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As GDPR looms, vast amounts of sensitive data including credit card data, medical information and patents are still easily found online says a security company. Pffft. Nothing to worry about!
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Have you ever found yourself with an entirely unknown codebase, a new team, and a schedule to take over an application from an offshore team? What do you do, where do you start? "That's when the tear drops start, fella"
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I'm impressed. No mention (from my quick read) of horrid code, bad design, bad architecture, non-normalized database, fields re-used for other purposes, lack of source control, empty catch blocks, spaghetti code, no concept of OOD principles, lack of knowledge of the language, inefficient queries, useless unit tests, lack of bug tracking, no understanding of development-QA-production cycle...
In other words, all the things I would have written about as this is the typical encounter I have with inheriting another team's codebase. 
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According to the company, its renamed Avast Secure Browser (formerly SafeZone) is designed to plug the security gaps that result from users' misplaced protection expectations. Speed thrills or speed kills?
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Hmmmm,
Trust me; My Chromium is faster than your Chromium and all the other Chromiums. You'll never find another Chromium that outperforms our Chromium.
It's been recompiled with full optimizations. That's going to be at least 30% faster.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Given their history, it will also break new records on nagging you to upgrade.
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Yes, but it will nag you 30 percent faster than before! An improvement! 
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Microsoft says it has taken a big step forward in making chatbots and digital assistants much more conversational. "Everybody's talking at me. I don't hear a word they're saying"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: digital assistants much more conversational
So they are re-re-reintroducing clippy...
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft says it has taken a big step forward in making chatbots and digital assistants much more conversational.
So they decided to put real people inside the box? 
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IBM announced on Thursday that it is making its quantum computers available to a variety of startups in various fields, giving them access for the first time ever to the pricey and highly advanced tech, while simultaneously helping IBM accelerate its own innovations in the quantum computing space. Making it actually work? Nah.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Making it actually work? Nah.
My thought exactly -- making it actually compute?
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It proposes that instead of relying on platforms’ moderators, people start relying on their friends. "I get by with a little help from my friends"
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A remote-code execution vulnerability in Windows Defender – a flaw that can be exploited by malicious .rar files to run malware on PCs – has been traced back to an open-source archiving tool Microsoft adopted for its own use. Rar! (did I scare you?)
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The jury had been out on the productivity effect of working from home. It's returned with a surprising verdict. Pajamas: the new business suit
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I worked from home for about 10 years. Nudity was my workplace uniform.
".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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The study has several problematic biases. Mainly, the selection wasn't truly random across the population and those being studied knew they were being studied. My own experiences are that for a subset of employees, working from home can be a boon, but for most it's not.
I've worked at home several times in my life, including when I ran my own company, but now prefer not to for the simple reason that I want to keep home and work separate. I've also found that when your progress is impeded, bugging people in person is far more effective than via email.
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CNBC: [^] Quote: "We've seen some scraping," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a call with reporters. "I would assume if you had that setting turned on that someone at some point has access to your public information in some way," he said.
The setting Zuckerberg referred to is one where users let other users search for them by e-mail address or phone number instead of by name.
Quote: This news is in addition to Facebook's claims that political analytics firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to data from as many as 87 million Facebook users. Media reports had previously placed the number at more than 50 million.
Bloomberg: [^] Quote: Facebook Inc. scans the links and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, and reads chats when they’re flagged to moderators, making sure the content abides by the company’s rules. If it doesn’t, it gets blocked or taken down.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Facebook offers its service for the user data. It is to expect that some shady deals will come around.
And some errors too or because of the money... 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Why is any of this a surprise to anyone?
I don't think it is. I think most people assume that whatever they put online is going to be used by a third party and probably sold.
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What's surprising to me is that so many people are surprised.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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rather if they had charged people a monthly fee...to play farmville
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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Well, technically *he* didn't do it
#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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... Moral of the story, don't use Facebook. 
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Something I have been saying for years. I have never, once, signed up for any social networking site, nor Twitter, nor any chat service.
Of course, I am an old fossil,
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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