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The next version of Windows 10 is expected to arrive this month, or possibly next, and bring with it some changes to security options that will surprise many. Microsoft wants users to stop using passwords and start using PINs. Because six digits beats your correct horse battery staple. Apparently.
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When I restarted Windows today, it suggested that I set up a scheme whereby I could unlock it with a smile [sic] or finger. I have no problem giving them the finger, but I won't take the sticky off my webcam.
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Mine showed me that as well. The only problem being the fact I don’t have a webcam.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: The only problem being the fact I don’t have a webcam.
Cover the entire screen with tape, then.
You'll find it more aesthetically pleasing that way, anyway.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: If someone compromises your Microsoft account password, they can log into your Windows 10 computer from anywhere...
From that part of the article, the MS account password is still being used behind the scenes to log your computer into MS's servers, if you are stupid enough to tie your computer login to a MS account. Unless I missed something. They say to 'never say never,' but I will say I'm never going to take such a step.
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David O'Neil wrote: From that part of the article, the MS account password is still being used behind the scenes to log your computer into MS's servers,
Not quite. As long as you're using the same computer your pin will work without the password being involved. Which of course means that 5 years down the line when the koolaid drinkers buy a new laptop (likely after accidentally dumping a spilling of purple into the keyboard) 99% of them will have no idea that they even have a PW separate from their pin. Which in turn means that the potentially strong password on the account has been reduced to several bits of publicly available information in the form of the reset forms insecurity questions. As effective as screen doors on a submarine. 
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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Also, since people will not want to remember multiple pins, every device they own will have the same pin. So, effectively, a strong password will be replaced by a 6 digit PIN for everything! Microsoft is stuffing themselves with geniuses of the dunce caliber!
"Would you like an icon with that?" 🙄
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Standard MS response. It doesn't matter which of a users PCs is compromised; this is to prevent a hacker from using a stolen pin credential to login as the user on a device owned by the hacker.
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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Error: Pin number already in use! 
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Yet another sad case of the "other logics" that abound in the tech world.
You might think that the word "other", above, could be replaced with a less forgiving adjective, but I couldn't possibly comment.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: A point that Microsoft itself drives home in a 2017 posting: "The PIN is tied to the specific device on which it was set up. That PIN is useless to anyone without that specific hardware."
This has got to be the stupidest thing Microsoft has ever tried to push on us. My Windows password is also tied to the machine on which it was set up, and it's a lot more secure than a 4-digit PIN!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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What a crap! I set up my computer at home to automatically log me in at startup. That's just convenient, and if someone steals my computer, he has access to all the crap on it anyway.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Think how helpful it could be if an AI assistant guided you in transitioning to a different activity or taking a break, saving you the time and energy spent forging unproductively ahead, continuing to fall behind, or getting further distracted by negative feelings surrounding your progress, or lack thereof. How about now? Now? What about now?
Because we definitely need an AI to tell us when to take breaks
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They just want people to start thinking that Cortana wasn't so bad after all.
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ms said: our team of productivity, affective computing, and attention researchers[^]
So click the link, go to the page, and burn those faces into your mind!
It is they who are responsible fo the "focus" initiative, which has done almost everything that could possibly be done to distract you from your work and destroy your focus!
Remember them well! They are the enemy of your Christmas bonus!
[Edit] I didn't even notice the clue in the quote: "affective computing", which, obviously, is not "effective computing" [/edit]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 7-Apr-20 2:21am.
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With usage of the insecure Zoom platform skyrocketing, Microsoft is offering up Skype as a safer and just as free alternative. We know. That's why people are using the other stuff.
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Oh, skype is So 2010!
... Because ms bought it in 2011.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ironically, I just fired up Skype for Business, and was greeted with a white-on-purple banner stating
Skype for Business will be upgraded to Microsoft Teams
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
modified 7-Apr-20 8:37am.
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really irks me when news stories make "general" purpose reports and mention one product without mentioning the tens of others which have been around longer. Just shows me that many just regurgitate from each other without taking the 10 seconds to do any web search.
While on Skype, worked at a place where had ms exchange account, skype for business installed on all computers, would use it to chat.
But 9/10 times when a screen share or voice call meeting was arrange, "oh here is a go to meeting or ring central meeting so I can screen share".  why, skype right here and does that, oh and the company paid for the duplicate service
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Yes, I heard of that product.
I think it used to be a successful product. Until Microsoft acquired it. Change of fortune for reason that escape me, btw.
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Prints show the tracks of three ‘titanosaurs’ that took a seaside stroll more than 165 million years ago. “Oh, what a feelin, when we're dancing on the ceiling”
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Interestingly, it was found that the footprints are all female.
It's believed that, over time, the car seat disintegrated.
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Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a "smart surface" that could make signal available in dead spots—and also make the existing connection twice as fast. Does it involve running cable?
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Apparently, it can't be used to download vampire movies.
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The US is cracking down on data collection and privacy laws – but what do Americans think about their internet rights? We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect internet...
Too lazy to transcribe the rest. It's Sunday after all.
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