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Credit card users could have their PINs stolen, and merchants could have their bank accounts pillaged, in a set of attacks demonstrated by researchers Karsten Nohl and Fabian Bräunlein at the Chaos Computing Club security conference. That's it. I'm going back to the barter system
How many chickens for Windows 10?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How many chickens for Windows 10?
None, you are the one that got to be paid 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Google is ditching the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android and moving to only OpenJDK, the open source version of Java. "You can go your own way"
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  Nice
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If you want more evidence that software patents are insane, surely you can't, then look no further than the Microsoft slider patent and its lawsuit with Corel for infringing it. Wait until they start enforcing their patent on blue screens
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Wait until they start enforcing their patent on blue screens
What ? Windows way of crashing is now a patented technique ?
I already knew is was a feature. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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It must be - they're so good at it. 
TTFN - Kent
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do you think I should put my windows crashing expertise in good place in my resume ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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They should patent their CSS engine in IE - it's definitely one of a kind.
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Glad I had already started drinking...
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![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I'm having trouble picturing anyone taking this seriously. Who can put this claim forward with a straight face?
I'm also trying to understand what exactly it is that's patented. The use of slider or just hat design? Will I have to my sliders squiggly or what?
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Adobe and MIT are teaming up to try to address the problem of code rot, and remove from the life of the coder the arduous and time-consuming task of manually updating old code for new technological capabilities. Maybe they can run it on the Flash code base?
(( Yeah, reported first in July. It's slow news week. Plus, now Adobe is involved. ))
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Oh, suuuurre, that's got to be a step in the right direction... 
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Sure. It will "auto-optimize" itself into Skynet, and then where will we be?
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In a recent paper, we showed that coding style is present in source code and can be used to de-anonymize programmers. So there is no way of escaping the shame of not using K&R style
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I have (in the distant past) had colleagues for whom the compiler massively improved their code readability.
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200 million installs in 5 months. A quarter fifth of the way there...
Edit: not a quarter, definitely not a quarter...
Never post items after a fifth.
modified 29-Dec-15 18:16pm.
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Uh, a fifth of the way there.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Ah, right. I used Windows Calc to calculate that and
TTFN - Kent
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How many activations? And minus all the roll-backs?
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Actual details would confuse the target audience
TTFN - Kent
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US software maker Adobe on Monday released security updates for its Flash video player amid ongoing concerns about security holes that could let hackers in. In related news: Pope is Catholic, bears mess up the woods.
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Edit: interesting coverage of this here on Quartz: [^]
Forbes.com, Dec. 28: "191 Million US Voter Registration Records Leaked In Mystery Database" [^].
A whitehat hacker has uncovered a database sitting on the Web containing various pieces of personal information related to 191 million American citizens registered to vote. On top of the concomitant problems of disclosing such a significant leak to that many people, no one knows who is actually responsible for the misconfiguration that left the data open to anyone.
Researcher Chris Vickery, who this month found myriad databases left open to all and sundry, told FORBES he has his hands on all 300GB of voter data, which includes names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, party affiliations, and logs of whether or not they had voted in primary or general elections. The data appears to date back to 2000. It does not contain financial data or social security numbers.
"Our society has never had to confront the idea of all these records, all in one place, being available to anyone in the entire world for any purpose instantly," Vickery added. "That’s a hard pill to swallow. It crosses the line." Spammers across the world rejoiced ?
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
modified 29-Dec-15 13:46pm.
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