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Kent Sharkey wrote: If only they had a phone OS for years before Android came out!
It kills me. I was using PocketPC in 2002 and really liking it.
Another guy I worked with bought a Windows Phone (running PocketPC 2002) at the time but it did crash a lot and it used a "HORROR!" stylus (I liked using the stylus). Anyways, then we paused for like 5 years and the first iPhone comes out and it doesn't really do as much as the PocketPC 2002 -- except it doesn't use a stylus (wow, such innovation!). In that first year there was no app store even . But it was WAY better than PocketPC...(that I had 5 years before) that's what they tole me! Ok.
I know. I know. It's all MARKETING! 
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Millions of Dell computers running Windows, and possibly many more computers made by other brands, are vulnerable to a flaw in their internal system-health software that could let hackers take over the machines, according to a new report from Sunnyvale, California-based SafeBreach. Software designed to keep machines safe has vulnerability. Someone please notify Alanis Morissette
I imagine there are more than a few Dells out there (and others with that software)
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I can guarantee you that my reasonably new Dell laptop is not a potential victim of this flaw. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Someone please notify Alanis Morissette
Wouldn't it be more effective to inform someone who knows what the word "ironic" means?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It’s a new central location where you can access the traditional cmd line, PowerShell, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It may be terminal, but it doesn't seem contagious
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/22/18713270/microsoft-slack-ban-aws-google-docs-prohibited-list-details
“Slack Free, Slack Standard and Slack Plus versions do not provide required controls to properly protect Microsoft Intellectual Property (IP). Existing users of these solutions should migrate chat history and files related to Microsoft business to Microsoft Teams, which offers the same features and integrated Office 365 apps, calling and meeting functionality. Learn more about the additional features that Teams can provide your workgroup. Slack Enterprise Grid version complies with Microsoft security requirements; however, we encourage use of Microsoft Teams rather than a competitive software.”
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Whilst (if you read the full article) the major concern is the security of internal information, I find it a bit rich regarding the correction software...
quote "Quote: “The Grammarly Office add-in and browser extensions should not be used on the Microsoft network because they are able to access Information Rights Management (IRM) protected content within emails and documents,”
Considering the amount of information "gleaned" from Windows 10 users I find this a it rich...
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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ya i noticed that...ridiculous.. indeed...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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We used Slack at my last company and I worried about this; we were sending highly confidential information to a third party, taking their word that it was secure. However, given the number of bugs with Slack, why believe them?
modified 23-Jun-19 15:26pm.
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Robots may be coming your job, but a new study finds we don’t need to work that much anyway. Done
Of course, the headline and the research are not exactly aligned, but maybe the headline writer was booking off work any minute.
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Quote: When you go to a job the pub, you meet people, socialize, and feel like you’re contributing to society.
Can't argue with that!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Maybe it's related to my personal background, but I find it depressing that so many people seem to define themselves by their working activities.
In my spare time I play music, read, code, write, and enjoy social activities. Going to work is a neccessity to enable these activities, not the goal itself.
Do you work to live? Or live to work?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Don't live to work.
Work to live.
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 could name several people for whom I believe working only one day a week would be better -- it would get the useless b@st#rds out of my hair for the other four, at least.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It’s sharing its open-source library of post-quantum cryptography software. Just in time - I was getting a little worried with all the quantum computers around
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Listening to grey seals recite vowel sounds and sing the melodies to Star Wars and “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” makes for excellent entertainment, but for the researchers who trained these aquatic mammals, it’s serious science. Because they could?
Maybe they're big fans of Admiral Akbar?
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Over the years, managing larger teams and eventually my own software companies, I have had many opportunities to observe geek-on-geek violence. "Two men enter; one man leaves!"
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 +5 for the Mad Max quote
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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The new features came out the same day as a study that found many open-source projects lack a clear way to report security problems if (onGitHub) { return true; }
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Our future robot overlords might be a pretty artistic bunch if recent research is any indication. Machine learning news: hype extending beyond time. Why do I post these?
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A.I. finally
impresses with things that are
bad as real haiku
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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As the adoption of cryptographic protocols for secure website communication increased, cybercrooks also moved to HTTPS to keep their operation floating. Isn't it nice they care about security?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Isn't it nice they care about security?
Kind of logical... they don't want hackers to spoil their scam to you
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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How is this news?
Insurance companies started using https ages ago.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A Pentagon task force is reviewing over a hundred tools and services to speed up software acquisition. So, they'll only require 50 forms (in triplicate, natch) to update a field name?
Did you ever watch something, just knowing there was going to be a horrible accident soon?
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