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Four high-profile bugs have been found in the protocol, potentially placing 85 million websites at risk. That's it - I'm going back to NetBIOS. Who's with me?
Or maybe SNA. That's unhackable, right? :P
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Nah! Bring back token ring! The problem isn't the application layer HTTP, not the control layer TCP, nor even the transport layer IP. It's in the hardware layer Ethernet where all the trouble starts.
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A notorious black hat says he has more than 200 million hacked Yahoo accounts for sale on the dark Web. The company says it is "aware of [the] claim," but is refusing to comment on its veracity. Yahoo accounts are primarily used to log into the company's webmail service, but also for other sites like Flickr.
Farther down in the text: "hashed passwords created with the md5 algorithm" - security first 
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It seems like MD5 was initially cracked about 10 years ago; which is inexcusable to still be in production.
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I did some encryption work in the mid 1990s. I think I had to drop MD5 about 1997 or so.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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As CEO Satya Nadella outlined at Build 2016, the company envisions a day when natural language and machine intelligence will combine to enhance productivity and allow its customers to “get more done and have more fun.” Pardon me while I grimace (as a platform)
(as a platform)
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The problem with moving faster than most companies is that Facebook was plagued by delays whenever it had to outsource prototyping and testing of its gadgets and gizmos. With so much hardware on its 10-year roadmap, and quarter after quarter of profits stacking up, it made sense to build a dedicated laboratory within its Menlo Park headquarters. Solid aluminum Like buttons!
Or 'aluminium' if you're of that sort.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Inside Facebook’s new “Area 404” hardware lab
... so they're repurposing the facility that their privacy protection dept used to use?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Don't let the millennial buzz fool you. Older workers handle and adapt to new systems better than younger people. “Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill”
I have met a few people this applies to, but the majority of 50+ folk I know bust this myth regularly.
I don't think they struggle with the new technology as much as they aren't impressed. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: don't think they struggle with the new technology as much as they aren't impressed.
for instance this new thing called the cloud?? I try to tell people that we had all of this 20, 30 years ago. nothing really new but rather a new cool name. 
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Like that - exactly! 
TTFN - Kent
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they just aren't into "oooo shiny" like the younger generation. I keep getting AARP literature, must mean I'm an older worker.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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more and more older worker play video game so dont tell me that they can learn technology. Just the want to learn or not. I saw alot older folks see rate R content from tablet  and laptop and also play mobile ganme in smart phone  .
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Kent Sharkey wrote: aren't impressed
Yep, that's me.
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Agreed. I won't be in the 50+ club for a few more years, but have learned not to chase every new technology as I have other things in life more important. When I do decide to learn something new, I tend to realize it is just a rework or rebranding of a previous technology and I pick it up pretty quick.
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Given that most of us older folks can recall many of these shiny new ideas under different names in the past, I think that we have good reason not to be impressed with modern technology. The exceptions are ideas that were before their time (e.g. the hardware/software was not up to supporting it then), but can now be implemented properly.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I think part of this is that the older generation went into technology because they were genuine techo-nerds. While those still exist, I'm continually surprised at how many millennials in technology have no interest in technology or computers in general. Fortunately, I've worked with several who are very smart AND curious.
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.NET Framework 4.6.2 contains dozens of bug fixes and improvements. No more 260 character PATH restriction! Party time!
Oh, and some other stuff. I guess.
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.Net blog a debugger will be able to determine which reference is null and provide this information to you, making your job easier.
Now experts on CodeProject will no more find the most relevant type of question...
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You're making the unwarranted assumption that the posters on QA know what a debugger does.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: You're making the unwarranted assumption that the posters on QA know what a debugger does.
Are you sure you used the right words? Or did you rather think of
what a debugger is.
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That, too. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Oh that's easy. Its a medical device used to separate couples who get stuck together under some circumstances. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Can't we already use the debugger to figure out which reference is null?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah, but if you hit something at runtime, any logging you do won't tell you much information.
Not the best code in the world, but we've all written var x = obj.Method().Property.SubProperty;
Logging that exception won't tell you much beyond the line where it was thrown. Hopefully these changes will tell you (e.g. for logging purposes) that "Property" was null.
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