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That’s according to NSS Labs which today announced the results of its latest Web Browser Security comparative test. Not even the hackers want to use Edge
Alternately:
Give them a minute, they'll get to it
It's easy to secure if you have no features
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Its the same story with Macs and security... hackers are not wasting their time since the market share is so small.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Yet it can't correctly display a very simple webpage that I have had for twenty years. Every other browser I have tried handles it just fine. Edge doesn't so I do not use it.
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Not hard to avoid hackers when your product is not used by most.
Statistical bias at it's finest.
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ooooo. Choose your own Shark-snark! I prefer this one:
Kent Sharkey wrote: It's easy to secure if you have no features
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A new report into revenue for the third quarter shows what a significant lead Amazon Web Services has in the public cloud market. They're a monopoly! Quick, get some government to sue them.
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Microsoft yesterday stopped providing Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.1 licenses to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including its PC partners and systems builders. Save your copies, they might be worth something one day
Along with all those AoL CDs
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They should revive 7. It's way better than that crapware the call 8 & 10.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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NASA wants ideas from private companies and the science community about instruments that can be used to explore and study the surface of the Moon. Uhm.... look up?
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von Neuman strip mining!
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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Report doesn't prove social media is good for you — but it does help debunk the idea that it's bad for you. I guess I'll just have to die early then
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I'm screwed, too 
Loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.
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Ditto. However, I see it this way, though they might be breathing longer than us, they are not living longer than us...damnit!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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But it can be a correlation by accident as also vegans life longer. Not while vegan is "so healthy", but because these people are more interested in living healthy (like not smoking but sports)
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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How do they even have enough data for that kind study????
Although I'm just judging by the headline--can't read the article while I'm at work
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No mention of normalization vs age, so I'm going to assume they actually proved that younger people live longer. 
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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They don't actually live longer. It just seems that way to them.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I'm impressed at the professionalism of the team conducting the survey, how they diligently collated data from the last five generations, to assess life expectancy.
And it's true. A hundred years ago, there was no facebook and people died younger.
Kowtow and thank facebook for this.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But crucially the article states
Quote: That doesn't mean Facebook is necessarily good for you, Fowler cautions. Correlation does not prove causation, so it's impossible to say whether being on Facebook makes you healthier, or whether healthy people are more likely to be on Facebook.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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The WebAssembly project, supported by all major browsers, has hit a significant milestone with versions (behind switches) available for V8 (Chrome) and SpiderMonkey (Firefox); with Chakra (Edge) and JavaScriptCore (Safari) following close on their heels.
Web Assembly Browser Preview[^]
Hopefully, in time this will enable the use of sane languages in browser applications. There's still a way to go, such as making the DOM available, but this is a massive step in the right direction.
Congratulations to all involved for the major effort.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Hopefully, in time this will enable the use of sane languages in browser applications.
That would be soooo nice. I'm so discouraged with the state of affairs in the whole software development world at this point that I'm wondering if I can actually keep my sanity over the next 10 years (and arbitrary value.) If not, you might find me selling bead jewelry in nearby Woodstock NY. 
Marc
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Rob Grainger wrote: but this is a massive step in the right direction.
Is it? Is it not introducing "just another thing" to further complicate the web paradigm........
I'm not saying it is or it isn't, but the web/browser environment has seen such upheaval the recent years, that it can be difficult to stay on top of it.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Hopefully, in time this will enable the use of sane languages in browser applications.
No, exactly the opposite is happening. With every new version of .Net, new features for attracting web scripting kiddies are implemented. Look at the "On Error Resume Next" paradigm of WPF binding errors, the dynamic keyword, the var keyword, "record types", "multiple (tuple) return values", ... When I first looked at async/await, I immediately asked how to make those calls concurrency safe - but where is a tutorial on that topic? Oh yeah, tutorials showing the use of Monitor (or lock, resp.) with Tasks which might run in the same thread.
No, there will be much more crap driving professional developers insane just for the sake of pleasing script kiddies.
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WRT the var keyword, we just did a major refactoring on our project. There is a legacy db that was (insanely) using SQL float for monetary types. We had to change that to decimal, and regenerate the DB mapping appropriately.
Everywhere var was used, the refactoring was a no-brainer. Everywhere explicit types were used, required manual intervention. The same applies to "auto" in C++. Type inference does not sacrifice type safety, it makes it manageable.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Everywhere var was used, the refactoring was a no-brainer.
It's true that there are some exceptional cases where var can help. But typically, the developer maintaining some code has to figure out the type of the variable - though it can be done relatively quickly thanks to intellisense, it is still a double-take.
Also for other features which I use to call ugly, there can be legitimate uses.
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