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Microsoft's new Windows 10 Alt+Tab plan looks like a mess

7-Jul-20 8:33

In other words...
There is no 100% security... it mostly is enough just to be a bit more difficult to break in than your neighbour

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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Kent Sharkey6-Jul-20 7:16

Re: Microsoft's new Windows 10 Alt+Tab plan looks like a mess

6-Jul-20 7:16

Bleeping Computer[^]:
In what is being called a productivity enhancement, Microsoft is testing a change to the Windows 10 Alt+Tab feature so that it also shows open Microsoft Edge browser tabs.

Well, it is "Alt+Tab", not "Alt+Program"

It's going to take me a while to get though all these tabs just to get back to Freecell

Nelek6-Jul-20 11:14

Re: Microsoft's new Windows 10 Alt+Tab plan looks like a mess

6-Jul-20 11:14

Why? Why?... Just why?
If I want to do that I use "Alt+Tab" to go to Browser and the "CTRL+Tab" to change the tabs...

Someone to yell them to stop doing idiot "improvements" and get the damned bugs fixed (and not at the cost of introducing new ones, please)

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey6-Jul-20 11:16

Re: Microsoft's new Windows 10 Alt+Tab plan looks like a mess

6-Jul-20 11:16

Nelek wrote:
the damned bugs fixed (and not at the cost of introducing new ones, please)

Man, you just want the moon, don't you? Poke tongue | ;-P

TTFN - Kent

Nelek6-Jul-20 11:25

Re: Microsoft's new Windows 10 Alt+Tab plan looks like a mess

6-Jul-20 11:25

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Man, you just want the moon, don't you?

No, I don't. The moon is a harsh mistress. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

M.D.V.

jsc426-Jul-20 22:24

jsc42

6-Jul-20 22:24

The answer is easy: Just don't use Edge

Google-backed advertising association complain iOS14 ad tracking permission pop-up will result in “a high risk of user refusal.”

Kent Sharkey6-Jul-20 7:16

Re: Google-backed advertising association complain iOS14 ad tracking permission pop-up will result in “a high risk of user refusal.”

6-Jul-20 7:16

MS Power User[^]:
Many have called iOS14 the Windows Vista of iPhone operating systems, as the OS is constantly informing users or asking permission for various trivial things apps want to do in the background.

And the problem is?

abmv6-Jul-20 8:21

abmv

6-Jul-20 8:21

install the anti-anti tracking !

Caveat Emptor.

"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long

Re: Google-backed advertising association complain iOS14 ad tracking permission pop-up will result in “a high risk of user refusal.”

Nelek6-Jul-20 11:11

Re: Google-backed advertising association complain iOS14 ad tracking permission pop-up will result in “a high risk of user refusal.”

6-Jul-20 11:11

Ok... now users could get "eyes opened" of all what is getting done in the background without permission.

If it would only make a difference...

I suppose the most searched thing in google right now is: "How to deactivate the iOS annoying messages" Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

On a second thought... does it informs too if the Apps doing things in the background are Apple's ones?

M.D.V.

Kaladin7-Jul-20 2:07

Kaladin

7-Jul-20 2:07

I suspect most users just don't want to think about what's going on in the background

Re: Google-backed advertising association complain iOS14 ad tracking permission pop-up will result in “a high risk of user refusal.”

Nelek7-Jul-20 8:28

No keys to the kingdom: New single sign-on algorithm provides superior privacy

7-Jul-20 8:28

exactly

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey5-Jul-20 18:01

Re: No keys to the kingdom: New single sign-on algorithm provides superior privacy

5-Jul-20 18:01

Science Daily[^]:
Single sign-on systems (SSOs) allow us to login to multiple websites and applications using a single username and password combination.

And I'm sure it will never, ever be cracked, MitMed, or otherwise thwarted

(Man-in-the-middled, for the acronym adverse)

Nelek6-Jul-20 11:08

‘Hybrid’ quantum networking demonstrated for first time

6-Jul-20 11:08

So... after years telling us that we have to avoid reuse and have a password for each site... now, this?

Oh, C'mon... D'Oh! | :doh:

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey5-Jul-20 18:01

Re: ‘Hybrid’ quantum networking demonstrated for first time

5-Jul-20 18:01

Scientific American[^]:
By exploiting the wave-and-particle-like nature of light, a new technique offers the best of both worlds

The cat is only partly in the box?

And only partly dead (maybe)?

Nelek6-Jul-20 11:06

Code only says what it does

6-Jul-20 11:06

Some new cientific:
Lavoisier (some centuries ago):
~~Energy~~ Information doesn't get created nor destroyed, only transformed.
FTFY

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey5-Jul-20 18:01

5-Jul-20 18:01

Marc Brooker[^]:
Code says what it does. That's important for the computer, because code is the way that we ask the computer to do something.

Deep, duuuuuuude

Dan Neely6-Jul-20 2:26

Dan Neely

6-Jul-20 2:26

Quote:
Our code reviews, simworld tests, and design meetings frequently referred back to the TLA+ models of our protocols to resolve ambiguities in Java code or written communication.

I'm pretty sure that adding another Three Letter Acronym to the project jargon doesn't actually help anything except perhaps the employment of the person who's stuck updating the acronym table in every formal document in a product. Dead | X|

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--Zachris Topelius

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jsc427-Jul-20 3:57

jsc42

7-Jul-20 3:57

Quote:
Our code reviews, ... frequently referred back to the TLA+ models of ...

Dan Neely wrote:

I'm pretty sure that adding another Three Letter Acronym to the project jargon doesn't actually help anything except perhaps the employment of the person who's stuck updating the acronym table in every formal document in a product.

Perhaps that is why they call it the TLA+ model: it creates new TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms).
As for the person updating the Acronym Table, I hope (s)he called it the same as an erstwhile colleague of mine called his Acronym Table: AEIOU (Acronym Expansion Is Often Useful)

Dan Neely7-Jul-20 4:22

Dan Neely

7-Jul-20 4:22

jsc42 wrote:
As for the person updating the Acronym Table, I hope (s)he called it the same as an erstwhile colleague of mine called his Acronym Table: AEIOU (Acronym Expansion Is Often Useful)

Sadly no fun was allowed in deliverable documents. And all the waterfall documents were deliverables. Dead | X|

Windows 10 2004 breaks OneDrive connectivity for some users

Marc Clifton6-Jul-20 3:44

Marc Clifton

6-Jul-20 3:44

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Code says what it does.

The irony of that is that in my experience, code rarely says what it does.

A simple example:

Divide(1, 0);

float Divide(float a, float b)
{
  return a/b;
}

What does that code do when b is 0? What does that code do with the imprecision of float? What does that code do when a = Double.MaxValue and b = 0.1?

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Kent Sharkey5-Jul-20 18:01

Re: Windows 10 2004 breaks OneDrive connectivity for some users

5-Jul-20 18:01

Bleeping Computer[^]:
Microsoft says that some users might experience OneDrive connectivity issues after updating their devices to Windows 10, version 2004 or enabling Files on Demand in OneDrive.

The feature is "Files on Demand", not "Files all the time"

Nelek6-Jul-20 10:59