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Google parent Alphabet Inc. warned that its business may be damaged by changing data privacy practices, new digital advertising polices and software bugs that leak user information. Poor dears
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In other news, burglars report that alarms and barred windows could hurt their profits.
I mean, seriously, WTF?
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No f***
Their business is just the opposite, what a surprise that if there were more privacy their business would be damaged.
Kent Sharkey wrote: new digital advertising polices and software bugs that leak user information.
In other words... if we can't earn money with it... why should we protect it that hard?
or yet other words... taking the private data as inverted hostages "if you f*ck with our benefits / money, we will make your data public (using the excuse of a bug)"
either way... the one fvcked up is, as always, the user.
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?
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modified 7-Feb-19 3:03am.
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Are they trying to motivate legislators to add more laws on the subject?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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With each release of C#, it gains more low-level capabilities. While not useful to most business application developers, these features allow for high performance code suitable for graphics processing, machine learning, and mathematical packages. Those will be nice and portable
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That's it. InfoQ is nothing more than a bunch of techno brown-noses, slurpin' around at Microsoft's bunghole, lookin' for an easy meal.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - 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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Hey, I resemble that remark
TTFN - Kent
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I find the coverage of C# language changes/evolution by Jonathan Allan at InfoQ to be very high-quality; perhaps your excess bile made you miss the fact that this article discusses proposed new features, in fact, extremely specialized ones. I suggest you read some of his articles on actual new facilities in specific framework/language releases.
I find his blog entries valuable: [^].
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Kent Sharkey wrote: With each release of C#, it gains more low-level capabilities.
That's really bad. How can I then educate my colleagues to use higher-level features? They fall into primitive obsession and similar crap like List<Tuple<int, string, Tuple<...,...>, ...>> - perfectly readable code!
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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@BernhardHiller Bernhard Hiller wrote: They fall into primitive obsession and similar crap like
I am not sure if you are criticising the new Tuple facilities, or not.
Care to clarify ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Personally, while Tuples are a welcome addition to the language, usage such as that shown strikes me as a misapplication of a good feature, where declaring a class/struct may be more appropriate.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I am even less sure of what this comment is about than I am of Bernhard's comment 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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“Borked” caught the attention of Jeffrey Sherwood, a lexicographer at the Oxford English Dictionary, when he began working on a project to source new words. "Bork, bork, bork"
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My understanding of bork is that it's an Internet typo, like teh or pron.
Bloody US politicians try to take credit for everything!
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Security researcher Linus Henze demoed a zero-day macOS exploit impacting the Keychain password management system which can store passwords for applications, servers, and websites, as well as sensitive information related to banking accounts. "Show me the money"
Once one company has bug bounties, everyone expects them all to have them?
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I'm shocked that ms has a bounty program.
Good job it's for vulnerabilities, and not bugs, or they'd go bust within a week.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Once one company has bug bounties, everyone expects them all to have them?
It seems reasonable to me that companies should encourage security researchers to submit details of vulnerabilities by financially rewarding the disclosure. Apple are behind the curve on this, and leaving an unpatched security issue in their product because they are unwilling to do so puts a lie to their marketing about the security of their products.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In an increasingly-connected world where data is collected and shared, privacy has become ever-more important to people. If you are of that mind, you may have enabled the Do Not Track (DNT) setting in your web browser in the hope that it will stop the websites you visit from tracking your online activities. Bad news: it probably makes no difference whatsoever. I would actually be surprised to find any
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Oh!
I thought that was true!
But if it's on betanews, it can't be!
Live and learn.
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Just like search engines ignoring robots.txt files.
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GenJerDan wrote: Just like search engines ignoring robots.txt files.
A standard search won't be stopped by the robots file; it only tells spider-bots and such-like to not index the listed pages/directories.
It's main use is to keep resource files out of indexes -- e.g. if you keep all your graphics in a separate directory, you can tell the bots not to index that directory.
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Building on their finding that honeybees can understand the concept of zero, Australian and French researchers set out to test whether bees could perform arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction. Making them better than many undergrads
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Just to add a little bit of reality to the whole thing.
Talk about deciding what the solution is, then reinterpreting the test results!
Sod all to do with arithmetic; it's about billions of years of evolution resulting in bees that can find food by following complex, colour-based indicators.
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All I know is they seem to be able to multiply around my house.
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I've been using ILMerge and various hacks to merge/squish executables together for well over 12 years. The .NET community has long toyed with the idea of a single self-contained EXE that would "just work." No need to copy a folder, no need to install anything. Just a single EXE. What's a 40MB EXE between friends?
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