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The most dramatic cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding an unprecedented botnet—powered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security cameras and wireless routers—that unleashed sweeping attacks on key internet services around the globe last fall. Beware of more than the creeper
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In working life it's now almost expected that employees answer work-related emails after hours, or take their laptops with them on holiday. But the blurring of boundaries between work and personal life can affect people's sense of well-being and lead to exhaustion. Unless your business is pleasure
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New research shows the power of research to point out the bleeding obvious.
Maybe, just maybe, if some of the multitude involved in these studies devoted themselves to useful activities they could help out the poor people who aren't getting a good work/life balance and there would be no need for these studies.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Internet download speeds grew more than 30 percent this year for both wireline and mobile connections as compared to a year earlier, according to new data from internet speed-test company Ookla. That makes the average download speed 40 Mbps for broadband and 20 Mbps for mobile. Not at my house, it didn't
Oh, sure. I could pay for a faster speed, but where's the fun in that?
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No matter how developers feel about JavaScript, one thing is for certain: the programming language keeps evolving year after year. It's true! 'Boring' is not the word I use to describe JavaScript
I can't use the actual word here.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I can't use the actual word here.
Something that's 'Boring' through your colon?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That's pretty close to it, yes. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I can't use the actual word here.
Jeremy Falcon
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After seven years of development, Avast open-sources its machine-code decompiler for platform-independent analysis of executable files. "There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves."
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Well that seems wrong. / Got mine! Thanks! 
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a 32bit only decompiler is going to be increasingly limited value as time goes by. Am I being overly cynical for suspecting they opensourced it hoping someone else would update it to 64 bit?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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I do think it fits in the category of, "What do we have laying around that we can open source and get some press love for?", yeah.
Works for Microsoft, why not Avast?
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah. The real unanswered questions are:
1) Will they continue to develop the tool?
2) If so will they do so in the open and with community involvement?
In MS's case those answers generally seem to be yes, with abandoned projects be left to rot ignored on internal source control servers. (VB6 fans say hi.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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A team of University of Alberta engineers developed a new way to produce electrical power that can charge handheld devices or sensors that monitor anything from pipelines to medical implants. I've been saying for years that "triboelectric nanogenerators" is the way to go
I mean, it's obvious, isn't it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "triboelectric nanogenerators" is the way to go
I mean, yeah, if you're not using the "quadroelectric picogenerators" then the tribos are the way to go. 
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Computer scientists have built and successfully tested a tool designed to detect when websites are hacked by monitoring the activity of email accounts associated with them. Is it on the Internet?
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What a brilliantly simple and effective method to detect breaches. I wish I thought of that.
Someone should use their code to build a website that you can go to and get a live view of websites that have been breached.
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Sites vulnerable to newly revived ROBOT exploit included Facebook and PayPal. Oldie, but a goodie, I guess
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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 sharp metal object is exceptionally effective against modern ballistic protection... yet swords are millennia old.
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
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First Heartbleed, then Dirty COW, now this. Oh wait, I forgot, I use those terribly insecure Microsoft platforms so I don't have to worry.
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Ask just about any *NIX admin using a Windows laptop and they will have come across Putty. Oh, ssh!
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You got that right. For years we waited for multi desktop support. Many offerings were made, then MS rolled out there own shiny turd. Can't wait to see how they "improve" putty. lol.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Analytics firm Net Applications revised its methodology to cull bots from its browser share numbers and found that as much as half of the traffic to Edge on Windows 10 was artificially inflated. How else am I going to download Chrome?
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Why would anyone use a browser that implicitly admits opening a link in a new tab and immediately activating that tab are useful via a Bing setting, but makes you use two hands to do so in all other situations? It's been how many years, now?  Idiots...
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