|
Millions of Android phones, including the entire line of Nexus models, are vulnerable to attacks that can execute malicious code and take control of core functions almost permanently, Google officials have warned. This hack brought to you by Apple's marketing team (OK, not really. Please don't sue me, nice Apple people)
|
|
|
|
|
Won't the FBI be thrilled!
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
Employees could be losing more than two work weeks each year trying to get their computer equipment to work. Installing a Windows update cost me two weeks of lost productivity today
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: Installing a Windows update cost me two weeks of lost productivity today
whoaa, that is 1000% productivity lost in a single day !!!! Did you call Guiness ? 
You should buy a lottery ticket, because today you are against odds. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
|
|
|
|
|
Quote: whoaa, that is 1000% productivity lost in a single day !!!!
I do try to be efficient like that.
But when an install keeps me away from Freecell, I get antsy.
TTFN - Kent
|
|
|
|
|
I understand, I am a little like you.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: keeps me away from Freecell,
Freecell? Wait a second...were you updating Windows XP?
No wonder! 
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke). 
|
|
|
|
|
Yeah, but those are Canadian weeks, you need to allow for the conversion.
|
|
|
|
|
I thought Canada was metric
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
|
|
|
|
|
Only 4% of working time lost due to IT issues. That's great.
But what happened with the remaining 96%?
|
|
|
|
|
And technology itself is resulting in the loss of the other 50 weeks. 
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
In general, astronomy is reactive—we spot something unusual by chance and point as many telescopes as we can manage to try to figure out what's going on. It's rare that we have something pointing in the right direction to catch an event right as it starts. "Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are"
|
|
|
|
|
he company whose former CEO once compared open source licences like GPL to spreading tumours is now regularly open sourcing tools, components and even the occasional product, as well as coming out with more cross-platform products than ever – even for Linux. "Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up."
|
|
|
|
|
Imagine a world in which Windows was open source. Jack Wallen believes it is now time for such a reality. As opposed to the earlier million requests that Microsoft open source Windows
|
|
|
|
|
Think they will also trow Office to Open Source ?
So one can put back classical menu
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
|
|
|
|
|
I would settle for integrating .Net so we're not stuck with Visual Basic for Applications.
|
|
|
|
|
One bad side of open source is that the software tends to stagnate at that point. Boost is stuck in 2003 and Linux in 1985.
(The best open source libraries I've used were written and currently led by just one person, who is very open minded about taking pull requests.)
|
|
|
|
|
How on earth can Boost be regarded as stuck in 2003?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
|
|
|
|
|
It's based on C++03.
Even with a fully compliant C++11/C++14 compiler, when you use Boost, you end up with a huge amount of C++03 code pretending it's C++11 and they don't get along seamlessly. If Boost wants to stay relevant, they need to rebase to at least C++14.
|
|
|
|
|
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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
|
|
|
|
|
R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS), currently available as a Public Preview release, is a new tool from Microsoft for creating R programs using Visual Studio. Just in case you want a look at the new trendiness
|
|
|
|
|
Here’s the secret to understand hiring: It’s largely random DMPDs deemed dumpy
|
|
|
|
|
Akamai has found that the average global last-mile Internet connection speed has gone up 23 percent year over year. Someone should tell my network connection
|
|
|
|
|
Yeah, me too...still stuck on DSL 5 Mbps...
|
|
|
|
|
In Bangalore, yes it has. I used to have a supposedly 3 Mbps connection with a 12 GB data limit. For same price, I now have at least 15 Mbps connection with 60GB data limit.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
