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The really unfortunate point here is: "If it ain't broke, don't replace it with the latest faddish cr@p that will soon be revealed to be full of security holes".
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A decade-and-a-half from when it emerged and held the title of the most destructive computer virus of all time, MyDoom still persists. If it ain't fixed, keep using it
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Quote: "The main reason for the high and consistent volume of MyDoom malware is that once infected, MyDoom will work aggressively to find other email addresses on the victim's system to send itself on to," Alex Hinchliffe, threat intelligence analyst at Unit 42 told ZDNet.
Yeah, sure it's that and not that there're ![Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/sunshine.gif) s keeping PCs on the internet that haven't been patched in 15 years.
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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Dan Neely wrote: keeping PCs on the internet that haven't been patched in 15 years.
Some of them are here in CP  
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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But are we talking about MyDooM I, MyDooM II, Ultimate MyDoom, Final MyDooM, MyDoom 3, or the new one?
Not that it matters.
Just give me the shogun and enough ammo, and I'll deal with it.
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Earth had a close encounter Thursday morning when Asteroid 2019 OK sped by at 1:22 GMT, at a speed of nearly 55,000 miles (88,500 kilometers) per hour. "Missed me, missed me, now you've got to kiss me"
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In other news, astronomers (who can tell you absolutely everything about absolutely every other solar system in the universe) fail to spot an asteroid that is coming directly at u... SH1T! DUCK!
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The IRS is sending letters to more than 10,000 taxpayers with virtual currency transactions, telling them to pay back taxes and file amended returns. So much for 'sticking it to the man' with bitcoin
I wonder if they can claim capital losses on the alternate days when it tanks?
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Am I alone in thinking "About Bloody Time!"?
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Microsoft has once again been caught up in another geopolitical tangle after US imposed trade controls sanctions that affected Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria. There's a repo for that?
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Most small and medium businesses are seriously underestimating their vulnerability to cyberattacks according to a new study. Coming soon: 66% of SMBs report cyberattacks
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Coming soon: 66% of SMBs report cyberattacks
... And 99.93% of personal-data hackers DGAF.
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Might only be 65 of those businesses reporting cyber attacks, the other 1% of those small businesses are the cyber attackers. Its good work if you can get it.
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34% of SMBs ask what a cyberattack is and if it's related to the intertubes thing.
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100% of the dead did not respond to the survey (we did not ask the respondents to state if they were 'living dead').
«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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Intel won’t be getting out of the modem business entirely. It’ll still be able to develop modems for PCs, Internet of Things devices, autonomous vehicles, and seemingly anything that’s not a smartphone. iWonder iWhat iThey iWill iUse iThose iFor?
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Well, it's about time that apple produced a decent smartphone.
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Just avoid holding it that way.
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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Programming language popularity is always an interesting exercise in reading tea leaves, but SlashData took things a step further in their latest report. In addition to gauging the world’s total developer population, the organization also attempted to decipher how many developers are actually using specific languages. How many developers are there? Let's count off: one
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I'm'na write a new language, called "bacon".
In three years, it'll be the only game in town.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I'm'na write a new language, called "bacon".
I think you're more qualified to invent "HamItUp" 
«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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Quote: Unsurprisingly, JavaScript is most popular.
I think this would be better phrased as "Unsurprisingly, JavaScript is most widely used. Seems more accurate. We don't really know what developers think about a language, which would reflect it's popularity. Hence, usage != popularity necessarily.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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
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The “sensitivity” conjecture stumped many top computer scientists, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet. Caution: do not read if you're sensitive about Booleans
Or perhaps that's the main reason why you should?
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From the article: points on cubes of different dimensions. There’s a natural way to go from a string of n 0s and 1s to a point on an n-dimensional cube: Simply use the n bits as the coordinates of the point.
I can understand why a lot of people would be put off, at this point, but, for a nutter like me, it just increases the appetite.Later in the article: in any collection of more than half the points in an n-dimensional cube, there will be some point that is connected to at least n−−√ of the other points — and the sensitivity conjecture instantly followed from this result
Hu-Aah!
It's bleeding obvious, when you think about it.
So now bankers only have to ask a single question, when you go to them for a mortgage:WBanker:
Are you stupid enough to give us more than twice the price of the house, for doing almost nothing?
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