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Researcher finds building blocks for privilege escalation: Can they be assembled to create a flaw? I thought they were pretty good at coming up with those on their own
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As always: I joke at Microsoft from a place of love (and frustration)
Back in the days of ms DOS, Windows 3.x, windows '9x, NT, XP, and even vista, I would have gone to blows to defend ms.
But then things changed -- and it wasn't I who f***cked it all up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You had me until "Vista". The only blows I'd come to with that donkey was from banging my head onto the desk.
TTFN - Kent
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Believe it or not, this machine that I am working on now is a vista machine.
It's one of my "travelling* laptops", which I haven't had to replace for years.
When I got it, it asked me if I wanted the "WOW!!!" version or the NT version of windows, and I selected the "You have got to be f***cking kidding me!" option.
Without the bloated, cr@ppy, user- and CPU-unfriendly "WOW!!!" cr@p, it's a very stable, very solid OS.
Its security is handled by things far superior to windows crapdate, so I've never had any kind of problem with it.
My other travelling laptop is windows 8.1. The only problem I ever had with that one was when windows' wonderful, amazing, can't-live-without-it hibernation feature totally and thoroughly killed the hard drive.
I'll offer no prizes for guessing what the first third-party programs I installed on the 8.1 machine were.
* I take into account that North Americans can't spell "travelling", and blow my nose at it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They've been adding UX flaws for over ten years, now, and they're trying to spin this as news?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The eye movements we make while engaged in cognitively demanding tasks communicate a lot about us. What does it mean when I roll my eyes like this?
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Oh, here we go.
I've been waiting with unabated breath for some idiotic initiative to try to do the Lie to Me[^] thing -- it had to happen, but it was slow in coming.
Here's the end result, if you can't be bothered to wait to see how it pans out:
It won't work, but it will be used anyway, misjudging people and causing grave injustices.
Trying to use AI to do psychology -- psychology that doesn't work, in this case* -- can do nothing but harm.
* In case anyone didn't know: all this "looking down to the left" and "micro-expressions" stuff is utterly unreliable nonsense that has no grounding in reality
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Awesome!
I've been looking for an area of pseudo-science to call my own, and here's my chance. I hereby claim all copyright on NLCF (Neuro-Linguistic Code Fairies). It's the new thing!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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When you lose control over a phone number — maybe it’s hijacked by fraudsters, you got separated or divorced, or you were way late on your phone bill payments — whoever inherits that number can then be you in a lot of places online. "867-5309"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "867-5309"
That's not even a real phone number, because it doesn't start with 555.
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Contact forms that I deem do no need my number: 911-555-1212
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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In the process of migrating their servers, they lost (or purposely purged) all uploaded photos, videos, or audio files that are more than three years old.
Does anyone even still use MySpace? I thought it died soon after FarceBook was introduced.
".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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A bunch of small bands were using it for their main websites, or at least they were several years ago
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I've got a myspace account.
And a facebook account.
And a twitter account.
I've never made any use of any one of them -- but when these things start up, you have to see what they are, haven't you?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've resisted the urge to join that voyage of discovery.
".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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Google is set to begin deleting data from its beleaguered social network, Google+ in April, but before that happens, the Internet Archive and the ArchiveTeam say that they are working to preserve public posts on the platform before they vanish forever. It shouldn't take too long to download the two useful ones, should it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It shouldn't take too long to download the two useful ones, should it?
Two?
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Another reason to pause before you illegally download Ariana Grande’s new album. I'm assuming the malware is compressed?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Another reason to pause before you illegally download Ariana Grande’s new album.
But... if we use 7-zip, are we safe?  
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.
modified 18-Mar-19 9:31am.
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Depends if 7zip can open .ace files (since it's the binary blob from the format creator that has the actual bug) or not. I don't have any to test, and have seen conflicting answers when I checked Google.
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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Sorry, I forgot the joke icon...
it was about the comment from Kent
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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Mondays /Garfield
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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Anybody here knows how to simulate the same?
I mean I want to try one of those ace files 
renaming ACE file with a RAR extension
I'm on winrar v5.61 and the bug is fixed in latest 5.70
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
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