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Forget Meltdown and Spectre. Someone's found a local privilege escalation in the operating system world's elderly statesman OpenVMS when running it on VAX and Alpha processors. Good thing no one uses that anymore
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DOS 3.2 is the payload, not the vulnerability.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Coders want more than merely moolah, poll finds "I don't need your love! I got, I say I got mah bandages to keep me warm!"
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If the chiefs of the US securities and commodities regulators get their way, cryptocurrency markets will soon be regulated similarly to traditional financial markets. Good luck with that
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Making it illegal for any bank licensed to operate in the US/deal with US securities (this includes most major international banks) from doing business with anyone who's WTE-coin doesn't comply should largely limit abuse to levels similar to other types of scams.
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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The neural system of a nematode was translated into computer code – and then the virtual worm was taught amazing tricks. First the programs had bugs, now they have worms
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If everything goes according to plan, a very big rocket will take off from Florida on Feb. 6. It will rise beyond Earth's orbit and enter a highly elliptical orbit around the sun — periodically passing close to Mars. Compensating?
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Marketing?
Yuck, btw 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I think the test flight thing was rather important since it originally was going to carry people. Apparently, that's off the table, but it's still going to be used for some satellites to spy on all of us.
Yeah, and because Musk has a rather huge ego (and Tesla is running out of money.)
(Edit: While I applaud what SpaceX did, I'm tired of all the FUD they and their proponents are spreading around, especially their claims about the cost of ULA launches and pretending that SpaceX isn't getting favorable contracts and other help from the government.)
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Microsoft will be ready to support PWAs in the Microsoft Store as of Windows 10 Redstone 4. Here's its game plan. That will really help UWP adoption (not)
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An article so nice, you posted it twice!
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What you talkin’ ‘bout, Willis? I only see it once. 
Dang double-clickie
TTFN - Kent
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I've been giving a bunch of thought to passwords lately. Here we have this absolute cornerstone of security - a paradigm that every single person with an online account understands - yet we see fundamentally different approaches to how services handle them. And while you're at it, "How long is a string?"
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The answer is blowin' in the wind.
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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Although we don’t know for sure just yet, as Microsoft hasn’t made any sort of official announcements, the general line of thinking is that it’s the PC component in Microsoft’s future Windows strategy. Something to stop them going South?
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Worm-like infection targets devices that have seldom-used port 5555 open. Any port in a 5555torm
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DevOps. What a concept. Developers and IT operations teams working together to ensure applications are performant, can scale, and can deal with multi-stage deployments and rollbacks. OpsDev on the other hand
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A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Planet hunting: the Andromeda strain!
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Spending too much time in dimly lit rooms and offices may actually change the brain's structure and hurt one's ability to remember and learn, indicates groundbreaking research by neuroscientists. Dim bulbs make dim bulbs
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I cannot remember if I have a dimmer. I don't see one.
«... 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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A new and emerging technology is hitting the ground running, and creating a frenzy in the industry. "But I found out I'm just a link in your chain"
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In ten years: Remember when everyone was using that block chain stuff for everything? (Yes, I'm cleaning that crap out of code right now.)
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Quote: Blockchain is bringing the concept of trust to the Internet
The only people I see interested in Bitcoin (I know this is about blockchain, not bitcoin) are criminals and get-rich-quick artists. What happens when only those two types of people are interested in something? Endless scams. Endless, endless scams, from bitconnect to the million other scams just like it and even worse.
Quote: It can make things a lot more efficient in terms of confirming a transaction and storing data.
Really? Blockchain can handle, what, 3 or 4 transactions per second? VISA can process tens of thousands of transactions per second. Blockchain isn't scalable either, something their current debating\bickering over how to solve.
Terrible article, terrible "experts".
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