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I suppose they needed a better excuse to gain access to microphone and camera without triggering privacy alarms overall
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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How the h ll is it going to do that? I'm already out of room ever since they downsized user free space. At least I get those wonderful "Your ONEdrive is full" messages on the daily. 
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In some cases, tools which can be used to conduct malicious cyber operations, ranging from espionage to taking down infrastructure are freely available on the open web. Not that any of you will need and/or want any such tools
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Google Cloud’s Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text APIs are getting a bunch of updates today that introduce support for more languages, make it easier to hear auto-generated voices on different speakers and that promise better transcripts thanks to improved tools for speaker recognition, among other things. "Everybody's talking at me I don't hear a word they're saying"
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Millions of developers use a programming language today that was created in just 10 days during the hustle and bustle of the dotcom boom. Maybe take a full 11 next time?
One day to decide, "Is this really what I wanted to write?"
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he is on a pr roll these days
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Researchers have determined that some light bulbs are suitable for covert data exfiltration from personal devices, and can leak multimedia preferences by recording their luminance patterns from afar. And here I thought I was safe working in the disco
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Millions of mobile devices from eleven smartphone vendors are vulnerable to attacks carried out using AT commands, a team of security researchers has discovered. The 80s are calling?
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If I can point to a singular idea that kills more products than any other, it’s future proofing. YAGNI (except when you will)
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Yeah, well my over engineering/future proofing just saved my ass.
I partially see his point, but what he fails to see is the danger of writing only to the spec. Plus, I've worked for many companies where fixing all the compromises (to ship now) is a pipe dream and the engineers spend an inordinate amount of time essentially hacking the software for the next release.
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The Colorado School of Mines last week began its inaugural classes in the world’s first advanced degree program in “Space Resources.” If you’re interested in busting rocks in space for fun and profit, this is the school for you. *Some post-graduate work may be required
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planning way ahead............ i hope the dont dump all the crap they mine on planet earth we are aleady full
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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The CEO of Epic Games has slammed Google's "irresponsible" disclosure of a security bug in its hit game Fortnite. Tim Sweeney accused Google of trying to "score cheap PR points" by revealing a vulnerability in the game's installer. Everyone knows it's best to leave them for hackers to find
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I'm shocked, shocked to find Google acting like assholes.
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No, Google is doing exactly what it has always done to protect its platform and improve the state of development for it. Epic are acting like a bunch of whiny jagovs; maybe don't implement an wide open installer, smart guys, and maybe accept that when you report it as patched, they will release the data exactly as they always have.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Google found a problem and worked with Epic to fix it, but then told everyone about the bug immediately, instead of waiting. Google was acting out of spite, not care.
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They have some bad press to recover from, this is such a "good" way as many others.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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They waited 7 days to allow for user patching, then posted the announcement to prompt those that had, for whatever reason, not patched. Sure, it's not in Epic's best interest, but it is in the best interest of their platform users. The only thing that waiting, as Epic wanted, would have done is allow uniformed users to have their systems compromised because Epic was trying to save face. It's a detestable stance.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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I suppose you and I will have to differ on motive.
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Former Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer once considered Linux users a bunch of communist thieves and saw open source itself as a cancer on Microsoft's intellectual property. But no more. Now that he's not CEO, he can't afford a Windows license?
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Nah, it's still a cancer. (Well, except for embedded, where Microsoft's stupidity has made them untenable, but even there I'd still call it benign cancer.)
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What happens is, people think a piece of work is downhill, and then all of a sudden a problem comes out of nowhere. I imagine I might do real work someday
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The collateral damage from my real work has never equaled the fringe benefits of my imaginary work ...
except in this message ...
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Turn it around by 90 degrees, then try again?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I try to avoid imaginary work on the job becose, I'm sure my boss would regard it as a sin.
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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