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The zero-day exploits, which Evans published on Tuesday, are the latest to challenge the popular conceit that Linux, at least in its desktop form, is more immune to the types of attacks that have felled Windows computers for more than a decade and have increasingly snared Macs in recent years. Welcome to the real world
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"Will it run Doom?" has become the standard of hacking something to a conceivable point of usability. Which key do you press to strafe?
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AT&T will help NASA beef up its Deep Space Network by providing a high-speed VPN to connect giant radio antennas around the world. It's actually so they can download from the Macroscope without being tracked
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By open-sourcing .Net Core, Microsoft is reaping the rewards -- as are the developers. "Everybody's happy nowadays"
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It’s still too early to install the latest patches for Win7, 8.1, and Office, but next month things will get less complicated. Now I have to find some new reading material
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Following in the footsteps of other major browser makers, Microsoft announced plans to enable Click-to-Run functionality for Flash-based content in the next public release of its default web browser for Windows 10. Pretty soon, the only place you'll be able to run Flash is in the IDE
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As NASA’s Curiosity rover makes its way up a layered mountain on Mars, the little bot is finding even more signs that the Red Planet was once a habitable place — potentially capable of hosting microbial life billions of years ago. Then they tried to invade us. Look where that got them!
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WebHooks provide a simple pub/sub model for wiring together Web APIs and services with your code. Insert Tab A into Slot 1
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Insert Tab A into Slot 1 That's what she said.
Jeremy Falcon
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It’s common knowledge that reflection in .NET is slow, but why is that the case? This post aims to figure that out by looking at what reflection does under-the-hood. Why, do you feel a need? A need for speed?
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Because light slows down when it bounces off a mirror due to quantum interference effects of local dark matter created by photons hitting themselves in a causal-reversal time continuum.
Marc
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I struggled so long (maybe a minute) to come up with something like that. Thank you, and well done.
TTFN - Kent
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This turned out to be an excellent read, thanks. I found the links in the article also valuable.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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After admitting in September that hackers had stolen at least 500 million users passwords and personal data, the company now says they found evidence of what might be a separate attack affecting 1 billion victims. They'll be catching up with McDonald's pretty soon at this rate
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Physicists have achieved record levels of temperature reduction using the process of radiative cooling, by which heat is beamed from Earth’s surface into outer space. Scotty not required (or O'Brien)
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A solution for Global Warming!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Send it back to the sun. We don't need your stinkin' heat.
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Evernote announced that it will roll out a new privacy policy on January 23, and the changes have users threatening to abandon the service. So, please make sure they're interesting for them.
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Microsoft has quietly fixed a software update it released last week, which effectively prevented Windows 10 users from connecting to the Internet or joining a local network. Assuming you could connect to the Internet long enough to download the patch
"It's unclear exactly which automatic update caused the problem". Maybe the "automatic" part?
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I didn't have any problems with it. The "patch" Time Warner/Spectrum did to my Netgear cable modem in late October, on the other hand....
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While we are still in the process of planning the next release, there are some big themes you will identify in the early work on GitHub I know, let's extract all the APIs from Core that run on every OS ever. We can call it .NET Quark.
Hmm. "Spring 2017". The next Build conference is May 2017. Coincidence?!
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Every now and then politics crosses with software development, which makes it relevant to my blog, at least in my mind. "Pride - a deeper love"
Yes, this one is pretty close to the "no politics in the newsletter" rule, and sorry if you feel it has crossed that line. I just live to make you all aware.
No really, Chris only feeds me if I post enough news. Send help. And hopefully Chris won't see this.
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No, not too bad; an interesting read and perspective. Either Franklin is misinformed or he is shunning software developers because of political alignment; i.e. the legacy industry workforce.
If I don't have pride in my work, I don't have anything. I'd rather be a bum than working a screw driver at a TPS factory. Most serious software developers take an excessive amount of pride in their work.
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