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Quote: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's razor[^]
TTFN - Kent
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Quantum information processing promises to be much faster and more secure than what today's supercomputers can achieve, but doesn't exist yet because its building blocks, qubits, are notoriously unstable. Qudits? Now they're just making words up to mess with us?
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I wanted to call them pdrops, but, you know, when you're working with university professors...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What if we could eliminate an entire class of vulnerabilities before they ever happened? A patch in time saves nine sysadmins?
From Microsoft?
Also, Microsoft promoting Rust?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What if we could eliminate an entire class of vulnerabilities before they ever happened?
You mean by not out-sourcing?
".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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why aren't they using it yet? everytime they ship a new version of win10, they patch 10 bugs of the previous version and open 20 more
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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My experience may not seem like an obvious fit for Microsoft, but at the time, Microsoft was undergoing a total shift in both engineering and culture to a place where all operating systems were important, including Linux. "War is over, if you want it War is over now"
Apologies for posting a Medium article. I know many of you don't like them.
Why does that title remind me of 'The Doom that came to Sarnath'?
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Quote: I joined Microsoft in August 2016 after graduating from the University of Virginia, having studied computer science and entrepreneurship. Most of my programming experience at the university was with C++, and the operating system I used almost exclusively was Linux.
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In August of 2017, I joined the Windows Subsystem for Linux team as Program Manager.
1 year from CS Grad to PM. That explains a lot.  
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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American telecommunications company Sprint states in a breach notification letter sent to customers that hackers managed to infiltrate their accounts using the Samsung.com "Add A Line" website as a springboard in their attack. Your network is only as secure as the weakest site you're connected to
Or something like that.
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But this is great news for Fatty Kim III's best buddy of a certain colour who lives in a certain-coloured house!
Just wait for the flurry of anti-South-Korea tweets!
South Korea will be the new China.
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Ugh. I hadn't thought of that.
Shutting down my news reader... 
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft is starting to automatically update Windows 10 Home and Pro users on versions 1803 to 1903 using Windows Update, as officials said would happen. In case you're wondering why your machine is randomly restarting
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OK, so maybe someone who understands such things can explain to me why the "Last Ever Windows" can have an end of service date.
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because they will then bring out a Latest last windows ever, and then the latest last shiny windows ever, and then the latest last elephanting shiny windows ever, and then...
If not... they could not think of better (hidden) strategies to slurp data from you
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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This week at the Microsoft Inspire 2019 conference, we are sharing an update on capabilities that we are investing in to make the next version of Microsoft Edge the best browser for enterprises and business customers of all sizes. The Dev Channel now has enterprise features enabled by default and is ready for evaluation and supported by detailed deployment and configuration documentation. For the bleeding Edge types out there
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Will the F***ing, bloody, F***ing useless thing have a F***ing, bloody, F***ing status bar?
The current F***ing, bloody, F***ing useless version is F***ing, bloody, F***ing useless for security because it doesn't have a F***ing, bloody, F***ing status bar!
... And that's not to mention the thousand other F***ing, bloody, F***ing useless elements of the F***ing, bloody, F***ing useless browser!
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The government's Global Positioning System program has been wildly successful, and more technology enhancements are on the way. However, the success of GPS may help explain why it's in peril. "There's a destination a little up the road from the habitations and the towns we know"
Is this the point where I mention the European satnav system is down?
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Hey, let's face reality, shall we?
A Chinese company will come up with GPS5, and a certain-coloured person in a certain-coloured house will announce (before discussing it with anyone who knows anything at all about the subject) that the US will be releasing GPS6, right after his next three tweets.
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As well as money laundering and other crimes. "That's the fact, Jack!"
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Sharpened sticks can be used for terr'r'rism, so what's the real point of their statement?
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I'm just surprised that much about blockchain/bitcoin.
TTFN - Kent
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I'm aghast at quotes like "our overriding goal is to maintain the integrity of our financial system and protect it from abuse", in the article.
Do they really think that those of us in the real world don't have a clue about the cr@p they get up to?
Cryptocurrencies just give people outside "the city" a chance to access a percentage of the money that "the city" has been stealing from everyone for God-only-knows how long.
That's not to say that I'm in favour of cryptocurrencies, but if we can't stop billions upon billions being stolen from us, does it really matter which egomaniacal bunch of reprehensible, sh1thead thieves is stealing them?
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The next major version release of the C# language (C# 8) has some exciting new capabilities. Let's look at the hat and range operators, two new features in C# 8. "Later generations will regard set theory as a disease from which one has recovered."
Yay! A hat operator that works entirely differently from that in C/C++!
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A set-based construct by another name is still a PITA to use.
Thank the Lord that they've found another PITA way to do the same thing that was just as much of a PITA to use before! (Unless you use Z, of course, but they were probably scared of the leap-of-faith jump required to go from C to Z).
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