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The US is cracking down on data collection and privacy laws – but what do Americans think about their internet rights? We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect internet...
Too lazy to transcribe the rest. It's Sunday after all.
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Only Americans would demand Internet bills.
I don't even want electric bills.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but what do Americans think about their internet rights?
I apologize is advanced, but it is too tempting...
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What? Do they really think?
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And now the non-joke part. I find it a good thing, that there is a bit more consciousness about this topic in the USA. After all, it has been way too relaxed during too much time. But...
Is it really going to move forward? I hope yes but I don't expect it to be fast. There is A LOT OF money being put in risk with it. I suppose lobbies will fight hard against it and, in the meanwhile, put hundreds of lawyers to think on ways for bending whatever law it is created to their profit.
M.D.V. 
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Several ambitions for the future development of Windows 10 was revealed in a job post for Software Engineering Manager for Windows 10 at Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters. "We're sorry. All circuits are busy now."
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Do they even listen to the words that come out of their mouths?
I wish the rest of us didn't have to.
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When I worked on telecom switches, the specs initially called for 99.999% availability, which is about 5 minutes downtime per year. Later on, it was raised to 99.9999%, or about 30 seconds downtime per year.
A software upgrade counted as an outage if the system was unavailable for over 30 seconds, and partial outages were weighted by the percentage of affected users.
Good luck, Microsoft.
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We sure could learn something from telecom switch guys about reliability, software updating and several other techniques. E.g. how to keep 99% of the switch up and running even when the last percent crashes. I have seen other specs where each module was assigned a percentage value: If a 1%-module was down for 25 minutes, i.e. 1500 seconds, you still had half of your downtime quota left. Also, when a module crashes, it is automatically restarted within a fraction of a second (and restart takes a fraction of a second). One switch I was in contact with always kept the previous software version available: If a given module had experienced three restarts, the next one would automatically rather install the previous, well tried version.
For some reason, unknown to me, telecom guys and other computer guys have developed two very different schools of thought, different terminology, different programming styles (and languages). If you got a degree in Linux server development, desktop application development or web design, you are probably no more prepared for writing telecom switch code than your old grandma.
My only hands-on experience with real telecom hardware was as advisor for four bachelor student's diploma project, installing and configuring a single-PC-card ATM switch. My own Master degree and ten years programming experience, teaching OSI and Internet protocols at college level for a few years, plus four bright and eager students was not enough to make any sense out of the (quite extensive) documentation provided; we scratched our head until bleeding and still couldn't grasp very much of it. The hardware vendor tried to help us, but he was talking the same language as the documentation... (We did get the switch running, that was all. But that was intended to be the introductory step of thorough testing; we never got to that.)
Earlier, I was in a research project where we evaluated the Erlang programming language. Understanding the syntax is within reach, but we were writing "C applications in Erlang syntax", and the telecom guys we were cooperating with shook their heads, and showed us how Erlang is meant to be used. We couldn't grasp it, and ended up doing our part of the project in Objective C.
I think it is a pity that we speak so different languages. The telecom language and way of thinking should be an integral element of any higher level software development education.
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Although modules could be loaded separately, they were only replaced in the lab, never in the field. The system more closely resembled one executable with threads, with its configuration data normally write-protected. It had hitless patching in the early 1980s, and that's how bug fixes were delivered to in-service sites.
CPUs were paired, running under either hot (hardware checkpointing) or warm standby (software checkpointing), with failover. Both have drawbacks when recovering from serious errors; the real advantage of pairing is that a new software release can be installed, with no outage at all, by
- dropping synch
- loading the new software into the inactive unit
- resynching (always software checkpointing)
- making the inactive unit active
- upgrading the remaining unit
- resynching the just-upgraded inactive unit
Applications were stateful. None of this lame stateless shite that is currently in vogue for web apps. There simply wasn't enough CPU power or disk bandwidth to commit after every transaction and reload before handling the next one.
The first trials were in the late 1970s, after which new capabilities were continually added. The system is still in widespread use some 40 years later.
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Does it include a spell-checker? What is a 'dail tone'? Not blaming you - the spelling mistake is in the original article's heading.
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jsc42 wrote: What is a 'dail tone'?
Isn't the Dail the lower house of the Irish parliament? Wouldn't a 'dail tone' then be a signal calling the MPs for a vote? 
(The connection to W10 is left as an exercise for the student)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If that works as their update system... we are fu*** up.
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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Dropbox is a big user of Python. It’s our most widely used language both for backend services and the desktop client app A data type in time, saves nine (months)
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If you want type checking, why would you code in Python?
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That's what I figured - moving to a type-checked language shouldn't have been more work than trying to type-check Python.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: In the end, most of the code was manually annotated by code owners
... Whose brains were on "foggy-auto" mode from doing such a mind-numbingly boring job that there are likely to be errors, so you can't trust any of it.
Maybe they should start another project, to type-check the annotations.
... Or just use IronPython to run it in a .NET environment.
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Microsoft says that an Emotet infection was able to take down an organization's entire network by maxing out CPUs on Windows devices and bringing its Internet connection down to a crawl after one employee was tricked to open a phishing email attachment. "Me soul on fire, feeling hot, hot, hot"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Me soul on fire, feeling hot, hot, hot"
You jammin' Mon!
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Proposal to the C++ standards committee would give up backward and binary compatibility for safety and simplicity It's a good thing there isn't much old C++ code lying around
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's a good thing there isn't much old C++ code lying around
I'll clean up porting it to COBOL! 
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For .NET 5 (Preview 2 of which was released this week), we’ve invested in some significant improvements to the Regex engine. Now you have two problems
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So more people will "discover" regex?
This will have a terrible effect on my lifestyle!
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heh. I like MS's regex engine but unless they adapt it to be able to do tokenization i'll stick to my own. =)
I wonder if they did partial-DFA though. That would speed it up significantly but increase the "compilation" time. Even uncompiled startup would take a little longer, but matching would be faster
Real programmers use butterflies
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I will still practice what has been called "almost heroic avoidance" of regex. I admit, there are things it's good for validating email addresses, for instance), but I rarely have to deal with those things.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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That’s what the State’s Governor, Phil Murphy, apparently meant today, when he said at a press conference that the State needed volunteers who with “Cobalt” computer skills to help fix 40-year-old-plus unemployment insurance systems that are currently overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19-related job losses. For those who have been preparing since 1959
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