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No data encryption, no antivirus programs, no multifactor authentication mechanisms, and 28-year-old unpatched vulnerabilities are just some of the cyber-security failings described in a security audit of the US' ballistic missile system released on Friday by the US Department of Defense Inspector General (DOD IG). Shall we play a game?
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I guess allowing audits, of secret military vulnerabilities, to go public could be added to that list
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: I guess allowing audits, of secret military vulnerabilities, to go public could be added to that list Same thought other words...
Mine would have been more like... "bad enough to have them, but even worst to make it public... idiots"
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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I'll go 20 cents it's a honey trap.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Brain scans of adolescents who are heavy users of smartphones, tablets and video games look different from those of less active screen users, preliminary results from an ongoing study funded by the National Institutes of Health show, according to a report on Sunday by “60 Minutes.” Kid, you don't even wanna see what my brain scan looks like.
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No element of "Whatever kids do now that I didn't do when I was a kid is BAD!" there, eh?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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GOOGLE HAS BEEN forced to shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China after members of the company’s privacy team raised internal complaints that it had been kept secret from them, The Intercept has learned. Listen. Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell?
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A secret a bit told is like a woman a bit pregnant. It is only a matter of time...
By the way... have a look a couple of messages below
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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Leslie says "hi".
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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You're right. I shouldn't go searching for news and then come back here and discover I accidentally re-posted it. I should come here and just steal it outright!
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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French finance minister Bruno Le Maire says the country will move ahead with a new tax on Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon starting Jan. 1, 2019. The tax is expected to raise €500 million ($570 million) in 2019. They can squeal all they want but a hike of 3% is not going to make me cry any rivers over Google's pain.
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With Microsoft's decision to end development of its own Web rendering engine and switch to Chromium, control over the Web has functionally been ceded to Google. That's a worrying turn of events, given the company's past behavior. Google is the hero we deserve, but not the one we need right now.
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That is a really great article.
I changed from Google to Firefox about 6 months ago and did so for this exact reason.
I also switched from Googling to DuckDuckGo. Competition drives innovation and freedom.
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raddevus wrote: I changed from Google to Firefox about 6 months ago and did so for this exact reason.
I also switched from Googling to DuckDuckGo. Eight out of ten personal-data owners said they prefer Pale Moon[^] and Startpage.com[^].
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The salvation, so to speak, is that Chromium is open source and thus only indirectly controlled by Google.
I'm more concerned about Android, which is open source, but most installations of which involve quite a few Google pieces.
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How could you not feel anything but flattered?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Huh? And you have no concern for how Yoda feels!?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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raddevus wrote: Wonder how he feels having looks compared to Yoda?? I can't find it now, but I'm pretty sure he tweeted "Offwardly pissed am I"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 22-Dec-18 1:22am.
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I bought his AoCP volume on Permutation and Combination a few years back and I haven't read a single page yet.
The article makes me yearning to read his earlier volume on how to solve the 7 bridge traveling problem.
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Yeah, I've picked up AoCP Volume 1 at library or book store numerous times and thought, "I'm going to read this..."
I stand there in the aisle and flip past the preface, the intro by Bill Gates and the rest to Chapter 1 : Basic Concepts. I read the two quotes at the top of the page and then start in:
AoCP "1.1 Algorithms
The notion of an algorithm..."
I make it to the bottom of page 1 or 2 then I set the book back on the shelf.
I try to do that about every 3 to 5 years to insure I'm still a Software Developer.
That's as far as it ever got.
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GOOGLE HAS BEEN forced to shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China after members of the company’s privacy team raised internal complaints that it had been kept secret from them, The Intercept has learned.
The internal rift over the system has had massive ramifications, effectively ending work on the censored search engine, known as Dragonfly, according to two sources familiar with the plans.
This is infinitely more satisfying than how I expected the story to end.
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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Dan Neely wrote: This is infinitely more satisfying than how I expected the story to end. It ain't over till it's over -- the Chinese government doesn't want porn on the Internet, and will keep going until it blocks it completely (i.e. forever, because blocking something completely on the Interwebs is really tricky).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Instead of relying on Windows Insiders, employees, and willing participants in testing updates, Microsoft has decided it is acceptable for regular users to receive patches before they are known to be stable if they opt to click the "check for updates" button on their own. I mean, that's one way to test updates.
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"Hello, son"
"Hi, ma ... guess what ... Microsoft invited ME to be a tester !"
"Wonderful, son ! Are you going to quit McDonald's ?"
"Naw, I can keep my job."
"Son, why didn't you e-mail about this ?"
"E-mail don't work, Ma."
In terms of getting better (wilder, less predictable, insane fumbles by clueless newbies) testing for MS: this makes sense ... caveat: if errors require reporting by these same mere mortals, rather than is an automatic upload of data, then reports/feedback are likely to be as whacko as the errors.
In terms of "other," this probably sucks.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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