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A week after finding a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10,
Google Project Zero is reporting on another flaw,
this time in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. [^WinBuzzer]
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Well, if you set yourself up by continually spamming "safest windows ever" bull, someone is bound to knock you down.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mozilla has acquired Pocket, a kind of DVR for the internet, for an undisclosed sum. To be filed under, "Hunh?
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It's one of the stupid icons in firefox that you promptly remove from your URL bar less it give your browser cancer. I'd assumed it was their dumpsterfire from the getgo. 
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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Discussion at Mozilla:
"We're broke, let's buy something."
"How about a product everyone hates and turns off immediately?"
"Is Clippy for sale?"
"No, but Pocket is."
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Made for people who don't know how to use bookmarks and Save As commands, presumably -- and for those who have 3TB hard drives in their phones.
Needless to say, this will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, SHA-1 has been cracked, but that doesn't mean your code in Git repositories is in any real danger of being hacked. Just sagging a lot
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No real danger of being hacked? The brain trust at Yahoo now have a migration path from MD5.
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Does git use SHA-1 as more than a hash?
If you have enough access to commit a file with a bogus hash, you have enough access to simply commit junk (which is what most people commit anyway.)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you commit changes to git, with the same checksum - a collision - you could add malicious code and nobody would even realize it.
I guess that's the danger they speak of.
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With the Creators Update for Windows 10 scheduled to be released in April, Microsoft will soon be adding the ability to restrict the installation of legacy, x86 apps from any sources other than the Windows Store, something that may prove quite useful for novice users and organisations such as schools and businesses. Bolting down the setting (so you can only install approved apps) will come later
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My dad will need this.
And a robot to yell at him when he decided to open a command prompt and start deleting things.
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Argentinian security expert Manuel Caballero has published new research that shows how a website owner could show a constant stream of popups, even after the user has left his site, or even worse, execute his very own persistent JavaScript code while the user is on other domains. I'm sure Microsoft will fix this one right away
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Quote: fortunately, they only affect Internet Explorer 11, but not Edge, or browsers from other vendors
So that's why it's gone unnoticed for so long.
I wonder if people are still looking for vulnerabilities in IE6.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I wonder if people are still looking for vulnerabilities in IE6.
I wonder if people are still looking for parts that actually DO work in IE6 (or any version for that matter) 
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Aw, be fair. IE4 was the bee's knees, when it came out -- bringing the unlivewithoutable Quick Launch with it.
A phrase involving the words "fallen" and "mighty" comes to mind.
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Someone, somewhere, is still upset over some unfixed bug in CP/M.
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Yikes![^]
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Google catches a lot of flak for having too many messaging apps, but there’s another messaging-style app that you almost surely forgot about. It is called Spaces and it’s shutting down on April 17th Google Whatnow?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Google Whatnow?
My response exactly!
Hands up anyone who's ever heard of it.
<searches out of sheer dumbfoundedness>
Ah. It's android.
I don't use google products on my phone unless it won't work without them. I suppose it's one less thing that will be asking me to update it, every five minutes.
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More often than not throughout any career in development, you'll find that you're spending a lot of time trying to understand someone else's code Sucks to be them
edit: finally fixed URL
modified 27-Feb-17 15:32pm.
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That link leads to a page with the title "Webmail Login"...
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The guy who coded it left, a few weeks ago, and they're trying to figure out why it happens.
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 he was obviously thinking about his future replacement!...it's why I don't comment anymore!...let 'em sort it out.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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