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Yeah, my favourite: secretly inserted telemetry code compiled into your executable
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Node's developers look to tighten security, better accommodate ECMAScript, and move to HTTP/2 The JavaScript is coming for you, Barbara!
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They have developed a first-of-its-kind method for testing and scoring the security of software — a method inspired partly by Underwriters Laboratories, that century-old entity responsible for the familiar circled UL seal that tells you your toaster and hair dryer have been tested for safety and won’t burst into flames. This software is 78.3% likely to not blow off a foot
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Have you ever wondered what your brain is really doing as you sweat your way through a math test? Friends don’t let friends do symbolic logic
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Denial (I don't have to do math...  ), anger (@$%^&@#%^*@?#$^ math!!!  ), depression (math, y u do dis!?  ), acceptance (I've failed at life  ).
And that's only just basic algebra...
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Was this done before or after it was found that most brain scan studies are bogus?
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 before, I'm sure.
TTFN - Kent
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Was this done before or after it was found that most brain scan studies are bogus?
The scale and impact of the problem recently discovered has been grossly overstated. The 40k figure was a back of the envelope figure because the focus of the paper was on the problem with the analysis tool not how much of the literature had been impacted. After it blew up in the press, the authors refined their estimate of the impact and found it much smaller than their initial estimate; both because the faulty tool was less heavily used than expected and because it only has the potential to significantly impact results in a relatively limited confidence band. Based on those improvements in the estimation the authors have reduced the number of papers whose conclusions might be impacted - which is not the same as being found to have incorrect conclusions - down to 3500: Only the ones with correlations that are at the barely proven level will be invalidated; ones with much stronger levels of proof will probably still be good.
For more information see the study author's commentary[^] or a somewhat more approachable third party writeup writeup[^].
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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According to Lawrence Abrams of Bleeping Computer, the program pays out distributors depending on how many bitcoins they have extorted from their victims. "A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!"
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Several Group Policies will be deactivated with the Anniversary Update, making it harder for IT-pros and system admins to prevent unwanted content. Windows 10: the gift that just keeps on giving
This newsletter would be so much smaller without Win10
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Even for those upgraded for free it should be unacceptable, but what Microsoft have to say about those going actually pay for it?
Maybe (and it is a big maybe) Microsoft will make big money out of those adverts, but will lose a lot of in numbers...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Whatever Microsoft is doing, I'll take it over all the crap Google and Android pushes at you.
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I've been a Microsoft fan since around 1982, but this is the end of the road, not just for me, but for almost everyone I know.
My I.T. friends have either completely switched to Linux now, or like me, they are running side-by-side and starting to transition away from Microsoft.
What happened to MS? Did their management get rabies? Seriously. They seem to hate their customers as much as they hate their employees. What's next, are they going to throw chairs at us?
As I've said before, you WILL NOT put an application in my home or work that displays an advertisement. I said GOOD DAY SIR.
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Desktop development environments for Mac and Windows use native virtualization for speed and boost Docker's out-of-the-box cluster management and scheduling system There, now non-Linux folk can try to figure out how it's different from VMs
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It was happening on the network itself, using a complex new attack designed to attract as little attention as possible while reaching extremely far. Was it, "Always bet on black?"
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The first thing that occurred to me on that article was 'what does the headline image have to do with the story?'
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Like a whirlpool, a new light-based communication tool carries data in a swift, circular motion. The optics advancement could become a central component of next generation computers designed to handle society's growing demand for information sharing. It may also be a salve to those fretting over the predicted end of Moore's Law. "You know you twist so fine"
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Well, I suppose it's a logic step. First, we had mechanical gears turning, implementing a sort of "memory." Then we had magnetic drums and platters spinning in circles. Getting light to move in a continually circular (or I guess in the case, vortex) pattern is, well reasonable, I guess.
OK, I have no idea what I'm talking about. 
Marc
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It's OK, Marc, no one else knows what you are talking about either.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I think it's talking about using (modulation of) circular polarization[^] to encode data mixed with 1 part hype and 9 parts cluelessness. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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I wouldn't call him "it" 
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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Shortly after The Washington Post inadvertently published a photo of seven TSA master keys, a group of security experts were able to copy their designs and release their 3D models online. Well, that was a great idea (Security, you ain't got it)
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See? One person screws up once and the entire system is hosed now and forever. And they want a master key to my encrypted devices (which have a heck of a lot more important stuff than my luggage)?
They can elephant right off.
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