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Adobe warned on Thursday that attackers are exploiting a previously unknown security hole in its Flash Player software to break into Microsoft Windows computers. Adobe said it plans to issue a fix for the flaw in the next few days, but now might be a good time to check your exposure to this still-ubiquitous program and harden your defenses.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I do not know what this "Flash Player" is that you speak of?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Flash and the Pan were an Australian new wave musical group, "Hey, St.Peter" might sound familiar to you 
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How is it that Microsoft can still claim a better, more secure OS when this crap still goes on? I would not expect application software to be able to bypass an OS' security measures, so it appears Microsoft still has not solved their core issues.
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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Short of making a transition to an entirely managed O/S where all code is verified before execution, what you're asking is impossible.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Catching up on this - then don't call your OS secure. Don't claim so as well.
Even so, ponder flash - it runs in a elephanting browser yes? Windows allows the browser - I'm not arguing that Windows should aspire to some DoD level system - but ffs - how do you allow an app running in a browser to penetrate your kernel?
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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Perhaps one of the biggest problem areas in C#—and one that’s been around since C# 1.0—surrounds the fact that reference types can be null and, in fact, reference types are null by default. "I call it my billion-dollar mistake."
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Sometimes I use a class with a
public static readonly MyClass Null = new MyClass(); singleton instance that does nothing to save on null checking.
Wout
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It's going to be spectacular: The Great Nullification.
In order to understand stack overflow, you must first understand stack overflow.
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For many years I have been studying errors in programs and now I can say for sure that in C and C++ the switch operator is implemented incorrectly. "I want to break free"
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Quote: now I can say for sure that my head is full of gas and my ego is even more inflated. Besides, I can't program so send me codez pls.
Fixed that for him.
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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Gimme a break 
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MIT has announced the MIT Intelligence Quest (IQ), a new initiative to learn about the foundations of human intelligence and drive technological innovations that will positively influence many aspects of society. First step: finding some
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Organizers of a new botnet made up of infected home and small office routers are brazenly selling denial-of-service attacks of once unimaginable volumes for just $20 per target. Hooray for progress
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An apparently unsolvable exam question on a Chinese maths paper has left both students and social media stumped. Uh... 42?
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I think that the question is brilliant!
This is far better preparation for a career in software development than anything you'd ever find on a CS course.
Any students that go on to become developers will already have had plenty of practice for the inevitable day that they're asked "Exactly how long will it take you to code these incredibly vague requirements using tools that you've never worked with before?"
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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From the viewpoint of 'teach to them think critically', I agree.
But, is this is an exam, how is the answer to be graded? As with most 'news' stories, only half of the story is being told.
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The person whose answer appears at the end must be Chinesier than most. That actually is an impressive way to think. However, you shouldn't test critical awareness in math. Teach a philosophy class and open it up for debate.
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More like: NaN
In order to understand stack overflow, you must first understand stack overflow.
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Dr. Google may not have much of a bedside manner—she's an algorithm, after all—but if she says you're soon to be "expired," she claims to be about 95 percent accurate, and you might want to start planning that last meal. "Are you feeling lucky?"
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When are they going to come up with useful algorithms like predicting lottery numbers?
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My algorithm for predicting the next color in roulette is right about 50% of the time. So it needs only minor, almost negligible, improvement for a significant step forward. 
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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I see a new horror movie based on this software. When you watch the results, you die within 24 hours.
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Beginning in April 2013, Backblaze has recorded and saved daily hard drive statistics from the drives in our data centers. Because you need a new hard drive or five
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