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A security lapse has exposed a massive database containing tens of millions of text messages, including password reset links, two-factor codes, shipping notifications and more. The 'S' is not for 'security'
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... Because using your phone for security stuff is really the most sensible thing to do -- google says so, so it must be right!
Either that, or they just want to add your phone number to all the other "anonymised" data they've reaped from you.
Great things, these "anonymous" phone numbers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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According to Windows executive Joe Belfiore, Microsoft was honored with an Emmy for its role in supporting TV experiences over the web via its new Edge browser. Not for Best Browser for Downloading an Alternative?
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The Be Sharps songwriter had the right attitude about emmies.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft collects and stores personal data about the behavior of individual users of its enterprise offerings on a large scale, without any public documentation — according to a new report by Privacy Company. I'm shocked that anyone thinks it's covert
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If you haven't realized privacy is dead, you're missing the necrophiliacs' party.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Why can no-one see the obvious solution?
Lookit, if you store all your data and everything on MS cloud services, they won't have to sneak around like thieves in the night to get only part of it.
If you then store back-ups of all your data and everything on google and amazon cloud services, and move your corporate web-site to a facebook account, the world will be a better place.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Many of the most damaging hacks in recent history were only possible because someone failed to update software. "Patches, I'm depending on you"
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Glad to read that product liability is not a thing. Boeing, especially, is relieved.
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Quote: Patches were often poorly tested, and far too often they broke more than they fixed. ... Things have changed over the years.
In what world does he live? In some utopian future, methinks.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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I agree totally!
Every problem with every hack, every product incapacitation, and every driver failure is entirely the fault of users!
I wish people would stop blaming the billion-dollar software makers for their software being full of security holes, bugs, and unexpected side effects!
It's YOU PEOPLE, who want to use new printers, video cards, processors, etc. for more than a month who are the problem!
It's YOU PEOPLE, who want your computers to be working whenever you feel like switching them on who are the problem!
You should download every byte of cr@p wonderful update that the billion-dollar software makers spew out benevolently make available to you, even if it's so badly produced that it kills your computer and change your hardware every two months, to match the hardware that the billion-dollar software makers have spuriously decided to support!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Security is failing as a paradigm.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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tl;dr: Because we want to write algorithms, not circuits. I know I've been wondering
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Up next; A#, a language to deal with aether.
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I've had a bit of a play. Syntax-wise I'd have preferred it if they'd stuck with an F# variant rather than a hybrid C#/F# one. On the other hand, figuring out what the hell you're doing is more of a problem than the language! 
Kevin
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Microsoft Quantum : Where do you want to or not want to go today?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Google to create $200,000 fund to sponsor the addition of "on by default" performance-related updates in popular JavaScript frameworks. Maybe they can throw a bit of that money at Chrome developers to reduce the memory demands?
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"Here's an idea, guys: if we can reap all the user's location and personal data using minimal resources, they might not even notice we're doing it!"
I'll write a script that checks every 20 seconds for any background processes owned by google and kills them immediately. People will love getting all that power back for doing "unprofitable" things (like their jobs, watching movies, and playing games), so it'll be a shoe-in for the 200k!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The surprising modern status of the vacuum tube, a vintage technology that continues to maintain its value and use case in a world full of transistors. "Oh goodie! My Illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator."
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...to warm up houses, for instance..
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Oh goodie! My Illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator."
Pardon me, Doc, but just what did you mean by that crack?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The website has instructions on how to recycle the company's excessive packaging, as well. Beyond just dumping it in a drawer will all the other old stuff?
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"Soylent Green is people!"
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Researchers have used a neural network to generate artificial fingerprints that work as a “master key” for biometric identification systems and prove fake fingerprints can be created. And now the AI will be giving us the finger
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Aah, that neural net's rubbish!
It can't even generate the word "password", so there's no way it'll be able to hack into anything important.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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