easy-guess-passwords/bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36385839">The Next Web</a>[<a href="http://www.http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/05/26/microsoft-banning-stupidly-easy-guess-passwords/bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36385839" target="_blank">^</a>]
Should be:
<a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/05/26/microsoft-banning-stupidly-easy-guess-passwords/">The Next Web</a>[<a href="http://www.thenextweb.com/insider/2016/05/26/microsoft-banning-stupidly-easy-guess-passwords/" target="_blank">^</a>]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I'm gonna say fixed but I can't promise it's fixed as I've lost confidence in myself
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Well, at least it works now! 
You've still got the extra "bbc.com" part on the end, which is from a different article:
http:
The real link should be:
http:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Lovely response 
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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The US nuclear weapons force still uses a 1970s-era computer system and 8-inch floppy disks, a government report has revealed. There's a section of the article that describes a floppy disc. I feel old.
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Leslie Neilson already posted that article.
".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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 What does Kent do when this happens? Does he just not put it in the Insider News forum and post it in the Daily News anyway?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I'm not sure - I can't remember seeing it before. Sounds like a plan, though. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Let my shame stay. Let people know what I did. Let the hand-waiving begin anew.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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When it's posted to the insider forum, he links to the original in the newsletter. (I manage to get something I posted shared once a month or so.  ). IIRC he's occasionally used his powers of admin-edit to inject a blurb or better title in the original post. If the original was posted in the Lounge we just get a dupe here.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Yup. That's what I do. 
TTFN - Kent
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