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Microsoft Corp. warns that attackers are exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Windows 10 and many Windows Server versions to seize control over PCs when users open a malicious document or visit a booby-trapped website. ActiveX: Still giving after all these years
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ActiveX: Still giving headaches after all these years
FTFY
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Articles and issues like this just irritate the he$$ out of me. To quote the article:
Quote: This year has been a tough one for Windows users and so-called “zero day” threats, which refers to vulnerabilities that are not patched by current versions of the software in question, and are being actively exploited to break into vulnerable computers.
We're not even talking about the security issues that have existed for THREE YEARS.
Microsoft won't get serious until they are held liable. Baboons.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Quantum computers become ever more powerful, but how can we be sure that the answers they return are accurate? Build an Earth-sized computer?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Build an Earth-sized computer?
And hope the Vogons don't blow it up before it finishes.
"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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How do you check the answer for accuracy in a system that is inherently indeterminant?
And more importantly, if you are checking the answer, it means you already know the answer, so why do you need a quantum computer to tell you what you already know?
I should stop asking obvious questions.
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Build it on the site of an ancient Indian cat burial. Then it doesn't matter what answers it gives - you are screwed!
(Although cats weren't in America before the Pilgrims. Too bad. Another horror movie averted.)
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No matter how extensive your software-development background, at some point you’ll get stuck while trying to code. Find religion?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Find religion?
Swear in a mode that would freeze hell?
M.D.V.
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Quote: under much rarer circumstances, they’ll visit a developer community other than Stack Overflow
Boo! Hiss!
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- Homer
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Much rarer circumstances? That's the first place I look! 
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I google the sh*t out of it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - 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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Microsoft president Brad Smith describes the chaos inside the tech giant during the SolarWinds hack. "Crazy, but that's how it goes"
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Companies don't support open source for purely altruistic reasons. They expect a return on their investment. Sharing ain't caring?
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Better support for Microsoft's NTFS file system is coming to the Linux 5.15 kernel. It's always the Year of Linus Ranting
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Microsoft has been dabbling in the automotive world for some time now, starting with Windows CE for Automotive way back in 2001, and the company is still providing backend services for car companies via Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform. It looks like you're trying to make a left-hand turn. Do you want help with that?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It looks like you're trying to make a left-hand turn. Do you want help with that?
I hope it works better than Tesla's "autonomous driver"
M.D.V. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It looks like you're trying to make a left-hand turn. Do you want help with that?
Not usually a problem for people who drive on the correct side of the road. 
"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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You're saying that they manage to drive the car into the ditch by themselves, without Clippy's help, right?
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Encrypted email service ProtonMail has become embroiled in a minor scandal after responding to a legal request to hand over a user's IP address and details of the devices he used to access his mailbox to Swiss police – resulting in the user's arrest. They don't log it, but they do store it on their servers in a police-readable format?
Let's swing that past legal and see if it CYA
(Did we expect any other result?)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: (Did we expect any other result?)
Nowadays? Not really...
(sadly  )
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The Jenkins team issued a reminder over the weekend that one should keep one's systems patched as it found itself with a compromised Confluence service. Symptoms of confluenza include nausea, sleeplessness, and excessive server utilization
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The service replaces Microsoft News, and it'll be available on Windows, the web and mobile. I still like this one better
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Quote: Microsoft rolls out a personalized news feed called Start
I wonder how long will it take until they call it "stopped"
Google would have probably called it "already stopped"
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