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Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger launched a sharp attack at technology giants saying that tech giants ‘demand a great deal of information and control.’ He, therefore, asked consumers to stop their engagement with the Silicon Valley giants from stem to stern. "I wish I knew how to quit you."
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But he's wikipedia, so you can't trust a word he says.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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With Windows Virtual Desktop, you can deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes and enjoy built-in security. VT100, with added Windows!
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This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
self.reasonsToRollEyes++;
"Error NumericOverflowException"?
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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Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington have demonstrated the first fully automated system to store and retrieve data in manufactured DNA — a key step in moving the technology out of the research lab and into commercial datacenters. Don't sell your hard-drive just yet
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But I don't want to have to keep my computer in the fridge!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012 MarkZ skipped that course on encryption
It was either that or, "well, of course they did". Words escape me.
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But they locked the door of the server room, every night, so everything's fine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Words escape me
I think you meant to say "Words elude me", "I'm at a loss for words", or to more accurately illustrate your true bewilderment, "What.The.Actual.F*ck?"
".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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Those last ones were the words escaping me yes 
But, yes. And thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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#realJSOP wrote: "What.The.Actual.F*ck?"
But, judging by the number of pron sites that appear to make a living for their owners, virtual f*cks are the thing of the future.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This explains the ultra-high performance of their authentication code.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: This explains the ultra-high performance of their authentication code.
Actually, you're probably not far from the truth, there.
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Lets not jump to conclusions here, perhaps they invented a new encryption algorithm that uses a replica of the exact same letters, numbers and symbols of the data its trying to encrypt.
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Purloined-letter encryption!
I take back every bad word I ever said about them!
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That algorithm is actually not new. It is called "ASCII encryption" and was originally covered in a patent by William. T. Foxtrot.
Later on, a version coping with foreign character set was also invented by the same author, and patented, i.e. "UTF8 encryption".
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Quote: Renfro said the company planned to alert affected Facebook users, but that no password resets would be required.
“We’ve not found any cases so far in our investigations where someone was looking intentionally for passwords, nor have we found signs of misuse of this data,” Renfro said. “In this situation what we’ve found is these passwords were inadvertently logged but that there was no actual risk that’s come from this. We want to make sure we’re reserving those steps and only force a password change in cases where there’s definitely been signs of abuse.”
Well that's a worrying case of user convenience over security.
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I read a bunch of the commentaries. Aside from the usual political tripe, there were some that wondered why their staff didn't have the competence of a first your CS graduate. I couldn't imagine letting the plaintext password ever leaving the client.
Well - now I feel luckier than ever! Never took a CS course.
Development was fun and a good place to apply common sense. And now, with the realization that outsourcing to foreign lands is an idiot's gambit, I like the perceptible increase in hold-on-to-me hugging from the "top". I do worry about outgrowing common sense - but then, I can get a job a PharceBook.
But - consider who and what this is all about - I don't even think it worth nodding or shaking my head with jaded delight. Maybe I'll try some pity . . . but not today.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I can get a job a PharceBook.
No you can't... in the moment they realize you have common sense, they will bump you as you had the pest.
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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Perhaps what the article fails to mention is that those millions of Facebook passwords were stored in a few bytes and mapped by a foreign key to the accounts.
After all "password123" does not require a huge amount of storage space.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Windows 7 end-of-support notifications to begin appearing on April 18, 2019. That seems like a reasonable need for a software patch
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And if you click the "Leave me the f*** alone!" button, it installs winio.
There is clear precedent for this, Your Honour.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: winiowhineio
FTFY
#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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