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OK, this is a great time to discuss a MAJOR peeve of mine.
Why, for God's sake, WHY do companies register all these absurd alias domains?
I go to dell.com, I allow javascript from dell.com.
Site doesn't work. Now I have to also allow dell-some-strange-domain.org, and more and more and more. Are these sites actually dell? Or are they phishing sites? I have to do whois on each one and fine out.
Adobe.com. oh also, adobe-cdn.com. Who knows what else.
Microsoft was one of the first stupid companies to do this. It's lame. It's annoying. It decreases security for your users.
STOP DOING THIS!!!!
This Dell fiasco is a perfect example of why not to do this.... EVER.
But alas, I know I'm wasting my breath. Oh well, you can't fix stupidity.
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Basildane wrote: I go to dell.com, I allow javascript from dell.com.
Even microsoft stuff, like registering Visual Studio and associated components has so many domains that you have to keep adding to allow list that it is crazy. It's so annoying.
Basildane wrote: This Dell fiasco is a perfect example of why not to do this.... EVER.
I agree.
Why didn't they just use a subdomain, like:
whatver.you.want.microsoft.com
here.is.another.microsoft.com
I don't get it. I suppose it is all based in laziness and mis-management, really.
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I didn't even notice that Kent has another article right below this one that talks about exactly what I'm saying. It's called Combosquatting.
LOL.
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Coinhive harnesses the resources of 500 million people with no questions asked. "Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven"
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NVIDIA just released a paper detailing its use of a generative adversarial network (GAN) to create high-definition photos of fake humans. Can we use them to replace the "real" celebs?
At least the Daily Mail should be set for a while.
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With the "fake celebs" start harassing people too?
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Well, I can hardly wait for the first real NG Resonance...
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I'm building a bot to be a paparazzi to harass the fake celebs!
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This is truly half-brutal, half-hilarious. A Microsoft employee was forced to pause his Azure presentation in the middle of a live demo session in order to install Google’s Chrome… because the company’s own Edge browser kept crashing. I think we've all been there before
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Next time he'll have to pull out his Apple laptop 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I think we've all been there before
No - we already have Chrome installed.
In all seriousness: Why does Microsoft still care about the browser? Just use Blink (or fork it) and be done. Web developers everywhere would be so, so happy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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A new cybersecurity system developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and known as Refinable Attack INvestigation (RAIN) will provide forensic investigators a detailed record of an intrusion, even if the attackers attempted to cover their tracks. Let's go to the tape, Jimmy
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To guard against unknowingly visiting malicious websites, computer users have been taught to double-check website URLs before they click on a link. But attackers are now taking advantage of that practice to trick users into visiting website domains that contain familiar trademarks—but with additional words that change the destination to an attack site. Does this mean that google-totallynotahack.com isn't a valid address?
I might be in trouble.
But they were so good at finding stuff.
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www.equifaxsecurity2017[.]com
www.securityequifax2017[.]com
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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It could be the key to bringing ultra-fast internet access to many people. "We're gonna twisty, twisty, twistin', till we tear the house down"
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If this becomes real one day- I will surround my children's devices with mirrors so they can't use the internet anymore, and focus on their studies.
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I recently spoke with Microsoft’s Jeff Burtoft and Aaron Gustafson about the company’s plans to bring Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to Windows 10. And I couldn’t be more excited about Microsoft’s plans to integrate PWAs with the desktop. Just like no one has been asking to get for ages!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just like no one has been asking to get for ages!
Speaking of age, I'm struggling to come up with an analogy between Progressive Web Apps and progressive lenses.
Urgentz. Plz Help!!! 
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Progressive lenses have a use...
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Someone in the Lounge had asked about winforms and I had guessed (from the announcement on Edge going to Android & iOS) that this might be Microsoft's next step. 
The Lounge[^]
Also, in the related story PWAs will probably take over your browser -- so companies can mine bitcoin without you knowing. Yes, it's funny, because it has to be. You can't take any of this seriously any more. 
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The bug allowed the researcher to see the most sensitive vulnerabilities in Google's services. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
See? Totally not evil.
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A small Los Angeles-based company, Bee Technologies, recently made a stir on Reddit by asking potential unpaid interns to complete a fairly complex software product before they were “hired.” "You don't have to be crazy to work here... but it helps."
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Here, the front-end would like to send a JSON encoded API request to your server in order to upload a photo to the site. It is on you to create an endpoint that can handle this upload, then find a way to view all the photos that have been uploaded to the site in an efficient manner.
They got hazed for that? It would probably take me an hour to figure out how to do that with jqWidgets, putting images into a sortable, filterable, paginated grid as the most efficient way of handling viewing all photos.
OK, maybe more than an hour because my fu with jqwidgets is still at the neophyte level, and everything seems to kick and scream, but once I get stuff working with these controls, they are awesome.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: putting images into a sortable, filterable, paginated grid as the most efficient way of handling viewing all photos.
They didn't even ask for that. They asked only for images, so a simple page could do the job just fine. This is not the revolting part, this is:
Quote: Please do not apply if you know you don't have the skill necessary to build something extraordinary
Specially when followed by this:
Quote: We are just four college kids with no money
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