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The latest version of Internet Explorer is faster, more secure, and has better web standards support than older versions. For Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users, upgrading to Internet Explorer 11 has significant benefits—and enabling automatic updating ensures that users will always be up-to-date. Maybe if you let us install the newest browser on everything?
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Ah, 'struth about the perf updates, I wasn't thinking of things like that. However, I could live with slower but more security on XP et al.
And definitely agreed on lazy admins.
TTFN - Kent
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If you’re not one of the over 1.1 million people who have used Windows App Studio Beta to quickly turn your idea into an app for Windows and Windows Phone, now is the time to check it out. Our latest release, available this morning, just made it even easier to publish your apps to the Windows Phone Store and the Windows Store. Now even more... even less... somethinged?
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Nearly two thousand passwords used by hackers were leaked this week, when I tried to decode a PHP shell without knowing the key. Because I did not know the exact content of the encoded file and searching the key could take me years, I chose a different approach. I decided to find out how strong passwords used by hackers are and create a dictionary. r00t isn't a secure password?
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My passwords are always a 4 digit code, consisting of the current month followed by the current year. I change them once a month.
Can't go wrong with that system
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"Videos may make up 84 percent of internet traffic by 2018: Cisco" [^]
"... global IP traffic will grow three-fold from 2013 to 2018 --reaching 1.6 Zettabytes annually by 2018 (a 21% CAGR over the forecast period)." [^]
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : ‘I know all about it. I've already found it.’
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: ‘I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.’” Vincent Van Gogh
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I'm going to take a wild guess, and say based on the history of data types dominating the web, that something other than streaming video will be king in 4 more years. Probably something that's not even a rounding error today.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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For the past seven releases of Visual Studio (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2013), the Visual C++ libraries have been versioned and each versioned set of libraries is independent of other versioned sets of libraries. "Even for us, this model of introducing new versions of the libraries can be painful at times."
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C purists beware: 
Quote: We have converted most of the CRT sources to compile as C++, enabling us to replace many ugly C idioms with simpler and more advanced C++ constructs. The publicly callable functions are still declared as C functions, of course (extern "C" in C++), so they can still be called from C. But internally we now take full advantage of the C++ language and its many useful features.
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A developer yesterday claimed code within iOS 8 pointed to a split-screen mode, suggesting that earlier rumors of the iPad embracing the personal computer-like capability had some basis in fact.
"Just in case there was any doubt left ... iOS 8's SpringBoard has code to run two apps side-by-side. 1/4 size, 1/2 size, or 3/4 size," tweeted Steven Troughton-Smith, the founder and CEO of mobile app developer High Caffeine Content. This seems useful, if only the iPad screen was bigger...
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Jason Cardoza wrote: code within iOS 8 pointed to a split-screen mode
The irony, while Win 8.1 has a calculator occupying the entire screen...ios is moving towards multitasking on the ipad.. .
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Researchers have found that Windows 8 code contains security check code absent in Windows 7. This is not the same as not patching. "If it ain't broke..."
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You can’t easily encrypt documents using the net’s biggest file sharing services, including those from Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox. And, for Nasr, this shouldn’t be the case. After all, encryption is offered by so many underground file-sharing sites, including Mega, the service from swashbuckling internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom.
The bigger they are, the harder they [fail to encrypt anything worth a damn.]
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Yeah, the word you're looking for is "won't"
If they did that, they couldn't look around in them all.
"Don't Be Evil" indeed. *spittoey*
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Don't Be Google[^] 
"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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The reason is "AdSense". Meaning, income.
It IS a business, so no surprise there.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Google does encrypt your files, they encrypt the sh*t out of your files
Then they give a copy of your private key to the NSA...
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One of the major features Dimensions CM 14 now provides is change and branch visualization. The visualization gives developers real-time visibility into the health and quality of their code. According to Owen, developers don’t get a visual display of all development activities across the development team in Git or Subversion unless they build it.
Good luck with that, Serena
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Well at least it's fre...oh wait
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Potshots:
Dimensions CM 14
So, do you think after 14 versions they finally got it right???
The visualization gives developers real-time visibility into the health and quality of their code.
When are we going to stop monitoring the health and quality of code, and start writing healthy and quality code to begin with?
And by the way, WTF is "healthy code"? Perhaps there a market for treating your code base with Neuro-Emotional Therapy[^].
Marc
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Any software developer knows how easy it is to let a project devolve into spaghetti code, and APIs are no less prone to resulting in a tangled web. But it doesn’t need to be that way. In truth, it’s possible to build great web APIs that people will actually enjoy using, and that you’ll enjoy creating as well.
Deliver us from spaghetti code, O Wise One of APIs...
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Nice. 
/ravi
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Two 14-year-old Canadians hacked a Bank of Montreal ATM after finding an operators manual online. The manual showed how to gain administrative control of the device, according to a media report published over the weekend. "Please insert your stolen card now"
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Quote: Kids with operators manual
Dang. For a moment I thought you were saying there is a manual for kids themselves. Wishful thinking.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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or keeping the old non-accelerated version 
also for twice the maintenance work while taking just as much abuse for giving XP a cripled version of the new browser as they did for not releasing IE9 on XP at all.
