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We know that Russia wants to give Microsoft products the boot, but now it's clearer as to why. Because Putin's a Mac guy?
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To be replaced with Russia's OS "окно"
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Marc
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Microsoft is known for being "very cooperative" with all goverment agencies. 
Maybe the russian dont like to get "also" spyed out from american secret services 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Our goal is to enable machines to better understand human communication. An important question is, what does the word “understand” mean here? "Because denial ain't just a river in Egypt"
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Actually, the more important question is, what the heck is "human communication?"
- An oxymoron
- Something that managers don't do because they aren't human
- A new age concept intended to create empathy for dolphins and aliens
Counter examples:
- A Clinton-Trump debate
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And they clearly could benefit from reading some of the famous philosophers through history.
“Concepts are the glue that holds our mental world together”. Nature magazine book review pointed out “Without concepts, there would be no mental world in the first place”.
Steiner writes much about this in Philosophy of Freedom[^] which is of course heavily influenced by Kant and others.
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Because denial ain't just a river in Egypt"
True. It's a river in China, apparently, since all the developers are Chinese.
So, for machines to understand us, will we have to learn the 8,105 sinographs that make up simplified Chinese, or the umpty-gozillion that make up the traditional version?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The company's free password manager is no longer locked to only one device you own. Make it easier for hackers to get all your passwords
But seriously, do people use these? Are you happy with them?
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I've been using it for a couple months, and I find it to be immensely useful. It provides an easy way to diversify your passwords across all accounts, without having to remember which variation you used where. You just come up with one very strong password for LastPass and voila!, you're good to go.
Being able to use it on multiple devices now (for free) is going to be nice, because I had been limiting it to services I only use on my computer. Anything that I access via my phone currently does not have a LastPass generated password.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Just the kind of advice I was looking for - thank you! 
TTFN - Kent
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I have been using PasswordBox for a while, which was purchased by Intel and they're either re-branding it, or are killing it and promoting something they've built (TrueKey) instead. PasswordBox will stop working at the end of this year.
Like the other poster said, have a ridiculously strong password for the password remembering app, and let it handle the lot. I also have second level authentication on a number of sites like banks, etc as I see fit.
If you were wanting to know whether this helps, I'd say yes.
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This is a favorite subject of mine, and I have to say at first I thought this post was a joke. I mean, who DOESN'T use a password manager? Is that even possible to live without one? Even my dog has passwords, like his LinkedIn account. (He's a working dog).
You should at least look at KeePass. I've used many apps over the years, and paid for some, I even starting writing my own at one point. I have standardized on KeePass for the following reasons:
1. It's open source.
2. It's well maintained.
3. You control where the data is, not some corporation, especially not the "cloud".
4. It's free.
5. It has the most useful features, in my opinion.
I have well over 300 unique passwords and I keep my keepass database on my own private cloud storage that I built myself, that is synced across all my devices, work and home. In addition to the main password, the database is secured by a certificate that is stored locally on those devices, so even if my database was stolen, and my password cracked, you still cannot decrypt my passwords.
I do not know or care what all my various passwords are. KeePass enters them for me. Also, wife and kids have their own Keepass databases... I consider it one of those MUST HAVE applications. It's not perfect, but it's pretty close.
There is a learning curve if you want to do advanced things such as having it automatically launch a Putty session and log into a Linux server, but with a little reading all these things are possible. I don't know the exact date, but I think I switched to keepass over 10 years ago. I have NEVER lost a password.
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Bless those who can have an Internet connection always active anywhere - AKA the rich part of US and Europe. For me any password manager is useless because either it's local to the device - thus not synced - or it's mostly unavailable, thus useless.
My password manager is called brain, I can't forget to bring it it anywhere and if it goes offline passwords would be the last of my problems.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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According to my password manager, I have 87 accounts which doesn't count those which are doubled up (like putting all my secondary gmail accounts in the notes of my main gmail account.) This also doesn't count one-off accounts, where I simply do a reset on the rare occasion I actually need to access them again, and several unimportant accounts where I keep the password in my browser and/or on a sheet of paper next to my computer.
(There there is a VeriSign account I didn't even know I had until I was asked to authorize a payment through VeriSign, whereupon it said I had an account, let me reset the password, fill out the form, and then dumped it down a black hole [while, I suppose, laughing evilly.])
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Is everything we use a string for really just a bunch of characters? Is everything we use an int for really just a number? Probably not. We can have stronger types than that. Do your types even lift?
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Yeah, but from a C++ dev's perspective. And you know what they think of .NET 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And you know what they think of .NET
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Umm, in his example you don't need "strong types" at all. Just check that the properties have meaningful values when they are loaded.
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Unlike most of those though, in C++ the Semantic types have zero or close to zero overhead.
Further, with user-defined literals, it allows natural expressions such as:
auto distance = 12_km;
auto time = 4_s;
auto speed = distance / time;
Giving safe, statically checked, zero-overhead semantic types.
(Edit - substituted distance for length)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Unlike most of those though, in C++ the Semantic types have zero or close to zero overhead.
Oh, I'm not complaining about the C++ example, it's just, how exactly is this new and profound? I guess I was in a bit of a mood (more-so than usual, haha) and I do definitely wish C# had that feature -- it's supposed to be coming in C# 7.0 I think I read somewhere?
Marc
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There comes a point when you have to stop designing code with the intent that it be maintained by idiots. (Especially since the idiots will probably get annoyed and remove all the strong typing, arguably making everything worse.)
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New research shows that 98 percent of developers use open source tools at work, with 56 percent revealing that more than half of their development tools are open source, and 18 percent using only open source tools. New study of open source developers provides amazing conclusion
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"JavaScript is the preferred programming language according to 51 percent of respondents"
The group giving that result is a group whose opinion I don't value. Not sarcasm.
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New Salary tool gives users access to aggregate compensation data. We now have a purpose for LinkedIn, besides finding out which coworkers are looking for a new job
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