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Commentary on arstechnica when it first launched felt that it was probably closer to an internal feed to MS's bug/etc database thus making things easier on their side; and that while its being programmatically queryable left the door open for neat new report types in the future they elepanted the pooch by jumping the gun and not having out of the box reports that approximated the old presentation format.
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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Dan Neely wrote: they elepanted the pooch by jumping the gun and not having out of the box reports that approximated the old presentation format
Or several different report styles, or report templates.
Any decent customer support engineer would have had all that in place -- and what would it have cost them? A few hours?
A lot less than reading all the complaints will cost.
Really. It's become a prime example of a cr@p company.
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It's the agile flavor of deadline driven development at is finest alright. The release date was frozen so they slashed features to hit it. 
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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Dan Neely wrote: The release date was frozen so they slashed features to hit it.
 Doesn't everyone do that?
(e.g. in order to have a product ready in time for the next computer show)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Shirley, but "the next computer show" isn't every two weeks.
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SophosLabs has discovered a new spam campaign where ransomware is downloaded and run by a macro hidden inside a Word document that is in turn nested within a PDF, like a Russian matryoshka doll. "Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum"
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It's like a mystery wrapped in an enigma!
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I decode the exploit kits that drop this junk. They are nothing you want let loose.
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So you have to:
0. Open an e-mail from an unknown source.
1. Open a PDF attachment in the e-mail from an unknown source.
2. Allow the PDF attachment in the e-mail from an unknown source ridiculously high permissions.
3. Open a word document linked to from the PDF attachment in the e-mail from an unknown source (which you have given ridiculously high permissions)
4. Allow the word document linked to from the PDF attachment in the e-mail from an unknown source (which you have given ridiculously high permissions) to run macros.
5. Profit.
How many people are they expecting to infect, this way?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: How many people are they expecting to infect, this way?
There seems to be an infinite amount of stupid, so I would expect it's lots.
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The whole premise of these things is send it to millions of people and most will ignore it but you'll get a few thousand grannies who fall for it.
You don't need to fool a high percentage of people, it's just brute force to find the idiots.
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WiganLatics wrote: it's just brute force to find the idiots.
A good programmer would place a known idiot at the end of the list, so the algorithm is guaranteed to return success. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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And a bad programmer would accidentally leave themselves as the idiot at the end of the list, thus returning success by dumb luck!
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: A good programmer would place a known idiot at the end of the list, so the algorithm is guaranteed to return success.
Don't you have that backwards? It should be
-1. Send a message to a known idiot.
0. The known idiot oOpens an e-mail from an unknown source.
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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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No, I had it right the first time.
Given that this is a brute force method to find all idiots, the output should either be a list of idiots, or a failure indication. Adding a known idiot to the list removes the need for a failure indication, thus simplifying the code.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Dammit, now you just gave my father a list of instructions.
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Sorry.
I'll simplify things for him by just giving him an account number to transfer all his money into.
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Though YouTube, Facebook, and email are ubiquitous now, they all started out with a single post, profile, or message, and that first action is not always what you’d expect. For your next trivia night
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Oh gosh. Y'all remember the net in '93? white pages with blue underlined text that went to more white pages and blue underlined text. Better and depth-less from BBS system of the yester year but still. Every so once in a while for reasons unknown a gussy web page like code project will load up sans graphics like it's 1993 all over again. Freaky and disturbing to see.
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Ron Anders wrote: Y'all remember the net in '93?
And the Lord said, 'Let there be Light!' And there was blink text.
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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Go scrolling marquee or go home. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Ron Anders wrote: Better and depth-less from BBS system of the yester year but still.
Imagine how fast such content would load nowadays!
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Don't worry - marketers would figure out some way to slow it down!
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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