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A couple of months ago, I launched version 2 of Pwned Passwords. This is a collection of over half a billion passwords which have previously appeared in data breaches and the intention is that they're used as a black list And 100% of terrible passwords are terrible
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I guess I have to change my password to horrible.
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While the update process has gone smoothly for most, it appears that there is at least one major post-update bug affecting numerous users. "Mission accomplished!"
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Google's spying module is incompatible with Microsoft's? 
Ad astra - both ways!
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YouTube acts funny as well.
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The toolkit was first released over a year and a half ago with 26 different features. Since then, we’ve added five new packages over nine new releases, each one adding new controls, helpers, services, extensions, object models and more – most coming from the community directly. "And that made all the difference"
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One of the things that has always been lacking is good all-in-one documentation on the various Windows console commands and how to use them. So I can finally remember the syntax for the options on the FOR command
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Finally, a new DOS-manual.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Microsoft wants to banish 'inconvenient, insecure, and expensive' passwords. So what's going to replace them? I think I've seen this movie before
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I don't mind as long as they still support using passwords if I want to. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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My Surface Book already uses facial recognition to sign in. It seems to work fairly weell. I recognizes me with or without glasses,even when I wear a ball cap, but doesn't seem to recognize anyone else, even my son or brother, who actually appear to be similar tome for genetic reasons.It's very convenient, except when you want to allow someone else to use the mschine.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Quote: Singh said that Microsoft is also working on a private preview for shared PCs to allow users to log on using FIDO2 Security keys, allowing staff to carry their credentials with them and authenticate to any Azure AD-joined Windows 10 shared PC that's part of their organisation.
How well do roaming profiles work these days?
The last time I talked with a sysadmin about them a few years ago, he ultimately decided not to implement them on the (server 2012r2/win7) network he was standing up for our project because they apparently still had some messy edge case failures he didn't want to clean up when 99% of the time we always logged into the same PC every day anyway.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Let's hope he's not spending the rest of eternity on a C5.
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Absolutely, although I don't believe he was responsible for that one.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The eulogy will start as soon as we get the volume and treble controls in exactly the right place...
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Sad to hear of his passing. My first computer was a Timex Sinclair ZX80. Still have it. Have not fired it up in decades.
Dad bought it from a CES in Chicago when it was still here. $99
IIRC 1K RAM with optional 4K module. BASIC lang. TV used as monitor. Cassette tape storage. Learned to program on it. Good memories except for having to turn the cassette player upside down every once in a while.
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Lasers and eyes generally don’t mix. But super thin and flexible laser stickers created by a team of scientists might eventually stick to your contact lenses and act as a security tag. Call Dr. Evil. I think we have something for him.
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“Null is evil.” If you’ve been a software developer for any reasonable length of time, I bet you’ve come across that statement several times. This blurb intentionally left blank
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The first evidence we have of zero is from the Sumerian culture in Mesopotamia, some 5,000 years ago.
The first recorded zero appeared in Mesopotamia around 3 B.C. The Mayans invented it independently circa 4 A.D. It was later devised in India in the mid-fifth century, spread to Cambodia near the end of the seventh century, and into China and the Islamic countries at the end of the eighth. Zero reached western Europe in the 12th century.
(link)
So, we've had 0 for maybe a few thousand years to represent "nothing." And there was quite a bit of kicking and screaming about it, including theological arguments. A good read: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea.
Now we have, what, a couple dozen years of experience with null? I say we bring on the theological arguments again -- null cannot exist because it would mean god is not omnipresent, and therefore not god! 
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Null exists but is undefined. We’ll call it the god value.
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Marc Clifton wrote: A good read: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea.
Plus the author is famous enough to have the "selfie" named after him, although they mispelled his name on that!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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The FTC says that if companies don't change their warranty practices, it may take 'legal action.' Does this mean they'll visit everyone to pull their stickers off?
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Now if only the FTC can do something about those mattress tags!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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