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what can go wrong... 
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A vulnerability in millions of fully patched Android phones is being actively exploited by malware that's designed to drain the bank accounts of infected users, researchers said on Monday. My "two cans and a string" still secure
At least for hackers without sharp objects (hackers, and also snippers, clippers, and slicers)
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Quote: Readers are once again reminded to be highly suspicious of Android apps available both in and outside of Google Play. People should also pay close attention to permissions requested by any app.
Yes, I agree. That's why I don't do any critical things using the smart phone.
But if they offer Apps in the store (and this is valid for all companies) they should take more responsibility for what it is published there.
I know it is not that easy and that there are users that only receive what they deserve, because they are just morons that try to be too smart.
But there biggest % of users are just John / Jane Does that only try to get through the day the best they can. They are not versed in technology but rely on it (and as the world is becoming, they have not many alternatives). So if you can't trust the official sites, then what?
I know it is a bit naive from me, but I wish big companies would start accepting a bit more responsibility and give users a bit more credit / respect users a bit more, at the end we are the ones that make them earn money (and this is valid in both forms, as customers and as product)
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Be fair -- hiring people to test stuff properly before it's added to the store could cost google maybe as much as a thousandth of one of the hundreds of billions they make in profit.
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Scientists have finally decoded the bizarre behaviors of brain cells — and recreated them in tiny computer chips. Oh good. There's hope for me after all.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Scientists have finally decoded the bizarre behaviors of brain cells — and recreated them in tiny computer chips.
Am I the only one seeing this a bit skeptical? I mean, I can accept this:
Quote: Neurons behave similar to electrical circuits within the body, but their behavior is less predictable — especially when it comes to parsing the relationship between their input and output electrical impulses.
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“Until now neurons have been like black boxes, but we have managed to open the black box and peer inside,”
But the brain is not only electrical, there is a lot of chemistry too.
2 possibilities:
#1 - This is just BS and brings nothing forward
#2 - They really managed to do it. The potential danger of its misuse is frightening
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Nelek wrote: not only electrical, there is a lot of chemistry too.
Yes, electro-chemical
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Microsoft warns of 'laser' phishing attacks that are so well-crafted even techies can't spot them. I prefer pickerel rigs myself
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Privacy is fast becoming a hard-to-earn luxury. You mean it doesn't magically remove me from the internet as I browse the internet?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Don’t trust Google Chrome’s incognito mode
FTFY
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Nelek wrote: Kent Sharkey wrote: Don’t trust Google Chrome’s incognito mode
FTFY
You missed a bit.
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Amazon CodeGuru is a machine learning service for automated code reviews and application performance recommendations. Because I've always needed to scale my code reviews to the cloud
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It's only a matter of time before there's an Amazon CodeProject. 
/ravi
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Bite your tongue Ravi! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Only USD 0.05 per post and USD 0.75 per answer in Q&A! 
TTFN - Kent
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Is that cheaper than Expert Sex Change? 
/ravi
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It’s really just a small set of fixes and refinements over .NET Core 3.0, which we released just over two months ago. Stick them with the pointy version
Three years of support! Hurrah, better develop something fast so it can be replaced soon.
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Seems to me they've been small fix/refining it for four years...
I heard EOL for .Net Core was January 2021, but only because that's when they plan to roll out the new .Net Core 4.0 icon.
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modified 3-Dec-19 15:19pm.
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And shorter lifespans - 3 years for a "LTS"? Yeeesh.
Jan 2021 sounds about right. They had scheduled the merger of .NET Core and .NET Framework (.NET Corework?) for Nov 2020[^], but your date is probably more accurate).
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And shorter lifespans - 3 years for a "LTS"? Yeeesh.
Yeah. For most of the people who care about LTS that's short enough that they'll probably stay on 4.x until it's EOL and then rewrite onto a non-MS stack. 
Kent Sharkey wrote: Jan 2021 sounds about right. They had scheduled the merger of .NET Core and .NET Framework (.NET Corework?) for Nov 2020[^], but your date is probably more accurate).
If only they actually were merging them, instead of just skipping core 4.0, and then deleting the "core" branding from .net core. While they might have some rough edges like the winform builder working fully instead of being a minimally working preview; they're not actually merging anything. All the legacy features in .net Framework 4.x that aren't in .Net Core 3 won't be in .net Core 5; so if you can't upgrade now without a major rewrite today you won't be able to upgrade in 2 years without a major rewrite. 
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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Scientists from the University of Oxford have developed a tiny nanoscale device that can be programmed using either photons or electrons. Because I just wanted to type, "electro-optical nanoscale device"
Next stop: need to work some quantum in there
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Breaking the rules can bring a little thrill — and produce better, more efficient code "The code is more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules."
Yeah, I'm not sure why I posted this either.
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Why secretly?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Did I miss a memo?
When did half of these become bad habits?
Non-functional code, seriously?
None of the main programming languages we use today are purely functional so it wouldn't be very crazy if we didn't write them functional.
We can't really do without old-fashioned loops... I mean, it's not like we're all doing functional programming!
Copy-pasting is only half our jobs and it's not wrong in itself, but do it with care.
For number #5 the author explains why this isn't necessarily a bad thing himself.
Bad habit #11: Reading these weird bad habit lists.
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10 bad journalism habits we secretly love
1 Clickbait articles that contain so many adverts and pop-ups it is ten minutes before people can actually read the article
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