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The perils of leaving computers unattended just got worse, thanks to a newly released exploit tool that takes only 30 seconds to install a privacy-invading backdoor, even when the machine is locked with a strong password. Pass the epoxy, please
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Farsad built a chemical texting system that communicates through pulses of glass cleaner and vinegar. The chemical messages I give are, 'Leave my cubicle now'
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I'm sorry, but that is sooo stupid. Really? Using a pump to drive acid and base chemicals to a pH sensor? Wow, now that's ROCKET SCIENCE!
In his vodka messaging machine, the signal would build up to the point that the receiving end was too saturated with vodka to receive more messages.
In other words, his sensor passed out? 
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Smoke signals are kind of an established technology...
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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A new program called Shuffler tries to preempt attacks by allowing programs to continuously scramble their code as they run, effectively closing the window of opportunity for an attack. "Trust everybody, but always cut the cards"
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Microsoft’s announcement that it was bringing its flagship SQL Server database software to Linux came as a major surprise when the company first announced this in March. Until now, the preview was invite-only, but as Microsoft announced today, anybody who wants to give it a try can now download the bits. SELECT wit FROM sys_comments; 0 rows returned.
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I think I just realized what is going on. Microsoft is bailing on Windows by moving everything over to Linux. The truth of that statement will be verified when Microsoft announces, probably within a year or two at most, that it has ported the Windows desktop to Linux. And when you think about it, getting Visual Studio to run natively on a Mac is also probably one step closer to getting VS to run on Linux.
Conversely, Microsoft might be trying to consume Linux (sort of like the snake eating its tail) - there are signs of that too -- the Linux Bash Shell running on Windows, for example -- and porting its flagship product to Linux, along with C#/.NET, ASP.NET, etc., is an interesting way of getting Linux devs to start using Microsoft tech, but I prefer the former crystal ball prediction.
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: Conversely, Microsoft might be trying to consume Linux (sort of like the snake eating its tail) - there are signs of that too -- the Linux Bash Shell running on Windows, for example -- and porting its flagship product to Linux, along with C#/.NET, ASP.NET, etc.,
I hope they get such a mess, that they stop being dumb and start concentrating in doing less but right.
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I don't see them ceding the OS kernel to Torvald; it just doesn't sound feasible.
I'm more inclined to suspect that they see where server operations has been leaning for the last few years and want to get ahead of the market.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks. I blame the computers
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Thank goodness - as were the numbers otherwise, nobody would employ someone as scruffy, odd and obsequious as me.
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I still have:
1) no idea how to make Excel produce graphs the way I want them to look
2) to google for how to create headers/footers in Word
I blame the ribbon bar. 
So, I doubt I'm in the 5%. 
Which illustrates an interesting point. Perhaps most of the people in the 33 rich countries fail to complete medium-complexity tasks, not because they're stupid or incapable of thinking, but because the user interface sucks is klunky and confusing and poorly designed is unintuitive, never mind -- let's go back to "the user interface sucks!"
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Kent Sharkey wrote: only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities,
The people at ms are working hard to reduce that number further.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious
contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. Obviously for his contributions to Gorilla.bas
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Well, that game is still awesome! And it was an easter egg in some of the old versions of the software my company produces 
EDIT: I mean, Angry Birds had an astounding success and it was basically gorilla.bas with a different UI.
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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Mathematicians are a step closer to understanding what makes a perfect cup of coffee. \sum_{i=1}^{10} \bigcup / hour
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Quote: TechEmpower also reports that the performance of ASP.NET Core running on Linux is approximately 760 times faster than it was one year ago. Since TechEmpower started measuring benchmarks in March 2013, they have never seen such a performance improvement as they have observed in ASP.NET Core over the last year.
Is this a round about way of saying that the previous versions performance was more glacial than whOrcacle when contemplating needing to solve a problem via engineering rather than litigation?
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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Google has joined the .Net Foundation, to help shape Microsoft's programming framework Sorry, I'm too busy boggling to come up with a (half) witicism
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Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio for the Mac, Xamarin, DevOps, and more A special issue, because you're so special
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Microsoft is releasing a first Visual Studio for Mac preview, as well as a near-final Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2017 for Windows. For reals, this time
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Message Closed
modified 17-Nov-16 4:55am.
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I'm sorry but this forum is for news items. You might want to raise this in the Lounge instead.
This space for rent
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Encouraging a new user to post a question disguised as a rant on The Lounge (a privilege normally reserved for those of us who've earned the master debater status)... are you trying to get him(?) banned?
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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Microsoft announced that it was joining forces with The Linux Foundation at the Microsoft Connect developer event in New York. "It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror"
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