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The company responded to the attacks with a strongly worded blog post, criticizing governments for "stockpiling" information about cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and likening the WannaCry attack to the US military "having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen." Wasn't the problem with them sharing it?
OK, they didn't share it to cause this, but they could have let *Microsoft* know about it, maybe?
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Was this one of the NSA tools recently revealed by Wikileaks?
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Wall Street Journal, May 14: [^]Quote: Since unveiling plans in 2011, Apple’s design team has sought to influence everything from sprinklers to door handles. It commanded so much time of architects that Foster + Partners, which is based in London, eventually opened an office in the Bay Area to better manage requests, two architects said. They said Apple requested fully constructed mockups of details like stairways for review before construction, much as it builds prototypes of iPhones before ramping production.
The call for a theater that resembled a MacBook Air suspended in space resulted in a structure featuring a heavy, carbon-fiber roof resting directly on glass walls. Architects and engineers had to conceal wiring and fire-protection tubes in the joints between each glass panel, the architects said. Guests will enter into the structure, named the Steve Jobs Theater, and descend stairs to an underground auditorium with 1,000 seats.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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I was hoping it would have been ready for visitors when I was visiting Palo Alto last month. 
Marc
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It's a good thing you quoted so much from the article since I am unable to read it - I don't have a subscription to WSJ, so I cannot read beyond the first 5 lines.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Try opening the link in an "incognito" window ?
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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BillWoodruff wrote: Try opening the link in an "incognito" window ?
Doesn't work.
I vote we ban links from sites that demand subscription for read-only access.
Unlike this one[^].
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Unlike this one[^].
That article is 3 years old with cartoon pictures! 
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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Hey, I wasn't particularly interested in the topic, so i didn't look too closely.
But are you saying you don't like cartoons?
Some developer!
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Having architects open a local office for large architectural project is not unusual.
Have clients dictate every details is not unusual either (architectural or software !).
No biggie.
I'd rather be phishing!
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... That Kent is on?
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I guess someone really doesn't like his article selection.  
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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Intuitively, DevOps and Agile seem like winning strategies. But few know how much their businesses are winning -- all they know is how much faster things are going out the door. But I was promised a silver bullet!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But I was promised a silver bullet!
Why? Are you a vampire? 
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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Windows Template Studio addresses a top community ask in our developer survey to make it easier and provide guidance to create new projects that target the Universal Windows Platform. Good news for that guy working on UWP projects
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Windows Template Studio addresses a top community ask in our developer survey to make it easier and provide guidance to create new projects that target the Universal Windows Platform.
I had to read that improperly punctuated sentence three times, before I figured out that the "writer" was using "ask" incorrectly, as a noun.
Shirley, you don't expect me to subject myself to more such appalling scrivening, especially when it's probably just wu-mao publicity for the most stupid of all the stupid ideas ms has come up with, over the past few years.
"Universal" my @rse.
Someone should teach them how to use connectors, adapters, interfaces, and drivers -- but, of course, that's all far too difficult to understand, to the marketing morons who design everything they make, nowadays.
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A day after a ransomware worm infected 75,000 machines in 100 countries, Microsoft is taking the highly unusual step of issuing patches that immunize Windows XP, 8, and Server 2003. These are operating systems the company stopped supporting as many as three years ago. 
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What about windows 3.11?!?
What about my ZX81?!?
Bloody useless, MS!
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Well,
There are some intelligence agencies and DoJ teams spraying the world with their high-technology penetration tools. I imagine that you could even bait these guys and wait for the latest tool drop. Just because the non-persistent toolsets remain in RAM and are sometimes encrypted does not mean those tools are safe.
I have a very pro-surveillance philosophy and I believe that complete visibility will help build a better world. However we need to re-think how that is implemented. The backdoor/hacking/subterfuge approach is probably not maintainable. We need to consider implementing built-in open access for law enforcement and world governments.
I think the Out-of-band management[^] approach is a great framework to build upon.
The onus belongs to the CPU manufactures such as AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, NVIDIA... to get this right. The same framework for built-in access/management can also be used to mitigate digital emergencies world-wide. This is especially important for our interconnected future with IoT devices[^].
I see no valid argument against implementing this.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: We need to consider implementing built-in open access for law enforcement and world governments.
How about we don't?
You may trust your government, I'm not that much of a fool. Even if you could somehow prove that this government can be trusted, there is no guarantee that a government is (democratically) elected can always be trusted.
The idea that privacy is not applicable is dangerous, as one cannot have freedom without it. That danger is not limited to persecution over your personal beliefs or religion, it may very well be based on politics.
Imagine, your in Syria at this moment. Left of you Turks, right of you Kurds. According to the Americans, both are allies. You're not allowed to shoot at either party, but they will shoot at each other. Do you trust your governement, or do you duck and cover?
We'll see a lot more of these attacks as the calls for investment in cyberwarfare grows. And those calls are growing louder after each incident. We certainly live in interesting times
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Randor wrote: We need to consider implementing built-in open access for law enforcement and world governments.
Hey, that's almost a direct translation of what Saddam Hussein said in Arabic!
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Randor wrote: I have a very pro-surveillance philosophy and I believe that complete visibility will help build a better world.
"Peeping Tom" comes to mind. 
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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The book Beyond Earth says we’re looking too close to home for our space colonies. Because we've got this place in tippy-top shape
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Hmmmmm,
We don't even have large human cities under the Earth oceans yet... I highly doubt you will see a human on the surface or subsurface of Titan within your lifetime. Hope I am wrong.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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