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Yeah and you should see em!
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I'm shocked, shocked, to discover the most recent round of .com killers have been as big a failure as every other round before them were. .biz or .info anyone? 
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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The disconnect between software developers and IT security teams has lead to widespread application vulnerabilities. Yes, it's your fault that Bob in accounting clicked that link in the email from "The Bank"
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Blame PMs, blame Agile!
I have seen a few problems that lead to a disconnect between teams that lead to vulurabilities. Firstly, our security team seems to be focused only on the network and have no idea about user authentication. For example, on a legacy Intranet site we have, it is authenticates users with Windows Authentication. Well he didn't know what that was and I said, it is just a domain account. Also, security, infrastructure, database, and application groups don't design an architecture together to thwart attacks; they tend to stay in their little silos. And lastly, I'm going to blame Agile. Agile ignores the architecture, database, and security design disciplines that more iterative processes stress and instead pushes forward before a strong architecture is designed and ready to develop on.
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If it's all Agile's fault, how come so many issues come from older software (OpenSSL springs to mind) created before Agile took off).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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No, laziness in security is.
Passwords in plain-text (try 123456) disabled firewalls "for that older product", stuff running under admin-priviliges, outdated Flash..
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yah, we devs are not paid enough...
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Microsoft has released a new computer science curriculum designed for teens who may not have expressed much interest in computer programming – and teachers who don't necessarily have any background in the field, either. "Teach your children well"
Yeah, I use that one a lot, but not as much as I use Hotel California (I love the steely knives bit!)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: teachers who don't necessarily have any background in the field, either
I could weep. 
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But you know it's true: "Hey Bob, you know how to start Excel, why don't you teach computer programming next semester?"
TTFN - Kent
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So are you going to volunteer to take a massive drop in salary, and give up three years to retrain, to go teach?
(The one advantage, in the UK, is long summer holidays)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Acer has unveiled its first "PC Phone" — a Windows 10 phone that will function as a PC thanks to Microsoft's Continuum. A really, really slow PC
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New survey reveals developers are both excited and nervous. You are here
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You probably know that to be highly productive you should master your programming language(s), know common data structures and patterns, have a working knowledge of algorithmic analysis, and so forth. "I'm addicted to your charms. You're getting to be a habit with me"
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And the 5th habit:
When writing an article of n items, list them as bullet items at the top of the article so we don't have to wade through all your "I love to hear myself" drivel to get the gist of your point.
Marc
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A wireless charging system that packs enough power to replenish a laptop battery should hit the market in 2016, helping realize the long-held dream of a cable-free desk, Intel said on Wednesday. "Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe."
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Google's fleet of autonomous test cars is programmed to follow the letter of the law. But it can be tough to get around if you are a stickler for the rules. One Google car, in a test in 2009, couldn’t get through a four-way stop because its sensors kept waiting for other (human) drivers to stop completely and let it go. The human drivers kept inching forward, looking for the advantage — paralyzing Google’s robot. I'd like to see how Google handles the streets of NYC.
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Hilarious!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I have almost been run over by a guy driving a truck 23 times. Same person, same truck. Reported him to the police, but he never got in trouble, even though there are pictures and reports from police officers as well.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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A team of researchers with Kogakuin University has demonstrated a lithium ion battery which is not only nearly transparent, but can also be recharged with direct sunlight alone. Create a big enough stack, and we'll power the world!
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Road trip?
No, wait, uhm, Apple can finally just ship that piece of glass that they've been aiming for for a while now?
TTFN - Kent
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Nope! We're gonna take over the world! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-xrnIXQ3iQ[^]
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer, and Firefox will stop supporting RC4 encryption as all three companies announced on Tuesday. RC4 is a stream cipher designed in 1987 and has been widely supported by web browsers and online services and applications. The musty security technology has been used for the purposes of encryption, but remains highly plagued with multiple vulnerabilities as discovered in the last few years. This cryptographic algorithm facilitates malicious actors to crack services within days or even hours, in some cases as demonstrated by researchers multiple times.
Earlier this year, a new vulnerability was discovered against RC4-based SSL/TLS communications further confirming that the RC4 attacks are becoming easier for attackers. In February, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) announced that the TLS clients should never use RC4 when establishing connections. Browsers had then adjusted to ensure to only use the cipher when absolutely necessary. However, now the trio of companies owning the popular web browsers has announced to completely disable support for RC4 encryption in the future versions of their web browsers.
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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