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It is possible to thoroughly hijack a nearby vulnerable Qualcomm-based Android phone, tablet, or similar gadget, via Wi-Fi, we learned on Monday. This likely affects millions of Android devices. This is what happens when you phone in your security?
"The good news is that all the bugs have been patched by Qualcomm. Now for the bad news. When exactly these fixes will filter down to actual Android users is not clear."
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OK, Chaps!
You now have an excuse for the missus to buy a new phone!
Sometimes these "security researchers" do indeed serve a noble purpose.
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Sometimes it’s good not to get all the attention. I'm sure they'd like all those monopolies to be broken up!
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Yeah, right.
Over the past few months, issue after issue has been noticed where ms is reaping data of a more personal nature than things like google's "location data used to serve ads" cr@p.
And, strangely enough, the data they've been reaping is precisely the kind of data that isn't wanted by ad agencies; it's precisely the kind of data that's wanted by the US and UK governments.
So the US government's "approval" of ms may well be somewhat more sinister than people like computerworld have noticed.
Tip: If you don't actually need to go to microsoft.com: firewall it, at least or a few months (until the story breaks).
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This post is an introduction to the most important standards and sets you on the course to other resources that can help build your C# prowess. Because all arguments need a starting premise
Then you can start disagreeing from there.
But don't just automatically gainsay anything the other person says.
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He puts braces on a newline.
'Nuff said.
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“var is your friend”
That’s when I decided he was a commie hippy, and stopped reading.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It's a fully featured dependency explorer but it's all in text mode and doesn't require me to use the mouse and take my hands of the keyboard. Will you find it useful? It Depends
It just makes me homesick for Norton Commander
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So we're stuck between moronic companies who think that huge, tappable icons on full-screen apps is "the way of the future!", and idjits who think that command-line and text-only interfaces are "The only way to go!"
Rock, meet Hard Place. Hard Place, Rock.
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Based on what "Depends" are in the US. I guess after software and hardware the natural progression would be underwear.
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As Mr Hanselman mentions, this is developed by the folk behind Midnight Commander, which is heavily influenced by...
(Which is polite way of saying RTFA)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Some years ago, I participated in a meeting of major organizations—some of them world-famous —about metrics. It's also why you can't have a meeting between SI agile developers and Imperial ones
Ugh, blurb so lame. Apologies, but my brain is on break. If anyone sees it, please tell it to come home. Or if you have a spare, please mail it in.
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Quote: Why agile often fails: no agreed metrics In other, very very very similar words, its agile.
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Agile is often another word for ad hoc
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..is a form of, more. I certainly wouldn't build a house using that methodology
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I'd say that one good metric for a web-site is that, unlike forbes.com, it stores fewer than 250 snooping cookies on every visitor's machine, and does not demand that a script be installed to disable some of them.
They are So host-filed out!
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An entire article arguing for metrics in Agile projects, presented without any metrics to support his assertion.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I see that article as one more reason for the US to avoid going metric.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The brains of people with excellent general knowledge are particularly efficiently wired. This was shown by neuroscientists using magnetic resonance imaging. Grey-white. Mushy.
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...best eaten chilled.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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To be fair to other candidates this added advantage must be removed. Now cut those neurons !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Well, what they didn't notice is that the MRI scrambled all the pathways, so that whole general knowledge thing is no longer an issue.
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The red neuron or the blue neuron?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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What they mean by "excellent general knowledge" is, of course, "an iron-trap memory".
People with "excellent intelligence", on the other hand, generally have terrible memories.
Would you rather be a database or a high-speed processor?
I know which I'm stuck with I'd prefer.
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We introduced the Preview Features page so that you can easily find these capabilities and be able to control their enablement. Because some people just can't get enough (punishment)
"Enablement" - today's bafflegab brought to you by the VS team!
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