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In my limited experience (home use) Azure is far easier to use, as in I could actually do something! With AWS I failed miserably.
Kevin
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None the less, revenue is a better tool for comparison than the garbage fire of an article.
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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I can't argue with that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The reality is that it's more about perception than, um, reality. And my perception is that AWS is far superior. One of the primary reasons for that perception is that AWS offered a one year free tier which perfectly suited my needs. At the time (and I think this is still true) Microsoft didn't/doesn't. Initially, Azure seemed like a "me too!!!!" knee-jerk reaction to AWS's success. I don't like "me too!!!!" companies.
Conversely (another thing that post didn't mention) is documentation. In my experience, the documentation for AWS truly sucks. Finding an answer ends up being a circular maze of page after page where nothing actually answers my question. I found this to be particularly true when trying to figure out why I was still being charged for a closed account (turned out I had another open account that I'd forgotten about.) But the same goes for technical questions -- I often find pages that are obsolete and nobody has removed.
And what about customer service? When I contacted Amazon, I never got the issue resolved because the account in question, which they could see, couldn't be cancelled because it required "verification" from me. Which meant that at a minimum, they had to verify the callback number I had listed on the account. The problem is, I'd moved, gotten a new home number, and obviously had never updated my account information. So while they could see it, there was no way I could convince them that I was I because the callback number didn't work.
So, back to perception. My perception now is that AWS, holistically, pretty much sucks and my perception of cloud computing in general has soured. Which is why I cancelled all my accounts and host my web sites at home, myself. In the end, that's cheaper and just as fast. I'm not concerned about the very rare downtime due to power outages (the server is a laptop, the router and cable boxes are on battery backup) and if the site goes down for a couple hours, nobody is going to care.
Obviously, if I were a company where I needed the services that cloud computing offered, that would be a different story, and again perception kicks in -- I would still go with AWS.
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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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As AI becomes more common, companies’ exposure to algorithmic blowback increases They've already demonstrated how natural intelligence harms their business
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It's just the first step in making an AI the scapegoat for applying effluent to their ms office user interface.
It will be quite believable, because it's patently obvious that no real intelligence was involved in the design.
Mind you, if it's not the truth, I dread to think AIs will learn from it.Clippy AI said: new.user.interface.does.not.meet.current.standards...must.apply.effluent
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That's exactly what will happen. AI will be blamed in an effort to absolve themselves from any culpability. Hopefully people will be smart enough to realize who it was that deployed the AI and remember that no one forced them to.
"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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Percentage of memory safety issues has been hovering at 70 percent for the past 12 years. This explains why I can only remember stuff about 30% of the time
Yes, from the same presentation I linked to with another news item yesterday, but different focus.
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ms said: The reason for this high percentage is because Windows has been written mostly in C and C++, two "memory-unsafe" programming languages that allow developers fine-grained control of the memory addresses where their code can be executed by programmers who don't know what they're doing.
Like it is, tell it you must.
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The hammer can do nothing against it, if you are to dumb to use it right and you hit your finger.
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Percentage of memory safety issues has been hovering at 70 percent for the past 12 years.
And ditto for comparable software such as web browsers. Look at their release notes.
Kevin
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The planned unplugging is part of a cyber war-gaming exercise to make sure Russia can still operate even if it is disconnected from outside its borders. "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
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I'd settle for just disconnecting twitter from Delaware County.
(My former uncle Bob lives there, and she's a pain)
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I'm not sure how we'll cope without our regular bombardment of pro-Brexit propaganda.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I guess most of their server were isolated from main global internet
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
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A security vulnerability has been disclosed for a flaw in runc, Docker and Kubernetes' container runtime, which can be used to attack any host system running containers. Hurrah for isolation
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Do you miss the days of being able to run a simpler operating system such as Windows 95 and to use it to run some popular games like Doom, Wolfensteing 3D, and Grand Prix Circuit? Even better do you want to run it on newer operating systems like Linux, macOS, and Windows 10? And it's in Electron, so it uses twice as much memory as the original
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Message received.
Filed under "Might be fun to work on, but wouldn't for three seconds consider using it".
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VM with original window 95 probably better.
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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At least that comes with Weezer.
This space for rent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And it's in Electron, so it uses twice as much two orders of magnitude more memory as than the original
FTFY
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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I just found an old laptop running Windows XP, even more remarkable is that I remembered the password. Now how can I upgrade it to a reasonable OS?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Like a scene from a James Bond or Mission Impossible movie, a new offensive USB cable plugged into a computer could allow attackers to execute commands over WiFi as if they were using the computer's keyboard. Time for a little dab of epoxy
Fortunately, "This cable is not currently for sale, but Grover hopes to sell it to other security researchers in the future."
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Well, given that this tool seems to have been given a green light, I think I'll start working on safe-cracking tools.
Had I known that making tools that are specifically for use in committing crimes is OK, I'd have put my best designer's hat on and cornered the market.
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