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That's pretty close to it, yes. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I can't use the actual word here.
Jeremy Falcon
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After seven years of development, Avast open-sources its machine-code decompiler for platform-independent analysis of executable files. "There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves."
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Well that seems wrong. / Got mine! Thanks! 
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a 32bit only decompiler is going to be increasingly limited value as time goes by. Am I being overly cynical for suspecting they opensourced it hoping someone else would update it to 64 bit?
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
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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I do think it fits in the category of, "What do we have laying around that we can open source and get some press love for?", yeah.
Works for Microsoft, why not Avast?
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah. The real unanswered questions are:
1) Will they continue to develop the tool?
2) If so will they do so in the open and with community involvement?
In MS's case those answers generally seem to be yes, with abandoned projects be left to rot ignored on internal source control servers. (VB6 fans say hi.)
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
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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A team of University of Alberta engineers developed a new way to produce electrical power that can charge handheld devices or sensors that monitor anything from pipelines to medical implants. I've been saying for years that "triboelectric nanogenerators" is the way to go
I mean, it's obvious, isn't it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "triboelectric nanogenerators" is the way to go
I mean, yeah, if you're not using the "quadroelectric picogenerators" then the tribos are the way to go. 
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Computer scientists have built and successfully tested a tool designed to detect when websites are hacked by monitoring the activity of email accounts associated with them. Is it on the Internet?
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What a brilliantly simple and effective method to detect breaches. I wish I thought of that.
Someone should use their code to build a website that you can go to and get a live view of websites that have been breached.
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Sites vulnerable to newly revived ROBOT exploit included Facebook and PayPal. Oldie, but a goodie, I guess
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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A sharp metal object is exceptionally effective against modern ballistic protection... yet swords are millennia old.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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First Heartbleed, then Dirty COW, now this. Oh wait, I forgot, I use those terribly insecure Microsoft platforms so I don't have to worry.
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Ask just about any *NIX admin using a Windows laptop and they will have come across Putty. Oh, ssh!
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You got that right. For years we waited for multi desktop support. Many offerings were made, then MS rolled out there own shiny turd. Can't wait to see how they "improve" putty. lol.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Analytics firm Net Applications revised its methodology to cull bots from its browser share numbers and found that as much as half of the traffic to Edge on Windows 10 was artificially inflated. How else am I going to download Chrome?
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Why would anyone use a browser that implicitly admits opening a link in a new tab and immediately activating that tab are useful via a Bing setting, but makes you use two hands to do so in all other situations? It's been how many years, now?  Idiots...
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I used IE to download Firefox on the last new machine I got with W10 on it.
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The most shocking aspect of this is that 1 in 6 Windows users don't know how to set their default browser.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Hungarian notation is one of those topics of great debate in the programming community. You can find just as many intelligent and well-respected proponents as you can find opponents advSome nsubjPeople vbThought adjBetter?
Probably made a few errors in that one. I never did learn sentence diagramming.
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Wow, that was inane. What went wrong? Well, take this:
No more guessing, and no more scrolling back to check the type.
One of the things that "went wrong" is that IDE's became more sophisticated so you merely mouse over the variable to find out its type.
And then:
Hungarian notation hasn’t gained full acceptance from the development community.
Of course, because life was simple when you worked in C. You had built in variables, and ok, structs. With OOP, if you used Hungarian notation, you'd have:
cListCtrlListOfPeople = new CListCtrl()
or some BS like that. You can't Hungarian-ize all the types that are created in OOP without going nuts.
Which brings me to my other point -- conflicting styles.
When we use loosely-typed languages, we’re using them for a reason!
I've actually never seen a loosely-typed language used for that reason. It's pure laziness IMO. On the other hand, yeah, I have replaced entire class implementations in Python with a mock class and the type-less language doesn't care as long as the methods are implemented the same. But IMO:  It's dangerous, the code becomes confusing to understand, and worse, changes can easily break things, as you have no idea what other concrete square is being shoved into the round hole (ok, that's a bad image) which, IMO again, is one of the primary reasons unit testing was invented -- a problem that was created to solve another problem.
Following standards and best practices makes our code readable, and Hungarian notation is just one of many standards and best practices.
Riiiight. So, instead of x = YouHaveToGuessWhatIAm(); we can write strX = You HaveToGuessWhatIAm(); 
I'll stop now. 
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I like and use Hungarian for screen controls - I find it makes code genuinely more readable if I can instantly spot a radio button from a check box or a text block from a stack panel in the code behind.
In all other circumstances, it's a complete and utter absurdity in the age of IDEs and Intellisense. Though, come to think of it, I found it a complete PITA back in the days when we coded in vi rather than Visual Studio - *ptrSomethingOrOther is so spectacularly redundant that it hurts the eyeballs.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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PeejayAdams wrote: I like and use Hungarian for screen controls -
Me too! That's the only time I use Hungarian notation.
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