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Kent Sharkey wrote: Research from James Cook University shows increasingly complex website password restrictions often leave users frustrated and lead to poor password security.
Hear, hear! I tried to use an easy-to-use password for everything that satisfies the simple 'string-together' rule, but was denied because it didn't have a number or special symbol in it. Like I said, it is a simple but secure password which I may as well share, since I couldn't use it anywhere: "everyoneElseIsAnIdiot".
Just kidding! It made me laugh, though...
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Quote: the tougher the constraints of creating the passwords the safer users feel with their information
The deception seems to work for some people.
In my experience, enormous constraints mean just the opposite thing: unsafe passwords, and - I am pretty sure - low quality of safeguards on their side.
Why are ÄäÖöÜü߀§ (available on German keyboard but not US keyboard) so often not acceptable? Because they store passwords using the absoulety safe method of "ASCII encryption"?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Computer science researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a sarcasm detector. Well done, boffins
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public bool IsSarcasm(object postContent)
{
return true;
}
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
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We have made substantial runtime performance improvements in the x86/x64 C++ compiler for Visual Studio’s default debug configuration. Great news for those that forget to switch to Release builds before shipping
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Hahahahahahaha!
As I've said a few times now, I just couldn't see why Microsoft were so eager to repeat the whole Windows RT, Windows 10 S, and Windows Phone debacles.
Quote: it appears Microsoft is now focused on improving the core of Windows instead of delivering a new variant.
Good for them. This is surely the sensible way forward.
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Quote: Microsoft reportedly shelves Windows 10X
What will all the 10X Devs[^] do? 
technopedia: What Does 10x Developer Mean? A 10x developer is an individual who is thought to be as productive as 10 others in his or her field. The 10x developer would produce 10 times the outcomes of other colleagues, in a production, engineering or software design environment. A 10x developer is also known as a 10x programmer or 10x engineer.
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Usually when you try to be super productive, you end up with 10 times the number of bugs.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Reminds me of Agile. Deploy more bugs faster!
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As an enterprise/educational market only product I can see some potential value for organizations that currently have a mix of full Windows and Chromebooks in that they could consolidate their admin work to a single management interface.
As an end user product Windows 10 Times Worse would've been a repeat of Windows 10 Strangled at best; if they followed through on the rumor of not allowing it to be converted into a standard install it would've been far worse.
OTOH things like "better tablet support" that presumably will be coming into normal W10 now that the focus is pulling features from 10x for improving it never should've been locked to the variant product in the first place.
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
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Why would a glitch in Windows cause a change in the data stored by a program?
This sounds like the data were stored as a text string, and something is wrong with the string manipulation routines.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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rather a ploy to escape negligence and a law suit...
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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Quote: The memo states that 10mg may display as 100mg and 15mg could display as 155mg.
That's absolutely weird, I cannot imagine how to get to such a result with data proper. But on the other hand, the text says "display" - and that could mean a driver glitch for the display, without any change to the actual data, and thus the dose administered...
By the way, that EMR should qualify as a "medical product" and be covered by the respective regulations. An update of the OS without proper regression testing or even an OS auto-update? That should not be possible.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Seems very unlikely to be an issue with an update.
Unless it's an update of their own software, maintained by Big Corp Co. costing gazillions while still being written by a bunch of bunglers on a nice government contract with no incentive to learn or even do a good job (if they would even be able to) because the money supply is endless and no matter how hard they mess up they won't lose their contract anyway 
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The article states "It's a patch relating to upgrading to Microsoft 10." That suggests to me that Big Corp Co. charged gazillions to rebuild the software for Windows 10 and messed something up.
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maj000 wrote: charged gazillions to rebuild the software for Windows 10
And a very specific minor, patch and build number 
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In all the media articles I've seen about subjects about which I knew some of the details, the journalists have always got stuff wrong. Often massively wrong, confused, wrong-end-of-stick.
I think that one needs to bear this in mind when reading the media. Even in cases where articles are a genuine attempt to convey the news without spin (rarer and rarer), they still get stuff wrong. This can even happen in specialist media.
So what we read here as a "Windows upgrade" could easily be misunderstood-speak for a software upgrade.
That said, blaming this on a Windows upgrade does kind of sound like someone's feeble attempt to deflect a negligence lawsuit, doesn't it.
It seems to me that even if a Windows upgrade is somehow to blame, it is still very likely negligent to allow that to negatively affect one's product (especially if the product was shipped as a hardware/software system).
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