|
The number of reported vulnerabilities in 2018 is seven percent down on the same period last year, according to a new report from Risk Based Security. The other 75% have fixes, but the fixes break other stuff
|
|
|
|
|
It's just nice to see that the "Patching is the Cure for All Your Problems!" trend is finally declining.
(But that's probably because MS patches are the cause of most problems.)
Hopefully, we're moving toward a "Don't leave your security up to someone else!" era.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Any adept programmer not only needs to be good at coding but also has to stay abreast with the ongoing and upcoming happenings in the programming world. Because these are always 100% accurate, and not worth laughing at at all
|
|
|
|
|
Jeeze, the further you get into the article, the more moronic it gets ("data will be important"?!?), but if you read the guys bio, it explains a lot.
"he started his first startup, Leno, to solve a hyperlocal book-sharing problem"
i.e. he got his big brother to go around and threaten kids who hadn't returned his Radioactive Man comics.
"He is interested in product marketing"
Kthxbye
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Weirdly, people with a higher sensitivity to bitter caffeine taste drink more coffee "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
|
|
|
|
|
So people who can't taste it don't like it?
I imagine the same goes for ice cream and strawberries.
Another research project that was well worth the money it cost.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
The passage of my life is measured out in shirts.
|
|
|
|
|
Mining data to analyze tracking patterns, Sharon Di, assistant professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics at Columbia Engineering, has discovered that she can infer the population travel demand level in a region from the trajectories of just a portion of travelers. "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
|
|
|
|
|
So if you analyse how much people travel, you can work out how much people travel?
Golly, today is really hot for worthwhile discoveries.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Today, developers can get the latest Windows 10 SDK and start using some of these amazing platform capabilities. Because I understand one or two of you might use Windows
|
|
|
|
|
And it has at least one serious bug. The tools team is apparently using the Windows 10 test team. I highly recommend avoiding this turd of an update.
|
|
|
|
|
15.9.1? That's so last week. 
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Releases
- November 19, 2018 -- Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.2 Servicing Update
- November 15, 2018 -- Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.1 Servicing Update
- November 13, 2018 -- Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Minor Release
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
|
|
|
|
|
The value of Bitcoin has fallen below $5,000 (£3,889) for the first time since October 2017. Wait 5 minutes and it will be back up to $10K, then $6K in another 10 minutes, etc.
"Up, down, turn around. Please don't let me hit the ground"
|
|
|
|
|
Are you sure they're looking at the BTC price, and not the "time remaining" on a Windows file copy dialog[^]?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
|
|
|
|
|
Unfortunately, the xkcd sounds like my oldest daughter.
|
|
|
|
|
Emoji8 is sample UWP application that uses Windows Machine Learning to evaluate your facial expressions while you imitate a random selection of emojis. This is why we all have supercomputers on our desktop (or laptop)
|
|
|
|
|
Dear God in Heaven! Is there no end to all the worthwhile research, today!
From the article: To download Emoji8 from the Store, make sure you’re using the Windows 10 October 2018 Update
So don't download it from a working machine, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fortunately, by searching for "wombat poop" (which I suppose I should have done in Private mode), I found what is (hopefully) an alternative report: Why Do Wombats Do Cube-Shaped Poo? | IFLScience[^]*
The problem now is that the guy who owns the patent for the trash compacter will have to give all his royalties back, because the wombat has been around for a long, long time, and prior art is prior art.
* Proof for EU-law flaunters that we don't need their sites.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
A new bug discovered in Gmail affects the web app's user experience by hiding the source address of an email, a situation that comes with an obvious potential for abuse. I'm sure no one will use this for nefarious purposes
|
|
|
|
|
Funnier will be, when people try to abuse it once google has fixed it 
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.
|
|
|
|
|
So what's happening is that they're stripping out the sender ID, so that they can re-add it after they've shown the "anonymised" data they're storing to inspectors, but one of the guys working on it accidentally made it a "move" operation, rather than "copy".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
So 20 years after SQL injection was introduced to the world, Google never thought about simple HTML injection...
|
|
|
|
|
By poring over the most popular and fastest-growing languages in 2018, GitHub discovered that developers value a particular set of features. Languages that someone will pay them to use?
|
|
|
|
|
Amazing leap of logic; they assume languages are chosen for these features, not coincidental to them. To me, the common threads are 1) how easy is to build passable software and b) how "cool" the languages are.
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
