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Golly.
I bet no-one expected that to happen, or made bitingly sarcastic comments about it on CP, back when fingerprint IDs were the next big thing.
(Tip: Don't take that bet!)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When the CEO was asked how does one explain a security breach at a security firm losing fingerprints, he replied "I'm not going to touch that one..."
When asked what steps could have been taken to avoid this he said "I can't really put my finger on it at this time..."
And lastly how is staffing going to prevent this in the future he said "well...we could use a hand..."
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And people continue asking me, why do I prefer to stick to passwords  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Fix for CVE-2020-0796 is now rolling out to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 systems worldwide. The worm has turned
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So... if a bug gets leaked, microsoft patches it in less than a week?
Good to know  
M.D.V.
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Now that you say that - I wonder if this will change the way "White Hats" deal with Microsoft? Instead of giving them the 90 day warning, just release and watch the fix fly out?
TTFN - Kent
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The only (and big) problem I see is... the probability of breaking other things while fixing that ones.
If don't being on hurry, they are doing what they do...
M.D.V.
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IoT devices are considered "low-hanging fruit" among cybercriminals. Sssh. No one tell the hackers
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IoT devices are considered "low-hanging fruit bollocks" among cybercriminals discerning technophiles. They must have typoed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: 98 per cent of all IoT device traffic is unencrypted.
This is absolutely shocking news. It implies that 2% of Internet of Sh*t duhvelopers would score at least 1 point on a security 101 exam. I had no idea that the number was so high.
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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Lets see if some context can be spun here
Quote: locations across enterprise IT and healthcare organisations in the U.S.
So we will say these are important locations.
What is missing then is the type of devices and data.
And yes, we can take into account that some data at first might seem harmless, but when linked can give some interesting insight.
Possible low risk example:
A bunch of "dumb" sensors could be setup which indicate "i am still on" + some unique id. Cheap, low power that can attach to anything.
Then internal database which links number to some meaningful human is behind some protection.
Risk is someone intercepting data and possible sending out "still on" info when the device is off.
Keep in mind, Data and Information are separate words.
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Recently, one of my teammates noted that our project’s codebase doesn’t have a lot of classes. Uhm, that's like literally a fool's errand
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Recently, one of my teammates noted that our project’s codebase doesn’t have a lot of classes.
That quote doesn't match this article.
"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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But it's idiomatic English :P Fixing, thanks
TTFN - Kent
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How phenomenally foolish!
It's absolutely critical that HAL doesn't know what Dave's doing!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd like to feed a few youtube videos of rednecks blowing up toilets and laughing hysterically through their program to see if it can still understand humans.
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That should speed up the robot apocalypse by a few years. We're doomed.
TTFN - Kent
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Recently, one of my teammates noted that our project’s codebase doesn’t have a lot of classes. In case you Object
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Should be titled, "Why You Shouldn't Hire Me As A Systems Architect".
For example, I’ve implemented classes that manage database tables, so it implements an abstract class that needs an “update” method. Well, some tables when updating need to do more than just “update” a record, such as insert a log into a side table. While that might be innocent enough at first, I’ve seen quite a few methods continue to grow in their sets of responsibilities.
void DbTable::update(LogFile * logFile, ...) {
if (logFile) logFile->log(something);
...
}
If that, or something similar, doesn't come naturally to him, he doesn't understand OOP, and is writing over his head. He sounds like someone who has primarily learned procedural programming, like C++ was originally taught.
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He also complained about methods whose responsibilities continue to grow. This is hardly a problem specific to classes. Rather, the problem is likely one of
- The specifications were poor.
- The design did not anticipate reasonable future requirements.
- The group is unwilling to refactor by adding an Observer capability or whatever would more cleanly address the issue.
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Well, one look at his haircut and choice of spectacle frames, and you can tell he's got no class.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So we can summarize: "I do not use OOP because I've seen it done badly."
Good point, eh?
Let's wait a little and that guy will have seen Function Programming done badly, and then he won't use functions either...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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This morning the USD/BTC Bitcoin pairing crashed in a significant way, showing that even the digital currency is not immune to COVID-19 panic*. That's OK, everything else has as well.
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So, lots of Italians get coronavirus... Bitcoin crashes...
Nope, I can't see a connection.
The bottom's dropped out of the tofu market, too. Can't think why.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In March 1989 Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote “Information Management: A Proposal” and with that quiet act launched an idea, the World Wide Web, that has changed our lives. To celebrate, I used history's most powerful communication tool to look at pictures of cats and wrote funny (I hope) blurbs
And gave Google et al loads o' data to sell.
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