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Researchers at Yale University have developed a robotic system that helps robots be more polite (and more importantly, more useful). That should prevent any upcoming robot apocalypse
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With ownership comes conflict.
We should have a sweepstakes on when the war will start.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A security researcher has disclosed exploit code for a fourth zero-day vulnerability in Windows operating system in just as many months. The bug enables overwriting a target file with arbitrary data. Once they fix this, Windows will be 100% secure
In the words of the 'security researcher', "It's a lame bug."
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So... Windows Update hasn't changed...
".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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bleepingcomputer wrote: The researcher warns that the exploit she wrote works with some limitations and may not have the expected effect
So she's a windows developer, then.
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I find this openly comical. Windows will NEVER be secure. It's OS security model is openly flawed. Worse, there are so many MS developers working on different features, they don't even know if group A will break group B's code. Thus, when you hear things like:
1) "Edge is the most secure browser" you know they are just blowing it out their arse. They have no real way of knowing.
2) "Regular updates will keep Windows 10 secure" you know they are just blowing more air out of their arse. They still don't know.
Windows security is an oxymoron. Period.
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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Nothing is 100% secure. It's just a question of how secure or, rather, how insecure software actually is.
Kevin
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Well, sure, nothing is 100% secure, but I think we're talking orders of magnitude here. Security is clearly done by committee at Microsoft. How is it that Office can push out an update and then need a patch for a security flaw?
Meh. I freely admit to being obviously disgusted with Microsoft for the past year.
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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charlieg wrote: Security is clearly done by committee at Microsoft. How is it that Office can push out an update and then need a patch for a security flaw?
I think over time Microsoft applications have become more secure. But they'll never get to a point that they don't need patching.
But the same applies to web browsers, say. If you look at the release notes for Chromium, etc., they have the same kinds of vulnerabilities. Buffer overruns, use-after-free...
They too almost always need patching after their "major" version releases.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: Nothing is 100% secure.
Nonsense!
I'm secure in my knowledge of...
...
Ok, you win.
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Science? 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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We at AdGuard put a lot of our effort into protecting people's privacy, and many AdGuard users value our products exactly for this reason. The DNS stands for "Do Not Send ads"
Plus, works on mobile, where you won't have the access.
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In other words, rather than having Cox/Comcast/Spectrum/whatever to know you DNS history, AdGuard will know it. And the evidence that they are trustworthy is non-existent.
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The problem is that unless you're network savvy AND have the gear to accomplish it, you can't bypass the Cox/Comcast/Spectrum/whatever DNS settings because they lock their modems down to prevent you from changing those addresses.
So, in the end, AdGuard is like freedns or googledns. They're only useful if you know exactly how to do it. And this is why I run a redundant Raspberry Pi DNS setup. I have a 3rd that currently isn't running just in case one of the other two go tits-up on me. I'd estimate that I'm getting about 95% fewer ads than before.
".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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meh. I can't see the advantage of replacing one "secure" DNS server* with another, but I've set it up on a sandboxed machine that I can control via my KVM switch, so I'll run a few mirror tests, over the next few weeks, to see if there's any noticeable difference in what's served.
* [edit] Ouch! I made an automated ATM machine error! [/edit]
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modified 1-Jan-19 2:03am.
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His predictions about computerization were mostly accurate, though some of his forecasts about education and space utilization were overly optimistic. "The Seldon Plan is neither complete nor correct."
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Asimov, like most, if not all, futurists, failed to distinguish between what he thought would happen and what he wanted to happen. (I actually suspect he was mostly writing the latter and it happened to align somewhat with the former.)
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True, he was making money from... Radio Shack? ...someone’s computers around then. So more people becoming computer-literate would have helped his bottom line. So, a case of alignment there.
TTFN - Kent
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WHERE!
IS!
MY!
FLYING!
CAR!
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Did you forget to tie it down again?
Reckon I saw one floating around not 5 minutes back.
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Some of the approved projects include KeePass, 7-zip, VLC Media Player, Drupal, and FileZilla. How will they work fines into this?
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It's used by an incredibly large number of people (even I use it, to change encoding), so it ranks quite high on the threat scale.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I use Notepad++ daily; it's typically open all day. I just don't see it rising to the potential threat level as other items on the list, especially given its pretty stable history.
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Well, it can't hurt to get a few more eyes on it.
OpenSSL was a shocker.
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