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can it be a bug like a stackoverflow in the mail app that allowed a finely crafted script to download some binary or so that gave access to files system via a bypass and hacker could upload the mails and contacts etc to a server ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Microsoft is detailing how it handles bugs in its software and services using machine learning models. By shipping them?
I mean, there will be more next month. Not like they'll run out if they release them too fast.
Yeah, kind of a dupe of the 97% fix rate article a few days ago, but with that headline, I couldn't resist. All apologies.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: By shipping them?
No they are sending to the 1.000.000.000 unpaid beta testers. 
It is more money efficient (they pay to do that job).
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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machine learning models = various laptops and desktops machines that are forced to crash and burn...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Quote: Security experts and data scientists worked together at Microsoft to create the model, ensuring that it could be monitored in production and that a random sampling of bugs are manually reviewed. The model is also continually re-trained with new data that’s reviewed by Microsoft’s security experts. This machine learning model means Microsoft now accurately identifies security bugs 99 percent of the time, and labels them correctly 97 percent of the time.
So they miss 1% of the 30k bugs/month, which means 300 slip though. Sounds about right. 
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: By shipping them?
Tch, tch!
They have document them first, so they can be called "features".
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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It is, perhaps, your dream job – doing software testing for positive world-changing applications such as space exploration. But that comes with additional concerns, such as lives at stake and too-far-to-repair constraints. innnnnnnnn SSSSSSPAAAAAACCCCCE!
Because I think I did the 'rocket surgery' one recently.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How NASA does software testing and QA
I hope better than Boeing
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?
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I went after a contract at the European Space Agency, a few years back (for the sole and only reason that I wanted to be able to put "Space Ranger" on my CV).
After the interview, I was praying they wouldn't offer me the contract, because every guy that I spoke to there kept saying things like "You have to pace yourself" -- as in "Go dead slow, because otherwise they'll expect the rest of us to be slightly productive".
It might make some people happy to think that my prayers were answered, but it's more likely that I didn't get the contract because I found it harder and harder to hide my disdain, as the interview and walk-around went on.
So, if that's anything to go by, NASA does testing dead slow.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: "You have to pace yourself" -- as in "Go dead slow, because otherwise they'll expect the rest of us to be slightly productive".
I have had it in other kind of companies. 
M.D.V.
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I just realized that NASA's software testing (in space) is very similar to the testing I am doing under the "Work From Home" scene that so many of us are now familiar with.
And that can be summed up by this great philosopherRidley Scott In space, no one can hear you scream.
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They listen to Also sprach Zarathustra in repeat mode; this is quite inspiring.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Contradicting findings in other recent reports, a new study from developer analyst firm SlashData shows some decline in the popularity of C# over the past year. Desktop is easy: you just need to develop in Win Forms. Uh, XAML. No, wait UWP. Would you believe WinUI?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Developer report: 'C# seems to be losing its edge in desktop'
Don't tell me that C# is going to be based in chromium too 
M.D.V.
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Nah, they're just gonna start writing Edge in a different language. C# wont be able to tout it as a successful project any more.
And yes, of course I jest.
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I never understood why MS didn't try to replace javascript with a c# derivative.
".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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It should have been easy - they already had the bolts into the browsers with Active Scripting, and I think C# would really translate well into a scripting variant (as seen in TypeScript).
Puzzle for the ages, I guess. Along with killing the JavaScript port of .NET, which I actually kinda liked.
TTFN - Kent
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The report, 'Prioritization to Prediction (volume 5): In Search of Assets at Risk', seeks to make some sense of the comparative risk surface of devices based on which operating system they are using. The keel-mounted rail gun on my PC is actually quite useful at times
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Fourteen deadly weapons that are used to slowly kill people from hypertension and brain death?
So that's:- Windows Update
- Telemetry
- Internet Explorer
- Edge
- WMP
- Baby blocks
- Just about everything on the app store
CoronaCortana- The Xbox app
- The help system
- The Settings app
- The Effluent Interface
- "White Mode"
- 14,693,683 emojis
Most OS problems only go up to ten.
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What we thought was a planet appears to be gradually fading from view. Or there was dust on the lens
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When informed of the disappearance of the exoplanet they had invented discovered, the team leader commented: Sh1t! We'll lose one of our grants!
Quick! Make up some new sciency-sounding bollocks that makes it sound as if there's something important we have to investigate further!
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A timeline...
2005 Observed by Hubble telescope
2008 Identified and release of discovery photograph
2012 Independent confirmation of existence as a planet
2014 Selected for "proper" naming by the International Astronomical Union
2015 Formally named "Dagon", after the ancient Mesopotamian/Canaanite fish-god deity; looks like a merman
2020 It apparently has disappeared
It shouldn't take a Real Genius[^] to figure it outKent: Didn't anyone ever tell you to make sure your optics are clean?
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MadMyche wrote: It shouldn't take a Real Genius[^] to figure it out
It was zapped by the CIA's laser? 
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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Yea verily, and god sneezeth and yet another heavenly sphere was created.
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Beware the coming of the Great White Handkerchief!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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