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At the same time, "good actors" are susceptible to bad acts by the bad actors because their whois info (address, phone, email) is in the public domain. And it shouldn't be. I understand why they have whois, but making it public was always a bad idea, IMHO.
".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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I'd rather have to deal with some spam and spear phishing than not have a reliable source for my heuristics to make traffic decisions with. Without a WHOIS mechanism, good luck even sourcing the traffic, and we can say goodbye to denying known proxies.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Researchers at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB) in Paris have broken through a key barrier in quantum memory performance. Their work has enabled the first secure storage and retrieval of quantum bits. Good news for those wanting to upgrade their quantum computer
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Dubbed “Flickergate,” a website to report the issues claims at least 1,600 Surface Pro 4 owners have experienced the screen flickering problems. Not cool (or maybe pretty cool, after it's been in the freezer a while)
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Going forward, Windows 10 S will no longer be a SKU offered by Microsoft. Instead, what they will be doing is offering S mode for all iterations of Windows 10 and frankly, this is a much better approach to the configurations. "And that made all the difference"
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So they want to charge W10 Pro users to get backward compatibility back, but Home users can do it for free? Sure - I'll sign up for that right now. Not. Seems to me that they have that backwards.
".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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Wow.
By raining down laser pulses on some 770 square miles of dense forest in northern Guatemala, archaeologists have discovered 60,000 Maya structures that make up full sprawling cities.
The data reveals that the area was three or four times more densely populated than originally thought. "I mean, we're talking about millions of people, conservatively," says Garrison. "Probably more than 10 million people."
Cool use of tech. I wonder how it will change this assessment or whether it will bolster it:
A severe drought, exacerbated by widespread logging, appears to have triggered the mysterious Mayan demise
Sorry, no Kent-witty comment. Make up your own. 
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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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[singing]
Quetzalcoatl, the magic dragon, lived among the trees...
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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Maya found in the forest !
see evidence here: [Maya]
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Amazon has been issued a pair of patents for a wristband system that monitors whether warehouse workers are putting their hands in the right places. "According to our data, you lifted around 320 boxes per minute yesterday?"
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: whether warehouse workers are putting their hands in the right places.
Latest Article - Code Review - What You Can Learn From a Single Line of Code
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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At first, you might say "really, is that all?" but let's be clear on what we (and the industry) means by 'open source'. The traditional gift for a 20th is China, so send all your code there
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The AI industry is never going to run out of the need for tech-savvy developers who can think out of the box. It looks like you're trying to compile an app. Would you like help with that?
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Today marks the establishment of the Cortana Intelligence Institute – a new, co-funded collaboration between Microsoft Research, Cortana Research and RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, to work on next-generation capabilities for Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana. "Don't make a girl a promise... if you know you can't keep it."
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So in other words, it's so useless that Microsoft wants to offload it to someone else.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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We know that many of you have been using .NET Core 2.0 since it shipped in August of last year and want to know what is coming next. "The only direction in life that matters is forward. Never backwards."
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Windows Template Studio, Microsoft's open source, wizard-driven Visual Studio 2017 extension for coding Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications, is out in version 1.7 with new support for Visual Basic and the Prism framework. Because I know you've all been waiting for this to support VB
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Adobe warned on Thursday that attackers are exploiting a previously unknown security hole in its Flash Player software to break into Microsoft Windows computers. Adobe said it plans to issue a fix for the flaw in the next few days, but now might be a good time to check your exposure to this still-ubiquitous program and harden your defenses.
"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 do not know what this "Flash Player" is that you speak of?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Flash and the Pan were an Australian new wave musical group, "Hey, St.Peter" might sound familiar to you 
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How is it that Microsoft can still claim a better, more secure OS when this crap still goes on? I would not expect application software to be able to bypass an OS' security measures, so it appears Microsoft still has not solved their core issues.
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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Short of making a transition to an entirely managed O/S where all code is verified before execution, what you're asking is impossible.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Catching up on this - then don't call your OS secure. Don't claim so as well.
Even so, ponder flash - it runs in a elephanting browser yes? Windows allows the browser - I'm not arguing that Windows should aspire to some DoD level system - but ffs - how do you allow an app running in a browser to penetrate your kernel?
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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Perhaps one of the biggest problem areas in C#—and one that’s been around since C# 1.0—surrounds the fact that reference types can be null and, in fact, reference types are null by default. "I call it my billion-dollar mistake."
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Sometimes I use a class with a
public static readonly MyClass Null = new MyClass(); singleton instance that does nothing to save on null checking.
Wout
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