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Microsoft has announced it has adopted ISO/IEC 27018, becoming the first major cloud provider to adopt the international privacy standard. "And that has made all the difference."
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Timed.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Quote: The standard ensures that Microsoft’s cloud services only process personally identifiable information based on each user’s individual privacy settings.
... so where is the setting that lets me say that no third parties are allowed to process my information on the MS cloud?
What's that you say? There isn't one. Well there's an elephanting surprise. 
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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There may be no more surprising development in technology over the past year than Microsoft's radical transformation into an industry collaborator. "I'm a lover not a fighter"
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Well, in a world where the war is becoming quite "normal", I really couldn't avoid to endorse things like that...
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In the delicate relationship between technologists and users, the 'toolsmith' can initiate a collaborative cycle that makes everyone a stakeholder. Man, the tool maker (and woman too)
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In human history, there have been three great technological revolutions and many smaller ones. The three great ones are the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and the one we are now in the middle of—the software revolution. "You say you want a revolution"
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Quote: It is hard to make an atomic bomb not because the knowledge is restricted (though it is—if I, hypothetically, knew how to make an atomic bomb, it would be tremendously illegal for me to say anything about it)
... except that it's not. Back in the 80's a group a physics grad students successfully did a paper design; and got, IIRC off the record, confirmation from people who did it for real that their design probably would work. What would be tremendously illegal is joining your nations nuclear weapons program and then publishing their designs.
I wasn't impressed by the rest of the pile of elephant droppings trying to pass as an article either.
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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Amateur astronomers saw it, professional astronomers aren’t sure what it was. "I am inclined to think that this blaze may have been the casting of the huge gun, in the vast pit sunk into their planet, from which their shots were fired at us."
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Intellects, vast, cool and unsympathetic, regarded this Earth with envious eyes.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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"Oh, I'm going to blow it up; it obstructs my view of Venus."
-Marvin the Martian (referring to earth)
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Maybe the illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator mis-fired?
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Shipping culture is hurting us. Or at the very least, it is stopping us short of a better tomorrow. It worked for the captain of the Titanic
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Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered apparently state-created spyware buried in the firmware of hard drives from big names like Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital. The real reason they switched to 1000 bytes for a KB?
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Actually, aren't they all made in China these days?
And, of course, perhaps Samsung^ could have had a hand in this, too?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Oh that does it.
I'm gonna boot off a floppy..... wait where's the A: drive on this thing!?
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The real reason we don't have floppy drives?
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Nah.
They we're kind of a pita.
That said I have a mess of 'em. And some bootable diskettes too.
Now I need a real small c++ compiler.
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I don't think you could write a correct C++ parser in 1.44MB, let alone a compiler!
(Edit: correction)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The first C++ implementation was a preprocessor (that output C for compilation) called CFront. I couldn't quickly find conventional source code for it; but was able to find a scanned copy of release E in pdf format[^]. It's only 422 pages long (less once you subtract a few non-code pages); that should easily fit on a floppy. Worst case would be ~2MB (60 lines * 80 chars * 422 pages); but the average line isn't 80 characters long, there's lots of whitespace since page breaks were inserted between files (and there were a lot of small files). I wouldn't be surprised if it all fit on a 360k floppy actually.
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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But CFront parsed a language that bears little resemblance to modern C++. The addition of a Turing-complete template language since then may, er, complicate the parser's job a tad.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Think you’re a whiz when it comes to Java? Love using Eclipse? The Eclipse Foundation have recently announced a skills competition that is sure to produce some epic bug fixes. Fix Eclipse for fame, fortune, and the gratitude of many
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A new report from Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs has revealed that 16 million mobile devices infected with malicious software. And even more are infected because of people using them in the rest room
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Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would support the next version of the Fast Identification Online (FIDO) spec, allowing devices to work with a wealth of third-party biometric readers and providing an easy framework for any hardware makers that want to build extra security into a laptop or phone. I thought they did already?
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