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As of January 1, the delivery of ransomware is illegal in California thanks to Senate Bill 1137 going into effect. Well, that should stop them then
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Um, where is it not illegal?
Unless they mean that people who've had their computers compromised, and are unknowingly deploying the cr@p, are now criminals.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Maybe before it was legal to deploy as long as you didn't use it? Possibly a case of the law lagging behind technology.
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the way it works was a poor fit with the existing state extortion statue (and while the feds have the CFAA that's a dumpster fire of a different sort and they generally only go after the biggest offenders anyway), so the law was given a minor update to explicitly state that it's a violation.
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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Ah. I'm not used to the "this is a state crime and that one's federal" thing you've got going, over there.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Feds cite use of internet-connected cameras to launch botnet attack as proof that better security is needed. And the prize for closing the barn door after the horses have left goes to...
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Automatic IoT patching; does that mean that each and every device gets a (standardized) port trough which we can send codez?
Rly? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Ugh... a project that might actually be useful is offered less than $25,000 (that $25k is the total prize pool including the $3k honorable mentions). The article even says the winners of a previous contest had to fully pay their way to the conference to even have their idea judged. So a possible net positive of (25,000 - (3,000 x HonorableMentions) - TravelCosts) with a possible net negative of TravelCosts.
Meanwhile projects like the TSA Randomizer app that take less than 10 minutes to write and debug pay out 1.4 million. I don't even 
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The open source, multiplatform Gitea project for lightweight code-hosting is written in Go. Now you can be a git on your own network
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This analysis is not perfect, as the comment “that one’s so stupid it underflows and becomes awesome” appears in both lists. "I'm so happy that I can't stop crying"
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Apparently:
"You're an idiot  "
is happy
"You're an idiot."
is sad.
Perhaps the "happy" stats are really measure phoniness and insincerity, while the "sad" stats are measuring directness and honesty.
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Thanks to a collaboration between Kérastase, the professional arm of L'Oreal, and smart technology vendor Withings, you can now have the world's first 'connected hairbrush' and it packs a surprising number of features for a household object that really only has one job. And we have now reached the pinnacle of civilization
It's only down from here, folks
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The pinnacle of human invention was the fork. Everything's gone downhill since.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I had to check the calendar... for a moment I thought it is the 1st of April...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Who would have thought that there were developers in the world who wanted to put sensors into girls' bathrooms?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So much for the IoT joke I've been using for the last couple years. Thanks a lot, L'Oreal.
Now I'll have to mock the SmartPen.
Oh crap, saw one of those the other day.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I installed SQL on Ubuntu a month ago and was very impressed, quick (both installation and performance), small footprint and resource consumption...
All-in-all: impressed...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The idea of HALs isn't a new one - but if MS open sources their DLL to ABI implementation, that should open the door to lots more ports. I would love to see Cinema 4D, for instance, on Linux.
This space for rent
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A new report from IT research and consulting company Osterman Research reveals that employee turnover and attrition is the number one data protection concern for enterprises. "Go ask Alice, I think she'll know"
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69... employee turnover...
I'm sorry, I'll get my coat  On a related note before I go, maybe businesses should properly compensate critical employees so they aren't tempted to get a raise by jumping ship 
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Yes, companies would focus on their employees. Because all the large databreaches were caused by employees, one way or the other. Storing passwords in clear text is not the problem, it's the employee 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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TLDR; Yes. But its successor is still called JavaScript, except when it isn’t. Pick your favourite line from the Parrot Sketch. I'm too lazy to copy and paste today.
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In a cruel twist of fate, enterprise IT teams tasked with creating the organization's custom software and integrating off-the-shelf applications often must use fractured, unintegrated tools. As a VS user, I am confused by this, but YMMV
I am a sheltered little kitten after all.
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