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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Zo relaxen und watschen der blinkenlichten"
I just spent five minutes wracking my brain to remember where it came from -- and then I finally remembered the poster!
Nice one!
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The Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity agency today shared tips on how to properly secure enterprise virtual private networks (VPNs) seeing that a lot of organizations have made working from home the default for their employees in response to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. There's something funny about step 11L-Q-36, where they say "create an account named NSA, with no password"
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With everyone pretending to work working from home, now, it must feel like Christmas at homeland security HQ.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There's something funny about step 11L-Q-36, where they say "create an account named NSA, with no password"
C'mon Kent... that was an easy one... you can do it better  
M.D.V. 
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 Sorry, I’ll try to do better next time.
TTFN - Kent
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To your defense... I never said it was bad 
M.D.V.
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What’s in a name? A lot it turns out. And we have a lot of them. Too many? We hear you and agree. That’s one of the key reasons we’re simplifying our story. To collectively rally around a single UI library for our web components—Fluent UI. I guess they ran out of icons to update?
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Oh, come on!
Do you really expect me to read a blog by someone who can't even spell "effluent"?
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Efforts to improve open-source security helped find 6,100 vulnerabilities last year – up over 10 times on a decade ago. Someone started to look, rather than just write new code?
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Actually, the zdnet scaremongers have finally realised that:
• windows has become so diabolically bad that hardly anything works well and efficiently
• Loss of service (i.e. bricking of your computer) is a run-of-the-mill event, because of automatic updates
• Privacy and security are only as good as the makers of the OS (who can't even update icons without the screensaver causing computers to brick)
So they're having to find a new audience that hasn't become inured to it all.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Someone started to look, rather than just write new code?
That's always my argument... only because it is open source and many people can check it, it doesn't mean that it will be checked by many people.
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and a surprisingly small number of people are qualified to check some code. I'm in no way qualified to check, for example, whether an encryption algorithm is up to scratch.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft is removing its Linux kernel from the Windows OS image with Windows 10 20H1/2004 and instead will deliver it via Windows Update. It's settled: 2004 is the Year of Linux (on Windows)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's settled: 2004 is the Year of Linux (on Windows)
Or maybe it's that 2004 windows machines per ten thousand will randomly switch to Linux, crash, then reboot to DOS.
You've got to have faith that windows update will far exceed the parameters required by Murphy's Law.
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Kernel functionality delivered via update?
If (as Mark said above) they can't manage to deliver icons updates without problems...
What can go wrong?
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Microsoft co-founder exits the board 45 years after starting the company. "For the times they are a-changin'"
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... And I'm not talking about money.
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Microsoft has unveiled a new plan for the delivery of automatic driver updates that they hope will reduce the number of reliability issues users experience in Windows 10. This time, they promise to only use the good updates
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Ooh! Great!
Because if there's one source you can trust for perfect software updates, it's microsoft -- and they've never, ever had any problems with drivers, have they?
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Learn how to build a fully functional phone with the Ringo DIY Mobile Phone Kit for $179.95, a 7% savings as of March 15. "I give you my affection and I give you my time Trying to get a connection on the telephone line"
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Are you planning to defect to Germany, or something?
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Don't wait if you want to use it. It comes with a 2g GSM radio, and the remaining 2g networks are dropping like flies these days.
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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An international team of computer scientists has set a new record for integer factorization, one of the most important computational problems underlying the security of nearly all public-key cryptography currently used today. ...aaaaaand it's cracked.
OK, not really. This one might take a while.
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The level of the encryption of meaning by the absolutely bloody awful phrasing of the article writer is enough to rebuff my efforts to steal even a glimmer of meaning from what he or she wrote.
Remind me to remember not to (attempt to) read anything by that person again.
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