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Sending an email with a forged address is easier than previously thought, due to flaws in the process that allows email forwarding, according to a research team led by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego. This one is really from me though. Honest!
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And if they didn't... now they know they can. 
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Apple and Microsoft have argued with Brussels that some of their services are insufficiently popular to be designated as “gatekeepers” under new landmark EU legislation designed to curb the power of Big Tech. They're more 'key masters'
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Apple and Microsoft have argued with Brussels that some of their services are insufficiently popular to be designated as “gatekeepers” under new landmark EU legislation designed to curb the power of Big Tech.
They should learn from google and cancel them before they get more popular 
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While compiled languages like C++ aren’t vanishing, it’s clear that Python is becoming the lingua franca of computing. One bite at a time?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: One bite at a time?
If there is one[^]
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Hold onto your SQL Server, enterprise admins But they *never* break their own stuff!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But they *never* break their own stuff!
That's actually true.
They usually break OUR stuff
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Especially when they're trying to "buy out" Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Owners of watches and fitness trackers might want to look away now: a new study has revealed that 95 percent of 20 different smartwatch wristbands tested were contaminated with bacteria capable of causing disease. And people buy them for their health?
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Would that be different from any conventional watch band?
My guess is that those made from organic materials (mostly leather) is likely to be worse than the plastics in the smartwatch bands.
OK, OK, I know that plastic are mostly made from oil, and belongs in the 'organic chemistry' section. I still would think that leather is far worse than plastics!
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My guess is that they did smartwatch bands as that's the trendy headline. But yeah, watch bands are definitely just as bad. I know mine starts growing rhubarb every once and a while, so I take a brush and sanitizer to it.
Your guess is probably right, but I could be surprised. I know a study of kitchen chopping blocks showed that the wood ones were actually better for preventing bacterial growth than the plastic ones. Could be the same for leather. /shrug.
TTFN - Kent
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NEWS FLASH: The entire world and everything in it is contaminated with bacteria capable of causing disease!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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And, there are lots of chemical compounds out there! Beware!
During the Cold War, opponents of atomic bombs declared areas and cities as an "atom free zone". One thing that can be said: It would be awfully empty there!
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And those opponents vote. Remember that when you're trying to figure out why our governments (all of them) do idiotic things.
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You took the words right out of my bacteria filled mouth. 
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And the smarphone too...
How many sanitize it periodically? And how many do use it while pooing? Or just after it without washing hands? 
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Take up less CPU time and memory? What amazing tech is this?! I'm so glad someone went to the effort of proving reality
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm so glad someone went to the effort of proving reality
No pain, no gain!
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#Script is a simple, fast, highly versatile and embeddable scripting language for .NET Core and .NET Apps In case your apps need a little sharpening
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The reality of NIH is completely different from what I expected and I’ve been encountering it for far longer than I thought. Invented here means maintained here as well
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I have encountered NIH mostly as war tactics.
Let me give an example: Lots of CP members are old enough to remember the Network Wars of the 1980s between the OSI and TCP/IP protocol suites. Some of you may have noticed the name Harald Tveit Alvestrand[^] - IETF chair 2001-2005, and a member of the ICANN board 2007-2010.
Harald and I were study mates at the University, belonging to the same social groups. He most certainly did not start out as TCP/IP man, but belonged to the OSI camp. MIME was under development in the late 1980s. As one of the primary developers of an X.400 implmentation at Norsk Data (for those not into OSI terms: X.400 was the OSI alternative to SMTP), he was intimately familiar with how multimedia, authentication, and directory lookups were designed in X.400 - all of this was fully developed for the 1984 OSI standards. So Harald was sent as delegate to the IETF to present the solutions established in X.400, to ensure that interoperability between SMTP and X.400 would be possible (or if possible: Simple).
I met him after he returned from the USA. He was shocked: When presenting the OSI solutions, the TCP/IP guys had told him, straight in the face: OK, if that is the way OSI does it, we will find another way. We are most certainly not going to adopt any OSI solutions!
The meeting, which officially had been invited to coordinate and harmonize SMTP and X.400 turned out to be a way to get to know "The Enemy". As a famous guy said: Support whatever the enemy opposes, and oppose whatever the enemy support.
These were days of war, and it is the most extreme case of NIH I have ever heard of. Yet, I see very much of the same in other battles, such as the Linux/Windows wars, iPhone/Android wars, web browser wars, programming language wars. Adopting solutions from the enemy / competitor is a sign of weakness. By ignoring (/abusing) the practices established by the other part, you make your solution stand out as distinct from the competitor (e.g. by a different menu layout, a different charger, different terminology). It is all war tactics.
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On the surface, build latency is a purely technical problem. But humans experience and respond to it in interesting ways: forming expectations, making choices, and organizing work around build latency and similar factors. Then you will see that it is not the build that is slow, it is only yourself.
And before everyone else posts this one: xkcd: Compiling[^]
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And before everyone else posts this one
You read my mind... a day before I thought it...
You are incredible 
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The campaign is dubbed “DB#JAMMER,” it involves threat actors exploiting vulnerabilities in poorly secured Microsoft SQL servers to deliver Cobalt Strike and a ransomware strain called FreeWorld. UPDATE servers SET hacked WHERE insecure
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