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Quote: Mr Richards started the society after seeing the "same mistakes over and over again" and hoped he would find half a dozen people who felt the same way.
"I didn't find half a dozen people," he said on his website. Well, he can't have looked very hard.
The APIHNA newsgroup (alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe) was still going strong, at that time, and was even one of my favourite haunts.
I never heard of this guy, though.
I still host The APIHNA World Dictionary[^] (the only English language reference you're guaranteed to never need) on my personal site.
(You can tell how long ago I built the template for those pages by the monitor size they're designed for.)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A massive database storing tens of millions of SMS text messages, most of which were sent by businesses to potential customers, has been found online. The 'S' is not for secure
"One table alone had tens of millions of messages, many of which were message recipients trying to opt-out of receiving text messages." Well, I'm worried
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For their annual Black Friday stunt, Cards Against Humanity set man and machine against each other to see who could write the most wicked jokes. Then they came for the party game writers, and I did nothing, because I held an offensive combination of cards
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Microsoft has been recently experimenting with Rust to improve the safety of their software. "In C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg."
"A very conservative estimate for Microsoft is each issue discovered in the field costs $150,000." Then if they keep issuing Windows patches as they have lately, they could go bankrupt in about a million patches?
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What if you could manipulate the facial features of a historical figure, a politician, or a CEO realistically and convincingly using nothing but a webcam and an illustrated or photographic still image? I don't see this being used for awfulness. Not at all.
Those words out of my mouth, courtesy of the next generation of these kind of things
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EU antitrust regulators are investigating Google’s collection of data, the European Commission told Reuters on Saturday, suggesting the world’s most popular internet search engine remains in its sights despite record fines in recent years. New fiscal year already?
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Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo have created a device for wearable computer input suitable for many situations, just by touching your fingertips together in different ways. I'm not 'giving you the finger', I'm just trying to close a dialog
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I don't want to know what do you have to do to execute an app in background
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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A better operating system thanks to Rust's combination of safety and performance? Does the OS ever sleep?
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Kali Linux 2019.4 was released last week and with it comes an 'Undercover' mode that can be used to quickly make the Kali desktop look like Windows 10. Fake moustache and trench coat not included
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If someone is running Linux at work, chances are pretty damn good that it's approved by the IT department. This is a pointless feature.
".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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If it was a feature for Ubuntu/etc you'd be right in most cases. Kali linux isn't a daily driver distro; it's a collection of hacking tools used by pen-testers (and blackhats). Outside of businesses where that's a normal part of operations seeing the Kali logo should be a red flag.
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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The cracks, if they exist, are old, remnants of a time shortly after the Big Bang. Well, something (or someone) is cracked
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IOW, the crack is a crock.
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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Just point the telescopes at the Plumber supercluster.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Nearly all major technology companies are saying the same thing. Kubernetes is the next big thing in computing. "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
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One of the last places I'd look for tech trends is a financial site.
".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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... that we're less than 2 years from the creation and mainstreaming of a tool to make kubernetes easy to use?
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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We've been taught to look out for that little padlock to ensure a website is secure. But it's dangerous to rely on just one detail. So, 'https://this-is-totally-a-real-secure-site.com' isn't legit?
And now I'm sad that URL isn't already taken. Those phishing folk sure are lazy! (and a cowardly and superstitious lot)
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ZDNet wrote: But it's dangerous to rely on just one detail. Then you been thaught wrong, and that's the problem (not the padlock); my parents know that they should always cancel an auto-download, and never click a link on an email with an address that they haven't got mail from before.
As a result, my fathers' laptop works fine for over 5 years, without having a virusscanner installed. (Both do have a custom host file, ofc).
The padlock doesn't turn green anymore in Chrome, so easiest solution there was to explain not to use chrome anymore
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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Words and phrases like “testing,” “quality,” “validation,” and many more, have become loaded terms. I thought everyone agreed it was the users' problem?
Microsoft and Adobe, anyway
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Chief information security officers (CISO) are regularly being summoned by the board of directors to provide recommendations for the business, but this doesn’t mean cybersecurity is being prioritized. ... until stuff hits the fan
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There was a long time that there were no real repercussions for a large databreach, and without (financial) risc and no reward, it is hard to justify for some to invest money in it.
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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