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Working out the card number, expiry date and security code of any Visa credit or debit card can take as little as six seconds and uses nothing more than guesswork, new research has shown. It takes me longer than that to remember my PIN some days
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Yet another fail by them.
Weren't they the ones that charged someone 20 Billion or so dollars due to having spaces in their data? I seem to remember seeing an analysis of that on stackoverflow once, citing that spaces are 20 in hex.
They are like PIGineering (by AngryBirdsNest)[^], they never fail to fail.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Landing on a set of simple reactive design principles in a sea of constant confusion and overloaded expectations. As opposed to reactive programming, when you only fix things when you get a reaction from the customer
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The system came up with the technique by itself, after being trained on a battery of sample images. "Try to place the place where we can face the face."
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... but found that it then forgot names.
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Kids have to memorize four new elements, now that the powers that be in the world of chemistry have expanded the periodic table. And poor Tom Lehrer has to update that song
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Tom Lehrer has to update that song
Only when the news gets to Hahvahd. 
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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Big Data is only going to get much bigger, so big in fact that companies attempting to deal with massive and more complex data sets are going to find it much harder to manage and derive value out of those massive lakes of data. Gets renamed to Enormous Data
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This blog post is a quick reply to Let’s Stop Copying C. So we can get back to bashing VB (or Forth, or APL, or pick your least favourite language)
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Programmers have to grow up and define their profession, their practices, and the discipline they use, because they are the ones who have the expertise to do so. "Ding, dong"
I think there might be more articles debating Agile than the merits of C.
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Whatever new method is used, let's not go back to waterfall or similar. Specifications will change because clients don't really know what they want - they just have an idea. A client with a fully fleshed-out, requirements-complete idea is more rare than a unicorn.
That being said I'm probably not qualified to debate the merits of what might replace Agile 
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The medical records of over 43,000 people have been accidentally made public after being put online by a pathology lab in Mumbai. The reports contain confidential details like names, addresses, dates of birth, and blood test results. They also include details of patients who have had blood tests done for HIV detection. Some included in the breach are as young as 17.
Could be bad news for some of our Indian members. 
"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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That's a shame for those people. You give an organization PII and PHI with the assumption that they are going to protect it and then something like this happens. Medical info is the most valuable there is on the black market. 10x more valuable than working credit card numbers. 
Problem is that these places, especially in healthcare, are so out of their league when it comes to IT and IT security. And so many of them don't have a grasp on the risks that they face.
I'm not sure what the protections are over there. In the US that company might was well close up the doors. HHS would could hit them with $10K fine per record.
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No financial liability, so this will continue to happen. Why invest in security, if there is no risc?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Developers want to learn new technologies and build new things. These five tips can help keep your developers happy and the innovation flowing. "Turn and face the strange"
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I prefer to get the most out of what I already have.
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I got bored with new tech many years ago, and discovered I was much more interested in developing best practices (at least for me, haha) surrounding tech, everything from documentation / testing practices to coding style, and importantly discovering good architecture practices, regardless of the language or framework I'm working in (though often constrained by them, so subsets of architecture practices are important to identify as well.)
When I see a new tech, I end up looking at it from the perspective of whether (and how) it supports what I've learned (again, for me) are good practices. If it looks capable, then I'm interested, which is why I've glommed onto C# / .NET and am disgusted with languages like Ruby, Python, and Javascript, though I'm fully aware of how the language is (usually) independent of good architecture. It's more a question of how easy does the language make it to code in good architecture.
Of course, I'm focusing on programming "tech", but the metaphor holds for other tech as well.
Marc
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Hackers and cyber criminals are often seen as the biggest threat to company IT systems, but a report from behavioral firewall company Preempt shows that insiders, including careless or naive employees, are now viewed as an equally important problem. Do you trust the person at the next cubicle?
Do they trust you? Should they?
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My former department had a staging area open to all IT personnel, maybe 150 people, of which about 50 were developers. If someone wanted to make you look bad, the first thing they did was sabotage your web.config files. The SysAdmins who deployed the applications with RoboCopy didn't exclude the web.config; so your application would error. That surely didn't make you look good.
So no, I don't trust many of my coworkers.
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Windows 10 has now reached roughly 24% marketshare over the month of November according to a report from Netmarketshare. They're taking the scenic route to 1 billion devices
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Counting only PCs... Aren't they all dead?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The popularity of C has led to a number of programming languages’ taking significant cues from its design, and parts of its design are… slightly questionable. Let's start copying APL instead
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Life is too short to code in C
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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Quote: Life is too short not to code in C
FTFY
Ciao,
luker
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Write in C - YouTube[^]
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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